Karachi: Divisional Comissioner Tahir Hussain has directed officials of law enforcing agencies to ensure foolproof security for processions and Majalis on the martyrdom day of Hazrat Ali (RA) on Wednesday.

He issued these directions while chairing a meeting of Divisional Intelligence Committee here on Tuesday.
He asked them to keep close liaison with organizers of processions to ensure security arrangements on the routes and other relevant places.
The commissioner also asked them to make security plan for Ramazan 27, Jumat-ul-Wada, Eid night and for Eid-ul-Fitr.
He also asked them to keep close contact with …

London: The three Pakistan players embroiled in betting scam allegations were to leave the squad Wednesday to face cricket and government authorities, de facto sidelining them from the team.

Test captain Salman Butt, plus bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif, were to leave Pakistan’s training camp in Taunton, southwest England, and head to London for a meeting with officials.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said it will not suspend them while the allegations are being investigated, though their date in London means they are set to miss the next match, effectively …

Islamabad: National Disaster Management Authority Chairman, Lt. Gen. (R) Nadeem has said that the flood water has now started falling into the Sea.

He said that flood in the Indus at Kotri which was exceptionally high is now gradually decreasing.
However, the breaches occurred on Sujawal side have some impact but the Thatta itself is safe, he added.
He said the water level at all the barrages in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Punjab has started receding bringing the flood at medium and low levels.
He said though the monsoon season is likely to continue up …

Sialkot: Anti-terror court on Monday sent ex-DPO Waqar Chauhan and 6 other police personnel to jail on seven-day remand regarding Sialkot lynching of two innocent brothers.

The accused were presented before Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) where Deputy Prosecutor General Punjab Rana Bakhtiar Ali has requested for 7-day judicial remand, which court has approved.
Earlier, ex-DPO Chauhan along with six other policemen including Yaseen, Bashir, Ahmed, Nazir, Naseer Ahmed and Muhammad Akram were brought to the court under strict security.
Interestingly, Waqar Chauhan was brought from another entry point to evade media …

Washington: After more than seven years of war, President Barack Obama declared the combat mission in Iraq over on Tuesday night, saying that’s in the best interests of both Iraqis and Americans and that ending combat will help the United States focus on new priorities, especially restoring the economy.

In excerpts released by the White House ahead of a prime-time Oval Office address to mark the formal transition of security authority in Iraq , Obama said that “now, it is time to turn the page.”
Turning his attention to the issue dominant …

Chile: The effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved through solid rock.

If all of that is successful, the freed men will emerge from the earth and “feel born again,” said an American miner who was part of a group dramatically rescued in 2002 with similar techniques. But that rescue pulled men from a spot only one-tenth as deep.
“They’re facing …