اسرائیل نے ڈرون طیارہ مار گرایا Israeli military says it shot down a drone that entered Israeli airspace

JERUSALEM -- Israel scrambled fighter jets to intercept a drone Saturday that crossed deep into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea, shooting the aircraft down over the country's southern desert, the military said.

The incident marked the first time in at least six years that a hostile aircraft has penetrated Israel's airspace, and Israeli officials said they were taking the incident seriously, raising the possibility of retaliatory action.

It was not immediately clear who launched the drone, but suspicion quickly fell on the Lebanese Islamic militant group Hezbollah. The Iranian-backed group is known to have sent drones into Israeli airspace on several previous occasions.

Tensions are running high between Iran and Israel over Tehran's nuclear program, which the West believes is cover for the development of atomic weapons. The Islamic Republic denies the allegations, and says its program is for peaceful purposes only. Israel has threatened to carry out a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities to prevent Iran from acquiring such weapons.

Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich said Israeli ground systems detected the drone, which flew over the Gaza Strip but did not originate there, Saturday morning. They alerted the air force, which scrambled the jets to intercept the aircraft. She said Israel was still trying to determine where the drone took off from. Nobody was hurt in the incident.

Leibovich said Israeli jets escorted the drone before deciding to bring it down in the northern Negev area, which is largely uninhabited.

The drone, which was downed near the Yatir Forrest close to the West Bank, had spent about 20 minutes in Israeli air space, an Israeli military official said on condition of anonymity in line with protocol.

Leibovich did not give more details, but Israel media reported that the aircraft was not carrying explosives and could have been a surveillance drone.

Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement that Israel views "this incident of attempting to enter Israeli airspace very severely and we will consider our response later," while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel "will continue to defend our borders in the sea, on the land and in the air for the security of the citizens of Israel."

It's not the first time that Israel has shot down a drone in its airspace, although such cases are very rare.

Hezbollah sent a few aircraft over Israel over the past decade but without much success. In the 2006 war, the militant group launched an Iranian-made drone capable of carrying explosives into Israel that was shot down. Another drone two years earlier crashed in the Mediterranean.

Last week Israeli authorities indicted an Arab citizen of Israel on charges of spying for Hezbollah, accusing him of gathering intelligence on security for Israel's president and other public officials as well as military installations.

اسرائیل کی فضائیہ نے اپنی فضائی حدود میں داخل ہونے والے ایک چھوٹے ڈرون طیارے کو تباہ کر دیا ہے۔

اسرائیلی فوج کے مطابق بغیر پائیلٹ کے فضا میں پرواز کرنے والا یہ ڈرون طیارہ ملک کے جنوب میں اسرائیلی فضائی حدود میں داخل ہوا تھا

ابھی تک یہ نہیں معلوم ہو سکا ہے کہ وہ کہاں سے آیا تھا۔

فوجی اہلکار صحراء النقب کے شمال میں اس طیارے کے ٹکڑے ڈھونڈ رہے ہیں۔

مقامی میڈیا کے مطابق حکام نے کہا ہے کہ یہ طیارہ مغرب کی جانب سے آیا تھا لیکن غزہ کی پٹی کی طرف سے نہیں۔

اسرائیلی فوج کا کہنا ہے کہ وہ طیارے کے روٹ کی جانچ کر رہے ہیں اور یہ پتہ چلانے کی کوشش کر رہے ہیں کہ یہ صرف جاسوسی کے لیے بھیجا گیا تھا یا اس کا مقصد کو دہشتگردانہ کارروائی تھا۔

طیارے کو مقامی وقت کے مطابق دس بجے تباہ کیا گیا۔

یاد رہے کہ جولائی دو ہزار چھ میں اسرائیل کے ایک بحری جہاز کو ایک ڈرون حملے میں نقصان پہنچا تھا۔

Casualties as Sudan military plane crashes: army

KHARTOUM: A Sudanese military transport plane crashed in the desert outside the capital Khartoum on Sunday, killing some and injuring others, the army said.

"The pilot informed the airport that he had a problem with one of his engines," before the plane went down west of Jebel Aulia, Sawarmi Khaled Saad, the Sudanese army spokesman, told AFP.

"There are some people killed and others injured," he said, unable to immediately give the toll.

Saad added that the Antonov was carrying military equipment from Khartoum to El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state in the far-west region where a rebellion began nearly a decade ago.

A witness said a helicopter ferried the dead and injured from the crash scene, which had been sealed off by soldiers, about 70 kilometres (43 miles) west of the capital.

Jebel Aulia is a popular recreational site about one hour's drive south of the Khartoum area.

Sudan's armed forces, which rely on Russian-made planes and helicopters, have experienced a number of aircraft losses in recent years.

In July, Darfur rebels said they shot down an Mi17 helicopter, killing seven personnel from the military which blamed a malfunction for the incident.

Low pay leads to fixing, blames Shoaib Akhtar

NEW DELHI: Former Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said on Friday the cricketers are being tempted into fixing matches because they are underpaid by their board.

"Fixing happens in our culture because there's less money, there are even lesser opportunities. Cricketers victimised by their boards return (to the team) to mint money," Akhtar, 37, told the Headlines Today news channel.

"In 2008, I had no money to even buy a car. I had to borrow money from a friend. I handled it, others go astray.

