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| May 14, 2005 | Saturday | Rabi-us-Sani 5, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
US forces end anti-Zarqawi assault BAGHDAD, May 14 (AFP) - US forces on Saturday ended a major week-long sweep dubbed operation "Matador" targetting militants loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as a fresh spate of insurgent attacks claimed over a dozen lives. Nine Marines were killed and 40 wounded in the operation in western Iraq near the Syrian border, while US forces killed more than 125 insurgents and detained 39 "of intelligence value", the US military said.(Posted @ 00:50 PST)
Pakistani police detain human rights activists Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistani authorities Saturday arrested and later released about 30 people including human rights activists for violating a ban on women in a marathon race in the central town of Lahore.(Posted @ 00:50 PST)
Annual turnover of IT industry expands to $ 700 millon ISLAMABAD, May 14 (APP): Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari Saturday said that annual turnover of the IT Industry had increased to a range of $700 million.(Posted @ 21:15 PST)
Pakistan wants Kashmiri involvement in dialogue with India: Kasuri SYDNEY, Australia, May 14 (APP): Pakistan wants meaningful and result-oriented talks with India to resolve all-outstanding issues including Jammu and Kashmir and believes that Kashmiris must be associated with the dialogue process."Pakistan believes that Kashmiris must be associated with Pakistan-India process of seeking final settlement of the (Kashmir) issue," he said in a meeting with the members of Pakistani community in the Australian city.(Posted @ 21:00 PST)
China supports Pakistan's position on regional and international issues BEIJING, May 14 (APP): Chinese scholars and members of "Think-Tank" have commended Sino-Pak strategic partnership and said it developed well in the recent years to meet the common aspirations of their people.Huang Hua, President of China ssociation of International Friendly Contact, Ma Zhengeng, President of China Institute of International Studies and Zhang Yannong and Editor-in-Chief of State-run newspaper, the Peoples Daily spoke highly of Sino-Pak friendship during their separate meetings held here with Pakistan Ambassador to China Salman Bashir this week.(Posted @ 20:30 PST)
President, PM exchange views on political environment RAWALPINDI, May 14 (APP): President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Saturday exchanged views on prevailing political environment in the country and other matters of national importance and expressed profound shock and dismay over news reports of alleged desecration of the Holy Quran by the jail staff in Guantanamo Bay.(Posted @ 19:45 PST)
Pakistani journalist wounded in ambush in border tribal region WANA, Pakistan, May 14 (AFP) - A Pakistani journalist was shot and wounded in a drive-by shooting by three masked gunmen Saturday in a tribal region known for sheltering Al-Qaeda linked militants near the Afghan border, officials said.Mujeebur Rehman, who works for a national daily as well as for Reuters news agency, was wounded in the hand during the attack from a passing taxicab near the town of Wana in South Waziristan, local officials said.(Posted @ 19:30 PST)
Pakistan to construct more nuclear plants: PAEC Islamabad, May 14 (PPI): Pakistan will build more nuclear power plants to meet the target of 8800 MW electricity requirements. Chairman Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Parvez Butt said here Saturday in a newsletter PakAtom that the government assigned PAEC produce 8800 MW nuclear energy capacity due to the accelerated economic growth of the country and soaring oil prices.(Posted @ 18:30 PST)
Pakistan to deliver seven trainer aircraft to Saudi Arabia Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistan is scheduled to deliver a second batch of seven domestically manufactured lightweight trainer aircraft to Saudi Arabia this month, an official source said Saturday. The aircraft form part of an agreement for 20 such planes to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF). The first batch of eight Super Mushshak aircraft was handed over to Saudi air force officials in October last year.(Posted @ 17:30 PST)
US loses four more marines in western Iraq fighting BAGHDAD, May 14 (AFP) - The US military announced Saturday that four marines had died of wounds sustained in fierce fighting in western Iraq close to the Syrian border. The four marines died Friday after being fatally wounded in a roadside bombing earlier in the week. "The assault amphibian in which they were riding struck an explosive device during 'Operation Matador' in Karabilah," near the Euphrates Valley town of Al-Qaim, the US military said.(Posted @ 17:15 PST)
Gilani accuses Indian army of war crimes SRINAGAR May 14 (PPI) Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, accused the Indian army of war crimes and called upon India to withdraw its troops from occupied Kashmir. He was addressing the people at Kulgam, where troops had martyred two Kashmiri youth.(Posted @ 17:15 PST)
PML united under Chaudury Shujaat's leadership: PM ISLAMABAD, May 14 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Saturday said Pakistan Muslim League (PML) was fully united under the leadership of its President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain. "There is a total unity within the party," he told reporters after PML meeting of its Central Working Committee (CWC). Presided by Ch. Shujaat Hussain, the meeting was attended by the senior party leadership including federal ministers, senior vice presidents and Sindh Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim. The Prime Minister said the party has decided to hold the CWC meeting every month. Describing the meeting as very productive, Prime Minister Aziz said the entire PML leadership attended. "The party has vigour and strength. Inshallah we will take the party forward under the leadership of Ch. Shujaat," he added.(Posted @ 17:00 PST)
Uzbek leader says no order given to fire on crowd TASHKENT, May 14 (Reuters) - Uzbek President Islam Karimov said on Saturday no order had been given to shoot on a crowd of 3,000 protesters in the eastern town of Andizhan, and blamed the violence on Hizb ut-Tahrir, an outlawed Islamic group. Making no mention of civilian casualties, he said 10 policemen had been killed and 100 wounded during the violence.(Posted @ 16:45 PST)
