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LAHORE: Defence-A Police on Monday registered a first information report (FIR) against Attiqur Rehman, the purported husband of film actress Meera. In the FIR, Meera alleged that Attiq and his accomplices trespassed her house and damaged her property. She alleged they came to kill her, but she was not in the house at the time. She said Attiq also extended her life threats on phone. Cyber crime: Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has initiated investigations against Attiq on Meera’s application, seeking action against him under cyber crimes laws. In her two-page application filed with FIA Director Muhammad Azam Joya, she alleged Attiq committed cyber crime as he sent her e-mails, threatening her and her family with dire consequences. She pleaded Attiq should be prosecuted under the cyber crime law. According to sources, FIA Inspector (Cyber Crime Circle) Ahmer Naeem Sindhu has been deputed to investigate the matter. Attiq has also decided to contact the FIA, alleging he ...

A powerful earthquake has struck near the Samoa islands, triggering a potentially destructive tsunami along the coasts of several Pacific nations. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) upgraded the quake to magnitude 8.3 from 7.9 earlier recorded by the US Geological Survey. It said waves of 5ft (1.57m) above sea level were recorded in Apia, capital of Samoa, and Pago Pago in American Samoa. No injuries are reported, but buildings were flooded in coastal areas. The quake hit at 1748 GMT at a depth of 33km (20 miles) some 190km from Samoa's capital Apia. General alert "Based on all available data, a tsunami may have been generated by this earthquake that could be destructive on coastal areas even far from the epicentre," the PTWC - a branch of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - said in a statement on its website. Stuart Weinstein of the PTWC told the BBC that the agency was monitoring the situation. A tsunami warning has been issued for the Samoa ...

TWO successive US drone strikes killed eight militants in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday in the remote tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said. In the first attack a US drone overnight fired two missiles killing five suspected Taliban in the lawless region of South Waziristan, a Taliban bolthole where Washington says Islamist fighters are hiding out and planning attacks on Western troops stationed in neighbouring Afghanistan. "A missile from a US drone fired on a compound of local Taliban commander Irfan Mehsud and killed five militants and injured six," said a security official in the area, who declined to be named. A local administration official confirmed the toll. The missiles targeted Sara Rogha, a village northeast of regional hub Wana and a stronghold of former Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike in August. The security official said the spy plane fired two missiles on the compound, adding that reports sugg...