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KARACHI - Following the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the officials of City District Government Karachi (CDGK) Anti-Encroachment Department on Friday razed two more illegal structures built on the city's parks. An anti-encroachment team, headed by District Officer Abdul Malik and Mansoor Ahmed Khan, demolished a football club office in Nishtar Park and a building in union council No 11 of Jamshed Town.
Though some sportsmen resisted the football club office's

KOHAT - The security forces killed at least two most wanted terrorists in a clash at Kamal Khel, a suburb of Kohat, on Friday. The terrorists opened indiscriminate fire when the security forces were conducting a search operation in the locality. They were stated to be involved in various bombings in Kohat and attacks on the security forces.
In another incident, tribesmen captured eight persons allegedly linked with the extremists. Meanwhile, a traffic police Inspector Qaiser

KARACHI - The PPP condemned the remarks of two of its MPAs at a Sindh Assembly session accusing PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif of murdering former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer and also asking for the registration of a murder case against him.

HAFIZABAD - At least two people died from suffocation in village Kot Kushhal Khan near Hafizabad. Reportedly, Shabbir Hussain and Zahid Iqbal were sleeping in a room when a gas cylinder leaked as a result of which both of them were suffocated to death.
Meanwhile, a three-year-old child was crushed to death in a village Praimkot when a speedy rickshaw ran over him.
332 kgs of hashish seized: Sukheki police arrested three people of village Ammabaltas and recovered 332

KARACHI - The two Pirs of Sindh - an urban area's Altaf Hussain and a rural area's Pir Pagara - have started speaking about army rule. One has been asking "patriot generals" to help bring about a 'revolution' and other is warning people that 'a bloody revolution' is in the offing in which almost all politics will be wiped out and there will be no general elections for 30 to 40 years. Political observers are not taking the statements of the two Pirs lightly.
They are considering

STATS CORNER - Lasith Malinga became the fourth bowler to perform two hat-tricks in one day internationals and the first to do so in World Cup match. The right-arm fast bowler from Galle achieved this feat against Kenya at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on Tuesday (March 1). Lasith Malinga's hat trick started in the 42nd over of the match.
Tanmay Mishra became the first victim of Malinga's hat-trick after missing a full delivery on leg stump to fall for a 13-ball duck.
It

KARACHI - The Sindh police's Crime Investigation Department (CID) has arrested two arms smugglers and recovered a huge cache of weapons and ammunition from their possession. During a press conference on Monday, CID SP Mazhar Mashwani said that the CID carried out a raid at Nadeem Centre on the University Road and arrested Sajid Khan and Muhammad Nazeer.
The suspects had arrived from Peshawar for a deal. The CID seized three Kalashnikovs, two 8mm rifles, a repeater, four mortar

LAHORE - At least two people received bullet injures over monetary issue on Monday in Civil Lines police precincts. The injured were identified as Waris and Qasim. Police said the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) parking lot contractor Waris had a dispute with Ishaq over the parking lot contract.
On the day of the incident, Waris was standing at his parking stand when two armed motorcyclist approached him, one of them allegedly Ishaq opened haphazard fire due

ADEN - Gunmen killed two soldiers in the southern Yemen town of Zinjibar on Monday in separate shootings which a local official blamed on Al Qaeda.
The attacks came in different neighbourhoods of Zinjibar, the capital of restive Abyan province, the official said on condition of anonymity. "They bear the hallmark of Al Qaeda, which often attacks soldiers," he added.
A hospital source confirmed the deaths of the two soldiers.
Militants of Al Qaeda have been increasingly

LAHORE - Two young men were killed by wayward aerial fire in the precincts of Sanda police station late night Sunday, police told Pakistan Today.
The deceased, 20-year-old Riyasat and 22-year-old Rangu son of Noor Muhammad, were residents of Fazal Colony, Band Road.
They were both shot by wayward bullets in aerial firing at their neighbour Nadeem Bhatti's wedding, said police. The bullets were allegedly fired by the groom's brothers, Javaid and Vilayat, police added. Riyasat

ISLAMABAD - The US embassy in Islamabad has in the recent past settled two cases under the Qisas and Diyat laws by paying compensation to the families after embassy drivers killed two citizens in Islamabad in two separate road accidents. In both the cases, Americans driving rashly crushed two Pakistani citizens to death, however, the aggrieved families were provided compensation by the US embassy to settle the issue.
Police sources said the families had been paid $10,000 each by

KARACHI - Unidentified men opened fire on a police vehicle in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Saturday night, killing two policemen. Mobina Town SHO said that head constable Zahir Shah and police constable Maqsood Ahmed were patrolling Quaid-e-Azam Colony in a mobile unit when two men on a motorcycle opened fire at them.
Shah suffered four bullet wounds in his upper torso and died on the spot, whereas Ahmed, who had also suffered multiple bullet wounds, succumbed to his injuries at the

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday issued notices to the director generals (DGs) of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Pakistan Rangers (Sindh), and the Sindh Home Department secretary seeking explanation over the disappearance of two Malir judicial staffers.
The SHC division bench comprising Justice Maqbool Baqar and Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa was hearing a constitutional petition moved by Shah Muhammad Brohi seeking the whereabouts of his brother, Shafqat

QUETTA - Two people were shot dead in separate incidents in Kuchlak and Panjgur town on Saturday while the security forces recovered a huge cache of arms from Dukki area, police said.
Unidentified armed motorcyclists opened fire on Jamal-ud-Din in Kuchlak town, in the outskirts of Quetta. As a result, he received critical wounds and succumbed to his injuries. The assailants fled the scene. Police said the motive behind the killing was yet to be ascertained.
Meanwhile,

KARACHI - Two men were gunned down in separate violent incidents on Friday.
A hairdresser was shot dead in Gulshan Ghazi, Baldia Town within the limits of Mochko police station.
Mochko police station duty officer said that Mukhtiar, son of Karim Khan, was killed by an unidentified armed man, who entered his hairdressing shop in the Gulshan Ghazi area and fired multiple shots on him. The motive behind his murder was personnel enmity, he added.
The body of the victim was

KARACHI - The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has reshuffled its entire management with the chairman and two directors being forced to resign on February 24. PTCL told its shareholders in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad stock exchanges on Friday that PTCL Chairman Najeebullah Malik and directors Salman Siddiqui and Khursheed Ahmed Junejo had resigned, adding that Walid Irshad would continue to serve as chief executive officer for the next term.
Saeed Ahmad Khan

LAHORE - Punjab Police Inspector General (IGP) Javed Iqbal on Friday punished two DSPs and demoted them to the rank of inspectors on charges of misconduct, corruption and inefficiency.
Faisalabad Iqbal Town Additional SP Inquiry Officer Aftab Ahmad Mahsud held Bhakkar Sadar SDPO Daud Husnain Abbas guilty of charges leveled against him in show-cause notice issued to the accused officer on charges of misconduct, corruption and inefficiency.
Accordingly, a final show-cause