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SANAA - President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged to hand over power but only to "safe hands", in a defiant speech to massed supporters on Friday, after talks with a top defector failed to defuse Yemen's crisis.
"We will stand firm with you ... steadfast in the face of all challenges," Saleh, wearing a suit and sunglasses and confidently waving his right hand, told vast crowds in the Yemeni capital.
"We don't need power. We need to hand it over to safe hands, and not to corrupt

LAHORE - Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) have decided to hold joint protests against Raymond Davis's release from today. The decision was made in a telephonic contact between the JI Chief Syed Munawar Hasan and PTI Chief Imran Khan on Thursday. Accordingly, Syed Munawar Hasan will lead the joint demonstration in the city on Friday, while Imran Khan will lead the rally at Rawalpindi. Munawar, while talking to different delegations at Mansoora, said that the

KARACHI - Hundreds of politicians, journalists, lawyers and civil society activists signed letters for Citizens for Democracy's interfaith harmony campaign 'Silence means more blood' on Saturday.
They joined hands against increasing religious extremism and terrorist activities in Pakistan, and demanded that the assassins of Salmaan Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti be apprehended, charged, tried and punished like other criminals.
A camp was set up in front of the Jehangir Kothari

LAHORE - Kashf Foundation initiated re-construction in the flood affected village "Manna" in Kot-Addu Tehsil, Muzaffargarh District after the successful completion of its relief phase. Kashf's Managing Director Roshaneh Zafar distributed the keys of the newly constructed one room shelters with washrooms to the women of 114 flood affected families.
Ms Zafar explained the importance of building back better, stating: "quality and strength of houses built is highlighted as a crucial

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly was Thursday informed that situation in Balochistan was not in government's complete control as some secret hands were at play to create unrest in the province.
During the Question-Hour session, Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination, Senator Raza Rabbani said that some hidden players were fueling insurgency in Balochistan; therefore, the intelligence agencies could not be blamed.
Responding to question raised by MNA Usman Khan,

KARACHI - "It's normal to openly urinate along the road in Pakistan, but people disapprove of a couple holding hands," says S, who is now living in Karachi after spending most of her life in Los Angeles, USA.
"Despite the fact that Karachi is a major city, it's awkward for a couple to go to public places. They stare at you as if you are from some other planet," she adds.
Many people in Karachi were seen at shops on Sunday buying cards and gifts for Valentine's Day today

MANAMA: Bahrain's king decided on Friday to give 1,000 dinars ($2,650) to each Bahraini family, the latest step that the Sunni rulers have taken to appease the majority Shia public before protests planned next week.
"To praise the tenth anniversary of the National Action Charter and in recognition of the people of Bahrain.... His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ... will provide the amount of one thousand dinars for each family of Bahrain after adopting necessary legal

KARACHI - The generals of Pakistan have formed an alliance with feudal lords and capitalists and have become a burden for the country rather than making sacrifices for it, MQM chief Altaf Hussain said on Monday.
"I am ready to die if my death brings revolution in the country and this will be a great honour for me," he said while speaking to journalists via telephone from London at Jinnah Ground in Azizabad.
Hussain said that people from the educated middle and poor classes

ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's internationally recognised president accused incumbent Laurent Gbagbo of masterminding a campaign of rape and murder of his supporters as the deadly stand-off's toll rose further.
Alassane Ouattara, besieged by Gbagbo troops since the world said he won a November presidential run-off, told Europe 1 radio that violence allegedly carried out by Liberian mercenaries on his rival's behalf left Gbagbo with blood on his hands.
"Many Ivorians have been

ISLAMABAD - An Australian oil and gas company operating in Pakistan has handed over 49 houses, built at a cost of Rs 6.0 million, to the flood victims' homeless families in Isakhel district of Mianwali, to mitigate their sufferings in the severe winters.
The houses have been constructed at one of the worst hit villages at Sharifabad in Isakhel, located along the Kunhar river and have been provided to the widows and the elderly on priority. The Combined Engineering and Integrated

KARACHI: The vice chancellors of the University of Karachi (KU) and University of Gujrat (UoG) on Tuesday agreed in principle that the two universities should collaborate on various sectors of education. A meeting was held in this regard between the KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui and UoG Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mohammad Nizamuddin. Nizamuddin along with his wife was on a visit to the KU, which is their Alma mater as well.
The UoG Sociology Department

ISLAMABAD: With five thousand cases of dengue fever confirmed so far and no let up in sight to its fast spread across the country, health authorities seem to be totally helpless in controlling the fatal disease.
"The Health Ministry and its attached departments have failed to prevent the outbreak of the deadly dengue fever and as a result, dozens of people are falling victim to this fatal disease in different parts of the country with every passing day," said an official at the