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Nation united against all challenges: Gilani
No unconstitutional step can derail elected govt: Firdous
NYC mayor: Manhattan man arrested in bomb plot
Larger SC bench to hear NRO review case today
Husain Haqqani meets Zardari twice over memo issue
Deadly clashes grip Cairo's Tahrir Square
Iran ready to cooperate 'further' with IAEA
Libyan fighters post video of captive Gaddafi son
NATO pleads for patience in Syria, Egypt
British soldier killed in Afghanistan blast
Iran: President's press adviser sentenced
Federer beats Tsonga in 3 sets at ATP finals
Mulroy takes first European Tour title
Johnson grabs winner as Liverpool beats Chelsea
Football: Juve storm back to top of table

Nation united against all challenges: Gilani

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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said the people of Pakistan, their democratic government and armed forces stand united to defending country’s independence and sovereignty and will not hesitate rendering any sacrifice for this great task.  Talking to media the Prime Minister said the resolution of the All Parties Conference (APC) was a clear cut message to the world that the nation was united to safeguard Pakistan’s national security and integrity. “Political differences can be put aside without slightest hesitation in case national sovereignty is threatened,” Gilani said. He said the Speaker National Assembly has already constituted a representative committee of the House, mandated to monitor the implementation of the resolution. The Prime Minster said that the resolution stipulated that peace should be given a chance and negotiations should be held with militants for persuading them to join the peace process by renouncing violence. The Prime Minister  said that nation stands together and the credit goes to the democratic government for taking ownership of the war on terror by taking the people of the country along. The people of Pakistan were determined to defeat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, he added. Prime Minister Gilani said: “No one should doubt our intentions against terrorism because the Pakistani nation and its economy had suffered the most and were still facing the major brunt of terrorism as a frontline state.” “How can we collaborate with those who are against our country,” the PM questioned. The Prime Minister said the government had already embarked upon “Karvan -e-Tameer” and he would visit each constituency from Khyber to Karachi to inaugurate the unprecedented number of development projects completed by this democratic government with a huge amount of 1.5 trillion rupees.

No unconstitutional step can derail elected govt: Firdous

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Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdsus Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that no unconstitutional step can de-stabilize the democratically elected government.  Talking to media Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdsus Ashiq Awan said that democratically elected government of the people of Pakistan, will complete its constitutional period and public meeting largely arranged with the help of government wherewithal is no threat to democracy and the parliament. She said PPP wanted to take the country forward by taking all stakeholders on board. The Minister said during the marathon public meeting, Mian Nawaz Sharif failed to present any pragmatic plan to solve the problems being faced by the masses. She regretted Mian Nawaz Sharif has criticized the President, elected by the two third majority. Whose agenda, she asked, Mian Nawaz Sharif was pursuing to remove the elected President. She said “Go Zardari Go” rally is a mean to derail the democratic system. She said government servant and resources have been used in the rally. The Minister said such a rally will not be able to derail the democratic set-up as it has been restored by rendering unmatched sacrifices by the people of the country. She said the Mian Nawaz Sharif has talked about performance of his governments prior to 1999 however, he did not mention the four years period of Punjab government which is dominated by dengue virus, injustice to students community, lawlessness, price hike and unemployment. She urged Mian Nawaz Sharif to come forward and sit with the government for devising a policy to solve the issues of masses. The Minister said DCO and commissioner have been asked to gather people in the meeting. The Minister for Information said the only good step taken by Mian Nawaz Sharif is that he did not invite Mian Shahbaz Sharif in the meeting. She said words used by Mian Shahbaz Sharif in meeting held in Lahore last month, were contrary to democratic norms.

NYC mayor: Manhattan man arrested in bomb plot

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg says an Al Qaeda sympathizer who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City has been arrested. Bloomberg announced Sunday the arrest of 27-year-old Jose Pimentel on numerous charges. Pimentel was arrested Saturday. He is accused of having an explosive substance that he planned to use against others and property to terrorize the public. The New York Police Department s Intelligence Division was involved in the arrest.

Larger SC bench to hear NRO review case today

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A 17-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will take National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) review case today. The NRO review petition was last taken up for hearing on April 19 but was adjourned. The case could not be fixed as the requisite strength of a 17-member bench was not completed. Dr Babar Awan, advocate of the Supreme Court, has been officially nominated to represent the federation on November 21, in its pending plea seeking a review of the apex court’s decision of December 16, 2009 annulling the National Reconciliation Ordinance 2007.

