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At least six militants were killed and four cops injured in a targeted operation mulberry bags outlet jointly launched by police and paramilitary troops in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday. Police said that the city's Criminal Investigation Department ( CID) launched operation in Hub Road area on an intelligence tip- off, killing six militants and recovering huge cache of arms from them. Four policemen were also injured in the exchange of firing with militants. The bodies of the militants were shifted to the hospital for medico-legal formalities. Police confirmed that they recovered a vehicle carrying a huge cache of explosive materials from the militants' compound. Later police said that the killed militants belonged to michael kors canada banned outfit Tehrik-e-Taliban who wanted to launch a big attack in the city, however, their plan was foiled due to timely action by the police. The South Asian region has achieved an economic growth averaging 6.5 percent annually during 2000-12, however, this is not enough to reduce poverty and ensure food security, said a report launched by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on Wednesday. The report, titled "SAARC Regional Poverty Profile", underlined that still 32 percent South Asian people live on less than 1.25 U. S. dollars per person a day. "While some countries of the region may be near achieving the millennium development goal of halving the proportion of people in extreme poverty by 2015, the region in general has still high mulberry bags incidences of poverty, hunger and malnutrition," said the report. Food production has improved considerably over time in all countries of the region, but inter-country and intra-country variations persist. For instance, India is self-sufficient in all major food items except pulses and edible oils, while Pakistan is self-sufficient in wheat and rice. Nepal, whose index of per capita food production has improved marginally, still depends on import for most of its food items including cereals, pulses and fish, while Bangladesh is more or less self-sufficient in rice but imports wheat. Afghanistan, Bhutan and Maldives depend on import of most food items to meet their domestic michael kors bags uk demand, while Sri Lanka meets nearly 99 percent of its rice requirements internally but imports 97 percent of its demand for pulses. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has arrived in Canberra on Wednesday for a visit with his new Australian counterpart, Tony Abbott. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott sandwiched John Key's visit between his return from talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta on Monday and his return to Bali later in the week for the APEC Summit. John Key is the first foreign leader to meet Tony Abbott in Australia, mulberry alexa bag and they held bilateral talks on refugees and trade in the Parliament House on Wednesday afternoon. At Wednesday's joint press conference, Abbott said he was happy to keep talking to John Key about welfare arrangements. "New Zealanders have better access to Australia than the citizens of any other country and that's right and proper," Abbott said. "But I'm very happy with the situation that exists right now, which is that Kiwis coming here know that they're expected to work and pay taxes from day one." According to local media, there are over 300,000 New Zealanders on special category visas in Australia, paying billions of dollars in taxes but who are denied some key benefits of permanent michael kors satchel residency, such as disability care, welfare and social housing. And Australians living in New Zealand receive all the entitlements of citizens. The issue is a sore point for many New Zealanders, and was the first and last question asked by the New Zealand press pack during John Key's first joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra on Wednesday. Key said he would continue to advocate for New Zealanders. " There are some issues that would be best if they were addressed," he said. "(But) we totally respect the sovereign right of the Australian government to make the decision how it will treat people that come and work in Australia." Addressing the function, Chairman of Nepal's Interim Election Council Khil Raj Regmi said youth, women and small farmers have to be mainstreamed and empowered to address the food security issue and achieve the michael kors handbags on saleover-arching goal of poverty alleviation in the region. Caitlin Wiesen, manager of the United Nations Development Program for Asia Pacific Region, said most of the world's poor, some 540 million in number, live in South Asia and therefore, wise and concentrated efforts are needed to address this massive problem. The report launching program coincided with a symposium about the best practices of poverty alleviation in South Asia, under which, experts will discuss pros and cons of poverty reduction for two days until Thursday.