Karachi a paradise for mobile-snatchers

Karachi, the largest city in the country, has become a haven for mobile phone pouch Snatchers and Citizen Police Liaison Committee, The (CPLC) at least 0.4 million units or mobile phone snatched Karach Was iites consistently exposed to two years.
CPLC Chief Ahmed Chinoy told PPI This fits consistently two years approximately 0.4 million people contacted the CPLC and a request to block your SIM handle or mobile phone. He Said that period standing 24,000 Was phones recovered due to the concerted efforts CPLC and police.
The sum of 0.4 million mobile phone snatching in two years does not show real picture, because only people who belong to the educated class property knowledge of MCPP and the system for Sims or blockage or stolen or seized mobile phone while ordinary people do not bother to report to police or MCPP When your cell phones seized in street criminals.
Although the figure of 0.4 million mobile phone snatching has duties as a base, that means nearly 550 cellphone snatching Every Day, sometimes give a glimpse of the freedom that street crime in Karachi and the inability of the police crime to cover.
That it was learned cell phones, purse thieves prey on citizens and other valuables, but because of negative behavior by the police to the general public, very few victims dare to visit police stations and accommodation FIRS. Chinoy Said Karachi, the commercial and industrial center in the country, is a favorite place or a street criminals. He Said differential parts from many people or upcountry live here to earn livelihood. He Said also differentiate criminals from parts of the country to visit Karachi Proceedings lucrative criminal activities.
He Said mobile phone snatching was very easy job and start as a street criminal can earn Rs5, 000 and RS6, 000 daily snatching a mobile phone. He Said MCPP to maintain detailed information on crime patterns in Karachi. Suggested that, should he follow the police to control crime CPLCs recommendation. He Said shaft Police On The MCPP INFORMS repl areas with street crime, the prison police forces in the region should be the thesis problem of law and order in Karachi can be controlled.

Bomber Strikes Rally of Religious Party in Pakistan

A teenage suicide bomber waded into a political rally by an Islamic party, and his explosives detonated Monday, said a policeman.

The bomb, which went to Peshawar, a northwestern town who were tormented by bombs last year, with more than 20 people, including a leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, a hard-line political party, which until recently in the had publicly supported the Taliban. A policeman was among the dead.

Television pictures showed a scene of mad-capped Muslim youth protest help people on stretchers. Nobody has claimed responsibility.

It was unclear whether the target was to rally, or the police station nearby. A bomb disposal officer said the young bomber was wearing an amazing 15 pounds of explosives.

If the goal was rally would be highly unusual. Jamaat-e-Islami is the oldest Islamic Pakistani political party and its hard-line language sometimes echoes of the Taliban: anti-Western, anti-India and strongly against small religious minorities in Pakistan - Christians, Shiites and an Islamic sect known as Ahmedis. But the party is also part of government's operations in Pakistan and critical of any direct attack on Pakistan army, his people.

A senior police official in Peshawar, Kareem Khan, said the policeman who was slain Gulfat Hussain, a Shiite. The members of the sect are several goals since late last week in the violent attacks in western Pakistan.

Mr Hussain was active in protecting the Shiite processions, often the procession to Holy Places militant attack dragging, said Officer Khan. Al Qaeda is fiercely anti-Shiite. Sectarian militancy is so widespread that Shiite policemen sometimes pray not to be posted in the field, for fear that they will get because of their sect.

It was the second bomb on Monday. The first exploded just seven hours before the close of a school and a student slain and wounded 10, authorities said.

Action to be taken against Musharraf: Malik

Following the report of the United Nations, which accused the security arrangements are inadequate to Musharraf's regime for the assassination of Bhutto, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik and action will be taken against the former president after the concrete evidence is reached.

And accused the king of the Punjab government for not providing adequate security for Bhutto. He said that the Pakistani officers also investigate the assassination of Bhutto.

The minister said the government has the full support of the international investigation committee.