Husain Haqqani meets Zardari twice over memo issue

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According to details, within 18 hours of his arrival, Husain Haqqani called on President Zardari twice informally. During these meetings, Haqqani offered his resignation to President and told him that he is ready to face probe. The ambassador also handed over his Blackberry to President Asif Ali Zardari. Earlier, in his statement Haqqani had rejected the authenticity of alleged SMS by Pakistan-born US citizen and businessman Mansoor Ijaz on his Blackberry phone. According to reports he would meet President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and DG of ISI Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha on Monday.

Deadly clashes grip Cairo's Tahrir Square

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At least four people were killed on Sunday as security forces tried to clear protesters from Cairo s Tahrir Square, casting a dark shadow over Egypt s first elections since Hosni Mubarak s downfall. Police and military forces used batons, tear gas and birdshot to clear the central square of thousands of protesters who are demanding that the ruling military cede power to a civilian authority. It was the second day of violence in the Egyptian capital, following a peaceful anti-military mass rally on Friday. Four people died on Sunday and two people on Saturday, medical sources said, kicking off a violent countdown to the country s first elections since the end of Mubarak s 30-year-rule. "A man in his twenties died after being shot in the stomach," Dr Ahmed al-Sayyed, working in a field hospital in Tahrir, told AFP. Earlier, another doctor, Abdallah Abdelrahman said that "three people died of asphyxiation during the clashes." The health ministry has confirmed three deaths. Police and troops seized the square only to be beaten back by protesters who triumphantly retook it later, as also happened on Saturday. The situation remained fluid with ongoing clashes around Tahrir -- the symbolic heart of protests that toppled Mubarak in February.

Iran ready to cooperate 'further' with IAEA

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Iran is ready to cooperate "further" with the UN atomic energy watchdog if it "balances its approach" to the Islamic republic, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Sunday, according to the ISNA news agency. "We are prepared to cooperate with the agency more than ever, if the (UN) agency balances its approach and complies with its statutes and the safeguard agreements," Salehi was quoted as saying. "If that is the case, we are prepared to cooperate much the same as before and even further with the agency," he said. The conditional offer was made after a vote Friday by the board of the UN watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, calling for more cooperation from Iran on its nuclear programme. The vote followed a November 8 IAEA report that strongly suggested Iran -- despite its repeated denials -- was researching nuclear weapons under cover of its civilian atomic activities. The IAEA resolution -- worded to pass muster with Iran s allies Russia and China -- notably stopped short of sending the matter to the UN Security Council. Instead, it said it was "essential for Iran and the Agency to intensify their dialogue" and called on Tehran "to comply fully and without delay with its obligations under relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council." It gave no deadline for those demands to be met, but said IAEA head Yukiya Amano would report to the board in March on Tehran s implementation of the resolution. Amano said last Thursday he had proposed sending a high-level team to Iran to "clarify the issues" in the IAEA report, and asked Tehran "to engage substantively with the agency without delay." The UN Security Council has already imposed four sets of sanctions on Iran to pressure it to halt its nuclear activities. Iran s deputy chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri, said, according to the website of Iran s state television, that Washington had "failed" in a bid to again have the IAEA refer Iran s nuclear programme to the Security Council. Iran s representative at the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, was quoted by the ISNA news agency Saturday as saying Iran had already invited IAEA officials to visit to discuss questions raised in the report. "The director general s announcement that the agency is now ready to send a team of inspectors must be studied again and the result will be announced after that," he said.

Libyan fighters post video of captive Gaddafi son

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The Libyan fighters holding Moammar Gaddafi s son have released a video of him saying an injury to his hand was the result of a NATO airstrike a month ago. Photos of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi with three fingers of his right hand in bandages had raised questions about whether he was mistreated by the fighters who captured him on Saturday.In the video posted Sunday on YouTube, he says the raid struck his convoy in Wadi Zamzam, about 90 miles (140 kilometres) southeast of Tripoli.Seif al-Islam is being held in the western mountain town of Zintan by fighters refusing to hand him over to national authorities in the capital and insisting they will put him on trial themselves.Revolutionary brigades from Zintan captured him Saturday in the southern Libyan desert.

