Daily Breaking News: September 2010

Sunday, September 12, 2010

England beats Pakistan by 4 wickets in 2nd ODI

LEEDS, England (AP) Andrew Strauss scored his fifth one-day century on Sunday to help steer England to a four-wicket win over Pakistan in the final over and take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.

England's captain was dropped on 23 but went on to score 126, guiding his team to 295-6 after a vital second wicket partnership of 146 with Jonathan Trott (53).

"It was a tough chase," Strauss said. "Chasing 294 is always difficult, although it was a very good wicket. There were some areas we weren't particularly pleased with. Our fielding was really poor today. That's an area we pride ourselves on, so we're very disappointed with that.

"But they might have gone on to get 320 or 330, so the bowlers did a good job to drag it back. Then it was important someone batted through the majority of the innings in reply."

England required six runs off the final over bowled by Umar Gul, and reached its target with three balls remaining. Tim Bresnan, who finished 10 not out, edged the penultimate ball over the wicketkeeper's head for four and then scrambled a single to mid-off.

Pakistan earlier exploited the sunny conditions and a flat batting pitch in compiling a challenging 294-8 from its 50 overs.

Opener Kamran Akmal hit 74 from just 72 deliveries while Stuart Broad claimed 4-81 from 10 expensive overs.

"I'm quite happy, the boys put in some effort and I think the crowd enjoyed it," Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi said. "We have three more games and definitely we will get a result (win).

"The way we started, I thought maybe we would touch around 320 but 285, 290 was a good total on this track, especially with a good bowling attack. But like before, we missed opportunities in the field."

Set a demanding total, left-handed opener Strauss plotted a well-constructed innings that spanned 134 deliveries and included 10 boundaries and a six. He was finally lbw to Saeed Ajmal.

Strauss has sometimes been criticised for being too defensive.

"All I can do is do my talking with the bat and help England to win cricket matches," Strauss told reporters. "People can talk as much as they like but it is pretty irrelevant for me ... We're trying to play positive cricket with the bat, so it's important I can lead by example.

"When you're in form, you don't feel as pressurised to hit the big shots - they tend to come a bit more naturally. I'm very happy with my game at the moment, and even happier we're continuing to win."

At 50-1 Strauss escaped when he flicked pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar to Mohammed Irfan at short fine-leg, but the 7-foot-1 fielder spilled the chance.

Irfan also made several misfields and allowed 40 runs from his seven overs before being forced off early with cramp for the second straight match. The bowler was later singled out for criticism from his captain.

"I'm really disappointed from this guy," Afridi said. "Cricket is not all about just batting and bowling, nowadays fielding is very important. Maybe if he is good in the field I will give him a chance but otherwise I am not happy."

Strauss' best spell was three consecutive boundaries off Irfan to go to 95, including an edge through the vacant slip region, a square drive and a pull. Trott supported him well in another solid if not entertaining 71-ball innings.

Pakistan was given the perfect platform by openers Akmal and Mohammed Hafeez (43) with a stand of 122 amid unusually ill-disciplined bowling and fielding by England. Tim Bresnan's first three overs cost 25 runs as Akmal scored five boundaries in seven deliveries.

Paul Collingwood struck with his second ball, trapping Akmal lbw as he attempted a sweep to a ball that struck him in line of the off stump. It was the first ball Akmal received from the medium-pacer, and he exited after scoring 12 fours.

Asad Shafiq (50) and Mohammed Yousuf (46) helped to rebuild the Pakistan innings after the openers departed with a stand of 74.

England followed a 3-1 test series win and a 2-0 Twenty20 series victory with a 24-run win at Durham in the first one-day international on Friday. The third match is at The Oval on Friday.

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Suspected U.S. drone kills five in Pakistan

Pakistani military officials and a local political official gave conflicting accounts Tuesday of attacks by Pakistani jet fighters targeting suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal region, with a politician saying that at least some of the dead were civilians.

Two military officials said that at least 30 suspected members of the militant group Lashkar-i-Islam were killed in the aerial attacks. The attacks targeted militant hideouts, illegal radio stations, training centers and several vehicles rigged for suicide attacks.

The attacks took place in three villages in the Tirah Valley region of Khyber, one of seven districts in Pakistan's tribal region.

However, a local political official, Nasir Khan, said that nine of the dead were civilians, three of them children. He also said there was no evidence that the remaining fatalities were militants.

