Alaska police probe if remains tied to missing family

Alaska police probe if remains tied to missing family

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities are investigating the discovery of human remains found along an Alaskan trail less than two miles from the home of a missing family.

Kenai Police said Sunday that the remains found a day earlier might be connected to the disappearance last May of the four family members.

Kenai police with help from the FBI led a massive search effort when the family went missing. The searches turned up no clues.

Relatives said at the time it appeared the family had left without packing. Their two vehicles remained parked outside their apartment and their rent for June had not been paid.

On Saturday, a person driving down a west Kenai trail spotted clothing and what appeared to be human remains, police said in a statement. Responding officers found remains and items reported missing from the home of Rebecca Adams, 23, and her boyfriend, Brandon Jividen, 38. They were last seen May 27, the day after Memorial Day.

Also missing were Adams' children, Michelle Hundley, 6, and Jaracca Hundley, 3. The family dog also disappeared. Police said it would take time to positively identify the remains and complete the investigation at the scene.

FBI officials Sunday were traveling to Kenai. The department plans a briefing on the case at noon on Monday.

Kenai is a city of 7,100 about 65 miles southwest of Anchorage at the mouth of the Kenai River, Alaska's most popular sport fishing attraction

Jeb Bush working hard to win over Florida

Jeb Bush working hard to win over Florida

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is all ready to win the state. His eyes are on the white house, where his father and brother held office. The first step to get their will be win over the state where he has governed for years.

 

 

Bush has governed the state from 1999 to 2007.

Florida is the state which has determined elections, notably the 2000 elections where his brother won the presidency with just a handful of votes from this state. It would be massive embarrassment for him if he loses to the state after governing it for so long.

President Barack Obama garnered the support from the state in both of his victorious elections and this state holding so much significance Bush is going to turn all his resources towards the state.

There are probably two threats to Mr. Bush’s presidency, one is the risk that the state could turn to a democratic candidate and the other being the Florida-based Republican senator Marco Rubio who is going to file his nomination.

If he can’t win it, then it would be very difficult for him to win the presidential elections, being the early frontrunner for the republican nomination.

He has maintained his relationship and kept his friends very close ever after he left office in 2007 and this could really help him out in 2016 presidential elections.

According to a report from times, Bush has $50 million to spend for the elections and campaign offering free goodies to the campaign donors.

They are other competitors other than Rubio like Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee who can give him a tough competition.

Bush is a native of Texas but he adopted Florida as his home in 1980’s. So it would be really embarrassing for him if he loses to this state after building and maintaining relationships for so long.

PTI's return to NA hinges on formation of judicial commission




 

Qureshi said all intra-party bodies will be dissolved and PTI will hold a re-election within its folds.- File

ISLAMABAD: Paskistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday said the party will consider returning to the National Assembly after formation of the judicial commission agreed to by the government.

Know more: Govt, PTI agree on formation of poll inquiry commission.

 

 

Talking to journalists after a grand party meeting at Imran Khan’s residence in Bani Gala, Qureshi said PTI had decided to take action on Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed’s recommendations and will dissolve all intra-party bodies in days to come.

Justice Wajihuddin had been tasked by PTI chief Imran Khan to scrutinize complaints related to PTI’s intra-party elections held in 2013. After conducting his probe, Justice Wajihuddin had recommended that the party dissolve all bodies and hold a re-election.

“Respecting Justice Wajihuddin’s findings, the party has decided to conduct a re-election within its folds,” said Qureshi. “Till elections are held again, persons and bodies nominated by Imran Khan will represent the party on the national level.”

Qureshi went on to say that PTI is a democratic party and will always promote democratic values.

“This development is a first for Pakistan, where a political party is dissolving its bodies on the recommendations of an independent commission,” said Qureshi.

African Black Tigers only 3 left in the whole world

Black Tiger


ACcording to African Society Cheif  Dr Malbrown  There are only 3 Tigers left in the world .