The UN report also accused the intelligence officials and others that severely hampered the investigation into who was behind the murder.

After these results, the Pakistan People's Party said that any person named in the report would work, including the former news Pervez Musharraf.

Suicide bomb at police station kills 7 in Pakistan

A suicide bomber rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing a child and six other civilians, police said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.

The attack was the second this weekend in the Kohat area, illustrating the resilient nature of militant networks in Pakistan despite army offensives targeting their sanctuaries along the Afghan border.

At least 26 people were wounded, including six police, officials said.

Qari Hussain, a top Pakistani Taliban militant commander who allegedly trains suicide bombers, called an Associated Press reporter from an undisclosed location hours after the blast to claim responsibility.

He said the suicide blast was revenge for a recent army strike on a militant-run hospital in the South Waziristan tribal area.

Hussain and other Taliban commanders are believed to be hiding in North Waziristan to avoid the army onslaught in South Waziristan.

"Such attacks will continue in revenge for the deaths of our fellows," Hussain said.

The truck was loaded with up to 550 pounds (250 kilograms) of explosives, area police official Dilawar Khan Bangash said. It struck a concrete barrier in front of the building, which was heavily damaged, as was an adjoining school.

Twin suicide attacks in the Kohat area on Saturday targeted refugees who were fleeing a separate army offensive in the Orakzai tribal region. That attack killed 41 people in line to register for food and relief supplies.

The victims of Saturday's attacks were among around 200,000 people who have left the Orakzai region since the end of last year, when the Pakistan army began airstrikes against militants believed to have fled there from South Waziristan.

The registration point in Kohat was managed by the local government, but was sometimes used by foreign humanitarian groups to deliver aid. There was no claim of responsibility for Saturday's bombings, which is not unusual when large numbers of Pakistani civilians die.

The registration point - essentially a small building in a dusty field - may have been hit to persuade people not to have any contact with the local administration or foreign relief groups.

The United Nations temporarily suspended work helping displaced people in Kohat and neighboring Hangu after Saturday's attack.

The bombers were men disguised in burqas, the all-encompassing veil worn by conservative Muslim women, allowing them to get close to the building without arousing suspicion, police said.

The tempo of the offensive in Orakzai has picked up since March. On Sunday, one soldier and 13 militants were killed in a clash in the Sangra area, said Jahanzeb Khan, an official in Orakzai.

Volcanic ash cloud can cause acid rain

If Iceland's active volcano gets even more active, Icelanders and air travelers won't be the only ones impacted. Gases from past large volcanoes have actually lowered Earth's temperatures, triggered lung ailments, caused acid rain and thinned our protective ozone layer.

The Eyjafjallajokull volcano isn't there yet. "This is not like Pinatubo. So far the scale is not big enough to have a global effect," Hans Olav Hygen, a climate researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, said in reference to the 1991 eruption in the Philippines.

But the potential is there. The new eruption is 10 times more powerful than another nearby last month, threw up a cloud of ash nearly seven miles high and closed down air traffic across northern Europe.
The most dangerous gases released during an eruption are sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen fluoride.

High levels of ash particles can cause increased coughing and irritate the eyes and skin and sometimes result in serious lung conditions.
When the acid coating on ash is removed by rain, it can pollute local water supplies and damage vegetation. On the other hand, ash deposits can be beneficial by improving the fertility of soil.

Already in Iceland, residents and visitors are being urged to say indoors due to the ash fall and to wear dust masks if they must venture outside. Moreover, farmers are worried that their livestock will eat and digest ash, causing a die-off like the on in 1918 when another Icelandic volcano erupted.
Three previous eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull are known in the 1,100 years of Iceland's recorded history. The most recent began in December 1821 and lasted for more than a year, then a neighboring volcano erupted in 1823. Other eruptions include one around 1612 and 920.

