Saturday 14 May 2016

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Major decisions expected from govt over Panama Leaks, accountability

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LAHORE (Dunya News) – Major decision are expected from government regarding the Panama Leaks case as well as over corruption allegations on politicians. Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif will be making the announcement Monday during his National Assembly address.According to the details, a decision for an indiscriminate accountability of corrupt politicians will be made, be it the government or the Opposition.According to sources, accountability process will be conducted in two phases. In the first phase, new Terms of References (TORs) will be decided upon and an investigation of the Panama Papers will be conducted.In the second phase, an accountability commission will be formed on permanent basis which will conduct against the corrupt politicians, for which the government will form legislation with the Opposition.Decisions of the accountability commission will be implemented on immediate basis. Those accused will not be able to become part of the Parliament in the future.Government has completed the discussed on the matter with its legal advisors. Announcement of these developments are expected on Monday during PM’s address in National Assembly.

DG Rangers holds separate meetings with MQM, PSP, Haqiqi leaders

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KARACHI (Dunya News) – Director General (DG) Rangers Major General Bilal Akbar Saturday held separate meetings with leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) and Muhajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi). The delegations of the parties had been invited to Pakistan Rangers Sindh Headquarters.According to the Rangers Spokesperson, delegations of all 3 parties met with DG Rangers separately. Leaders of all 3 parties have assured to play vital role for peace and stability in the Provincial Capital.PSP leaders Mustafa Kamal and Anees Qaimkhani met with DG Rangers and a discussion regarding the problems prevailing in Sindh, missing persons case and the involvement of anti-state agents in political activities took place during the meeting.Kamal stated that his party is set to play a role in establishing peace in Karachi, further adding that PSP will not let Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) to succeed in its plans.Rangers DG lauded PSP s initiative of promoting non-violent version of politics.

Karachi: LEAs arrest 7 including 2 operatives of political party

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KARACHI (Dunya News) – Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) late Saturday night arrested 7 suspects including 2 operatives of a political party involved in the murder of a police officer.According to the details, Investigation police managed to apprehend 2 suspects from Gulberg area of Karachi. The arrested culprits have admitted murdering a police officer.Meanwhile police arrested 2 felons during action in Bin Qasim area. Apprehended suspect Ghulam Murtaza was involved in the killing of a 12 year old.On the other hand, Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) conducted action near PIDC Chowk and arrested 3 suspects including a police officer. According to the CTD In-Charge arrested felon Adil is a Head Constable in the telecommunication department and was designated in the complaint cell of the Governor House.Other 2 suspects, Mohammad Shehroz and Adnan used to portray themselves as police officers as well and used to extort money from citizens under the guise of CTD.

Lahore: Police arrests 16 foreigners during search operation

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LAHORE (Dunya News) – Police late Saturday night arrested 16 foreigners during a search operation in Township area of Lahore. The visas of the arrested foreingers had expired and they had been illegally residing in the country.According to the details, all 16 foreigners belong to African nations. Authorities have shifted the arrested to the police station. The apprehended foreigners include 14 men and 2 women.According to the police, drugs have also been recovered from a few of those arrested.

Before anything, focus on father's corruption: Saad Rafique to Bilawal

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BAHAWALPUR (Dunya News) – Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique Saturday stated that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto should first focus on his father Asif Ali Zardari’s corruption before talking about offshore companies while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman should focus on killing the carnivorous rodents in Peshawar, which are out of his control.Addressing Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) party workers in Bahawalpur, Rafique stated that there will be no major deadlock in the country, adding that democracy was better than the worst kind of dictatorship.Criticisng Bilawal, he further stated that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the leader of PPP but not of Pakistani nation.The Federal Minister for Railways added that the PTI chairman should resolve the rodent problem in Peshawar, otherwise the nation will dismiss him.