A/c to them now a days they trying to increase their production



Sign of Beauty Amazing Animal

SBP cuts benchmark interest rate to 8%

 




KARACHI: In line with analyst expectations, the State Bank of Pakistan reduced the benchmark discount rate on Saturday by 0.5% to 8% for the next two months, bringing the cumulative decline in interest rates in the economy to 2% since November 2014, due in large part to a sharp decline in inflation.
The discount rate is the interest rate at which commercial banks are allowed to borrow from the central bank’s discount window on an overnight basis. Central banks use this monetary policy tool to control money supply in the economy in order to achieve price stability and economic growth targets.
“Headline Consumer Price Index inflation continues to follow a downward trajectory and is expected to be well below the annual target of 8%,” the SBP said in its monetary policy announcement, adding that it now projects the average CPI inflation for 2014-15 to be in the range of 4%-5%. Low prices in the global oil market led to year-on-year CPI inflation of 3.2% in February, which is the lowest reading in the last 11 years.
Out of 25 investment banks, brokerages and other research houses surveyed recently by Business Recorder Research, as many as 20 predicted the SBP would cut the discount rate by 0.5%. Consistent reduction in the yields of Pakistan Investment Bonds and Market Treasury Bills since February also indicated that the bond market has already priced in a decrease.
Speaking to The Express Tribune, Taurus Securities Head of Research Zeeshan Afzal said the realignment of the monetary policy was expected given the existence of the record-high real interest rate, which is defined as the prevailing interest rate minus inflation in the economy.
The approximate difference between the return on oneyear government paper and the CPI stood over 5% before the latest rate cut. This means businesses had to pay an exceedingly high cost of funds because the average spread between the two rates has been only 1.7% since July 2009, Afzal noted.
The large-scale manufacturing sector – which grew 2.2% in the first seven months of fiscal 2015 – is expected to gain traction due to the rate cut and low prices of raw materials, the SBP said. However, representatives of the industry believe the latest rate cut of 50 basis points is insufficient. (One basis point is one-hundredth of 1%.)
“We had demanded a rate cut of at least 100 basis points. Industrial growth cannot be achieved unless credit availability is made easy. Along with cutting the interest rate, the SBP should also ensure that banks increase their lending to the small and medium-size businesses, which are the real engines of economic growth,” Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI)’s Iftikhar Ahmed Vohra told The Express Tribune.
Painting an overall rosy picture, the SBP said an increasing number of economic indicators in the current fiscal year have moved in a favourable direction. “The government’s efforts to contain the fiscal deficit have been on track in the first half of 2014-15 despite slightly slower growth in revenue collection,” it said. SBP’s optimism is in spite of recent news reports that suggest the government is resorting to ‘creative accounting’ in order to contain its budget deficit to 4.9% of GDP. The government plans to delay some expenditure obligations besides seeking an additional Rs20 billion from profits of the SBP in order to control its budget deficit, according to news reports.
The monetary policy statement said GDP growth in the current fiscal year is expected to be higher than that of the last year when the economy expanded by 4.1%. However, the SBP stopped short of mentioning that the GDP growth rate that the government projected at the beginning of the current fiscal year is 5.1%. Recent reports suggest the government is likely to miss the 5.1% target for GDP growth and now expects it to hover around 4.5%.
Referring to the stability in foreign exchange market and an increase in foreign exchange reserves, the SBP said the external sector outlook remains stable.
While the SBP appears to be comfortable with the rebound in the local currency, most analysts believe that the newfound strength of the rupee has hurt Pakistan’s export competitiveness. According to Afzal, the pound, the yen and the euro have already depreciated by 1.2%, 2% and 6.5% against the rupee, respectively, since January 1.
“With strong workers’ remittances and declining import growth, current account deficit has shrunk in Jul-Feb compared to the same period last year. The improvement is in spite of subdued exports performance,” the SBP said.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2015.

US can’t succeed without Pak Navy’s help: Vice Admiral Miller

Vice Admiral Miller




MANAMA - The commander of US Naval Forces Central Command has acknowledged the contribution of Pakistan Navy to ensuring maritime peace in the region, saying the United States cannot succeed without the support of Pak Navy.