"Your friends ditch you, (the cricket) board doesn't back you. They all run you down. So when you return you think 'let me teach them a lesson'. Some are corrupt, but some cricketers are turned into criminals by the system."

"We (in Pakistan) don't have much money in cricket. I wasn't playing for India you know. I was an elite star, still after playing for 14 years I only made seven-eight crore rupees ($1.35-1.54 million)," said Akhtar.
(AFP)



           کم معاوضہ ملنے کے باعث کھلاڑی میچ فکسنگ کرتے ہیں، شعیب اختر


نئی دلی. . . عالمی شہرت یافتہ سابق پاکستانی فاسٹ بولر شعیب اختر نے کہا ہے کہ کم معاوضہ ملنے کے باعث کھلاڑی میچ فکسنگ کی جانب راغب ہوتے ہیں۔بھارتی میڈیاکوانٹرویو دیتے ہوئے انھوں نے کہا کہ خطے میں میچ فکسنگ اسلیے زیادہ ہے کیونکہ بورڈزکی جانب سے کم رقم دی جاتی ہے،ہمارے خطے میں کم مواقع ہیں،کرکٹ بورڈ کی جانب سے کھلاڑیوں کو نشانہ بنایاجاتاہے۔انھوں نے کہا کہ میرے پاس 2008میں کارخریدنے کے پیسے بھی نہیں تھے،اگرآپ کاکوئی دوست آپ کودھوکاد یدے توکرکٹ بورڈکھلاڑیوں کی مددنہیں کرتا۔انھوں نے کہا کہ پاکستان میں کرکٹ کے کھلاڑیوں کوزیادہ پیسے نہیں ملتے،انھوں نے کہا کہ کئی سال کرکٹ کھیلنے کے بعدمیں صرف7یا8کروڑروپے ہی بناسکا۔

Turkey returns fire after new Syria shelling: media

ISTANBUL: Turkey returned fire Friday after a new Syrian shell landed in on its territory close to their common border, NTV private news channel reported.

The syrian shell landed in the Turkish town of Altinozu in Hatay province near the border, triggering an immediate response fire from Turkish forces, at around 1630 GMT.

There were no immediate reports of injuries. (AFP)


                      شامی گولہ باری، ترکی کی جوابی کارروائی  

ترکی میں ذرائع ابلاغ کے مطابق ترک علاقے میں شامی گولہ باری کے ایک تازہ واقعے کے بعد ترک فوج نے جوابی کارروائی کی ہے۔
ترکی کے ٹیلی ویژن چینلز کے مطابق جمعہ کو صوبہ ہاتے میں پیش آنے والے اس واقعے میں کسی کے زخمی ہونے کی اطلاع نہیں ملی ہے۔
اس سے پہلے بدھ کو شام سے ترک علاقے میں گرنے والے مارٹر گولوں میں پانچ ترک شہری ہلاک ہو گئے تھے۔
اس واقعے کے بعد ترک پارلیمان کی جانب سے فوج کو شام میں داخل ہو کر کارروائی کرنے کی اجازت دی گئی تھی۔
جمعہ کو ترکی کی فوج نے ایکاکیل کے علاقے میں شامی سرحد کے قریب ٹینک اور اینٹی ائر کرافٹ میزائل پہنچا دیے ہیں جبکہ ترکی کی وزارتِ خارجہ کے ایک اہلکار نے امریکی خبر رساں ادارے اے پی کو بتایا کہ شام نے سرحد کے قریب سے ٹینکوں اور دیگر سازو سامان کو پیچھے ہٹا لیا ہے۔
ابھی تک اس علاقے میں سرحد پر کسی تصادم کی اطلاع نہیں ملی ہے لیکن علاقے میں صورتحال کشیدہ ہے۔
ایکاکیل کے ایک گاؤں اونکول کے رہائشی نے خبر رساں ادارے اے پی کو بتایا کہ’ دکاندار، مقامی شہریوں اور بچوں سمیت تمام افراد پریشان ہیں اور صبح ہونے تک سوتے نہیں پاتے ہیں۔‘
اس سے پہلے سلامتی کونسل نے سخت الفاظ میں ترکی کے سرحدی قصبے پر شامی حملے کی مذمت کی ہے جبکہ ترکی کے وزیراعظم نے کہا ہے کہ ان کا ملک شام سے جنگ چھیڑنے کا کوئی ارادہ نہیں رکھتا۔
سلامتی کونسل کے موجودہ صدر اور گوئٹے مالا کے مستقل مندوب گرٹ روزنتھل کی جانب سے پیش کیے گئے بیان میں شام سے مطالبہ کیا گیا ہے کہ وہ عالمی قانون کی ایسی خلاف ورزیوں کا سلسلہ بند کرے اور اپنے ہمسایوں کی سالمیت اور سرحدوں کا احترام کرے۔
اس سے قبل ترک علاقے میں شامی مارٹر گولہ گرنے سے پانچ ہلاکتوں کے بعد ترک پارلیمان کی جانب سے فوج کو شام میں داخل ہو کر کارروائی کرنے کی اجازت دیے جانے پرترک وزیراعظم رجب طیب اردگان نے کہا تھا کہ ترکی شام کے خلاف اعلان جنگ نہیں کرے گا۔
رجب طیب اردگان نے کہا کہ پارلیمان کی جانب سے دی گئی اجازت صرف خبردار کرنے کے لیے ہے تاہم انہوں نے تنبیہ کی کہ ان کے ملک کے عزم کا امتحان نہ لیا جائے۔
ترکی میں ہزاروں افراد نے شام کے ساتھ کسی بھی قسم کی جنگ کے خلاف مظاہرہ بھی کیا ہے۔
ترکی کی پارلیمنٹ نے ایک خصوصی بند کمرہ اجلاس میں ایک سو انتیس کے مقابلے میں تین سو بیس ووٹوں کی اکثریت سے ترک فوج کو ایک برس کے لیے شامی علاقے میں کارروائیاں کرنے اور شامی اہداف کو نشانہ بنانے کی منظوری دی۔
ترکی نے شامی گولہ باری کے بعد جوابی گولہ باری بھی کی تھی اور اقوامِ متحدہ میں شامی مندوب کے مطابق اس گولہ باری سے شامی فوج کے دو اہلکار زخمی ہوئے ہیں۔
جمعرات کو ہی ترک دارالحکومت استنبول کے تقسیم سکوائر میں ہزاروں افراد نے ایک جنگ مخالف مظاہرے میں شرکت کی ہے۔ اطلاعات کے مطابق مظاہرین ’جنگ منظور نہیں۔ امن چاہیے‘ اور ’ہم سرمایہ کارانہ نظام کے فوجی نہیں بنیں گے‘۔
استنبول کے علاوہ ازمین، مرسن، اسکیسہر اور دیگر قصبوں اور چھوٹے شہروں سے بھی مظاہروں کی اطلاعات ہیں۔

