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| May 24, 2005 | Tuesday | Rabi-us-Sani 15, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Iraq's most wanted man Zarqawi wounded: website DUBAI, May 24 (AFP) - Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been wounded, his Al-Qaeda front group announced on its website Tuesday in a statement that could not be verified. "Islamic nation, brothers in unity, we pray God that our sheikh, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, recover from the wounds he has sustained," said the statement issued in the name of his militant organisation's "information department".(Posted @ 00:40 PST)
Internet media city to be functional in a year: Sindh IT Minister SUKKUR, May 24 (APP)- Sindh Minister for Information Technology, Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that an internet media city would start functioning within an year in the provincial metropolis. He said this would be the first and the biggest of three such facilities planned in the country. The other two would be set up in Lahore and Islamabad.(Posted @ 00:40 PST)
Iran warns nuclear talks on knife-edge BRUSSELS, May 24 (AFP) - Iran warned Tuesday that there was only a 50 percent chance of success in crunch nuclear talks with the European Union this week, aimed at avoiding an escalation of Tehran's standoff with the West. Speaking after official-level talks to prepare for formal negotiations in Geneva on Wednesday, a top Iranian official was blunt about the difficulties.(Posted @ 00:40 PST)
Pakistan opposes expansion of permanent U.N. Security Council seats Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf Tuesday reiterated opposition to any expansion of permanent United Nations Security Council seats."The already existing inequities in the U.N. Security Council should not be reinforced by creating new centres of privilege in the council," Musharraf told U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy, Ali Alatas, in Islamabad.Alatas is visiting world capitals to hear views on the ongoing U.N. reform process, which have included loud calls by India for a permanent Security Council seat for itself.(Posted @ 20:45 PST)
Talks: Pak, India talks on Siachin tomorrow Rawalpindi MAY 24 (PPI)Talks between Pakistan and India on de-militarization of Siachen glacier would be held here tomorrow (Thursday, May 26).Pakistan wants withdrawal of Indian troops from the world's highest battlefield and stressed the two countries need to have a sustained dialogue process to find a settlement which enjoys international legitimacy.(Posted @ 20:30 PST)
Syria "arrests Libyan involved in Iraqi insurgency" Cairo (dpa) - Syrian authorities have arrested a Libyan suspected of facilitating the entrance of Islamists to Iraq to join the insurgency, the London-based al-Hayat newsapaper said Tuesday.The paper quoted "informed sources" as saying Noureddine al-Gmati was arrested Friday following information from the American CIA "which was monitoring his movements".(Posted @ 20:15 PST)
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Filmstar Rangeela passes away LAHORE, May 24 (APP): Pakistan's renowned comedian film star Rangeela breathed his last Tuesday afternoon at a local hospital.(Posted @ 19:30 PST)
Daughter demands Jinnah's house in Mumbai New Delhi, May 24 PPI: Dina Wadia, daughter of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, requested the Indian government in a written letter last month to handover her father’s property, the Jinnah house in Mumbai, to her, the Times of India reported today. Earlier President Pervez Musharraf had asked the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the Jinnah House to be used as the Pakistan's consulate in Mumbai. Instead, however the Pakistan high commission was given the choice of three plots in northern and central Mumbai, including one in the up market Bandra.(19:15 PST)
China's army chief begin talks in India, confidence measures expected NEW DELHI, May 24 (AFP) - Chinese army chief Liang Guanglie on Tuesday began his official visit to India aimed at increasing confidence building measures between the world's two largest militaries, an India army spokesman said. "Some agreements are likely to be firmed up today," one defence ministry official said without elaborating. Sources said India was likely to invite Chinese defence observers to war games scheduled to be held in November.(Posted @ 19:00 PST)
