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| May 10, 2005 | Tuesday | Rabi-us-Sani 1, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Sacked Nazims allowed to continue their duties Karachi, May 10 PPI: Sindh High Court allowing petition of sackednazims and naib nazims of four districts of Sindh Tuesday ruled government notifications regarding removal of Nazims do not have the effect so as to deprive them of their respective offices and the same are declared void having no legal effect.(Posted @ 00:05 PST)
Politics: Dialogues between govt, PPP-P, part of ARD's LAHORE, May 10-(PPI): Central Joint Secretary of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) and President, Pakistan Democratic Party, (PDP), Nawaz Gondal has said the mutual contacts and dialogues between the government and Pakistan PeopleParty-Parliamentarian (PPP-P) are a part of ARD's policies. (Posted @ 00:05 PST)
Pakistan, India in talks on bus service, water row and maritime security ISLAMABAD, May 10 (AFP) - Pakistani and Indian officials Tuesday held talks on starting a new cross-border bus service while separate groups wrapped up discussions on a water row and met to boost maritime linksThe meetings were the latest aiming to refine a range of confidence-building measures agreed by the South Asian nuclear rivals, who launched a historic peace process in January 2004.Transport chiefs opened two days of talks over the start of the bus link between the holy Sikh town of Amritsar in India and Pakistan's second-largest city, Lahore.(Posted @ 21:05 PST)
Iran under pressure over threat to resume nuclear work TEHRAN, May 10 (AFP) - Iran said Tuesday it will decide within days whether to resume some sensitive nuclear activities, despite fresh warnings that the move could bring talks with the European Union to an end and result in possible UN sanctions.(Posted @ 20:55 PST)
Pakistan agrees to screen classic Indian movie ISLAMABAD, May 10 (Reuters) - Pakistan has agreed "in principle" to screen one of the great classics of Indian cinema, breaching a longstanding ban on theatres showing Indian films, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told Reuters.(Posted @ 20:45 PST)
Gunmen kidnap governor of Iraq's Anbar province RAMADI, Iraq, May 10 (Reuters) - Gunmen have kidnapped the governor of Iraq's rebellious Anbar province, his brother said on Tuesday. Raja Nawaf, who recently became the governor of Anbar -home to many of Iraq's insurgents -- was abducted along with four bodyguards on the road from the town of Qaim, near the Syrian border, to the rebel stronghold of Ramadi,(Posted @ 20:30 PST)
Reps of Kashmiris be involved in Pak-India talks process: Mirwaiz NEW DELHI, May 10 (APP): Senior Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq today said that talks between India and Pakistan should involve the representatives of people of Held Kashmir and the dialogue process should be Kashmir centric. (Posted @ 20:30 PST)
Pakistan for promoting cooperation between SAARC and ASEAN SINGAPORE, May 10 (APP): Pakistan Tuesday called for promoting cooperation between South Asian and ASEAN countries directly as well as from the SAARC platform for mutual benefit. Speaking at a banquet Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said both Pakistan and Singapore believe that cooperation between various regions within Asia was of great value to the whole continent.The banquet was hosted by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana, the Government House, in honour of his Pakistani counterpart.(Posted @ 20:30 PST)
Sri Lanka President under siege as protests mount from allies, opposition COLOMBO, May 10 (AFP) - Pressure mounted on Sri Lanka's president as her key coalition ally Tuesday vowed to block a deal with Tiger rebels on tsunami aid while the opposition scuttled a pledge to not demonstrate against the government while the country rebuilds. (Posted @ 20:20 PST)
Iran's Rafsanjani confirms he will stand again for presidency TEHRAN, May 10 (AFP) - Powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani officially confirmed Tuesday he will stand again for president in Iran's June 17 elections"He is a candidate and will announce the reasons for his candidacy in a public declaration" to be released later Tuesday, said Expediency Council spokesman Reza Soleimani.(Posted @ 20:15 PST)
US-delegation arrives to discuss Pak-US Bilateral Investment Treaty ISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP): A US-delegation has arrived here for second round negotiations regarding Pak-US Bilateral Investment Treaty, scheduled to get underway from Tuesday. The US delegation comprises senior officials from the State Department and the US Trade Representative, Department of Commerce and Treasury. (Posted @ 18:15 PST)