The Tirah Valley area is a stronghold of Lashkar-i-Islam, an anti-government militant group that is also in turf wars with other Islamist militant groups.

The region has also been the scene of numerous militant attacks against trucks transporting U.S. and NATO supplies.

The main supply route for international forces in Afghanistan runs through Khyber.The military officials asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the news media on the record.

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’اعصام الحق کی کامیابی کا راز‘

کسی بھی گرینڈ سلیم ٹینس ٹورنامٹنٹ کے فائنل میں پہنچنے والے پہلے پاکستانی کا اعزاز حاصل کرنے والے ٹینس سٹار اعصام الحق قریشی کے والدین کا کہنا ہے کہ اعصام کی اس کامیابی کے پیچھے جو قوت ہے وہ ان کی وہ خواہش کہ پریشانیوں اور مصیبتوں میں گھری اپنی قوم کو کوئی خوشخبری دینا۔

اعصام الحق قریشی جنہوں نے پاکستان کے لیے تاریخ ساز کامیابی حاصل کی اور اس وقت جاری سال کے آخری گرینڈ سلیم ٹورنامنٹ یو ایس اوپن کے مکسڈ ڈبلز میں فائنل تک اور مین ڈبلز کے سیمی فائنل تک پہنچ چکے ہیں اور ان کے والد احتشام الحق قریشی اور والدہ نوشین احتشام کی خواہش اور دعا ہے کہ وہ ٹرافی لے کر وطن واپس آئیں۔

اعصام الحق کی والدہ نوشین احتشام کا کہنا ہے کہ یو ایس اوپن کے آغاز پر اعصام سے جب ان کی ٹیلی فون پر بات ہوئی تو ان کا کہنا تھا کہ وہ پاکستان کے حالات سے بہت پریشان ہیں اور اس پر کرکٹ ٹیم کے کھلاڑیوں کے میچ فکسنگ سکینڈل کے سامنے آنے سے ساری قوم کو جو دھچکا لگا ہے وہ چاہتے ہیں کہ ایسی کارکردگی دکھائیں کہ بری خبریں سننے والی اس قوم کے چہروں پر خوشی بکھر جائے۔

نوشین کے مطابق انہیں جتنے بھی مبارک باد کے فونز آ رہے ہیں سب لوگ یہی کہہ رہے ہیں کہ اعصام کی اس جیت نے تو اس وقت ٹانک کا کام کیا ہے اور خوشی اس بات کی ہے کہ کوئی تو خوش خبری ملی۔

نوشین احتشام پاکستان کی نمبر ایک ٹینس کھلاڑی خاتون رہ چکی ہیں اور ان کے والد یعنی اعصام کے نانا خواجہ افتخار احمد آل انڈیا نمبر ون ٹینس کے کھلاڑی تھے۔ نوشین کا کہنا ہے کہ وہ اس قدر خوش ہیں اور اتنا فخر محسوس کر رہی ہیں کہ وہ ان جذبات کو لفظوں میں بیان نہیں کر سکتیں۔

ان کا کہنا تھا کہ یو ایس اوپن میں اعصام کا شیڈیول کافی سخت تھا اور کل پہلے ان کا مین ڈبلز کا کواٹر فائنل تھا تو صرف ایک گھنٹے کے بعد ان کا مکسڈ ڈبلز کا سیمی فائنل ہوا ہم نے یہ میچ دھڑکتے دل اور تر آنکھوں کے ساتھ انٹرنیٹ سے براہ راست دیکھا اور ہر لمحہ اعصام کے لیے دعائیں کیں۔

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کشمیر: بھارت مخالف مظاہرے، کرفیو نافذ

بھارت کے زیرِ انتظام کشمیر میں عید کے روز بھارت کے خلاف زبردست مظاہروں کے بعد حکام نے ایک بار پھر سرینگر میں کرفیو نافذ کر دیا گیا ہے۔

اطلاعات کےمطابق پولیس اور سیکورٹی فورسز نے اتوار کی الصبح ہی شہر میں کرفیو نافذ کرنے کا اعلان کر دیا ہے۔

گزشتہ تین ماہ سے کشمیر میں مزاحمت کی ایک نئی تحریک نے جنم لیا ہے جس میں ستر افراد ہلاک ہو چکے ہیں۔ ہلاک ہونے والوں میں اکثریت نوجوانوں کی ہے۔

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کشمیر ’گو انڈیا گو سے‘ گونچ اٹھا: تصاویر

