Alleged American spy killed in Northern Waziristan
October 26, 2010 by Trend PK
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Staff Report
MIRANSHAH: An alleged American spy has been killed in Datta Khel area of Northern Waziristan.
According to details, a few days ago a local resident had been kidnapped by unknown miscreants. His dead body was recovered from Datta Khel on Monday.
A letter written by the unknown kidnappers was also found with the dead body. The letter described that the deceased was an American spy which is why he has been killed. SAMAA
FBR seeks details on 11k missing containers
KARACHI: Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) has sought details regarding 11,000 containers, which mysteriously went missing from its sub-department Custom Intelligence during last two years, Geo news reported.
It may be mentioned that a letter written to FBR from Custom Intelligence on May 26, 2010, it is stated that a number of 11,000 containers went missing which had been imported for ASAF Force.
Now, FBR has pressed Custom Intelligence Department for details on those missing containers.
According to custom sources, those 11,000 containers were worth of 23 billion rupees.
George Washington letter sells at record $3.2 mn
December 5, 2009 by Trend PK
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A letter written by the first US President, George Washington, has sold at auction for $3.2m. The sale, at Christie’s in New York, was a record for a letter written by Washington. The four-page letter was written in 1787 to the president’s nephew, Bushrod Washington, and urges adoption of the country’s new constitution. A partially written poem by Edgar Allan Poe sold for $830,500 – a record for a 19th Century literary manuscript.
The manuscript of Vladimir Nabokov’s unfinished, final novel, “The Original of Laura,” failed to sell — a surprise unhappy ending for a rare piece of literary history. Christie’s had estimated the 138 index cards crammed with Nabokov’s handwriting would go for 400,000 to 600,000 dollars. But bidding petered out at 280,000 dollars and the sale was abandoned.
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