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Gen Kayani, Gen Makarov discuss bilateral defence

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani called on Chief of General Staff (CGS) Russian Federation Armed Forces General Makarov in the Ministry of Defence in Moscow and held a detailed discussion on bilateral defence cooperation.

According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Russian Army Chief of General Staff (CGS) was assisted by Deputy Chief of General Staff (DCGS) of Russian Federation Armed Forces Colonel General, Postnikov, Ground Forces Col Gen Postnikov and Ground Forces Commander, Colonel General Chirkin. Gen Makarov welcomed the COAS and specially showed his desire to cooperate in all fields with Pakistan Armed forces.

ماسکو… پاک فوج کے سربراہ جنرل اشفاق پرویز کیانی نے ماسکو میں وزارت دفاع کا دورہ کیا اورروس کے چیف آف جنرل اسٹاف سے ملاقات کی۔ جنرل کیانی روس کے تین روزہ دورے پر ہیں۔ آئی ایس پی آر کے مطابق ماسکو میں جنرل اشفاق کیانی نے روس کی وزارت دفاع کا دورہ کیا اور روسی افواج کے چیف آف جنرل اسٹاف جنرل نکولائی میکروف سے ملاقات کی۔ ملاقات میں روسی افواج کے ڈپٹی چیف کرنل جنرل پوستنیکوف اور کمانڈر کرنل جنرل چرکن بھی موجود تھے۔ مذاکرات میں دونوں ملکوں کے درمیان دفاعی تعاون پر تفصیلی غور کیا گیا۔ آئی ایس پی آر کے مطابق جنرل میکروف نے پاکستانی افواج کے ساتھ تمام شعبوں میں تعاون بڑھانے کی خواہش کا اظہار کیا

HANGU: Two suicide bombers killed

HANGU: One of the Taliban groups’ two suicide bombers were killed when they blew themselves up on Friday here,

Hangu DPO Dr. Niaz Saeed Ahmad said that the rival Taliban group’s two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the house of a Taliban commander Maulana Nabi Hanfi at Sarakdna, which resulted in the death of the bombers and complete destruction of Maulana Hanfi’s house, police said. Parts of bodies have been found from the scene of incident, said the police.

Following the incident, the entire area was cordoned off and investigation started..



                                   

                                  ہنگو: خود کش دھماکے میں دو حملہ آور ہلاک 

ہنگو… ہنگو میں خودکش حملے میں طالبان گروپ کے دوخودکش حملہ آور مارے گئے۔ ڈی پی او ہنگو ڈاکٹر نیاز سعید احمد کے مطابق سرک دانہ میں طالبان کمانڈر مولانا نبی حنفی کے گھر کے باہر مخالف طالبان گروپ نے خودکش حملہ کردیا، جس میں دوخودکش حملہ آور مارے گئے۔پولیس کا کہنا ہے کہ حملے میں مولانا نبی حنفی کا گھر مکمل طور پر تباہ ہوگیا۔ جائے وقوع سے خودکش حملہ آور وں کے اعضا بھی ملے ہیں۔ واقعے کے بعد پولیس نے علاقے کو گھیرے میں لے کر تحقیقات شروع کردی ہیں۔

FO hands over démarche to Richard Hoagland over anti-Islam f...

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday summoned acting US Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland and registering a formal protest, demanded of the US government to remove the anti-Islam film from social networking and video-sharing website YouTube as well as punish those involved in its making,
The Foreign Office handed over a démarche to Hoagland in protest against the anti-Islam film on behalf of the Pakistani government.

The démarche stated that the film, said to have been made in the US, was akin to an attack on the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims.
Pakistan moreover stated that the film aimed at fanning hatred among the people of different faiths and demanded the US government to take steps for the film’s removal from YouTube.
The government also demanded that action be taken against the film’s author and against those involve in its making.
On the occasion, Hoagland said the US government and leadership had condemned the anti-Islam film severely, adding that, a majority of the American people viewed it as offensive to the religious sensibilities of the world’s Muslim population.

