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    Daily News Update

    AsSalam-u-Alikum Everyone.

    In this section i will try to update daily & if you guys wants to contribute and update will be appreciated. Thanks



    Twin suicide blasts kill 16, wound 32 in Pakistan


    Twin suicide bombs targeting security forces responsible for this week capturing senior Al Qaeda operatives killed 16 people and wounded 32 others in Quetta, SW Pakistan.
    One attacker detonated his bomb-laden car outside the residence of the deputy chief of the Frontier Corps in Quetta city, before a second attacker blew himself up inside the house, said senior police official Hamid Shakil.
    ‘Sixteen people have been killed and 32 were wounded,’ he said.
    ‘It was a twin suicide attack. The house was badly damaged... some members of the family were severely injured. The deputy inspector general himself is injured,’ he said.
    Four members of the Frontier Corps were among the dead, including a senior officer, Shakil and a local security official said, and the wife of the deputy chief and two children were also killed.
    The residence of the deputy inspector general is close to other government buildings and official residencies in the city of Quetta, the main town of Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.
    The Frontier Corps is Pakistan’s paramilitary force and took part in an operation on Monday to arrest a senior Al Qaeda leader believed to have been responsible for planning attacks on the United States, Europe and Australia.
    Younis Al Mauritani was picked up in the suburbs of Quetta along with two other high-ranking operatives after US and Pakistani spy agencies joined forces, according to the Pakistan army.
    It named the two other senior operatives as Abdul Ghaffar Al Shami and Messara Al Shami.
    The arrests signalled another blow to the global terror network, four months after Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by covert US forces, leading to a souring of ties between allies Islamabad and Washington.
    In a possible thaw in relations, the army hailed cooperation between the CIA and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the arrests, news of which came just days before the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
    It did not say when the trio were arrested, but two local security officials said the three men were picked up early last week in a late-night operation in Satellite town, an upmarket city suburb, along with two Pakistanis.
    The United States also praised the operation with a White House spokesman calling it an example of partnership between the two countries ‘which has taken many terrorists off the battlefield over the past decade’.
    Mauritani does not feature on either the US FBI list of most wanted terrorists or the US Treasury Department’s own list of global terrorists.
    But Western intelligence officials from two separate countries confirmed Mauritani was part of Al Qaeda’s top team and linked to threats against Europe.
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    LAHORE: There seems no let-up in the dengue onslaught, as at least five more patients died of the virus in Lahore on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 69 in the provincial capital, and 73 in Punjab.

    According to details, five patients identified as Ghayas-ud-Din, a member of the Punjab Public Service Commission, Danyal, 19, Fatima, 60, Rukhsana, 35 and Samina Bibi, 40, died of dengue fever in Lahore.

    Over 7,000 people are infected with the Dengue virus in the Punjab.

    Despite the appeal by the provincial health department, hospitals continue to be packed with people. The rush is deterring treatment for patients as the death toll from the virus continues to rise in the city.

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    agr InSAAF hamare Maashre me yunhi lout aaya,,to
    hum se shaed ye azaaab bhi tal jaen....thnx to Court House..

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    neww Maj Gen Javed Iqbal hurt in chopper attack

    Updated at: 1503 PST, Wednesday, September 21, 2011
    SWAT: General Officer Commanding (GOC) Swat, Major General Javed Iqbal has been hurt in an attack on his chopper, Geo News reported.

    He was flying in Swat's Nusrat Darra area when his official helicopter came under attack at 11:30 am. He received minor injuries in his right leg and was shifted to CMH Rawalpindi via same helicopter.


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    Candidates celebrate after their victory announcement — KT Photos by Shihab, M.Sajjad

