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4 Friday, February 5, 2016 National KARACHI: Head office: 509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan. Ph: +9221-32214988- 32214990, Fax: +9221-32214989 messengerdaily@yahoo.com, editor@dailymessenger.com.pk Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI PIA or the Pakistan International Airlines Chairman Nasser Jaffer with tears in his eyes announced having resigned, right on TV in a public appearance, following deaths and injuries of PIA employees during an anti-privatization protest and clash with security personnel in Karachi recently and set forth a shining example in dark world of corruption that has ruled Pakistan around half a century. PROS and cons of selling around one third of PIA shares is being claimed to make this national airline run on profit while blocking losses, which private companies could manage with buying stakes in PIA, a factor emphasized by PIA chairman, while asking the airline employees not to waste years of efforts that may bring fruit with privatization, though he mourned the deaths and injuries he had ordered security forces to guard against and not to indulge in violence, injuries and killing he lamented upon. NONETHELESS strike of PIA employees still continued thereafter against government's allegedly questionable proceedings that was reported to be forcing privatization without due process of law: Without the government holding all important concerned joint consultations, without advance announcements for and with consensus and without taking stakeholders, including PIA unions and employees, into confidence and agreement. NASSER-JAFFER thus expressed his grief, taking due responsibility as PIA chairman on these tragic moves, and tendered his resignation to the PM: "My conscience doesn't allow me to head the organisation anymore," he said, urging the employees to hold dialogue with the government who will listen to their demands. However, a PM's statement had said those protesting employees of PIA will be fired from service and can be sent to jail for an year and that airline employees working during the strike will be given special rewards for their service. It's accused that certain parties backing the PIA workers were politicizing the privatization issue by resorting to strikes that were costing PIA Rs100 million per day. Islamabad had already enforced the Essential Services (Maintenance) Act 1952 -- more than a half century old! -- for six months. It barred PIA protesters from participating in any union activity. The legislation read: "Any person found guilty of an offence under this Act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year and shall also be liable to a fine." TO mend matters, government was charged of doing more harm than good, on its own whims and pleasures, rather than merit and deserving to resolve PIA's real and underlying issues. A COO was reportedly put in place with a Rs 50 lac salary to do nothing but protect vested interests, while employees and staff who worked hard and even sacrificed their lives during an attack of terrorism and who practically ran PIA and its planes, were being meted out a harsh treatment, threatened with penalties and imprisonment. The unions and PIA employees and staff considered that unfair. Government had, though, tried to remove the employees' fears of financial insecurity and dismissal of employees from jobs, but apparently the top leaders of the country had already lost their credibility with their wide gap in saying one thing and doing another, altogether different thing! GOVERNMENT ought to have handled such matters more judiciously as its duty and responsibility. PIA people already know of high corruption of high officials of government who used and misused PIA planes, services and By Kristina Keneally Try as I might I cannot get excited about a Hillary Clinton presidency. If the results in the Iowa caucuses are anything to go by, neither can half of all likely Democratic voters. From this distance, Clinton looks good, especially to those, like me, who sit on the centre left of politics. Her resume is replete with advocacy for children and women. Her experience and performance as a legislator and a cabinet secretary is impressive. She’s fierce, tough and cool under pressure. If I was asked to write a description of my ideal first female US president I’d probably describe a person who sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton. Yet Clinton lacks something. Many somethings, in fact. Firstly, she lacks a raison d’etre for her campaign. I know she says she wants to be “a champion for everyday Americans.” That’s well and good, but geez, find me a Democratic contender who doesn’t. Does the United States need Clinton as president? I’m not convinced it does. Her candidacy seems motivated in equal parts by “it’s her turn” and “it’s time for a woman.” Does Clinton need to be president to satisfy herself? She sometimes seems to have “Head Girl syndrome”: when the smart, competitive female keeps succeeding at the next challenge without ever really working out what the motivating purpose of the ambition is. (Yes, I realise that the comments section will shortly be filled with people noting the irony of this statement coming from me. I’m comfortable with my political purpose and how often I articulated it. But, hey, go for your life if you want.) Clinton also lacks authenticity . The best way to explain is to point the obvious