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WASHINGTON - New US claims for unemployment benefits dropped more than expected last week to their lowest level in more than two years, suggesting the labour market recovery was gaining strength. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 34,000 to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the lowest reading since early July 2008, the Labour Department said on Thursday.
That was well below economists' expectations for 415,000. The prior week's claims figure was revised modestly up

QUETTA - The Quetta Anti-Narcotic Force on Wednesday seized over two tonnes of opium in a raid near the Pak-Afghan border.
Following a tip-off, an ANF party raided a seasonal drain Loi Shin Ghar area in the border district of Pashin and recovered 2,046 kilogrames of opium buried close to the drain. However, no arrest was made in connection with the incident.
The price of the drugs is estimated at Rs 2.53 billion in international market.

KABUL: Two Afghan security guards have been killed after international forces raided the offices of a transportation company in Kabul, a senior police officer said Friday.
"Foreign forces have conducted an operation in district four of Kabul city in which two private guards of the business were killed," Mohammad Zahir, the city police's chief of criminal investigations, told AFP. He added that the guards worked for a private security company which provided services at Tiger

KARACHI - The bodies of two Military Intelligence (MI) officers were found in Baloch Para of the Bhains Colony area in Quaidabad on Thursday.
Sukhan police told Pakistan Today that the locals informed the police about the two bodies after which they were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Witnesses told the police that they heard gunshots and later saw a white Toyota Corolla leaving the area.
Hospital sources told Pakistan Today that both victims were

ISLAMABAD: Police on Wednesday arrested two senior police officers in court on orders of an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge for their alleged involvement in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed, who was conducting the trial in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, rejected the bail applications of former city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz and former superintendent of police Khurram Shahzad, ordering their immediate arrest.
The two officials are accused of

BHUBANESWAR: The Indian military successfully tested two short-range nuclear-capable missiles from a facility in the east of the country on Wednesday, a defence research official told AFP.
The domestically-developed Prithvi-II surface-to-surface missiles were tested as part of a routine exercise at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur-on-sea in the state of Orissa, SP Dash, the range director, said.
The Prithvi-II missile has a range of 350 kilometres and can carry a

LAHORE - Defence Housing Authority (DHA) director transfer and DHA secretary ended up being charged with contempt of an accountability court as a result of a clash between the orders passed by two courts over a property transfer.
A case was being heard in the court of additional district and session judge over the transfer of a plot 276-K DHA Phase-1 between Chaudhry Salman Ashraf and Muhammad Ashiq. The court passed an order to transfer the plot in the name of Salman. Ashiq, a

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday referred two more cases of lawmakers' fake degrees to the police officials concerned for registration of criminal cases against them. Both the accused were PPP legislators, former MNA Amir Yar Waran and MPA of Balochistan Assembly, Ali Madad Jattak.
A senior official of ECP said that Chief Election Commissioner Justice (R) Hamid Ali Mirza referred cases of said lawmakers to the DPOs concerned for registration of FIRs

LAHORE: Six armed men stole two trucks of Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) from its mini workshop located in Gowala Colony in the Harbanspura police precincts on Sunday.
Harbanspura police has claimed to have recovered one of the two stolen trucks and arrested a truck lifter from Pindi Bhatian later on.
Armed men, equipped with sophisticated weapons, barged in the office of Aziz Bhatti Town Administration in Gowala Colony where WASA had also set-up its mini workshop and

KANDAHAR - Two civilians died and 11 others were injured in a Taliban suicide car bomb attack targeting a district governor in southern Afghanistan Saturday, local officials said.
The attack near Kandahar city -- the spiritual home of the Taliban -- targeted the governor of Dand district, Ahmadullah Nazak, but he escaped unhurt, officials said. "At around 2:00pm, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle packed with explosives near the convoy of Dand district chief Ahmadullah

KARACHI: A young mourner was wounded in a clash between two sectarian groups in Surjani Town on Thursday.
A small procession was heading towards Shah Khurasan to join the main procession of Muharram 9. When the procession reached near the Siddique-e-Akber mosque in Sector 7-A of Surjani Town, a group of bystanders started chanting slogans against them.
The mourners stopped to respond to the group, and soon both groups were shouting slogans against each other.
A large

QUETTA: Balochistan Frontier Corps (FC) seized a large quantity of ammunition and arrested two terrorists near Pak-Afghan border who were to carry sabotage activity on 10th of Muharram.
Balochistan FC Deputy Inspector General Shahzad Akhtar said this in a press conference held at FC headquarters on Thursday. He added that intelligence agencies informed FC that anti-state elements would bring arms and ammunition from across the border for carrying out terrorist activities on the

KARACHI: The bodies of two newborn babies were recovered from separate places in the city on Sunday.
The body of an infant was found in a storm water drain near the 4-K bus stop in Surjani Town. The body was fished out and buried by rescuers of a welfare organisation at the Mewashah Graveyard.
Another body of a newborn was recovered from a garbage dump in Block 2, PECHS. The infant was buried at the graveyard in Mawach Goth after offering funeral prayers.
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ISLAMABAD: Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar on Saturday filed a civil miscellaneous application with the Supreme Court, demanding recusal of two more members of the reconstituted four-member bench seized with hearing of contempt of court issue.
Filed through his lawyer, Ahmed Raza Kasuri, the former SC judge pleaded that he had recommended the names of Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, members of the larger bench, as head of the superior

OKARA: Okara police have registered cases against two men for giving bogus cheques. Mehboob Ahmad son of Karam Illahi gave Rs 2000,000 cheque to Zulfiquar son of Fateh Muhammad, a resident of Chak No.54/2L. In another instance, Zulfiquar son of Saeed Muhammad gave Rs 3000,000 cheque to Muhammad Zafar son of Muhammad Sharif, a Depalpur resident.
17-year-old girl abducted: Four armed men abducted a 17-year-old young girl on gunpoint. Fauzia Bibi daughter of Muhammad Zubair, a

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed the deputy attorney general and Sindh advocate general to file comments supported with affidavits of Interior and Defence secretaries, the Sindh home secretary, the IGP and other police officials about the whereabouts of two Baloch youths, who were allegedly whisked away by intelligence agencies in Karachi.
A division bench comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Imam Bux Baloch was hearing a petition filed by Ms Ghahari on the

KARACHI: More than 130 million people in the country are poor and around 90 million cannot even afford two square meals a day, said prominent economist Dr Shahid Hassan Siddiqui.
He was speaking at a seminar titled "Price hike, unemployment and curse of poverty," organised by the Shura Hamdard Karachi chapter and presided over by its president Sadia Rashid.
The meeting urged the government to use the Zakat fund for providing jobs to the unemployed particularly the youth and