All business activities back to routine after Eid holidays

Staff Report

LAHORE: After Eid-ul-Adha’s holidays, all business activities have returned to the regular routine throughout the country on Monday.

All public and private schools, offices, markets and other institutes are open.

A vast majority of those who returned to their native homes to celebrate Eid with their families have returned to their respective cities.

Activities in Lahore, Karachi and all other prominent cities have re-started and traffic on the roads is as per normal. Trend Pk

Davies guides England to victory over Pakistan

DURHAM: England, inspired by 87 from new wicketkeeper-batsman Steven Davies, defeated Pakistan for the fourth time in a row on Friday.

A 24-run victory in the first of five 50-over internationals followed a 2-0 win in the Twenty20 series after England had won the fourth and final match to complete a 3-1 triumph in the test series.

Pakistan, who capitulated dismally in the second Twenty20 match in Cardiff, showed much more fight on Friday in a game reduced to 41 overs a side because of rain.

Chasing an impressive England score of 274 for six, they battled valiantly but lost wickets at important times to total 250 for nine.

Pakistan opener Kamran Akmal made an overdue return to form with 53 from 61 balls while his brother Umar hit 43 in 33 deliveries.

Slow bowlers Graeme Swann and Michael Yardy put a brake on the scoring after Pakistan had

Women, children most vulnerable in flood crisis

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s displaced flood victims say a lack of clean water and high temperatures are causing illnesses sweeping through relief camps with children most at risk.

Almost five million people are currently without shelter following devastating flooding sparked more than a month ago by heavy monsoon rains.

“They are scared, traumatized,” said Bibi Luqmania, 30, whose four children live with her in a tent donated by the charity Islamic Relief. “And it’s so hot in the tent, they cannot stand it. It becomes like an oven during the day.”

Luqmania is one of 400,000 people displaced by the flooding in the Khyber-Pukhtunkwa district of Nowshera, and now lives in the Khandar 1 camp established at the Khandar Technical College.

Seventeen million Pakistanis have been affected and the United Nations says only 64 percent of the funds required to meet the

9 killed, 23 hurt in Ghotki tribal dispute

Staff Report

GHOTKI: Atleast seven people were killed and 23 injured in a tribal dispute in Ali Nawaz Sher village, Ghotki, said sources Thursday.

According to sources, an armed clash erupted between two tribes, Lund and Shar, in the Khenju area over motorbike snatching that has been continuing for five days.

Over one hundred members from Lund tribe attacked Ali Nawaz Sher village early in the morning, killed seven people of Shar tribe and injured 23. SAMAA

Gastro death toll in Kashmore reaches 65

Staff Report

KASHMORE: Three more persons, including two children, have died of gastroenteritis in District Kashmore, Sindh. In the last 26 days, 65 flood affected people, including women and children, lost their lives in this gastroenteritis afflicted district, SAMAA reported on Wednesday.

The recent floods have caused major problems for people. They are troubled with water filled towns and cities and are moving places with hopes to for refuge in safe places.

Millions of people are deprived of basic facilities; they are compelled to live under open skies in the absence of proper shelters.

The lack of proper food and hygiene, especially clean drinking water, have multiplied their miseries; people of all ages, especially children in vast majority are under constant threat of being afflicted by various diseases.

Gastroenteritis is one of the

Baghdad School Bombing, 5 killed

BAGHDAD: A bomb in a school in the Baghdad Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City killed five people and wounded 34 on Monday, the majority of them children returning to class after a Muslim holiday, security and health officials said.

“Five people died and 34 were injured in the attack on the school,” a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The toll was confirmed by Sadr City Hospital.

The vast majority of the casualties from the 1:10 pm (1010 GMT) blast were pupils at the Abaa Dhar School, a primary school for boys in the Iraqi capital’s northeast.

The explosion, which left a crater around four metres (13 feet) in diameter, struck just outside the main entrance of the school and severely damaged three nearby houses.

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