authenticity of her peers EDITORIAL PIA chairman resigns, setting a good example for top Pakistani leaders! hotels, ran it without proper management and gave billions in charity to end PIA deficits. Despite receiving several planes and not properly utilizing these, profits that could be achieved were turned into losses. Privatization was supposedly profitable. A minister said those who continue the strike will be treated as enemies of PIA and Pakistan and they will end up losing their jobs. Another minister said criticizing the security forces of violence and killing, and that too without evidence, is unacceptable as they risk their lives while saving people and maintaining peace. Though the responsibility of securing public property does not only fall upon security agencies but upon the general public too, as the ministers held, those protesting must explain under what law they created difficulties for the common people by suspending flight operations and damaging the public property. The unions and employees reserved their legal and constitutional rights for peaceful protest allowed in any democracy and described the violence, use of water cannons and firing of bullets as being responsible for angry reaction of the PIA demonstrators. Meanwhile, no one was prepared to take responsibility of the killing, each blaming it on someone else. A big, long bullet was shown fired on ground, while mobiles had captured the scene, but media was roughed up too, and no camera film were shown on televisions that could determine who had actually fired those who caused human casualties. A judicial inquiry may also wash away the dirty linen. And the issue, like many others in the past, may be forgotten in due time. Television footage though showed security personnel fire tear gas shells and water cannons at protesters as they attempted to force their way into the cargo gate. SEVERAL parties and leaders have condemned a rushed governmental stance for privatization without satisfying stakeholders of PIA. Islamabad recalled enough justifications having consulated several parties for the opposed privatization. However, instead of debating the issue in the parliament and making it a law with due parliamentary process, the government was charged to have acted in haste and issued a half baked order rushed into privatization. But employees who continue their protests can be talked to, briefed by a viable leader and due process can be initiated to take PIA union and employee leaders into confidence without any need for further violence or bloodshed, for which Nawaz League in rule are famous with great appetite in Lahore, Punjab as was witnessed in baton charging and injuring the nurses on a medical strike and killing of reformist PAT forces in Model Town. It's time the government listened to its own voice for peaceful dialogue to honor the demands of a working democracy for amicable resolution of any and all issues to the satisfaction and agreement of all concerned parties. RULERS talking good but acting evil cannot be considered by any nation as running an ideal government or even deserving of ruling over its voting nation. Past electoral frauds, especially in majority of rural areas, hauling up illiterate villagers into vehicles for thumb prints on any prepared ballot at voting booths as if they're animals, and the voters list without reforms may not achieve progress and prosperity for the nation. A basic and reformative change in policy and actions, accountability and implementation is a must for it. Otherwise, it's not bad if top corrupt leaders of the government feel they're also responsible for backwardness of Pakistan or lack of progress and prosperity that could be achieved but was not, and resign from their posts gracefully, before it becomes too late for them to do so. OPINION Hillary Clinton’s campaign lacks a raison d’etre and rivals. Bernie Sanders is a crotchety old socialist who isn’t even a member of the Democratic party. Conventional wisdom says there should have been daylight between Sanders and Clinton in Iowa. But Clinton’s “victory” over Sanders was so narrow it relied a coin toss. Sanders’s decision to be himself is attracting pretty significant support. He, alongside and Republican candidate Ted Cruz and Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, are challenging the traditional definition of “electable”: it’s less about managed messaging and more about “being real”. Vice President Joe Biden is another example of a politician who oozes authenticity, despite the fact he has previously admitted to plagiarism. Biden’s honesty, his raw emotion, and candid, plain-speaking style draws people to him. His intelligence combined with his humility allows his audience to know he’s one of the smartest people in the room and not be off-put by it. Had Biden thrown his hat in the ring, the combination of his authenticity and experience might have turned Clinton’s caucus “victory” into another embarrassing Iowa electoral setback. Clinton’s lack of purpose and the lack of authenticity are related. In the US, widening inequality creates suspicion that the elites of politics and business are in cahoots to keep working Americans from getting a bigger share of the pie. Clinton’s wealth and questionable financial decisions undercut her claim to be the advocate for everyday Americans. Clinton lacks charisma and a common touch. Very few people are as richly endowed with the magnetic personality traits possessed by Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. In many ways it’s Hillary Clinton’s great misfortune to be in such close proximity to both: it magnifies her wooden style. HESCO recovery teams, Rangers continue operation against payment defaulters, power pilferage HYDERABAD: HESCO officials along with Rangers conducting raids against payment defaulters, power thieves and disconnecting power supplies, removing kunda, grounding transformers. HYDERABAD, Feb 4: On the directives of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) Chief Executive Officer, Akhtar Ali Randhawa to All Pakistan Clerks Kashmiris struggling to Association stages rally against govt secure birth right: Gilani LARKANA, Feb 4: All SRINAGAR, Feb 4: In occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani has said that Kashmir is a human and political issue and Kashmiris are carrying out an indigenous struggle to secure their birth and basic right - the right to self-determination. According to Kashmir Sawan Khaskheli BADIN Feb 04: Anti-corruption police led by Circle officer, district Badin, Sayed Sajid Muneer Shah has raided over district Wild Life Office district Badin and arrested the Ashfaque Ahmed Memon, District Game Officer, Wild Life Department Badin Media Service, Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir were struggling for the just and genuine demand of right to self-determination and this factor was present in every freedom movement of the world including the freedom struggle of India against the charges of bribery of 50 thousands on the application submitted by the local citizen. According the reports, Earlier, Badin citizen, Mr. Noor Ahmed Rajo has complained against the Mr. Ashfaque Ahmed, District Game Officer, Wild Life Department Badin and He said that the Kashmiris are peace-loving people and they are using peaceful means to continue their struggle. In 2008 and 2010, he said, the Kashmiri people came out in lakhs on roads to show their inner-self and tried to attract the attention of the international community towards theirsufferings. Anti-corruption police moves, arrests DGO Wilde Life Dept Federal Govt badly fails in bringing improvement in PIA’s affairs: Khattak PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has said that Federal Government badly failed in bringing improvement in PIA’s affairs, and has mishandled the issue by using force instead of solving it through negotiations. This, he said while talking to media men during his visit to PIA building at Peshawar Cantt to show solidarity with PIA employees protesting against privatization of the institution and killing of their colleagues. Abbas Kassar HYDERABAD, Feb 4: The Nuclear Institute of Medicine & Radiotherapy (NIMRA) Jamshoro in collaboration with Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences arranged a “CancerAwareness Walk” followed by a Seminar, to observe the World Cancer day on 4rth February 2016. While addressing the participants, Director NIMRADr. Naeem Ahmad Laghari expressed that the latest cancer statistics from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer predict that if current trends continue, ensure 100 percent recovery of outstanding payment of over Rs65 billion outstanding payments using services of Rangers in house-to-house search MA Rehmani MIRPURKHAS Feb 4: Chairman Farmers organization council FOC Sindh Javed Junejo has alleged that director Nara canal has opened the supply of irrigation water in Khipro canal and other water was being supplied to Ranta canal to fill the Chotiari dam for providing also the water to their farmland while command area of Jamrao and Mithrao canal were deprived of water as result wheat and other crops were damaged adversely. In a press statement issued here on Wednesday. He further the global burden of new cancer cases will surge from 14.1 million in 2012 to 19.3 million by 2025. alleged him for forcibly took the bribe of 50 thousands. Anti-corruption Police led by Sayed Sajid Muneer Shah, Circle Officer, Badin raided over the district Wild Life Office and arrested Mr. Ashfaque Ahmed Memon and registered the case under the crime section No: 2015/15. Jamrao and Mithrao canals command area deprived of irrigation water said that After passing the time of annual desilting of Nara canal and its other canals and distributaries water has been reached in head Jamrao from Sukkur barrage but unfortunately Jamrao and Mithrao canals were still deprived of irrigation water that lead the devastation of standing crops in command areas of the above canals. He blamed that for getting huge money water has been sold to influential landlords and being supplied to their farmlands instead to supply water to all the command areas of lower Nara canal. He added that for developing countries, the situation often goes beyond addressing behavioral change, with many operations to root out power pilferage and recovery of payment from defaulters, spokesman. While, HESCO special teams conducted joint operation with the help of Sindh Rangers in the large-scale raids in Hyderabad, Latifabad, Qasimabad, Tando Adam, Mirpurkhas, Halla, Makli, Nawabshah and adjoining areas and disconnected power supply to 600 connections, removed as many as 450 illegal kunda connections and grounded 4 transformers. HESCO teams also recovered Rs8 lacs 65 thousands during these operations. HESCO chief has given directives to report any political party, organization, elected members etc threat or pressure to provide utmost protection to HESCO officials. It is a commercial entity engaged in providing electricity but now has to recover over Rs65.79 billion out of which Rs2.18 billion from federal govt institutions, Rs33.86 billion from provincial govt institutions and Rs29.73 billion from private/commercial consumers and also have obtained Rangers’ help for 100 percent recovery of outstanding payment and disconnected power supply will not be restored till payment of outstanding dues. Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA), Larkano District, took out a rally from the shrine of Syed Qaim Shah Bukhari here on Thursday for acceptance of their demands. The protesters gathered at the Admin Lawn of Chandka Medical College Hospital and marched marched towards the shrine from where they reached Larkana Press Club. They held a protest demonstration outside the club by chanting slogans and holding banners & placards in their hands. The also held a sit-in at Jinnah Bagh roundabout, distrubing traffic flow. The rally was led by their provincial vice president Farooq Jalbani, district president Aijaz Mirani, and Rafique Jatoi. Talking to media, the leaders said that they had been protesting peacefully since long but the authorities had turned deaf ears to their demands. Sindh University Jamshoro and its Campuses will be closed on Kashmir Day JAMSHORO, Feb 4: The Registrar University of Sindh has announced that the University of Sindh Jamshoro and its all Campuses including Elsa Kazi Campus Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas Campus, Laar Campus Badin, Thatta Campus, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Campus Dadu, International University of Sufism and Modern Sciences Bhitshah and Syed Allahando Shah Campus Naushahro Feroze will remain closed on today 5th February on account of Kashmir Solidarity Day. NIMRA arranges cancer awareness walk, seminar on World Cancer Day countries facing a ‘double burden’ of exposures, the most common of which is cancercausing infections.
Friday, February 5, 2016 International 5 Starbucks in Saudi Arabia bans women from entering store RIYADH, Feb 4: Women were banned from entering a Starbucks in Saudi Arabia after a ‘gender barrier’ wall collapsed, it has been claimed. A sign posted on the window of a Riyadh store of the coffee chain, in Arabic and English, reportedly read: “Please no entry for ladies only. Send your driver to order. Thank you.” One woman who said she was refused service at the café wrote on Twitter: “Starbucks store in Riyadh refused to serve me just because I’m a woman and asked me to send a man instead.” Starbucks denied that the store had a ban on women. According to the Arabic language daily newspaper Al Weaam, the country’s religious police – the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice – ordered the coffee shop’s management to ban women from the establishment after it found that a ‘segregation wall’ inside the store had given way during a routine inspection around a market in the capital city. According to Al Weaam, LONDON, Feb 4: Donor nations pledged on Thursday to give billions of dollars in aid to Syrians as world leaders gathered for a conference to tackle the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with Turkey reporting a new exodus of tens of thousands fleeing air strikes. With Syria's five-year-old civil war raging and another attempt at peace negotiations called off in Geneva after just a few days, the London conference aims to address the the store’s management told the police that the wall had regularly collapsed because of customer stampedes. Gender segregation is widespread in Saudi Arabia, with women requiring male permission to work, travel, needs of some 6 million people displaced within Syria and more than 4 million refugees in other countries. Underlining the desperate situation on the ground in Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu study, marry or even access healthcare. They are also unable to drive or open a bank account, and must be accompanied by a male chaperone on shopping trips. A spokeswoman for Starbucks told that the store Billions pledged for Syria as tens of thousands flee bombardments Junior doctors’ union confirms industrial actions as talks with govt fail London, Feb 4: Top officials at Britain’s National Health Service are trying to avert a strike as junior doctors confirm they will go ahead with a planned industrial action next week. Doctors accuse authorities of being “left with no alternative” but to go on strike following talks on the new proposed contract. About 38,000 medical trainees observed a 24-hour walkout on January 12. The British Medical Association then suspended plans for two days of industrial action due to start on 26 January citing progress in talks with the government. Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary also said that the government’s “door is open” to Israeli court sentences 2 over Palestinian teenager's murder JERUSALEM, Feb 4: An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced two Israelis in the 2014 murder of a 16-yearold Palestinian, sending one to life in prison for a crime that sparked deep soulsearching in Israel and was part of a series of events that led to the Gaza war later that year. The court sentenced a second Israeli, believed to have had a lesser role in the crime, to 21 years in prison. Another Israeli is awaiting a verdict following a psychological examination. "The sentence imposed on the defendants reflects what we asked for and the barbaric and atrocious act," said Ori Korb, the state prosecutor. He said the murder marked a "moral nadir." The Israelis sentenced Thursday snatched Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir from an east Jerusalem neighborhood in July 2014, driving him to a Jerusalem forest where he was burned to death. avert the crisis. But days of negotiations failed to make a breakthrough. The government has also warned that it could push ahead with imposing the controversial contract in case of no agreement. The BMA has accused the government of dragging its feet and warned that the junior doctors will strike as planned on February 10, providing only emergency services. “It is particularly frustrating the government is still digging in its heels. We have talked in good faith over the past few months, but have seen no willingness on their part to move on a core issue for junior doctors”, Dr Johann Malawana, BMA junior doctor committee chairman, said. DAMASCUS, Feb 4: Opposition forces in northern Syria say they are losing their grip on Aleppo as Russian bombardment and advances by pro-Assad militias come close to cutting their supply lines and besieging the city. After a week of the most intensive bombardment of the five-year war, forces loyal to the Syrian leader are in control of most of the countryside immediately to the north. Russian jets have pounded the area throughout the past week, as Syrian factions have told the meeting that tens of thousands of Syrians were on the move towards his country to escape aerial bombardments on the city of Aleppo. "Sixty to seventy thousand people in the camps in north Aleppo are moving towards Turkey. My mind is not now in London, but on our border - how to relocate these new people coming from Syria?" he said. "Three hundred thousand people living in Aleppo are ready to move towards Turkey." Turkey is already hosting more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees. Jordan and Lebanon are the other countries bearing the brunt of the Syrian refugee exodus. Passengers evacuated from Madrid-Riyadh flight after threat MADRID, Feb 4: Passengers on a flight to Riyadh that had been due to take off from Madrid were taken off plane Thursday following an unspecified threat that put the airport on alert, authorities said. “Security forces and rescue services are mobilized. The plane was isolated and passengers evacuated,” a spokesperson for AENA, the group that manages airports in Spain, told. The Guardia Civil police force told they were still unclear as to what the threat against the Saudi Airlines flight was. The El Pais daily said the alert was raised by a note pinned to the interior of the plane with a knife that read: “bomb threat”. The SVA 226 flight had been due to take off at 0950 GMT but the captain requested that it be evacuated after the note was found. The AENA spokesperson, who refused to be named, said the airport was functioning normally as the plane had been taken to an isolated area where officials were checking it. gathered in Geneva for a faltering peace summit. The Russian defence ministry said on Thursday it had hit almost 900 targets in Syria in the previous three days. It also accused Turkey of preparing for a military incursion. “The Russian defence ministry registers a growing number of signs of hidden preparation of the Turkish armed forces for active actions on the territory of Syria,” said spokesman Igor Konashenkov. The Russian air attacks have succeeded in clearing was currently being renovated to construct a wall to accommodate single people and families, in accordance with local customs, due to be completed within the next two weeks. In a statement, the company said: “Starbucks in Saudi Arabia adheres to the local customs by providing separate entrances for families as well as single people. “All our stores provide equal amenities, service, menu and seating to men, women and families. “We are working as quickly as possible as we refurbish our Jarir store, so that we may again welcome all customers in accordance with local customs.” In December, women in Saudi Arabia voted in municipal electionsfor the first time in the country’s history. Nearly 1,000 females also stood as candidates in the elections. India gathers navies in show of maritime might NEW DELHI, Feb 4: India kicked off a major display of maritime might on Thursday, with ships from 50 navies converging on the country’s east coast, as New Delhi seeks to boost its leadership in the region. Ninety ships including from the US, French, British and Chinese navies are taking part in the international fleet review in the Bay of Bengal — a ceremonial inspection and parade of boats and crews. Indian Navy chief Robin K. Dhowan, who is hosting the event, said the review would increase naval cooperation, with the “safety, stability and the security” of the oceans a “collective responsibility”. “What you see, all the ships there, is all about cooperation, it is how to interact with each other and how to work together to make the global commons safe and secure,” Dhowan told the NDTV network. India is working to show maritime leadership, after rival Beijing has asserted growing strategic influence in recent years in Indian Ocean region, as its seeks to secure its trading routes. “This is a forum that demonstrates India’s willingness to be a leading power,” analyst Samir Saran, from the Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation thinktank, told. DAMASCUS, Feb 4: More than a dozen people have been killed and scores of others injured in rocket attacks by foreign-backed Takfiri militants on residential areas in the Syrian city of Dara’a. Health officials said 17 civilians lost their lives and 101 others were injured when rockets fired by militants struck several neighborhoods across the city, Syria's official SANA news agency reported. Head of Health Directorate in Dara’a Abdul Will John Abraham do a film like fifty shades of grey? 