NATO pleads for patience in Syria, Egypt

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NATO on Sunday guarded against "unrealistic expectations" for peace and democracy in the Middle East and North Africa as violence flared in Syria and Egypt. "The whole region is going through a complicated, difficult process of reform," James Appathurai, NATO deputy assistant secretary general for political affairs and security policy, told a defense summit in Canada. "I think it s important for the public not to have unrealistic expectations about how quickly this will happen or that the outcome is necessarily foreseen to be the one we might wish it to be," he told reporters. "So, we have to be patient, offer support where we can, we can t impose it, and that s what we re doing." Some 300 generals, defense ministers and officials from around the world gathered at the Halifax International Security Forum in easternmost Canada. Although they grappled with the notion that the NATO mission in Libya had created a new paradigm for the global community to intervene in hotspots, Appathurai reaffirmed that action in Syria was not on the table. "There is no discussion of a NATO role with regard to Syria," he said. "Responsibility to protect doesn t automatically translate into a NATO operation." The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led bombing campaign in Libya, launched under UN mandate, ended on October 31 after the toppling of Moamer Kadhafi s regime and his death last month. On Sunday, Syria shrugged off looming Arab League sanctions and growing international pressure to end a lethal crackdown on protesters that has resulted in more than 3,500 deaths since mid-March, according to UN figures. Deadly clashes broke out for the second day running in Cairo s Tahrir Square on Sunday as Egyptian riot police dueled with demonstrators angry at the slow pace of chance since Hosni Mubarak s downfall in February. Friday had seen tens of thousands of people pack Tahrir for a rally to demand that the army transfer power to civilian rule. The military says it will hand over power after a presidential election, which has yet to be scheduled.

British soldier killed in Afghanistan blast

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A British soldier was killed Sunday in an improvised explosive device blast in southern Afghanistan s restive Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence said. The soldier, from the 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales s Royal Regiment, was a member of a joint foot patrol with Afghan National Security Forces in the Nahr-e Saraj area when he was killed in the IED explosion. "Our deepest condolences are extended to his family at this very difficult time and all of our thoughts and prayers are with them," said spokesman for Task Force Helmand, Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Mackenzie. The soldier s family have been informed. The death brought to 389 the number of British troops killed since operations in Afghanistan began in October 2001. Of these, at least 344 were killed in combat. He is the 41st to die this year. Britain has around 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, making it the second-largest contributor to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. They are based in central Helmand, battling Taliban insurgents and training local security forces.

Iran: President's press adviser sentenced

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Ali Akbar Javanfekr has also been banned from journalism activities for three years. Javanfekr is just the latest of dozens of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s political backers to be targeted by hard-line opponents. This appears to be part of an internal power struggle over influencing upcoming elections for parliament, slated for March, and for president in 2013. Javanfekr wrote in an official publication that the practice of women wearing a head-to-toe black covering known as a chador was not originally an Iranian practice but was imported. This was considered offensive by hard-line Iranian clerics. The court sentenced him to six months for publication of materials and pictures "contrary to Islamic norms" and another six months for writings against Islamic norms. Javanfekr has 20 days to appeal the sentence. His lawyer, Abdollah Nakhaei, said the verdict is unfair and that he will definitely appeal it. The verdict came hours after authorities banned the pro-reform Etemaad daily for two months for publishing the text of an interview Saturday with Javanfekr, in which he criticized conservative opponents of Ahmadinejad for the arrest of dozens of the president s allies over the past months.

Federer beats Tsonga in 3 sets at ATP finals

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Roger Federer weathered a barrage of big hitting by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France to begin his title defense with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 win Sunday in the opening match of the ATP World Tour Finals. Federer came into the tournament on a 12-match winning streak following titles in Basel and Paris, where he beat Tsonga in straight sets in the final a week ago. The 16-time Grand Slam champion looked set for another easy win when he took the first set in 21 minutes, but Tsonga found his feet and broke early in the second set before taking the match into a decider. A closely fought third set ended when the pressure seemed to get to Tsonga. Trailing 5-4, he was broken at 15 and Federer chalked up his third straight win over Tsonga since back-to-back losses at Wimbledon and Montreal. "Today I had flashes of that match," Federer said of his five-set loss to Tsonga in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. "I didn t have much of a chance for a while on his serve. You just try your best." Rafael Nadal was up against Mardy Fish in the second match in Group B later Sunday. Group A begins Monday with Andy Murray facing David Ferrer, and Novak Djokovic against Tomas Berdych. Nadal, unusually, was courtside to see the end of the Federer-Tsonga match, joining football stars Thierry Henry and Andrey Arshavin in the crowd to watch the opening match of the season-ending tournament for the year s top eight players. Instead of supporting fellow Frenchman Tsonga, former Arsenal striker Henry sat alongside Federer s wife Mirka. "We re good friends," Federer said. "I think he s just happy to come and see me play once in a while. It was nice to catch up with him again." Federer has now won at least 60 matches for nine straight years, and extended his career record over Tsonga to 7-3.

