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Over 200 dead in Panjsher Pakistan offers help to avalanches, snowfall disasters-hit KABUL: The death toll from ava- about 30 people were killed by lanches and incessant downpour avalanches in the Arghach area in Afghanistan in central Panjsher province has Abdullah Khel Dara region of Pary- surged to 200 persons, officials an district and 13 people lost their KABUL: Expressing grief AT News Report said. lives near Parakh, the provincial over loss of lives in the recent Deputy Governor Abdul Kha- capital. The dead included women KABUL: Federal Minister for priority basis not only to ensure Road Project has been completed eight weigh stations as the begin- bir Bakhshi confirmed to Pajhwok and children. Planning, Development and inter-connectivity of provinces and the remaining part will be fin- ning of new paradigm in the rela- Afghan News that 200 persons Another three people were Reform of Pakistan said that within Pakistan but also connect ished within two years. The Jalal- tions with Afghanistan and other died in avalanches and rain-related killed in the Kojan area of Paryan incidents in the province. district after five people were bur- strengthening of bilateral and the neighboring countries to pro- abad-Turkham Road Project, neighboring countries which is be- At least 110 persons died only ied by snow in their home. The economic relations with Kab- mote regional level corridors of which was started in 2003, had al- ing spearheaded by Prime Minis- in Paryan district and bodies of remaining two were still missing, ul is top priority of Islama- trade and investment. ready completed 72 km road in ter of Pakistan. some trapped persons had been the governor said. bad. Almost 58 percent of the 2007 during 1st phase. The Pakistani minister said, recovered from the rubbles, he said, Another 10 people among a In the handing over cere- 2nd phase of Jalalabad-Turkham Iqbal symbolized the gift of Regional connectivity is the cor- adding that a number of others died group of 35 people buried in snow mony of eight weigh bridges nerstone of our economic strategic in Hesa Awal and Hesa Dawom were frozen to death in the Hessa to the Afghan government, vision which requires peace and districts. Awal district last night, he said, Ahsan Iqbal said the Nawaz- stability through shared and col- The natural disaster forced adding 10 people of them were res- Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. cued in injured condition and the led government in Pakistan is laborative approach of the neigh- Abdullah Abdullah to travel the remaining five were still missing giving immense importance to boring countries. The government province to assess the situation. as of Wednesday afternoon. bilateral relations with the is committed to shift the security On Wednesday, he had ordered Another four people were neighboring countries and has paradigm into economic paradigm Afghanistan Natural Disasters killed when an avalanche hit a house further strengthened relations for peaceful and prosperous South Management Authority (AND- in the Khanj area of the Hessa Awal with Afghanistan by handing Asia. The Federal Minister an- MA) to extend all possible assis- district and two more were killed over 15 weigh- bridges for de- nounced that within next three tance to the residents stuck in av- in the Safed Chahr area of the dis- velopment of its road infra- years, transformational change in alanches. trict. Seventeen people died in the flash floods in parts of Afghan- Acting Governor Abdul Rah- Paryan district s Pas Mazar area istan, adviser to the Pakistani structure that would promote Pakistan will be phenomenal with man Kabiri told Pajhwok Afghan after avalanches buried several ties between two brotherly respect to integrated infrastructure News that the level of snow had homes, the governor said. prime minister on national se- countries. and investment opportunities. reached over metre as result of con- Earlier, Kabiri told Pajhwok curity and foreign affairs said In the ceremony held in The cluster of projects under Chi- tinuous snowfall from the past two Afghan News the avalanches hit Islamabad was ready to extend the Planning Commission in na-Pakistan Economic Corridor days that caused heavy casualties several villages and buried 60 all possible assistance to Kab- Islamabad, he said: The Plan- will make Gawadar a commerce and and financial losses. homes. He said the one-metre ul at this critical moment. ning Commission has direct- tourist resort integrating three bil- He said that 129 persons bur- snow had blocked all roads across A statement from the ed NHA to expedite the con- lion populations of South Asia, ied under avalanches had been the valley. prime minister s office on found dead in different parts of the The avalanches occurred in Thursday, Sartaj Azizi said struction of strategic roads on China and central Asia. province. Ninety bodies were re- Paryan, Hessa Doyem and Awal covered during operations last districts and Parakh, the provin- that the people and govern- First save lives evening while 39 more were found cial capital. Thirty persons were ment of Pakistan were deeply Turkish soldier, Afghan civilian killed in Kabul attack this morning, Kabiri added. missing in Raghach village of Hes- saddened by the loss of pre- then open roads, He said that 28 bodies had been sa Doyem and Malsafa locality of cious lives as a result of ava- KABUL: A Turkish soldier and an porters the attack was carried nian Embassy and probably all recovered from Pul Panjsher area Parakh, he confirmed. An avalanche lanche in Panjsher, Afghani- CEO tells ERC Afghan civilian were killed and a through a Corolla car that left one aboard were killed. of Paryan district and 17 bodies hit a house in Malsafa area and left stan. KABUL: A second emergen- second Afghan civilian was wound- Turkish soldier and one Afghan Deputy Interior Minister Lt. from Pirgaz area. 12 members of a family dead, he Our hearts go out to the cy meeting in 24 hours chaired ed when a suicide bomber in a car passer-by dead. Gen. Ayub Salangi earlier told re- A day earlier, Kabiri had said said. (Pajhwok) families of the victims at this by Chief Executive Officer targeted a Turkish forces convoy But Mohammad Fahim, an porters at the scene that the at- difficult time. May Allah give Abdullah Abdullah on Wednes- day decided to focus efforts in the heavily-fortified capital Kab- eyewitness, told Pajhwok Afghan tacker was in a Toyota sedan and Afghanistan create history with them the strength to bear this on saving lives first in ava- ul on Thursday, security officials News he saw four wounded per- he targeted two vehicles of Turk- loss. We are ready to extend lanches and floods before clear- said. sons being evacuated to a hospi- ish forces in the upscale Shahr-e- first World Cup win all possible assistance to our ing roads from snow. The Lt. Gen. Abdur Rahman Rahi- tal. He said a Turkish vehicle was Naw locality. Afghan brothers and sisters, meeting also extended condon- mi, Kabul police chief, told re- destroyed in the blast near the Ira- The Taliban claimed responsi- Aziz concluded. lences to families who lost bility for the attack, with the Avalanches and flash their beloved ones to avalanc- group s spokesman Zabihullah floods claimed the lives of at es and floods across the coun- Mujahid saying foreign forces suf- least 129 people in various try, a statement from the fered heavy casualties in the sui- provinces of Afghanistan over CEO s office said. It said Ab- cide attack. Turkish Prime Minis- the past 24 hours, with cen- dullah directed the Emergency ter Ahmet Davutoglu condemned tral Panjsher province appear- Response Committee (ERC) the suicide attack and said that ing to be the worst-hit. to focus its efforts on saving those trapped beneath the Turkey will never give up its de- The casualties took place snow first and then clearing termined stance in fighting against in Panjsher, Nuristan, Parwan, roads from snow to terrorism to ensure peace and sta- See more on sport page Takhar, Laghman, Nangarhar taffic.(Pajhwok) bility in Afghanistan. and Baghlan provinces. PAN This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Longer war in Afghanistan a bipartisan affair AFGHANISTAN TIMES Support in Washington for an even longer war in Afghanistan is growing. Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir By Ed Krayewski Despite the ceremonial end of slow down the withdrawal, which Phone No: +93-772364666 combat operations last year, the is supposed to leave 10,000 troops war in Afghanistan appears to in the country at the end of 2015 E-mail: [email protected] be escalating. And while the work and none by the end of 2016. on an authorization for the use of While Congress appetite to Email: [email protected] military force against the Islamic approve an open-ended mission State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that against ISIS appears blunted Congress could back continues, about as many members appear to www.afghanistantimes.af even though President Obama says believe the president s limited Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi he doesn t need it, bipartisan sup- AUMF goes too far as that it port for continuing efforts in Af- doesn t go far enough the gener- ghanistan is a lot broader, as Roll al appetite for war remains whet. Advisory editorial board Call reports: While the ISIS AUMF would re- A growing number of key Sen- peal the 2002 Iraq AUMF, there s Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, ate Democrats have quietly joined been no effort to amend the 2001 Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal Republicans and Pentagon leaders Al-Qaeda AUMF under which the in advocating a slower withdrawal government says the war in Af- and a longer stay for U.S. troops ghanistan as well as counter-terror Graphic-Designers: because of concern about the se- operations from Somalia to Paki- Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari curity situation. stan falls. Republicans have long criti- President Obama ran for re- ruled by the Taliban for years be- ers of national security posturing, Marketing & Advertising: cized the administration for set- election in 2012 under the mislead- fore the 2001 U.S. invasion helped ought to be preposterous. Absent Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 ting dates for the withdrawal, and ing claim that he had ended the war propel the Northern Alliance into the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it s un- now Democrats who oversee the in Iraq. As ISIS ran rough-shod over power. In the more than ten years likely ISIS would have grown the Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan Pentagon have gradually begun to the forces of a broken Iraqi gov- since then, Western support for way it has. And who knows how agree and they have done so ernment, Obama walked back that the Afghan government has kept it long the Taliban would have lasted Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 more and more openly. They ap- claim, acknowledging not only that corrupt and dependent on foreign absent the U.S. war? Even had the Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press pear concerned that without U.S. the decision to withdraw troops aid, which accounts for up to 97 U.S. declared the war over and won troops, the situation in Afghani- was not his but that he wanted to percent of Afghanistan s GDP. in 2004, Afghanistan s govern- stan could quickly deteriorate, as keep troops in Iraq. Government planning and in- ment, forced to justify its own ex- it did in Iraq after U.S. forces left The fear that the perceived tervention doesn t work to im- istence, might have fared better The constitution says more three years ago. progress made in Afghanistan over prove the economy at home, and than it has and not still been de- According to the new defense the last 13 years could evaporate in fact often makes things worse. pendent on foreign troops nearly secretary, the White House is still after the departure of U.S. troops The idea that government could a generation later. Article 103: mulling over a request from the could keep them on the ground far plan an entire nation overseas, the Ed Krayewski is an associate The Ministers can participate in the sessions of either House of the National new president of Afghanistan to longer than 2016. Afghanistan was core argument underneath the lay- editor at Reason.com Assembly. Either House of the National Assembly can demand the participation of the Ministers in its session. Apparently no one cares about Gaza

Tony Laurance Editorial Writing for Al Jazeera last Octo- theatres of Shifa hospital. Wonder- ry of the ceasefire, the conflict con- als for reconstruction. ber, ahead of the Cairo Donor Con- ful in many ways - but what kind tinues to take a terrible toll. Israel blames the Palestinians ference for Gaza, I warned that it of system is it when this is the While the logistics of getting for their inability to heal their di- was not enough to pledge large way you equip your hospitals? medical aid into Gaza are difficult, visions and abide by the terms of sums - as donors duly did. We When the local doctors are reliant they are nothing when compared agreement of the reconstruction The war theater and US pulllout plan needed to learn from past failures on visiting consultants to teach to the obstacles in the way of mechanism. The UN points the and ensure that the aid was actual- them new skills because they can- meaningful reconstruction. finger at donors who have not de- It s welcoming that the White House has started weighing ad- ly delivered. Alas, six months on not leave Gaza to train outside? Collective failure livered on their pledges. from the attacks, my worst fears The health services are strug- While the logistics of getting Ordinary Palestinians in Gaza justing exit plan to slow withdrawal of forces. The slow with- have been realised. Pledges have gling to cope. They are overbur- medical aid into Gaza are difficult, look on with growing dismay. They drawal is particulary meaningul in a situation when the coun- not been fulfilled, reconstruction has stalled and hope is draining try is bleeding profusedly, when the government officials say away. they have resumed peace talks while the Taliban representa- This month we learnt that just over 5 percent of the money tives deny it. The situation is quite murky. The Taliban on pledged to rebuild Gaza after last summer's devastating 51-day con- their official website on February 24 denied talks with the flict with Israel has been delivered. Afghan government. Until peace talks succeed, more blood is What does this say about the in- ternational community's commit- going to be spilled. More mothers to be made sonsless. And ment to the beleaguered territory and its 1.8 million residents? more children orphaned. More wives widowed. The scene is Six months after war, Gaza bloody. The spectators don t want to watch but they are forced still in ruins I was in Gaza last week and as they don t have any other thing to watch. It s such a movie have never known the place more that is live and on the ground. The viewers want to forget it depressed. The rubble has not been cleared. Power cuts continue. The but the war movie has been dogging them all. The movie ran economy has not begun to recover and poverty is widespread. You in three parts. Part one was regarding the onslaught on then see destroyed buildings every- USSR on Afghanistan. Part second touched upon the emer- where. Some 100,000 people are still gence of Mujahideen to be replaced by the Taliban. And in homeless after their homes were destroyed in the bombing. Some the third phase the Taliban had to escape as they didn t have of them have moved in with other dened and