Afghanistan banned all Pakistani newspapers

KABUL: Afghanistan banned all Pakistani newspapers from entering the country on Friday in an attempt to block the Taliban from influencing public opinion via the press.  
The order, issued by the Ministry of Interior, adds to the mounting tension between the neighboring countries.
It focuses specifically on blocking entry of the papers at Torkham, a busy border crossing, and directed border police to gather up Pakistani newspapers in the three eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar and Nuristan.
In a statement, the ministry said the newspapers were a conduit for Taliban propaganda.
”The news is not based in reality and it is creating concerns for our countrymen in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan,” the ministry said in a statement. ”Also, the newspapers are a propaganda resource of the Taliban spokesmen.”
The tensions between the two countries were highlighted Thursday at a UN Security Council meeting, when Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul called on Pakistan to stop shelling in the border province of Kunar, which he said has killed dozens of civilians.
He said the attacks were jeopardizing bilateral relations ”with potential negative consequences for necessary bilateral cooperation for peace, security and economic development in our two countries and the wider region.”
Many Pakistani Taliban fighters have fled to Kunar and surrounding areas after Pakistan’s army pushed them out of its tribal region, taking advantage of the US military’s withdrawal of most of its forces from these Afghan border provinces in recent years.

Car bombs kill 48 in Syria's Aleppo: watchdog

ALEPPO: At least 48 people were killed and nearly 100 wounded, most of them soldiers, in a spate of car bombs that blasted the heart of Syria's second city Aleppo on Wednesday, a watchdog said.

"Most of the dead and wounded are regime troops," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing medical sources.

A local official reported an initial toll of 37 dead and dozens wounded, many of them critically.

"The toll could rise because many people were badly injured," a city official told AFP, shortly after three bombs exploded around Saadallah al-Jabiri Square, near a military officers' club and a hotel.

Two of the blasts hit the area near the club within a minute of each other.

A third car bomb then exploded some 150 metres (yards) away in the Bab Jnein district, at the entrance of the Old City neighbourhood of Aleppo.

Near the officers' club, part of the facade of a hotel was destroyed by the force of the blasts, an AFP correspondent at the scene said, adding that a two-storey cafe collapsed completely.

"We heard two enormous explosions, as though the gates of hell were opening," Hassan, a 30-year-old man who works in a nearby hotel, told AFP.

"I saw thick smoke, and I helped a woman on the pavement whose arms and legs were completely dislocated," said Hassan.

A shopowner whose store is located a block away from the officers' club said: "I pulled out from the rubble a child less than 10 years old who has lost a leg."

All government buildings in the area were closed, he added.

Official television channel Al-Ikhbariya showed massive destruction in the square.

At least two buildings collapsed completely, and bloody corpses were laid out on the rubble, the broadcaster showed.

"There are still people trapped under the rubble!" called out men in the square, as the channel showed people evacuating some of the victims.

No armed group has claimed responsibility for the attacks on the high-security area.

Elsewhere, rebel fighters attacked a political intelligence branch in Aleppo as well as an old vegetable market where a large number of troops were posted, said the Observatory. Overnight, rebels also destroyed two tanks in the city.

Fierce fighting has raged in several neighbourhoods of Aleppo, especially after rebels launched a "decisive offensive" on Thursday to take control of the key Syrian city.

India beat South Africa but fail to reach semis

COLOMBO: India recorded a thrilling one-run victory over South Africa with one ball remaining in the last Super Eights group two match but failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 Cricket 2012.

Pakistan reached the semi-finals as India could not restrict the Proteas to 121 runs to book the semis berth.

Chasing 153 set by India, South Africa were all out for 151 in 19.5 overs as they could not win any match in the Super Eights.

Faf du Plessis was the main architect of South African batting cracking 65 off 38 balls with six fours and two sixes as no other batsman could make more than 16

Seamers Zaheer Khan and Lakshmikant Balaji were the most successful bowlers for India, taking three wickets each for 22 and 37, respectively.

Earlier, South Africa captain AB de Villiers won the toss and put India into bat here at the R Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday.

India made 152 runs for six wickets in the allotted 20 overs.

Suresh Raina top scored with 45 from 34 balls with four boundaries, followed by Rohit Sharma (25), captain Mahindra Singh Dhoni (23 not out) and Yuvraj Singh (21).

For South Africa, left-arm spinner Robin Peterson and fast bowler Morne Morkel claimed two wickets each.

Now, Pakistan will play the first semi-final against hosts Sri Lanka on Thursday while the second semi-final will be played between Australia and West Indies on Friday.




