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Cricket-West Indies 747 v South Africa 588-6 declared - innings ST JOHN'S, Antigua, May 3 (Reuters) - The West Indies were all out for 747 in reply to South Africa's first innings of 588 for six declared on the final day of the fourth test on Tuesday. (Posted @ 00:10 PST) Moeen Sadiq Malik dies ISLAMABAD May 3 (APP): Moeen Sadiq Malik, a former Managing Director of Paknet, PTCL died on Tuesday in a road accident. His Namaz-e-Janaza will be held on Wednesday (May 4) at 2 p.m. in front of his house No. 447, Street 2, Sector G-9/3, Islamabad. Later, he will be buried at the Islamabad Graveyard(Posted @ 00:10 PST) British Chief of General staff calls on President General Musharraf Rawalpindi, May 3 PP: Visiting British Chief of General staff General Sir Mike Jackson Tuesday called on President General Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi. Welcoming General Jackson, the President recalled the close relations between United Kingdom and Pakistan, particularly between the armed forces of the two countries and expressed the hope that these ties would be further strengthened by the visit.(Posted @ 21:30 PST) China offers to join Pakistan, India and Iran construction of gas pipeline CHENGDU, China May 3 (APP): China is prepared to join Pakistan, India and Iran in construction of cross-border gas pipeline project.This was stated by Liao Yongyuan, Assistant President of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in an interview with APP here at the CNPCs headquarters. We are convinced that the Iran-India pipeline through Pakistan is of significant importance and will substantially benefit all three countries", he said adding China wishes to facilitate construction of this gigantic project.(Posted @ 21:30 PST) Pakistan to finalize employment of 100,000 youth in Malaysia ISLAMABAD, May 3 (APP): Minister for Labour and Overseas Pakistanis Ghulam Sarwar Khan has said that the employment of 100,000 skilled youth in Malaysia would be taken up in the upcoming Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's visit to Malaysia.(Posted @ 21:30 PST) At least 146 killed, more than 250,000 displaced in Ethiopian floods ADDIS ABABA, May 3 (AFP) - At least 146 people have been killed and more than 250,000 displaced in massive floods that continue to devastate southeast Ethiopia for nearly two weeks, taking a huge toll on livestock and agriculture in the poverty-stricken nation, officials said Tuesday.(Posted @21:00 PST) Top Taliban commander and dozens of his men surrender in Afghanistan KABUL, May 3 (AFP) - A top Taliban commander and dozens of his men have surrendered to the Afghan government as part of an arms-for-amnesty scheme, a military official said Tuesday. Mullah Abdul Khaliq, locally-known as Haji Malam and 40 of his guerrillas Monday surrendered to Afghanistan's military forces in southcentral Uruzgan province, Muslim Hamed, the military commander of southern region told AFP."He was a big Taliban regional commander. His surrender will help in security in the region," the general said.(Posted @ 20:50 PST) Iraqi official, 26 others killed in fresh violence BAGHDAD, May 3 (AFP) - A high-ranking official Ahmed Subeih Weiss, a senior official at the ministry of water resources, was gunned down in Baghdad Tuesday, while a firefight pitting US and Iraqi forces against insurgents left 15 dead in the restive western city of Ramadi, security sources said. (Posted @ 19:20 PST) New tensions between China, Japan won't stop economic integration: Kuroda ISTANBUL, May 3 (APP/AFP) - Recent tensions between Japan and China will not prevent the closer economic integration of Asian economies, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda said Tuesday. (Posted @ 19:10 PST) Sports Hockey India UP XI shock Pakistan Punjab XI Mumbai, May 3 PPI: Unfancied India Uttar Pradesh XI beat Pakistan outfit Punjab XI from Lahore 3-1 with a scintillating display to enter semi-finals of 43rd Bombay Gold Cup Hockey tournament.UP XI outclassed team from across the border which looked lethargic after travelling for three days from Pakistan and reaching Mumbai this morning. (Posted @ 19:00 PST) Blast kills one person, hurts three in Balochistan Quetta, Pakistan (dpa) - An explosion killed one person and injured three others seriously in the border town of Chaman, located some 90 kilometres north of Balochistan’s capital Quetta, police said Tuesday. The blast took place when labourers were unloading scrap metal from a truck. All the injured were said to be in critical condition. (Posted @ 18:00 PST) President honours Tennis stars for their fabulous feat RAWALPINDI, May 3 (APP): President General Pervez Musharraf recognized the fabulous performance of Pakistan's top tennis players in the recent Islamic Solidarity Games by awarding them Rs 3.7 million at a ceremony here Tuesday. The President presented awards to the country's tennis stars Aisam ul Haq, Aqeel Khan and other players, who returned home bagging three gold medals in the first ever Islamic Solidarity Games in Saudi Arabia last month. (Posted @ 17:55 PST) Maqbool Sabri enthralls audience in London LONDON May 3(APP) Maqbool Sabri Qawal enthralled the audience in a musical evening at the Pakistan High Commission here late Monday and won applause by singing popular "Qawwalis". The concert was organized jointly by Pakistan Bankers Association (PBA), the British-Pakistan