under-resourced. There they are nothing when compared feel abandoned and forgotten. the capacity to stand the US carpet bombings. And the third members of their family and are are, once again, severe shortages to the obstacles in the way of They are the ones suffering while living in impossibly crowded con- of drugs and consumables as the meaningful reconstruction. To those with power over them re- phase is still going on. In this movie, reluctantly people watch, ditions. Others, less fortunate, live supplies delivered in the war run meet Gaza's housing needs, includ- main locked in entrenched posi- in caravans, UN shelters or in dam- out. Many of the staff have not ing rebuilding destroyed or severe- tions. They are unable to leave and smokes billowing from the scenes of sucide blasts, markets aged homes exposed to the ele- been paid for months, others are ly damaged homes and addressing powerless to change things. Al- being targetted, schools shut, roads closed, bridges explod- ments. It was cold and wet while I receiving only 60 percent of their natural growth, 735 truckloads of though the people of Gaza are as- was there. The situation teeters on salaries as a result of the Palestin- materials need to enter Gaza ev- tonishingly resilient, this impasse ed, graveyards attacked, and civilians mutilated in IEDs. None the brink of another major crisis. ian Authority's financial crisis ery day for the next three years. and continuing isolation are test- could say with surety what will be the end happy ending or Another major crisis which has been compounded by This daily truck requirement ing them to the limit. I visited Gaza with a team of Israel's withholding of tax reve- was not reached for the entire The deadlock must be broken. blood will keep spilling. This movie has made the watchers UK surgeons, specialists in limb nues. What health service in the month of November when an av- Donors must deliver on their reconstruction, who are working world could function in a situation erage of only 287 trucks with build- pledges. The PA and Hamas must war weary. However, they look to be too hapless. When flood with their Palestinian colleagues to like this? ing materials entered Gaza per day. settle their differences for the great- comes and the water is highly turbid, the fish lose their sight. help repair the bones of some of I also saw the impact of the While December saw a slight im- er good of their people and for the those most seriously injured last continued legacy of the conflict. provement, the whole process possibility of peace. Israel must Same is happening. Majority has lost the vision a vision July. This is a programme run by Over 8,000 "explosive remnants of stalled in January due to a lack of live up to its responsibilities as the Medical Aid for Palestinians with war" - unexploded shells, grenades, funds. occupying power and lift the siege. that can make them victorious. Many of us have seen how funding from the UK Department bombs - remain scattered across Why? Everyone is blaming Egypt, too, must play its part by Afghanistan became the center stage of bloodshed and may- for International Development. Gaza, posing fatal risks to children someone else. The Palestinians reopening the Rafah crossing on a We carried about $265,000 in particular. During my visit, our blame Israel for the ongoing siege regular and reliable basis. hem. They have seen atrocities of 90s. And they have seen the worth of medical equipment with surgeons helped treat three seri- and point to the failure of the Gaza Considering the horrors of us from the UK, dragging it in suit- ously injured children who'd Reconstruction Mechanism what we saw last July and the very carpet bombings of the US. But some of us talk of the ISIS. cases on the long walk from the picked up one of these deadly de- (GRM) which was established as real possibility of it being repeat- Still they hoist their flags. On one side they condemn brutali- Erez crossing. I saw it immediate- vices. It was a reminder that while a temporary system after the war ed, we must start fresh new ef- ties of the Taliban while at the same time hoist the black flags ly be put to use in the operating we mark the six-month anniversa- to facilitate the transfer of materi- forts to return hope to Gaza. of ISIS. What is it other than extreme confusion and a state of abberance. In such a time, withdrawing troops is not only reversing the gains made during the past 14 years but at the same time leaving the United States prone to attacks once again. Since the United States has waged war on terror it will have to take it to its logical end. At times of crisis, sometimes a visionary leader even loses farsightedeness, but it doesn t mean there is no room for correction in politics. The Obama administration earlier decided it wants to pullout its troops, n La uptio however after earning criticism from Republicans and the w Corr government in Afghanistan, Washington is considering slow- ing its planned withdrawal for the second time. This deci- sion, on one side is the acceptance of fallibility of the US security plans and on the other side a sign of the realization of the significant security challenges that still remain despite an end to the international combat mission. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES German consumer India aims to invest $137b confidence at new high as energy in railways in next five years India will increase investment in Passenger fares are subsidised costs drop its overloaded railway network to by freight revenues that are high 8.5 trillion rupees ($137 billion) compared to other countries. Prab- BERLIN: Germany s economy, over the next five years, the gov- hu said he planned to raise the Europe s largest, is showing more ernment said on Thursday, prom- amount of freight carried to 1.5 signs of strength, with new figures ising to modernise existing tracks billion tonnes a year, from 1 bil- released Thursday showing con- but shying away from raising fares lion tonnes at the moment. sumer confidence at a 13-year high to fund the expansion. Prabhu said spending would be and unemployment declining fur- Presenting the railway budget focused on improving and expand- ther. just two days before the govern- ing existing railway lines, many of A closely watched survey ment delivers its first full annual which are operating at more than showed German consumers are budget, Railway Minister Suresh full capacity, with the average increasingly optimistic despite the Prabhu said it would "set the di- speed of the country's best trains crisis in Ukraine and Greece s fi- rection of a long and difficult road a sluggish 70 km (44 miles) per nancial woes, in large part because of reform." hour. their disposable incomes have in- Over the next year, investment Accidents are common and creased as energy prices have in the railways will increase by trains, platforms and toilets on the dropped. about a half to 1 trillion rupees network are often filthy. The GfK research group said ($16.15 billion) including funds India's is the world's fourth its forward-looking consumer cli- raised by market borrowing. To largest rail network, but has been mate index rose to 9.7 points for meet the five year target, invest- outstripped by China, which now March from 9.3 in February. That s ment will have to speed up more has more than six times a much the highest value since October after that. track. 2001. Prabhu, a trusted economic Providing jobs for 1.3 million The survey of 2,000 consum- aide to Prime Minister Narendra people, the railway is India's larg- ers shows increases in their eco- Modi, said he would raise funds est single employer, and reform is nomic and income expectations, as from multi-lateral lenders, infra- politically sensitive. Successive well as their willingness to buy as structure and pension funds, as governments have shied away the collapse in energy prices is well as "monetizing" railway as- from modernization, preferring in- boosting the purchasing power of sets. He said the railway would stead to use the system to provide private households. not be privatized. cheap transport and create jobs. At present, German consum- "Over the next five years, the Prabhu did not announce any ers are seemingly not greatly af- Brent crude fell toward $61 per railways have to undergo a trans- new trains in the budget, depart- fected by the recent escalation of formation," Prabhu said in a ing from a tradition of laying on the situation in eastern Ukraine, barrel on Thursday, after a sharp rally in the previous session, as speech that was short on details. new services to politically impor- the ongoing tensions between Rus- He said the share of rail reve- tant constituencies. sia and the West as well as events bulging U.S. crude stockpiles off- BOJ s Kuroda says no ceiling set on set indications of a recovery in nue available for investments There are over 300 projects in Greece, GfK said. would rise to 11.5 percent in the pending that need about 1.8 tril- Separately, the unemployment demand. Oil prices on both sides of the its balance sheet expansion fiscal year starting on April 1, up lion Indian rupees ($28.9 billion), rate dropped to 6.9 percent in Feb- from 8.2 percent in the current fis- said a senior official. Atlantic recorded their largest per- ruary from 7 percent the month cal year. Excluding market borrowing, before, with just over 3 million centage gains in nearly two weeks TOKYO: Bank of Japan Gover- nor Haruhiko Kuroda said on India has more funds available the amount projected for invest- people out of work, the Federal at Wednesday's settlement, boost- for investment thanks to a sharp ment in 2015/16 is up by 31 per- Statistical Office said. When ad- ed by improved views on global Thursday there was no ceiling on Target reports 4Q loss how much the central bank would drop in the price of diesel fuel that cent, signalling an increased com- justed for seasonal factors the rate oil demand from the Saudi oil min- powers most Indian locomotives. mitment to infrastructure from fed- remained 6.5 percent. ister and better-than-expected Chi- expand its balance sheet relative to the size of the country's gross on Canada pullout; The BSE share index reacted eral funds. US regulator na data. domestic product (GDP). negatively to the speech, sinking The separate rail budget is a "The previous gains reflected Kuroda, speaking in parlia- 0.7 percent, with wagon makers relic of the country's British colo- warns of the fact that the market is looking ment, also said interest paid to ex- outlook cautious Titagarh Wagons down 2.6 percent, nial past, when the network was forward to more production cuts cess reserves commercial banks while Texmaco Rail & Engineering India's most profitable industrial Armageddon coming with declines in rig park at the central bank help NEW YORK: Target Corp. deliv- shipping in half to $25. Target said lower 7 percent. asset. ($1 = 61.9400 rupees) cyber attack on counts," said Ric Spooner, chief smooth increases in base money, ered a cautious profit outlook for shoppers responded to its no-min- analyst at CMC Markets in Syd- but that the BOJ board may de- the first quarter and reported a loss imum free-shipping offer during the banks ney, referring to recent data show- bate in the future whether to cut in its fourth quarter, dragged down holidays. Morgan Stanley settles A New York financial regulator said ing a slide in U.S. oil drilling amid the 0.1 percent floor on money by costs to end its money-losing During a media call, Chief Fi- he is considering new rules to pro- beaten-down crude prices. market rates. foray in Canada. nancial Officer John Mulligan em- tect against "an Armageddon-type" "But it is a conflict play be- "We don't have any particular But the discount retailer re- phasized that Target shoppers mortgage probe with fine cyber attack that would devastate tween production and demand. ceiling," Kuroda said, when asked corded stronger-than-expected who buy online and in stores U.S. financial markets. Certainly, production is exceeding if there was a limit on expanding sales during the holiday season as spend more and are more engaged. US investment bank Morgan Stan- tices brought the US finance sys- Ben Lawsky, head of New its assets. shoppers bought more clothing Digital sales increased 30 percent ley has agreed to pay a hefty fine tem to its knees in 2008, when demand, at least in the U.S.," "We have not set a deadline for York's Department of Financial Spooner added. and other items, giving some hope during the quarter. He noted that to settle an investigation into its millions of homeowners defaulted Services (DFS), said he fears a large the current qualitative and quanti- that efforts to turn around its U.S. Target's online sales account for role in the 2008 financial crisis. The on their loans and had their homes Brent crude LCOc1 had tative easing. We'll keep it in place business are paying off. about 2.5 percent to 3 percent of enough hack on Wall Street firms dropped 21 cents to $61.42 a bar- probe centered on sales of mort- repossessed by the banks. could "spill over into the broader until we achieve 2 percent price The results, which included the company's total sales. gage-backed securities to gullible Specifically, the probe focused economy" not unlike the mort- rel by 0801 GMT (3.01 a.m. EST), goal stably and sustainably. We the second consecutive increase in Even before Cornell took the after jumping more than 5 percent cannot say until when or how investors. on the company's due diligence on gage meltdown of 2008. a key sales measure in a year, come helm, Target had begun to reassess Morgan Stanley said Wednes- loans it purchased for securitiza- "We are concerned that within on Wednesday. U.S. crude CLc1 much" we will expand the size of a little more than a month after the its operations, sprucing up its the balance sheet. day it had reached a "preliminary tion, its communications with rat- the next decade, or perhaps soon- was down 34 cents at $50.65, fol- discounter announced it was giv- baby departments and adding man- agreement" with US regulators to ings agencies as well as its disclo- er, we will experience an Armaged- lowing a more than 3 percent gain The BOJ's balance sheet has ing up on Canada and focusing on nequins to its fashion areas. Cor- expanded to 277 trillion yen ($2.33 pay $2.6 billion (2.28 billion eu- sures to investors. don-type cyber event that causes in the previous session. revving up its U.S. business. nell wants to double down on a ros) in fines for its role in pushing It also looked into the bank's Prices were hurt by data show- trillion) as of Wednesday, nearly The closing was the first ma- handful of areas like children's a significant disruption in the fi- two-thirds the size of Japan's GDP, the US financial system to the handling of servicing and issues nancial system for a period of ing U.S. crude stocks rose 8.4 mil- jor move by CEO Brian Cornell, products and furniture. It is also brink of collapse in 2008 and trig- related to foreclosure, according to due to its aggressive asset purchas- who took over last August and reimagining its grocery area and time," Lawsky said Wednesday in lion barrels last week to 434.1 mil- es, far exceeding that of major cen- gering a global recession. a November 2014 filing by Mor- a speech at Columbia Law School. lion barrels, a seasonal record high who is charged with reclaiming the wants to focus on products unique It was the latest settlement gan Stanley. tral banks. retailer's image as a purveyor of to Target. He called such an attack a "cy- for the seventh straight week, as The BOJ adopted its stimulus between a major bank and the US While sizeable, the amount ber 9/11." refineries trimmed output. programme in April 2013, pledg- cheap chic fashions. Target is set to unveil more Justice