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7 more killed in Karachi violence
US senator for suspending Pak aid until Dr Afridi released
Enrichment not a step towards a bomb: Ahmadinejad
Cop shot dead in Islamabad
Sharmila Farooqi made coordinator to CM Sindh
House of Umar Guls brother raided
US not convinced Dr Afridi had links with militants
Fiscal deficit for 2011-12 hits 5% of GDP
SpaceX's Dragon set to return to earth Friday
Chiniot: Mother, daughter attacked with acid
Tiger of Madras is a humble man
Jirga meeting: Pakistans map removed from banner
AIOU admissions start from June 1
Illegal foreigners to be ousted from KP: Mian Iftikhar
UET entry test for undergraduate classes in August

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Some unidentified persons shot dead a poultry shop owner named Haris in Peetal Gali in Golimar area while a dead body was recovered from Lyari Stream. In Shah Faisal Colony, some unidentified persons shot dead an activist of a political party. The deceased was identified as Imran Baig. Police have also recovered a dead body from the jurisdiction of Sher Shah Police Station. Two people were shot dead in firing incident in Orangi Town while a man named Abdul Ghafoor was shot dead by dacoits on resisting a robbery bid in Hazara Colony. At least three people, including a shopkeeper Anwar, were wounded in firing incident in Tariq Road area while some unidentified persons opened fire and wounded Civil Judge Zaheer Ahmad near Water Pump. Meanwhile, police have arrested two dacoits from Nazimabad area while an extortionist was arrested from Manzoor Colony.

US senator for suspending Pak aid until Dr Afridi released

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Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has asked Washington to put pressure on Pakistan for the release of Dr Shakeel Afridi. He said that it will be dastardliness if US failed to get the jailed doctor release. Rohrabacher termed Dr Shakeel Afridi as US hero and demanded that he should be treated as a hero. He said that if the case of Dr Afridi was neglected that no one will work for US in future.

Enrichment not a step towards a bomb: Ahmadinejad

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Iran s enrichment of uranium to 20 percent "is our right" and "is not a step towards a bomb," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday in an interview with the satellite television network France 24. The enrichment activity, which world powers are trying to curb in fraught talks with Iran, "is one of our rights in terms of international law," Ahmadinejad said. "There have been lies about our programme.... Enriching uranium to 20 percent is not a step towards a bomb," he said, speaking in Farsi through translators. Ahmadinejad added that world powers "should provide us with uranium at a 20 percent enrichment level, but so far they have not done so." As a result, he said, Iran "decided to move forward on our own" with enrichment. His remarks on Iran being supplied with 20 percent enriched uranium as translated into English for the channel offered a different formulation. Ahmadinejad hinted, however, that Iran could be open to stopping 20 percent enrichment -- if world powers offered significant concessions. "If others do not wish for us to fully benefit from this right, they need to explain to us why. And also they have to say what they are willing to give to the Iranian people in exchange." The UN Security Council has issued six resolutions demanding Iran suspend all uranium enrichment. It has also imposed four sets of sanctions on Iran on the issue. Western powers have hardened those measures with their own tough economic sanctions. The five UN Security Council permanent members plus Germany -- the so-called P51 group -- are especially intent on getting Iran to stop enrichment to 20 percent as it is just a few technical steps short of bomb-grade 90-percent. Iran, which insists its nuclear programme is peaceful, enriches uranium to 3.5 percent for its Bushehr atomic energy plant in the south of the country, and says it needs 20 percent uranium to produce medical isotopes at its Tehran research reactor. The issue is at the heart of the talks with the P51 that are to resume in Moscow on June 18-19. Ahmadinejad said that, as much as Iran would like to see the nuclear dispute resolved, "we do not expect to see a miracle" in Moscow. The last round of talks, in Baghdad last week, nearly collapsed as it became clear that there was a gulf between the two sides.

