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3 brothers of Taliban commander arrested
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Obama grabs wide lead among those who have already voted
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3 brothers of Taliban commander arrested
Islamabad, October 14 The suspects, who were arrested yesterday in Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, were sent to an undisclosed location for questioning, officials said. The officials told the media that another brother of the three men was a senior commander in the Taliban faction led by Maulana Fazlullah, who controlled Swat till the army launched an operation there in early 2009. The suspects were held a day after Swat district police chief Gul Afzal Khan Afridi announced that they had made an "important breakthrough" by arresting three other men, whose identity not disclosed, on suspicion of involvement in the attack on 14-year-old Malala. Afridi had said police were hopeful of arresting Ataullah, the alleged mastermind of Tuesday's attack on Malala and two of her school friends, soon. Earlier, police and security agencies had detained dozens of suspects for questioning in connection with the attack. The driver of Malala's school bus too was questioned. Most of these people were released after questioning On Malala's condition, the military today said she was making "slow and steady progress." "Doctors have reviewed Malala's condition and are satisfied. She is making slow and steady progress which is in keeping with expectations," chief military spokesman Maj Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa said in a statement. Malala has been on ventilator since she was shifted from Peshawar to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi on Thursday after doctors removed a bullet lodged near her backbone. She was shot in the head and neck during the Taliban attack on her and two of her school friends on Tuesday last. — PTI will continue our studies, vow
Malala’s injured friends Kainat and Shazia, friends and fellow students of Malala have vowed to defy the militants and continue their studies. Undeterred by the attack, Kainat told Geo News she wants to become a doctor to serve the country. The 14-year-old Malala and her two friends were shot while they were returning home from school. UAE plans to send air ambulance The UAE royal family plans to send an air ambulance for teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai in case doctors decide to send her abroad for treatment. Visas were being finalised for the special UAE aircraft's crew and six doctors, Pakistan's Ambassador to Abu Dhabi, Jamil Ahmed Khan, said
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Come 2013, thousands of British troops to quit Afghanistan
London, October 14 More than 430 British troops have been killed in Afghanistan since the US-led intervention in 2001, yet stability remains elusive and violence high, while relations between Western troops and Afghan forces and civilians are increasingly frayed. Britain on Sunday said it had charged five soldiers with murder as part of an investigation into what it called an engagement with an insurgent in Afghanistan last year, and that a total of nine soldiers had been arrested in connection with the case. Some 500 British troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of this year, leaving around 9,000 still there. Asked about troop withdrawals next year, Hammond told the BBC: "I would expect it will be significant, which means thousands, not hundreds, but I would not expect it to be the majority." That would indicate a potential withdrawal of up to 4,500 personnel in 2013. All British combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Britain's defence budget, like that of other NATO members, is under pressure, forcing the defence ministry to slash spending and cut force numbers and equipment programmes. — Reuters
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Obama grabs wide lead among those who have already voted
Washington, October 14 Obama leads Romney by 59 per cent to 31 per cent among early voters, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling data compiled in recent weeks. The sample size of early voters is relatively small, but the Democrat's margin is still well above the poll's credibility interval - a measurement of polls' accuracy - of 10 percentage points. With the November 6 election just more than three weeks away, 7 per cent of those surveyed said they had already voted either in person or by mail The online poll is another sign that early voting is likely to play a bigger role this year than in 2008, when roughly one in three voters cast a ballot before election day. Voting is already under way in some form in at least 40 states. Both the Obama and Romney teams are urging supporters to vote as soon as possible so the campaigns can focus their door-knocking and phone-calling operations on those who are still undecided or need more prodding to get to the polls. Early voting was a big part of Obama's victory over Republican John McCain in 2008, and his campaign aims to repeat its success this year. The Reuters/Ipsos poll indicates the campaign's efforts appear to be paying off, although its advantage could erode as election day approaches. The Obama campaign says it is leading among early voters in Iowa and Ohio, and trailing by a smaller margin than 2008 in several other swing states. It expects its early voting efforts will help the campaign weather a blitz of negative ads expected to saturate the airwaves in battleground states in the final weeks before November 6. "We've made early investments in battleground states where we've been registering folks and keeping an open conversation going with undecided voters for months, to build a historic grass-roots organisation that will pay off when the votes are counted," spokesman Adam Fetcher said. The Romney campaign says it is leading or even with Obama among early voters in several closely fought battleground states, including Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada and New Hampshire. The campaign says it has seen a spike in volunteering and voter enthusiasm among Republicans since Romney's strong debate performance against Obama on October 3. Meanwhile, Obama has a five-point lead over Romney in key swing state of Ohio, a new poll has found. According to the Public Policy Polling, nearly 51 per cent respondents prefer to vote for Obama as compared to 46 per cent who prefer Romney. The poll found that 19 per cent of Ohioans said that they have already voted and Obama has a 76-24 advantage with them, Politico reports. Ohioans said that Democratic running mate Joe Biden won the vice-presidential debate against Republican running mate Paul Ryan, 46-37. Obama's campaign has said that it has broken a presidential campaign record with more than four million individual donors. Jeremy Bird, field director for the Obama campaign, told supporters about the record in an e-mail thanking donors for their help and also to solicit more funds. "This is all possible because of more than 4 million people, about 1 in 75 Americans, owning a piece of this campaign," he wrote. According to the report, Obama's $181 million in September campaign fundraising brings its total raised in this election cycle to almost $950 million, with three weeks left until election day. — Agencies
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Mom jailed for 99 years for assaulting two-year-old
Washington, October 14 During the September 2011 assault on Jocelyn Cedillo, Elizabeth Escalona beat the girl into a coma, according to The Dallas Morning News. The 23-year-old mother of five has pleaded guilty to felony injury of the child during her hearing where she was portrayed as an unfit mother and referred to as a "monster", the local media reported yesterday. "I hit her, I kicked her constantly, and she didn't deserve that," Escalona said in court last week. "Only a monster does that." Asked to explain her violent behaviour, she told the court she was learning ways to deal with her anger and the stress of raising five children. She also admitted drinking and doing drugs after she was released from jail on bond in February. Escalona's violent attack that resulted in bleeding of the girl's brain was due to potty training problem. — PTI
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