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January 31, 2012

Brahumdagh Bugti's sister and niece Shot Dead in Karachi




Published: January 31, 2012


KARACHI:In a new spate of violence in Karachi, the wife and daughter of Balochistan MPA Mir Bakhtiar Domki  were shot dead near Gizri flyover early Tuesday morning. The deceased were also the sister and niece of Baloch Republican Party (BRP) leader Baramdagh Bugti.
“A black-coloured Toyota car, with the victims on board, was parked outside a house when two men riding on motorcycles opened fire on the car,” said Superintendent of Police Clifton Tariq Dharejo, while talking to The Express Tribune.
“The victims were on their way home after attending a family wedding,” he added. The driver was also killed in the incident.
Eyewitnesses said that the assailants had circled the area once or twice before attacking their target, and fled after the attack.
The bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Complex (JMPC) after the incident.
Domki, who is a grandson of Nawab Akbar Bugti, belongs to Sibi.
Police believe that the incident could be a case of target killing based on personal enmity. They are investigating the incident.
Domki, while talking to Express News, said that they [his family] do not expect justice from the government of Sindh and that all it could do was form a few judicial committees.
“They used to kill the men of our family, now they have started killing our women as well,” he said. “We have been sacrificing for our country, and will continue doing so.”

January 25, 2012

Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti HD images


Biggest solar storm since 2003 pummels atmosphere, forcing planes to divert from northern routes

Airlines including Delta have diverted flights across northern routes as the strongest solar storm since 2003 hits Earth's atmosphere. 
Airlines are avoiding North Pole routes, which the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says are more exposed to the proton storm caused by solar activity on January 23. 
NOAA issued a warning for solar radiation storms, which can affect communications systems at high latitudes and satellite-based communications such as GPS.  The crew on the International Space Station has not been harmed, but Nasa says problems with satellites are possible. 
Solar storms
NASA handout images acquired 23 January 2012 and made available 25 January 2012 shows flare activity on the Sun. The images are from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The solar storms have the potential to disrupt satellite systems and communications
Coronal mass ejection shown in this NASA supplied photograph from Monday, January 23, 2012. The strongest solar radiation storm since 2005 has started: It will peak today and could continue tomorrow
Coronal mass ejection shown in this NASA supplied photograph from Monday, January 23, 2012. The strongest solar radiation storm since 2005 has started: It will peak today and could continue tomorrow
'Many airliners have been avoiding the North Pole routes because they are more exposed to the proton storm, which disrupts High Frequency radio communications,' Doug Biesecker, a space weather specialist at NOAA said. 
NOAA said today, 'The geomagnetic field is expected to be at unsettled to minor storm levels, with isolated major storm intervals.'
Nasa's Goddard Space Weather Centre said, 'The influx of particles amplified the solar radiation storm such that it is now considered the largest since October 2003. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has categorized it as a "strong" -- or S3 (with S5 being the highest) – storm. 
'Solar radiation storms can affect satellite operations and short wave radio propagation, but cannot harm humans on Earth.'
'We are undergoing a series of solar bursts in the sky that are impacting the northern side of the world,' Delta spokesman Anthony Black said.  'It can impact your ability to communicate. The polar routes are being flown further south than normal.'
Taking no risks: Delta is rerouting flights that go over the North Pole to avoid the impact of the solar storm
Taking no risks: Delta is rerouting flights that go over the North Pole to avoid the impact of the solar storm
The 'coronal mass ejection' which caused this solar radiation storm happened on January 23, as shown in this picture from Nasa's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory
The 'coronal mass ejection' which caused this solar radiation storm happened on January 23, as shown in this picture from Nasa's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory
United Airlines spokesman Mike Trevino said the carrier diverted one flight on Monday because of the storm, but none on Tuesday.    
American Airlines reported no operational impact due to solar flares but that it is monitoring the atmosphere, spokesman Ed Martelle said.    
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a press release on Monday that it had issued a watch on Sunday for 'a geomagnetic storm associated with a bright flare on the sun.'
Stargazers were out in force in northern latitudes on Tuesday, hoping to be awed by a spectacular showing of northern lights after the most powerful solar storm in six years.
On Monday and Tuesday, the proton radiation from the eruption reached strong levels, the most powerful since October 2003. 
Geomagnetic storms cause awesome sights, but they can also bring trouble. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, problems can include current surges in power lines, and interference in the broadcast of radio, TV and telephone signals. No such problems were reported Tuesday.
Scientists have been expecting solar eruptions to become more intense as the sun enters a more active phase of its 11-year cycle, with an expected peak in 2013.
But in recent years the sun appeared quieter than normal, leading scientists to speculate that it was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen once a century or so.

