CJ warns AG of stern action in missing prisoners’ case
November 12, 2010 by Trend PK
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Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry remarked that the court should not be compelled to take a stern action.
The Chief Justice made these remarks while hearing a case regarding the disappearance of 11 prisoners from Adiala Jail.
Attorney General Maulvi Anwar ul Haq said, “I stand by my stance that 11 missing inmates are not in the custody of intelligence agencies.”
In his remarks, Chief Justice Chaudhry said that evidence exists that these men are being held by agencies.
“The Chief Secretary is a reliable person. Think again or else things will get more complicated,” he said.
The apex court further warned that any attempt to obscure the case would lead to more problems.
The Chief Justice directed the Attorney General to submit a written statement in this regard. Trend Pk
Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider left for England after threats
November 8, 2010 by Trend PK
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ABUDHABI: The missing Pakistani wicketkeeper, Zulqarnain Haider, has left secretly for England under tremendous fear after receiving threats from the unknown miscreants on Monday.
The endless troubles’ row of Pakistani team continues with this latest incident of wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider’s sudden disappearance from the hotel today.
According to the early reports, Zulqarnain Haider wrote a message on the Face book that he is leaving the team and going somewhere as he has received a threatening sms that lose the last match against South Africa or face dire consequences.
According to sources, Pakistani wicketkeeper turned tremendously afraid. He disappeared from the hotel at 6.00am without informing the team’s management and secretly left for England by Emirates Airlines flight EK-029.
After his disappearance, the security
Two US soldiers missing in Afghanistan: NATO
July 24, 2010 by Trend PK
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KABUL: Two American soldiers are missing in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said on Saturday, hours after reporting that five US troops had been killed in bomb attacks.
The missing soldiers left their compound late Friday “and did not return”, a statement from NATO”s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said, amid reports one of them may already be dead.
Their vehicle had been recovered in Logar province, south of Kabul, an official said.
“Nobody has been found but there are reports that there may be a casualty and that the body has been removed from the scene,” a military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
All reports were unsubstantiated, he added. ISAF said a road and air search had been launched.
A Taliban spokesman denied the insurgents were behind the disappearance of the soldiers, though earlier in the day he had contacted media outlets with detailed descriptions of the soldiers and the equipment they were carrying.
Speaking to media by telephone from an undisclosed location, the Taliban”s eastern Afghanistan spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said: “So far, we are not aware of it and cannot confirm this”.
Indian troops kill another youth in HK
July 6, 2010 by Trend PK
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SRINAGAR: A young man was killed Tuesday when security forces opened fire at stone-throwing agitators in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK), police said, the latest in a series of deaths that have stoked public anger.
Indian police and paramilitary forces struggling to control protests in the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley have now killed 12 civilians in less than a month.
“The young man was killed when security forces opened fire at a very violent rally,” a police officer who declined to be named told media.
The incident took place in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, which has been at the centre of furious demonstrations since June 11 when a 17-year-old student died from a police teargas shell.
Tuesday”s death occurred when security forces opened fire to disperse a demonstration triggered by the disappearance of another protester, a witness said.
The youth went missing Monday evening after freedom fighter clashed with police and paramilitary forces in Srinagar.
Residents said he drowned in a stream during the clash, though no official comment has been issued on the allegation.
Crowds poured onto the streets on Tuesday morning chanting, “We want freedom” and “blood for blood.”
Freedom fighters have fought against rule by New Delhi for 20 years, campaigning for independence or for Muslim-majority Kashmir to join neighbouring Pakistan.
The insurgency, which India alleges is fuelled by Pakistan, has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
CJP takes suo motto notice of ISAF container case
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has taken suo motto notice of disappearance of ISAF containers.
According to a statement released here at the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice took notice on a report carried by a local newspaper.
The statement further said that Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed had appealed the Chief Justice through a newspaper to take suo motto action on the disappearance of the ISAF containers.
It says, the Chief Justice has sought report of the incident from Chairman FBR and DG FIA, directing them to submit their report by July 5.
joran vandersloot
June 8, 2010 by Trend PK
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AP) The lone suspect in the disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway was paraded – moist-eyed and looking stunned – before reporters on Saturday as Peruvians denounced him and detectives began interrogating him about the murder of a Lima student.
Joran van der Sloot arrived at criminal police headquarters in a brown Interpol SUV and was escorted across an auditorium of shouting, shutter-snapping journalists three times.
Wearing a green bulletproof vest, his hands handcuffed behind him, the husky 22-year-old Dutchman stared straight ahead and didn’t respond to reporters’ questions or even make eye contact.
Outside the police headquarters, seven Indian shamans in brightly colored ponchos repeatedly stabbed a cloth doll representing van der Sloot in a “spiritual punishment” ritual.
“We’re punishing him so that all the forces of evil are purged,” one shouted. About an hour earlier, onlookers yelled insults at the man who has dominated Peruvian front pages as he was transferred from a highway police station wagon south of the foggy coastal capital.
His interrogation began almost immediately, Gen. Cesar Guardia, chief of Peru’s criminal police, told The Associated Press.
Chile deported van der Sloot at the countries’ border on Friday and he was driven 17 hours north in a police caravan.
Chilean police spokesman Fernando Ovalle said the Dutchman told them he did not kill 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was found battered with a broken neck on Sunday in his Lima hotel room. But van der Sloot did acknowledge that “he met her and at some point they went to a casino,” Ovalle said.
Hotel video cameras and witnesses recorded the two entering van der Sloot’s hotel room together and the Dutchman leaving alone, carrying two bags, Gen. Guardia said.