Law Council and Bizquant Capital. (Posted @ 17:50 PST) Another BSF Jawan commits suicide in West Bengal NEW DELHI, May 3 (APP): Another BSF jawan was found hanging in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on Tuesday, a day after a jawan of the same battalion had shot two of his colleagues and himself dead. Subedar Major Surjeet Singh, was suffering from depression, and hanged himself at his quarters in Lalbagh, Superintendent of Police Sanjay Singh said. Previously BSF Jawan Ravindra Kumar Sharma had shot dead P G Giri and A M Mamin of the 136th battalion, with his service rifle before turning the gun on himself yesterday. (Posted @ 17:25 PST) Ex-Taliban foreign minister urges talks with Afghan government PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 3 (AFP) - Taliban's former foreign minister, Mullah Wakeel Ahmed Mutawakil, called for peace talks between the ousted regime and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government. In a pair of rare television interviews to a Pakistan-based private channel, Pushto-language Khyber TV, late Monday, he said that Osama bin Laden cared less about his host country than the Middle East when Al-Qaeda had launched the September 11 attacks on the United States. "Afghanistan needs peace and under the circumstances the way forward is peace not war," said Mutawakil, who was released by the US military in October 2003 after 18 months in custody. (Posted @ 17:20 PST) HR abuses up despite India-Pak peace process: Shabbir (SRINAGAR, May 03 PPI) The President of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Shabbir Ahmad Shah, said that there’s no let-up in the human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir despite India-Pakistan’s peace process and confidence building measures, the Kashmir Media Service reports. While addressing a party meeting, he further said that the human rights abuses can be stopped only when India pulls back its troops withdraws all its draconian laws from Occupied Kashmir. (Posted @ 17:15 PST) Wasti opposes job allocation quota for MPs (Rawalpindi, May 3, PPI): Ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Vice President, Syed Kabir Ali Wasti, criticised plans to allocate a quota for jobs to assembly members. "This is a disastrous course as it will play havoc with merit and open the way for irregularities and corruption," Wasti observed here on Tuesday in a statement. He said allowing job quotas and development funds to elected members was a major factor in the undoing of political governments in the 1990s and will not do any good to the present government as well. (Posted @ 17:10 PST) Militants kill four in Occupied Kashmir Srinagar, India (dpa) - Suspected militants shot dead four people in a crowded market located at Pattan of the Baramulla district in Occupied Kashmir, police confirmed on Tuesday. The victims included Mohammad Ramzan Mian, Chairman of Pattan's civic authority, and three police officers. (Posted @ 17:00 PST) Steps taken for empowerment of women: Prime Minister ISLAMABAD, May 3 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday said that the government of Pakistan took a number of steps for the empowerment of women and provided them equal opportunities in remunerated employment, education, health, finance as well as in the corporate sector. He was addressing the inaugural session of the fifth South Asia Regional Ministerial conference organised by the Ministry of Women Development here at the Convention Centre. Participants from SAARC countries are attending the conference which is being held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Beijing Conference. (Posted @ 16:55 PST) Blast kills seven, wounds 28 in Mogadishu during Somali PM's speech MOGADISHU, May 3 (APP/AFP) - At least seven people were killed and 28 wounded Tuesday when an explosion rocked a stadium in lawless Mogadishu where Somalia's transitional prime minister was addressing a large crowd, police and witnesses said. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi was unhurt and whisked away by security men immediately after the blast. "Seven people have been confirmed dead, 28 others have been wounded," said Abdi Hassan, a senior Mogadishu police official. (Posted @ 16:50 PST) U.S. pilot killed in F-18 crash in Iraq--military BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. military has found the body of the pilot of a Marine F-18 jet that crashed in Iraq but a second jet along with its pilot is still missing, a U.S. military spokesman said. The spokesman said there were no indications that the plane had come under hostile fire and it was not clear if the two aircraft had collided. (Posted @ 14:10 PST) Pakistan to join NPT only as 'nuclear weapon state: Munir Akram ISLAMABAD, May 3 (APP): Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nation, Munir Akram has said Pakistan will join the Non-Proliferation Treaty only as a recognized 'nuclear weapons state'. "Pakistan can join it under the status of nuclear-weapon state, it cannot join it under the status of non-nuclear state", Akram told BBC Radio. Asked about the hurdle in joining NPT, he said, "The remaining parties of the NPT have not yet taken decision to acknowledge us as atomic powers which are out of NPT." (Posted @ 13:50 PST) Twenty dead, several trapped in Lahore building collapse LAHORE, Pakistan, May 3 (AFP) - Multiple gas blasts at 3:00 am (2200 GMT) Tuesday tore