Weekly EHTASABI AMAL Lahore ھفت روذھ احتسابی عمل لاھور

LAHORE: Already cursed by floods and suicide bombings, Pakistan now faces a new menace from an unprecedented outbreak of the deadly tropical disease dengue fever. In less than a month, 126 people have died and more than 12,000 have been diagnosed with the virus, which has spread rapidly among both rich and poor in Pakistan’s cultural capital Lahore. Dengue affects between 50 and 100 million people in the tropics and subtropics each year, resulting in fever, muscle and joint ache. But it can also be fatal, developing into haemorrhagic fever and shock syndrome, which is characterised by bleeding and a loss of blood pressure. Caused by four strains of virus spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, there is no vaccine — which is why prevention methods focus on mosquito control. Pakistani authorities in Lahore have blamed the crisis on prolonged monsoon rains and unusually high seasonal temperatures. But furious locals say the outbreak is yet another example of government inefficiency, citing ...

The heat has come down handsomely upon Lahore : the temperature, even in a room fanned by a punkah, is 95°F "and an ill omened pillar of dust is skirmishing outside under an orange coloured sky. The clouds are so low down and so metallic in appearance that one feels as if they could be rapped with the knuckles, and if this were done they would ring like saucepans," writes an 18-year-old journalist on the Civil and Military Gazette to his aunt in England in 1884. The young Kipling has reassurance: his mother and sister are safely far away in the cool of Dalhousie in the hills, which is well, "for the Abominable has come into the station and it seems as though she would stay with us for a month or two or three. I saw her, the other day, knock a man down. He died in a trifle under two hours, and his friends told me it was 'the will of God.'" He reports with a touch of bravado in volume one of The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, edited by Thomas Pinney for Macmillan...

Pakistani officials say the mutilated body of a journalist was found in his home in the eastern city of Lahore Friday. Authorities say 28-year-old Faisal Qureshi worked for The London Post, a British online publication. Police say Qureshi's body bore visible torture marks and his throat had been slit. Qureshi's brother, Zahid, told the French news agency he believed his brother's killing was a "targeted killing." He said his brother had been receiving threats from unidentified people over news reports in The London Post. In 2010, Reporters Without Borders' press freedom index ranked Pakistan at 151 out of 178 countries.

KABUL: The Kabul government on Saturday demanded that Washington increase pressure on Pakistan to act against insurgents using its soil to attack Afghanistan, saying Afghans were running out of patience. Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with US regional envoy, Marc Grossman, in Kabul just days after President Barack Obama warned Pakistan there were “some connections” between its intelligence services and extremists. “The Afghan President asked Grossman to put more pressure on Pakistan so that future meetings with them should bring a positive result,” one official at the presidential palace told AFP on condition of anonymity. Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, long mired in distrust, have recently deteriorated with Kabul alleging that the murder of its peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani was hatched in Pakistan and carried out by a Pakistani. Kabul accused Pakistan of hindering the investigation and also claimed to have foiled an alleged plot in Pakistan to assassinate Karz...

SIGONELLA AIR BASE, ITALY: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on Friday acknowledged what has long been an open secret – that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deploys armed Predator drones to hunt down Islamist militants in a number of countries. The US government has previously officially declined to admit that the spy agency’s drone strikes, but Panetta – who served as Central Intelligence Agency director until taking over the Pentagon in July -made two casual references to the CIA’s use of robotic aircraft during a visit to US bases in Italy. “Having moved from the CIA to the Pentagon, obviously I have a hell of a lot more weapons available to me in this job than I did at CIA -although Predators aren’t bad,” Panetta told an audience of sailors at the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet headquarters in Naples. Later at a joint US-Italian air base in Sigonella, Panetta thanked air crews for their role in the NATO air campaign over Libya as he stood in front of a Global Hawk drone, a larger unma...

For his assistance with American authorities in the raid and execution of Osama bin laden, a Pakistani doctor helped locate the former al-Qaeda leader for the US government is facing charges of treason. Dr Shakeel Afridi allegedly attempted to collect DNA samples from bin Laden and his friends and family by way of an extensive vaccination program in Abbottabad could be killed if Pakistani officials find him guilty of treason. As tensions between Pakistan and America continue to escalate, officials in Islamabad are refusing protests from the US and are pondering putting the man to death. US officials have tried to have Afridi freed from his jail cell in Pakistan, but officials overseas have rejected their pleas. Afridi was apprehended shortly after the execution at bin Laden’s compound in early May. Without a lawyer and unable to be assisted by American authorities, the doctor is now being considered a traitor for his country. “In view of the record and evidence … the commission is of t...

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