Sunday 29 May 2016

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Weather turns pleasant as rain lashes parts of Punjab

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LAHORE (Dunya News) - The heat-stricken masses in several cities of Punjab took a sigh of relief as weather that was extremely hot, became pleasant after rain on early Monday morning, Dunya News reported.Heavy rain with strong winds lashed Lahore on early Monday. Several feeders in Lahore were tripped due to rain, plunging most parts of the city into darkness. Strong winds also uprooted number of trees in the city.Rain was also reported from Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Daska, Muridke and some other cities of Punjab. Federal capital Islamabad also received heavy rain.The Met Office has predicted rain with strong winds in Hazara, Malakand, FATA, Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and other areas during next 24 hours.

Lahore: Fire destroys Child Protection Bureaus store room

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LAHORE (Dunya News) – According to details, fire broke out at the Child Protection Bureau store room situated in Mughalpura area of Lahore on Sunday which quickly engulfed the entire store, Dunya News reported.Police and rescue teams reached the spot and extinguished the blaze after a hectic effort of one hour. The fire destroyed the belongings of the children staying at the Child Protection Bureau. Fortunately all the children remained safe.According to the Child Protection Bureau chairperson, Saba Sadiq, the children have been shifted to safer location after the fire.

Shahbaz Sharif reaches London to meet ailing brother

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LONDON (Dunya News) – Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif reached London on Sunday night to join his brother Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who is scheduled to undergo open-heart surgery on Tuesday, Dunya News reported.A large number of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers welcomed him at his arrival at London’s Heathrow Airport. Soon after his arrival in London, CM Shahbaz reached the residence of PM Nawaz and enquired about his health. Hamza Shahbaz and other family members also accompanied CM Shahbaz on London visit. Before departing for London, Shehbaz Sharif has requested the nation to pray for the successful operation and quick recovery of PM Nawaz Sharif.The Prime Minister will be undergoing an open-heart surgery in London on Tuesday. Doctors have advised him bed rest for two weeks after the surgery.

Karachi: Fire at cloth godowns brought under control

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KARACHI (Dunya News) – According to rescue sources, fire broke out at a cloth godown in Gulbai area of Sher Shah in Karachi on Sunday night which quickly engulfed four other cloth godowns in the surrounding area. Sources said that the fire was caused by short circuit, Dunya news reported.The blaze was so severe that fire brigade vehicles from all over the city were called in. The fire fighters brought the fire under control after six hours hectic effort. At least 26 fire brigade vehicles participated in the rescue operation. The owners of the godowns informed that the cloth worth Rs 10 million was gutted in the blaze.

Oil production in Canada's Fort McMurray coming back online

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MONTREAL (AFP) - Oil production in Canadas fire-ravaged oil sands area is coming back online and thousands of workers are returning to their jobs, leading Canadian petroleum producer Suncor said Sunday.Start-up activities are well underway, the company said in a release, noting that one facility began initial production last week and another is expected to reach the milestone by the end of this week.Suncor has moved over 4,000 employees and contractors back into the region ... and anticipates that over the coming week it will move approximately 3,500 additional people to support its return to operations.None of Suncors facilities was damaged by the massive forest fire in the Fort McMurray area of Alberta province that has been burning for a month but in recent days has moved away from populated regions.Some 100,000 people were ordered to move to safety.The work stoppage at oil facilities in the region reduced Canadas total output by an estimated 1.2 million barrels per day.