Department, which has Morgan Stanley agreed to pay Lawsky said he is considering "With the continued refinery ing to hit an inflation target of 2 The results also show how the details of its strategy to investors launched investigations into a num- pales in comparison to the fine lev- new rules to force banks and in- strikes as well as a strong produc- percent in roughly two years by Minneapolis-based company is on March 3. Those will include ber of American financial institu- ied against Bank of America, which surance companies regulated by tion from the U.S., it comes as no doubling base money through ag- successfully moving past a mas- cost-cutting moves, but Mulligan tions over the sale of mortgage- also profited from shady dealings DFS to better protect themselves surprise that inventories increase," gressive asset purchases. It sive data breach disclosed a week did not elaborate during the media backed securities. with gullible customers. against hackers. stunned global markets on Oct. 31 before Christmas 2013 that com- call Wednesday. The settlement resolves claims That fine totaled $16.6 billion Phillip Futures analysts said in a promised millions of credit and The company said that it lost DFS has regulatory oversight note on Thursday. "Without U.S. by deploying additional monetary the civil division of the Justice and marked the largest settlement over dozens of N.Y. licensed banks debit cards. That caused shoppers $2.6 billion, or $4.14 per share, in crude production making adjust- stimulus. Department "indicated it intended in history between the US govern- and insurance companies, includ- Following the BOJ's addition- to flee for months and hurt sales the three months ended Jan. 31. to bring against the company," ment and a company. ing Goldman Sachs, MetLife and ments, we strongly believe that and profits. It was one of the ma- That compares with a profit of prices will not recover yet." al easing, the government delayed Morgan Stanley said in a securi- Regulators have also accepted Barclays. As head of DFS, Law- a second sales tax hike to 10 per- jor reasons behind the abrupt de- $520 million, or 82 cents per share ties filing. payments by JPMorgan Chase and sky has power to punish banks Read MoreAre oil producers cent planned for October this year parture of CEO Gregg Steinhafel, a year earlier. Shady dealings with gullible Citigroup in similar cases. In all, for bad behavior and to impose running out of closet space? by 18 months to April 2017. who resigned last May. Excluding costs to exit Canada customers they have collected more than $35 new standards on their operations. The largest U.S. refinery strike While Kuroda said the impact Target's business is benefiting and other one-time items, Target's The mortgage industry's prac- billion in penalties. To help prevent against a dev- since 1980 continued with no of April's sales tax hike to 8 per- as middle-income shoppers are adjusted earnings were $1.50 per astating hack, Lawsky said he movement toward renewed talks cent from 5 percent has largely feeling some relief because of low- share. Analysts polled by FactSet wants to add cyber security to the to end a walkout by 6,550 union subsided, he said the next sales tax er gas prices and an improving econ- expected $1.46 per share. Target grades DFS gives the banks and workers at 15 plants, including 12 hike planned in 2017 would not omy. But Target said that its moves is now liquidating all 133 stores insurance companies it regulates. refineries accounting for one-fifth sway monetary policy. Kuroda to bring in trendier merchandise after entering Canada just two Financial firms "care deeply" of domestic capacity. also said a median forecast of the and cater to shoppers who are in- years ago. about their grades because they can U.S. crude, or the West Texas BOJ's nine board members pro- creasingly going online have been Revenue rose 4.1 percent to impact their ability to pay divi- Intermediate (WTI), has risen 16 duced in January, which is for core the bigger factors behind stronger $21.7 billion. Revenue at stores dends or acquire other companies, percent from an almost 6-year low consumer inflation to hit 2.2 per- sales. opened at least a year rose 3.8 per- cent in fiscal 2016, showed that The discounter has been play- cent. The measure is considered a Lawsky said. of $43.58 hit last month, but pric- DFS could also mandate mul- members of the board expect in- ing catch-up online and revamping key indicator of a retailer's health. tifactor authentication systems for es are still down more than 50 per- flation to hit the central bank's 2 its apps. It also cut its minimum Shares of Target fell 3 cents to employees of DFS-regulated fi- cent from highs reached in June percent target by the end of that online purchase to qualify for free $76.93 in afternoon trading. (AP) nancial firms. Single-step pass- 2014 amid oversupply woes. year in March 2017. "There isn't a words "should have been dead and WTI's discount to Brent CL- time frame set in stone when we buried many years ago," Lawsky LCO1=R widened to as much say roughly two years," Kuroda said. $11.01 in early trade on Thursday, told parliament, when asked by a Lawsky may also require close to the previous session's lawmaker which specific years the banks and insurance companies li- BOJ had in mind in setting the two- $11.03 - the widest in nearly 13 year time frame. Core consumer censed by DFS to get guarantees months. Spain s Iberdrola to buy from third-party vendors that their inflation has slowed due largely to Oil prices could, however, weak domestic demand and slump- security meets certain standards. draw support from Saudi Oil Min- Such vendors can often acts as a ing oil prices. It stood at 0.5 per- UIL holdings for about $3b ister Ali al-Naimi's comments that cent in the year to December, well "backdoor entrance for hackers," Spanish utility Iberdrola SA will Iberdrola will combine its U.S. he said. demand is growing and markets are below the BOJ's target nearly two calm. Another senior Gulf OPEC years into the adoption of quanti- buy UIL Holdings Corp for about unit with UIL and list the new com- Lawsky's warning of a cyber tative easing. It was too early to $3 billion to create a new listed pany on a U.S. exchange. The com- attack on Wall Street follows a re- delegate said demand is expected power and gas company and ex- panies did not say on which ex- to grow more strongly in the sec- debate an exit strategy for the stim- port last week warning of a band ulus programme as Japan was still pand in the United States, where change it would be listed. of international cyber crooks who ond half of 2015 as the global econ- halfway in meeting its price tar- it hopes to offset falling profits at The Spanish firm said UIL have taken to infiltrating banks' omy picks up. get, he added. home. shareholders would receive one internal systems instead of going A world leader in wind tur- share in the new company for each after their customers. The report, bines, Iberdrola joins other Euro- share they own and an additional by Moscow-based security firm pean companies seeking to grow cash payment of $10.50 per share, Kaspersky Lab, said it found evi- EU s Allianz posts 3.8pc profits gain in 2014 via acquisitions outside sluggish or $597 million. dence that hackers have stolen up domestic markets. Last year, Ger- The proposed deal implies a to $1 billion from 100 banks across Allianz, Europe's big- man engineer agreed to buy U.S. total value of $52.75 per share, 30 countries this way. gest insurer, has an- turbine maker Dresser-Rand. including the cash component, nounced a 3.8 per cent Iberdrola's earnings have been representing a 25 percent premi- boost in net profits for hit hard by Europe's economic cri- um to UIL's closing price on Feb. 2014 at 6.2 billion eu- sis, as well as by energy reforms 25. ros ($A8.9 billion). in Spain, where new power gener- Iberdrola also said the deal, The increase, led ation taxes and renewable cutbacks which is expected to boost earn- by strong performanc- dented profits. ings per share and cash flow, would es in the damage and As a result, Chairman Ignacio have a limited impact on solvency health insurance divi- Sanchez Galan has vowed to slash and would not require a capital in- sions, was up from 6.0 domestic investments and expand crease to be funded. billion euros the pre- abroad, especially in the United Sources had told Reuters last vious year, the Ger- States and Mexico. The company year the group would likely fund man company said in already owns Scottish Power and any purchase by selling assets. a statement on Thurs- U.S. Energy East, bought in 2006 The new company will serve day. and 2007, before Spain's financial 3.1 million electric and gas custom- The result was crisis. ers across New York, Connecticut, slightly lower than JP Morgan analysts said the Maine and Massachusetts and predicted by analysts. agreed deal, which values UIL at would invest $6.9 billion in elec- The company said around 10 times forecast earnings tric and gas infrastructure over the that it expected oper- before interest, tax, depreciation next five years, the companies said. ating earnings this year and amortisation, was not cheap, UIL Chief Executive James to weigh in at between but that UIL would contribute Torgerson will be the new compa- 10-10.8 billion euros, valuable growth projects and po- ny's CEO. Iberdrola and UIL will in line with 2014 earn- tential synergies. They have an continue to have offices in New ings of 10.4 billion eu- "overweight" rating on Iberdrola's Haven, Connecticut, Massachu- ros. shares. setts, Maine and New York. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

3 Austrian men first to get mind-controlled CDC investigates deadly bacteria s link to doctors offices (CNN)The Centers for Disease iting the doctor's office -- with bionic hands after amputation Control is raising a red flag that a soap and water, because alcohol- potentially deadly bacteria may be based gels don't get rid of C.diff. LONDON: Three Austrians have who lost the use of his right hand kids in his kindergarten class that An unrelated study published procedure costs around 30,000 lurking in your doctor's office. Another tip: Question your replaced injured hands with bionic in a motorbike accident more than "my father is a robot." last year gave patients some feel- euros ($33,960). The study was The bacteria, C. difficile, is doctor whenever you're prescribed ones that they can control using a decade ago, the bionic hand has Marinkovic says using his ing in a prosthetic hand by relay- paid for by groups including the typically found in hospitals, but a an antibiotic. Powerful broad-spec- nerves and muscles transplanted allowed him to hold things like a study out Wednesday reports a trum antibiotics wipe away good into their arms from their legs. sandwich or bottle of water - and substantial number of people con- bacteria in your gut that fight off The three men are the first to more importantly, to play with his tracted the bug who hadn't been in the bad bacteria, which leads the undergo what doctors refer to as three children. a hospital, but had recently visit- way to C. diff. "bionic reconstruction," which in- "I can throw things, but it is ed the doctor or dentist. Johns Hopkins safety expert cludes a voluntary amputation, the harder to catch a ball, because my The bacteria can cause deadly Dr. Peter Pronovost recommends transplantation of nerves and mus- right hand is still not quite as quick diarrhea, according to the CDC, asking your doctor if you really cles and learning to use faint sig- and natural (as my left)," said the with infections on the rise. The need an antibiotic, if there's a less nals from them to command the Vienna based-clerk. new report shows nearly half a powerful one that will treat your hand. Dr. Simon Kay, who authored million Americans infected in var- infection, and if you're being pre- Previously, people with bion- an accompanying commentary and ious locations in one year, with scribed the antibiotic for the short- ic hands have primarily controlled performed Britain's first hand 15,000 deaths directly attributed est time possible. them with manual settings. transplant, said there would al- to C. diff. The CDC study, published "This is the first time we have ways be major limits to bionic In a 2013 study, researchers Wednesday in The New England bionically reconstructed a hand," hands. He pointed out that the found C. diff present in six out of Journal of Medicine, said 150,000 said Dr. Oskar Aszmann of the brain has thousands of ways to seven outpatient clinics tested in people who had not been in the Medical University of Vienna, send messages to the human hand Ohio, including on patients' chairs hospital came down with C. diff who developed the approach with but that a robotic prosthetic can't and examining tables. in 2011. Of those, 82% had visit- colleagues. "If I saw these kinds of handle such complexity. The CDC is so concerned that ed a doctor's or dentist's office in patients five to seven years ago, I "The question is always going they're starting a new study to try the 12 weeks before their diagno- would have just shrugged my to be: How do we get the message to assess nationally whether peo- sis. shoulders and said, `there's noth- from the mind to the metal?" he ple are getting C. diff in doctors' The CDC is hoping its new ing I can do for you.'" said. offices. study will help determine cause He said while some patients The three men are the first to "This is really an important and effect, because it's possible the might be candidates for a hand undergo what doctors refer to as issue. We need to understand bet- patients had C. diff to begin with transplant, that has its own com- bionic reconstruction, which in- ter how people are getting C. diff," and went to the doctor to get help. plications, including having to take cludes voluntary amputation, said Dr. Cliff McDonald, a medi- It's also possible that antibiotics anti-rejection medicines for the rest transplantation of nerves and mus- cal epidemiologist at the CDC. prescribed during the doctor's vis- of their lives. cles and learning to use faint sig- In the meantime, patients it, and not microbes at the doctor's Aszmann and colleagues de- nals from them to command the should wash their hands after vis- office, caused the infection. scribed the cases of the three men hand. in a report published online Patients like Marinkovic, Wednesday in the journal Lancet. however, have few complaints Struggling with daily tasks The men decided on amputation about the bionic hand, which only after having the bionic hand proved especially popular with his bionic hand is nearly as natural as ing signals to the brain in a tempo- Austrian Council for Research and strapped onto their injured hand, son. When he first got the device, using his uninjured hand. rary experiment and other replace- Technology Development and a may be warning sign for to see how the robotic one might his son, then 4, would put on the "I can do almost everything ment hands can do things like grip laboratory which receives funds function. bionic hand and proudly walk with it. I just don't have any feel- objects but are controlled external- from Otto Bock, maker of the pros- heart failure patients For Milorad Marinkovic, 30, around with it, telling the other ing in it." ly. Aszmann estimated the new thetics used. A new study in the American Heart Pneumonia (4.3%). Association journal Circulation: The average survival for par- Peanut allergies Bariatric surgery Heart Failure finds that heart fail- ticipants was 5.6 years for those may be Dish washing good for ure patients who struggle to carry with minimal difficulty conduct- has positive & out day-to-day tasks - such as get- ing daily tasks, 3 years for