ISLAMABAD: An very high flood hit the Kotri Barrage on Tuesday. River Indus was smooth in very high flood level with increasing trend at the barrage with a water inflow of 912,582 cusecs while the loss was recorded at 809,977 cusecs.

On the other hand, dozens of villages were flooded around Thatta. Water levels at Sukkur and Guddu barrages were moving back; the same state of affairs was report from higher Sindh.

score of villages in Kot Magsi were flooded. source said the deluge has exaggerated about one-fifth of Pakistan’s country. At least six million people have been left on the street and 20 million affected in general.A flood relief camp recognized at the Mono-Technical College near Hyderabad was pulled out after floodwaters entered its building. Local volunteers started relief work on a self help basis in Latifabad and other parts of the city.

The dykes on the river were being strengthened and the embankments had been broken at Khanpur and Al-Manzar to save Hyderabad. Floodwaters also inundated the Khanpur area. Another breach was made near the Khair Mohammed Rajar Goth close to the Kotri upstream, which has flooded the katcha region. Flood survivors were life form kept in government school building and Labour section flats due to the congestion at the middle relief site in Hyderabad. People were in frantic need of food, protection and clean eating water.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) is eager to send an invitational World XI to play fixtures in Pakistan by the finish of 2011.

Cricket tours of Pakistan were halted after gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009.”World cricket must go back and play in Pakistan,” Giles Clarke, the head of the ICC’s Pakistan Task Team, told the Wisden Cricketer magazine.”The security challenges are huge but we cannot allow the terrorists to win.”

England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Clarke claimed it was still to early to send a national side to Pakistan, but an invitational team could travel as they would partake in a shorter tour, taking in fewer venues.”With determination and courage, an ICC World XI in due course will go and play against Pakistan in her great cities and there will be a marvellous atmosphere,” he said.

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt welcomed the prospect of a possible World XI tour of the country.”I am very grateful to Giles Clarke, who is a dear friend of Pakistan, for pursuing our case and working tirelessly in bringing international cricket back to Pakistan,” said Butt.

ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat spoke positively about the potential tour but added that a lot of work was still to be done to make it happen.”These are early days and we will start seriously thinking about this in the next 12 months,” Lorgat told BBC World Service.”It is about being responsible. If a country has got specific concerns we would have to take that into account.

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President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and philanthropist to join hand with the government to addition its labors in overcome the losses of unparalleled flood and help out the exaggerated citizens.

“The world has by no means seen such disaster and there is need of total collaboration and coordination among all segment of society to overcome this challenge”, the leader said in an inter- active meeting with the legislative body of NGOs here at the Aiwan-e- Sadr on Tuesday.

Besides over 70 legislative body of various NGOs from across the country, the meeting was also attended among others by Minister for communal Welfare and particular Education, Samina Khalid Ghurki, Secretary General to the President, Salman Farooqui, Pakistan’s Ambassador to US, Hussain Haqqani, MNA Farahnaz Ispahani, Chairman Bait-ul-Mal, Zamurd Khan and other officials.The President said cope with the flood devastation, which exaggerated around 2 million people across the country, would be a long term affair, adding, but “the people are our strength and we will fight this long battle with courage and resilience and till complete treatment of the flood victims”.

He said the administration with the support of all segment of society will not only ensure the provision of all out assistance to the flood affectees, but will also devise a comprehensive strategy to save our coming generations from such devastation.The President said, “First, we have to take on the confront on our own, then expect the others to help and assist”, adding, the nation has the power to confront any confront and do well.The President term the calamity of floods as “test of nation” vowed to retrieve the country from this challenge and construct a improved Pakistan.

“We place by the people in this time of trial”, he said and certain the flood-affected people that the government will spare no effort for their complete and early treatment.President Zardari said he face very hard times in his life for the sake of Pakistan, addition, “Our leaders Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Shaheed also sacrifice their lives for the country and democratic system.”