                        ورلڈ ٹی 20:بھارت ،جنوبی افریقہ کو ہرا کر بھی بے نیل و مرام

کولمبو… ورلڈ ٹی ٹوئنٹی سپر ایٹ مرحلے کے آج کے دوسرے میچ میں بھارت نے جنوبی افریقہ کو ایک رنز سے شکست دیدی، تاہم اسکے باوجود بھارت ایونٹ سے باہر ہوگیا۔اس سے قبل بھارت نے پہلے بیٹنگ کرتے ہوئے پروٹیز کو جیت کے لیے 153رنز کا ہدف دیا تھا۔تاہم پوری پروٹیز ٹیم 19.5اوورز میں 151رنز بناکر ڈھیر ہوگئی۔جنوبی افریقہ کی جانب سے ڈو پلیسز65سب سے کامیاب بیٹسمین ثابت ہوئے، انکے علاوہ ڈومینی 16کپتان ابراہم ڈی ویلیئز 13،بی ہارڈین 13رنز ہی قابل ذکر بیٹسمین تھے۔بھارت کی جانب سے ظہیر خان اور بالاجی نے تین تین جبکہ یووراج سنگھ 2، عرفان پٹھان اور ایشون نے ایک ایک وکٹ اپنے نام کی۔ اس میچ میں بھارت کا اصل ہدف جنوبی افریقہ کو 121تک محدود کرناتھا جسکے لیے بھارتی ٹیم نے ایڑھی چوٹی کا زور لگایا تاہم وہ ناکام رہے۔اور افریقی ٹیم خود تو باہر ہوئی ہی لیکن اس نے بھارتی کوششوں کو بھی ناکام بناکر اپنے ساتھ ساتھ اسے ٹورنامنٹ سے باہر کراکر پاکستان کو سیمی فائنل تک پہنچادیا۔

World Twenty20: India v South Africa

World Twenty20: India v South Africa
Tuesday, 2 October 2012 at Colombo RPS

In Play

South Africa won the toss and decided to field

India Innings 125 for 5 (17.5 overs)

India 1st Innings

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Gambhir		b M Morkel	8	12	1	0
Sehwag		b Peterson	17	14	1	1
Kohli	c de Villiers	b Kallis	2	6	0	0
Rohit Sharma	lbw	b Peterson	25	27	2	0
Yuvraj Singh		b M Morkel	21	15	1	2
Raina	not out		38	30	4	0
Dhoni	not out		3	4	0	0
Extras		1nb 10lb	11
Total		for 5	125	(17.5 ovs)

Bowler O M R W Steyn 3.0 1 12 0 M Morkel 4.0 0 28 2 Kallis 1.5 0 11 1 Peterson 4.0 0 25 2 Botha 3.0 0 30 0 Du Plessis 1.0 0 3 0 Duminy 1.0 0 6 0

Fall of wicket 23 Gambhir 30 Kohli 36 Sehwag 68 Yuvraj Singh 112 Rohit Sharma

Umpires: H D P K Dharmasena, R J Tucker, J J Crowe, I J Gould
India: Gambhir, Sehwag, Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Raina, Rohit Sharma, Dhoni (C/W), Pathan, Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Balaji
South Africa: Amla, Kallis, de Villiers (C/W), Duminy, Du Plessis, Behardien, A Morkel, Botha, Peterson, Steyn, M Morkel

Hackers shifting to ‘destruction’: US cyber chief

WASHINGTON, Oct 1, 2012 - Hackers are stepping up the intensity of their attacks, moving from “disruption” to “destruction” of key computer systems, the top US cyber-defense official said Monday.

General Keith Alexander, who is director of the National Security Agency and commander of the US Cyber Command, told a Washington forum that the new tactics could move beyond mere annoyances and begin causing severe economic damage.

“We are seeing the threat grow from exploitation to disruption to destruction,” he told the group at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

He argued that these attacks could impact organizations ranging from stock markets to power grid operators — “all of that is in the realm of the possible.”These types of destructive attacks can wipe out data, which could bankrupt a company or disable the control systems operating key infrastructure.

“It could overwrite the ability of a system to turn on,” Alexander said.

“Think about a company that loses all the data on its system… If you wipe out the data, you wipe out the ability of the system to operate.”Alexander said the best way to protect against these types of attacks is to implement an information sharing system between the private sector and government agencies – as was proposed in cyber-security legislation that failed this year in Congress.

Such legislation could include mandatory or voluntary reporting guidelines for when attacks occur, and it could allow those reporting the incidents to be immune from liability.

Senator Susan Collins, a sponsor of the failed cyber-security bill, told the same forum the need for new laws remains high.

“I hope we don’t have to wait for a ‘cyber 9/11′ for action to happen,” she said. “These problems are not going to go away.”Both Collins and Alexander said, despite news the White House is considering an executive order, the legal framework for cyber-security protection must come from legislation.

Collins said she told President Barack Obama that an executive order would be “a big mistake” and “cannot accomplish what legislation can.”She added that an executive order “could lull people into a false sense of security.”The two spoke the same day the White House acknowledged that one of its own computer networks was hit by a cyber attack, but said no classified systems were breached and there was no indication any data was lost.

An administration official spoke up after a report from a right-wing news site that Chinese hackers had breached a key White House military system.

The US official said the attack was against “an unclassified network” and was a case of “spear phishing,” in which a spoofed email tricks a user into clicking through to a website where a hacker can install malicious software or gain control of another computer.

