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WASHINGTON - Two US citizens with diplomatic status were quietly withdrawn from Pakistan after being involved in a fatal car accident last month while trying to help Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor being held by Pakistani authorities on murder charges.
Two officials familiar with US government activities in Pakistan said the two Americans who left the country worked for the CIA under contract as protective officers. This means they were employed as highly skilled bodyguards,

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

GUJRANWALA - Two youths were gunned down and one was injured over a divorce issue at Mohallah Bakhtewala while one of the killers was captured and handed over to Sabzi Mandi Police by the residents.
Reportedly, Muhammad Yasin divorced his wife, a sister of Saeed, one of the accused, last month. The father of Saeed died of heart attack during the arbitration dialogues which were being carried out by both the families to resolve the disputes. It intensified tension between the two

GWADAR - At least two security personnel embraced martyrdom and five received injuries when remote-controlled bomb planted on a bicycle exploded in Jannat Bazaar area of Gwadar on Tuesday. The FC convoy was targeted on the Gwadar Seaport Road.
Soon after the incident, the police cordoned off the area and started a search operation. The eyewitnesses reported that some unknown miscreants resorted to indiscriminate firing after the explosion.

ISLAMABAD - The parliamentary committee for the appointment of judges on Tuesday rejected the Judicial Commission's proposal of one year extension in the tenures of two additional judges of the Sindh High Court (SHC). The committee, headed by Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, met in the Parliament House and discussed the proposal.
The committee approved the names of Justice Imam Bakhsh, Justice Azhar Rizvi, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Nisar Ahmed. However, it rejected the

TEHRAN - Iran will soon release two Germans arrested in October after converting their sentence to fines, the students news agency quoted a judiciary official as saying on Saturday. "Their jail sentences have been changed to $50,000 cash payments for each ... They will be released after that," ISNA quoted a Revolutionary Court official as saying.
ISNA said initially they had been sentenced to 20 months jail "... but were pardoned based on Islamic clemency". The two were arrested

LAHORE - Hira Ejaz of Defence and Kinza of Iqbal Town, students at Punjab University (PU), have been missing since the 24th of January. The two are said to have gone to attend class at PU on the day. Since then nothing has been learnt of their whereabouts.
The parents of the two girls have registered a kidnap FIR with the Muslim Town Police Station on the 25th of January. However, three weeks after the girls went missing, the Punjab University administration and Muslim Town

ISLAMABAD - Former de-facto chief justice of Pakistan, Abdul Hameed Dogar, and dysfunctional PCO judge of Sindh High Court Yasmin Abbasey on Thursday filed intra-court appeals in the Supreme Court seeking setting aside of its earlier short order of initiating contempt proceedings against them from February 21.
Earlier on February 15, Justice (r) Iftikhar Hussain, former LHC chief justice had filed an intra-court appeal in the Supreme Court seeking setting aside of its earlier

LAHORE - Swine flu cases are continuing to make appearance in the city as two more cases were reported in the Mayo Hospital on Thursday, Pakistan Today has learnt. Mayo Hospital MS Dr Zahid Pervaiz confirmed the entry of the two cases and added that these samples were sent by the Combined Military Hospital (CMH). To a question, he said, "Someone might have caught the virus at the CMH and is spreading it around from personal contact."
Almost a week ago, sources at CMH revealed

KARACHI - Two alleged bandits were shot dead and another injured in an encounter with the police in Rizwan Society on Wednesday. Sachal police said a team of Gizri police station along with the area police conducted a raid at house No R-69, Rizwan Society, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and two alleged robbers were killed while one of their accomplices was injured after a brief shootout.
The bodies of the deceased and the injured were shifted to the hospital, where the deceased were identified

MANAMA - Two protesters died in clashes with Bahraini police, sparking angry calls from young cyber-activists for regime change and a walkout on Tuesday of Bahrain's main Shia opposition bloc in parliament. The Islamic National Accord Association which has 18 seats in the 40-member house has suspended its membership in the parliament, said a member, MP Khalil al-Marzooq.
The decision was taken because of "the deterioration in security and the negative and brutal way in which (the

FAISALABAD - A drink party ended in nightmare when a man died and his brother and friend were taken to a hospital in serious condition after drinking poisonous liquor. Reportedly, two brothers Ashiq Hussain and Kashif Hussain, residents of Chak No 68 JB, and their friend Muhammad Boota from the same village arranged a drink party at their Dera.
They consumed an overdose of home-made liquor and slipped into coma after which they were taken to a hospital where Ashiq Hussain died

LONDON - Two British soldiers were killed Monday in a blaze at the main British base in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London announced. The two servicemen from the Royal Logistics Corps were caught up in a fire that broke out at Camp Bastion in the restive Helmand Province, the MoD said, according to their initial indications.
The ministry said it believed no enemy action was involved. The deaths bring to 356 the number of British troops killed since operations

QUETTA - Two personnel of Frontier Corps (FC) were killed and another wounded in an armed attack and a land mine explosion while an 8-inch diameter pipeline, supplying gas to Uch Power Plant, was blown up in Suhbatpur on Monday.
According to sources, unidentified armed men attacked a check post of FC with heavy weapons in Barkhan. As a result, one security personnel, identified as Aitzaz Khan, died on the spot while Saeed Ahmed received serious wounds. The attackers escaped from

ISLAMABAD - The two senior most judges of the Sindh High Court (SHC) - Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Amir Hani Muslim - took oath as the judges of the Supreme Court on Monday, raising the strength of the apex court to 18, excluding Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
They were administered the oath by the CJP at the Supreme Court in a ceremony which was attended by the Supreme Court judges, chief justice Islamabad High Court, Attorney General for

MURIDKE - Two youngsters, including a son of a renowned trade leader, died in a road accident here on GT Road near Muridke. Reportedly, a 10th class student, Rana Daud son of Markzi Anjuman Tajiran Muridke Chairman Rana Ansar Mehmood, was going to Canal Park with his class fellow Usman alias Shani on a motorcycle when a Gujranwala-bound speeding car hit them, injuring them seriously.
Both the friends died on their way to hospital. The police arrested the driver and took the car

TOKYO - Japan's economy shrank slightly in the final quarter of 2010 but analysts expect a recovery this year as stronger exports to China and other parts of fast-growing Asia offset persistently weak domestic demand. The latest GDP figures confirmed analysts' estimates that China pulled ahead of Japan in 2010 as the world's second-biggest economy behind the US on a seasonally unadjusted, nominal dollar basis, at $5.8786 trillion against $5.4742 trillion.
The data confirmed Japan