those preventable, but ting dressed or climbing stairs - are with moderate difficulty and 1.5 negative effects on more likely to be hospitalized and years for people who reported se- experts urge saving kids from allergies die early. vere difficulty. pregnancy old lady getting dressed The researchers suspect that caution Most heart failure patients are the difficulty with daily activities MUMBAI: In recent years, bari- elderly and have many other "is not entirely attributable" to the The implications are intriguing atric or weight-loss surgeries have chronic conditions. participants' heart failure. Most and the research so groundbreak- emerged as an alternative treatment More than 5 million people in heart failure patients are elderly, ing, it may change the way doc- for patients with hypertension, the US have heart failure and many the authors point out, and have tors approach food allergies. But a diabetes and infertility. But little has been found about its effect on of these patients do not survive many other chronic conditions. recent study that finds peanut al- pregnancies: does it ensure safe for more than 5 years following Participants with dementia lergies may be prevented by eat- pregnancy and a healthy baby? diagnosis. were found to have difficulty with ing peanut-containing foods in in- Now, a study published in the To investigate what further as- twice as many daily activities as fancy needs to be considered care- prestigious New England Journal sessments could assist health care participants without this condi- fully by parents, experts say. of Medicine on Thursday suggests professionals in determining ade- tion. Interestingly, the study found The study published in The that bariatric surgery has both a quate care for people with heart that being female, unmarried and New England Journal of Medicine positive and negative influence on failure, researchers from the Mayo having anemia, obesity or diabetes and part of a clinical trial led by the risk of complications during Clinic in Rochester, MN, analyzed also increased the likelihood of Dr. Gideon Lack of King's College subsequent pregnancy and deliv- data from questionnaires complet- having difficulties with day-to-day London found that babies at ery. Conducted by Karolinska In- ed by 1,128 patients. tasks. high risk of developing a peanut stitutet in Sweden, the study sug- The participants were rough- We asked Dr. Shannon Dun- allergy who were given a peanut- gests that such pregnancies should ly evenly split in terms of gender lay, lead author of the study and containing snack at least three be viewed as ``risky'' and the moth- and marital status, with an average an advanced heart failure cardiolo- times a week had a substantially er-to-be be watched closely. age of 75. The following propor- gist at the Mayo Clinic, why wom- lower incidence of developing that It is known that some women tions of patients also had these en and unmarried people were allergy. with obesity find it difficult to get medical conditions: found to have more difficulties "This suggests that you should pregnant, and, if they do, they have Examples of daily activities in with everyday tasks. introduce peanuts intentionally a higher risk of developing com- the questionnaire included getting "Most available data have within the first year of life," said plications. The Swedish study dressed, using the bathroom, clean- shown that women tend to report Dr. Peter LoGalbo, an allergist found that there is a sharp rise in ing the house, climbing stairs and more difficulty with activities in with ENT and Allergy Associates the number of women becoming taking medications. daily living than men," she replied. in West Nyack. "However, before pregnant after bariatric surgery; in More than half of the partici- "While the reasons for these gen- everybody goes crazy giving their 2013 almost 8,000 such operations pants had problems with daily ac- der differences in disability are not kids peanuts, you need to under- were performed in Sweden, 80 % tivities entirely clear, women were, on stand some of the details of the of which were on women. The questionnaire data show average, older than men in this study." The study's lead author Kari that more than 59% of participants study, which could have an impact Infants with eczema or egg al- Johansson used data from Swed- reported having problems carry- on differences observed." lergies were screened for peanut ish health registries and identified allergies before taking part in the 596 pregnancies to women who had given birth after bariatric sur- study, and those who were allergic People who wash dishes with hence, less allergy, he said. Even though we do not cur- gery between 2006 and 2011. were excluded. hands instead of using machines When adjusting for covariates rently have strong support for rec- ``These pregnancies were then Peanuts are a choking risk and for the purpose have healthier kids and confounding factors, such as ommending any of these lifestyle compared with 2,356 pregnancies were not used in the study. who are less likely to being infect- lifestyle and socioeconomic fac- factors in allergy prevention, they to women who had not been oper- Dr. Andrew Wiznia, an aller- ed with allergies. tors the associations between hand are already commonly used and ated upon but who had the same gist with Westchester Health, We have only tested an asso- dishwashing and allergic diseases body mass index (BMI, weight worked with Lack at Jacobi Med- most often regarded as harmless, ciation between dishwashing meth- remain statistically significant for the authors write. divided by height squared) as the ical Center in the Bronx when the ods and risk of allergy, but the find- eczema and total allergy, whereas first group prior to surgery,'' said researcher was doing his training The results of this study are ings fit well with the hygiene hy- a borderline significance is seen for not surprising as there are multi- the study. Johansson found was in pediatrics. pothesis. And there are studies asthma, the authors wrote. that the women who had under- Lack's new research in London, ple studies that show that expo- gone surgery were much less like- showing that hand dishwashing In different countries and sures to the microbiome may re- said Wiznia, was prompted by the very often is less effective than settings, different risk factors and ly to develop gestational diabetes realization that few Israeli children machine dishwashing in reducing protective factors for asthma and duce the risk of [allergic] diseases (2% compared to 7%) and give have peanut allergies possibly bacterial content, said lead author allergy seem to interact, and the in certain populations, said Dr. birth to large babies. On the other due to their consumption, from an Dr. Bill Hesselmar, an associate effect of this interaction on a spe- Selina Gierer, a pediatric allergist hand, the operated women were early age, of a popular peanut professor of allergy at Queen Sil- cific individual depends on their at The University of Kansas Hos- twice as likely to give birth to ba- snack called Bamba. via Children s Hospital in Goth- genetic/epigenetic susceptibility, pital in Kansas City. This is an bies who were small for gestation- The new findings can make a enburg, Sweden. the researchers write in their study. example of when extra efforts to al age, and the pregnancies were tremendous impact in the United We therefore speculate that We know, for example, that early sanitize our environment, with also of shorter duration. She con- ing out one or more daily activities "As far as marital status," she States, said Wiznia, a professor of hand dishwashing is associated day care attendance may protect machine dishwashing instead of cluded that women who undergo - 24.1% of whom reported having added, "it may be that having a pediatrics at Albert Einstein Col- with increased microbial exposure, against sensitization, but only in hand washing, may reduce the nat- bariatric surgery should be given "moderate" difficulty, while 12.9% spouse masks difficulty with ac- lege of Medicine. causing immune stimulation and, children without siblings. ural exposure to microbes. special care during pregnancy. had "severe" difficulty conducting tivities in daily living if the spouse these tasks. Over the 3-year fol- is able to compensate by, for ex- low-up period, 614 patients died ample, doing all of the housework and 910 were hospitalized. The and cleaning. When a person with Could too much sleep increase the risk of stroke? most common reasons for hospi- mobility difficulty doesn't have talization were: that safety net in place, difficulty The negative implications of sleep ence stroke each year and it is the of sleep - the team found those this association. She told us that also reflect alterations in blood flow Heart failure (18.4%) with activities in daily living may deprivation are well documented; leading cause of disability in the who slept for more than 8 hours the increased sleep duration among in the brain and thus serve as an Arrhythmia (4.7%) become more apparent." it can cause problems with memo- country. were 46% more likely to have a participants might have indicated early sign of future stroke risk. ry and concentration and has been Based on their findings, Leng stroke. excessive sleepiness and fatigue as However, the exact biological Two patients sickened by superbug in associated with increased risk of and colleagues say it is unclear as What is more, the researchers a result of declining health. mechanism remains unclear and obesity, diabetes and heart disease. to whether sleeping more than 8 found that people who increased "Moreover," she added, "the requires confirmation from physi- Los Angeles sue device maker But a new study suggests getting hours a night - referred to as "long their amount of sleep from 6-8 big increase in sleep needs might ological studies." Attorneys for two patients who were infected with a drug-resistant too much sleep may also be bad sleep" - is a cause or result of hours each night to more than 8 bacterial "superbug" during medical procedures in a Los Angeles hospi- for us: it could significantly in- stroke. hours during follow-up were four tal, one of whom died, have sued the maker of the devices used in their crease the risk of stroke. "It is more likely that extend- times more likely to have a stroke, care. Aaron Young, an 18-year-old high school student who remains A woman sleeping ed sleep duration could serve as an compared with those who consis- under monitoring at a hospital fighting the severe infection, and the Sleeping for more than 8 hours early warning sign of increased tently slept for 6-8 hours a night. family of Antonia Cerda sued Olympus Corp, which manufactured the each night was linked to a 46% in- stroke risk, particularly in older An additional analysis of pre- specialized scopes used during the outbreak at the UCLA Ronald Re- creased risk of stroke. people," Leng told Medical News vious research that assesses the agan Medical Center. The research team, including Today. "In any case, the finding link between sleep duration and The suit alleged that the company's reusable scope, also known as a Yue Leng of the Department of should not be interpreted as 're- stroke, conducted by Leng and duodenoscope, was unsafe because the cleaning protocols for the com- Public Health and Primary Care at strict sleep duration so as to cut colleagues, also found that sleep- plex device were not updated following its recent redesign. the University of Cambridge in the stroke risk.'" ing more than 8 hours a night was "Defendants continued to manufacture, sell, distribute, promote UK, publishes its findings in the Could an increase in sleep time associated with increased stroke and supply the Q180V Scope as to maximize sales and profits at the journal Neurology. be an early warning sign of stroke? risk. In an editorial linked to the expense of the health and safety of the public," the suit said. According to the National To reach their findings, the study, Dr. Alberto Ramos, of the Representatives for Olympus did not immediately return requests Sleep Foundation, adults aged 18- team recruited 9,692 people with University of Miami Miller School for comment on the lawsuits. Both suits seek unspecified damages alleg- 64 should get 7-9 hours of sleep an average age of 62 who had nev- of Medicine, FL, says: ing fraud and negligence on the part of Olympus, and Cerda's also in- each night. er experienced a stroke. "Since people whose sleep cluded injury and wrongful death claims. The complaints said that med- But this latest study, involv- Over an average follow-up patterns changed from short to ical staff followed the company's cleaning guidelines before using the ing more than 9,000 people with period of 9.5 years, the partici- long were nearly four times as like- devices, but plaintiffs' attorney Pete Kaufman said UCLA and the Uni- an average age of 62, found that pants completed two question- ly to have a stroke, it's possible versity of California regents could be added as defendants after further getting more than 8 hours sleep naires 4 years apart that gathered that this could serve as an early investigation. Kaufman also said more patients would likely join the each night was associated with a information on how many hours warning sign, suggesting the need suit. Cerda, whose case was filed on Wednesday, was exposed to one of 46% increased risk of stroke. they slept each night. During fol- for additional tests or for people the contaminated scopes as she underwent several procedures last Oc- Stroke occurs when the blood low-up, 346 participants had a to take steps known to reduce tober. Young, who filed suit on Monday, went to the medical center in supply to the brain is restricted, stroke. stroke risk, such as lowering blood mid-2014 for a pancreatic ailment then became ill and was hospitalized either through a blood clot or a Compared with participants pressure and cholesterol." a short time later, said Kevin Boyle, an attorney on his legal team. By burst blood vessel. More than who slept for 6-8 hours each night MNT asked Leng what she November, he had been diagnosed with carbapenem-resistant entero- 795,000 people in the US experi- - considered an "average" amount believed the drivers were behind bacteria, or CRE, the attorney said. