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| 07 October 2004 | Thursday | 21 Shaban 1425 |
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Army called out in Multan to avoid any untoward happening further: Sherpao - ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao today said the Pakistan Army troops have been called out to avoid any further untoward happening in Multan. "On the requisition of Multan District Government Pakistan Army troops are being deployed to check any further untoward happening in the city," he said. (AFP) (Posted @ 09:15 PST) 
Security beefed up in Punjab: LAHORE, Oct 07: Round-the-clock security has further been beefed up in the entire province of Punjab, especially in the city following the incidents of bomb blast at Multan and a few days ago at Sialkot to ensure law and order and to thwart the nefarious designs of anti-state elements. Provincial Police Officer Punjab Saadat Ullah Khan in his express orders, directed all range Deputy Inspector Generals of Police and District Police Officers to take appropriate steps on emergency basis to check the movements of suspects who are calculated to sabotage the peaceful and congenial atmosphere in the province to achieve their ulterior motives. (APP) (Posted @ 11:10 PST)
Sectarian attacks may be backlash to Al-Qaeda crackdown: KARACHI, Oct 7: A fresh explosion of sectarian violence in Pakistan is a fight-back by hardcore militants, many trained by Al-Qaeda, as security forces capture and kill more of their leaders, investigators and analysts said today. "It's difficult to say what will follow now, but things are going from bad to worse," said Farooq Awan, senior police investigator in Karachi. (AFP) (Posted @ 15:20 PST)
Two Former Mujahideen group announced support to Karzai: ISLAMA1BAD, Oct 7: Two groups of former Mujahideen have announced their support to Hamid Karzai for President election in Jalalabad, said BBC today. According to details Fazal Muhammad Ibrahimi representing the Jiadi Mujahideen groups said, that Hamid Karzai is their favourite candidate in the current situation. Another Mujahideen leader Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, has been nominated as Karzai, first vice President. That is why, the Mujahideen have announced their support in his favour. (APP) (Posted @ 16:50 PST)
Top aide to Iraq cleric sadr released from U.S: BAGHDAD, Oct 7: Top senior aide to Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was released from U.S. detention today, an aide to Sadr, Sheikh Mahmoud Sudani, said. Sudani said he had just received a telephone call from Moayad al-Khazraji, who was believed to have been held at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. "He was released this morning," Sudani told Reuters. (AFP) (Posted @ 16:25 PST)
At Least Two Rockets Hit Central Baghdad Hotel: BAGHDAD, Oct 7: At least two rockets slammed into the Sheraton hotel in central Baghdad today, damaging the building and causing a fire nearby, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Immediately after the attack, U.S. and Iraqi forces opened fire in the direction from where the rockets were believed to have been launched, lighting up the sky with tracer bullets. A source at Iraq's Interior Ministry said three Russian-made Katyusha rockets were employed in the attack. The Iraqi police said the rockets were fired from the back of a truck parked in a square about 500 meters (yards) from the hotels. Ambulances were quickly on the scene and Iraqi police sealed off access to the heavily fortified complex which houses both the Sheraton and the adjacent Palestine hotel, both of which are home to scores of foreign contractors and journalists. About 20 minutes after the rockets hit, a third blast sounded in the area. Iraqi police said it was a car bomb which exploded on Firdous Square in front of the Sheraton and Palestine hotels. There were no reported casualties. They said they had also found a second car loaded with explosives in the square, where the statue of Saddam Hussein was famously pulled down toward the end of the war last year. Dozens of Iraqi police cars sealed off all road leading to the square and forced journalists and residents back. (Reuters) (Updated @ 22:30 PST)
Israeli tank fire kills two Palestinians in Gaza: GAZA, Oct 7: An Israeli tank fired several shells at a group of Palestinians in northern Gaza, killing a man and a child, witnesses said, as the army continued a massive offensive in the area to root out militants who fire rockets into Israel. (Reuters) (Posted @ 11:15 PST)
Indian PM says time not right to sign nuclear treaty: NEW DELHI, Oct 7: Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh asserted today that "circumstances" were not right for India to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But we are voluntarily fulfilling all the commitments that go with a responsible power acting with due restraint," he said. (DPA) (Posted @ 16:35 PST)
Cambodia's king has abdicated: national assembly president: PHNOM PENH, Oct 7: Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, who is in Beijing, has abdicated, his son and national assembly president Prince Norodom Ranariddh told reporters today. "According to a royal message that we have received and read to the national assembly, the king has abdicated," Ranariddh said. (AFP) (Posted @ 12:35 PST)
Karachi Stocks down 3.46 points: KARACHI, Oct 07: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 5296.07, down 3.46 points from Wednesday's close. The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 59.65 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 16:30 PST)   Editor: Tahir Mirza The DAWN Group of Newspapers Haroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Karachi 74200, Pakistan. Phone:+92 (21) 111-444-777 Fax: +92 (21) 568-3188 webmaster@dawn.com Make sure to reload these pages so you're viewing the current version. |
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