'Maybe' MUMBAI, Feb 4: Actorproducer John Abraham said that he would go broke but will not produce an adult comedy through his production house, John Abraham Entertainment. "There is a market for adult films, as they have the potential to do well. But as an actor I would definitely not do it. Not because it's wrong, but I, as a person, will not do it. I don't stand in a position to pass judgment saying this is right or wrong, but I am a very clear person and I want to maintain that," John told. "Would I do a Fifty Shades of Grey? Maybe. But would I do whatever is coming out? Hell no. I will go broke, but I will not produce an adult comedy," added John. John has produced films like Vicky Donor and Madras Cafe. He also said that he likes doing comedy films. "I concentrate on content as an actor. The genre I enjoy the most is comedy. I love comedy and I have got a grasp of comic timing now. I can handle comedy with TEHRAN, Feb 4: Commander of Iran’s Army Major GeneralAtaollah Salehi says the country will enhance its missile capabilities despite US-led efforts to curb them. The US government imposed fresh sanctions on Iran over its missile activities, a day after Tehran and the West agreed to implement a nuclear accord, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Washington argued that Iran's missile activities violated a UN Security Council which bars the Islamic Republic from developing ease," he added. John will soon be seen in missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads. Tehran says no Iranian missile has such an intention and new sanctions are thus illegal, which also breach the JCPOA. On Thursday, Gen. Salehi said, "We are neither paying any attention to the resolutions against Iran, nor implementing them." "We are doing our job and our missile program for the future will be stronger and more precise," he told reporters in Tehran. "This is not a breach of the JCPOA,” he added. The Army chief said Iran’s Rocky Handsome, Force 2 and Dishoom. Iran to enhance missile capabilities despite resolutions TOKYO, Feb 4: North Korea's mobile missile launcher, carrying a ballistic missile, has been seen moving near the east coast and activity has also been seen at a long-range rocket launch pad on the west coast, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said on Thursday. International pressure has grown on North Korea to call off a planned rocket launch, seen by some governments as another missile test, since Pyongyang told U.N. agencies this week it would launch what it called an "earth observation satellite". Japan has put its military on alert to shoot down any rocket that threatens its territory. The NHK report said the weapons present no threat to friendly and neighboring countries. "They are rather a threat to the enemies of this establishment. Israel should fully realize the meaning of this concept," he added. Salehi further dismissed the threat of Daesh terrorists to Iran, saying the Takfiri group “cannot do a damn thing.” “Today, we see from the events in Syria that Daesh’s propaganda is more than its real capability. But its sponsors want to use this germ of atrocities as a means to harass regional nations to the last moment," he said. North Korea's mobile missile launcher seen moving: Japan's NHK Wadood al-Homsi said most of the wounded were women and children, and that one of them was in a very critical condition. The projectiles also caused substantial damage to several houses. Separately, three civilians were injured in a rocket attack by Jaysh al-Islam militants on Harasta, a suburban city northeast of Damascus. Ten other people were injured when projectiles struck a number of neighborhoods in the northwestern city of Aleppo, some 355 kilometers (220 miles) north of Damascus. Peace talks halted mobile missile launcher was thought to normally remain stationary in places such as an underground facility. North Korea fired two mid-range ballistic missiles, which appeared to be Rodong-class missiles, from the mobile launcher off its east coast into the sea toward Japan in March 2014, the report said. Militant rocket attacks leave 17 dead, dozens hurt in Dera'a rebel strongholds that had defied two earlier regime pushes, and allowed loyalist forces led by Lebanese Hezbollah and Shia militias to advance towards a large industrial area The attacks came amid a fresh bid for peace which a UN envoy halted on Wednesday. Syrian rebels losing grip on Aleppo at the gateway to the rebel-held east that has been transformed into a wasteland over three years of bombardment. The fall of Aleppo would be a devastating blow to anti- Assad forces. Opposition groups, among them the al- Qaida aligned Jabhat al- Nusra, which sent large numbers of fighters to the city last week, have controlled Aleppo’s eastern half since the summer of 2012. Syrian forces, heavily backed by their allies have remained in control of the west.
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