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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US lawmakers seek info on NASA s Dawn spacecraft releases images Greenhouse gas effect funding for climate measured for the first time change critics showing another bright spot on Ceres Scientists for the first time have made at two locations in North Democratic lawmakers in Washing- The latest images captured by Ceres bright spot can now geologic interpretations, Russell brighter than anything else on actually seen the effects greenhouse America: one in Oklahoma and one ton are demanding information NASA s Dawn spacecraft of the be seen to have a companion of said. Ceres, Andreas Nathues, lead gases -- mostly carbon dioxide -- on the North Slope of Alaska, from about funding for scientists who dwarf planet Ceres continues to lesser brightness, but apparently Scientists hope to get a better investigator for the framing cam- have on the Earth's surface tem- 2000 to the end of 2010. Scien- publicly dispute widely held baffle scientists as the photos re- in the same basin, Chris Russell, view of Ceres in the next week as era team at the Max Planch Insti- perature. tists measured atmospheric CO2's views on the causes and risks of veal another significant bright spot a principal investigator for the Dawn is scheduled to enter the tute for Solar System Research in The landmark achievement contribution to radiative forcing at climate change. on its surface. Dawn mission, said in a news re- planet s orbit March 6. The bright Germany, said in the release. proves the climate-changing green- both sites. Prominent members of the The planet, which lies between lease from NASA s Jet Propulsion spots that have captivated the The Dawn spacecraft has al- house effect exists, and is worsen- Radiative forcing measures ing. how much the Earth's energy bal- United States House of Represen- Mars and Jupiter, has an average Laboratory. world might soon come into sharp- ready delivered more than 30,000 tatives and the Senate have sent diameter of 590 miles and is the This maybe pointing to a er focus. A research team led by scien- ance is perturbed by atmospheric letters to universities, companies largest body in the main asteroid volcano-like origin of the spots, but "The brightest spot continues images of Vesta the second larg- tists from the U.S. Department of changes. Positive radiative forcing and trade groups asking for infor- belt and is believed to contain a we will have to wait for better res- to be too small to resolve with our est body in the main asteroid belt Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Na- occurs when the Earth absorbs mation about funding to the scien- large amount of ice. olution before we can make such camera, but despite its size it is during an orbit in 2011 and 2012. tional Laboratory measured the more energy from solar radiation tists. capacity of atmospheric carbon than it emits as thermal radiation The letters came after evi- dioxide to absorb heat given off by back to space. dence emerged over the weekend the Earth's surface over an 11-year They found that CO2 was re- that Wei-Hock Soon, known as period. sponsible for a significant uptick Willie, a scientist at the Harvard- Research has long shown that in radiative forcing at both loca- Smithsonian Center for Astro- releasing huge amounts of carbon tions. physics, had failed to disclose the dioxide into the atmosphere will Researchers used state-of-the- industry funding for his academic produce a "greenhouse gas effect" art high precision spectroscopic work. The documents also includ- in which heat that otherwise would instruments that measure the ther- ed correspondence between Dr. dissipate into outer space is mal infrared energy that travels Soon and the companies who fund- trapped by a blanket of gases in from the atmosphere to Earth's ed his work in which he referred to the atmosphere that absorbs it. surface. The instruments are able his papers and testimony as de- Scientists report they've now to detect CO2 by its unique spec- liverables. actually seen the process at work, tral signature. In letters sent to seven univer- confirming climate model predic- They found that atmospheric sities on Tuesday, Representative tions. carbon dioxide concentrations pre- Ra l M. Grijalva, an Arizona Dem- "We see, for the first time in vented thermal radiation from es- ocrat who is the ranking member the field, the amplification of the caping into space so the Earth ab- of the House committee on natu- greenhouse effect because there's sorbs more solar heat that it emits ral resources, sent detailed re- more CO2 in the atmosphere to back into space. quests to the academic employers absorb what the Earth emits in re- These high concentrations of of scientists who had testified be- sponse to incoming solar radia- carbon are directly linked to the fore Congress about climate tion," said lead author Daniel Feld- burning of fossil fuels, said the re- change. man, a scientist at the Berkeley searchers. The requests focused on fund- Lab's Earth Sciences Division, in "We measured radiation in the ing sources for the scientists, in- the statement. form of infrared energy," explained cluding David Legates of the Uni- "Numerous studies show ris- Feldman. "Then we controlled for versity of Delaware and Roger ing atmospheric CO2 concentra- other factors that would impact our Pielke Jr. of the University of Col- tions, but our study provides the measurements, such as a weather orado at Boulder. critical link between those concen- system moving through the area." In the letters, Representative trations and the addition of energy The research will be published Grijalva wrote, My colleagues to the system, or the greenhouse Feb. 25 in the advance online issue and I cannot perform our duties if effect." The observations were of the journal Nature. research or testimony provided to us is influenced by undisclosed fi- nancial relationships. He asked for each university s policies on financial disclosure and the amount and sources of outside funding for each scholar, communications re- garding the funding and all drafts of testimony. Three Democratic members of Russia plans to the Senate sent 100 letters to fos- Mars rover curiosity captures sil fuel companies, trade groups put man on and other organizations asking about their funding of climate re- selfie at drilling site Moon by 2030 search and advocacy. The letters were signed by Edward J. Markey NASA has released a selfie of the Kathryn Stack, rover team of the full Pahrump Hills cam- Russia has announced plans to of Massachusetts, Barbara Boxer Curiosity rover which shows the member at NASA s Jet Propulsion paign. Curiosity is helping the send manned flights to the moon of California and Sheldon White- site where the six-wheeled robot Laboratory, Pasadena, California NASA s Mars Science Laborato- by 2030, as it pledges to keep the house of Rhode Island. The sena- has been working since last five commented Compared with the ry Project to assess the habitable International Space Station in or- tors asked for responses by April months. According to the space earlier Curiosity selfies, we added environments as well as major bit for nine more years. 3. agency, the image is a compilation extra frames for this one so we changes in the atmosphere of Red Roscosmos, Russia's space Corporate special interests of a number of shots which have could see the rover in the context Planet. agency, said it would launch the been taken by the rover at differ- manned missions after reviving its shouldn t be able to secretly ped- lunar programme with unmanned dle the best junk science money ent spots. The images have been captured by the Mars Hand Lens spacecraft. can buy, Senator Markey said, The news comes three years denouncing what he called deni- Imager (MAHLI) camera which is attached to the robotic arm of Cu- after a leaked document from the al-for-hire operations. federal agency suggested a manned The funding disclosure ques- riosity. The camera was built by Malin Space Science Systems of mission to the moon was in the tions concerning Dr. Soon have re- pipeline. Russia has announced verberated in other quarters as well. San Diego. It was August 2012 when the plans to send manned flights to the The Smithsonian Institution said moon by 2030, as it pledges to on Sunday that it had handed its $2.5 billion rover landed on Mars Study uncovers true and began operating in spite of the keep the International Space Sta- investigation of Dr. Soon s deal- tion (pictured) in orbit for nine ings with funders and journals over harsh Martian environment. In the evolutionary purpose and latest self-portrait of Curiosity, the more years Russia has announced to its inspector general. The Smith- plans to send manned flights to the sonian s acting secretary, Albert rover can be seen surrounded by a optimal length of eyelashes wide view of the Pahrump Hills moon by 2030, as it pledges to Horvath, announced that he would keep the International Space Sta- lead a full review of Smithsonian outcrop on Mars. Pahrump Hills Eyelashes are aesthetically appeal- said lead author Guillermo Ama- is an outcrop of the bedrock that tion (pictured) in orbit for nine ing, but scientists have always dor, a doctoral student at the Geor- ethics and disclosure policies gov- more years It was the first time erning the conduct of sponsored makes the basal layer of Mount searched for their primary func- gia Institute of Technology. Sharp, at the center of Mars Gale Moscow had set a deadline for the tion. Some have hypothesized that Senior author David Hu was research to ensure they meet the space plans, hoping to recapture highest standards. Crater. The MAHLI camera was they serve to reduce the occurrence inspired to study eyelashes after also used by Curiosity for previ- the early glory of the first space of objects hitting the eye by creat- his daughter was born in 2012 with The Smithsonian has already race, when they beat the U.S. at acknowledged one error in handling ous self-portraits captured at three ing a physical barrier. However, long, batting eyelashes that fasci- different locations which it ex- getting a man to orbit the earth. experimental evidence has been nated him. Hu has followed inspi- Dr. Soon. Barack Obama previously Charles R. Alcock, director of plored before arriving at the base lacking. Now a new study sheds rations from his children in the of Mount Sharp. wanted to get Americans onto important new insights into just past. In a previous study, he dem- the Harvard-Smithsonian Center Mars by 2030. for Astrophysics, said last week how eyelashes protect eyes. onstrated that most mammals take that a contract provision with Researchers measured the di- 21 seconds to urinate a finding funders of Dr. Soon s work that mensions of almost two dozen from a study he thought of while appeared to prohibit disclosure of New study examines extreme increase in sea level mammal eyes and their corre- changing a diaper. funding sources was a mistake. sponding eye lashes. They con- Hu and colleagues found that We will not permit similar ducted wind tunnel experiments eyelashes offer more and more wording in future grant agree- rise along North American East Coast and constructed complex fluid dy- protection for their eyes as they ments, Dr. Alcock said in an email A new study has investigated a sig- in a phone interview. sistent winds have pushed waters bottleneck of water along the east- namics models to determine the get longer, but only up to a certain response to questions. nificant rise in sea level from New The sea level has since further out into these regions. But ern seaboard. primary role of eyelashes. As it point. After lashes exceed about Continue reading the main sto- York, on the U.S. east coast, and dropped after that spike, but it is Yin also says that the seas are sim- Yin also goes on to explain that turns out, the lashes perform best one third the length of the eye they ryContinue reading the main sto- all the way to Newfoundland. still much higher than it was when ply rising. with the current rate of growth in when they are about one third the are meant to protect, they begin ry The thing that stands out is the spike began in 2009. Global Goddard goes on to say, We greenhouse gases, most climate length of their eyes just the right producing diminishing returns. Dr. Soon has taken a view, con- the time extent of this event as well warming definitely contributed to should expect more of these ex- models predict that the AMOC length to keep air flow over the We thought these longer lash- trary to the vast majority of cli- as the spatial extent of the event, this event. treme rises in sea level. And for (Atlantic Meridional Overturning eyeball to a minimum. es would prevent evaporation, but mate scientists, that variations in said first author Paul Goddard, a But while you might suspect this happen more in the future. Circulation) will also continue to Less air moving over the eye- if they get really long, they cause sunlight may account for much of UA doctoral candidate in geo- that this mystery is really just He also goes on to offer an- weaken over the course of the 21st ball translates to less evaporation more evaporation than if there the recent warming of the earth. sciences. the result of climate change, there other suggestion for the rise in sea century. of the tear film that keeps the del- weren t any eyelashes at all, The Smithsonian has long dis- This is a very extreme event, are a few other factors also at play levels, The anomalous heat made And with that will also come icate cornea moist and fewer air- Amador said. tanced itself from Dr. Soon, stat- Jianjun Yin of the University of here. the surface waters less dense and extreme rise in sea level as well as borne particles contacting the eye- The researchers also found lit- ing that it does not share his con- Arizona told The Washington Post For example, forceful and per- less likely to sink, and it created a an increase in coastal flooding. ball surface. The results of the tle correlation with curvature of the clusions about climate change, but study were reported on Tuesday eyelashes and protection offered. allowed him to continue working in the Journal of the Royal Soci- However, the degree to which the at the Center for Astrophysics, a ety Interface. lashes protruded into airflow mat- joint operation with Harvard that All mammals have wet eyes, tered almost as much as their is based in Cambridge, Mass. and airflow is the enemy of that, length. After news of the letters from Representative Grijalva was an- nounced, Professor Pielke wrote on Twitter, Climate McCarthy- ism alive & well. Just learned a U.S. congressman has contacted my university to investigate me. Professor Pielke went on to note in the tweet that I m not even a skeptic and that he supports the conclusions of the United Na- tions committee that reviews cli- mate science, as well as the Obama administration s proposed Envi- ronmental Protection Agency reg- ulations on greenhouse gases. He has, however, expressed frequent criticism of climate scientists. Professor Pielke also noted in a post on his blog that in 2010 he denounced the efforts of Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, then the attorney general for Virginia, to investigate the emails and papers of the cli- mate scientist Michael Mann. On his blog, Professor Pielke said that the pressure and smears had caused him to move away from climate research: I am simply not initiating any new research or pa- pers on the topic and I have ring- fenced my slowly diminishing blogging on the subject. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Truth is stranger Dia Mirza Aamir Khan outstrips Shah Rukh Khan as his films slams BJP, PERFORM BETTER ABROAD Aamir Khan has now replaced Film trade analysts and critics THAN FICTION RSS members Shahrukh Khan in the top five in- also weighed in their comments on A University of Illinois at Chicago satisfied. Chief of Hindu nationalist organi- ternational Bollywood grossers list Aamir and Shahrukh s films: (UIC) student leader has been According to USA Today, sation Rashtriya Swayamsevak as his three hits PK, Dhoom 3 and Taran Adarsh: HNY didn't get charged with sexually assaulting a Hossain was charged with aggra- Sang (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat s re- 3 Idiots climbed to the top three the kind of numbers an SRK film 19-year-old female student in what vated criminal sexual assault and a marks, questioning the motive be- slots, bringing SRK s Happy New gets prosecutors say was a re-enact- judge set a $500,000 bail. Author- Year and Chennai Express to num- "There's a tough fight between ment of scenes from the film Fifty ities said Hossain was involved ber four and five, reported Daily Shah Rukh and Aamir in the over- Shades of Grey, Chicago Tribune with several leadership pro- News and Analysis (DNA). seas territory. Besides star-pow- reported on Tuesday. grammes at UIC and was a mem- Even though Shahrukh Khan s er, it's also about the film and its According to police reports, ber of UIC Student Alumni Am- films dominate local as well as in- content. As of now, yes Aamir is Mohammed Hossain a fresh- bassadors and the triathlon team. ternational markets, it is now having a dream run. But SRK is man studying bio-nuclear engineer- Suzaine Suba and Kevin Pham, Aamir s time to prove that his films also a huge pull. ing at UIC was in his room with both former high school classmates can do equally well. Aamir's Dhoom 3 was already a 19-year-old female student with of Hossain, said they were caught Not only that, Aamir s PK an established brand. PK had him Aamir's Dhoom 3 and now PK audience in India, even the audi- whom he had been intimate previ- off guard when they learned Hos- became the first Hindi film to col- coming back with Rajkumar Hira- have done put him in a great posi- ence abroad has started looking at ously. After the woman agreed to sain was charged with a crime. Suba lect about INR340 crore at the ni after a massively successful 3 tion." Aamir's movies to be like an ISI remove some of her clothing, Hos- said Hossain was a good person domestic box-office. Although Ta- Idiots. Komal Nahta: The figures mark. sain allegedly tied her hands and and was active at school. I remem- laash wasn t appreciated by the Besides this, the film's content speak for themselves They associate his movies legs and put a necktie over her ber the time when Hossain told me Indian audience, the film was able found high acceptance overseas. "Out of the top five grossers with quality and novelty. They mouth before hitting her with a his experience with being bullied to draw crowds aboard. His previ- Though Happy New Year did very overseas, three are Aamir's mov- know that if it's an Aamir Khan- belt. in school he was just one of ous films Dhoom 3 and 3 Idiots well, it didn't match the kind of ies. The figures speak for them- movie it must be something good. The woman told him to stop, those individuals who struggled to are also known for their sky-rock- numbers one has of an SRK film. selves and Aamir's ranking in the That's why his movies are doing but he started punching her, and fit into society, USA Today quot- eting business. It did lesser than Chennai Express. overseas market. I think like the so well." went on to sexually assault her, ed Suba as saying. I m still trying prosecutors say, adding that she to understand why he did what he was able to leave until his room- did. hind Mother Teresa s philanthrop- An Instagram post could put Amitabh mate got home. The victim con- Pham said Hossain was always ic efforts, have spiralled into a full- tacted the police after she left Hos- eager in obtaining knowledge to blown controversy. At the onset served court sain s dorm, said prosecutors. expand his mind. However, he said, of this, Bollywood actor-produc- former Miss Turkey behind bars Hossain posted a Facebook status Hossain was very pessimistic and er Dia Mirza took to Twitter to Former model Merve Buyuksarac, on social media platforms such as ny to me," she added. She denies notice, says nearly an hour after the crime was would always put himself at the lash out at the comments and who was crowned Miss Turkey Instagram with 15,000 followers that she meant to insult the presi- committed stating, I m finally bottom of a totem pole. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2006, may be facing jail time for and more than double on Twitter. dent. member of parliament Meenakshi slandering the Turkish president, Prosecutor claims that her insult Insulting Erdogan is obvious- Sikh group Lekhi, who jumped to the RSS reports Washington Post. against the Turkish president Re- ly not taken lightly in Turkey. NEW YORK: THE US-based member s defence, reported the On Wednesday, Buyuksarac's cep Tayyip Erdogan had appeared Over 60 people have been charged Times of India. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) said on attorney told the media that an in an Instagram post from last sum- for their mocking him in the last Wednesday that summons issued Bhagwat alleged that the pri- Istanbul prosecutor is aiming to mer, which was a picture of a sa- seven months alone. Recently,16- mary objective behind Mother by a Los Angeles Federal Court take her to court for insulting a tirical poem taken from a maga- year-old high school student was was served on Indian filmstar Teresa s services to the poor was public official. If she is found zine. arrested after making a speech in to convert them to Christianity, Amitab Bachchan on Feb 23 guilty of the offence, she could face In her testimony, Buyuksarac which he described Erdogan as "the through his Hollywood manager. reported BBC News. His state- up to four and a half years in pris- said she may have quoted a poem thieving owner of the illegal pal- ment went on to attract a lot of The lawsuit against Bachchan on, according to AFP. called the Master's Poem from ace." by the group has been filed for heat, but Lekhi came to his rescue, Although Buyuksarac works weekly Turkish satirical magazine The court is due to decide citing an old interview with Moth- instigating the genocidal violence as an industrial designer and writ- Uykusuz. whether to start full legal proceed- against the Sikh community by er Teresa, where she had said her er now, she still remains popular "I shared it because it was fun- ings against the model and a trial. job was to bring people to the fold raising blood for blood slogans in of Christianity. 1984 , a press release here said. Read: Indian archbishop slams Bachchan s manager in the RSS chief over Mother Teresa Hollywood, David Unger, was conversion claim served with a copy of the Federal Infuriated by Lekhi s com- Court summons and complaint by ments, Mirza expressed her revul- the plaintiff, the human rights sion over the comments on Twit- group Sikhs For Justice . Mr ter. Shame on you #MeenakshiLe- Unger is a known talent agent and khi. You contort personal faith/ co-owner of Three Six Zero En- Mekaal Hasan Band to perform at work to validate a statement that tertainment group. He represents should be condemned. #MotherT- leading artists from US, UK, SXSW music festival in March eresa. She followed this with an- France, India, China, and Russia. other tweet, which read, Actual- As per the Federal Rules of The revamped Mekaal Hasan tive and music festivals which start- ly, you know what? I am ashamed. Civil Procedure, Bachchan has 21 Band (MHB) will showcase its ed in 1987 and includes conferenc- Of our thoughts, our actions and days after the service of summons fusion of classical and contempo- es. our words. #MotherTeresa. to respond to the charges of hu- rary music at the South by South- MHB is famous for its fusion Since the controversy broke man rights violations. If you failed west (SXSW) festival in Austin, of melodies between the folk, clas- out, #RSSQuestionsTeresa began to respond, judgment by default Texas next month. sical and sufi traditions of the East trending on Twitter, with a multi- will be entered against you for re- In what is arguably one of the and the harmonic sophistication of tude of negative comments direct- lief demanded in the complaint, biggest music festivals in the world jazz with the power of rock as liked ed at Mirza. Responding to the warns the Federal Court summons. and has been headlined in the past by the West. criticism, she tweeted, The trolls Bachchan has till March 17 to re- by artists such as Lady Gaga, The band recently revamped are out and hard at work. She then spond to the charges of human MHB will perform on March 18 itself, absorbing Indian musicians posted about her interreligious rights violations. and 19 as per the schedule. and making it a one of a kind cross- background, saying, My father SXSW is a set of film, interac- border band. was Catholic, my mother is a Ben- gali, I was raised by my Muslim stepfather and I m married to a Hindu. I am Indian. Other people have also jumped to the defence of Mother Teresa and her legacy, such as Chief Min- ister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, according to The Hindu. Voicing his stance on the matter, he tweet- ed, I worked with Mother Teresa for a few months at Nirmal Hri- day ashram in Kolkata. She was a Madonna tumbles as Ed Sheeran, Sam noble soul. Please spare her. Indian political party Shiv Smith score double Brit Award wins Sena has endorsed Bhagwat s com- ments, stating he has only spoken LONDON: British singers Ed Song of the Year at the Grammys the bitter truth. Mother Tere- Sheeran and Sam Smith took two in Los Angeles earlier this month. sa s real motive was to convert prizes each at a glittering Brit Rap star Kanye West was people to Christianity Conver- Awards on Wednesday marred by welcomed to the stage by his wife, sions are a business for missionar- a mishap that saw Madonna television personality Kim Kar- ies, the Sena said in an editorial, dragged to the ground by her cape. dashian wearing a net-fronted black NDTV reported. Sheeran won British male solo outfit, before he performed in front artist and album of the year for of a billowing tower of flame. x , while 22-year-old Londoner But the showcase of his new Tyga denies romance rumours with Kylie again Smith won British breakthrough track All Day caused confusion LOS ANGELES: Rapper Tyga has person in my life. could change that, how I feel for act and global success award after among television viewers at home dismissed rumours of romance The host asked Tyga: What her as a person. Being the great his debut album In the Lonely as much of it was muted in an at- with reality TV star Kylie Jenner. do you want the people out there person she is, she s just a good Hour won worldwide acclaim. tempt by broadcaster ITV to si- Speaking on 92.3 AMP Radio to know from that and make sense person, she s got great energy. This is incredible, I really lence its repeated use of the N- Monday the Hookah rapper was of it? We ve got a group of friends, didn t expect this, Smith told the word. asked about his relationship with Tyga replied: Whether if I tell we ve been hanging out for the long- crowd, while Sheeran called it a British television actress Het- Kylie, after Kanye West seeming- the world that I love her or I don t, est (time) I ve been knowing her great night for British music that ti Bywater responded by tweet- ly confirmed it during a recent in- it s going to be me to dictate that, and her family for six, seven years, defied those who said selling ing Kanye, can you please stop terview, reports eonline.com. and how I want to keep my friend- so it s all love there, and we re go- records is dead . my TV from muting and just stop Read: Kylie Jenner, Tyga are ship and relationship with her. ing to continue to grow. As pop veteran Madonna took with the offensive language, in love: Kanye West Because I feel like it doesn t mat- The host went on to ask if the to the stage flanked by muscled cheers . Tyga recently took to photo- ter what the world thinks. rapper loved Kylie, to which he sharing website Instagram to post If you love somebody and replied: I love her as a person, for male dancers wearing horns, her Pop veterans Take That also an image featuring Kylie, and cap- you love being around that per- sure I don t think it really mat- long black cape got caught and performed at the event, along with tioned it: Your beauty never goes son, that s all that matters. I don t ters If you love being around dragged her down a set of stage rock duo Royal Blood, who re- unnoticed. One of the best/dopest feel like what anybody could say somebody, that s all that matters. steps in a dramatic fall. vealed they had formed in 2013 But the 56-year-old gamely just for fun as they accepted the shrugged off the mishap, remov- award for British group. ing the cape and giving a stomping Best British single went to performance of Living for Love Mark Ronson for Uptown a retort to a menopause joke Funk , and the DJ paid tribute to about her from comic Jimmy Carr the hit s Hawaiian singer Bruno that drew jeers earlier in the night. Mars as he accepted the gong, tell- The ceremony kicked off with ing the crowd I don t get to stand a pitch-perfect rendition of Blank up on these stages that often . Space by country music sweet- London singer Paloma Faith heart turned pop sensation Taylor made an emotional speech as she Swift, who won the international accepted the award for British fe- female solo artist award. male solo artist, saying it had tak- I ve been coming to England en 14 years to achieve and dedi- and playing shows for eight years and this is my first award. I m so cating it to all the underdogs and happy, Swift said as she accept- all the grafters that work bloody ed the prize Britain s version hard . of a Grammy. World-conquering British- She paid tribute to Sheeran, Irish boy band One Direction saying Honestly I know I scooped British artist video of the wouldn t be up here if it wasn t year for You & I , filmed on a for one of my best friends who windswept ocean pier, a prize ac- took me to pubs and taught me to cepted by producer Simon Cowell make a good cup of tea and taught on their behalf. me everything I know about the US singer-songwriter Pharrell UK. Williams hit Happy rang out as Smith, who had led nomina- he was named international male tions on the night, gave a soulful solo artist, and he sent his thanks performance of his runaway hit in a video message telling the crowd Stay with Me , which was named it means the world . This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES fghanistan create history with McIlroy: I want to be No. 1 for as long as I can first World Cup w Rory McIlroy has every intention forward, put their hand up and win you re obviously going to be con- of being the top-ranked player in the big tournaments. Yeah, this is fident going into tournaments." the world for a long time. the position I want to be in, and I Not only is McIlroy by far the McIlroy, who enjoys a sizable want to be in it as long as I can. best player on the planet right now, edge over Bubba Watson, the No. The Ulsterman, who won two but he has a great track record at 2 player in the Official World Golf seasons last year, is riding a hot PGA National. McIlroy was a Ranking, makes his 2015 U.S. de- streak, having finished no worse winner on the Champion course in but on Thursday in The Honda than second in his last eight Euro- 2012 and a playoff runner-up last Classic, played in his adopted pean Tour starts dating back to year. American hometown. Entering his 2014. He's already won this year However, he had an embar- 31st consecutive week at No. 1 in at the Dubai Desert Classic and rassing incident in this event in the world, McIlroy is precisely finished second to start his year at 2013, pulling out after eight holes where he wants to be in his career. the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Cham- in the second round with a phan- It's what I've always wanted pionship. Though he hasn't played tom dental problem. McIlroy has to do," he said. "I would be wast- in three weeks, he's not concerned come so far since then, and he views ing my time if I was out there prac- about a layoff. that time as part of a learning curve ticing as much as I do, and putting People talk about momentum he's long past. as much into it, if I didn't want to and talk about sort of riding it, but I m in a great position and I be in this position. And wasting I think momentum and confidence feel like I handle the position I m the people's time around me, as are two very similar things in golf," in a lot better than I did a couple of well, that helped me get to this he said Wednesday. "If you re con- years ago, said McIlroy. I ve got point. fident and you ve had good per- more experience at it. I ve spent Of course I want to be that formances, that confidence seems well over a year of my career at guy. I said it last year. Golf is wait- to carry on; and if you re happy world No. 1, so I m pretty used to ing for someone like that to step with how practice goes, then it by now."

