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| June 11, 2005 | Saturday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 3, 1426 |
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US hails Pak efforts to check human trafficking ISLAMABAD, Jun 11 (APP): In its annual report on human trafficking the US State Department has hailed Pakistan government's measures to control the evil trade. Special Advisor to the US Secretary of State, John Miller said that Washington had been including Islamabad in the list of the countries considered major sources of human trafficking in the past, VOA reported. John Miller added that Pakistan government's measures against human trafficking during the previous year had improved status of the country.He said, "We are impressed with the significant efforts of the Pakistan government to get punished the elements involved in human trafficking and also its legislation to check the evil."He called for continuing the process of reformation.(Posted @ 22:20 PST)
42 more buses handed over to Afghan diplomat PESHAWAR, June 11 (APP): Pakistan Saturday handed over 42 more buses to Afghan Government. Pakistan had announced the gift of 100 buses worth Rs.290 million to Afghanistan out of which 35 were delivered earlier and the remaining 23 buses would be delivered by the end of current financial year.(Posted @ 20:10 PST)
Pakistan prime minister to visit U.S. next month Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will pay an official visit to the United States next month for talks with U.S. leaders on a range of regional, global and bilateral issues, it was announced Saturday. "The U.S. government has formally invited me for an official visit to Washington, which will take place sometime next month," Aziz told a press conference in Islamabad Saturday.(Posted @ 20:00 PST)
South Asian summit to take place in Dhaka November 12-13: Pakistan ISLAMABAD, June 11 (AFP) - Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz announced here Saturday the twice-postponed summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) will be held in Dhaka on November 12-13. Aziz said the summit would be preceded by a meeting of the standing committee and the council of ministers from November 9-11.(Posted @ 19:50 PST)
Indian court acquits eight charged in 2002 Mumbai bus blast MUMBAI, June 11 (AFP) - A court in India acquitted eight people Saturday who were blamed for planting a bomb in a bus in the western commercial centre of Mumbai in 2002 that killed two and injured 50.The accused, all Muslims, were acquitted by judge A.P. Bhangale who said the prosecution had failed to prove the charges. Police had sought to build a case that the accused planned the December 2002 bus blast to avenge the deaths of hundreds of Muslims who died in Hindu-Muslim riots in February 2002 in neighbouring Gujarat state.(Posted @ 19:45 PST)
Camilla and Prince William in first procession together LONDON, June 11 (AFP) - Camilla, the second wife of heir to the throne Prince Charles, took part for the first time on Saturday in the traditional "Trooping the Colour" parade, sharing a horse-drawn carriage with Prince William, the first son of Charles and his first wife Princess Diana. The Trooping the Colour, a military parade followed by an air display, takes place every year in early June, to mark the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, even though she was born on April 21.The Queen, wearing a light blue suit and a matching hat, and accompanied by her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, inspected Britain's elite military regiments.(Posted @ 19:40 PST)
At least 43 killed as bombs shatter Baghdad calm BAGHDAD, June 11 (AFP) - At least 16 people, including three US servicemen, were killed in bomb attacks late Friday and early Saturday while another at least 21 died in other acts of violence. One US soldier was killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad Saturday and two marines died in a similar attack west of the capital, the US military said. In the countryside, 11 Iraqi construction workers were killed when gunmen attacked their minibus, police said adding that ten people died when a blast tore through Baghdad's mainly Shiite Shula district, shortly before a night-time curfew came into effect. In the second blast, three Wolf Brigade commandos were killed and 21 injured when a suicide bomber disguised as a commando walked into their central Baghdad barracks. And in the latest attack, four Iraqis were wounded when a suicide bomber blew up an empty fuel tanker near the Slovak embassy in the capital's central Jadriyah neighbourhood.(Posted @ 19:25 PST)
G8 debt relief agreement LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) - The Group of Eight industrialised nations agreed on Saturday to write off more than $40 billion of African debts.The agreement provides 100 percent write-offs for 18 countries straight away, with more countries to qualify later, British Finance Minister Gordon Brown told a news conference.(Posted @ 19:02 PST)
Syria PM meets Iraqi ministers, says keen on security DAMASCUS, June 11 (Reuters) - Syrian Prime Minister Naji al-Otari discussed economic cooperation with two Iraqi ministers on Saturday and said Syria was keen to promote the stability and security of its neighbour. After a meeting i with Iraqi Electricity Minister Mohsen Shalash and Water Resources Minister Abdul Latif Rasheed. The prime minister said Syria was willing to "support and respond to the needs of the brethren in Iraq and offer all forms of help required for the reconstruction of facilities and services".(Posted @ 18:55 PST)
