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| June 2, 2005 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 24, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Pakistan, India should cooperate in preserving, rehabilitating archaeological, cultural, historical sites
Chakwal, June 2 PPI: Visiting President of India's Bharatia Janata Party and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha L K Advani Thursday said Pakistan and India should cooperate in preservatong and rehabilitating archeological, cultural and historical sites. He said this while inaugurating rehabilitation and preservation of Hindu Katas Raj Temples in district Chakwal of Punjab.(Posted @ 02:40 PST)
Top APHC leader underscores need to involve Kashmiris in dialogue process Muzaffarabad, June 2 PPI: A top leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mir Waiz Umar Farooq has underscored the need to involve Kashmirs in the dialogue process for resolving Kashmir dispute. He said this while addressing a news conference alongwith other APHC and other Kashmiri leaders from Indian Held Kashmir after their arrival from Srinagar in Capital of Azad Kashmir Muzaffarabad(Posted @ 02:40 PST)
7 Pakistanis in Malaysian junior quarter-finals ISLAMABAD, Jun 2 (APP): Seven Pakistanis in four different age categories have advanced to the quarter-finals of Milo All Star International Junior Squash Championship in Malaysia, according to reports available here Thursday.(Posted @ 02:40 PST)
National Assembly begins Budget session ISLAMABAD, June 02 (PPI): The National Assembly began its budget session on Thursday to present budget the financial year 2005-06 in the House on June 06 (Monday). The session was chaired by the Speaker, Chaudhry Ameer Hussain(Posted @ 21:20 PST)
Bush moves swiftly to fill SEC hole WASHINGTON, June 2 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush moved rapidly to find a new leader of the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday by nominating Republican congressman Christopher Cox to the powerful post. If confirmed by the Senate, the 52-year-old California Representative would replace William Donaldson, who Wednesday announced his resignation as of June 30 after just two and a half years in the job.(Posted @ 20:45 PST)
Maldives allows political parties for first time COLOMBO, June 2 (Reuters) - The Maldives ushered in a new political era on Thursday when parliament voted to allow parties to form for the first time in the remote Indian Ocean archipelago, a move that ends centuries of autocratic rule. "There was a unanimous vote in parliament," chief government spokesman Ahmed Shaheed told Reuters by telephone from the capital, Male. "This is a momentous development comparable only to the abolition of the Sultanate 40 years ago." Shaheed said aspiring political parties will be allowed to register from Sunday, and expected around five new parties to do so.(Posted @ 20:45 PST)
India, Pakistan fail to break Kishanganga dam deadlock NEW DELHI, June 2 (Reuters) - Talks between India and Pakistan to resolve differences over Kishanganga dam which New Delhi is building in occupied Kashmir ended inconclusively on Thursday with Islamabad saying its concerns were not addressed. The talks ended a day ahead of schedule and there was no immediate word about another meeting between the two sides. "The issue of dam design was deliberated upon. We could not reach any consensus. Pakistani concerns were not duly addressed by India," Jamat Ali Shah, Pakistan's Indus Water Commissioner, told reporters.A statement from the Indian water resources ministry said that Pakistan was given additional information about the design of the dam during the two-day talks. "There was mutual appreciation of each other's views and narrowing down of perceptions," the statement said.(Posted @ 20:45 PST)
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Train hits bus in Ukraine-at least 13 dead KIEV, June 2 (Reuters) - A freight train smashed into a bus at a level crossing in southern Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 13 people and injuring nine, the Emergencies Ministry said. Officials were unable to say how many people were aboard the bus when the collision occurred at about 3.15 p.m. (1215 GMT).(Posted @ 20:30 PST)
MoU signed for generation of 50 mw through windmills KARACHI, June 2 (APP): A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed with a Dutch company for the generation of 50 megawatts through windmills at a cost of US dollars 100 million, Adviser to the Chief Minister on Environment and Alternate Energy, Muhammad Noman Saigal, said at the launching ceremony of the Sindh State of Environment Development on Thursday(Posted @ 20:15 PST)
