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PESHAWAR - The security forces during a search operation succeeded in netting out two notorious militants from Sheikhjana town of Swabi district late on Saturday night. DCO Swabi Abdul Jabbar has confirmed arrest of two terrorists and said that jackets fashioned for suicide bombing, huge quantity of explosives and detonators were also recovered from arrested militants.
Though the authorities said nothing about identity of the terrorists but Pakistan Today came to know that one of

QUETTA - Two Chinese engineers were killed in a mine-related accident in Killa Saifullah district on Sunday. According to reports, the Chinese engineers were busy in mining of chromites in Muslim Bagh area when the mine caved, which resulted to their instant death. The dead bodies were recovered from the debris and shifted to Quetta for onward dispatch to their country. The victims are identified as Konjxing Shen and Zhohjias Isheg.

FAISALABAD - Faisalabad Police, during a snap checking, stopped an auto-rickshaw and arrested a terrorist and recovered two hand grenades from him. According to details, Lorry Addah police ordered the driver of an auto-rickshaw coming out of the local bus stand to stop for checking. When the passenger in the rickshaw saw the police, he jumped out of the vehicle and tried to flee on foot but he was arrested.
The police recovered two hand grenades from his possession. He was

ISLAMABAD - Two Sindh High Court (SHC) judges, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Amir Hani Muslim, will today (Monday) take oath as permanent judges of the Supreme Court. They will be administered oath by the CJP. The appointment summary of these judges was approved by President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday and a notification was issued by the Law Ministry.
With the inclusion of these judges, the number of SC will rise to 18 judges. Now the Supreme Court would be in a

KASUR - Two people including a woman were kidnapped in separate incidents. In the first incident, an accused Adnan kidnapped Razia when she was alone in her house situated in Talwandi, in the premises of Illahbad Police Station. In the second incident, Ibrahim reported to the Ganda Singh Police Station that some people abducted his son Takhleel-ur-Rahman when he was going to school in Jughian.
YOUTH COMMITS SUICIDE: A young boy committed suicide over a domestic issue in the

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday approved the appointment of Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Amir Hani Muslim as permanent judges of the Supreme Court and Justice Mushir Alam as the Sindh High Court chief justice.
According to a senior SC official, both SC judges would be administered an oath next week, most probably on Tuesday.
With the inclusion of these judges, the number of the SC judges would rise to 18, excluding the chief justice, but including

MURIDKE - A youth and an elderly man were killed in separate road accidents in Muridke.
In the first accident, a tractor-trailer crushed five-year-old Noshki near Muridke Railway Station when she was playing in a street.
Muridke police are conducting raids to arrest the driver who left the scene after the incident. In the second accident, a 60-year-old man was killed after falling down from a speedy motorcycle-rickshaw while going to Manoonabad from Muridke.
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SAHIWAL - Two people, including a woman, were murdered in separate incidents. In the first incident, four unknown people entered the dera of Muzammal, a resident of Cahk No 59/4R, and on the pretext of holding a meeting with him. they took him to nearby fields and shot him dead. In the second incident, Imran Ahmed murdered Farzana, a resident of Chak No 67/4R, on the doubt that she had relation with a young man of the same village.

KARACHI - Two alleged bandits were killed and another injured in Mianwali Colony, Orangi Town on Thursday, as witnesses claimed that an enraged mob killed the two men, contradicting the police's version that they were killed in an encounter. Witnesses said that three men tried to loot a shop in the area, however, the locals gathered at the spot.
The three alleged bandits tried to escape from the spot by firing at the crowd, but some unidentified person from the mob opened fire at

KARACHI - Two people were gunned down on Wednesday by unidentified armed culprits in separate incidents. An elderly man was shot dead on offering resistance during a robbery in Usmanabad, Garden. The deceased identified as 60-year-old Babarud Din was going to the market when two unidentified men on a motorcycle tried to loot valuables from him near Usmanabad, the Garden police said.
They shot him on offering resistance, killing him on the spot. His body was taken to the Civil

QUETTA - Gun violence on late Wednesday night left two people killed and one man wounded in an incident of targeted killing, police said. The shooting took place when armed men riding a motorbike attacked on a photostat shop in Shahbaz Town area. Both the dead men, identified as Mohammad Iftikhar and Najamul Saqib, were brothers.
Police said all the three men were Punjabi settlers in Balochistan. The bodies and the injured man, Mohammad Umar, were brought to Civil Hospital Quetta.

SEOUL - North and South Korea struggled to settle differences on Tuesday in their first talks since the North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island last November, but agreed to keep talking for a second day. Military officers from the two sides met at the border village of Panmunjom to prepare for a planned higher-level military meeting at a date to be fixed, but disagreements over the agenda kept them haggling well into the evening.
The November 23 bombardment of

SINGAPORE - Two Afghans hired by a Singapore-based engineering firm were killed last week by "friendly fire" from NATO-led security forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the company said on Monday. A third Afghan employee of the Central Asia Development Group (CADG) was seriously injured in the incident on February 3, CADG spokesman Matthew Goldthwaite said in an email to AFP.
"On February 3, 2011, a CADG vehicle, carrying four of CADG's Afghan national staff were caught in

ISLAMABAD - The federal government is seriously considering the option of resuming two holidays a week from April for reducing energy consumption and administrative expenditure as electricity shortfall would reach 2,000 to 3,000MW in the coming summer.
The proposal is part of the government's efforts to facilitate the industrial and agricultural sector besides saving money under the head of office expenditure amidst severe financial crunch. The decision would help minimise a

PESHAWAR - Militants fired rockets and bullets on a police patrol van in Balyamina area of District Hangu on Monday, killing at least two policemen including a sub inspector. The ambush left seven policemen injured. The District Police Officer Abdul Rashid Khan told Pakistan Today that militants hiding in mountains fired five rockets on the police when they were passing through a road linking Samana and Orakzai Agency.
The rockets were followed by firing with sophisticated

PESHAWAR - Owing to the severe financial crisis in the country, the federal government has contacted the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for two holidays in a week. The suggestion was presented by the Ministry of Finance after which the Cabinet Division and the ministry contacted the provincial Home Ministry and also sent letters to the chief secretary.
It was mentioned in the letter that in order to control the financial crisis and fiscal deficit, all the provincial governments

LAHORE - The Himalayan black bear at the Lahore Zoo successfully bred for the third time in Lahore Zoo, giving birth to two healthy cubs. Though the cubs were born on January 28, 2011, Zoo veterinarian Dr Zaib Mahel told Pakistan Today that they could not approach the bear for security reasons.
"The mother tends to eat up her cubs if she senses there is a threat," said Dr Mahel. "That is why, we have waited for two weeks and even during this time, only the regular animal handlers