“These types of attacks are not infrequent, and we have mitigation measures in place,” the official said.ہیکرز کا حملہ، امریکی سسٹم تباہی کے خدشے سے دوچار

واشنگٹن… امریکی نیشنل سیکیورٹی ایجنسی کا کہنا ہے کہ سائبر حملوں کی شدت بڑھ رہی ہے اور ہیکر اب مداخلت کے بجائے سسٹم کو تباہ کرنے لگے ہیں۔ دوسری جانب ایک سروے کے مطابق 90 فیصد امریکی اپنی نجی معلومات چرائے جانے کے خوف میں مبتلا ہیں۔ واشنگٹن میں ایک فورم سے خطاب کرتے ہوئے امریکی نیشنل سیکیورٹی ایجنسی کے ڈائریکٹر نے کہا کہ ہیکروں کے حملوں کے انداز میں تبدیلی آرہی ہے اور ان کی شدت میں اضافہ ہورہا ہے۔ امریکی اسٹاک ایکسچینج اور دیگر بڑی کمپنیاں بھی سائبر حملوں کا نشانہ بن سکتی ہیں۔ ہیکر کسی بھی کمپنی کے سسٹم کا ڈیٹا ضائع کرکے اسے دیوالیا بھی کرسکتے ہیں۔دوسری جانب امریکا میں کیے گئے ایک سروے کے مطابق 26 فی صد امریکیوں کو یہ بتایا گیا ہے کہ ان کے پاس ورڈ،کریڈٹ کارڈ نمبر اور دیگر نجی معلومات ممکنہ طور پر چرائی جا چکی ہیں جبکہ 64 فیصد امریکیوں نے اپنے کمپیوٹر پر کوئی اینٹی وائرس سافٹ ویئر انسٹال نہیں کیا ہے

Pakistan beat Australia to keep alive semis hope

COLOMBO: Pakistan defeated Australia by 32 runs in a key group two Super Eights match of the World Twenty20 here at the R Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday.

However, Australia reached the semi-finals on the basis of a better net run rate.






Both Australia and Pakistan ended the Super Eights on four points each, which knocked winless South Africa out of the tournament.

Australia advanced to the semi-finals despite the defeat due to having the best net run-rate in the group. The result left India needing an emphatic win over South Africa later on Tuesday to stop Pakistan's progress.

Sri Lanka and the West Indies have already qualified from group one.

Chasing 150, Australian batsmen mesmerized by Pakistan’s five-man spin attack, could make 117 runs for the loss of seven wickets in the allotted 20 overs.

Off spinner Saeed Ajmal claimed three for 17, but it was 20-year-old Raza Hasan who was declared man of the match for conceding just 14 runs and taking two wickets in four overs of steady left-arm spin.

Veteran Mike Hussey was Australia's saviour with an unbeaten 54 off 47 balls as none of the other batsmen managed to cross 15 against the rampaging spinners.

Australia never looked comfortable after their in-form openers, Shane Watson and David Warner, were dismissed by the fifth over with only 19 runs on the board.

Australia, who needed to make 112 or more to qualify, achieved the target when Hussey cut seamer Umar Gul to the fence off the first ball of the final over.

Gul's two overs at the end were the only ones by a seamer as the spinners shared 18 overs between themselves.

Earlier, Nasir Jamshed hit 55 off 46 balls to steer Pakistan to 149 for six after being sent in to bat

The left-hander cracked 55 off 46 balls with four boundaries and two sixes.

After the openers were removed by the sixth over, Jamshed put on 79 off 55 balls for the third wicket with Kamran Akmal, who made 32 before both batsmen were dismissed in the space of three deliveries.

Abdul Razzaq marked his return to the side in place of Yasir Arafat to make 22 from 17 balls. Left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc claimed 3-20 for Australia.


                                 ٹی 20ورلڈکپ:پاکستان نے آسٹریلیا کو32 رنزسے ہرا دیا


کولمبو…پاکستان نے ٹی20ورلڈ کپ میں آسٹریلیا کو32 رنز سے شکست دے دی ہے۔پاکستانی اسپنرز کی بہترین کارکردگی کی بدولت آسٹریلیا مقرر بیس اوورز میں7 وکٹوں کے نقصان پرصرف117 بنا سکا۔پاکستان کی جانب سے دیئے گئے150رنز کے ہدف کے تعاقب میں آسٹریلیا کاآغاز کچھ اچھا نہ رہا ، پاکستانی اسپنرز کے مقابلے میں آج آسٹریلوی بلے بازوں کی ایک نہ چلی، آسٹریلیا کو پہلا نقصان چوتھے اوورمیں اُٹھانا پڑا جب شین واٹسن 8رنزبنا کررضا حسن کی گیند پر ایل بھی ڈبلیو ہوئے جبکہ دوسرے اوپنرڈیوڈ وارنر بھی 8رنز بنا کرمحمد حفیظ کی گیند پر ایل بھی ڈبلیوہوگئے۔مائیک ہسسی نے پاکستانی بالرز کا مقابلہ کیااور ناقابل شکست54رنز بنائے، تاہم دوسری جانب سے کوئی دوسرا بلے بازان کا ساتھ دینے میں ناکام رہا اورآسٹریلیا کی وکٹیں وقفے وقفے سے گرتی رہیں۔جارج بیلی15،کیمرون وائٹ12،گلین میکس ویل4،میتھیو ویٹ13اورپیٹ کمنس بغیر کوئی رن بنائے آوٴٹ ہوئے،مچل اسٹاک صرف ایک رن بناسکے۔سعید اجمل نے 3جبکہ رضا حسن اور محمد حفیظ نے دو، دو وکٹیں حاصل کیں۔مقررہ بیس اوورز میں سے 18اوورزاسپنرز نے کرائے جبکہ فاسٹ بالرز میں سے صرف عمر گل نے ہی دو اوورز کرائے۔شکست کے باوجود آسٹریلیا سیمی فائنل میں پہنچ گیا ہے جبکہ پاکستان کے سیمی فائنل میں پہنچنے کا فیصلہ بھارت بمقابلہ جنوبی افریقا میچ کے نتیجے پر ہے۔اسپنررضاحسن مین آف دی میچ قرارپائے۔