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The United Nations warn Monday that 3.5 million Pakistani children were at risk from cholera and other disease because of the slow and insufficient delivery of flood relief, as powerful waters from the swollen Indus river stranded dozens more village. Hundreds of thousands of survivors are still cut off from rescue more than two weeks after Pakistan’s worst-ever flooding hit the country, killing at least 1,500 people. Many survivors are forced to drink contaminated drinking water, relief workers said.

The loss toll could rise from disease and hunger if the aid effort is not stepped up, the U.N. warned.” Up to 3.5 million children are at high risk of lethal water-borne diseases including diarrhea-related diseases,” said Maurizio Giuliani, a U.N. orator. He put the total number of people, counting adults, at risk from such diseases at six million. “What concerns us the most is water and health? There is a lack of clean irrigate,” he added.

More than 20 million people have been affected by the flooding, which started in the country’s mountainous north and expanded to the southern and western provinces of Sindh and Balochistan.According to the U.N., one-fifth of the country is now under water and some 900,000 people are homeless. Thousands of towns and villages have been washed away. Roads, building, bridges and crops have been lost.While local charities and international agencies have helped hundreds of thousands of people with food, water, shelter and medical action, the scale of the disaster has meant many millions have received little or no assistance.”Communities desperately need clean water, latrines and hygiene provisions, but the capital currently available cover only a part of what is required,” said Neva Khan, Oxfam’s country director in Pakistan.U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon flew to Pakistan over the weekend amid concerns about an inadequate international reply to the U.N. emergency aid appeal. Only a quarter of the $459 million aid needed for initial relief has arrived, according to the U.N.

Four U.S. Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters arrived Monday and U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo airplane began transporting international aid within Pakistan as part of the continued U.S. caring assistance, a spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Islamabad said.The four helicopters are part of the contingent of 19 helicopters ordered to Pakistan last week by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. To date, the U.S. has pledge to provide $75 million in aid, the main gift of any country.

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Officials overseeing relief efforts in Pakistan say an outbreak of disease is presenting a new threat to flood victims as they brace for more rain.Health officials Friday said the lack of clean drinking water and sanitation is spreading diarrhea and other diseases that could threaten lives.

An estimated 1,600 people have died from over two weeks of record flooding in the country brought on by heavy monsoon rains.  More storms are expected in the coming days across much of the country.The United Nations has appealed for $460 million to provide immediate help, including food, shelter and clean water.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is due to travel to Pakistan Saturday to discuss relief efforts.

The U.S. State Department says Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry will visit flood-stricken areas of Pakistan next week.

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language to media after gathering Baloch supporter of independence leader Sardar Atta ullah Mengal in Karachi, he said the administration will take sensible steps to remove grievance of people of the region.Gilani said assembly with the expert leader was due and that both discuss issue related to Balochistan.

He said that Sardar Mengal is true when he say that sensible steps needs to be taken by the central government concerning missing people and for payment the lack of the Baloch people.Gilani said he has instruct the charge set up for the completion of legitimate reforms to meet Sardar Akhtar Mengal.He said the administration does not consider in victimisation and call upon all Baloch leaders to revisit to Pakistan so that issue related to the state could be determined through talks.

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ISLAMABAD: express displeasure over a three-member fact-finding committee’s report, leader Asif Zardari has expanded the purview of a Joint study Team (JIT) to fix illegal legal responsibility next to those who had prearranged wash the crime scene inside one-and-a-half hours after the kill of former prime priest Benazir Bhutto external Liaquat Bagh on Dec 27, 2007, source in the administration told dawn.though the committee’s account has not been complete public, sources offer that it has provide a clean chit to previous Military cleverness (MI) chief Maj-Gen Nadeem Ijaz, who was accuse by the UN charge of order police to hose down the site of the murder. 

According to the committee’s chief, cupboard desk Chaudhry Abdul Rauf, the account has been handed over to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who had constituted the group to ascertain within seven days on whose order the wrong scene had been wash.but, the sources said that the government had been well-versed that the prime cleric had not customary the tale so far.It has been learnt that the JIT operational under the central examination group (FIA) is discretely investigate the hosing down of the place.It is fear that an unpleasant state may surface if the answer of the JIT be at difference from the report of the group which did not fix illegal responsibility on anyone, counting the previous DG of the MI and senior police force officer.

