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| June 13, 2005 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 5, 1426 |
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Kidnapped Sikh student recovered from Khyber Agency Peshawar, June 13 (APP) The kidnapped Sikh student of class 6th Gorjeet Singh, who was kidnapped from Bara Khyber Agency about six months back, was safely recovered from a remote area of Khyber Agency on Monday.The boy along with his father Jaswant Singh and other relatives including Hukam Singh, Saroop Singh and Amarjeet Singh called on the NWFP Governor Khalil-ur-Rehman here at the Governor House on Monday Principal Secretary to Governor Brig(R) Asad Munir and Political Agent Dr. Fida Mohammad Wazir were also present on the occasion. The boy informed the Governor about his ordeal saying that he was kept in for 168 days and was released on the efforts of the Political administration.(Posted @ 23:30 PST)
Joint team to visit controversial dam in Indian occupied Kashmir in October ISLAMABAD, June 13 (AFP) - Pakistan said Monday that a joint team of Pakistani, Indian and World Bank experts would inspect in October the Controversial Baghliar dam .Foreign ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani told a weekly briefing that India, at a three-way meeting held in Paris last week, had also agreed to a visit by the Pakistani technical team before the joint inspection(Posted @ 22:15 PST)
18 killed in Iraq violence, more bodies found BAGHDAD, June 13 (AFP) - Eighteen Iraqis, most of them members of the security forces, were killed Monday in attacks and clashes with insurgents, security sources said. At least four policemen were killed and seven wounded in a double attack on a checkpoint with anti-tank rockets, grenades and machine-guns in Khan Bani Saad, north of Baghdad, an army officer said. In Samarra, also north of the capital, three soldiers were killed and five wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint outside an army base. Another soldier was killed when a bomb exploded in the path of his vehicle, and two Iraqi police commandos and two soldiers were killed in fighting that pitted more than 70 insurgents against security forces, also in Samarra. In Baghdad, two Iraqis were killed and five others wounded in a car bombing that targeted US troops in the west of the city. Two Iraqi policemen were also killed and 17 others wounded, including five police, by a suicide car bomb attack in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.Iraq's infrastructure protection force was also a target, with one member shot dead near the northern oil refinery town of Baiji, and an Iraqi businessman was gunned down as he left a US base at the airport in Dhuluiyah. In Baghdad, six more bodies were found, while the body of an Iraqi soldier was discovered in a tributary of the Tigris river in Dur.(Posted @ 21:30 PST)
ElBaradei reappointed head of U.N. nuclear agency VIENNA, June 13 (Reuters) – The 35-member board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA unanimously agreed to reappoint Mohamed ElBaradei as the agency's head on Monday(Posted @ 20:55 PST)
'Decision on Iran-India-Pak gas pipeline in two weeks'- Iranian Minister NEW DELHI, June 13 (APP): A decision on the multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline between Iran and India which will pass through Pakistan will be made in two weeks, a senior Iranian Minister said on Monday. "We are in the pit field of decision-making," Iran's Senior Deputy Energy Minister Reza Amrollahi told newsmen on the sidelines of the two-day Asia Oil and Gas conference held in Kuala Lumpur, according to a media report. He said an announcement will be made in two weeks.(Posted @ 20:50 PST)
Iran, India sign major LNG deal TEHRAN, June 13 (APP/AFP) - Iran and India on Monday signed a deal for Tehran to supply five million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) a year over a 25-year period, an AFP journalist said. (Posted @ 20:45 PST)
Govt will extend alossible support to film industry: ISLAMABAD June 13 (PPI) Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said the government will extend all possible support to the film industry for its revival and make it an effective media to promote cultural activities. Speaking at a briefing on revival of film industry, the Prime Minister said the Industry should take appropriate measures to produce good films and promised that the government will consider to reduce duties and taxes on the film industry particularly for the purpose of importing latest equipment to make it competitive.(Posted @ 20:35 PST)
