Hours long power cuts from today: KESC

KARACHI: Given the pretext of shortage of natural gas, Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has announced to observe 10-hour long power outages in Karachi from today, TrendPK reported Sunday.

Meanwhile, Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has dismissed KESC’s excuse of suspension of gas supply from the former.

KESC’s spokesperson Ghafran Ata, talking to TrendPK, said SSGC has forcefully shut down valves of the main pipeline used for gas supply to KESC, adding that the former is posing threats to cut complete gas supply to KESC.

However, SSGC spokesman Inayat Ismail, rebuffing the allegations, has said that KESC has commenced a vicious campaign aiming at tarnishing SSGC’s market reputation.

Being wary of complete blackout in Karachi in case of persistence of the issue, KESC’s representative said the company always becomes the prime target whenever there is decline in gas pressure.

Inayat Ismail of SSGC said despite the fact that KESC has to pay off outstanding dues worth 28 billion rupees even then his company is providing KESC gas on regular basis.

Ghafran Ata of KESC said that Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered SSGC to provide KESC with 276 million cusec feet natural gas a day but the order has yet to be obeyed.

SSGC said that the entire energy sector is reeling financial crisis therefore if there is low gas supply for SSGC, so it will result the same for other companies. TrendPK

Kelly Osbourne is a Material Girl

Kelly Osbourne, daughter of Ozzy Osbourne has teamed up with Madonna and her daughter, Lola Leon. Kelly is the face of the new campaign for Madonna and Lola’s label, Material Girl. Kelly says she’s pumped about the project and loves the way it turned out.

“It’s such an honor to be a part of this campaign and it was an amazing experience to work with Madonna and Lola. Material Girl is incredible because it’s high fashion but it’s also accessible to anyone who shops at Macy’s.”

Madonna praised Kelly too;

“Kelly represents a true Material Girl. She is edgy, cool and has a unique sense of style that Lola and I love.”

The campaign was shot by photographer Brooke Nipar and was inspired by New York’s East Village during the ‘80’s.

Riya Sen to endorse Rivaaz Jewellery alongwith cricketer Sreesanth

She is sizzling hot while he is super cool. And when they both collide, the resultant has to be absolutely magical. Well, we are referring to Riya Sen and ace cricketer Sreesanth.

According to trendpk.com’s confirmed sources, Riya Sen is all set to endorse ‘Rivaaz Jewellery’ (a brand by the famous Gitanjali Group) alongwith the cricketing sensation Sreesanth.

The official announcement of the campaign is awaited.

Vargas Llosa to oppose Fujimori for Peru president

LIMA: Peruvian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa said on Monday he would work to stop the daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori from winning next year’s presidential race.

Vargas Llosa said it would be a catastrophe for Peru if Keiko Fujimori, a popular conservative lawmaker, wins the April 10 vote, and said he would rally against her campaign.

“If the daughter of the dictator who was condemned to prison for being a criminal and a thief has the chance of becoming president of Peru, I am going to be one of the Peruvians that will go out and try to stop it with all legal means possible,” he told reporters.

Keiko Fujimori, 34, is one of three front-runners in the race, along with former President Alejandro Toledo and former Lima Mayor Luis Castaneda.

The elder Fujimori was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison for

Lady Gaga, Keys to sign off Twitter for charity

CALIFORNIA: Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga take charity work seriously, and they’re going offline to prove it.

Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher and other celebrities have joined a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice on behalf of Keys’ charity, Keep a Child Alive. The entertainers plan to sign off of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday, which is World AIDS Day. The participants will sign back on when the charity raises $1 million.

“It’s really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on,” Keys said in a phone interview from New York last week.

For the campaign — which also includes Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Keys’ husband, Swizz Beatz — celebrities have filmed “last tweet and testament” videos and will appear in ads showing them lying in

US standoff with Pakistan over nuclear fuel: leaks

NEW YORK: The United States has led top secret efforts to remove highly enriched uranium from Pakistan for years, worried it could be used to make an “illicit” nuclear device, according to leaked US cables.

The New York Times said they were among quarter of a million confidential American diplomatic cables released by whistleblower WikiLeaks in what Pakistan condemned as an “irresponsible disclosure of sensitive official doucments”.

The country’s nuclear arsenal is one of the most sensitive topics for the United States as it tries to improve relations with the conservative Muslim nation on the front line in the campaign against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Parts of Pakistan’s northwest is gripped by a homegrown Taliban insurgency. Its semi-autonomous wild border area with Afghanistan is subject to a covert US drone war targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda

Pakistan rejects US drone campaign growth

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Saturday it would never allow any expansion in the campaign of drone strikes by the United States on its territory.

The Washington Post reported Friday that the US was seeking to expand the areas inside Pakistan where Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unmanned aircraft — used for surveillance and to launch missile strikes — could operate.

“As for the reported suggestion by the US to carry out drone attacks beyond our tribal areas, Pakistan’s position is very clear — we would never allow this to happen,” foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told AFP.

“The Americans should rather revisit their drone attack policy and stop carrying out strikes in our tribal areas.”

Washington has massively ramped up its drone campaign against militants in areas near the Afghan border over the past two months, and argues they are highly

Rousseff extends lead as Brazil runoff vote nears

SAO PAULO:Ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff is pulling ahead in Brazil’s presidential race, gaining momentum as the focus of the campaign shifts away from social issues and back to the economic gains of recent years.

Rousseff extended her lead over opposition challenger Jose Serra to 10 percentage points in a new opinion poll released on Friday. It was the third poll this week to show her gaining ground after a rough few weeks in which a re-energized Serra narrowed the gap.

The survey by polling firm Datafolha showed Rousseff with 50 percent of voter support versus 40 percent for Serra, according to the online edition of Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, which commissioned the poll.

Rousseff, the Workers’ Party candidate who is backed by the hugely popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had 47 percent in the last Datafolha poll on Oct. 15 versus 41

‘CIA says Al-Qaeda in Pakistan hit hard in US attacks’

WASHINGTON: The CIA’s expanding operations in Pakistan have taken “a serious toll” on the Al-Qaeda network, the spy agency director, Leon Panetta, has told US media.

But he said it remained unclear whether the effort had prevented a possible terror plot against European cities, the Los Angeles Times quoted him as saying Tuesday.

Panetta did not specify bombing raids by unmanned aircraft in Pakistan as US officials do not publicly discuss the campaign.

But the CIA missile strikes are an open secret, and US officials privately describe the program as a vital tool in the fight against Al-Qaeda and allied Islamist militants based in northwest Pakistan.

Referring to stepped up operations, Panetta said the effort is “taking a serious toll” on Al-Qaeda’s capabilities, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“The basis for that increased pace is

Watch exclusive movie clips of Rakht Charitra only on Bollywood Hungama

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