Afghan president calls for long-term EU rebuilding commitment STRASBOURG, France, May 10 (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the European Union on Tuesday to commit to help strengthen his country's economy well beyond the parliamentary elections scheduled for September. "I am asking here, on behalf of the Afghan people, for a multi-year commitment from Europe so that Afghanistan can be a stable, democratic member of the international community," he told reporters in Strasbourg. (Posted @ 18:10 PST)
No differences with Jamali: Shujaat Islamabad,May 10 (PPI): Ruling Pakistan Muslim League President, Shujaat Hussain, on Tuesday said that there were no differences between him and former Prime Minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali. Talking to newsmen here in the parliament house, Hussain said that the issue of differences between him and Jamali was not an issue. He termed media reports in this regard as baseless. “I was misquoted by the media,” he clarified. (Posted @ 18:10 PST)
Taliban's Omar rejects Afghan amnesty SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan, May 10 (Reuters) - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has rejected an offer of amnesty and ordered his men to battle on against U.S. and Afghan government forces, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday. "We don't need any guarantee of safety from the government," Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said by telephone from an undisclosed location. "We're not hiding.Mullah Omar, our leader, is not hiding. Rather, he is fighting." (Posted @ 18:05 PST)
National interest must always be kept supreme: Shujaat Hussain ISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP): The PML President, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Tuesday opened the debate on the motion under rule 241 to discuss the matter of desecration of the Holy Quran by the US armymen at Guantanamo Bay. He informed the House that he has written to Pakistan's ambassador in United States, Jahangir Karamat, to raise the cartoon and the desecration issues with the State Department and seek a reply from them. "If the State Department do not provide a reasonable answer then the ruling PML, allied parties and the whole House, as deem fit, can guide for issuing legal notice to the responsible," he said. (Posted @ 16:00 PST)
SMEs promotion to help tackle poverty,unemployment: Musharraf LAHORE, May 10 (APP)- President General Pervez Musharraf urged the banks to provide more credit access to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) whose promotion could help tackle the problems of poverty and unemployment. "The development of SMEs sector can also lead to uprooting the scourges of extremism and terrorism from the society," he said on Tuesday while inaugurating a two-day conference on 'SME Financing: Issues and Strategies' held under the aegis of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) at a local hotel. (Posted @ 15:45 PST)
India moves to outlaw proliferation, missile technology transfers NEW DELHI, May 10 (AFP) - Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee introduced a bill in parliament Tuesday to ban proliferation and the transfer of missile technology to non-nuclear states. The bill, which becomes law if endorsed by parliament's two houses, would "provide an integrated legislative basis to India's commitment to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Mukherjee said. (Posted @ 15:40 PST)
PM departs for Singapore on 3-day visit BANGKOK, May 10 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Tuesday left for Singapore on the last leg of his Southeast Asian tour for talks with its leadership on bilateral issues and regional and international matters of mutual concern. He was seen off at the airport by Deputy Prime Minister Dr Surakirt Sathiralhai, Minister of Commerce Thanong BibabaThey and other senior government officials. (Posted @ 15:35 PST)
Pakistan, India offered "unique opportunity" to resolve Kashmir dispute: PM BANGKOK, May 10 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Tuesday said improved relations between Pakistan and India offered a unique opportunity to the South Asian neighbours to resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute and build a better future for their people. "In South Asia Pakistan is working with India through the composite dialogue to resolve all issues and ensure durable peace in the region," he said while delivering a lecture jointly organized by the Asian Institute of Technology and Thammast University in Bangkok. He also described nuclear deterrence as central to Pakistan's security but said the country was opposed to nuclear proliferation and had a strong command and control system to protect its strategic assets. (Posted @ 15:35 PST)
