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| May 5, 2005 | Thursday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 25, 1426 |
US announces religious freedoms accord with Vietnam WASHINGTON, May 5 (AFP) - The United States announced Thursday that it had reached agreement with Vietnam, whose prime minister will make a historic visit to Washington next month, on religious freedom. Officials said communist Vietnam has released a number of religious prisoners and allowed churches that had been closed to reopen.(Posted @ 00:20 PST)
Kallis again the top batsman; Inzie, Younis hold on to rankings ISLAMABAD, May 5 (APP): Pakistan captain Inzamamul Haq and his deputy Younis Khan still hold on to their respective positions among the top-10 batsmen of Test cricket even as Jacques Kallis of South Africa displaced Brian Lara of West Indies at the top of rankings list.(Posted @ 00:20 PST)
Japan urged not to start plutonium-reprocessing plant New York (dpa) - Japan was urged Thursday to postpone indefinitely a plan to operate a plutonium-reprocessing plant that could produce 8 metric tons of plutonium a year or the equivalent of 1,000 nuclear bombs.(Posted @ 00:20 PST)
US to continue "working closely" with Pakistan in ongoing war against terrorism: Scott McClellan WASHINGTON, May 5 (APP)- The White House Thursday hailed Pakistan for capture of number three al-Qaida operative, Abu Farraj al-Libbi in Mardan. The Spokesman said the United States would continue "working closely" with Pakistan and other countries around the world to share intelligence and go after who do harm to America and the civilized world.(Posted @ 00:20 PST)
Pakistan's Total Foreign Exchange Reserves Cross US$13 billion Karachi, May 5 PPI: Pakistan's total foreign exchange reserves crossed US$13 billion on April 30, 2005, and stood at $13000.2 billion on that day, State Bank of Pakistan said Thursday. According to the break-up, forex reserves held by SBP were $10231.1 million, while those by banks (other than SBP) $2769.1 million.(Posted @ 20:45 PST)
Passengers on third run of bus service in divided Kashmir arrive safely SRINAGAR, India, May 5 (AFP) - Passengers arrived safely in the capitals of the Indian and Pakistani zones of Kashmir under tight security Thursday to complete the third run of a service linking the divided Himalayan state.Two buses arrived in Srinagar in Indian Kashmir and another two reached Muzaffarabad in the Pakistani zone from the de facto border called the Line of Control, police and officials said.(Posted 20:00 PST)
Egyptian authorities imprison 170 Moslem Brotherhood members = Cairo (dpa) - Egyptian authorities Thursday handed 15-day prison sentences to 170 members of the banned Moslem Brotherhood for resisting arrest and attacking security officers.Security sources said 170 of the 400 MB members arrested Wednesday were also accused of membership of a banned group and of wrecking public property.(Posted @ 20:PST)
Turk police detain suspected Kurdish suicide bomber DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 5 (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have detained a suspected suicide bomber in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast during a failed attack on a police station, security officials said on Thursday.A 26-year-old woman carrying C-4 explosives was apprehended late on Wednesday before she was able to enter a police stationin the city of Diyarbakir, the official said.(Posted @ 20:00 PST)
Pakistan, Malaysia hope to sign free trade agreement by year end PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), May 5 (APP): Pakistan and Malaysia Thursday hoped to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) by the end of the current year, while Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi assured Kuala Lumpur's support to Islamabad to become a fullASEAN dialogue partner.(Posted 20:00 PST)
Former Nepal PM charged with corruption KATHMANDU, May 5 (AFP) - Nepal's powerful anti-graft commission Thursday charged former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba with misappropriation of government funds while in office, a commission spokesman said(Posted @ 20:00 PST)
International Kashmir Conference to be held in Britain MIRPUR (AJK), May 5 (APP): An International Kashmir Conference will soon be held in United Kingdom to discuss and highlight the importance of early peaceful settlement of the Kashmir problem. Chairman of the Britain-based All Parties Kashmir Freedom Council, Raja Nijabit Hussain, said this while talking to APP, who added that the proposed conference will be attended by the members of the British and European Parliament apart from the Kashmiri leaders.(Posted 18:50 PST)
Pakistan recaptures escaped Musharraf plotter ISLAMABAD, May 5 (AFP) - A Pakistani airforce official, Mushtaq Ahmed, who escaped jail late last year after being sentenced to death for a plot to kill President Pervez Musharraf has been re-arrested, security officials said on Thursday. Mushtaq was convicted by a military court in November but later broke out of a detention center at Chaklala airbase near Islamabad the same month.(Posted @ 18:50 PST)
