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Holder Seen as Obama choice for justice post: WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team has signaled to Eric H. Holder Jr., a senior official in the Justice Department in the Clinton administration, that he will be chosen as attorney general, but no final decision has been made, people involved in the process said Tuesday.As a top adviser to Obama, he has long been considered the front-runner for the job of attorney general because of his extensive record as a prosecutor and a judge and a well-honed reputation inside Washington. Obama’s advisers appear to have overcome concerns that Holder’s involvement in a presidential pardon scandal as President Bill Clinton left office in 2001 might cloud his nomination for the job.Word that Holder was likely to be nominated as attorney general leaked out as Obama also began settling on other members of his team and signaling his policy priorities upon taking office. Obama is set to hire Peter R. Orszag, the director of the Congre...

LAHORE: A District and Session Judge and Home Secretary on Thursday allowed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take Munaf Kalia and Javed Khanani to Karachi.Earlier, they were produced before a Judicial Magistrate, Faisal Jameel who sent them to jail on judicial remand. According to reports, Munaf Kalia and Javed Khanani accused of being involved in financial scam were presented in the court of District and Session Judge, Syed Nasir Ali Shah who granted permission to hand over them to FIA Karachi. It may by recalled here that FIA Karachi, on the directive of DG FIA, had registered one more F.I.R. against the accused after finding more evidences against them and sent a team to Lahore for further interrogation.

Hijacked supertanker drops anchor RIYADH: A hijacked Saudi-owned supertanker carrying more than $100 million worth of crude oil was anchored off the coast of Somalia on Tuesday and the ship's owner said it was working to free the ship and its 25-member crew.The owner, Vela International, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based oil giant Saudi Aramco, said in a statement that the company was awaiting further contact from the pirates who seized the vessel about 480 miles off the coast of Somalia. Earlier reports had said that the 1,080-foot-long ship, Sirius Star, had been hijacked off the Kenyan coast.The company did not say specifically that it had begun negotiations with the hijackers. The supertanker, about the same length as an American Nimitz class aircraft carrier, is the largest ship known to have been seized by pirates, and it was fully loaded with two million barrels of oil."Our first and foremost priority is ensuring the safety of the crew," Salah Ka'aki, the...