Longer term, sulfur from volcanoes has the potential to cool the Earth. Sulfur reacts with water in the air to form sulfuric acid droplets that reflect sunlight hitting Earth, thus blocking some rays. The reduction in sunlight can reduce temperatures for a year or so, until the droplets fall out of the atmosphere.
Indeed, Pinatubo is known to have cooled the planet by 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit.

Some experts advocate the deliberate injection of sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere in a "geoengineering" short cut to slow global warming.

That option has become attractive for some after a U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen in December failed to produce a binding global deal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Others say the risks are too big — ranging from disruptions of weather patterns to acid rain.

Other examples of how the environmental impacts of volcanoes can go far beyond their immediate area:

* In 1783, a poison cloud from the eruption of Iceland's Laki volcano killed thousands of people across Europe and undermined farm output by spewing an estimated 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the air, said Colin Macpherson, a geologist at the University of Durham in England. That amount of sulfur dioxide was three times European industrial output in 2006.
# In 1815, the Tambora volcano eruption in Indonesia killed an estimated 92,000 people, and its ashes swept all the way to Europe, blanketing the continent and turning 1816 into a "year without summer."
# In 1883, Krakatoa erupted in Indonesia killing 36,000 and created vivid red twilights in Europe from November 1883 through February 1884 — a fact reflected by painters of the period.
# The 1980 Mount St. Helens volcano eruption in Washington state, in which 57 people died, created a cloud of ash 2,500 miles long and 1,000 miles wide.

Celebration time for Sania-Shoaib

The much talked about Sania- Shoaib wedding finally happened on Monday afternoon at the Taj Krishna hotel at Hyderabad. It certainly came as a surprise for all and a big relief for the Mirzas.

After the nikaah ceremony TOI spotted Sania’s parents Imran and Naseem exiting Taj Krishna, while the newly wed couple stayed in the hotel. According to the hotel sources, “ Sania and Shoaib left the wedding venue after lunch to their room on the 6th floor.” It’s also believed that Sania will now be staying in the hotel till the wedding reception. After the nikaah , family members of Shoaib Malik were spotted relaxing and chatting at the hotel lobby. They were later surrounded by the guests of the hotel and the media. Speaking on the nikaah, a family member said, “ Bahut achi tarah se nikaah ho gayi...hum sab khush hain.”

The security personnel of the hotel however stopped the media from interacting with the family members. There was tight security outside the hotel area too. Two bouncers Mustafa and Sayed have been deputed for the past few days for Sania’s security. Mustafa, who’s also a professional boxer said::We were called for the nikaah at the last minute. hume pata hi nahin tha.” The mehendi, sangeet ceremony and reception will be held in the hotel. The mehendi, an exclusive all-ladies function was held on Tuesday afternoon. Six mehendi artistes were seen making their way to the Mirza residence around 10.30 am. Later, women were seen leaving the home flaunting their mehendi. Dholakwallahs reached the Mirza household at 2 pm. For the mehndi dishes like biryani, halwa, dahi murg ka salan, salad, dum ka chicken, baigan ka subji were served.

The sangeet ceremony which will take place today will have dance performances by close friends of Sania. The much awaited grand wedding reception is tomorrow and will be attended by high profile guests.

Kristen Stewart Falls Deeply In Love With Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Steward portray a perfect couple in their box office hit movies like Twilight and New Moon. The chemistry between the couple is too strong that even off-cam; people can see that they’re in love with each other.

Actress Kristen Stewart just can’t stop raving about her co-star Robert Pattinson. She admits that she has a strong feeling for him. She has several reasons why she loves Pattinson. Rob always wants to be the best and she admires him for it. He can be very childish at some point, which makes her smile. When he does something right or wins something, he talks in a different way just like a five-year-old boy with a little voice. The actress finds him sexy in a tortured artist way, maybe because he is British. He’s tall and he looks like he’s thinking all the time, which is incredibly funny. It breaks her heart when the actor sings. She also added that Rob is a very bad liar, because he just can’t do it.

Stewart claims that Pattinson had already proposed to her once. He asked her to marry him, but it was just a joke.