January 22, 2012

Quetta Snowfall Video 22/01/2012


Noor Elahi Bugti - Ex Senior Bureau Chief News Reporter


Quetta Snowfall 22/01/2012


January 21, 2012

Happy Quetta's 1st Snow Fall


January 10, 2012

Our brain can tell real face from imitations



Our brain can tell real face from imitations
Washington: Both the right and the left sides of the brain work together to tell a real face from a facial imitation, says a study co-authored by an Indian-born scientist.

Objects that resemble faces are everywhere. Whether it`s New Hampshire`s erstwhile granite `Old Man of the Mountain`, or Jesus` face on a tortilla, our brains are adept at locating images that look like faces. 

However, the normal human brain is almost never fooled into thinking such objects actually are human faces. 

"You can tell that it has some `faceness` to it, but on the other hand, you`re not misled into believing that it is a genuine face," says Pawan Sinha, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Hrithik turns 38, B-town says 'Happy Birthday'


Hrithik Roshan turned 38 Tuesday and wishes from tinsel town came pouring in for the star.
Friends and colleagues wished success and happiness to the Bollywood heartthrob who is ready to charm his fans as Vijay Dinanath Chauhan in the new version of "Agneepath", coming out Jan 26.
Here is what they have to say:
Bipasha Basu: My birthday has just gone...now it is Hrithik, fellow Capricorn, so ya Happy Birthday.
Sonu Niigaam: Hrithik Roshan is one of the most handsome men in the world and very talented. Wishing him a very Happy Birthday.

January 09, 2012

Jamil Bugti unsure Musharraf will be punished


ISLAMABAD: The younger son of late Nawab Akbar Bugti, Jamil Bugti, on Sunday feared that a red-carpet welcome might be accorded to former military ruler and 'killer' of his father, Pervez Musharraf, on his return late this month.
Jamil, who is fighting a legal battle for the accountability of those behind what he called the assassination of his over 80-year-old father killed in a Kohlu cave attack in August 2006, has no hopes Musharraf would be nabbed on his homecoming despite the Balochistan High Court orders.
"When a dictator, who sent packing an elected government, abrogated the Constitution and played with the state institutions to perpetuate his despotic rule, is presented a guard of honour on his exit, can also be welcomed in a similar style," Jamil said when The News (a local newspaper) approached him for a comment on Musharraf's planned return to Pakistan.
Asked why he believed so, Jamil said the reasons were obvious. Musharraf was sent home after being given a guard of honour by the incumbent government as this government came into being under the notorious NRO.
Jamil, who lives either in Quetta or Karachi, said the NRO-beneficiaries lacked the moral courage and political will to act on merit against Musharraf. "The military dictator paved their way to Pakistan and to power and in quid pro quo, he was sent abroad untouched: never to be held accountable for his misdeeds," he alleged.
Bugti's son charged he expected no relief from a coterie of opportunists (rulers), who were in the habit of ridiculing the Supreme Court judgments and orders almost every day. He continued Musharraf was larger than Pakistan's law and the state institutions because he hailed from a peculiar background and this was his unmatched advantage over other fellow countrymen.
"Musharraf can't be held accountable, as those who are far lesser in stature are still roaming free such as Aftab Sherpao, Awais Ghani and Nowsherwani," he noted. Jamil, in his application to the police, had nominated Musharraf on the top in the list of those who for one reason or the other were responsible for the killing of his father.
The BHC ordered issuance of arrest warrants of Musharraf through Interpol and action against others, nominated in the FIR. Jamil said despite clear orders by the Balochistan High Court, no progress was made so far in arresting Sherpao, Nowsherwani, who are already in Pakistan what to talk of Musharraf.
Keeping in view the attitude of the so-called democratic government, Jamil said he had no hope the killers of his father would ever be arrested and prosecuted for their crime. "Should a person speaking for his people's rights and increase in rent of his land from where gas was being processed be killed this way in a military action," he wondered and claimed his father was a torch-bearer of the rights of Balochistan.
Courtesy: The News

January 04, 2012

Balochistan: Pakistan's other war

Baloch politicians and leaders share their vision of self-determination and freedom from Pakistani rule.

