Three injured in Lahore twin blasts

LAHORE: Three people have been injured in two low-intensity blasts at an electronic market here at Hall Road on Saturday, Geo news reported.

The police have reached the spot where the blasts occurred within an interval of 4 to 5 minutes, sources said.

People present there are being advised by the police to immediately leave the site of the blasts.

The shopkeepers upon hearing the blasts ran away for cover but later came back and closed their shops, sources said.

Power supply was suspended immediately after the blasts at Hall Road, plunging the entire area in darkness.

Helping ‘unprivileged’ lawyers is my responsibility: Babar

ISLAMABAD: Federal Law Minister Babar Awan Saturday said it is his responsibility to help lawyers, calling them ‘an unprivileged lot’.

Reacting to the statement of Nawaz Sharif in which he alleged that Babar Awan is giving away money to lawyers to pit them against the Chief Justice, he said: “I am grateful to Nawaz Sharif for remembering me.”

He said the question of distributing money be put to Shahbaz Sharif, asking him who he (Shahbaz) gave Rs50 million to.

“My visits to bar associations are not being made covertly …. the Prime Minster has directed me to work more fore the lawyers,” Babar Awan clarified, adding, the money given to the bar associations does not land in any individual’s pocket.

He said he undertakes visits to the bar associations out in the open and extend grants openly. “It is my desire to make more such visits and do a lot more for the lawyers fraternity,” he said.

McChrystal out; Petraeus picked for Afghanistan

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama ousted General Stanley McChrystal as the top US commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying that his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermine civilian control of the military.

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McChrystal says resigned for good of mission

KABUL: General Stanley McChrystal says he tendered his resignation out of his desire to see the mission in Afghanistan succeed.

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My Super Psycho Sweet Sixteen

My Super Psycho Sweet Sixteen, You’re all familiar with the MTV show “My Super Sweet 16,” right? Just as the macabre, horror, Halloween-themed spin-off film, “My Super Sweet 16 Psycho”? In fact, premieres tonight, Friday, October 23rd at 10 pm ET / PT and the premise is simple: Madison Penrose (Julianna Guill) gets everything he wants, as his desire to reopen the desolate for Rollerdome quinceañera.

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My Super Psycho Sweet Sixteen was first posted on October 24, 2009 at 11:21 am.