[Iran Press TV] The corpse count from heavy downpours and landslides in Pakistain’s north and northwest has risen to 92 as rescue workers are still searching for survivors. Nobody does "unprepared" like Pakistain.
Since they do it every year, they've developed a certain level of expertise.
Pakistain's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Wednesday that more than 1,200 houses have been damaged since April 2.
Figures show at least a dozen people were killed by heavy rains in Pakistain-administered Kashmire, and 15 others bit the dust in the far northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Abdul Latif, a local government official, said most of the deaths and destruction from the flash floods and landslides occurred in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Province.
Figures show at least 65 people were killed in the province alone and nearly 930 homes were either damaged or completely destroyed.
Latif said real damage could be too extensive as roads blocked by landslides remain closed, adding, "When the road access is cleared, then our teams can go house to house and survey the damage."
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The European Union executive is considering whether to make US and Canadian citizens apply for visas before traveling to the bloc, a move that could raise tensions as Brussels negotiates a trade pact with Washington.
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The way uncontrolled border crossings into and in the EU are going, the US may require visas from the EU. However, all you have to do is to cross the US southern border illegally. So it is all moot.
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From the comments: "Maybe the government shouldn't have imposed so many surveillance programs on its citizens -- and kept quiet about it for years -- that they now feel the need to use sophisticated security technologies."
[DAWN] DERA GHAZI KHAN: Five children, two brothers among them, were buried alive while eight others were maimed when the roofs of a double-storey building of a seminary on Dera-Multan Road caved in during construction.
According to eyewitness account, labourers were engaged in construction when the roof of the seminary’s upper storey collapsed triggering a chain reaction leading to fall of the roof of the ground floor where children were taking the Koranic lessons.
Thirteen children were trapped under the rubble and a team of Rescue 1122 came there and launched an operation. The rescuers managed to bring out eight injured children including Habib, Akhtar, Irfan, Rasheed, Nadir, Yousaf Ansar and Yousaf Ahmed and shifted them to the DHQ hospital. An instructor also was injured.
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got their Koranic lesson from Allah:
don't study in Pak buildings under construction
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Where to draw the line?
The loss of any child is a terrible thing.
Killing off feral groups of indoctrinated junior jihadists-in-training is efficient. Imagine a representation of 60%(3) as passive muslim drones, 20%(1) as imaginative activists and 20%(1) as "soldiers of the faith". Then killing 5 to get 1 to save 200 seems to balance karma, but how do you test the premise?
[DAWN] Supreme Court Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali observed on Tuesday that the concept of secret ballot is alien to Islam and is rather, derived from the west. "The method of secret ballot is a western concept and has nothing to do with Islam," the chief justice observed, adding that the open ballot system discourages hypocrisy.
The observation came during the hearing of an appeal instituted by the Sindh government against the Sindh High Court’s Feb 10 judgment which, while deciding the applications of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... and the PML-F, had declared as void the recent amendments in the local government law, whereby secret balloting was replaced with a show of hands for electing mayors, deputy mayors and other local government representatives in the province.
On Feb 17, a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by the chief justice had stayed the upcoming elections in Sindh to elect mayors, deputy mayors, chairmen, vice chairmen and members of reserved seats in the recently-elected local government bodies.
The last three years have seen a raging debate on whether the local government elections should be held in an open manner or through secret balloting, the chief justice regretted, while also questioning the need for amendments in the Sindh Local Government (Amendment) Act 2013.
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"I mean, you could literally vote for anyone, and we can't have that"
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"I mean, you could literally vote for anyone, and we can't have that"
I remember reading, don't remember where, about a Soviet citizen, who wrote "none of the above" on his ballot in mid 70es. KGB spent several thousand man hours to find him.
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More man-made global climate change! Hotter, colder, wetter, dryer - all due to coal burning power plants. Except the Chinese and other third-world power plants.
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My first thought (after "I want one!") was why not a subDrone? Surface is faster, more manuverable and easier to repair. Well OOOK, so airDrone for faster and more efficient, but there are altitude control issues when components fail, again surface wins. Does/how does surfDrone defend itself? Well, it doesn't but it costs less than current platforms if it is lost. So embed it with a battlegroup, the most likely sub target, other than other subs being targeted by attack subs. But if you have a battlegroup, you already have armed airborne assets, so maybe this is best intended as a shoreDrone for perimeter patrols? Then I had to ask myself, "Why not a deployable passive sensor grid?" for 'special interest' perimeters with shore launched munitions?
So I guess I couldn't really come up with a set of use cases other than "I want one".
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[DAWN] DERA GHAZI KHAN: Five children, two brothers among them, were buried alive while eight others 
[DAWN] Supreme Court Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali observed on Tuesday that the concept of secret ballot is alien to Islam and is rather, derived from the west. "The method of secret ballot is a western concept and has nothing to do with Islam," the chief justice observed, adding that the open ballot system discourages hypocrisy.