بھارت کو سیمی فائنل میں پہنچنے کے لیے بڑے مارجن سے فتح کی ضرورت

کولمبو…آج پاکستان نے آسٹریلیا کو 32رنز سے ہرا دیا ، تاہم اسکے باوجود آسٹریلیا سیمی فائنل میں پہنچ گیا ہے، تاہم دوسری جانب اب بھی پاکستان کا سیمی فائنل میں پہنچنے کا تمام تر دارومدار بھارت اور جنوبی افریقہ کے درمیان کھیلے جانے والے میچ پر ہے، اس سلسلے میں جنوبی افریقہ کی فتح پاکستان کی کامیابی ہوگی، بھارت کو سیمی فائنل میں پہنچنے کے لیے یہ میچ بڑے مارجن سے جیتنا ہوگا ، بھارت اپنے مقررہ بیس اوورز میں 160 کا اسکور ترتیب دیتا ہے تو اسے 32رنز کے مارجن سے یہ میچ جیتنا ہوگا ۔ورنہ وہ سیمی فائنل تک رسائی حاصل نہیں کرسکے گا۔

Pakistan win toss, bat against India

COLOMBO: Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez won the toss and elected to bat against their arch rivals India in the World Twenty20 Super Eights group two here at the R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday.

Pakistan made no change in their team which defeated South Africa by two wickets in Colombo on Friday while India on the other side made two changes.

Dashing opener Virender Sehwag was back for India.He was surprisingly left out of the Indian team which lost to Australia by nine wickets in the first Super Eights match on Friday.

Sehwag and fast bowler Lakshmipathy Balaji were brought in for Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla.

If Pakistan win this match they will qualify for the semi-finals along with Australia from the group. In case of an Indian victory, all four teams will go into the last matches on Tuesday with a chance to reach the last four.

Australia moved closer to the semi-finals after recording their second win in as many matches by thumping South Africa by eight wickets earlier in the day.

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Rohit Sharma, Lakshmipathy Balaji.

Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez (captain), Imran Nazir, Nasir Jamshed, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Raza Hasan, Yasir Arafat.

Umpires: Rod Tucker (AUS) and Richard Kettleborough (ENG), Tv umpire: Kumar Dharmasena (SL)

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (NZ)

10 infants die in Larkana hospital

LARKANA: Ten newborn babies have died in Children Hospital Larkana due to suspension of electricity during last 24 hours, .

According to the reports, four children died while the condition of several turned severe in the ICU after electricity suspension last night. Six more children died in the morning today.

It is said that diesel was also not available for generator in the hospital.

Meanwhile, Medical Superintendent of Children Hospital Afsar Bhutto said four children were brought in serious condition. They were provided treatment but could not be saved, however, six more died due to late delivery.

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah have sought report of the incident while Deputy Commission Asadullah Bhutto has convened emergency meeting of the concerned staff including MS hospital   { Geo News reported.}

Syria rebels struggle in fresh Aleppo assault

There has been heavy fighting in Syria's biggest city of Aleppo, with state media saying rebels have suffered big losses in their latest assault.

Rebel commanders had announced a major offensive on Friday to secure control of the whole of the city.

Both sides reported clashes across Aleppo but state media said counter-attacks had inflicted heavy losses.

Activist groups say 150 people were killed across Syria on Friday, 40 of them in Aleppo.

The signs are that the rebels simply lack the firepower and the manpower to score a significant breakthrough, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from Beirut.

By contrast, the government side has made full use of its heavy weapons, tanks and monopoly of air power, our correspondent says.

Activists estimate more than 27,000 people have died in the violence since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began last year.

'Non-stop'
State television reported attacks on what it called "terrorist centres" in 10 different locations, saying heavy losses had been inflicted.

Residents of Aleppo neighbourhoods previously spared the worst of the fighting told AFP news agency on Friday that the violence was unprecedented.

"The sound from the fighting... has been non-stop," said a resident of the central district of Sulamaniyeh, who identified himself as Ziad.

"Everyone is terrified. I have never heard anything like this before."

Abu Furat, one of the leaders of the rebels' al-Tawhid Brigade, admitted fighters had had to retreat from because they were out-gunned.

"To win a guerrilla street war, you have to have bombs and we don't," he said.

Despite all their advantages, government forces have clearly not been able to dislodge the tenacious rebel fighters from many parts of the city, where the destruction has been massive as the stalemated struggle goes on, our correspondent adds

Missing British schoolgirl, teacher found in France: police

BORDEAUX: A British schoolgirl and a maths teacher who triggered a Europe-wide manhunt after running away together have been found in Bordeaux, France, police said on Friday.

Megan Stammers, 15, and the teacher, Jeremy Forrest, 30, were filmed boarding a cross-Channel ferry on September 20 but had not been heard of since, despite appeals from their parents for them to get in touch.

Rangers operation in Shah Faisal, Lyari

KARACHI: Rangers carried out targetted operation in various areas of Shah Faisal Colony and Lyari, apprehending 18 suspects late on Friday.

The operation was carried out in the areas of Shah Faisal colony including Sadaat Colony and Natha Khan Goth where ten suspects were taken into custody.

Meanwhile in Lyari, ten suspects were detained in the operation that was conducted in Aath Chowk area.