Cop shot dead in Islamabad

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According to police, some unidentified persons opened fire at police constable Falak Sher when he was sitting near Bank Colony in Sector F/7 as a result he died on the spot. Police said that the deceased was deputed at ARU Department in Police Line. Police have feared that the killing is due to some family dispute. Falak Sher’s dead body was handed over to his heirs after autopsy.

Sharmila Farooqi made coordinator to CM Sindh

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Haji Khan Chachar has replaced Sharmila Farooqi as advisor to Chief Minister Sindh. Sharmila Farooqi has been made information coordinator to chief minister. Meanwhile, Masood Nabi Dogar has also been made an advisor to Chief Minister Sindh.

House of Umar Guls brother raided

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According to details, the law enforcement agencies raided the house of fast bowler Umar Gul’s brother Mairaj Gul at the Bara Road in Peshawar last night and arrested two members of a banned organization and also sealed a clinic adjacent to the house. Umar Gul s brother Meeraj Gul claimed the raid on the family s clinic was conducted due to a misunderstanding. He claimed that his family has no link with any banned organization.

US not convinced Dr Afridi had links with militants

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“The US administration does not believe that the charges against Dr Shakeel Afridi, linking him to a militant group Lashkar-i-Islam, are valid,” a senior US official said while talking to Dunya News here Wednesday. “This is a new story that has come out and we will seek further clarity from Pakistan in this case and the charges against Dr Afridi,” the official stated without going in further details. Dr Afridi is accused of running a fake vaccination campaign in Abbottabad on the directions of CIA to help them obtain the DNA of Osama Bin Laden and his family members prior to the May 2 raid last year. However, it is believed, that even he was kept unaware of Osama Bin Laden’s presence in that compound. He was convicted to 33 years in prison under the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) last week. It was widely believed that he has been charged of treason, but the five-page judgment released by the tribal court reveals that he has been awarded sentence for allegedly conspiring with a militant group, Lashkar-i-Islam, operating in Khyber agency. The deputy spokesperson of the US State Department, Mark Toner, also confirmed during a briefing Wednesday that the US was “seeking clarity from Pakistan on charges of links with militants against Dr. Afridi.” He said that the family of Dr Afridi, who had held a press conference in Pakistan raising concerns over his safety, had not contacted US authorities as yet. The US officials, though, continued to raise this issue in meetings with the Pakistani officials, he stressed. When asked whether the US was seeking this clarity through the Pakistani embassy in Washington, DC or directly from Islamabad, he said “I believe, both”, while refusing to comment further on the US concerns over the validity of charges against the convict, Dr Afridi. Toner also had nothing new to report on the negotiations underway in Islamabad between a US interagency team and the Pakistani officials over reopening of ground supply routes for NATO troops in Afghanistan.  “Discussions with Pakistan on ground routes are ongoing, but there is nothing new at this stage. We are making diligent progress in negotiations with Pakistan but can t comment on diplomatic conversations,” he remarked. He declined to comment when asked whether the State Department agreed with the assessment of Secretary Defense, Leon Panetta that Pakistan was being unreasonable in asking for higher new tariff. Panetta in an interview over the weekend, had said that the US will not be  gouged  by Pakistan. “We have other ways to ensure supplies for troops but hope that ground routes from Pakistan will be reopened soon,” he said while declining to respond to a question whether the US had put any timeline on the negotiations underway on this issue. He believed that reopening of these routes would be an important demonstration of Pakistan s commitment for peace in Afghanistan. “In the brief exchange of president Obama with President Zardari in Chicago, he discussed what kind of role Pakistan wanted to play in the region,” he recalled. The spokesman asserted that the US administration wanted to see Pakistan as a stable and democratic country that could help in the peace and stability in the region as a whole, including Afghanistan. In a separate briefing, Pentagon spokesperson, Navy Capt. John Kirby said that the ground supply routes were still closed but “talks with Pakistan continue on reopening of ground lines of communication (GLOCs)”. He believed Pentagon was pleased with the level of dialogue about this issue, but were still working to resolve it. - Contributed by Awais Saleem, Dunya News correspondent in Washington, DC

