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News Package – Migrants Day

News Package – Migrants Day

Today is the 8th international migrants day. Unum Muneer visits camp Jadid to take a closer look at the lives of Afghan Migrants.

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News Package – Migrants Day

The U.S. Metros Least Touched by Recession (BusinessWeek)

In a photo made Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, a 'sold' sign is shown in front of a home in Carmel, Ind.  With homebuyers rushing to complete their purchases before a tax credit for first-time owners expires, a report Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 is expected to show strong September sales. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)BusinessWeek – America’s strongest economies have one thing in common — home prices that never got too hot or too cold.


Lifetime free flights for baby born on plane (AFP)

A baby boy who made a surprise arrival on board an AirAsia flight this week will be given free flights for life with the budget carrier, as will his mother, the airline said Friday. A 31-year-old passenger went into labour on Wednesday's flight from the northern island of Penang to Kuching on Borneo island.(AFP/File)AFP – A baby boy who made a surprise arrival on board an AirAsia flight this week will be given free flights for life with the budget carrier, as will his mother, the airline said Friday.


Younus ready to lead Pakistan again

Pakistan skipper Younus Khan on Tuesday said he was ready to lead the team again after the country’s cricket chief rejected his resignation, saying he had been heartened by shows of support. “I am very happy right now. The faith that the chairman and the board has placed in me…



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SC summons report on POL prices

A three-member bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday summoned report about the petroleum prices. A three-member bench consisting of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Jawwad S Khawaja hearing two identical petitions about petroleum prices filed by Pakistan People’s Party Senator Rukhsana Zuberi and Pakistan…



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COAS objects to US/Nato closure of checkposts

ISLAMABAD – Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Monday lodged a protest with visiting US Centcom Chief Gen David Petraeus over removing scores of security checkposts on Afghanistan side of Pak-Afghan border fearing it could encourage terrorists’ penetration into Pakistan.
Well-placed sources told TheNation that Chief of the…



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Drinking Your Way to Health? Perhaps Not (HealthDay)

A waiter serves a glass of red wine from Spain during a tasting session at Vinexpo Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong in this May 28, 2008 file photo REUTERS/Victor Fraile/FilesHealthDay – SUNDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) — Just about every month — if
not every week — a new study emerges touting the health benefits to be
gained from a daily glass of wine or a pint of dark beer.


US encouraged by Afghan events

Oct. 19 – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was encouraged by the direction of events in Afghanistan and expects President Hamid Karzai to unveil plans on Tuesday.

Virginia governor race a snapshot of US attitudes (AP)

Cary Koppie, seen outside a hardware store in Purcellville, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, talks about the Virginia gubernatorial contest between Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat R. Creigh Deeds.  Koppie, a one-man mowing company, is so angry he says he may sit out this election. 'They're all a bunch of liars,' he said. 'You don't know who the heck to vote for anymore.' (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP – Just a year after this one-time Confederate state helped elect a black man president, Democrats are desperately trying to hang onto the governorship.


Battle intensifies as Taliban retake Pakistani town (Reuters)

A boy carries a rooster as he walks while a girl runs behind near a checkpoint along the road leading from South Waziristan to Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province October 19, 2009. Pakistani forces backed by artillery attacked Taliban insurgents on Monday as the army moved to wrest control of militant strongholds in a lawless region on the Afghan border. The fighting is a new test of the government's determination to tackle an increasingly brazen insurgency that has seen a string of attacks in different parts of the country, including an assault on army headquarters, in which more than 150 people were killed. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodReuters – Taliban militants attacked Pakistani forces and recaptured a strategic town on Tuesday while two suicide bomb blasts at an Islamic university in the capital killed four people and wounded at least 20, officials said.


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