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Bullet removed from Pak girl’s spine
US pair win chemistry Nobel for cell receptors
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Zardari Case
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Bullet removed from Pak girl’s spine
Pakistani doctors on Wednesday removed a bullet lodged near the spine of a 14-year-old girl shot by the Taliban, a horrific attack that drew grief and revulsion from across the nation and prompted the army chief to highlight the need to fight the propagators of "such barbaric mindset". A team led by Mumtaz Khan, head of the neurosurgery department of Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, carried out a three-hour operation at a military hospital between 2 am and 5 am to remove the bullet from Malala Yousufzai, who was attacked by the Taliban on Tuesday for speaking out against the atrocities of militants. The doctors also took steps to reduce the swelling in Malala's head. Though the bullet was removed, there was "excessive bleeding" during the surgery and Malala was not fully stable as yet, officials said. Malala's uncle Ahmed Shah told the media in Peshawar that the doctors had advised against sending Malala, the first recipient of Pakistan's National Peace Award for Youth, outside the country for treatment. Doctors said it would not be advisable for her to travel in her condition. The next 10 days would be crucial for her, Shah quoted the doctors as saying. Malala is currently in the intensive care unit of the military hospital in Peshawar. People across Pakistan reacted with grief and revulsion to the attempt by the Taliban to assassinate Malala, with Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar saying that the incident should serve as a "wake up call" for the country. Powerful Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who visited the schoolgirl in the hospital, said Malala has "become a symbol for the values that the Army, with the nation behind it, is fighting to preserve for our future generations. In Islamabad, the National Assembly suspended its usual business to discuss the brazen attack on the teenager. The US denounced the attack as "barbaric" and "cowardly". Amnesty International condemned the "shocking act of violence" against a girl bravely fighting for an education, saying that female activists in northwest Pakistan "live under constant threats from the Taliban and other militant groups". (With inputs from PTI)
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US pair win chemistry Nobel for cell receptors Stockholm, October 10 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the 8 million crown ($1.2 million) prize went to Robert Lefkowitz, 69, and Brian Kobilka, 57, for discovering the inner workings of G-protein-coupled receptors, which allow cells to respond to chemical messages such as adrenaline rushes. The award is for chemistry but the big beneficiary should be medicine, the Nobel committee said. The pair were honoured for describing a key component of cells called G-protein-coupled receptors. These stud the surface of cells, making them sensitive to molecules that respond to light, flavour, smells and body chemicals such as adrenaline, and help cells to communicate with each other. A committee member said: "Knowing what they look like and how they function will allow us the tools... (leading to) better drugs with fewer side-effects." — Agencies
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Moscow court frees 1 Pussy Riot member Moscow, October 10 All three women were convicted in August of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. They argued in court on today that their impromptu performance inside Moscow's main cathedral in February was political in nature and not an attack on religion. The Moscow City Court ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich's sentence should be suspended because she was thrown out of the cathedral by guards before she could remove her guitar from its case and take part in the performance. "The punishment for an incomplete crime is much lighter than for a completed one," said Samutsevich's lawyer, Irina Khrunova. "She did not participate in the actions the court found constituted hooliganism." — AP
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Zardari Case
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday approved government's amended draft of the letter to be written to the Swiss authorities seeking reopening of graft cases while underlining the immunity enjoyed by President Asif Ali Zardari.
The dramatic approval of the draft promises to end a three-year face-off between the government an the judiciary and saves Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf from being ousted like his predecessor Yousaf Raza Gilani. The five-judge bench of the court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa Swiss granted law minister Farooq Naek's request to let the government take one month for sending the requisite letter until November 10. In a key para that underscores presidential immunity at home and abroad without naming President Asif Ali Zardari, the draft letter states: "This is without prejudice to the legal rights and defences of the Presidents/Heads of State which may be available under the law, constitution and international law." The court order termed the amended draft as satisfactory in the light of the 17-judge bench's ruling delivered on December 16, 2009, annulling the infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) promulgated by former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf in 2007. The ordinance had pardoned corruption cases against dozens of politicians and bureaucrats including President Zardari. The court had directed reopening of all such cases for fresh trial.
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Pakistani doctors on Wednesday removed a bullet lodged near the spine of a 14-year-old girl shot by the Taliban, a horrific attack that drew grief and revulsion from across the nation.
Two American scientists won the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for research into how cells respond to external stimuli that is helping to develop better drugs to fight diseases.
