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Within two days, four peacocks have died in the village of Dedh Vero in Tharparkar, while several more
were found to be sick.
According to locals and experts, the peacocks are suffering from ‘Ranikhet disease’ – the symptoms being;
swelling of the neck and secretion of water from the mouth, while it stops eating and drinking, and dies
within three days.
It should be noted that during the last two years, over 200 peacocks have lost their lives during each
summer, however, no steps have been taken by officials to take care of the situation.
A number of other factors could also be responsible for weakening the immune system of the peacocks
leading to their deaths: Environmental and weather pattern changes, and shortage of food and water being
some of them.
Protests erupt in Srinagar after Indian troops kill suspected separatists
Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city of Srinagar in India-held
Kashmir after three Kashmiri suspected separatists
were killed in a gun battle with government forces,
police said on Wednesday.
According to police, the fighting began overnight
after Indian troops raided western Radbugh village
following a tip that "militants" were hiding there.
The gunfight lasted the whole night and three
suspected separatists were killed early Wednesday.
Authorities imposed curfew in the old parts of Srinagar anticipating protests and clashes
opposing Indian rule as two of the deceased were natives of the city.
Pakistan wastes water worth Rs25bn annually: Wapda chairman
Fahad ChaudhryJuly 12, 2017
Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman retired Lt Gen Muzamil
Hussain during a meeting of the Sindh Assembly Public Accounts Committee on
Wednesday revealed that Pakistan wastes water worth Rs25 billion every year.
Hussain, while briefing the committee, said that although Pakistan receives 145
million acre feet of water every year. However, only 14m acre feet of water is
preserved.
The chairman said that due to soil gathering at the base of Tarbela Dam, the storage
capacity of the dam has decreased by 36 per cent. Therefore, constructing the
Diamer-Bhasha dam is necessary, he added.
Tarbela, one of the world’s largest earth-filled dams, was completed in 1978 with the
World Bank’s assistance under the Indus Water Treaty signed by Pakistan and India.
Owing to continuous silting and sedimentation, the dam’s storage capacity has
declined from 9.6 million acres feet (MAF) to about 6.6 MAF.
2 militants killed as FC personnel foil bid to attack their camp in Khyber
Ali AkbarJuly 14, 2017
Security personnel foiled an attempt by at least two suicide bombers
to storm a camp of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) in Khyber Agency
on Friday, security sources told DawnNews.
FC personnel engaged with the attackers as they tried to enter the
camp in Jarobi area, shooting dead one of the suicide bombers at the
gate.
The second attacker blew himself up at the entrance of the camp when
security forces opened retaliatory fire, security sources said.
At least two FC personnel also sustained injuries during the episode,
and they were being shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH)
Peshawar.
Domestic help murder: post-mortem report finds 16 torture marks on victim's body
Wasim RiazJuly 14, 2017
After a three-day delay, the post-mortem report of the domestic worker who was allegedly tortured to
death by a daughter of a PML-N MPA was finally prepared, according to which 16 different marks of
torture were found on the victim's body.
Most of the marks of injury were found on the legs and stomach of the victim, reads the the report
acquired by DawnNews, elaborating that the deep wounds found on "sensitive areas" of the 16-year-
old's body could have contributed to his death.
Earlier this week, police officials said that the teenage servant, Akhtar, was tortured by Fauzia, the
daughter of a PML-N leader. Akhtar's sister, Atiya, was also reportedly beaten up by the suspect.
On Thursday, Fauzia secured pre-arrest bail from the sessions court while police awaited the post-
mortem report.
Police sources had alleged that the medical officer was delaying the autopsy report at the behest of the
accused party.
Nisar dismisses speculations of differences with PML-N leadership
Shakeel QararJuly 14, 2017
Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Friday rubbished the
impression that he had developed differences with the PML-N leadership.
"Neither did the minister walk out from the last meeting of the cabinet, nor
was there any altercation during the session," a statement issued by the
interior ministry said.
The spokesperson urged the media to avoid "illogical speculations and
unrealistic comments" regarding the minister.
"A section of media ran baseless news in this regard," the statement read.
"Chaudhary Nisar could not attend the party's parliamentary meeting, held
today, due to his personal engagements and this was not the first instance
so this should not be misinterpreted," the ministry said, adding that Nisar
will present his viewpoint in the next few days on the prevailing situation
through media.
8 jailed in Britain for smuggling heroin from Pakistan
Dawn.comJuly 14, 2017
A Birmingham drugs gang who conspired to smuggle up to £19 million of heroin into
the UK from Pakistan have been jailed for more than 130 years, Birmingham
Mail reported on Friday.
According to the details shared by the UK based news outlet, “the convicts had hid
the drugs inside industrial machinery shipped from Lahore, but were arrested
following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA)”.
The eight were jailed at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday for a total of 138 and a
half years after being convicted of conspiracy to import heroin, the report read.
Ringleaders Ameran Zeb Khan, 38, Mohammed Ali, 36, and Sajid Hussain, 32, were
sentenced to 22 years each.
The court previously heard the men had organised two container shipments from
Lahore, via Karachi, to the London Gateway Port in February and July last year.
Teenage servant tortured to death in Lahore: police
Waseem RiazJuly 12, 2017