He said that at 8:10 a.m., nearly an hour and a half before leaving the hotel, van der Sloot walked across the street alone, bought bread and two cups of coffee at a supermarket and returned to his hotel room.
spelling bee
June 5, 2010 by Trend PK
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WASHINGTON – Shantanu Srivatsa and Anamika Veeramani sat nervously, side by side on stage.
Once again, an Indian-American was going to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It was just a matter of what word and what time on Friday.
Shantanu, 13, an eighth-grader from West Fargo, N.D., stepped to the microphone first and couldn’t spell “ochidore.”
Anamika — showing the cool demeanor she kept throughout — kept her hands behind her back and rattled off the correct letters for the medical term “stromuhr.” She didn’t crack a smile until the trophy was presented.
“It was too surreal,” she said. “It was an amazing experience. I usually have a poker face, so that’s what that was.”
The 14-year-old girl from North Royalton, Ohio, won the 83rd bee, claiming the trophy and more than $40,000 in cash and prizes — some of which she says she intends to spend.
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June 5, 2010 by Trend PK
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New anti-cancer drug extends life of melanoma victims
CHICAGO — A new experimental drug developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Medarex extends the lives of patients with advanced melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, researchers said Saturday.
The results paved the way for dealing with a form of cancer that has few treatment options. Melanoma cases have climbed faster than any other cancer type over the past 30 years, researchers said.
Nearly a quarter — 24 percent — of patients with advanced melanoma survived for an unusual two years after being administered intravenously with ipilimumab.
“Randomized clinical trials have repeatedly failed to demonstrate an improvement in overall survival in patients with advanced melanoma,” said lead author Steven O’Day, who heads the melanoma program at The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute in southern California.
O’Day described the study findings as “an exciting advance, both for patients with advanced melanoma and for the field of cancer immunology.”
He presented the study at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting this weekend in Chicago.
Ipilimumab belongs to a new class of drugs that activate the immune system’s T cells, which then seek and destroy melanoma cells, instead of targeting the cancer cell itself like previous treatments.
In the clinical test, patients who took Ipilimumab or were treated with a combination of the antibody and a peptide vaccine, also aimed at boosting the immune system, lived a median of 10 months, against 6.5 months for those administered a placebo or a peptide vaccine alone.
The roundtable event featured leaders from each of the four BFC partner organizations; distinguished community and academic oncologists, Drs. Lee Schwartzberg and John Marshall; and special guest speaker Patrick Dempsey, actor and founder of the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing, who joined the meeting virtually via videoconference. The event was moderated by Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs and contributor to PBS NewsHour.
For this study, 676 patients at 125 centers around the world were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: ipilimumab plus gp100, a peptide vaccine which has shown some benefit in melanoma cases; ipilimumab on its own; or gp100 alone. All participants had stage 3 or 4 melanoma, and had been previously treated.
drew peterson latest news
June 5, 2010 by Trend PK
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Investigators picked their way across a muddy stretch of remote central Illinois Saturday as they followed a lead into the disappearance and possible homicide of the fourth wife of former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson.
Peterson already faces a murder charge in the 2004 killing of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
No one has been charged in the 2007 disappearance of his subsequent spouse, Stacy Peterson, and her body has not been found.
Illinois State Police confirmed Saturday that they are currently following a lead in rural central Illinois regarding Peterson’s disappearance and have set up a media staging at a location near Peoria, reports CBS Station WBBM.
The Illinois State Police team that has been investigating the disappearance and possible homicide of Stacy Peterson is at the scene, an ISP release said.
“There is a search underway for human remains; however no human remains have been located at this point,” Peoria County Coroner Johanna Ingersoll said as of 10 a.m. CT.
The search is taking place in Peoria County, but Ingersoll could not immediately confirm exactly where the search is taking place or whether the search is related to Peterson.
State police Master Sgt. Tom Burek says several law enforcement agencies, including some from the Chicago area, are searching rural land “thick with timber” near Peoria on foot.
Burek says rains have reduced the land to a “muddy mess,” and vehicles haven’t been able to get to the entire search area.
He wouldn’t say when the search began or how large the search area is. He also wouldn’t confirm where the lead came from or how credible police thought it might be.
“We follow up on every lead,” he said.
Stacy Peterson’s disappearance drew national attention after Drew Peterson was named a suspect in both her disappearance and Savio’s death. Stacy Peterson was 23 when she disappeared.
Investigators have followed several leads into Stacy’s disappearance over the years, including sending divers into murky Chicago-area waters.
Drew Peterson, 56, is scheduled to go on trial next month, charged in Savio’s killing. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and is being held in isolation at the Will County Jail.
The celebrity website TMZ reported that, according to law enforcement sources, Peterson told a fellow inmate that an accomplice helped him dispose of his fourth wife’s body.
phthalates
May 24, 2010 by Trend PK
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CBS) More than ever, people are worried about how all the chemicals we’re exposed to are affecting our health: among them a family of chemicals known as phthalates, which are used in everyday plastics.
Not plastic bottles of water or soda, but soft and flexible things like shower curtains. They’re also in shampoos and carpeting.
Phthalates are so ubiquitous, we all have traces in our bodies.
Recently the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, put phthalates on a list of chemicals that “may present a risk” to the environment or human health. That’s because they disrupt hormone activity and some preliminary studies show that they may be causing a slow and steady demasculinizing of men.
But if phthalates were on trial, a jury might find the evidence against them conflicting and inconclusive. And yet last year Congress took action, doing what Europe had already done: it banned certain phthalates in children’s toys