Afghans protest over U.S. desecration of the Holy Quran report JALALABAD, Afghanistan, May 10 (Reuters) - About 2,000 students in Afghanistan, chanting "Death to America", protested on Tuesday over a report that U.S. interrogators in Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran. "America should apologise for this," said one student at the protest. "Whoever has done this should be brought to justice and the Afghan government should condemn it." Some protesters also held up an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush shouting "Death to Bush". (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Nepal rebels attack military post, 30 killed KATHMANDU, May 10 (Reuters) - Nepali troops killed 26 Maoist rebels in a fierce gunbattle in the east of the kingdom after hundreds of the guerrillas attacked a military base, the army said on Tuesday. Three policemen and one soldier were also killed in the clash on Monday night at Bandipur, 450 km (280 miles) east of Kathmandu, an officer said. "We have recovered 26 bodies," the officer told Reuters. "They failed in their plan to overrun the security base...The Maoists were using civilians as human shields . Dozens of civilians were injured in the attack, the biggest in three weeks. (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Pakistan arrests four suspected militants KARACHI, May 10 (Reuters) - Police arrested four suspected members of an outlawed Sunni Muslim group after a gun battle in the southern port city of Karachi, a senior police official said on Tuesday. The men, arrested on Monday, were being held on charges of plotting attacks on Shi'ite Muslims, police said. They were members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant group that targets the Shi'ite minority and whose members were also implicated in December 2003 assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf. Police also seized guns, detonators, audio and video cassettes, compact discs, and religious literature after the gun battle in Karachi's Mahmoodabad neighbourhood. (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Three killed in Karachi by shell sold as scrap KARACHI, May 10 (Reuters) - A rocket shell exploded on Tuesday in a scrapyard in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, killing three men, police said. "One of the deceased had brought the shell to the scrap shop," said police inspector Khanzada Yousufzai."But it exploded when the scrap dealers tried to dismantle it, killing them both as well as the person who brought it," he said. An official of the Bomb Disposal Squad said the shell weighed nearly 10 kg and was similar to the ones used by the air force. Police did not know how it came into the man's possession. (Posted @ 11:45 PST)
Suicide car bomb kills at least 7 in Baghdad BAGHDAD, May 10 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near a U.S. military convoy in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least seven Iraqis and wounding 16, police said. The blast destroyed several cars and rattled windows in the city centre. The explosion was close to the site of a double suicide car bombing that killed 22 people including two Americans on Saturday. (Posted @ 11:45 PST)
Oil-rich Saudi announces new mega projects RIYADH, May 9 (AFP) - Saudi Arabia announced a series of mega projects Monday worth tens of billions of dollars, including three massive refinery modernisations worth nearly 17 billion dollars, major petrochemical projects over the next five years "capable of creating nearly 20,000 jobs, three-quarters of them for Saudis," a dozen new projects worth six billion dollars targeted at the less developed south, the mountainous homeland of the kingdom's Zaidi and Ismaili minorities,and a new 1,000 kilometre (625 mile) rail link to connect mineral deposits in the north to the main communications axis between the capital and the oil fields of the east. (Posted @ 10:00 PST)
Five rebels killed in India's northeast GUWAHATI, India, May 10 (AFP) - At least five separatists were killed by security forces in two separate encounters in India's restive northeastern state of Assam, officials Tuesday said. Soldiers shot dead three militants from the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) late Monday in a shootout near Kathalguri, 510 kilometers (316 miles) east of Assam's main city of Guwahati, police said. In a separate incident, two ULFA militants were shot dead by army soldiers in western Assam's Nalbari district on Monday (Posted @ 09:30 PST)
China village dynamite explosion kills 14- Xinhua BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters) - A dynamite explosion destroyed several village houses in central China, killing 14 people, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. The illegally stored dynamite exploded on Monday in Baofeng county in Henan province, the agency said without giving details. (Posted @ 09:00 PST)
Karachi Stocks down 17.28 points: KARACHI, May 10: At 14:30 PST, the KSE-100 index was at 7367.70, down 17.28 points from Monday’s close. (Bureau Report) (Posted @ 14:30 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, May 10: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.14 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Posted @ 14:30 PST)
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