Samiullah Shenwari produced a tury. He belted three sixes off Ma- to spark delirious celebrations land for 210 on the final ball of the brilliant rearguard action to guide jid Haq in the 47th over to get to among the team and a small group innings. Scorecard: Afghanistan to their first World 96 runs before he was caught in of Afghanistan fans. Earlier, Af- Scotland 210 all out in 50 Cup victory with a dramatic one- the deep attempting his fourth. ghanistan's pace bowlers, ably overs (Machan 31, Zadran 4-38) wicket win over Scotland in their Shapoor and Hassan got their supported by Nabi's gentle off- Afghanistan 211-9 in 49.3 Pool A clash in Dunedin. side home, however, Shapoor hit- spin, probably felt they had done overs (Shenwari 96, Berrington 4- Shenwari, who had been posi- ting the winning runs with a four enough when they dismissed Scot- 40) tively pedestrian for his first 40 runs, was dismissed for 96 after taking charge of his side's chase to 211 runs for the victory at Uni- versity Oval. The 28-year-old was dis- missed with 19 runs still required from 19 balls but last pairing of Shapoor Zadran and Hamid Has- san managed to get their side to the target with three balls to spare. Richie Berrington and Josh Davey had ripped through the middle of Afghanistan's order to reduce them from 85 for two in the 19th over to 97 for seven in the 24th. Collapse Mohammad Nabi's side had been well placed to chase down Scotland's 210 all out with Javed Ahmadi well set on 51 before Ber- rington and Davey struck with five wickets for 12 runs between them. Shenwari, however, managed to farm most of the strike in a 35- run partnership with Dawlat Zadran and 60-run stand with Ha- mid Hassan and threatened to get his side home with a maiden cen- Shaun King s mock draft 1.0: QB Federer rallies to reach Dubai Marcus Mariota falls to Bears quarters, Djokovic through Now that the Senior Bowl and To give Blake Bortles a chance to Rory McIlroy watches his tee shot on the 14th hole during the Honda Classic golf scouting combine are complete, it's succeed, the Jags have to protect time to get serious about the 2015 him. Pairing Peat with Luke Jo- tournament in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. NFL draft. Teams now have game eckel gives them two young tack- tape, measurements, medicals and les to build around. in-person interviews to help ad- 4. Oakland Raiders Why Ronda Rousey-Cat Zingano is the just their draft boards. Needs: CB, pass rusher, WR NFL free agency begins on The pick: Dante Fowler Jr. March 10 and that can alter draft (DE, Florida) Oakland had only biggest fight of Rousey s career boards heading into the last week 22 sacks last season, tied for sec- of April. This mock draft is large- ond to last in the league. Fowler is On Saturday at Staples Center, for Souza and Yoel Romero was no. ly based on what I feel each teams' the best among the defensive line- only the third time in UFC histo- switched off when Souza got pneu- When Rousey began, her needs are pre-free agency. This men after Williams. He can play ry, two unbeaten fighters will meet monia. coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, spoke mock doesn't include trades, but I multiple positions and plays in a for the world title. That left Rousey-Zingano at glowingly of her potential. Before expect a lot of movement come violent manner. This is a deep wide Ronda Rousey (10-0, 10 fin- the top of a far thinner card in her first UFC fight a match at draft night. receiver class, so the Raiders can ishes) will defend the women's terms of big names. And yet, the UFC 157 against Liz Carmouche 1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers add one in the later rounds who bantamweight title in the main celebrities are still coming in, which that came amid great hype and fan- Needs: OL, pass rusher, QB can help Derek Carr in his second event of UFC 184 against Cat Zin- in White's eyes is recognition of fare Tarverdyan told Yahoo The pick: Jameis Winston season. gano (9-0, eight finishes). Rousey's stardom. Sports he felt Rousey's boxing had (QB, Florida State) The Bucs 5. Washington Redskins The only other championship "She's the headliner," White progressed so much that she was don't need to over-think this pick. Needs: DB, OT, pass rusher Defending champion Roger Fed- Third-seeded Andy Murray bouts in UFC history were Rashad said of Rousey. "She's the one capable of winning a gold medal in They have a glaring need at QB The pick: Brandon Scherff erer stormed back from 4-1 down also moved into the quarterfinals Evans-Lyoto Machida for the light who's getting pushed. She's the that sport if she focused on it. and Winston is the top one avail- (OT, Iowa) This is another team in the first set to beat Fernando with a swift 6-0, 6-2 win over Joao heavyweight title at UFC 98 in champion. She's the star. She's at She stopped McMann with a able. He's the best football player I can see moving down from this Verdasco 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday Sousa that only took 57 minutes. 2009 and Rousey-Sara McMann such a high level that other celebri- knee to the midsection last Febru- in this draft. spot. If the Redskins stay put, and claim a spot in the quarterfi- Berdych was tested through- at UFC 170 last year. ties recognize that, but it also has ary for her first finish other than 2. Tennessee Titans they'll be a lot like Jacksonville in nals of the Dubai Championships. out the first two sets of the 2 hour, The Rousey-Zingano fight will to do with the fight. an arm bar and pummeled Alexis Needs: Pass rusher, CB, RB needing to protect their young QB Trailing 4-1, Federer delighted 24 minute match before dominat- attract a horde of celebrities who "It's a tough, legit fight. Cat Davis in just 16 seconds at UFC The pick: Leonard Williams in order to fairly evaluate him. the packed stadium by winning 20 ing in the final set. are coming out to watch what could Zingano is probably the greatest 175 on July 5. Zingano, who lost a (DT, USC) The Titans appear Scherff won't be a flashy pick but consecutive points to take the first Berdych faced a set point be the match that, 10 years from threat to Ronda there is. Do you chance to fight Rousey earlier to believe they can win with Zach he is tough, strong and nasty. They set of the one hour match. against him in the first set tiebreak- now, 25 years from now, 50 years remember that fight she had with when she injured a knee that forced Mettenberger at QB. So the selec- can play him at either guard spot ''I didn't even know that hap- er before Bolelli sailed a backhand from now, is the one that all other Amanda Nunes, where she got her her to pull out of a coaching stint tion here is Williams, the safest or opposite Trent Williams at right pened until someone told me af- return long on a second set point women's bouts are judged against. in that guillotine and then [su- on "The Ultimate Fighter," said pick in this draft. He can play tackle. The Redskins gave up 58 terwards,'' Federer said of winning for Berdych. Just as major boxing matches plexed her] backward? That kind Rousey's dominance has, in an odd multiple positions along the defen- sacks last season, second worst in five games in a row without losing Bolelli, who had five break are measured by the standard of of raw power and strength that Cat way, helped the division. sive line, is scheme versatile, plays the league last season. a point. ''I look back, it's quite a lot points in all in the second set, took Muhammad Ali (31-0, 25 KOs) Zingano has, I've never seen in the "She's great for the sport and with a tremendous motor and still 6. New York Jets of points in a row and it might be advantage of a second set point on against Joe Frazier (26-0, 23 KOs) women's division." for women's MMA," Zingano said has room to get better. Needs: CB, OT, WR the only time it's ever happened Berdych's serve in the 12th game on March 8, 1971, it's possible that Rousey, who at 28 seems to of Rousey. "What she's done is that 3. Jacksonville Jaguars The pick: Amari Cooper (WR, for me. with a forehand crosscourt win- future women's MMA fights will Needs: CB, OT, RB Alabama) Geno Smith has been ''Fernando is a shotmaker and ner. be judged against Rousey-Zinga- The pick: Andrus Peat (OT, inconsistent by all measures, but he takes it out of your racket some- ''It was a tough day at the of- no. Stanford) It won't be a surpise he has shown in spurts the tools times.'' fice,'' Berdych said. ''The matches UFC president Dana White, to see the Jaguars move out of this needed to be a top-level NFL QB. In all, Federer won six of his where you have to fight a bit are who frequently raves about Rou- spot as third is a little high for Peat, Chan Gailey is a much better fit nine service games at love. He lost more generous for the experience.'' sey, is nearly as effusive in his but Jacksonville finished first in for Smith than Marty Mornhin- two of his other three service Murray has won all 12 sets in praise of Zingano. He said that the NFL in most sacks allowed in weg as offensive coordinator. games. the five matches he's played among the celebrities expected to 2014 with 71. That's 13 more than Here, the Jets finally get their QB Top-seeded Novak Djokovic against Sousa. attend are Jennifer Lopez; Demi Washington, the next worst team. an elite option at WR. also only needed one hour to move ''Today, I thought I just picked Lovato; Will Smith and his wife, into the quarterfinals with a 6-1, the right shots and played the right Jada Pinkett Smith; Mark Wahl- 6-2 win over Andrey Golubev. way when he was struggling,'' berg; Maria Shriver; Ed Norton; Djokovic never offered Gol- Murray said. ''I didn't give him any Mandy Moore; Vin Diesel; Charl- ubev a break point opportunity and free points. ize Theron; Anthony Kiedis; only gave up 11 points in eight ''He was getting more frustrat- Kellan Lutz; Schoolboy Q and service games. ed because he couldn't get any free Travis Barker, among others. ''Having one match under my points and then was going for more "A lot of celebrities we don't belt before today's encounter and more shots and obviously normally get," White said. helped to feel a bit more comfort- making more errors because of it.'' The card at one time looked as able to move around on the court Qualifier Marsel Ilhan upset if it might be the most loaded of be hitting her athletic prime, in- she's made all of us work harder quicker,'' Djokovic said. sixth-seeded Feliciano Lopez 3-6, the year. The main event was sup- sists she's ready to raise her game and improve our games so we can Tomas Berdych became the 7-5, 6-3. posed to feature a middleweight to another level. Her history would get to that level. I have nothing but eighth active player on the ATP Lucky loser Borna Coric end- title bout between Chris Weidman suggest it's tough to bet against her, respect for her. Tour to post 500 career wins when ed up with a win when at 6-4, 3-6, and No. 1 contender Vitor Belfort, given the way she's added to her "But I also feel like I am the he beat Simone Bolelli 7-6 (7), 5- 6-6 and 4-4 in the third set tie- but Weidman injured a rib and the game virtually for every bout. one to do this. Everybody talks 7, 6-0. breaker Marcos Bagdhatis retired fight was moved to May 23. One of the marks of the great- about the arm bar and this and that, ''It feels great,'' Berdych said. from the match because of cramp. Rousey-Zingano moved up to est athletes in any sport is that but I bring things to the table, too, ''I need to make sure I keep my Elsewhere, seventh-seeded be the main event. But the Frank they perform their best when the that she has to worry about." body fresh so I can make another Roberto Bautista Agut was upset Mir-Antonio Silva fight was stakes are highest. The bout could, in many 500. I just am going to try to keep by Richard Gasquet 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 moved off the show to become the It doesn't get much bigger than ways, be a battle between Rou- adding to it and play as long as I (6), and Sergiy Stakhovsky defeat- main event of the card earlier this facing another unbeaten opponent, sey's judo throws and Zingano's can.'' ed Denis Istomin 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. week in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and a particularly one who is as strong, wrestling, as well as a battle of fascinating match between Jacare powerful and aggressive as Zinga- vastly different striking styles. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . FEBRUARY 27. 2015 -Hoot 08, 1393 H.S Vol:IX Issue No:205 Price: Afs.15

Electricity crisis Thirty abducted will be resolved US officials question Netanyahu s judgement men released by within three United States officials have ques- "The president has said the extending an invitation, and Obama have given up on this commitment. the president of the United States ISIL in Iraq tioned Israeli Prime Minister Ben- relationship between the US and said he would not meet Netanyahu He said the deal apparently but on such a fateful matter, that years: Sharif jamin Netanyahu's judgement and Israel can't just be reduced to a re- because it would be so close to coming together with Iran would can determine whether or not we Thirty men captured by ISIL fight- said his outspoken condemnation lationship between the Republican March 17 Israeli elections. allow the country that has in the survive, I must do everything to ers near Tikrit in Iraq have been KARACHI: In a bid to woo for- of efforts to secure an Iranian nu- party and the Likud party," he told Netanyahu said in a speech in past threatened to destroy Israel prevent such a great danger for Is- released, an influential sheikh said, eign investment, Prime Minister clear deal had injected destructive reporters, referring to Netanyahu's a Jewish settlement near Jerusa- to develop the means to create fis- rael," Netanyahu said. a day after news broke that more Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said partisanship into US-Israeli rela- party. The Republicans did not lem that world powers had pledged sile material to produce many nu- Iran says its nuclear pro- than 100 men and boys had been that the economic environment tions. consult Obama or Democrats in to prevent Iran from acquiring nu- clear weapons. gramme is only for peaceful pur- kidnapped. in the country is improving. He In an escalation of hostile ex- Congress, as is customary before clear weapons but appeared to "I respect the White House and poses. ISIL fighters reportedly cap- also said the prevailing electrici- changes between the allies six days tured 118 men and nine boys on ty crisis will be resolved by the before Netanyahu gives a speech Sunday from Rubaidha village, east end of his government's term. to Congress on the threat from Iran, of Tikrit, and then released 21 of While launching the ninth the Israeli leader accused world the men - leaving 97 men and nine edition of the Expo Pakistan powers of abandoning a pledge to boys still in captivity. 