According to the sources, weapons were also recovered from the possession of the accused and all the detained suspects were taken to undisclosed location.

Syria's internally displaced languish in squalor at Turkish border

On the northern edge of this war-torn country, barely 100 meters from the Turkish border, thousands of desperate Syrians slept in the dirt.

They were hard to spot at first, hidden among ancient olive groves.

But as the sun rose, bodies stirred beneath filthy blankets, next to pitiable shelters of plastic sheets strung up between olive trees.

Children began scavenging in surrounding fields for twigs to use for cooking fires. Women lined up next to a water tank pumping milky, chalky water presumed to have given many residents of this make-shift camp diarrhea.

A month ago, there was no camp here.

Syrian refugees living in olive orchards

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But now rebels from a local Free Syrian Army group that slept in a tent with the words "police office" spray-painted on it estimated there were between 5,500 and 6,000 people living here, with more arriving every day.

More: War marks highest daily death toll

"I came here because my house was destroyed," said Youssef Dabul, an English-speaking 30-year-old man who said he used to manage a KFC restaurant in Aleppo.

"I never imagined in all my life to come here and live under the olive trees."

Many of the residents told similar stories of rockets and airstrikes pummeling their villages and towns, forcing them to flee their homes.

Ousama Hamdou sat on a plastic mat under a tree holding his 2-year-old daughter, Maram. Long, wide scars stretched across her chest, still pink from the explosion last month that left her badly burned.

"I don't know what exploded, whether it was a rocket or a bomb," Hamdou said. The blast destroyed his home in the battleground city of Aleppo, in a flashpoint neighborhood called Sakari.

When a reporter asked "how are you?" in Arabic to Maram, she didn't respond. Hamdou explained that the explosion left the little girl deaf.

In his other arm, he held Maram's one-and-a-half-month old brother, whose face was covered with insect bites.

"He's being bitten by mosquitoes, and he has diarrhea and fever," Hamdou said, adding that he and his family of eight had already spent more than two weeks waiting here by the border for the Turks to let them in.

"Every day that we stay here we come closer to dying."

For more than a year, Turkey maintained what it described as an "open door policy" for Syrian refugees fleeing their government's military assaults.

Turkish border guards met families who escaped to the border fence with vans and buses that transported them to camps that foreign dignitaries have frequently described as clean, well-managed and orderly.

More: Witness says scores killed in massacre south of Damascus

But over the last month, the refugee population in Turkey has swelled to more than 87,000 people, prompting Ankara to at least partially shut its "open door" policy as the Turkish government struggles to build more camps.

"Our speed of constructing camps... cannot compete with the pace of the violence of the Ba'ath regime against its own people," said Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal, in a phone interview with CNN.

"There is no policy change," another Turkish official insisted, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We intend to continue this policy of open door as long as we can. The thing is, our capabilities are being strained."

"We've started to extend humanitarian aid, food, medicine, to the zero point on the border," the official added. "That's the best we can do at the moment."

There were signs of food distribution and delivery of basic supplies at the olive orchard camp.

But no international aid organizations appeared to have a presence here.

As parents have watched their children succumb to disease due to the filthy conditions, tempers have periodically flared.

"I'm ready to beg (Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip) Erdogan to help us," said a man dressed in a track suit who called himself Abu Saleh. He showed a laminated card that identified him as an FSA fighter. But Abu Saleh explained he quit the rebel movement after his wife was killed by a government airstrike last month. Now the former rebel was trying to transport his surviving children to safety in Turkey.

An hour later, Abu Saleh led a procession of about 100 men and boys past piles of burning garbage, to the barbed wire border fence. There, under the eyes of Turkish gendarme officers watching from a guard tower that overlooked the camp, the refugees held a futile protest, begging the Turks to let them in.

"Erdogan, Erdogan, today we sleep in Turkey," the crowd chanted.

More: Report details Syrian children's horror stories

"We want to send a message to the leaders of the Arab world, of the Islamic world, they abandoned us," Abu Saleh yelled. "And the first one who let us down was Obama."

As the crowd chanted, a lone Turkish municipal employee worked a few meters away on the Turkish side of the fence, spreading mortar onto a recently constructed cinder block wall.

In the Syrian village below the camp, hundreds of other displaced families had taken shelter in schools and a village mosque.

There were new arrivals every day.

A pickup truck loaded with at least 30 people and their belongings rolled up outside of one of the schools Wednesday. A woman who only gave the name Um Mohamed said this wasn't the first time her family vacated their homes in the village of Kafr Zeita, near the city of Hama.

"We fled our homes many times before to neighboring villages," she said, still sitting in the back of the loaded truck. "But now we can't stay there... the situation is very, very bad. Rockets and bombs, falling day and night."

Um Mohamed's family also wanted to go to Turkey.

Since Turkish authorities were only allowing a few hundred refugees to enter every day, some Syrians resorted to desperate tactics to escape their country.

Under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, a family of at least 10 stood quietly in fields not far from the Turkish border fence. With a signal from a smuggler, they then walked single-file toward the border, carrying suitcases and bags on their heads.

The family then began crawling, one by one, through the barbed wire fence. Suddenly, flashlights flared in the darkness.

A squad of Turkish gendarme soldiers ran along the fence toward the refugees, bellowing at the top of their lungs. Moments later, the family members came stumbling back to Syria, still clutching their suitcases.