Pakistan's nuclear capability guarantees its security: PM ANKARA, JUNE 2 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Thursday said Pakistan adheres to a doctrine of minimum nuclear deterrence as a guarantee of its security and has a strong command and control system to protect the strategic assets. In his address to the Middle East Technical University on "Pakistan- promoting a regional peace and development in Asia," the Prime Minister covered the situation in South Asia, Pakistan-India peace dialogue, Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East crisis, proposed UN reforms, besides highlighting Pakistan's role in promoting regional peace and development.He said Pakistan's nuclear and missile capabilities have been developed purely for self-defence and provide a credible deterrence to ensure its security.(Posted @ 19:05 PST)
Palestinian leader says he has no heart blockage AMMAN, June 2 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday his health was fine and doctors found no heart blockage during a medical procedure in a Jordanian hospital. "I am in good health. I came here for normal checkups and they found I needed to open a constricted blood vessel as a way of checking there was no blockage of heart veins and, thank God, they have not found anything," Abbas told reporters in Amman after leaving hospital to head back to Ramallah.(Posted @ 18:35 PST)
Indian PM to risk trip to world's highest war zone NEW DELHI, June 2 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit frontline troops on Siachen Glacier on June 12, the first Indian leader to travel to the world's highest battlefield and an area of bloody dispute with Pakistan, officials said on Thursday.(Posted @ 18:30 PST)
Gunfire, dancing in streets as 400 Palestinians freed GAZA, June 2 (Reuters) - Palestinian militants welcomed Jamil al-Aqra back to the fold along with 397 other prisoners freed by Israel on Thursday, carrying him off on their shoulders and firing into the air. Ten armed members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Abbas's Fatah movement, mobbed Aqra as he got off a bus at Gaza's Erez crossing with Israel after serving 2 ½ years of a 4-year sentence for militant activity. A total of 400 prisoners were to have been freed but two opted to remain in jail, one to stay with his brother who was not part of the release, and the other to complete an academic course, an army spokeswoman said.(Posted @ 18:20 PST)
Motorcycle bombs kill 5 in Iraqi city of Mosul MOSUL, Iraq, June 2 (Reuters) - Two motorcycles strapped with explosives blew up in the centre of Mosul on Thursday, killing five people and wounding 13, police said.The motorcycles were parked in a busy commercial street and detonated shortly after one another. Four of those killed were civilians and one was a policeman, police said.(Posted @ 18:15 PST)
Kashmir leaders go to Pakistan in search of peace PAKISTAN/INDIA PEACE BRIDGE, June 2 (Reuters) Politicians from Indian Occupied Kashmir began a historic trip toPakistan on Thursday. Doves were released as Hurriyat leaders walked across a recently constructed "Peace Bridge" to Pakistani Kashmir. "A very huge process is in place. I think we have to move forward. I am in Kashmir, I left home and I have arrived home," Abdul Ghani Bhat told Pakistani journalists. "I am remembering my colleagues who have been martyred," Mohammad Yasin Malik, chairman of the JKLF,said as he crossed the bridge. "The Kashmir issue has come out of the battlefield and is now on the table," Mirwaiz Umar Farooq told Reuters. "But I want to tell the people of Kashmir that the visit is the first step and they should not expect miracles,"he added. Syed Ali Shah Geelani refused to join the trip while India stopped Shabir Ahmad Shah from getting on the bus because he declared his nationality as Kashmiri instead of Indian in his passport. Flags and banners bedecked the Pakistani side of the Line of Control. "Kashmir is our land and we will decide its future," one read. "Division of Kashmir is unacceptable" and "Kashmir is the jugular vein of Pakistan", said others.(Posted @ 18:10 PST)
Bomb kills anti-Syria journalist in Beirut BEIRUT, June 2 (Reuters) - Prominent journalist Samir Qaseer of An-Nahar newspaper died Instantly Thursday when a bomb placed under the driver's seat of his white Alfa Romeo car blew up as he switched on the ignition outside his home in the Christian Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood. His body was torn apart. Several cars were damaged and windows in nearby building were shattered by the explosion. Qaseer, 45, was a front page columnist for Lebanon's leading Daily. "Every time we take a step forward, we see that there are those who want to mess up the security of the country," Prime Minister Najib Mikati told reporters at the blast site.(Posted @ 17:45 PST)
Passenger plane crashes in Sudan, 5 dead KHARTOUM, June 2 (Reuters) - An Antonov passenger plane crashed on Thursday when it aborted take-off in the Sudanese capital, killing at least five people and injuring two others, Sudanese aviation officials said. There were 34 passengers on board and six crew. So far, we have five people dead and two injured that we know about, officials said. (Posted @ 17:31 PST)