Mulroy takes first European Tour title

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South Africa s Garth Mulroy earned his first European Tour title at the Alfred Dunhill Championship on Sunday, shooting a 4-under 68 to beat Scotland s George Murray by two shots. Mulroy started the day with a two-shot lead but was joined atop the leaderboard twice during the final round at Leopard Creek, before birdies on the 15th and 16th secured the win. He finished with a 19-under total of 269. Murray eagled the 15th as Mulroy bogeyed the 14th to put the home player under pressure coming in. But he responded with two straight birdies, the second on the 16th coming through a 60-foot downhill putt. He closed with two pars. Murray s second place was his career-best European Tour finish. Chile s Felipe Aguilar, South African duo George Coetzee and Jaco van Zyl and Scotland s Peter Whiteford tied for third at 13 under. The 33-year-old Mulroy bogeyed the second hole to let compatriot Jbe Kruger grab a share of the lead. Kruger s challenge eventually faded with a second straight 73, but the U.S.-based Mulroy then had to hold off Murray to claim his first win on the tour. He birdied the sixth and eighth, then mixed four more birdies on the back nine with the bogey on 14. "I just tried to play smart golf and hit it in the right spots," Mulroy said. "I had allowed my thoughts to get a little ahead of themselves earlier on, but I managed to concentrate on the job at hand."

Johnson grabs winner as Liverpool beats Chelsea

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Glen Johnson grabbed a late winner with a superb solo effort as Liverpool beat title hopeful Chelsea 2-1 at Stamford Bridge on Sunday to boost its chances of finishing in the Champions League places. The England right back galloped onto Charlie Adam s raking pass, cut inside international teammate Ashley Cole and strode into the area to slot a neat left-footed finish into the bottom corner three minutes from time. Maxi Rodriguez had given Liverpool a deserved lead in the 33rd minute on his first league start of the season, before Daniel Sturridge equalized 10 minutes from close range after coming on as a halftime substitute. Chelsea s third defeat in four league games leaves the London team 12 points adrift of league leader Manchester City.  Liverpool moved up to sixth, level on points with fourth-place Chelsea, Tottenham and seventh-place Arsenal. It s the first time since 2002 that Chelsea has lost two straight games at home and this latest defeat will do nothing to stop the first murmurings of discontent at the club, with manager Andre Villas-Boas beginning to come under pressure after slipping so far off a fierce pace set by unbeaten City. Villas-Boas  decision not to start with Fernando Torres against the club that sold him for a British record fee of 50 million pounds ($81 million) in January will also be questioned. The Spain striker came on in the 84th minute for the largely ineffective Didier Drogba but provided no late threat. The statistic remains that Torres has scored more goals for Liverpool (four) than Chelsea (three) in 2011 since his big-money move. With Torres and Liverpool s Andy Carroll named as substitutes, 85 million pounds ($135 million) worth of attacking talent was sat on the bench for a crucial match between teams challenging for the Champions League positions. Of the strikers on show, Drogba back after a three-match suspension struggled for service and was well marshaled by Liverpool center backs Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel. Much of the danger early on lay at the other end, with Uruguay forward Luis Suarez causing all sorts of problems for the Chelsea defense with his ceaseless work rate and foraging runs.

Football: Juve storm back to top of table

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Juventus went back to the top of Serie A after a 3-0 win over Palermo on Sunday which took them ahead of Lazio on goal difference. The Old Lady of Turin also have a game in hand on most of their rivals and remain the only unbeaten team in the league. Simone Pepe, Alessandro Matri and Claudio Marchisio scored the goals to down the Sicilians, who are yet to score away from home this season. Despite their lofty standing, coach Antonio Conte said he will only know if his side is capable of challenging for the title once they have reached the halfway point in the season, after another nine match. Juve dominated against Palermo throughout the match and could have won more comfortably. Giorgio Chiellini was the architect on 20 minutes as the hosts went in front, crossing from the left for an inexplicably unmarked Pepe to head home. Andrea Pirlo was a lick of paint away from doubling the advantage with a shot from 20 yards that curled around goalkeeper Alexandros Tzorvas but hit the inside of the post only to rebound to safety. Josip Ilicic wasted a great chance to equalise when Fabrizio Miccoli put him through one-on-one with goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon but the Slovenia playmaker failed to connect with the ball and the opportunity went begging. The killer second came three minutes after the break as Stephan Lichsteiner s slide-rule pass put Matri in behind the backline and he finished from a tight angle. Marchisio finished off a well-worked third on 65 minutes from close range as Matri s dummy from Mirko Vucinic s cross fooled the Palermo defence.  Udinese fell off the top and are now a point behind Juve in fourth as they lost 2-0 at Parma. Jonathan Biabiany was left alone and unmarked to head home a corner from eight yards before he won a penalty when Dusan Basta brought him down. Sebastian Giovinco netted from the spot for his seventh in the league this season. Udinese coach Francesco Guidolin accused his players of getting above their station. Marco Parolo scored seven minutes from time to give rock-bottom Cesena their first victory of the season in a 1-0 success at fellow strugglers Bologna.

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