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YEONPYEONG: North Korea said it would not react to "reckless" military drills by the South on Monday, despite an earlier threat to retaliate, and CNN reported that Pyongyang had agreed to the return of nuclear inspectors.
Air-raid bunkers on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong shook during the live-fire artillery exercise, which went on for just over 90 minutes, but the North Korean guns that had shelled the island after a similar drill last month stayed silent.
"The

ISLAMABAD: The change of Indus Water Commissioner will have no effect on Pakistan's case which is likely to be taken up by the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) for hearing in January next year, official sources said. The Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah was made an officer on special duty (OSD) on Wednesday by the government and his deputy Sheraz Memon was appointed as acting commissioner till further orders. The sources said the Water and Power Ministry had no

Taylor Swift pretends no one will ever hear her songs when she is writing lyrics about ex-boyfriends, because she would have to edit her work "down to nothing" if she took their feelings into consideration. Swift frequently sparks speculation about her love life with her autobiographical tracks, which have been rumoured to reference former romantic interests including Taylor Lautner, John Mayer and Joe Jonas.
But the 20-year-old singer never worries about what her ex-lovers will

ISLAMABAD: The federal government will not allow anyone to misuse the blasphemy law, Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti said on Friday.
After attending a meeting of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Minorities, Bhatti said, President Asif Ali Zardari had directed that a committee consisting of experts and scholars be set up to revisit and review the existing law so that innocent people could not be targeted.
He said a blasphemy case against Asia Bibi

KARACHI: The devolution of federal departments to the provinces under the 18th Amendment is being done without assigning financial powers that will be unacceptable, the Sindh chief minister said on Friday.
"The federal government wants to transfer the departments without financial powers, and the Sindh government will not withdraw from its constitutional rights," Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said while presiding over a meeting held here to review progress on devolution of

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The Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) is not going to get any additional electricity to be generated by the world's largest 'power ship' from Turkey. This meant that the people of Karachi will continue facing extended power cuts.
The ship would add its 232 megawatts of electricity to the national grid, or the WAPDA's grid. Once the addition has been made, PEPCO would reduce 232MW from its 650 MW supply to KESC, sources said. Moreover, it was not possible for

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Saturday it would not allow the US to conduct drone attacks against suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Balochistan.
"No request from the US has been received for drone attacks in Balochistan, but if such a request is made, we will never allow them (Americans) to carry out these strikes," Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit told Pakistan Today on Saturday.
A report published in the Washington Post on Friday said that the "US is seeking to

KARACHI: Repeating short-term measures for responding to future floods and rehabilitating flood victims would not be helpful, speakers at a two-day conference titled 'Flood and Beyond: Recovery, Reconstruction and Reforms' observed on Thursday.
The event was jointly organised by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, South Asia Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK), Sungi Development Foundation and the Centre for Peace and Civil Society.