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| 04 January 2005 | Tuesday | 22 Ziqa'ad 1425 |
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Government charges two with killing Aga Khan staff: PESHAWAR, Jan 4: Two alleged members of a banned militant group have been arrested and charged with an attack which killed two employees of a charity run by the billionaire Aga Khan, police said today. The men were seized in Chitral and were members of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi organistaion, district superintendent Muhammad Saeed Khan told AFP. (AFP) (Posted @ 16:55 PST) 
Third Test: Pakistan (304) & 67-1 v Australia (568) - SYDNEY, Jan 04: Pakistan were 67 for one in their second innings at the close of play on the third day of the third and final test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground today....Score Card (AFP) (Updated @ 13:00 PST)
Baghdad governor killed in drive-by shooting: BAGHDAD, Jan 04: Baghdad's governor Ali Radi al-Haidari and one of his bodyguards was killed by gunmen today in a roadside ambush, Iraq's interior ministry and hospital sources told AFP. (AFP) (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Truck bomb kills 10, wounds 56 at Iraqi security force post: BAGHDAD, Jan 04: Ten people were killed, eight of them policemen, and 56 wounded in a truck bombing today outside the command post of special Iraqi forces in western Baghdad, a source at the interior ministry told AFP, raising an earlier toll. (AFP) (Updated @ 12:30 PST)
Israeli forces kill eight Palestinians in Gaza Strip: GAZA CITY, Jan 04: Israeli armed forces killed eight Palestinians during an incursion in the northern Gaza Strip today, Palestinian security officials and medics said. The Palestinians died near Beit Lahyia after Israeli forces fired from a tank. (AFP) (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
South Korea's president replaces six ministers in reshuffle: SEOUL, Jan 04: South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun today replaced six ministers in a reshuffle aimed at re-energizing his cabinet heading into the third year of his five-year term, officials said. (AFP) (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Hostage-takers surrender: Peruvian president - LIMA, Jan 04: Ultra-nationalist insurgents holding 17 people hostage in Peru laid down their arms today, ending a stand off with authorities sparked by their New Year's Day seizure of a police station, Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo announced. "They are in the process of handing over their weapons right now" in Andahuaylas, south eastern Peru, where the hostage crisis occurred, Toledo said. The president added that there would be "no chance" of negotiations with the rebels. (APP) (Posted @ 23:40 PST)
Congo replaces 11 ministers in govt reshuffle: KINSHASA, Jan 04: Congo's President Joseph Kabila has sacked six ministers, who had been suspended following an investigation into charges of widespread corruption, and replaced five others in a wide-ranging government reshuffle. (Reuters) (Posted @ 15:30 PST)
Air force general charged with graft in the Philippines: MANILA, Jan 04: A Philippine air force general and three other people are to be charged with graft for the fraudulent sale of military equipment, a special state prosecutor said today. (AFP) (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Road accident kills 62 in NW China: BEIJING, Jan 04: At least 62 were killed and 37 were injured in a road accident today in China's Qinghai province, said sources from the provincial government. (APP) (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
Overloaded minibus crashes in Burundi, 25 killed: BUJUMBURA, Jan 04: Twenty-five people were killed and five seriously wounded near the Burundian capital when an overloaded minibus speeding past police flipped over, striking cyclists and rolling into a ravine, police said. (Reuters) (Posted @ 12:30 PST)
17 killed in bus crash in India: NEW DELHI, Jan 04: A bus crashed into a ditch killing at least 17 people in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said today. (APP) (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 29.34 points: KARACHI, Jan 04: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 6297.75, up 77.47 points from Monday's close. The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 59.90 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 16:20 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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