سرینگر میں بی بی سی کے نامہ نگار الطاف حسین نے بتایا ہے کہ عید کی نماز کے بعد ہزاروں کی تعداد میں لوگ احتجاج میں شریک ہوئے۔ نامہ نگار کا کہنا ہے کہ بھارتی حکومت کو سمجھ نہیں آ رہی کہ وہ اس مزاحمتی تحریک کو کیسے ختم کرے۔

آل پارٹی حریت کانفرنس کے رہنما میرواعظ عمر فاروق نے مظاہرین سے خطاب کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ لوگوں کا جم غفیر بھارت سرکار کے خلاف ایک ریفرنڈم ہے۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ لوگوں نے اس ریفرنڈم میں یہ فیصلہ دے دیا ہے کہ کشمیری بھارت سے آزاد ہونا چاہتے ہیں۔

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Palmistry: Try to find how the person you are

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Thursday, September 9, 2010

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Apple lays App Store rules bare for developer

Apple has said that it will publish the guidelines it uses to determine which programs it will sell in its App Store to appease critical developers.

The firm, known for its keen oversight of products, has been the subject of complaints from firms who have had apps blocked from the store.

Some developers have complained that the company's rules seem inconsistent.

Some have found apps blocked after seemingly minor updates, or for having content deemed inappropriate by Apple.

For example, the developer of Read it Later, an app that allows you to store web pages and read them offline, recently complained that Apple's reasons for rejecting an update to his app were "contradictory".

"For the first time we are publishing the App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how we review submitted apps," the firm said in a statement.

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Downloads

Quran

Quran with Tafheem

Sunni Quranic Dictionary

Audio Quran

Quran In Voice of Qarin Abdul Basit, Abdul Samad

Urdu Translation of Quran in voice of Qari Basit

Islamic Screen Saver

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Pastor: I called off Quran burning based on Islamic center agreement

A Florida pastor said Thursday he called off his plan to burn copies of the Quran based on assurances that a planned Islamic center and mosque near ground zero in New York would be moved -- an assertion rejected by the center's visionary.
The Rev. Terry Jones, who had planned the burning this weekend on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, said he will travel Saturday to New York to meet with the religious leader behind the planned center, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, about a new location.
But Rauf and Imam Muhammad Musri, a Florida Muslim leader who appeared with Jones, said no agreement on a meeting or relocation of the mosque had been reached.