A new 'panic button' for Facebook

The social networking Web site has been criticized by UK child experts and police authorities for not doing enough to make it easier for children to report bullying or sexual abuse.

Jim Gamble, chief executive of the London-based Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center (Ceop), wants Facebook to install a "panic button."

Gamble, who is seconded to Ceop from the Serious and Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), has said that there is "no legitimate reason" for Facebook not to have a "Click Ceop" button.

Gamble is due to meet Elliot Schrage, vice president of policy and communications at Facebook and Joe Sullivan, chief security officer.

A Ceop spokeswoman told CNN the agency had received 253 complaints about Facebook in the first quarter of this year and that only one of these had come "through the Facebook environment."

"We have been trying to engage with Facebook for some time, this meeting is happening after a long build-up.

"More and more children are using Facebook and a panic button would allow them to report potential threats directly. We have experts who can respond immediately.

"Ceop says there is an urgent need to install the button and that it will help both children and parents.

A Facebook spokeswoman told: "We will be discussing many issues, there are lots of initiatives."

The lack of a Facebook panic button was highlighted after the murder of a 17-year-old student last October by Peter Chapman, who she met on the social Web site.

Chapman had posed on the Web site as a young man and spent time grooming Ashleigh before the pair exchanged mobile phone numbers and agreed to meet. After killing her he dumped her body in a field near Sedgefield in County Durham, northeast England.

Last month Chapman, 33, was jailed for at least 35 years at Teeside Crown Court for the killing.

Until now Facebook has said adopting a button would have no effect on reducing abuse and that it had a number of measures in place to report bullying or abuse.

The company, which claims to have over 400 million users worldwide, has said it has a "robust" reporting system in place.

Women with hormonal disorder at risk of heart disease

Adelaide researchers have found evidence of a link between a common hormonal disorder in women and heart disease - and they're seeking more women to take part in a new study to confirm their results.

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal disorder affecting about 10% of women of reproductive age and is a leading cause of infertility.

A preliminary study - conducted by researchers with the University of Adelaide's Robinson Institute and the Cardiology Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital - has exposed other major health risks and some common misconceptions about PCOS.

The pilot study, involving a small sample of women, showed that:

• Young women (average age of 31 years) with PCOS had significant abnormalities in blood clotting and blood vessel function, which are important risk factors in heart disease;
  
• This risk was not limited to overweight or obese women with PCOS - it affected women of all body shapes and sizes, including lean women.

"The degree of blood clotting and blood vessel abnormalities seen in women with PCOS in this study was very striking, similar to what we would normally see in older patients with known heart disease," says Dr Alicia Chan, Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and PhD student with the University of Adelaide's Robinson Institute.

"With women now making up almost half of all Australians affected by heart disease, it's very important that we understand the link between PCOS and these heart disease risk factors.

"Importantly, this is the first study to suggest that PCOS is strongly associated with an increased risk of heart disease independent of women's weight or evidence of diabetes. It's a common misconception that only overweight or obese women are affected by PCOS - we need women to understand that they could still have these heart disease risk factors regardless of their weight,"

Shoaib-Sania nikkah solemnized

HYDERABAD: Mirza married Monday after a troubled engagement in a union that bridges the two nations' bitter sporting and political divide.
The wedding was the final chapter in a complex and often contradictory saga during which Malik consistently denied claims by an Indian woman, Ayesha Siddiqui, that she had married the cricketer in 2002.
The ceremony took place in the presence of family and friends at a hotel in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Mirza's spokeswoman Rucha Naik said.
"The (wedding) has just been completed. Please pray for the couple," Naik told reporters.
The marriage was originally scheduled for April 15. The Press Trust of India cited family sources as saying it had been brought forward after Muslim clerics in Hyderabad criticised the fact that Malik was living in his future bride's house before the wedding.
Last week, Farisa Siddiqui, Ayesha's mother, announced that a settlement had been reached and "divorce papers signed," allowing Malik's marriage with Mirza to go ahead.
Ayesha had initially lodged a complaint with police in Hyderabad, prompting officers to quiz Malik over the saga and confiscate his passport.

