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Security Forces arrest 17 suspected persons in North Waziristan: DG ISPR - ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The Security Forces in a search operation have arrested 17 suspected persons from North Waziristan Agency today. This was stated by Director General, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Shaukat Sultan while talking to PTV. The DG ISPR said following a hint the security forces conducted a search operation at about one kilometre of Alwara Mandi in North Waziristan Agency and arrested 17 suspected persons. He said there was no exchange of fire during the operation and no loss of life. At the moment it is difficult to state the nationality of those arrested. (APP) (Posted @ 23:30 PST) 
India and Pakistan to join forces to keep peace in Congo: NEW DELHI, Jan 15: India and Pakistan will join forces next week to make peace in the African Democratic Republic of Congo. Contingents of the Indian and Pakistani armed forces will be located at the same military base for the first time ever as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the African republic, a senior official of India's defence ministry said today. (DPA) (Posted @ 13:45 PST)
Al-Qaeda Arabs not to be surrendered to U.S: KABUL, Jan 15: Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali announced that the al-Qaeda linked area nationals who will surrender to Afghan government will not be handed over to the United States. Ali Ahmad asked the Arab nationals in Afghanistan to lay down their arms to the government and assured them that they would not be handed over to the Americans at any cost. (PPI) (Posted @ 13:20 PST)
Explosion at police station just outside Baghdad's Green Zone: BAGHDAD, Jan 15: An explosion shook a heavily fortified police station just outside Baghdad's Green Zone, home to the interim Iraqi government and the US embassy, an AFP correspondent reported. (AFP) (Posted @ 13:45 PST)
Palestinian President Sworn In, Peace Call Clouded: RAMALLAH, Jan 15: Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in as Palestinian president today, but his call for a cease-fire was overshadowed by fresh violence in Gaza and Israel's decision to cut ties over a deadly militant attack. "Our hand is extended toward an Israeli partner for making peace," said Abbas at the ceremony in the battered West Bank compound where his predecessor Yasser Arafat is buried. "We are seeking a mutual cease-fire to end this vicious circle." "Peace can only be achieved by working together to reach a permanent status solution," he said, restating his support for a U.S.-backed peace "road map" that calls initially for militants to be reined in while Israel eases its occupation. (Reuters) (Posted @ 23:35 PST)
Abbas to talk to militants Monday about possible cease fire with Israel: RAMALLAH, Jan 15: New Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas will talk to militant groups in the Gaza Strip Monday about a possible cease fire with Israel, Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath said torday. Abbas "will be in Gaza Monday to re launch the dialogue with all the (Palestinian) groups and in particular Hamas and Islamic Jihad with the aim of trying to reach a cease fire" with Israel, Shaath told reporters. (AFP) (Posted @ 23:35 PST)
Israel breaks contact with Abbas: JERUSALEM, Jan 15: Israel has suspended all contact with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas and his government, claiming that members of the Palestinian security agencies were involved in an attack in Gaza which killed six Israelis. Aides to Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, said Jerusalem had told the US, EU, Britain and the Palestinians that contacts would be frozen following the assault on Thursday night (JAN 13). (Guardian) (Posted @ 13:20 PST)
Frail Mandela Lays to Rest Son Who Died of AIDS: QUNU, Jan 15: Frail-looking Nelson Mandela buried his last son in a remote South African field today, wearing a red AIDS ribbon to symbolize the fight against the disease that killed him a week ago. Thousands of people, including South Africa's political elite, gathered near Mandela's childhood home in Qunu, where family members held a vigil overnight for his son Makgatho, 54. The 86-year-old anti-apartheid icon, holding a cane and supported by his wife Graca Machel, looked pained as he walked slowly to drop a yellow rose and handful of earth into the grave, where Makgatho was buried near his mother, brother and sister. Both Mandela and his wife, who grasped his hand on his knee for much of the ceremony, wore red ribbons supporting the war against an epidemic that affects an estimated one in nine South Africans -- more people than in any other nation. (Reuters) (Posted @ 23:55 PST)
Deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang in 'deep coma': BEIJING, Jan 15: Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese leader who was ousted after sympathising with the Tiananmen democracy protests, is in a "deep coma" in a Beijing hospital and may be close to death, a close relative revealed. "The doctors are not optimistic about his condition," Frank Lu, director of the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy quoted the relative as saying today. "The hospital is giving him emergency treatment at the moment," the relative told Lu. Zhao served as both the head of the Communist Party and China's prime minister for much of the 1980s until being ousted in 1989 after opposing the military crackdown on the Tiananmen protests. He was first reported ill earlier this week. In a rare move, the Chinese foreign ministry Tuesday denied a Hong Kong newspaper report that Zhao had died, but confirmed he had recently received medical treatment. Beijing fears the death of Zhao would become a rallying point for disillusionment in Chinese society, including a soaring gap between rich and poor, analysts say. The Chinese foreign ministry did not immediately comment and said it was looking into the matter. Telephone calls to his former aide Bao Tong were cut off immediately. A statement issued by the human rights centre on Saturday said Zhao fell into a coma Friday around 7:00 pm (1100 GMT). "His relative was crying on the phone and calling for people who care for him to pray for him as he might leave this world tonight," the statement said. (AFP) (Posted @ 23:55 PST)
UN official eyes wide disaster alert system: report - TOKYO, Jan 15: U.N. emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said he wants to aim for a global early warning system that covers not just tsunamis but a wide range of natural disasters, a Japanese newspaper reported today. (Reuters) (Posted @ 11:50 PST)
Six die in southern Thai toy shop blaze: BANGKOK, Jan 15: Six people including two children were killed when a toy shop caught fire in southern Thailand, police said today. Two others were wounded, when they jumped from the fourth floor of the blazing shop-house in the town of Surat Thani. (AFP) (Posted @ 12:05 PST)
ForEx Market Update: KARACHI, Jan 15: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 59.90 to the US Dollar in the open market. The country's stock exchanges are closed today. (Bureau Report) (Posted @ 09:30 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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