Fiscal deficit for 2011-12 hits 5% of GDP

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According to budget documents, the estimate of total expenditures is more than Rs 32 trillion. The final decision of raise in salaries of official employees would be taken in the cabinet meeting before announcement of the budget. Pakistan will miss the target of fiscal deficit fixed at 4.7 percent of GDP for FY 2011-12. The actual deficit will climb to 5 percent by the end of the current financial year. According to the details of the Annual Plan 2012-13, Rs65 billion would be invested on power projects in the next financial year while an allocation of Rs48 billion would be made for the projects of water reservoirs. For Diamer Bhasha Dam an amount of Rs8 billion has been earmarked. The report said apart from missing the target for fiscal deficit, Pakistan will not as well be able to collect Rs1952 billion tax as projected for FY 2011-12. The tax collection of Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) will be less by 1.6 percent or Rs31 billion. According to the Annual Plan, Rs23 billion have been kept for Railways; Rs57 billion for highways; Rs20 billion for education and; Rs24 billion for health sector. The report said the situation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) was unsatisfactory, as it witnessed around 48 percent decline in the first 9 months of the current fiscal year. The stock market also saw a foreign capital flight of 83 million dollars, with foreign investment in local bourse witnessing a nosedive of 148.5 percent. Power sector will be on government s top priority list on which Rs81 billion will be spent. WAPDA will invest Rs115 billion in power sector while the government will spend Rs35 million on Chashma Nuclear-III and IV projects.

SpaceX's Dragon set to return to earth Friday

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Is returning after a landmark mission to the International Space Station, NASA and SpaceX representatives said Wednesday. The release of the unmanned Dragon is set for 5:35 am Eastern time (0935 GMT) on Friday, with an intact splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California planned for 1444 GMT, NASA said. "We have a lot ahead of us on the SpaceX side," said mission director John Couluris in a briefing with reporters on the eve of the spacecraft s return after a seven-day mission to the orbiting outpost. "We have done it once," he said, referring to the Dragon s test flight in December 2010 when the capsule entered and returned safely from orbit for the first time. "But it is still a very challenging phase of flight," he added. "We are not taking this lightly at all." The capsule is supposed to make an ocean landing 490 nautical miles (907 kilometers) southwest of Los Angeles, where three vessels are standing by as recovery boats. It will then be transported to Texas so that the cargo it is bringing back can be returned to NASA, though the US space agency cautioned that if anything goes wrong, there is nothing irreplaceable on board. "There is not anything coming home that we couldn t afford to not get back," said Holly Ridings, NASA flight director. The cargo ship carried 521 kilograms (1,148 pounds) of gear for the space lab, including food, supplies, computers, utilities and science experiments. It plans to return a 660-kilogram load to Earth. On May 25, the Dragon became the first privately owned spacecraft to berth with the ISS, an event that NASA and White House officials hailed as the start of a new era in spaceflight in which commercial enterprise will take a larger role. The United States retired its space shuttle fleet last year, leaving cargo missions up to the space agencies of Russia, Japan and Europe.

Chiniot: Mother, daughter attacked with acid

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Tahira who had been living alone with her two children for the last several years as her husband Muhammad Khalid had been living in the US. Tahira’s neighbour Javed was in love with her and was advocating that she file for divorce which her parents were not agreeing to. On Wednesday when Tahira was on her way to the local market with her daughter, Javed along with two accomplices threw acid at them. Tahir’a arms were burnt in the attack while her daughter’s stomach was badly burnt. The mother and daughter were shifted to the local hospital for treatment. No arrests have been made in connection with this incident.