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    The UAE was swept by celebrations after a historic election saw 20 new members elected to the Federal National Council on Saturday.
    An encouraging number of voters from an electoral college of 130,000 turned out to vote at all polling centres across the Emirates.
    Voting began at 8am and concluded at 8pm after the election committee decided to add another one hour to allow more people to cast their votes. The mood at some centres was sober to begin with and at some the turnout was beyond expectations with high and energetic atmosphere.
    “We are taking steady steps,” His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, told reporters as he toured a polling station in Dubai. “By God’s will, we will continue progress and (expand) the powers of the Federal National Council.”
    Shaikh Mohammed also spoke favourably of women candidates as he spoke to former FNC member Maysa Ghadeer. “I’ve said in the past that women are the soul of the place and today I say that women are the place of the soul of the homeland,” he said.
    The emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai elected four members each; Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah three each, and Ajman, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain two each.
    Umm Al Quwain this time took the lead to elect the first women member, Shaikha Issa bint Ghanem Al Arri, who secured 536 votes out of a total of 1,796.
    During the last elections in 2006, Abu Dhabi was the first and only emirate to send a woman candidate to the council.
    The ratio of women voters at most of the centres was higher than their male counterparts.
    Results first flowed in from Umm Al Quwain, followed by other emirates, while Abu Dhabi was the last to send its results due to its larger territorial size and the largest number of centres and voters, most of whom had to come from some of the remotest areas.
    Technical problems in the e-voting system, particularly in Al Ain where computers went down for almost two hours, were the other reasons for the delay in results.
    According to the electoral rules, candidates can appeal against a particular preliminary result by Sunday with the committee responding to that on September 28. If there are no challenges, the final list of winners will be announced and released on the same day.
    If a result is deemed void, especially due to candidates having polled an equal number of votes, a by-election will be held on October 1 and the final results will be released and announced on October 5.
    The polling stations saw scenes of euphoria and celebrations as young and old joined together to make the country’s largest election process a memorable moment.
    From an octogenarian voter to a university student, every individual seemed to realise the responsibility they had on their shoulders and each one of them had come prepared with all their homework done as far as selection of candidates was concerned.
    The voting process went smoothly in all places. Hundreds of young officials were hands on at all stations, assisting voters to go through the electronic process, which was tried out for the first time.
    “It is a good and smooth system to cast your vote. There were no complications in using the computerised system. In fact the pre-election training to familiarise ourselves to the system did work very well,” said Mohammed Al Fahim, a voter from the Abu Dhabi city.
    But not all agreed with Al Fahim. A voter from Dubai, Mohammed Rashid, said that “the system was good for me and most young people will operate it smoothly, but old people might find it a bit difficult to operate the machines”.
    However, the system at large worked smoothly and not a single complain was received from any other station except Al Ain.
    But, it was more about democratic process rather then the system that people seemed to care about and it was visible on their faces, in their conduct as well as in the atmosphere.
    There were people at the polling stations as early as 7 in the morning, waiting for voting to start and many came with their entire families, irrespective of them being part of the electoral college.
    Many candidates too brought their families along.
    At 8.07am, Rashad Mohammed Bukhash became the first citizen and candidate to cast his vote in the FNC elections.
    “I came early because I wanted to be among the first voters. It is a historic day, and I am proud to be a part of this national exercise,” said Rashad who heads the Architectural Heritage Department at the Dubai Municipality.
    Khalid Al Marri, who was also one of the first voters waiting outside the polling centre in Dubai World Trade Centre, said: “I am proud to be a part of the nation-building process and I had been waiting since a very long time for this day to come. This was the only thing missing in an Emirati’s life.”
    But, it was the young voters — both men and women — who seemed the smartest and proudest of them all, coming in groups and pre-decided on candidates who served the interest of their future most.
    Kuch yoOn Hua k Jab bhi ZaroOrat pari Mujhe.....
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    Thanks for starting such a nice thread.. i will make it sticky since it will be updated on daily basis. Thanks


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    Oh Thanks A lot SM
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    CHANDIGARH: Punjab will promote friendship with Pakistan through birds.

    This will be through an
    exchange programme of birds between the zoos of Lahore and Punjab to create awareness about common natural wealth and jointly protect them as people of the two countries did before Partition.

    "Pakistan has sent out a message that it can send white peacocks to Punjab, which has only a couple of them," forests and
    wildlife minister Arunesh Shakir
    told The Times of India.

    "We also have a large number of birds and animals which can be sent to Pakistan," he said.

    The minister said the exchange programme between the two states had not been progressing at the required pace for many years. There was therefore need to bring it back on rail so that young generations on both sides of the divide can understand how not only the people of the two countries appear similar, but even birds and animals look alike.

    An official delegation of forest and wild life protection department will soon visit zoos in Pakistan to assess the needs of the two countries for the exchange programme, he said.

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    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's military will not take action against a militant group Washington blames for an attack against its embassy in Kabul, despite mounting American pressure to do so, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday.

    Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Kayani met with his top commanders on Sunday in a "special" meeting to discuss the security situation, the military said, as the war of words with the United States escalated.

    That emergency meeting came against the backdrop of sharp US allegations that the Pakistani army's powerful spy agency supported the Haqqani militant group Washington blames for the recent attack on its embassy and other targets in Kabul.

    The commanders agreed to resist US demands for a Pakistani army offensive in North Waziristan, where the United States believes the Haqqani network is based, the Express Tribune reported, quoting an unnamed military official.

    "We have already conveyed to the US that Pakistan cannot go beyond what it has already done," the official told the newspaper on condition of anonymity.

    The United States has long pressed its ally Pakistan to pursue the Haqqani network, one of the most lethal Taliban-allied Afghan groups fighting Western forces in Afghanistan.

    Pakistan denies it supports the Haqqanis and says its army is too stretched battling its own Taliban insurgency to go after the network, which has an estimated 10,000-15,000 fighters.

    Analysts say the Pakistani military could suffer heavy casualties if it were to attempt a crackdown on the group, which has developed extensive alliances with other militant organisations in the region, and has mastered the rugged mountain terrain.

    Sirajuddin Haqqani, who heads the group, says it no longer needs sanctuaries in Pakistan, and it feels safe operating in Afghanistan.

    Two weeks ago, militants launched an assault against the US embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul. US officials blamed those attacks on the Haqqani network.

    US officials said there was intelligence, including intercepted phone calls, suggesting those attackers were in communication with people connected to Pakistan's principal spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate.