India announces new timetable of talks with Pakistan NEW DELHI, May 5 (AFP) - India announced Thursday a new timetable of talks with Pakistan, including meetings next week over the launch of a new bus service and then later in May talks over Siachen. Indian foreign ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said "technical level talks" on the proposed bus service between Amritsar and Lahore would begin next Tuesday in Lahore, while defence secretaries of both countries would meet in Islamabad on May 25-26 for talks on Siachen.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Violence in Afghanistan leaves nine soldiers, 40 militants dead KABUL, May 5 (AFP) - Militants killed nine Afghan soldiers in an ambush while the Taliban death toll from a battle with US and Afghan troops rose to at least 40 in a wave of violence sweeping southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.Nine Afghan soldiers were killed and three wounded in an ambush on Wednesday in a fierce gun battle with militants in Shawali Kot, a troubled district of southern Kandahar province, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP. Meanwhile US and Afghan officials on Thursday said the number of Taliban militants killed in a firefight in neighbouring Zabul province had doubled to at least 40.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Pakistan catches 14 more Al-Qaeda suspects ISLAMABAD, May 5 (AFP) - Pakistani authorities have arrested 14 Al-Qaeda suspects and recovered a large cache of weapons, two days after capturing the network's alleged third in command, the interior ministry said Thursday. The suspects were arrested in raids on three hideouts in the northwestern Bajaur tribal belt near the Afghan border on Wednesday, the official said. "Security forces seized some 50 hand grenades, six Kalashnikovs, three laptops, satellite phones and a photocopier during these raids," he told AFP. Among the arrested were an Uzbek couple and a dozen militants of Pakistani origin. He said the arrests were not linked to the capture of Libyan-born senior Al-Qaeda operative Abu Faraj Al-Libbi.(Posted @ 17:40 PST)
APHC for greater unity among liberation leaders: Gilani (Srinagar, May 05 PPI) All Parties Hurriyat conference (APHC) Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, has expressed willingness to meet senior Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and said he favoured unity with other liberation leaders. He stated this after a marathon meeting of Majlis-e-Shura of APHC here.(Posted @ 16:45 PST)
Kidnapped Pakistan embassy's employee in Iraq returns home ISLAMABAD, May 5 (APP): Malik Muhammad Javed, an employee of Pakistan's embassy in Iraq who was kidnapped in Baghdad but released two weeks later, returned home on Thursday. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Khusru Bakhtiar, Opposition leader of the National Assembly Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman and Malik's family members received him at the airport.(Posted @ 16:45 PST)
Chechen plans to attack cities foiled: Russia MOSCOW, May 5 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that their security forces had broken up Chechen militant plans to use poison and explosives to launch attacks in the North Caucasus, four days before world leaders hold wartime victory celebrations in Moscow. "The FSB (state security services) had received information about the preparation of preemptive attacks," an FSB spokesman said. The spokesman said, the group based in the neighbouring region of Ingushetia, had planned to use powerful cyanide-based substances in their attacks on towns.(Posted @ 16:30 PST)
Bombing at British consulate in New York City New York (dpa) - A homemade bomb caused minor damage to a building housing the British consulate in New York City early Thursday, police said. The explosion occurred at around 4:30 a.m. in a cement planter which was used as a barrier outside the building in Manhattan, said a police spokesman. One window was broken but there were no injuries.(Posted @ 16:30 PST)
Two killed, 16 injured in a bomb explosion in occupied Kashmir SRINAGAR, India, May 5 (AFP) Two people were killed and 16 others injured in a bomb explosion at a marriage party, in a remote village of southern Udhampur district in Indian occupied Kashmir, police said. In another incident a soldier and a militant were killed during a clash in northern Kupwara district early Thursday, while suspected militants shot dead a former colleague and beheaded a civilian elsewhere, police added. (Posted @ 14:15 PST)
Indian space rocket blasts off with two satellites SRIHARIKOTA, India, May 5 (APP/AFP) - An Indian space rocket blasted off Thursday in the country's first bid to carry two satellites in a single launch, part of its ambitious space programme that aims to send a probe to the moon.The launch of the two satellites from the Satish Dhawan space port near Madras on India's southeast coast will help mapmakers and amateur radio operators, space officials said. (Posted @ 14:15 PST)
Third run of bus service in occupied Kashmir begins under tight security SRINAGAR, India, May 5 (AFP) Two buses left Srinagar and another two left Muzaffarabad under tight security Thursday on the third run of a bus service linking the divided Himalayan state. The green and white buses that left Srinagar carried 37 passengers; the buses from Muzaffarabad had 41. (Posted @ 14:05)
Twenty-five killed in series of attacks in Baghdad BAGHDAD, May 5 (APP/AFP) - At least 25 people were killed in a series of attacks Thursday in Baghdad, including nine policemen shot to death in their squad cars and 15 who died in a bomb explosion at an army recruitment centre, an interior ministry official said. In addition a guard was killed in a car bomb attack on the home of a deputy defence minister in the capital. Six other people were injured in the blast. The minister was not at home, the official told AFP. (Posted @ 13:30 PST)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrives in Kuala Lumpur KULAL LUMPUR May,5 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived here Thursday on a three-day visit to Kuala Lumpur. (Posted @ 09:30 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 198.80 points: KARACHI, May 05: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 7097.52, up 198.80 points from Wednesday’s close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
Forex update: : KARACHI, May 05: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.00 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
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