Muslim elders in Hyderabad, where both Siddiqui and Mirza live, were understood to have negotiated the settlement after days of frenzied press coverage and lurid speculation.
Even without the added drama provided by Ayesha's revelations, the marriage of two of South Asia's best-known sports personalities across one of the world's most volatile borders was always going to make headlines.
Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence and broke off all official contact following the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which Indian blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
The stand-off extended to the sporting world, with a freeze on non-tournament matches between their respective national cricket teams.
Malik and Mirza's sporting marriage is unprecedented in the perennial rivalry between the south Asian nations, and some right-wing Hindu groups in India had denounced the union, accusing Mirza of betraying her country.
The only similar union came when former Pakistani Test batsman Mohsin Khan, who is now Pakistan's chief selector, married the Indian actress Reena Roy in the 1980s. The couple later separated.
The Pakistani government is preparing lavish celebrations to welcome the couple during a widely expected visit.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will treat the newlyweds to a reception and Pakistan's minister for population welfare, Firdous Ashiq Awan, told AFP that she would travel to India to attend the wedding reception.
"It is a very happy occasion for both Malik and Mirza and for millions of people in both the countries and we are having a detailed discussion as to how we could celebrate the occasion in Pakistan," Awan told AFP.
Team-mates of Malik, a former Pakistan cricket captain who is serving a one-year ban on charges of indiscipline during Pakistan's tour of Australia and New Zealand, also passed on their congratulations.
"It's a happy occasion that Malik has wed Sania. I congratulate him and wish him the best in his married life," said Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi.
Mirza, whose short tennis skirts have drawn the ire of Islamist groups in India, has been a nationwide celebrity since 2005 when, aged 18, she became the first Indian woman to win a WTA Tour title.
She is currently recovering from a wrist injury that has seen her world ranking slip from 27 in 2007 to 89.
The couple, who are both Muslims, are thought likely to base themselves in Dubai.
Malik had admitted beginning a telephone relationship with Siddiqui in 2001 after she sent him photographs -- but said he later believed the pictures were of another woman.
Before the divorce settlement, Siddiqui appeared on television news channels to denounce Malik as a cheat who dumped her because his team-mates said she was overweight.

'Fatwa' against Sania, Shoaib for living together before marriage

Tennis star Sania Mirza's marriage with Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik has sparked another row with some religious scholars issuing a 'fatwa' or religious edict against their living and mingling freely even before the marriage is solemnised.

Sunni Ulema Board, a group of religious scholars, said both the sportspersons were bringing disrepute to Islam and Muslim community through their actions.

The board issued a 'fatwa' terming their actions haram (forbidden) and asked Muslims to stay away from the April 15 marriage.

"The kind of actions the two are indulging in like living together and addressing media together are haram in Islam," said Moulana Haseebul Hasan Siddiqui, a religious scholar.

Shoaib has been staying at Sania's residence in Hyderabad for more than a week and television pictures showed them dancing and doing physical exercises together.

"Islam permits a man and woman to see each other only once before marriage and it does not allow them to live together and indulge in this sort of activities before marriage," he said.

He felt that all the actions of Sania and Shoaib were bringing a bad name to Islam and the Muslim community and advised invitees to stay away from their marriage as men and women would mingle freely there in total disregard of Islamic principles.

"Muslims should stay away from such gatherings where men and women mingle freely in violation of Islamic principles," he said.

The religious scholar had also issued a 'fatwa' against Sania Mirza for favouring pre-marital sex three years ago. He had opined that Sania committed a big sin by promoting 'zina' (fornication). The tennis ace, however, denied making the remarks.

Shoaib has already come under criticism from clergy for denying marriage with Ayesha Siddiqui even after admitting that he signed the 'nikahnama'. The Pakistani star last week divorced Ayesha after the latter filed a case of cheating against him.