Mathews leads Sri Lanka's fight for self-respect

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CHESTER-LE-STREET (AFP) - Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews led from the front in the second Test at the Riverside on Sunday as his side avoided the embarrassment of another defeat by England inside three days.Mathews made 80 as Sri Lanka, again forced to follow-on, stopped England strolling to a series-clinching win.At the close of the third day, Sri Lanka were 309 for five -- still 88 runs behind Englands first innings 498 for nine declared, which featured Moeen Alis Test-best 155 not out.Mathewss fourth-wicket second-innings stand of 82 -- Sri Lankas first fifty partnership of the series -- with opener Kaushal Silva (60) kept England at bay for much of Sundays play.Dinesh Chandimal (54 not out) and Milinda Siriwardana (35 not out) built on that platform with an unbroken partnership of 87 that took Sri Lanka to stumps.Sri Lanka had at least stopped the rot after becoming the first side since New Zealand in England back in 1958 to be bowled out for under 120 in three successive Test innings following their 101 first time around in this match.Mathewss men totalled just 91 and 119 during a crushing innings and 88-run defeat in the first of a three-Test series at Headingley last week.But Sundays second-innings effort -- something badly needed for their own morale and that of all those who want to see competitive Test cricket -- kept them in this match.It also left open the possibility of a stunning, come-from-behind, win if they could set England 100 or more for victory.We have to bat positively tomorrow, Silva told Sky Sports. We have to get those 80 runs and then set a target.Sri Lankas second innings saw the talented Kusal Mendis make a brisk 26 before he was caught behind off a James Anderson delivery that nipped away.Lahiru Thirimanne scored 13 before off-spinner Ali bowled him with a classic delivery that turned past the left-handers outside edge as he pushed forward.Silvas leg-glance off fast bowler Steven Finn, his sixth boundary, saw him to a 111-ball fifty.Mathews then clipped Stuart Broad through mid-wicket for four and cut him to the point rope, before his slogged six off Ali brought up Sri Lankas 150.Ali beat the advancing Mathews, then on 36, only for wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow to miss the stumping chance.Mathews went on to complete a 63-ball fifty, featuring 30 runs in boundaries.Finn broke an entertaining stand, however, when his bouncer surprised Silva, whose skyed pull into Bairstows gloves ended nearly four hours of resistance.The umpires checked for a possible no-ball, but Finn had narrowly avoided over-stepping and Sri Lanka were 182 for four.Its just about trying to find more consistency, said Finn, who ended the day with figures of one for 55 from 16 overs.(The side strain) is not in my mind, my body is fine, Im just trying to get in a battle and take wickets for England.Mathews made his Test-best score of 160 against England in a series-clinching win at Headingley in 2014.But he fell short of a hundred on Sunday when Anderson, as hes done so often in becoming Englands all-time leading Test wicket-taker, produced a fine leg-cutter that squared Mathews up and took the outside edge, with Bairstow holding a tumbling catch.Sri Lanka were now 222 for five, with more than 19 overs left before stumps.But with the ground now bathed in sunshine, conditions for batting had improved greatly.England had four overs with the new ball prior to the close, but Chandimal responded by cover-driving Broad for his fifth four to complete a 95-ball fifty.