2015 Sharif painted an encour- prevent Tehran from getting a nu- aging picture of the country's Anwar Assi al-Obeidi told Al economy and told the partici- clear bomb. Jazeera on Thursday that an addi- pants of the biggest trade fair in US Secretary of State John tional 30 men had now been re- Pakistan that, Those who want Kerry, engaged in international leased. to set up industries in the coun- talks with Tehran on its nuclear It was not immediately clear if try now is the time, within the programme, said on Wednesday the captured children, aged nine next three years Pakistan will that Netanyahu may be wrong. and 10, were among those set free. overcome its energy crises. Kerry told a congressional hear- The sheikh said because phone Addressing the participants ing: "He may have a judgement that networks had been cut off in the of the event, comprising Chinese, just may not be correct here". area, he had not yet been able to German and Arab guests along Kerry advised waiting to hear gather details about how the re- with local businessmen, Sharif what Netanyahu had to say in leased men had been treated or what said that, There will be ample Tuesday's speech. Republicans had happened to the dozens of re- electricity available to industrial who control Congress invited Net- maining tribesmen still being held and household owners. Our goal anyahu and agree with his opposi- captive. is not only to provide electricity tion to an Iran deal. On Wednesday, the sheikh said but also to lower the cost of its But Kerry said Netanyahu that most of those captured have production. "was profoundly forward-leaning For this purpose we have relatives fighting against ISIL and decided to set up liquefied natu- and outspoken about the impor- that 600 members of the al-Obeid ral gas (LNG) based power gen- tance of invading Iraq under George tribe, where he is the paramount erating projects. The money for W Bush, and we all know what sheikh, have been killed by ISIL these projects will be provided happened with that decision". fighters since June. from the Public Sector Develop- White House spokesman Josh News of the kidnapping came ment Programme (PSDP). We Earnest, echoing comments by a day after ISIL fighters reported- won t take any chances, the President Barack Obama's nation- ly captured at least 70 Assyrian premier said. al security adviser Susan Rice, Christians in Hassakeh province He further said, We are set- warned against allowing the US- in northeast Syria. ting power producing units with Israeli relationship to be reduced A new UN report released this the help of China and by the end to a party political issue, saying week documented widespread hu- of 2017 and construction in this this would be destructive. man rights violations committed regard has already started. 3,700 by ISIL in Iraq between Septem- megwatts would have been add- ber and December last year. ed to the grid. The project would US says far more Syrians ready to fight ISIS All issues to be discussed with Indian "Members of Iraq's diverse be funded from the government ethnic and religious communities, kitty, we are not depending on The number of moderate Syrian and Syria. The United States on Wednes- foreign secretary: Pak s FO including Turkmen, Shabaks, private sector or bank loans. fighters ready to fight Islamic State Allen testified to the Senate day also strongly condemned Christians, Yazidi, Sabaeans, The premier said that the of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants Foreign Relations Committee as attacks on Assyrian Christian vil- Kaka'e, Faili Kurds, Arab Shia, and government was working very is more than U.S. officials had ex- lawmakers began considering lages in northeastern Syria and the others have been intentionally and hard in this regard and more elec- pected, the White House s special Obama s request for a formal three- abduction of civilians. systematically targeted by ISIL tricity and power has been add- envoy for the campaign against the year authorization for the cam- Christian Syrian activists said and associated armed groups and ed to the system. group said on Wednesday. paign against ISIS. Tuesday that ISIS has abducted at subjected to gross human rights Energy resources are not The numbers are much high- The measure is expected to least 150 people from these villag- available as per need for which abuses," the report said. we are unable to deliver our or- er than we thought, and it has been face difficulty in Congress, where es. The abductions in Syria follow ders to foreign customers but the very encouraging. We ve had an many Democrats worry it will lead advances by Kurdish forces against US, Iran have crises will be resolved soon. We encouraging sense that there is an to another long engagement by U.S. ISIS in parts of the northeast near are trying to raise the country s interest in this, retired General combat troops in the Middle East the Iraqi border, an area of vital mutual interest in outlook from negative to posi- John Allen, President Barack and Republicans are concerned it importance to the group as one of tive, Sharif said. Obama s envoy to the anti-IS[IS] does not give commanders enough the bridges between land it con- fighting ISIS: Kerry He added, We are happy coalition, told a U.S. Senate com- flexibility to defeat ISIS. trols in Iraq and Syria. that we are on the right track to- mittee. Meanwhile, Kurdish militia They want to show them- The United States and Iran have a wards progress and develop- U.S. officials have said they pressed an offensive against ISIS selves strong, playing on the reli- "mutual interest" in defeating the ment. We are planning to set up plan to train about 5,000 Syrian in northeast Syria on Wednesday, gion string, at a time when they Islamic State of Iraq and Syria more industrial projects in the fighters per year for three years at cutting one of its supply lines from are being hit hard, said Rami Ab- group but the long-time foes are country within next 25 years. sites outside Syria as part of the Iraq, as fears mounted for dozens dulrahman, who runs the British- not cooperating to do so, Secre- Sharif said that his govern- campaign to stop ISIS, which has of Christians abducted by the hard- based Observatory, speaking by ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Kerry last month appealed to both tary of State John Kerry said. ment was making special efforts seized swathes of territory in Iraq line group. telephone. Thursday it would discuss all dis- nations to resume the talks, say- "They are totally opposed to to make Pakistan a prosperous ISIL and they are in fact taking on country. putes with Indian Foreign Secre- ing Washington was deeply con- and fighting and eliminating ISIL He said that the country s tary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar cerned about a surge in violence members along the Iraqi border near exports for the year 2013-2014 when he visits Pakistan between on the border in Kashmir. Iran and have serious concerns stood at $25bn and added that, March 3rd and 4th. Take a look: India calls off for- about what that would do to the We hope exports will reach "Kashmir, Siachin, Sir Creek eign secretary level talks with Pa- region," Kerry told lawmakers, re- $50bn in the next three years as and other issues would be dis- kistan ferring to ISIS by another acronym. the situation in the country im- cussed with the Indian foreign sec- Exchanges of fire across their "So we have at least a mutual proves day by day. retary," said Foreign Office de facto border and undisputed interest, if not a cooperative ef- The premier said that, The spokesperson Tasneem Aslam at border further south have killed fort." Kerry, who has been pivotal country s textile policy has been the the weekly media briefing. more than two dozen civilians and to Washington's drive to strike a reviewed and exports in the tex- "We welcome this Indian ini- forced thousands to flee their deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambi- tile sector will increase from tiative," she added. homes on both sides. tions, said the United States had $13bn annually to $26bn annu- Pakistan and India, who have Given the tension between the not asked Tehran to get involved ally by the year 2019. in the fight against the ISIS group. fought two of their three wars over two nations at the LoC in Kash- Since last year, the Sunni ex- He said that the government disputed Muslim-majority Kash- mir, and the cancellation of a sim- will provide all facilities to reach tremist group has waged a brutal mir, have traded blame for an up- ilar previously scheduled meeting, offensive in Iraq and Syria, grab- the intended economic goals and surge in firing and shelling which the upcoming talks will be signifi- added that, Pakistan s textile in- bing land and carrying out execu- dustry holds a prestigious posi- started in October last year. cant in defining the relations be- tions and forced religious conver- tion in the global market espe- US Secretary of State John tween the two neighbours. sions. cially in household apparels like bedsheets, jeans etc. He also said that the rice in- Argentinian French lawmakers meet Assad; Paris dustry in the country operates on standards of international lev- MPs vote to DISTANCES ITSELF FROM MEETING el. PARIS: Four French lawmakers ficial message . Sharif termed the event as an create new spy opportunity for traders and to Bahrain court sentences 3 to death over police killings met Syrian President Bashar al- We suspected that Bashar introduce their products to the Assad on Wednesday during a pri- would roll out the red carpet, it world and show case it in the A Bahraini court has sentenced responsibility for the explosion, Scores of Bahrainis have also agency vate trip to the war-torn country, benefits his strategy of re-legiti- global markets. three people to death and seven which occurred as Bahraini troops been killed and hundreds of others despite a breakdown in diplomat- misation , said a diplomatic source, Argentinian politicians have vot- ic ties between Paris and Dam- who wished to remain anonymous. Similarly he said foreign others to life in prison after con- attacked the mourners of an anti- injured and arrested in the ongoing ed to create a new intelligence ser- buyers can avail the opportuni- victing them of allegedly killing regime activist, who had died in crackdown on peaceful demon- ascus. Myard said the trip was a ty created by this expo to seek vice after the government said a The French government, personal mission to see what is three policemen in a village near prison a few days ago. strations. renegade spy was linked to the the products as per their require- the capital, Manama, last year, Since mid-February 2011, A recent report by Human which supports the moderate Syr- going on, to hear, listen . The four ments. death of a star prosecutor. ian opposition and wants Assad MPs and senators, who hail from Bahrain s main opposition group thousands of anti-regime protest- Rights Watch said Bahraini courts Members of Argentina's Con- Deals can be reached be- says. ers have held numerous demon- have become more active in sus- to leave power, was quick to clar- both the left and the right, belong tween the buyers and the Paki- gress voted 131-71 in favour of the ify that the lawmakers were there to France-Syria parliamentary According to a tweet by the strations on the streets of Bahr- taining repression in the country. government's bill to replace the SI stani [producers on good terms al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, ain, calling for the Al Khalifa fam- in no official capacity. friendship groups. One of the MPs which are in the interests of the Intelligence Secretariat with a new But four years of bloody con- is a member of President Francois the supreme criminal court also ily to relinquish power. service to be called the Federal In- country and nation, he said. revoked the Bahraini citizenship Bahraini courts have sentenced flict, the repeated failure of diplo- Hollande s ruling Socialist party. Prime Minister Sharif said telligence Agency. The Senate ap- macy and the eruption of the Is- A Syrian governmental source that implementation on the South of eight defendants. more than 200 activists to long- proved the bill earlier this month. On March 3, three police of- term prison sentences on charges State investigator Alberto Nis- lamic State group have undermined said the lawmakers were also due Asia Free Trade Agreement France s standpoint as more and to meet Foreign Minister Walid (SAFTA) is underway from ficers, one from the United Arab of alleged involvement in terrorist man was found with a bullet in his which all South Asian Associa- Emirates (UAE), were killed in a activities and acting against nation- head and gun by his side on Janu- more countries consider re-engag- Muallem on Wednesday. tion of Regional Cooperation bomb attack in Daih village near al security. At least 70 activists ary 18, four days after accusing ing with Assad s regime. France severed diplomatic ties (SAARC) countries are reaping the Bahraini capital. have received life imprisonment President Cristina Fernandez de We met Bashar al-Assad for with Syria in 2012, along with Brit- benefits. However, no group claimed since the uprising began in 2011. Kirchner of trying to cover up a good hour. It went very well, ain, Italy, Germany and Spain, as Iran's alleged role in the 1994 bomb- Jacques Myard, an MP from the what started as a pro-democracy ing of a Jewish community centre conservative opposition UMP protest seeking Assad s ouster in in Buenos Aires. The mysterious party, said in a telephone inter- March 2011 morphed into a full- China has more submarines than US: Pentagon death shocked the country and has view. He refused to reveal the con- blown war. tent of the talks, but Syrian state According to the Syrian Ob- China now has more diesel- and subcommittee. has begun a major push to main- military alliances and sending more highlighted long-standing worries nuclear-powered submarines than "We know they are out exper- tain US military technology dom- ships, planes, and troops to the about Argentina's intelligence ser- the United States, although their imenting and looking at operating inance amid rapid advances by region. Military spending world- vices. Kirchner has said counter- quality is still inferior, according and clearly want to be in this world China and Russia. wide amounts to $1.75 trillion and intelligence chief Antonio Stiuso to the top US Navy admiral. of advanced submarines," he said. This is while China says the Washington is responsible for more manipulated Nisman into making China is building some "fairly Mulloy did not provide details United States is destabilizing the than one third of all military spend- the allegations against her and was then involved in his death. Stiuso amazing submarines" and the size about the number of submarines Asia-Pacific by strengthening its ing. has also been accused by the gov- of its undersea fleet has surpassed now operated by China. The US ernment of operating a smuggling that of the US fleet, Vice Admiral Navy currently has 71 commis- ring from SI headquarters. television said they had discussed servatory for Human Rights, a Joseph Mulloy, deputy chief of sioned US submarines. Kirchner has said Argentinian the state of Syrian-French rela- Britain-based monitoring group, naval operations for capabilities Mulloy said the quality of intelligence has not evolved since tions, as well as the developments the conflict has left more than and resources, told American law- China's submarines was lower than the deadly role it played in the in the Arab world and Europe, es- 200,000 people dead. makers on Wednesday. those built by the US and does not 1976-83 military dictatorship, and pecially with regard to terrorism . Paris supports the moderate The country is also expanding believe China carried nuclear mis- must become more accountable. RED CARPET: Government Syrian opposition both political- the geographic areas of operation siles on its submarines. Opposition lawmakers have spokesman Stephane Le Foll ly and militarily, and wants to try for its vessels and their length of US military officials have said her bill does nothing to keep stressed it was in no way an offi- and resolve the crisis through ne- deployment, Mulloy told the US grown increasingly concerned in the new agency from committing cial French initiative and the for- gotiations between members of the House of Representatives Armed recent months about China's mili- the same irregularities that took eign ministry said earlier that the opposition and the Syrian regime Services Committee's seapower tary development. The Pentagon place at the SI. lawmakers did not carry any of- -- but without Assad. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.