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KARACHI - The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has ordered an official inquiry into the conduct of its Flight Inspector Capt Shafqat Mehmood for violating the CAA Rules by operating scheduled flights of Airblue as a line pilot.
Mehmood is charged with deliberately violating CAA Rules for monetary gains from Airblue Ltd, liable for a penal sentence under Rule 333 of the CAA Rules 1994.
Pakistan Today has learnt that airline had agreed to hire Mehmood for making illegal flights

KARACHI - Two men, who allegedly tried to assassinate ANP's deputy general secretary Bashir Jan, were remanded into police custody on Saturday.
Judicial Magistrate East Zabiha Khattak remanded the two alleged accused identified as Zeeshan and Shahnawaz until January 25.
According to the prosecution, the police had arrested the two suspects in an injured condition from the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Friday and they had confessed before the police about their

QUETTA - Unknown miscreants planted explosives and blasted the 18-inch Shikarpur-Quetta main transmission pipeline supplying gas to Balochistan from Jaffarabad, some 17 km away from Jacobabad on Thursday. However gas is being supplied at low pressure to over 20,000 customers. Baloch Republican Army has claimed responsibility.
After the explosion the police rushed to the site to locate the damaged part of the pipeline. In the last few days, Baloch Republican Army has blown up

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly (SA) showered its blessings on fisherfolk and lawyers, with two bills being passed into law on Thursday that offer greater livelihood opportunities for both.
The first Bill, Sindh Fisheries (Amendment) Bill-2011 cancels all leases granted for the fishing trade. In their place, the government will issue licenses for fishing to the fisherfolk community. For the first time, the government also sought to define a "fisherman," with the logic aimed at

KARACHI - The people were killed in separate incidents in the city in Tuesday.
The body of a 26-year-old man was found at Budhni Goth, Mauripur.Police said that the victim had two deep wounds on his head and his throat was slit with a sharp object.
The victim was identified as Habib, son of Ali Murad. He was a resident of Khaskheli Muhalla, Budhni Goth.
The police suspect personal enmity as the likely reason behind the murder.
Separately, a man was shot dead by two

ABIDJAN - At least two civilians were shot dead after lengthy bursts of gunfire were heard in a tense neighbourhood of Ivory Coast's crisis-stricken commercial capital Abidjan, an AFP journalist reported. The bullet-riddled bodies of two men were seen lying face-down on the streets of Abidjan's Abobo neighbourhood, a bastion of the country's internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara. Residents told AFP that two members of incumbent strongman Laurent Gbagbo's Defence and

SYDNEY - US Open champion Kim Clijsters dropped just three games in a warning to her Australian Open rivals in a confident start to the Sydney International tournament on Sunday.
Third seed Clijsters crushed Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru 6-1, 6-2 in 62 minutes and only lost six points on serve. "Maybe not the fastest serves I've hit, but I was very focused on trying to place my serves well and just making a lot of serves, especially when you're playing into the sun," Clijsters

TUNIS - Two civilians were killed and eight injured in overnight clashes with police in a provincial town, the Tunisian government said on Sunday, the deadliest incident in a series of riots that started nearly a month ago.
Witnesses said crowds throwing stones and petrol bombs were clashing with police in another town nearby, and that three people there had been killed by gunfire, but there was no official confirmation of those accounts.
People taking part in the spate of

ALGIERS - Two people were killed and 400 injured, 300 of them police, in riots in Algeria linked to rising food costs and unemployment, Interior Minister Dahou Oul Kablia said Saturday as the government scrambled to defuse the crisis.
One was shot dead on Friday in Ain Lahdjel in the M'Sila region, 300 kilometres southeast of Algiers, the minister said on national radio. "He died in an attempt to break into a police station," he added, confirming a report in the Arab-language

KARACHI - The authorities of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Sindh, on Friday arrested two directors of private industry on allegations of willful loan default of Rs 174 million availed from National Bank of Pakistan (NBP). According to an announcement of NAB , accused Anwar Ahmed Rajwani and Salman Karim Rajwani were engaged in the business of garment manufacturing as ARK Garments.
The Karachi based industry availed financial facility of Rs 174 million from NBP in 1985 and

KARACHI - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), on Monday, referred the Lahore High Court's (LHC) decision regarding dissolution of two textile mills to the Karachi and Lahore stock exchanges.
"Please find enclosed herewith a copy of the dissolution orders of the captioned companies for your information and further necessary action at your end," the SECP informed Acting Managing Director and General Manager Operations KSE Haroon Askari.
LSE Managing

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Gujrat on Monday arrested two most wanted human traffickers whose names were included in the FIA Red Book. According to FIA sources, Muhammad Ehsan and Mehdi were wanted by FIA Gujrat in different cases of human trafficking.
After receiving information about hideouts of the most wanted human traffickers, a FIA Gujrat special team conducted a raid and arrested both the accused. Ehsan and Mehdi were involved in human trafficking from

BAGHDAD - Gun and bomb attacks killed three Iraqis and wounded 15 on Monday, security officials said, while the US military said two US soldiers had been killed, the first to die in Iraq this year. A suicide car bomb exploded on Monday morning outside a police intelligence office in Baquba north of the Iraqi capital, killing a man and wounding 15 other people, a security official and a doctor said.
The bombing targeted the office, located in a central market, at about 11:00 am

SYDNEY - Batsman Usman Khawaja and spinner Michael Beer will make their Australia debuts in the fifth Ashes test against England, stand-in captain Michael Clarke said on Sunday.
Pakistan-born lefthander Khawaja will replace injured captain Ricky Ponting, almost certainly batting at number three, while left-arm orthodox spinner Beer gets his chance after being 12th man for the last two tests. The hosts are hoping the new blood will help them get the New Year off to a good start

TEHRAN - Iran's Revolutionary Guards have shot down two "Western spy" drones in the Gulf, the Fars news agency quoted a top commander of the elite military force as saying on Sunday.
"Westerners have a series of capabilities which cannot be ignored, especially satellites, or for example they have spy planes which can take pictures in some places," Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the air force wing of the Guards said.
He said the drones were mainly being used in Iraq and

ISLAMABAD - Seven people sustained bullet injuries on Saturday in a shootout between two groups in village Karlot in the Bhara Kau Police Station precincts, on the outskirts of the federal capital.
Members of two groups led by Sher Asif and Raja Nasir opened fire on each other, injuring seven people. The dispute arose out of a refusal to a marriage proposal. The injured were taken to PIMS and Federal Government Services Hospital.
Source in PIMS said that two of the injured

BAGHDAD - A wave of apparently coordinated bomb attacks in Iraq's capital has killed two Christians and wounded 16, further stoking fears in a community already terrified after a massacre at a church there two months ago.
Fourteen bombs were placed at different Christian homes late on Thursday, an interior ministry official said on Friday.
"Two Christians were killed and 16 wounded" by the 10 bombs that went off, while security forces carried out controlled detonations of