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ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad district and sessions judge on Monday sentenced to death five men for killing an additional registrar of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Syed Hammad Raza, in 2007. Judge Akmal Khan awarded the death sentence with a fine Rs 200,000.
Those sentenced to death are Sharifud din, Bashirud Din, Mumtaz Hussain, Mir Afzal and Mushtaq Hussain. However, accused Muhammad Basharat was given benefit of doubt and the judge ordered his release. In his verdict, the judge

LAHORE - US Consulate official Raymond Davis, who shot dead two Pakistani youths on Thursday, was handed over to the police on six-day remand on Friday. The police however has failed to arrest the other men so far - those in the SUV following Davis - accused of running over a motorcyclist while trying to rescue their colleague.
During the hearing in the court of Cantonment Judicial Magistrate Zafar Iqbal, Deputy Prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar Ahmad said the police had to question

ABU DHABI - Bill Gates and Abu Dhabi's crown prince pledged $100 million on Wednesday to deliver vaccines to children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan each will give $50 million to provide vaccines for five common but deadly childhood diseases while one third of the funds would be used to get the polio vaccine for as many as 35 million children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Gates said the initiative would

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said the Sindh Rangers and Sindh Police had been vested with powers to take action against law breakers.
"The recent action in Orangi Town in Karachi was a law-enforcement measure in the same context. It was directed against anti-social elements and land grabbers. No operation, as has been claimed in some sections of the press, has been launched in Karachi," Malik said.
According to a press release, the law-enforcement

ISLAMABAD - The Rangers have been empowered to arrest miscreants in Karachi on a request by the Sindh government, Information Minster Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Saturday. "The Rangers have been tasked with taking action against miscreants in Karachi on a request by the Sindh government.
The whole country is worried over the worsening law and order situation in Karachi and the government is taking measures to restore peace there," Kaira said while talking to reporters after an

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that the government had disbursed $1,000 as compensation to each affected family of the children used as camel jockeys in United Arab Emirates (UAE).
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday disposed of the suo motu case with an appreciation for the federal government as well as interior ministry for disbursing 769 cheques worth $1,000 to each

GAZA - Palestinians gave anonymous burials on Tuesday to two men killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border and whose unclaimed bodies stirred speculation they might have been foreign migrant workers or al Qaeda supporters.
The two were shot on Jan. 5 while trying to clamber into Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, the army said. Palestinian medics who collected their corpses said the men wore civilian clothes and carried no weapons. Their skin was darker than most Gazans'.

ISLAMABAD - The prime minister has not given any statement that the Haj operation would be conducted by the Foreign Affairs Ministry from next year, Federal Labour and Manpower Minister Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah told the National Assembly (NA) on Friday. "The PM has not given any statement that the Haj operation will be conducted by the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the foreign minister himself said that the Foreign Office cannot take the responsibility," Khurshaid said while speaking

ISLAMABAD - The Executive Director Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Mahmood Jamal Wednesday handed over the final postmortem report of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's murder to Muhammad Gulfaraz, a sub-inspector of Kohsar Police Station.
ED PIMS also gave the only bullet removed from the Governor's body to sub-inspector Gulfaraz along with an x-ray. A doctor at PIMS said that the bullet would be sent to forensic science laboratory Lahore for examination.
The

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted two-week's time to the Balochistan government to consult with the province's chief minister regarding allotment of Gwadar Port Authority land to a foreign company.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a joint petition of its own initiative through a suo motu notice. Earlier on Dec 8, the court had barred Port of Singapore

LAHORE : The Pakistan Cricket Board has made it clear that Pakistan's runaway wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider would be given a chance to defend his position before the board considers any disciplinary action. Haider deserted the Pakistan team on the morning of the fifth and final ODI against South Africa in UAE and fled to England seeking asylum over death threats from an unknown person.
"The board will decide on how to deal with the Zulqarnain issue on the basis of the findings

ISLAMABAD: The Upper House of the Parliament was informed on Tuesday that around 203 foreigners had been given citizenship of Pakistan from 2008 hitherto.
State Minister for Interior Tasneem Qureshi, answering questions said citizenship had been granted in accordance with the provisions of Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951 and Naturalization Act 1926 after observing all legal formalities, including security clearance.
Giving year-wise breakup, the minister said around 134

Flay Punjab govt, UHS for changing admission criteria at eleventh hour
Varsity spokesman says entry test weight age given according to LHC judgment
LAHORE
"It's quite annoying that this year, the entry test was taken just 20 days before the announcement of result, unlike last year, when entry test was conducted after three months.
Asma Jamil
997 marks out of 1100 in the intermediate exams
"According to students, only 3,162 students out of the total 8,000