Turkey president's daughter marries in Istanbul

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ISTANBUL (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday saw his younger daughter Sumeyye marry defence industrialist Selcuk Bayraktar at a large-scale and high security ceremony in Istanbul.Turkish media pictures earlier showed Sumeyye, 30, wearing an Islamic headscarf, sitting in the front seat of the black BMW bridal car.Erdogan and his wife Emine have four children -- eldest son Burak, Bilal and two daughters Esra and Sumeyye.The wedding started with the reciting of Koran, the private NTV television reported.Top officials including Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, army chief Hulusi Akar and former president Abdullah Gul attended the ceremony, to which some 6,000 guests were reportedly invited.Foreign leaders including Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif were also in attendance.Davutoglus appearance at the wedding could dismiss claims of a split with the president.In a surprise move, Davutoglu last week announced he would step down as premier and leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at a congress later this month.A heavyweight former foreign minister, he is believed to have been forced out of office due to repeated disagreements with Erdogan and that the key quality in the next head of government would be loyalty.The high-profile wedding forced the closing of several roads to traffic In Istanbul and additional barriers were put up around the wedding hall in Kucukcekmece on the European side of the city, media reports said.Sumeyye studied at Indiana Univeristy in the United States and earned a masters degree from the London School of Economics.She served the AKP government on foreign policy issues when Erdogan was prime minister but after her father was elected president in 2014, she quit that post.She now works as the deputy head of the non-govermental group Women and Democracy Association (KADEM).The groom Bayraktar graduated from Istanbul Technical Universitys department of electronic engineering in 2002.He received masters degrees from the University of Pennyslvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States.He has been working as chief technology officer at a family company Baykar Makina which manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles. He has taken part in a number of projects on the development of national defence systems.

IS attacks Syria hospital, kills 20, takes hostages: monitor

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BEIRUT (AFP) - The Islamic State terrorist group on Saturday overran a government-controlled hospital in eastern Syria, killing 20 members of pro-regime forces and taking medical staff hostage, a monitor said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the terrorists attacked Al-Assad hospital in Deir Ezzor as they press an advance to try to control the oil-rich city and its vital airbase.The attack sparked clashes with regime forces providing security for the hospital in which six extremists were also killed, the monitor said.IS attacked Al-Assad hospital at the citys western entrance, killing at least 20 soldiers and allied fighters, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.The terrorists seized the hospital and captured the medical staff, holding them hostage, he said.The extremists group controls about 60 percent of Deir Ezzor, including the centre and the north of the city.It has imposed a siege on government-held districts in the south and east where about 200,000 civilians have been trapped since March 2014.The terrorists, who also control nearly all the surrounding province, have repeatedly attacked the government enclave and seized several neighbourhoods since the start of this year.But their efforts to capture the airbase located in the south of the city have been crushed by elite regime troops.In the northern city of Aleppo, the Observatory said, seven civilians including two children were killed over the previous 48 hours in rebel shelling of government-held western sectors.A ceasefire in the divided city expired on Wednesday at midnight.The Observatory also reported heavy fighting on the edge of rebel-held Daraya, a town near Damascus under siege by government forces since 2012 and where the Red Cross was thwarted in an operation to deliver urgent humanitarian aid this week.

US urges Iran to release imprisoned Baha'i leaders

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States called on Iran Saturday to free seven leaders of the minority Bahai faith serving 20-year prison sentences, urging Tehran to ensure religious and other freedoms.The Bahai leaders were arrested eight years ago and convicted of espionage, insulting religious sanctities and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.We join the international community in condemning their continued imprisonment and calling upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to release them immediately, along with all other prisoners of conscience in Iran, State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.Furthermore, we call upon Iranian authorities to uphold their own laws and meet their international obligations that guarantee freedom of expression, religion, opinion and assembly for all citizens, he said.Kirbys statement comes after international sanctions on Iran were lifted as part of its landmark nuclear deal with world powers last year.