Bangladesh prevents Holy Quran protest march DHAKA, June 11 (Reuters) - Bangladesh police prevented a planned march on Dhaka's diplomatic quarter on Saturday by thousands of persons who said they were protesting against the desecration of the Holy Quran by U.S. troops. Nearly 3,000 activists of the Islamic Constitution Movement (ICM) gathered outside Baitul Mokarram mosque and started marching towards the diplomatic quarter to lay siege to the U.S. embassy, carrying banners and placards and chanting slogans. Authorities deployed hundreds of police and one officer said: "We were successful and managed the show without using batons, or teargas shells."(Posted @ 18:30 PST)
Nine die in fresh gun battles in Indian occupied Kashmir SRINAGAR, June 11 (AFP) - Nine people including five militants have died in fresh violence in Indian occupied Kashmir, police said Saturday. Two militants were killed late Friday in a gun battle close to a mosque in Wullarhama village in southern Anantnag district as troops closed in on a hideout. The mosque suffered damage and two security force personnel were also wounded.Three more militants were killed in two other clashes, police said. A policeman died in one of the gunbattles.A civilian was killed late Friday, police added. An average of eight to 10 people die daily in Indian occupied Kashmir, making the feedom movement one of the world's bloodies(Posted @ 16:05 PST)
12 killed as US military vehicle, minibus collide in Afghanistan KABUL, June 11 (AFP) - At least 12 Afghan passengers were killed when a minibus and a US military vehicle collided Saturday on the Kandahar-Spin Boldak highway near the Pakistani border in southern Afghanistan, officials said.(Posted @ 15:45 PST)
Annan warns improper detentions in Iraq can breed resentment against security providers UNITED NATIONS, June 11 (APP/AP) U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday warned against random violence or illegal detentions in Iraq, saying such acts breed resentment.The comments, in a regular report on Iraq, did not refer to the United States by name but said multinational and Iraqi forces had been accused of excessive violence, and that investigations rarely result in prosecutions.(Posted @ 15:30 PST)
Death toll rises to 64 in northeast China flooding BEIJING, June 11 (APP):- Sixty four people, including 62 students and two villagers, were confirmed dead in flash floods in Ning'an City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province that hit a primary school Friday . Another 17 students, a teacher, and six villagers were receiving emergency medical treatment, official sources said here Saturday. (Updated Posted @ 15:15 PST)
Pak, Azad Kashmir visit successful more than expectations: Mirwaiz ISLAMABAD June 11(PPI) Mirwaiz Omar Farooq has termed the APHC delegation visit to Azad Kashmir and Pakistan as more successful than expectations. In an hour-long meeting with the president of MuslimConference (MC) Britain, Mahmood Riaz , here Saturday he thanked Pakistan for its political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiris and hailed the role of Kashmiris living abroad especially in Britain, United States, Canada and other European countries Another Hurriyat leader Abdul Ghani Butt said that Kashmir issue was nearing solution. He said " I salute to the entire Pakistani nation for continued moral, political and diplomatic support” Yaseen Malik of the Liberation Front said the Kashmir issue was smoothly progressing towards solution. (Posted @ 15:15 PST)
First African appointed to UN's top political post UNITED NATIONS, June 11 (APP/AP) UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, announced the appointment of veteran Nigerian diplomat, Ibrahim Gambari, as the new undersecretary-general for political affairs, the first African to hold the U.N.'s top political post. Gambari, who is currently Annan's special adviser on Africa will replace British diplomat Kieran Prendergast who has held the post for eight years and is leaving at the end of the month. (Posted @ 11:30 PST)
Six security men, two civilians killed in Maoist ambush Kathmandu (dpa) - Six security men and two civilians were killed Friday evening when Maoists ambushed a passenger bus near the Kathmandu Valley, security sources said Saturday. (Posted @ 10:56 PST)
Police commando killed, 12 wounded in Baghdad attack BAGHDAD, June 11 (AFP) - An Iraqi police commando was killed Saturday and 12 others were injured during a mortar attack in Baghdad, an interior ministry source said. (Posted @ 10:47 PST)
US dismisses Iran election as rigged WASHINGTON, June 11 (AFP) - The United States has not waited for the first ballot to be cast before dismissing Iran's presidential election as rigged and exhorted the Iranian people to rise up for democratic reform. "There are questions about an election where it's the mullahs, the unelected few, who are really the ones that make the decision about who can actually run (in the elections)," a State Department spokesman said Friday. (Posted @ 10:45 PST)
Kashmir dispute must end for 'durable' peace: Kasuri WASHINGTON, June 10 (AFP) - Pakistan and India will experience ‘durable peace’ only if the two countries resolve the Kashmir dispute, Pakistan's foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri told reporters after meeting his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice Friday for more than an hour at the State Department. "In order that it is resolved we need to include the Kashmiris in the peace process," he said. "There can be no resolution to the dispute if the Kashmiris are not involved...it's like trying to solve the Palestinian problem without the Palestinians," he added. (Posted @ 10:16 PST)
Hotel fire kills at least 30 in southern China Beijing (dpa) - At least 30 people were killed and 15 injured in a fire that engulfed three floors of a local hotel in Shantou, a southern Chinese city, state media reported Saturday. (Posted @ 10:06 PST)
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