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Monday, January 30, 2012

Amir Khan celebrates engagement to Fayal


The ceremony was held at the weekend with a £150,000 bash at the Rebook Stadium in his hometown of Bolton. Amir presented his fiancée with a stunning three diamond ring, believed to have cost £100,000, during the special ceremony, with the New York born beauty presenting her husband-to-be with an equally impressive platinum band. 25-year-old Amir announced his plans to marry 20-year-old Faryal earlier this month, with the couple officially marking their engagement with a lavish celebration over the weekend. 1,000 guests joined the couple to celebrate their happy news, amongst them were many famous faces from the world of sport including Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Ricky Hatton. Faryal flew over from New York especially for the engagement party, with her family also travelling with her. The student will spend the next week with her fiancé in Bolton as he plans to show Faryal around what will become her new home as the couple have decided to start married life in the north of England. The newly engaged couple were given a BMW 750 Li as an engagement present from the bride-to-be’s parents who have reportedly taken to the lightweight boxer in a big way, with student Faryal saying her family already treat Amir like a son. For Amir and his new fiancée Faryal, their romance got off to quite a rocky start as the bride-to-be revealed she had difficulty understanding Amir’s strong northern accent and vocabulary, with the boxer using unfamiliar words such as “daft” and “innit”, when they first started dating. However the pair managed to overcome early stumbling blocks and are now looking forward to their wedding which is likely to take place at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton, the same venue which hosted their engagement party.

Shah Rukh Khan attacked


Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was embroiled in an ugly row on Monday after a female director accused him of assaulting her husband at a late-night party. Farah Khan, who directed Shah Rukh in blockbusters “Main Hoon Na” (I am there for you) and “Om Shanti Om”, claimed the actor had attacked her husband Shirish Kunder on Sunday night. “Shah Rukh has always told me that physical abuse is the worst way to sort out a problem and that it means the person who’s hitting has either a personal or professional crisis going on,” Farah Khan said in a statement. “And it saddens me to see him doing the same,” added Farah Khan, who is not related to the actor. The reported bust-up occurred at a party thrown by veteran Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to celebrate his latest flick “Agneepath” (Line of Fire). “SRK (Shah Rukh) pulled Shirish down to the ground by his long hair. We were all shocked. We had never seen SRK behave this way before,” a witness told the Times of India newspaper.The paper said Shah Rukh was upset with Kunder over jibes on Twitter. The NDTV news channel said the actor admitted that there had been a disagreement but denied any assault.

Haqqani flies out tonight as SC cuts strings


Pakistan’s former ambassador to US, Husain Haqqani is likely to travel to Abu Dhabi on Monday night, it is learnt.  Earlier, the larger bench of Supreme Court allowed Husain Haqqani to travel abroad. The bench ordered that Haqqani can travel but this travel will be subjected to providing details to the Registrar Office and will come back on a four-day notice. Counsel for Husain Haqqani, Asma Jahangir, pleaded before the court to allow her client to travel abroad. The nine-member larger bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, took up this application alongside an application of Akram Sheikh, counsel for Mansoor Ijaz, who has been seeking from the court to direct the commission to record the statement of Mansoor Ijaz outside Pakistan due to security threats to him. Moreover, the CJ rejected the plea of Akram Sheikh to record the statement of his client in London and suggested that application can be forwarded in the memo commission in this regard. SC had constituted a commission comprising 3 senior most judges to ascertain facts in memogate case and directed it to present its report within 4 weeks. Important witness Mansoor Ejaz in memogate scandal was summoned on previous hearing to record his statement but he failed to appear before the commission, citing security reasons. The memo Commission said in its order that there was no such reason that it should move to foreign country to record Mansoor Ejaz statement. Commission approached SC for extension of period.

Police open fire at Bangladesh protesters


The clashes killed at least three people and injuring more than 100, a news report and doctors at two hospitals said. The opposition party said 1,200 of its activists were arrested, but the figure could not immediately be confirmed. The main Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its key Islamist ally Jamaat-e-Islami are demanding an independent caretaker government oversee elections. The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina scrapped the 15-year-old system last year, saying it contradicted the constitution. The opposition, led by Hasina s archrival former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, says elections will be rigged if held under the current government and without a caretaker system in place. Clashes during Sunday s nationwide protests were reported in about a dozen towns, Desh television station said. Two men died from bullet wounds at a government hospital in the eastern town of Chandpur, physician Mahmudunnabi told The Associated Press by phone. They were shot by police who fired at a procession of protesters trying to march forward by breaking a police barricade, the United News of Bangladesh agency said. Separately, a youth died and four people with bullet wounds were being treated at a government hospital in Laxmipur, another eastern town, said doctor Mohammad Nizam Uddin. The identities of the dead were not immediately clear. Zia s party claimed one was a party activist while media reports said two others were rickshawpullers. Hasan Mahmud Khandaker, the country s police chief, said authorities would investigate the violence to determine what actually happened. Police arrested about 1,200 activists, opposition spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said. The figure could not be confirmed immediately. The South Asian nation s politics became tense recently as the opposition has geared up its anti-government protests targeting the next general election due in 2014. Hasina s government is also at loggerheads with Zia and the largest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami over its effort to try suspected war criminals involving the 1971 independence war against Pakistan. Five top officials and a former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami facing charges of war crimes are currently behind bars for their alleged role in the nine-month war in which the government said at least 3 million people were killed by the Pakistani army in collaboration with the suspects. Two others of Zia s party also face similar charges of crimes against humanity that include killing, rape and arson. Zia and Jamaat-e-Islami party have rejected the trial and said it is politically motivated to eliminate the opposition. The opposition parties also held several general strikes in recent months. Violent protests are common opposition tactics to embarrass the government in Bangladesh, a fragile parliamentary democracy that has a history of two successful and 19 failed military coups since 1971 when the country broke from Pakistan. On Jan. 19, the Bangladesh military said it foiled a plot by a group of hardline officers, their retired colleagues and Bangladeshi conspirators living abroad to overthrow Hasina.

About 66 killed across Syria on Sunday


According to London-based rights group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said 26 soldiers, five other members of the security forces, nine army deserters were also among those killed as the regime cracked down on protesters and rebels.Security forces killed eight people, including a nine-year-old child, in the restive Homs region of central Syria, and shot dead another five in the northwestern region of Idlib, the Observatory said. Also among those killed were six civilians caught up in military operations and clashes in the Damascus area, the activists said in statements received in Nicosia, and one person was shot dead in the Juber district of the capital itself. The watchdog said the regime soldiers were killed in three separate attacks in the Idlib and Damascus regions. Earlier, it reported fierce clashes between regime troops and deserters in the Ghuta area near the capital. Three civilians were killed, it said, adding that government forces were backed by 32 tanks and 50 armoured cars. Firefights between regime forces and deserters in Ghuta, 10 kilometres (six miles) from Damascus, on Saturday killed 17 people -- 11 soldiers and six civilians, the Observatory said.