Hyderabad beat Bangalore for maiden IPL win

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BANGALORE (AFP) - Skipper David Warners sparkling half century helped Sunrisers Hyderabad survive a punishing blitz by Chris Gayle to edge out Royal Challengers Bangalore by eight runs in the Indian Premier League final on Sunday.Defending 208 to claim their maiden IPL title, Hyderabad restricted Virat Kohlis Bangalore to 200 for seven at the M Chinnaswamy stadium with Gayles 38-ball 76 in vain.With 18 runs required off the final over, pace spearhead Bhuvneshwar Kumar -- the leading wicket taker of the season with 23 scalps -- gave away just nine as the Hyderabad players celebrated amid fireworks.Electing to bat first, Hyderabad rode on entertaining knocks from Australias Warner and Ben Cutting to post a mammoth 208 for seven in 20 overs.Fantastic team achievement. To lead this side and the support from the players, me pulling my weight with the runs, it has been a hard journey. Its a team effort, a delighted Warner said after the triumph.If Warner laid a solid foundation with his ninth fifty of this IPL season then fellow Aussie Cutting finished it off with an unbeaten 39 off 15 deliveries.Left-handed Warner (69), who accumulated 848 runs in 17 matches, gave the team a rollicking 63-run start with opener Shikhar Dhawan (28).Warner smashed the ball to all parts of the ground and took a special liking to Shane Watson whose opening over -- the fifth of the innings -- cost 18 runs.Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who remained the teams top wicket taker of the season with 21, got the first breakthrough in Dhawan who mistimed a slog sweep to deep square leg.Warner, whose 38-ball knock was laced with eight fours and three sixes, kept up the run rate, forcing Kohli to juggle with his bowling options.England medium-pacer Chris Jordan (3-45) replaced left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdullah in the 10th over to send Australias Moises Henriques trudging back to the dug out.Aravind got the prized scalp of Warner, who threw away his wicket while trying to slash at a widish delivery and got caught at short third man.Veteran India batsman Yuvraj Singh took over from where Warner left off, smacking 38 runs from 23 balls to keep the momentum going.The Bangalore bowlers kept coming back to get wickets in between but could never arrest the flow of runs.The last five overs saw the back of four Hyderabad batsmen, but Cuttings late blitz allowed the side to bag 68 runs from the final 30 deliveries.To win in Bangalore, we were underdogs. But, we batted well, bowled well and fielded well, said Warner.Chasing a record total in the final, Gayle struck from the start, raining sixes with medium-pacers Barinder Sran and Cutting taking a severe beating.The burly Jamaican stole the spotlight away from fellow opener and seasons top run getter Kohli to notch up his second fifty of this edition in just 25 balls.The duo, who stitched a 114-run partnership, took away 21 runs from a Moises Henriques over as Bangalore brought up their hundred in just nine overs to enthral the raucous crowd.Cutting gave Hyderabad their first breakthrough to send back the dangerous Gayle, who smoked four fours and eight sixes during his 38-ball stay at the crease.Kohli (54), who registered 973 runs this season including four centuries and seven fifties, was the next to go, hitting five fours and two sixes in his 35-ball knock.Star batsman AB de Villiers soon followed Kohli into the dug-out, giving the Hyderabad bowlers a chance to get back into the game.Cutting (2-35) seized the moment to clean up Lokesh Rahul for 11 and with Shane Watson gone for the same score off Mustafizur Rahman, RCB started to lose their way into the chase.In the end Sachin Baby tried his best to match up the ever increasing asking rate with his 10-ball 18 not out, but RCB had to stay content with their third runners up finish in the cash-rich league.We are proud of the way we played as a team. This was for the people of Bangalore. Even when we had the worst seasons, they were there for us, said Kohli.

London: PML-N workers protest outside Jemima Khan's house

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LONDON (Dunya News) – In a response to the demonstration organised by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members outside the house of Hussain Nawaz, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers arranged a protest outside the residence of PTI chairman Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima Khan’s house in London, reported Dunya News on Sunday.PML-N workers were holding national flags along with posters having pictures of Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif on them. The workers raised slogans while standing outside the house of Jemima. A large number of women also participated in the demonstration.A large number of PTI members organised a procession outside Hussain Nawaz’s house on May 25. The party workers also misbehaved with the media representatives present there on the basis of which the media personnel decided to boycott the reporting of the demonstration.

PM to preside over cabinet, NEC meetings via video link today

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LAHORE (Dunya News) – Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif shall preside over meetings of the federal cabinet and that of the National Economic Council (NEC) dealing with the federal budget of the next fiscal year through a video link today, reported Dunya News on Sunday.Preparations in this regards have been made in the Pakistani High Commission in the United Kingdom (UK). Meeting of the NEC shall commence at 5:15pm Pakistan Standard Time (PST) whereas the meeting of the federal cabinet shall begin at 6:30pm PST. Sources indicate that approval of the federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year shall be given in the cabinet meeting.PM shall preside over and will address both the meetings from the Pakistani High Commission in London through a video link.

5 UN peacekeepers killed in Mali attack: UN, police sources

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BAMAKO, (AFP) - At least five UN peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in central Mali by suspected militants on Sunday, the UN and police sources said.The attack is the first time the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, has recorded fatalities in the centre of a country long beset by violence in its vast and desolate north.According to preliminary information, five peacekeepers were killed. Another was seriously hurt and is being evacuated, MINUSMA said in a statement.The UN did not immediately confirm the nationality of the dead soldiers but a Bamako police source indicated a group of Togolese peacekeepers came across a mine and a terrorist attack some 50 kilometres out of Mopti.First reports had indicated four Togolese peacekeepers were killed in the mid-morning attack on a MINUSMA convoy some 30 kilometres (20 miles) west of the town of Sevare in Mopti region.MINUSMA mission head Mahamat Saleh Annadif condemned the attack as an odious act of terror.I most strongly condemn this abject crime which adds to other terrorist acts targeting our peacekeepers and which constitute crimes against humanity under international law, said Annadif.Sundays attack came just two days after authorities reported five Malian soldiers killed and four wounded Friday when their vehicles hit a mine in the north and then came under sustained fire.Last week also saw five peacekeepers from Chad killed and three others wounded in an ambush in the northeast by Ansar Dine jihadist fighters.The Mali mission is the most dangerous active deployment for UN peacekeepers and it has been hit by sharp internal tensions since its launch in July 2013.With Sundays attack, at least 64 MINUSMA peacekeepers have been killed while on active service, while another four have died in friendly fire incidents, UN figures show.The north has seen repeated violence since it fell under the control of Tuareg-led rebels who allied with jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda in 2012.The Islamists were largely ousted by an ongoing French-led military operation launched in January 2013, but they have since carried out sporadic attacks on security forces from desert hideouts.Rival armed factions and smuggling networks mean the region has struggled for stability since Mali gained independence from former colonial power France in 1960.