The source said that President Zardari had also spoken displeasure over the ‘limited’ task given to the three-member committee in its place of being asked to conduct a comprehensive study to expose the planners, abettors, financier, facilitators and killer involved in Ms Bhutto’s murder.Meanwhile, address a gathering of Pakistan People’s Party’s office-bearers, ticket-holders and councillors belong to Sheikhupura splitting up here on Wednesday, the leader said the United Nations query fee had strengthened the government’s hands to chase the investigation vigorously and depiction the culprit.investigation will soon be finished and made community,” he said.According to presidential orator Farhatullah Babar, he said: “Some people had object to our result to ask for a UN inquiry charge, but we believe that an global question was needed for insertion the facts in a correct viewpoint for past record”.

The leader said that the decision party was seeking to retaliate the murder by rise democracy and the UN report would serve this point.Mr Zardari said one of the most achievement of the administration was the 18th alteration for restoring parliament’s powers in agreement with the common establishment known to the state in 1973 by the PPP.He said Ms Bhutto had shed her blood for restoring the human rights of the people and assembly and her party had conventional the confront of those who were opposite legitimate reforms, parliament’s dominion and people’s human rights.Hundreds of PPP personnel and several best and ministers were here on the juncture.The leader said he would hold more meeting with gathering workers at the divisional level.

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KABUL — The head of Pakistan’s Taliban appear in a video Monday intimidating attacks next to the U.S. three months after American and Pakistani official supposed he died in a U.S. projectile strike.Hakimullah Mehsud’s appearance occurred as a suicide bomber attack the gate to a CIA base where seven agency workers were killed last December. The Pakistan Taliban claim blame for that violence, and Monday’s assault could have been aimed at presentation that the group was back in commerce despite months of setback from persistent U.S. projectile strikes and a Pakistani armed nasty.The Pakistan Taliban have also claim blame for an attempted car bombing last weekend in New York City’s Times four-sided figure — a claim that New York official query.U.S. and Pakistani official had been sure until recently that the cruel, 30-year-old Mehsud had been kill in a January projectile strike along the border flanked by South Waziristan and North Waziristan — tribal area along Pakistan’s edge with Afghanistan where Islamist confrontational group operate with near impunity.A video posted on aggressive websites and transmit Monday by Pakistani TV showed Mehsud seated flanked by two masked, armed men, language in Pashto with English subtitles.

“Praise be to God, on the 4th day of April 2010, I give good news to the Muslim world about life form alive and fit,” Mehsud said.He said Taliban armed forces “have penetrate the terrorist America” and will “give very painful blows to the extreme America.” He also warned Washington’s NATO allies that “you will face even worse disgrace, obliteration and defeat than America itself” if they carry on to hold up the U.S.-led war attempt.A next, shorter video included a still image of Mehsud next to a map of the joint state presentation explosion in three unidentified cities shore to coast, according to IntelCenter, a U.S.-based confrontational media check.A voice that sound like Mehsud said in the main Pakistani words of Urdu that the group main target would be American city and that “good news will be hear within some days or weeks.”The projectile strike that was supposed to have killed Mehsud took place concerning 10 days after the let go of a video showing the aggressive leader seated next to Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil al-Balawi, who approved out the Dec. 30 suicide harass alongside the CIA bottom at Camp Chapman in eastern Afghanistan.Mehsud’s form in that video unbreakable his group’s claim to have play a important role in the December assault, in which seven CIA workers and a Jordanian cleverness officer died. The projectile strike alongside Mehsud was widely seen as benefits for one of the deadliest attack in the history of the U.S. spy group.