“We cannot be successful in this region, without the contribution of the Pakistan Navy,” Vice Admiral John W Miller, commander, US Naval Forces Central Command, US 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), told a group of Pakistani media during a visit to its headquarters here in Bahrain’s capital.
Vice Admiral Miller who has spent a majority of his operational career in the US Central Command area of responsibility said ties between the naval forces of Pakistan and the United States were better than ever before. “We are quite fortunate to have Pakistan as part of our team, and they are not only just great team mates but also good friends,” he said. The headquarters of the US Naval Central Command and US Navy Fifth Fleet are co-located at the Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain and ensure maritime security in an area spreading over 2.5 million square miles of the ocean.
The headquarters also coordinates and conducts combat operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Admiral Miller congratulated Pakistan for assuming the command of Combined Maritime Task Force 151 for the sixth time from Thailand. Commodore Asif Hameed Siddiqui SI (M) from the Pakistan Navy is now commanding the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) on counter-piracy operations. Miller said he had been at the US Navy’s Central Command Headquarters for three years and most of the time one of the two task forces had been under the command of a Pakistani naval officer. He said it was a significant achievement and something for Pakistan to be proud of.
“No nation has contributed more to command our task forces than Pakistan, so we are really proud of the relationship that we have with the Pakistan Navy,” he said. Recalling his visit to Pakistan Navy’s War College in Lahore recently, Miller said he was impressed by the quality of the officers who were well educated and trained. “They are a delight to work with, quite professional and their ships are very well maintained.” When asked to comment on the operation Zarb e Azb, Vice Admiral Millar said counterterrorism operations being carried out anywhere in the world were very important to stop terrorists activities.
“It is equally important to go after the ideology to curb terrorism as it does not matter what they call themselves whether ISIS, Daesh, ISIL or Al Qaeda,” he said.
Vice Admiral Miller who also looks after combat operations in Iraq and Syria said over 2,800 airstrikes had so far been conducted from the two aircraft carriers.
Currently, two aircraft carriers, USS Carl Vinson and French Charles de Gaulle, are positioned in the area to launch combat aircraft against targets of ISIL. President Obama described ISIS as ISIL which refers to the undefined region around Syria, historically referred to as the Levant and roughly includes modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan.
The vice admiral said a lot of strikes, particularly in Syria, were designed to destroy the oil infrastructure, currently being used by the ISIL fighters. “It not only destroys one of their funding sources, but also their mobility.” Without giving any timeline for routing out ISIL, he said last June its fighters seemed to be operating like a regular army; they were mobile and able to capture large tracts of land quickly. But today it was like a terrorist organisation and it was very hard for them to move about with less access to funding and ability to conduct new operations. He said Iraqis were fighting back and had taken back their lands.
Vice Admiral Miller, also commander of the Combined Maritime Force (CMF), said it was a very unique organisation comprising 30 countries working together voluntarily. He said on any given day, there were around 40 to 45 US ships in the region, and combined with the CMF members and others the total rises to around 70 ships, working in coordination to ensure maritime security in the region. He said the region was witnessing unstable time, however, the maritime environment was calm; oil was flowing out while goods and services were entering the region without any incident, as many countries in the Gulf get 80 percent of food and other goods through the sea.
Commodore Asif Hameed Siddiqui SI(M) who is now commanding the 30-nation Combined Task Force (CTF) 151 said Pakistan was playing an active role in keeping international merchant shipping lanes safe from attacks by pirates and terrorist activities, through constant vigilance.

Changing the way you think others see you


Changing the way you think others see you





Changing the way you think others see you


The way you think others see you is not the way you see yourself.
It is however, a projection of what you “think” they see and so it creates an image and energetically feeds that image. Lifting you up or bringing you down, you get to decide to see yourself at our best. Or you can send a picture of yourself spiraling down.
In life when we have changed sometimes our friends and loved ones and family do not comprehend the change.
Using our minds we must send them a new mental image. One complete with your new emotional feelings showing a change in attitude about an issue. Use your mind and project a new image.
A new image is needed in order for the other parties to disengage from the current or most recent one and see you in a new light.