Tiger of Madras is a humble man

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His world chess title retained and his latest challenger -- the emotive and brooding Boris Gelfand of Israel -- vanquished, Anand told reporters he had just had one very lucky escape. "I simply hung on for dear life," the 42-year-old said softly after winning an astonishingly tense shootout that organisers said was witnessed by tens of millions of the brain sport s enthusiasts on the Internet. "I understood that in all fairness, this match simply could go either way." Facing criticism of being neither as sharp nor inventive as in his mercurial youth, Anand showed the poise of a legend in his third title defence, his claim of being the flagbearer of the first post-Garry Kasparov generation secured. His status in India, meanwhile, showed with the jostling posse of reporters who followed him to Moscow, hanging on his every word and reporting it in breathless dispatches, the quiet man s daily habits laid out before the nation. "Anand is, quite simply, the greatest sportsman India has ever produced," said Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation started in 2001 to support the country s top stars. Like many of the mysterious sport s most gifted, Anand showed remarkable promise at an early age. But unlike most who often give up after their first major challenge, he persevered and won until there was no one else left to beat. Born in a small town in the southern tip of India, Anand became an international master at 15, was crowned Indian champion at 16, won the world junior title at 17 and became the country s first grandmaster at 18. The Indian government, taking note of the young man s rapid rise, conferred on him India s fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, a few months short of his 19th birthday. He won his first world title in 2000, becoming the first Indian to grab the revered trophy, before relinquishing it two years later. But with his sport getting younger by the day, Anand felt like he was only getting started and in 2007 won the title again at the age of 35, keeping it ever since. Now living in Spain with wife Aruna and one-year-old son, Anand has recently been dismissed as not actually being the world s best player, his top chess rating lost to the new wunderkind -- this one from Norway, Magnus Carlsen. But many of today s best players still put Anand on a pedestal, not least the man he defeated for the chess crown in 2008. "I always considered him to be a colossal talent, one of the greatest in the whole history of chess," said Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik. "Each champion has had some sort of speciality, and his is creating counter-play in any position out of absolutely nowhere." In 1992, Anand became the first recipient of India s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, and the country s second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, came his way in 2007. Anand started solving chess puzzles displayed on television as a six-year-old child. "My mother and I solved all these puzzles and sent in our answers," Anand recalled. "At one point, they just said ... don t send any more entries so that others get a chance." Anand s game is built on belligerent attack that catches opponents off-guard, but his unflustered approach ensures that he has the right defence in place when the going gets tough. "If there is anyone close to perfection in chess, it is him," said fellow player Surya Shekhar Ganguly, a member of Anand s team that plots strategy for big clashes.

Jirga meeting: Pakistans map removed from banner

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On the very first day of the National Jirga held at Nishtar Hall, the map of Pakistan had been exhibited in the background of a banner installed on the stage but it was removed on the second day of the Jirga when Afghan delegates were to address the meeting. The people sitting in the meeting took this change seriously.

AIOU admissions start from June 1

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AIOU Director (Admissions) Syed Zia-ul-Hasnain said that admissions of PhD program would be offered in Urdu, Islamic Studies, Iqbal Studies, Chemistry, Physics and Pakistani Languages & Literature with specialization in Pushto, Balochi, Brahui, Sindhi, Seraiki and Punjabi. The admissions of MPhil would be open in Mass Communication, Islamic Studies, Iqbal Studies, Chemistry and Arabic. The Chemistry program will be available in Islamabad only. The admissions of MS would be open in Community Health and Nutrition. Admission forms and prospectuses can be taken at the sale point of the AIOU main campus in Sector H-8, Islamabad, and its regional campuses-coordinating offices across the Pakistan.The last date for submission of admission forms is June 29, 2012.

Illegal foreigners to be ousted from KP: Mian Iftikhar

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Talking to the media in Peshawar, Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that dialogues are sole solution to the issues, adding that peace in Malakand is by dint of policies enunciated by the government. He said that peace in the region is only possible with the peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US and Afghanistan would have to make joint endeavours for this purpose. He made it clear that action against all the foreigners residing here in the province would be taken without any discrimination; no matter either they are American or Afghan immigrants, he concluded.

UET entry test for undergraduate classes in August

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Students are instructed to submit their required documents for entry test and admission forms before August 2012. This admission 2012 will include UET Lahore Undergraduate Admission 2012, UET Lahore MSc/MPhil Admissions 2012 and UET Lahore PhD Admission 2012.