Suicide bomb attacks kill 19 in Iraq BAGHDAD, June 2 (Reuters) - Insurgents killed at least 19 people in three suicide car bomb attacks on Thursday, one targeting the bodyguards of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister and another killing a deputy provincial governor. In the northern town of Tuz Khurmatu on the highway between Baghdad and Kirkuk, a suicide bomber ploughed his car into a restaurant where bodyguards of Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shways were eating, police said. Doctors said 12 people were killed and 37 wounded. In another suicide attack, an insurgent blew up his car among a convoy of local government vehicles in the town of Baquba, killing five people including the deputy head of the provincial government, Hussein Alwan al-Tamimi, police said. A third suicide bomber struck in Kirkuk, detonating his car as U.S. diplomatic vehicles entered the North Oil Company and two people were killed and 12 wounded. On Wednesday, a U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb, and another was killed by small arms fire, both near the city of Ramadi in western Iraq, the military said.(First Posted @ 14:17 PST Updated @ 17:31 PST)
OIC delegation probes south Thai unrest BANGKOK, June 2 (Reuters) - An Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) delegation arrived in Thailand on Thursday on a fact-finding mission to the Muslim far south, where almost 700 people have been killed in 18 months of unrest. Sayed El-Masri, a former Assistant Secretary General of the OIC , said he would meet Muslim leaders in Thailand's three southernmost provinces, as well as relatives of victims of last October's incident in the village of Tak Bai, in which 78 Muslim men died in army custody. Even though he said his was a purely investigative mission El-Masri held out the prospect of eventual OIC mediation. His team kicked off its tour, which runs until June 13, with a visit to Sawas Sumalyasak, President of the Central Islamic Committee of Thailand, and one of the foremost figures in the country's six million strong Muslim community. (Posted @ 17:30 PST)
Fifth bus carries passengers for Indian held Kashmir MUZAFFARABAD, June 2 (APP)-The fifth bus carrying 31 passengers to Indian held Kashmir was flagged off here Thursday. The passengers included 14 who had arrived in Azad Kashmir from the Indian Held Kashmir.(Posted @ 17:00 PST)
Steel Mills privatization process to be completed by Dec 31 LAHORE, June 2 (APP)- The privatization process of Pakistan Steel Mills will be completed by December 31 this year, Chairman PSM, Lt. Gen (rtd) Abdul Qayyum Khan told newsmen Thursday at Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry When asked about the fate of 19000 acres of land over which Pakistan Steel Mills is located, Abdul Qayyum Khan said that the assets of PSM, other than the plant, might be unbundled and privatized as a separate entity. Interests of all the stake holders including employees, dealers and consumers will be kept in view, he said.(Posted @ 16:56 PST)
Two Afghan de-miners killed, five injured in southern Afghanistan Kabul (dpa) - Two mine experts were killed and five others injured Wednesday in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand when their vehicle was bombed, U.N. officials said Thursday.(Posted @ 14:10 PST)
Suspected militants kill five in occupied Kashmir SRINAGR, India, June 2 (AFP) - Suspected militants in occupied Kashmir killed five people including a policeman and an official of the ruling party, police said Thursday. None of the militant groups opposing Indian rule in Kashmir claimed responsibility for the five killings.(Posted @ 14:03 PST)
Shabir Shah given permission to travel to AJK ISLAMABAD, Jun 2 (APP): The Indian government agreed to issue Shabir Shah, the head of the Democratic Freedom Party, a special permit to travel to AJK on ‘his own terms’, an APP report said Thursday. Earlier the Indian government had rejected his travel application in which he stated his nationality as Kashmiri instead of Indian.(Posted @ 13:59 PST)
China and Russia sign border agreement VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, June 2 (AFP) - Russia and China on Thursday signed a final agreement on their shared border, putting an end to 40 years of negotiations. The addition concerned the eastern end of the joint border, defining two percent of the total 4,300 kilometers of the Sino-Russian frontier. (Posted @ 10:38 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 304.15 points KARACHI, June 02: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 7323.75, up 304.15 points from Wednesday’s close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
Forex update KARACHI, June 02: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.05 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
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