Rauf issued a statement later Thursday.
"I am glad that Pastor Jones has decided not to burn any Qurans. However, I have not spoken to Pastor Jones or Imam Musri. I am surprised by their announcement. We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."The back-and-forth over the mosque location and the meeting continued into the evening Thursday. Jones insisted he had been told of a deal on moving the center, but Musri said instead he had brokered a meeting with Rauf. "We are canceling the event because they have agreed to move the ground zero mosque," Jones said, claiming his announcement was based on several conversations with Musri.
But the latter said he had not spoken with Rauf and was not authorized to say the Islamic center would be moved. Jones may have "stretched" their conversations to say there was a deal, Musri told CNN. He said he believes Jones knows there was no deal on the mosque.
Rauf's office told him they would welcome Jones to a meeting if he canceled the Quran burning, Musri said.
Sharif El-Gamal, developer of Park51, denied there had been a change in plans for the New York center.
"It is untrue that the community center known as Park51 in lower Manhattan is being moved," El-Gamal said in a statement. "The project will proceed as planned. What is being reported in the media today is a falsehood."
Jones, pastor of the Gainesville-based Dove World Outreach Center, said he felt a relocation of the mosque "would be a sign from God."
"Right now, I assume it will take place," he said of the meeting.
Jones' plans to burned Qurans had set off a firestorm of concern, including from U.S. military leaders who said the event would imperil the lives of troops abroad.
The pastor told reporters that he took a phone call from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who "was very gracious and encouraged us not to continue." The call was later confirmed by CNN.
Also Thursday, real estate mogul Donald Trump offered to buy the lower Manhattan site where the Muslim group plans to build an Islamic community center, for 25 percent more than the current owners paid for it.
Trump made the offer Thursday in a letter to Hisham Elzanaty, an investor in the Islamic center site.
"I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not), but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse," he wrote.
Musri, with the Islamic Society of Central Florida, expressed relief that the Quran-burning crisis had been defused.
"As an American Muslim leader, I believe that this is the best place to live on Earth. And I feel strongly about that."
Rauf said Wednesday evening that "nothing is off the table" when asked whether he would consider moving the site.
"We are consulting, talking to various people about how to do this so that we negotiate the best and safest option."
The imam told CNN's Soledad O'Brien on "Larry King Live" that "had I known [the controversy] would happen, we certainly would never have done this."
Asked if he meant he would not have picked the location, Rauf said, "we would not have done something that would create more divisiveness."
Earlier Thursday, President Obama called the plan by Jones to burn the Qurans on Saturday a "recruitment bonanza for al Qaeda."
"You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan or Afghanistan" as a result of the burning, Obama said on ABC's "Good Morning America." "This could increase the recruitment of individuals who'd be willing to blow themselves up in American cities, or European cities."
Jones previously had said he would proceed with the plan Saturday despite increased pressure to abandon the proposal and warnings that going ahead could endanger U.S. troops and Americans worldwide.
Interpol on Thursday issued a global alert to its 188 member countries, warning of a "strong likelihood" of violent attacks if the Quran burning proceeded.
The FBI visited Jones at the Dove Center on Thursday, according to Jeffrey Westcott, special agent in charge of the Jacksonville, Florida, bureau. The FBI also visited him a few weeks ago, he said, but would not say what was discussed.
Earlier Thursday, discussions were taking place within the Obama administration about the possibility of intervening, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.
Earlier this week, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, warned that the plan "could cause significant problems" for American troops overseas.
Jones had rejected the pleas, saying his message targets radical Islamists. "The general needs to point his finger to radical Islam and tell them to shut up, tell them to stop, tell them that we will not bow our knees to them," Jones said on CNN's "AC360." "We are burning the book. We are not killing someone. We are not murdering people."
Meanwhile, two websites associated with Jones and his church were down Thursday.
Rackspace Hosting took down the two sites because the church "violated the hate speech provision of our acceptable use policy," said spokesman Dan Goodgame.
The company investigated a complaint in the past couple of days and made the determination after reviewing both sites, said Goodgame, adding that Rackspace was under no pressure to act.
"This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue," he said.
Rackspace gave Jones until midnight Wednesday to move content and find another host. Goodgame said he did not know how long Rackspace had hosted the websites, but he said it did not handle design or content.
"We have about 100,000 customers," Goodgame said. "We don't even know what all the sites are."
Jones and Dove World had agreed to terms on the Rackspace Cloud service, Goodgame said. The policy dictates the suspension or termination of service for offensive content, including material that is "excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence or contains harassing content or hate speech."
"We would have taken the same position if it was hate speech against Christians or other groups," he added.

A Christian congregation in Germany on Thursday distanced itself from Jones, its founder and former pastor. Stephan Baar, one of the leaders of the Christian Community of Cologne, said the congregation split with Jones in 2008 over differences in the way the church was run.

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Quran burning legacy would have lasted generations

Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, is a professor of international law and a prominent authority on Islam. He has authored more than 400 published works, including a translation of the Quran and "Fatwa on Terrorism" which dismantles terrorist ideology. He is also founding leader of Minhaj-ul-Quran International which promotes religious moderation, human rights and welfare.

The 'Burn the Quran Day' planned -- and now apparently cancelled -- by a small U.S. church sparked outrage worldwide.

Such an event would not only have hurt the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims but also of billions of peace-loving people belonging to different religions and cultures of the world.
Such an act is deeply offensive and would have increased divisions and hatred. It could only have been helpful for the cause of extremists, to provide them grounds to exploit the situation to validate their philosophy of hatred. It would have enabled them to recruit vulnerable youth and fuel the growing wave of home-grown radicalization in the U.S. and abroad.
If this event had gone ahead it would not be less than 9/11 in the sense of far-reaching consequences and after-effects. It risked religious clashes and riots. It would have impacted badly upon peacemaking efforts worldwide, the culture of dialogue, and the processes of cohesion and integration between different religions and communities.
Any step which creates a rift between societies, becomes a cause of division between societies, and is damaging for societal cohesion, no matter where it is from and who is committing it, should not be allowed.
A handful of individuals, it does not matter whether they are related to mosque or church, cannot be given the right to flippantly play about with peaceful co-existence, and their so-called sentiments cannot be preferred over global peace.
After the efforts of generations, humanity has come to a point where peaceful coexistence has become a universally agreed principal, and we should not allow any individuals, no matter what their religion is, to push the world back to the path of religious crusading.

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