In the rugged mountains of southwest Pakistan lies the country's largest province of Balochistan. Far from the bustling cities of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, this remote region has been the battleground for a 60-year-long insurgency by the Baloch ethnic minority.
"The Baloch people now live in a state of war. Every day, they face injustice. The army and intelligence agents kidnap our young, and we know nothing about them for years. The Baloch people live in a state of war. We will not accept any offers until we regain control over this land. They burn down our homes and then ask us for peace? We are not stupid."
- Baloch Khan, Baloch rebel leader
The ongoing conflict is often called Pakistan's dirty war, because of the rising numbers of people who have disappeared or have been killed on both sides.
But the uprising against Pakistan's government has received little attention worldwide, in part because most eyes have been focused on the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in other areas of Pakistan.
Bordering Iran and Afghanistan, Balochistan remains notorious for cross-border smuggling and has more recently been infiltrated by former members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives. Few outsiders gain access or permission to travel in the region.
Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan travelled to Balochistan to meet with key Balochi politicians who explain the history and current circumstances of the region and to get an exclusive interview with the leader of the Balochistan rebel movement seeking secession from Pakistan.
This film offers a glimpse into a region which, in 2010, had the highest number of militant, insurgent and sectarian attacks of any province in Pakistan. It is a region torn apart with separatist organisations attacking the state, sectarian and ethnic attacks, and crime, including kidnapping for ransom.

January 03, 2012

Impossible crystals are 'from space'


Examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in nature may have come from space, a study shows.
Quasicrystals have an unusual structure - in between those of crystals and glasses.
Until two years ago, quasicrystals had only been created in the lab - then geologists found them in rocks from Russia's Koryak mountains.
In PNAS journal, a team says the chemistry of the Russian crystals suggests they arrived in meteorites.
Quasicrystals were first described in the 1980s by Israeli researcher Daniel Schechtman, who was awarded last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery.
Schechtman's ideas were initially treated with doubt or scorn by some of his peers, who thought the structures were "impossible".
Rule breaker
Quasicrystals break some of the rules of symmetry that apply to conventional crystalline structures. They also exhibit different physical and electrical properties.
In 2009, Luca Bindi, from the University of Florence, Italy, and his colleagues reported finding quasicrystals in mineral samples from the Koryak mountains in Russia's far east.
Quasicrystal (Credit: SPL)The "forbidden symmetry" of the quasicrystal was first spied in 1982
The mineral - an alloy of aluminium, copper, and iron - showed that quasicrystals could form and remain stable under natural conditions. But the natural process that created the structures remained an open question.
Now, Dr Bindi, Paul Steinhardt from Princeton University and others claim that tests point to an extra-terrestrial origin for the Russian minerals.
They used the technique of mass spectrometry to measure different forms - or isotopes - of the element oxygen contained in parts of the rock sample.
The pattern of oxygen isotopes was unlike any known minerals that originated on Earth. It was instead closer to that sometimes found in a type of meteorite known as a carbonaceous chondrite.
The samples also contained a type of silica which only forms at very high pressures. This suggests it either formed in the Earth's mantle, or was formed in a high-velocity impact, such as that which occurs when a meteorite hits the Earth's surface.
"Our evidence indicates that quasicrystals can form naturally under astrophysical conditions and remain stable over cosmic timescales," the team writes in PNAS.

OGDCL discovered natural gas new reserves in Dera Bugti


imajjjjjKARACHI: Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) has discovered significant natural gas reserves from its exploratory well at Zin X-1 well site in Dera Bugti, Balochistan.
According to the communiqué sent to KSE here Tuesday, the deep well was drilled down to a target depth of 2300 metres, targeted to test the hydrocarbon potentials of Pab sandstone and Sui main limestone formations.
The first targeted zone pab sandstone of cretaceous ground has tested 5.48 mmscf gas per day with the flowing pressure of 1050 PSI on 32/64" choke size.
OGDC is the operator with 95 percent working interest in Zin Exploration License together with its joint venture partner Government Holdings Pvt Ltd (5 percent stake).

January 02, 2012

New Year 2012 Eve Dubai

Landmine kills FC personnel in Dera Bugti


QUETTA, Jan 1: At least three personnel of Frontier Corps and a retired FC official were killed and three others injured when a landmine exploded in Dera Bugti district on Sunday.
Police sources said two landmines had been planted in the Aasreli area, some 10km from Sui town, and an official vehicle carrying FC personnel hit one of them.
The proscribed Baloch Republican Army has claimed responsibility for the blast.
The FC personnel killed were identified as Naik Qasim, Shadi Khan and Qudratullah but the name of the retired official could not
be obtained.
Law-enforcement personnel took the bodies and the injured to the Sui hospital. They cordoned off the entire area and looked for suspects.
The Levies Force registered a case and started investigation.
“Troops are patrolling the area. Three soldiers were killed and two were injured. It was a landmine blast,” a spokesman for Frontier Corps told AFP.