Hezbollah says extremists killed military chief in Syria

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BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanese group Hezbollah on Saturday blamed extremists for killing its top military commander in Syria and vowed to keep fighting to defend President Bashar al-Assads regime.The Islamist State (IS) terrorist group, meanwhile, briefly overran a government-controlled hospital in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, triggering a battle with pro-regime forces in which 59 fighters were killed, a monitor said.Hezbollah has deployed thousands of fighters in Syria where Mustafa Badreddine had led its intervention in support of Assads forces, which are also backed by Russia and Iran.Badreddine, who was on a US terror sanctions blacklist and wanted by Israel, was killed in an explosion on Thursday night near Damascus international airport.Hezbollah announced his death on Friday but without immediately apportioning blame, breaking with its usual pattern of accusing arch-foe Israel of responsibility.On Saturday, it said a probe had concluded that radicals had killed Badreddine.An investigation has shown that the blast that targeted one of our positions near the Damascus international airport that led to the martyrdom of the brother commander Mustafa Badreddine was caused by artillery bombardment carried out by extremist groups present in that region, a Hezbollah statement said.It did not name any specific group, and there has been no claim of responsibility.Hezbollah has been battling opponents of Assads regime including from IS and Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaedas Syria affiliate.Medics held hostageA Syrian security source has told AFP that Badreddine was in a warehouse near the airport when it was rocked by a blast on Thursday night.No aircraft was heard before the explosion, the source said.The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, said no artillery fire had been heard in the area either in the past three days.In Deir Ezzor, IS attacked Al-Assad hospital on Saturday as it pressed an advance aimed at controlling all of the oil-rich city and its vital airbase, the Observatory said.The attack sparked clashes with regime forces providing security for the hospital in which 35 soldiers and pro-regime militiamen and 24 IS fighters were killed, Abdel Rahman said.The monitoring group said regime forces recaptured the hospital after losing control for several hours during which IS took medical staff hostage.There was no immediate word on their fate.The terrorist group controls about 60 percent of Deir Ezzor, including the centre and the north of the city.Kerry peace pushIn the northern city of Aleppo, where a ceasefire expired on Wednesday at midnight, the Observatory reported seven civilians killed in 48 hours of rebel shelling of government-held western sectors.State television said a reporter and three other people were wounded by rebel rocket fire on state radio and television offices in Aleppo.The Observatory also reported heavy fighting on the edge of rebel-held Daraya near Damascus, besieged by government forces since 2012 and where a Red Cross operation to deliver humanitarian aid this week was thwarted.Syrias conflict has killed more than 270,000 people and displaced millions since it started with the repression of anti-government protests in 2011.On the political front, US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday to consult with his Arab ally ahead of international talks in Vienna next week aimed at salvaging teetering peace efforts.In Hezbollahs statement on Saturday, a day after thousands attended Badreddines funeral in Beirut, Hezbollah vowed no let-up in its war against those it describes as criminal gangs in Syria.Badreddine was a key suspect in the 2005 assassination in Beirut of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri and was one of Israels most wanted.His predecessor, cousin and brother-in-law Imad Mughniyeh, was killed in Damascus in a 2008 bombing that Hezbollah blamed on Israel.Hezbollah has also accused Israel of killing another of its prominent figures, Samir Kantar, in an air strike last December near Damascus.Expert Waddah Charara says Hezbollah has sent between 5,000 and 6,000 combatants to Syria.Between 1,000 and 2,000 of its fighters have been killed in combat there, other experts say.

Suarez hat-trick fires Barca to La Liga title

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MADRID (AFP) - Barcelona sealed their 24th La Liga title as Luis Suarez took his tally for the season to 59 goals with a hat-trick in a 3-0 win at Granada to hold off Real Madrids late-season surge.Real registered their 12th consecutive La Liga win, 2-0 at Deportivo La Coruna thanks to Cristiano Ronaldos double, but finished a point behind their bitter rivals.Suarezs treble also sees him become the first player in seven years other than Ronaldo and Barca teammate Lionel Messi to win the Pichichi award for La Ligas top goalscorer with 40.We are deserving champions, said Suarez.We had to suffer, the pressure was put on us in the final few games, but this team is built to win titles.Barca had seemed set to cruise to the title until a run of three consecutive defeats for the first time in 13 years last month.However, they bounced back like champions as, inspired by Suarezs 14 goals, they scored 24 times without reply in the last five games to win the title.We played very well over the course of the season. We were top for many weeks and the most consistent team wins the title, said Barca boss Luis Enrique.We have won six of the last eight titles, which shows the club has a winning mentality. We must value each title win because each one is very difficult.Barca were put under pressure early on as Ronaldo struck after just seven minutes to put Madrid in front in La Coruna.However, their nerves were settled by a brilliant team move on 22 minutes as Neymar freed Jordi Alba down the left and his low cross was turned into an empty net by Suarez at the back post.Suarez then doubled Barcas advantage when he nipped in ahead of Andres Fernandez to head in Dani Alvess cross at the near post.Fernandez made excellent saves from a Messi free-kick that was arrowing towards the top corner and Neymar to keep Granada in the game after the break.And the Andalusians had the chance to set up a nervy finish but former Barca winger Isaac Cuencas shot was beaten away by Marc-Andre ter Stegen.However, fittingly Suarez sealed a stunning season when he completed his hat-trick from Neymars unselfish square pass.Six leagues from the last eight speaks of the cycle of success we continue to maintain and have to try to extend as long as possible, added Barca captain Andres Iniesta.Never gave upMadrids record 12-game winning streak to end the season wasnt enough to overcome the 12-point deficit they faced to Barca back in March.I am very proud of the players and what we have done, said Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane.We never gave up and we fought until the end.However, victory secured second place ahead of Champions League final opponents Atletico Madrid, whilst Ronaldo moved past the 50 goal mark for the sixth consecutive season.The three-time World Player of the Year opened the scoring as he swept home Karim Benzemas mishit effort at the back post.Ronaldos second was slightly fortuitous as his header was deflected past the helpless Stipe Pletikosa by Pedro Mosquera.However, the Portuguese could have had four before he was replaced at half-time with one eye on the Champions League final on May 28 as he also hit the post and the crossbar before the break.Atletico finished just three points behind Barca in third as second-half goals from Fernando Torres and Antoine Griezmann handed them a 2-0 win over Celta Vigo.Torres hooked home the opener in spectacular fashion from Kokes corner and nearly repeated the trick with a similar effort three minutes later which came back off the bar and fell invitingly for Griezmann to head home his 32nd goal of the season.Defeat saw Celta finish the season in sixth as Athletic Bilbao took fifth place with a 3-1 win over an under-strength Sevilla side ahead of their Europa League final against Liverpool on Wednesday.