Nine rebels killed in southeast Turkey-officials TUNCELI, Turkey, May 14 (Reuters) - Turkish soldiers killed nine Kurdish rebels, two of them women, in an overnight operation involving some 10,000 troops in the eastern Tunceli province of Turkey, military officials said on Saturday.(Posted @ 16:30 PST)
Suicide bomb targeting police kills four in Baghdad BAGHDAD, May 14 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up next to an Iraqi police patrol in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least four people, police sources said. (Posted @ 15:55 PST)
15 crewmembers of sunken boat rescued Karachi, May 14 (PPI): 15 out of the 18 crew members that went missing after their boat sunk 14 NMs North West of Gawadar on May 12, have been recovered safely, the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) said. 13 were pickuped on Friday and two more on Saturday.. (Updated @ 22:45 PST)
India favours November 12-13 as dates for SAARC summit: Bangladesh DHAKA, May 14 (APP/AFP) - Bangladesh on Saturday said that India favoured attending the twice-postponed summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in November. "Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh called me by telephone on Friday night and conveyed India's readiness to attend the SAARC summit on November 12-13," Bangladesh's Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan told AFP Saturday. Khan also said India's proposal for SAARC to meet in November had been conveyed to Pakistan which holds the rotating chairmanship of SAARC. (Posted @ 14:55 PST)
Pakistan has become one of Asia's fastest growing economies: VOA WASHINGTON, May 14 (APP)- In recent years, "Pakistan has become one of the Asia's fastest growing economies", Voice of America said, quoting financial analysts on Friday. The country expects annual gross domestic product growth to top eight percent next year and its foreign exchange reserves have ballooned from $1 billion in 2001 to more than $12 billion today. Benjamin Sand of VOA in a report states that international economists say the changes were set in motion in 1999 when President Pervez Musharraf instituted a series of structural reforms. (Posted @ 14:55 PST)
Insurgents destroy government building in southeastern Afghanistan KHOST, Afghanistan, May 14 (AFP) - Suspected Taliban insurgents lobbed about a dozen rockets and also attacked a government office in district Yaqubi, 15 kilometers northeast of Khost, near the Pakistani border on Saturday, an official said. No casualties were reported. (Posted @ 14:55 PST)
Witnesses claim as many as 200 killed in Andijan ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan, May 14 (AFP) - Residents in the Uzbek city of Andijan said Saturday they had seen as many as 200 people killed in a crackdown by security forces against armed rebels and crowds of protestors. "I have seen 200 bodies. It's a real war," a witness told AFP. Another witness claimed to have seen more than 300 bodies near the mayor's office. "Everything is covered in blood," he said. The reports could not be independently confirmed as access to the main hospital was blocked by armed guards. Earlier a doctor at Andijan's central hospital told AFP that "there are at least 50 dead" and 96 wounded. (Posted @ 12:45 PST)
Pakistan denies report US drone kills Al Qaeda leader ISLAMABAD, May 14 (Reuters) - Pakistan denied on Saturday the ABC News report that a senior al Qaeda leader was killed in a missile attack by an unmanned U.S. intelligence Predator aircraft on Pakistani territory near the Afghan border. ABC News said sources from unnamed intelligence agencies had identified the man as Haitham al-Yemeni. "Nothing has happened in Pakistan. If something happened in Afghanistan, we don't know," Information Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed told Reuters. (Posted @ 13:40 PST)
Three dead in Baghdad bomb explosion BAGHDAD, May 14 (AFP) - Three civilians, believed to be municipal workers, were killed and four people were wounded Saturday in a bomb blast in Baghdad's southern district of Dura, Yarmuk hospital emergency staff said. The roadside bomb exploded at about 07:30 am (0330 GMT) when the workers were cleaning the street, medics said. An interior ministry official confirmed there had been a blast, but put the toll at one dead and three wounded. (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Iraq bomb kills US soldier, 8 Iraqis shot in clash BAGHDAD, May 14 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq and U.S. troops shot dead eight Iraqis, including five civilians, during an attack on Friday near their patrol close to Baiji, about 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Saddam to write his memoirs from jail, report says LONDON, May 14 (AFP) - Saddam Hussein has decided to write his memoirs from an Iraqi jail where he is awaiting trial for more than 20 years of abuses, a British newspaper reported, quoting one of his lawyers.Giovanni di Stefano, a member of Hussein's legal team, said Saddam decided recently to start writing about his childhood in Iraq, his early exile to Egypt and his military adventures in Iran and Kuwait, the Financial Times reported. He will tell how France and Britain betrayed him by also helping Iran's Islamic republic during the 1980-1988 war with Iraq. (Posted @ 11:00 PST)
Muslims hold first prayers at huge Michigan mosque DEARBORN, Mich., May 13 (Reuters) - Hundreds of worshipers gathered on Friday for the first prayer session at a gilded new mosque around Detroit. A gold-domed mosque flanked by two minarets and a banquet hall were part of a $14 million expansion project to a Muslim school that, taken together, is now the Islamic Center of America, a 70,000 square-foot (6,500 sq meters) facility. When a 700-seat auditorium and a two-story library and school are also completed, it will likely become the largest Islamic center in North America, Muslim officials said. (Posted @ 10:20 PST)
U.S. soldier describes wiring Iraq abuse victim FORT HOOD, Texas, May 13 (Reuters) - A soldier already convicted of abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal testified on Friday that he was the one who attached wires to a naked, hooded Iraqi in an attempt to gain information about the whereabouts of the bodies of four U.S. soldiers and locate their killers. Pvt. Ivan Frederick's testimony did not appear to help the government's case against Spc. Sabrina Harman, who the government has charged with placing wires on the prisoner pictured in a photo that sparked global outrage. (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
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