Reconciliation over Panama Leaks impossible: Asif Zardari

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that reconciliation over Panama Leaks issue is not an option. He also denied meeting Jamiat Ulema-e-Isalm-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman in London, reported Dunya News on Sunday.Zardari stated that there is no contradiction in his stance and that of PPP in regards to the Panama Leaks issue.Furthermore, former president also denied news of a meeting between him and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl in London.

Chances of military intervention would die if rigging, corruption eradicated: Imran Khan

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday held a meeting with National Press Club (NPC) members at Bani Gala and said that media had awakened political consciousness among new generation and due to social media it had been impossible to deceive public, reported Dunya NewsHe said that any leader has to be answerable to public in a democratic system while considering himself above the law and accountability in a dictator oriented system of governing was not just.He said that Pakistan had faced an immense crisis as Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif refused to resign. He said that elections had been conducted but lack of democratic behavior lead to the absence of real sense of democracy in the country.He said that poor nations faced devastation as their leaders had been involved in money laundering.Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) would have never won the elections without election commission’s support, the party had bribed individuals from every sphere of life including police, administration, journalists and judges, Imran said.Imran added that they had every right to storm the streets if they did not get justice. Chances of the military invention would die if rigging and corruption had eradicated from the country and that PTI recognises journalists’ valuable services for country’s stable democracy.Imran said that Nawaz would be blamed if democracy gets derailed, the country cannot function without a chief executive and his party would raise the very issue in Parliament over PM’s absence.

Interior Ministry verifies Mullah Mansour's death in US drone strike in Nushki

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Ministry of Interior on Sunday verified the death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike that took place in Nushki on May 21, reported Dunya News.Verification was issued after confirmation regarding Mansours identity was received through his Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test report. Concerns regarding Mansours identity were raised after he along with a driver travelling with him in a car got killed in a drone strike in Nushki, Balochistan.United States took the stance that the Taliban leader was killed in the drone strike but the identification card and passport found near the area where the incident took place belonged to a person named Muhammad Wali that made enormous confusion. DNA sample of a close relative of Mansour was taken after he arrived from Afghanistan to collect his dead body.Despite the fact that confirmation was made by Foreign Advisor Sartaj Aziz that Mansour got killed as a result of the drone strike, Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan stated that the final verdict regarding his identification would be made after receiving his DNA report.

DJ Butt signs agreement with PPP

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MIRPUR (Dunya News) - Renowned DJ Butt who had been working with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) entered into an agreement with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Sunday, reported Dunya News.DJ Butt who would now play for PPP had signed an agreement with Mirpur rally administration. Rally organiser Amir Zeeshan had confirmed the deal as he would play at PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto’s rally to be held on Monday.

Family members of taxi driver killed in drone strike file case against US authorities

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NUSHKI (Dunya News) – Family members of taxi driver Muhammad Azam who was killed in an American drone strike in Balochistan that also killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansour have filed a case against US authorities, reported Dunya News on Sunday.The case was registered on the behalf of Azams heirs. Brother of the slain taxi driver stated that Azam was killed despite the fact that he did no wrong, adding that the case is being registered against American authorities as they accepted responsibility of conducting the strike.Articles 109, 427, 302 along with the Explosive act and 7 articles of the Anti-Terrorist Act (ATA) have been included in the case.Mullah Akhtar Mansour and taxi driver Azam were killed on May 21 as the result of a US drone strike in Balochistan.
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