    In the most blunt remarks by a US official since Pakistan joined the US-led war on militancy in 2001, the outgoing chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, on Thursday testified before the US Senate that the Haqqani militant network is a "veritable arm" of the ISI.

    He also for the first time held Islamabad responsible for the Kabul attack, saying Pakistan provided support for that assault.

    The Pakistan government as well as the army rejected the allegations. On Saturday night, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani rejected US allegations as a sign of American "confusion and policy disarray."


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    Pakistani commanders meet after US criticism - Can America attack on Pakistan? if yes then what should we do?

    In a sharply changing scenario in the backdrop of tense US-Pakistan relations, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Sunday cut Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar's visit to US and directed her to immediately head back home, Geo News reported.

    Hina Rabbani has been on a US visit to represent Pakistan at United Nations General Assembly session. During her tour she also met the US President Barack Obama on Friday.
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    Pakistan will not take military action against the Haqqani network, despite intense US pressure over the past few days. The decision was taken at a special meeting of top commanders on Sunday and is likely to chip away at the deteriorating relationship between the two countries.

    The United States will have to consider all options "including defending our troops" in confronting Pakistani support for militant networks fighting U.S. soldiers in the region, a senator said on Sunday.

    "We need to put Pakistan on notice," Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican member of the Armed Services Committee said on "Fox News Sunday.

    "Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh during his visit to Washington held meetings with World Bank and various others officials.


    Pakistan's army chief convened a special meeting of senior commanders Sunday following U.S. allegations that the military's spy agency helped militants attack American targets in Afghanistan, the army said.

    The government also summoned home the country's foreign minister early from a trip to the United States to attend a meeting of all major political parties to discuss the American allegations of support for the militant Haqqani network.

    Senior Pakistani officials have lashed out against the allegations, accusing the U.S. of trying to make Pakistan a scapegoat for its troubled war in Afghanistan. The public confrontation has plunged the already troubled U.S.-Pakistan alliance to new lows.

    Pakistan's leaders have shown no indication they plan to act on renewed American demands to attack the Haqqani network in its main base in Pakistan, even at the risk of further conflict with Washington, which has given the country billions in aid.

    U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that the U.S. should consider military action to defend U.S. troops if Pakistan's spy agency continues supporting militants who are attacking American forces.

    Unilateral U.S. raids into Pakistan could have explosive implications in a country where anti-American sentiment is widespread.

    Pakistanis were outraged by the covert U.S. commando raid that killed al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in a garrison town not far from Islamabad in May. The U.S. did not tell the Pakistani government about the operation beforehand for fear bin Laden would be tipped off.

    Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik warned the U.S. on Sunday against sending troops into Pakistan.

    "Any aggression will not be tolerated," Malik told reporters in Islamabad. "The nation is standing united behind the armed forces, which is the front line of Pakistan's defense."

    The top U.S. military officer, Adm. Mike Mullen, last week accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency of supporting Haqqani insurgents in planning and executing a 22-hour assault on the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan on Sept. 13 as well as a truck bomb that wounded 77 American soldiers days earlier.

    Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, widely considered the most powerful man in Pakistan, has dismissed the allegations, saying they were baseless and part of a public "blame game" detrimental to peace in Afghanistan.

    Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Kayani presided over Sunday's commanders meeting but would not provide detail on the discussions.

    Later in the day, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's office issued a statement saying Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was summoned back to attend a meeting of all major political parties on "threats emanating from outside the country."

    Pakistan claimed to have severed its ties with Afghan militants after the 9/11 attacks and supported America's campaign in Afghanistan, but U.S. officials have long suspected it maintained links. The comments by Mullen, who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were the most serious yet accusing Pakistan of militant ties, although he didn't cite any specific evidence.

    Despite the seriousness of the U.S. claims, which appear to accuse Pakistan of state-sponsored terrorism, Mullen and other U.S. officials have said Washington needs to keep engaging with Islamabad, a reflection of its limited options in dealing with the country.

    Around half of the U.S. war supplies to Afghanistan are trucked over Pakistani soil, and even as it accuses Islamabad of complicity with Afghan insurgents, Washington knows that it will likely need Islamabad's cooperation in bringing them to the negotiating table. Washington is also concerned about the danger of further instability in the nuclear-armed state.

    The head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. James Mattis, called for continued cooperation after a meeting with Kayani in Islamabad. In a statement issued Sunday by the U.S. Embassy, Mattis emphasized "the need for persistent engagement among the militaries of the U.S., Pakistan and other states in the region."

    Afghan officials have also accused Pakistan of stoking instability in Afghanistan. The Afghan Defense Ministry accused the Pakistani arm Sunday of firing more than 300 artillery and rockets into the country's northeast during the past five days.

    The provinces of Kunar and Nuristan are a haven for hardcore insurgent groups fighting in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and have relatively few Afghan or foreign forces. Pakistan has complained that militants from the area have staged repeated cross-border attacks that have killed Pakistani security forces and civilians.

    Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said he had asked security officials in the northwest about the Afghan allegations and was waiting for a reply. He said those officials were surprised by the accusations since no activity had been reported in the area.

    "I assume this is not correct news," said Abbas, referring to the Afghan allegations.
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