Turkish businessman kidnapped in Iraq: family ANKARA, May 24 (AFP) - A Turkish businessman has been kidnapped in Iraq by insurgents demanding that his transportation company stop working with US forces in the war-torn country, his relatives were quoted as saying Tuesday.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Mass grave discovered in eastern Bosnia Sarajevo (dpa) - Bosnian forensic experts have discovered a new mass grave near the eastern Bosnian Serb town of Visegrad believed to be holding bodies of at least 40 Bosnian Moslems, the Bosnia-Herzegovina's Moslem-Croat Federation Commission on Missing Persons said on Tuesday in Sarajevo.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Iran reverses decision to bar candidates from presidential polls = Teheran (dpa) - Iran's Guardian Council on Tuesday revised a decision to bar the two reformist candidates, Mostafa Moein and Mohsen Mehralizadeh, from the presidential elections scheduled for June 17.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Local Government polls in first week of July: CEC ISLAMABAD, May 24 (APP): Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, on Tuesday said fair and transparent Local Government Elections would be held throughout the country in three phases starting from the first week of July.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Pakistan body to review controversial Islamic laws ISLAMABAD, May 24 (Reuters) - A panel of the Islamic Ideology Council(IIC) will review the controversial Islamic laws pertaining to women in Pakistan, and also consult with the scholars of Muslim countries attending a conference on Islamic criminal law later this month in Islamabad, Chairman IIC Mohammad Khalid Masood told Reuters.(Posted @ 18:35 PST)
Car bomb kills three U.S. soldiers in Baghdad BAGHDAD, May 24 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded as a U.S. patrol passed in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing three American soldiers, the U.S. military said. A spokesman said the bomb exploded around 1:30 p.m. (0930 GMT). The victims were members of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division.(Posted @ 18:30 PST)
Key Taliban commander among 13 captured by Afghan troops KABUL, May 24 (AFP) - Afghan troops have captured 13 suspected Taliban insurgents, including a key militant commander identified as Mullah Abdul Bary, in a raid on Monday in Afghanistan’s Zabul province, a defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.(Posted @ 18:00 PST)
Omar calls for honest political approach to solve Kashmir dispute Srinagar, May 24 (PPI): National Conference (NC) President, Omar Abdullah, said that an honest political approach apart from transparency and sincerity should prevail to evolve a long term permanent solution of the Kashmir dispute, the Kashmir Media Service reported. (Posted @ 16:20 PST)
Putin meets India's Kalam in Moscow Moscow (dpa) - Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Their talks covered a range of international issues as well as expansion of cooperation in high-technology fields like nuclear power, space exploration and defence, officials said. (Posted @ 16:20 PST)
Pakistan arrests Egyptian Al-Qaeda suspect PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 24 (AFP) - Pakistani authorities have arrested an Egyptian suspected of having links with Al-Qaeda, a security official said on Tuesday. The suspect was arrested late Monday night in a raid on a house in the Charsadda district, 50 kilometers northeast of Peshawar. "Two female undercover agents posing as village women visited the home and then intelligence agents conducted the raid," a security official told AFP. "He is an old Arab claiming to be an Egyptian and married to a local ethnic Pashtun girl." During the raid, security officials also picked up a local resident, he added. (Posted @ 15:10 PST)
Six killed in Baghdad car bomb blast BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 24 (APP/AP) A car bomb exploded near a girls school in central Baghdad on Tuesday killing six people and injuring at least three others, a police official said. The blast happened near eastern Baghdad's well-known Withaq Square, near the Alwiyah residential area, at about 10:30 p.m., destroying at least three cars and damaging several buildings. (Posted @ 15:00 PST)
At least two insurgents killed in fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. military says KABUL, Afghanistan, May 24 (APP/AP) Afghan and coalition forces killed two insurgents in a firefight in central Afghanistan, while U.S. aircraft bombed and destroyed a cave where about six other rebels were believed hiding, the U.S. military said Tuesday. Ten rebels were also captured during the fighting in Uruzgan province on Monday, the military said in a statement.
US fighter jets intercept another plane near DC WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. military jets intercepted a small plane that strayed into restricted airspace around Washington on Monday, the second time in nearly two weeks fighter planes steered a wayward aircraft away from the capital with flares, aviation and military officials said. Unlike the May 11 incident when the airspace breach prompted the evacuation of the White House, Capitol and Supreme Court, Monday's late afternoon incident triggered no frantic security response on the ground. Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it had revoked the license of the pilot in charge of the plane that prompted the security panic 12 days ago (Posted @ 09:00 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 52.08 points KARACHI, May 24: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 7035.38, up 52.08 points from Monday’s close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
Forex update KARACHI, May 24: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.75 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
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