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Proposed allocations for Pakistan amount $691 million: WASHINGTON, Feb 10: The allocations for Pakistan in the new US budgetary proposals for fiscal year 2006 amount to $691 million, according to official sources. The break up of the figure is: $300 million for Economic Support Fund; $300 million for Foreign Military Financing; $40 million for International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (including border security); $29 million for Development Assistance; $20.5 million for Child Survival and Health; $2.044 million for International Military Education and Training. (APP) (Posted @ 12:05 PST) 
PPP for solving water, NFC award issues through CCI: THATTA, Feb 10: PPP Sindh President Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the disputes of water and NFC award among the provinces should be solved under the Council of Common Interests (CCI). Talking to newsmen at the residence of PPP Thatta General Secretary Jalil Ahmed Memon here today, he said that the government should now end its propaganda drive in favour of Kalabagh dam and Thal canal by realizing that lower Sindh was facing an acute shortage of water and its fertile lands were going to be barren. (PPI) (Posted @ 13:50 PST)
Police arrests 10 suspects of bomb attacks in Balochistan: ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: Police today said they have arrested ten suspects in relation to a recent series of bomb and rockets attacks in Balochistan province. The province has been the site of unrest, with nationalists struggling for their rights and bigger royalties from gas explorations. Provincial chief Chuadhry Mohammad Yaqoob told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa that the arrests were made on Tuesday in various parts of the region. Six of the detainees had confessed to violent attacks in their initial interrogations, he said. (DPA) (Posted @ 23:55 PST)
Iraqi borders to be closed for six days: BAGHDAD, Feb 10: Iraq's borders will be closed for six days from next week during an annual Shiite Muslim mourning period, a government spokesman said today. The borders will be closed down from February 17 until February 22 for Ashura, said government spokesman Thaer al-Naqib. He told AFP security officials had ordered the closure. (AFP) (Posted @ 14:40 PST)
Iraq convoy attack leaves more than 20 dead: BAGHDAD, Feb 10: Police today found the rotting bodies of more than 20 Iraqi truck drivers near Baghdad while a car bomb in the capital killed two as Iraq marked a violent start to the Islamic new year. Iraqi authorities started re-counting votes from 300 ballot boxes from the country's historic January 30 election. But they were still unable to say when the final results would be released. (AFP) (Updated @ 15:30 PST)
Abbas Dismisses Commanders After Truce Breached: GAZA, 10 Feb: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired three of his own security chiefs today after militants punctured a cease-fire he had agreed with Israel by bombarding Jewish settlements in Gaza with mortars. After the attacks, Israel had put off security coordination talks scheduled as a follow-up to Tuesday's groundbreaking meeting in Egypt with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. But an Israeli official said troops would not retaliate after some 50 mortar bombs and rockets hit settlements in Gaza. There were no casualties in the attacks by militants who have refused to participate in Abbas's cease-fire gesture and plans for him to reconvene with Sharon next week at the Israeli leader's desert ranch remained in place. A Palestinian official said Abdel-Razek al-Majaydeh, public security chief for the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian Authority police chief Saeb al-Ajez and Omar Ashour, commander of the security forces in the southern Gaza Strip, were all dismissed. In another reminder of armed chaos in the Palestinian street challenging Abbas, dozens of gunmen including Hamas militants had stormed into a Gaza City prison Thursday and shot dead three inmates in a settling of scores between feuding clans. (Reuters) (Posted @ 22:25 PST)
Ceasefire ignored as Hamas fires dozens of mortar bombs at Gaza settlements: GAZA CITY, Feb 10: The radical Islamic movement Hamas unleashed a volley of mortar bombs at Jewish settlements in the southern Gaza Strip Thursday in defiance of a new Israeli-Palestinian cease fire agreement. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that at least 30 mortars and rockets had been fired over a period of around four hours. "Twenty-two mortars landed in Gush Katif as well as one Qassam. There have been no injuries but damage was caused to one building," she told AFP. (AFP) (Updated @ 15:35 PST)
N. Korea indefinitely suspends participation in six-way talks: SEOUL, Feb 10: North Korea said today it would indefinitely suspend its participation in talks on its nuclear weapons program, accusing the United States of seeking to topple the country's government. (AFP) (Posted @ 11:45 PST)
Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles to marry: LONDON, Feb 10: Britain's Prince Charles and his long time partner Camilla Parker Bowles are to marry, the prince's official residence in London said today. Sky News television said the wedding would take place April 6 at Windsor Castle, the royal family's weekend home, just west of London. (AFP) (Posted @ 14:45 PST)
Seven Nepalese leaders released from house arrest: radio - KATHMANDU, Feb 10: Seven leading Nepalese politicians have been released from house arrest amid growing international condemnation of King Gyanendra's seizure of power and crackdown on dissent, state radio said today. (AFP) (Posted @ 12:45 PST)
Ten arrested as Nepal activists stage anti-monarchy protest: KATHMANDU, Feb 10: At least 10 Nepalese human rights activists were arrested in central Kathmandu today when they tried to stage an anti-monarchy protest in defiance of a ban on rallies, police and witnesses said. The protestors arrived in small groups at Putalisadak, one of the main streets leading to the central government offices. They were whisked away by police immediately after they stood out from the crowd and began chanting slogans against the king. A large group of police armed with wooden clubs had been deployed at the Singha Durbar, the seat of government and parliament, where the Human Rights and Peace Society (HURPES) had announced it would stage the protest. They used no force in making the arrests. (AFP) (Updated @ 15:25 PST)
Surrender or be crushed, Philippine military tells gunmen: JOLO, Feb 10: The Philippine armed forces today demanded rebels in the southern island of Jolo surrender or suffer heavy casualties as fighting entered its fourth day. More than 100 soldiers and supporters of jailed former separatist leader Nur Misuari have either been killed or wounded in some of the most intense fighting seen in the region for years. (AFP) (Posted @ 10:15 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 40.20 points: KARACHI, Feb 10: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 7196.75, up 40.20 points from Wednesday's close. The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.07 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 16:25 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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