As the video presentation Mehsud alive appear Monday, a suicide bomber detonate an explosives-filled truck exterior the gate of the similar CIA base, situated in Afghanistan’s Khost region. The Afghan center Ministry said one inhabitant was kill and two others were injured in Monday’s assault. A U.S. Army orator said only the bomber die but two other people were injured.U.S. Army Maj. Justin Platt, orator for the 3rd group Combat Team at near Salerno Camp, said the bomber blew himself up in an area anywhere vehicles are screen previous to toward the inside.”The bang was very strong and thick burn covered the sky later,” said Wali Mohammad, 17, who was functioning at a edifice site nearby.U.S. officials inexpensive speculation that Monday’s violence at Camp Chapman was connected to Mehsud’s recurrence after months of quiet.though, the latest videos — counting threats next to the U.S. and the perhaps false claim of liability for the failed Times quadrangle car bomb — appear to be aimed at bolster confidence in the Pakistan Taliban, who were running scared from their sanctuary in the edge region of South Waziristan by a Pakistani armed offensive last year.In Washington last week, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said he had seen “no proof” that Mehsud “is ready today or is execute or exerting power over the Pakistan Taliban which he once did.”

The Pakistan Taliban was planned in late 2007 under the management of Baitullah Mehsud, who was kill in a U.S. projectile strike last August that bring Hakimullah Mehsud, no family member, to authority. The Pakistani wing has recognized the management of the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar but operate with substantial independence, staging attack in Pakistan and crossways the edge in Afghanistan.U.S. and Pakistani official believe the cluster also has ties to al-Qaida and other Islamist radical organization in the unruly border region.In Germany, the news website Spiegel Online report Monday that a German-born Islamic aggressive linked to a group convict of intrigues attacks on U.S. amenities in Germany has been kill in Pakistan. The website said Erich Breininger, who had been required by German prosecutors since 2008 on doubt of belong to a terrorist group, was killed April 30 in a contest with Pakistani troop in the border area with Afghanistan.Also Monday, the Norwegian armed said eight Norwegian military were injured the day before in a firefight with insurgent in northern Afghanistan, two of them gravely. Norwegian orator John Lien said their group came under fire Sunday while itinerant from a base in Faryab region.In southern Afghanistan, a NATO repair member was killed Monday by a curb bomb, NATO said. The repair member’s individuality was not free. In Nuristan region, a civilian agreement airplane crashed while creation an crisis landing due to automatic evils on a NATO base. NATO said all crew member survive.linked Press writers Deb Riechmann and Rahim Faiez in Kabul, and Zarar Khan and Nahal Toosi in Islamabad contribute to this account.

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A suicide bomber has attack a safety checkpoint in the northwest of Pakistan, murder at least four policemen and hurtful another 11 people.A spiritual leader and a lady were among those upset in Wednesday’s assault.The attacker herd a car into the checkpoint on the edge of the northwestern city of Peshawar, law enforcement said.

The policemen were on their custom duty when the bomber heavy the car from the ethnic area detonate explosive near the checkpost,” Najmul Hasan, a law enforcement bureaucrat, told the Reuters news organization.Liaquat Ali, a Peshawar city police leader, said that two of the injured people were in a dangerous condiditon.The small structure at the police checkpoint was shattered.A near house and a mosque were also hurt,” he said.The northwestern area is at the front position of Pakistan’s fight next to Taliban, al-Qaeda and other resistance groups who open attacks from the tribal hilly area both inside Pakistan and contiguous Afghanistan.US drones – unmanned aircraft – also take out mission against these armed forces in the area.The Pakistani armed have greater than before attempt to gain manage of the northwest over the last year, initiation major offensives and murder hundreds of opposition armed forces.But resistance group have constant to meaning, transport out regarding 50 bomb attack in the last year, murder about 500 people.

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ST KITTS: A day after far-reaching Sri Lanka’s older women’s cricket team in an official three-match Twenty20 series, West Indies women team will at the moment turn their notice to another subcontinent outfit, Pakistan.West Indies, Pakistan do series start afterward on Monday in St Kitts. The foremost of the three Twenty20 match will to be play at Molineaux with others listed for Tuesday and Thursday.

Trainer Sherwin Campbell says belongings are still not anywhere they be hypothetical to be title into Friday’s create of the ICC 2010 Twenty20 World mug in the Caribbean. Women’s championship will run next to the men’s contest.Campbell said the three-match series next to Pakistan, advantage two bureaucrat warm-up match should offer opportunity to right evils in the team.—agency

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