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KARACHI - Four people were killed and five injured in different incidents in the city on Friday. A man was killed and another injured in firing in Malir within the limits of the Alfalah police station. Police said that two groups traded fire on the issue of putting up a banner of a school in Kehkashan Society. They opened fire in which Ahsan and a passerby Hassan suffered bullet injuries. Ahsan died on the spot and the injured was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. The

FAISALABAD - A dacoit gang took away food stock worth Rs 5 million from four shops of a market at midnight and escaped. The dacoits intruded into Minerva Market at night and overpowered the only security guard, snatched his rifle from him and detained him in a shop. Then they broke the locks of the shops owned by Khawaja Babar, Chaudhry Rafique, Rana Jaffar and Abdus Sattar and loaded their food stock worth Rs 5 million in a vehicle and escaped. Ghalla Mandi Trade Union officials,

KABUL - Four NATO soldiers were killed on Monday in a wave of insurgent attacks across Afghanistan, the international force said. Three of the soldiers died in separate improvised bomb blasts in the west, south and east of Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
An Afghan government spokesman in the western city of Herat said that the soldier who died in the province was Italian and that three other Italian soldiers were wounded in the same blast.

LONDON - Striker Javier Hernandez's double helped move Manchester United four points clear at the top of the Premier League with a 4-0 win at Wigan Athletic on Saturday. Hernandez justified his selection with his eighth and nine league goals of the season.
Wolverhampton Wanderers moved off the foot of the table and out of the bottom three by thrashing 10-man Blackpool 4-0 at Molineux. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake scored twice for Wolves, who made their extra man count after Blackpool's

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani on Saturday approved the recommendations of the Central Selection Board for the promotion of four officers from grade 19 to grade 20. The officers promoted to grade 20 include Deputy Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali (BS-19) to Joint Executive Director (BS-20) in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Karachi, Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery Dr Nasir Zaman Khan (BS-19) to Professor of Plastic Surgery (BS-20) in JPMC

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday approved the recommendations of the Central Selection Board for promotion of four officers from Grade 20 to 21 and one from Grade 19 to 20. The Foreign Service including M Younis Khan, Rab Nawab Khan, Fiaz Muhammad Khoso and Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry were promoted from Grade 20 to 21. After being promoted from grade 19 to grade 20, Syed Nawazish Ali Shah, Deputy Scientific Adviser, has been elevated to the post of Joint Scientific

LAHORE - Rescue officials found four bodies and some limbs from debris of Shah Alam Market plazas. The bodies were identified as Eesah Masih, 60, Naeem Iqbal Masih and Sohail Khan, residents of the Lakar Mandi, Mochi Gate and Shangla respectively while one body remains unidentified.
Rescue officials said two victims worked as sweepers at the Behria Plaza. Rescue officials said the bodies were identified by their ID cards. The bodies were removed to the morgue for autopsy while

LAHORE - Load-shedding of four to six hours returned on Sunday, as power production decreased due to certain reasons. Despite being a holiday and all offices and shopping centres closed, people continued to suffer from continuous power outages, which added to their miseries. The situation has taken aback consumers who were not ready for a sudden increase in load shedding.
With the wedding season going on in full swing and functions of Rabiul Awal reaching their peak, power

QUETTA - Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan killed four Bugti tribesmen and injured many others in Sui area of Dera Bugti district on Sunday. During the operation, the law enforcers also arrested a dozen people and recovered arms and ammunition from their possession while the insurgents blew up two gas pipelines that suspended supply to Uch power plant and local population.
According to reliable sources, the FC on a tip-off raided a farari (rebel) camp in the mountains near Sui town

KARACHI - An anti-corruption court sentenced a Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) member and two others to four years in prison on Saturday on corruption charges. Judge Rashida Asad of the special anti-corruption court sentenced SPSC member Ramesh Udeshi as well as Rehana Minaj and Shahid Ahmed Khan to two years imprisonment in two separate offences.
The court also directed all the accused to pay Rs 50,000 each as fine, and failing to pay the same would result in additional

KARACHI - Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany has proposed the names of one retired and three serving district and sessions judges for appointment as anti-terrorism court (ATC) judges. A summary in this regard has been sent to the Sindh Home Department by the SHC chief, and the proposal is now with the chief minister's office for approval.
Larkana District Judge Basheer

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is one of the four countries in the world where polio still exists, and the numbers of polio cases are increasing every year as seen in 2010. In this context, the parliamentarians and health experts suggested on Wednesday to move the draft compulsory Immunisation Bill in the Parliament and the provincial assemblies counter the disease.
The experts stressed the need of a nationwide awareness campaign with effective participation of the parliamentarians and

PESHAWAR - At least four personnel of the security forces, including an army officer and a police sub-inspector, were killed and seven injured in terrorist attacks in FR Bannu and Peshawar on Tuesday.
According to details, the militants targeted an army convoy with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Janikhel area of Frontier Region (FR) Bannu, around 150km south of the provincial capital which connects Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with volatile North Waziristan.
As a result,

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday issued transfer orders of four civil judges-cum-judicial magistrates. According to a notification issued by the LHC registrar, Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate Shahzaz Ahmed was transferred from Vehari to Mailsi, Shazib Dar from Pattoki to Vehari, Waqar Mansoor from Chiniot to Bhowana and Babar Hussain from Chiniot to Lalian.
They would assume their new office on or before February 10. Transfers of civil judges Shainshah Raza

PESHAWAR - Militants shot dead four men for alleged spying and dumped their bodies near North Waziristan Agency on Saturday, police said. Police said they found four bullet-riddled bodies with notes from militants in their pockets outside Karak.
"We found bodies of four men, they had been killed by shooting and notes in their pockets said they were spying for Indian and Jewish intelligence agencies," district police chief Sajid Mohmand told AFP. "We are trying to ascertain the

FAISALABAD - The Civil Lines police raided a hotel at General Bus Stand, Sargodha Road, and caught four prostitutes in compromising condition with their clients in different rooms. Reportedly, General Bus Stand police post in charge Siddique Cheema, was tipped off by an informer that some women of bad repute were present at a hotel located at the corner of the exit gate of the bus stand.
Siddique Cheema along with a team raided the place, cordoned off the area and captured four

QUETTA - Gunmen shot dead 4 police officers and abducted 6 other people, including a top administrator, from Aab-e-Gum area of the mountainous Bolan region, 60 kilometres south of Quetta, officials said Wednesday. "Gunmen shot dead four policemen on the main highway while they were heading towards Quetta," local police official Junaid Ahmad said.
"Earlier, we had reports of 5 police being killed but one of the policemen, who disappeared into the nearby mountains reported to his