Tag: South

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa on Sunday directed the departments concerned that the ongoing projects included in the development programme of South Punjab be completed during the current financial year by June 30 at all costs and more funds required for completion of the projects be immediately released.
He was chairing a meeting at the commissioner's office to review development projects of the Multan Division. Nasir said that if any problem is being faced

CHARLESTON - Tornadoes tore into the Carolinas on Saturday afternoon as the death toll rose to 18 people from storms across the southern United States over the last three days.
A mechanic at a tire shop in Raleigh, North Carolina, said he took shelter in his truck while co-workers squeezed into an interior room when the storm hit.
"It was one hell of a storm," said Bryan Jackson. "I started to see the roof vibrate and then the roof separated and it was gone."
The

KARACHI - Orders to kill journalist Wali Babar were issued by some "influential people" living in South Africa but who have connections in Karachi, according to a report prepared by a joint investigation team (JIT) probing the case and the five suspects that have been arrested thus far.
Babar was murdered in broad daylight on January 13, 2011, with former provincial home minister Zulfiqar Mirza assuring the journalist community that his killers will be nabbed.
Five men

ISLAMABAD - Four missiles fired by two U.S. pilotless aircraft struck a moving vehicle in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing six militants, residents and officials said.
It is the first strike since March 17, when a similar attack killed 38 suspected militants and drew very rare condemnation from the country's powerful military chief.

JUBA - About 34,000 southern Sudanese have fled their homes after tribal clashes over land, water and cattle in recent weeks, a UN humanitarian official said, adding to southern troubles before independence in July.
The oil-rich south voted overwhelmingly to separate from the north in a January referendum, promised as part of a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war in Sudan. At least two million died in the war, which destabilised much of the region.
The euphoria

SEOUL - South Korea threw its support Tuesday behind Mohammed Bin Hammam in his campaign to oust Sepp Blatter as the head of world football's governing body FIFA. "We welcome the candidacy of Asian Football Confederation president Mohammed Bin Hammam," declared Chung Mong-Joon, the outgoing FIFA vice president and honorary chairman of the Korea Football Association.
Chung's comment came a day after FIFA confirmed the candidacies of incumbent president Blatter and Bin Hammam. The

MANILA - Philippine authorities deployed troops in a southern town on Monday to stop fighting between two clans after 11 people were killed in a weekend attack, an army general said. Clan wars, locally known as "rido", are common in communities in the south and analysts say they pose a threat to fragile truce between the government and Muslim separatist guerrillas.
On Sunday, gunmen fired at civilian militia escorting local officials inspecting a road project in Mangudadatu

LAHORE - A 30 year old man was shot dead from by individuals in a car in South Cantt area on Sunday. The victim identified as Naveed Gujar, hailed from Silakot. On the day of incident, Naveed was on his way on a rickshaw when an unidentified car intercepted him near Bhatta Chowk, fired at him and drove away.
The injured Naveed was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police said that Saddar Silakot police had registered a murder case against the victim Naveed

KARACHI - "South Asia has a strong cultural history and the people of this region have played a major role in constructing a strong social bond within a society where social values are preferred and practiced like religious rituals," says artist Asad Hayee.
The subcontinent has a strong political history and has seen a long era of colonial rule, which has left a deep impact on the people of the region, he adds. He says that the society that emerged after the independence has gone

HONG KONG - The world's highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city's tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Victoria Harbour.
Towering some 490 metres (1,600 feet) above the bustling, chaotic streets of the Southern Chinese city, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is making a grand comeback after temporarily closing in 2008.
Visitors peered out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 118th floor of the International

ADEN - Central government forces in Yemen fought Islamist militants on Sunday after the militants seized control of parts of a south Yemen town, residents said. The militants forced the army to retreat from a hill overlooking the town of Jaar, taking over a state broadcast building and a rest house used by President Ali Abdullah Saleh on visits to the region.
The militants seized two tanks and one soldier was killed, the sources said. The army shelled key government buildings

SEOUL - South Korea repatriated on Sunday 27 North Koreans whose boat drifted into the South's waters last month, the South's Red Cross said, ending a row which threatened to further damage relations between the two Koreas.
Four North Koreans who had also been aboard the fishing boat decided to stay in the South, prompting the diplomatic dispute. The North Koreans were sent home across the disputed western sea border a day after the first anniversary of the sinking of a South

LAHORE - The quarter-finalists in the South Punjab Zone of the 13th National Seniors' Cricket Cup have been decided and all the four quarter-finals will be played on Sunday (today). Today's Fixtures (quarter-finals) Bahawalpur Sr v DG Khan Seniors Multan Tigers v Multan Heroes Multan Veteran White v Pakpattan Srs Multan Jinnah Srs v Sahiwal Sr

DHAKA - New Zealand stunned South Africa on Friday by knocking the form team out of the World Cup in the third quarter-final. South Africa have now lost all five of their knockout matches since they first played at the tournament in 1992 while underdogs New Zealand advance to the semi-finals for the sixth time.
Man-of-the-match Jacob Oram took two brilliant catches and captured four for 39 with his nagglingly accurate medium pace after the South Africans appeared to be cruising

THE REALITY CHECK - The Broader Perspective South Africa have emerged to be the team to beat in the tournament. They topped Group B with five wins and only lost a close game to England. In batting, they have some fine talent in Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Jacques Kallis and JP Duminy -- all of whom are amongst runs while in bowling they have two world class fast bowlers in Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.
Earlier, they lacked a quality spinner but with the inclusion of Pakistani

DHAKA - South Africa will start as firm favourites to win Friday's World Cup quarter-final against New Zealand -- provided they can overcome their trademark knock-out blues. In five previous tournaments, the Proteas crashed out three times in the semi-finals, once in the quarter-final and another time in the first round, earning them the unwanted tag of cricket's perennial chokers.
It was not the defeats, but the manner in which they happened, that left their fans dumbfounded and

KHARTOUM - South Sudan's army (SPLA) accused the north of bombing its territory, violating a 2005 peace deal ahead of the oil-producing region's impending independence. Sudan's north-south conflict raged for all but a few years since 1955 claiming 2 million lives in Africa's longest running civil war. The south voted this year to secede and will become the world's newest nation on July 9.
SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer said the north dropped bombs on March 21 between a village and