Lahore: Teachers protest against privatisation continues long into the night

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LAHORE (Dunya News) – Punjabs government school teachers Saturday took to the streets and staged a protest at the Charing Cross located at Mall Road. The teachers protested against the governments privatisation of public schools. The demonstration continued long into the night and teachers have refused to budge from their demands even after 15 hours since the protest started. No government representative has yet arrived for discussion on the issue. The protest caused severe traffic jam in the area causing extreme distress to the citizens. According to the details, the protesting teachers have stated that the education sector was being privatized on almost daily basis and demanded that this process should be discontinued immediately. Female teachers were also seen amongst the demonstrators, protesting against the government’s move. The demonstratorshave stated that the scope of their protest will increaseif their demands are not met.The protest resulted in the locals facing extreme traffic jam at Mall Road and the nearby areas. The car of a groom was also seen stranded in the traffic jam.Meanwhile workers of the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC)workers also protested in the city upon the decision that their daily attendance will be checked online through the electric cuffs that they will be wearing in their hands.

Faisalabad: PTI workers protest over Raja Riaz's inclusion in party

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FAISALABAD (Dunya News) – Members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday protested over Raja Riazs decision of abandoning Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and joining Imran Khans camp, reported Dunya News.PTI workers organised a rally against Riaz as they hit the roads whilst tearing apart his pictures and labeling him as a used bullet. The workers requested PTI chief Imran Khan not to include Raja Riaz in the party.Earlier, PPP workers in the city celebrated over Riazs decision of leaving the party. Female workers also expressed their views upon the former provincial leaders shift by declaring him as an opportunist. PPP workers danced in the streets, burned posters having Riazs pictures on them and waiving bowls in the air.

Nisar calls JI chief, discuss hanging of leaders in Bangladesh

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan called Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Sirajul Haq. Nisar consulted the JI chief over the hangings of various leaders in Bangladesh, reported Dunya News on Saturday.According to Interior Ministry spokesperson, both leaders agreed upon devising a strategy based upon the resolution passed in the National Assembly (NA) in regards to the hangings and including other political parties in the agenda as well.Interior Minister said that the hanging of Jamaat-e-Islami members in Bangladesh is not restricted to a few individuals but is an open murder of justice.

PM Nawaz attends wedding of Turkish president's daughter

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ANKARA (Web Desk) – Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif and his family attended the wedding ceremony of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogans daughter Sumeyye Erdogan, reported Dunya News on Saturday.Erdogan invited the PM and his family to attend the ceremony. The event was attended by leaders of four other countries.PM Nawaz also signed the marriage contract of Erdogan’s daughter as a witness.

Balochistan Assembly members demand former cabinet to resign

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QUETTA (Dunya News) – Members of opposition in the Balochistan Assembly walked-out of the session while protesting against the former cabinet, raising slogans against it and demanding it to resign, reported Dunya News on Saturday.Session of the Assembly commenced under the leadership of Speaker Rahila Hameed Durrani. Opposition members demanded the members of the former cabinet to resign on the basis of the involvement of former Finance Secretary Mushtaq Raisani in mega-corruption.Matters got really tensed when the Speaker ordered that the microphones of the protesting members of the opposition be switched off. The opposition members walked-out of the Assembly whilst boycotting the session.Commenting upon the opposition’s protest, Balochistan’s former Chief Minister (CM) Dr Abdul Malik stated that the opposition should avoid doing politics based on allegations and advised the members to remain calm and be realistic, adding that his party also has names of certain individuals involved in wrongdoings.Resolution regarding the transfer of funds of the Employees Old-Age Benefit Institution (EOBI) workers to the federal was unanimously approved during the session and further proceedings were suspended till May 17.
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