through tenements and an ice cream factory in the densely populated Allama Iqbal Town area of the Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least 20 people and trapping several others, police said. Rescuers were desperately searching for people buried in the rubble of a collapsed four-storey block in a residential suburb of the city, Lahore police superintendent Mobin Ahmed told AFP. The dead included four women and two children. Seven of the fatalities were from the same family. ”More bodies have been pulled from the rubble and now we have 20 dead, some are still trapped and the death toll may go up. The blast was so powerful that it broke window panes of nearby houses," police officer Zubair Nawaz Chatha said. (Posted @ 13:40 PST) Indian guards kill six on border with Pakistan JAMMU, India, May 3 (AFP) - Indian security forces shot dead six "infiltrators" in a firefight near the in Occupied Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, defence ministry said.They were crossing the Line of Control in the Krishna Gahti area of Poonch district, 245 kilometres (150 miles) northwest of Jammu and were challenged to halt but instead started indiscriminate fire. "Our troops retaliated killing all six on the spot."Meanwhile, suspected militants shot dead the head of a municipal committee and his three police bodyguards at a busy market place in Patan town, a police spokesman said. (Posted @ 13:30 PST) New Iraqi government to be sworn in BAGHDAD, May 3 (APP/AFP) - Iraq's new government will be sworn in at 5 pm (1300 GMT)Tuesday at a ceremony in the Green Zone, a high-security area which is home to parliament and the US embassy, government protocol chief Jassem Msawil said. Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari's transitional government, formed after January's elections will be taking over from the US-appointed interim administration led by Iyad Allawi. (Posted @ 12:45:PST) Three Afghan women aid workers killed in northern Afghanistan Kabul (dpa) - Afghan police found the dead bodies of three female staff of a non-governmental organization in Afghanistan's Northern Province of Baghlan, a local media reported Tuesday. According to the Gheragh newspaper, the three women were working for the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. A new group, Junbish Nahzat Jawanan (Youth Movement Party), claimed responsibility for the murders in a note left with the bodies. It also warned that any woman working for a foreign organization will face a similar fate. According to the newspaper the women had been sexually assaulted. (Posted @ 12:00 PST) Lives of Kashmiri leaders in danger: Qazi LAHORE May 02-(PPI): Chief, Muttehida Majlis-e-Amal and Ameer of the Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, expressing concern over news of danger to lives of prominent leaders of held Kashmir valley, has said the Pakistani rulers with their attitude and showing leniency on Kashmir issue has degraded peoples marale across the border and put Kashmiri leaders in a feeling of loneliness. (Posted @ 12:00 PST) Sindh Ombudsman forms team to ascertain causes of gastro out break SUKKUR, May 02 (APP)- Sindh Ombudsman has constituted a team to inspect the affected areas of Jacobabad to investigate and ascertain the causes of the outbreak of gastro-enteritis disease. The inspection team is to be led by Syed Amir Ali Shah (Consultant-N) Regional Director, Regional Office of Ombudsman, Sukkur, said a hand out issued here on Monday. (Posted @ 12:00 PST) Six insurgents captured in southern Afghanistan Kabul (dpa) - Afghan National Police (ANP) captured six insurgents while on a joint patrol with members of the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, the U.S. military said late Monday evening. The ANP forces were leading a patrol to the village when they were attacked by an unknown number of insurgents. The police returned fire and the insurgents attempted to flee, with six being captured. (Posted @ 11:00 PST) 12 killed in fight with U.S.-led forces in Iraq BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed 12 people and wounded two others, including a six year old girl, in a firefight and bombing close to the Syrian border on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Tuesday. It said six soldiers of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq were wounded in the fight against suspected members of al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, which is headed by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Posted @ 09:45 PST) One U.S. soldier killed by roadside bomb in Iraq BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - One soldier from the 1st Corps Support Command was killed and another injured by an improvised explosive device (IED) at the Baghdad International Airport on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Tuesday. It said the device exploded near their vehicle during a patrol south of the airport and that the names of the soldiers were being withheld pending notification of next of kin. (Posted @ 09:45 PST) Karachi Stocks up 55.20points: KARACHI, May 03: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 6887.94, up 55.20 points from Monday’s close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:40 PST) Forex update: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.05 to the US Dollar in the open market. 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