Pakistan asks India to withdraw troops from Siachen Glacier Islamabad, June 13 PPI: Pakistan Monday asked India to withdraw its forces from Siachen Glacier, ``unconditionally'' so as to peacefully resolve the 20-year-old dispute on the world's highest battleground. "India committed aggression in 1984, it has to vacate the aggression to make Siachen Glacier a peaceful area," Foreign Office spokesman Jalil Abass Jilani said at a news briefing here. The remarks came one day after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for efforts to peacefully resolve the dispute during a visit to the 6,000-meter-high glacier, making it "a mountain of peace". "Once India takes this step (withdraw its troops), Siachen would certainly be a mountain of peace," Jilani said. (Posted @ 20:28 PST)
Kashmir issue is question to grant right of self-derermination Rawalakot, Azad Kashmir, June 13 PPI: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said Monday Kashmir is ``not a territorial or border dispute'' between Pakistan and India rather a question of granting right to self-determination to over 15 million people. Addressing a big public meeting here he emphasized that Kashmiri people are the ``fundamental party'' to Kashmir dispute. Without their participation in the peace process, durable peace cannot be established, he observed.Another APHC leader, Professor Abdul Gani Bhat called for maintaining unity and discipline among the ranks of Kashmiris at this critical phase of Kashmir liberation struggle. Azad Jammu & Kashmir President, Sardar Muhammad Anwar Khan, and the leader of Opposition in Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry also addressed the meeting.(Posted @ 20:27 PST)
One killed, seven wounded in eastern Afghanistan scrap shop blast JALALABAD, Afghanistan, June 13 (AFP) - A blast caused by an old explosive device ripped through a scrap metal store in eastern Afghanistan Monday, killing a shopkeeper and injuring seven people, police said. "It was an accident, not a planned or terror explosion," General Akram Khan, police chief of the eastern province of Nangarhar said .(Posted @ 17:02 PST)
Senior US diplomat survives Iraq car bombing BAGHDAD, June 13 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. diplomat survived on Monday when a suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad, several police sources said. The U.S. official's identity was unclear. It was not clear if he was specifically the target and a U.S. embassy spokesman said he was unaware of the incident.(Posted @ 16:56 PST)
14 KILLED, OVER 100 INJURED IN PULWAMA BLAST SRINAGAR, June 13 (APP): Fourteen persons have been killed and more than one hundred injured in a powerful bomb blast in occupied Kashmir today.According to Kashmir Media Service, the bomb explosion occurred in southern Pulwama town. Twelve persons were killed in the blast while condition of some of the injured is reported to be critical.Senior Kashmiri leader, Syed Ali Gilani, condemning the bomb blast in strongest terms expressed deep anguish over the loss of life and property and termed itt as the handiwork of Indian agencies to malign the Kashmiris' liberation movement.(First Posted @ 12:33 Updated @ 16:40 PST)
President arrives in Canberra CANBERRA, Australia, June 13 (APP): President General Pervez Musharraf arrived here Monday at the start of a four-day official visit to Australia for talks on regional, international issues and bilateral relations.The delegation includes Minister for Industries Jehangir Tareen, Chairman Export Promotion Bureau, Tariq Ikram, Chairman Higher Education Commission, Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan and Information Secretary Shahid Rafi and businessmen. (Posted @ 15:51 PST)
Sri Lanka to play seven one-dayers in India in November COLOMBO, June 13 (APP/AFP) - Sri Lanka will play as many as seven one-day internationals and rthree Tests during their tour of India later this year, a cricket official said here on Monday. (Posted @ 15:41 PST)
Eight soldiers and six Maoist rebels killed in eastern Nepal clash KATHMANDU, June 13 (APP/AFP) - At least eight soldiers and six Maoist rebels were killed in a clash Monday in eastern Nepal, a top army official said. The fighting occurred in the Sindhuli district, about 105 kilometres (66 miles) east of the capital Eight soldiers had been killed in the firefight, he said, adding that "after the clash the security forces recovered the bodies of six terrorists killed in the incident". (Posted @ 15:41 PST)
Suicide bomber kills five US troops in Afghanistan KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 13 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a U.S. military convoy in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, Monday killing at least five American soldiers, police said. (Posted @ 10:38 PST)
14 communist rebels killed in clash in the Philippines MANILA, June 13 (AFP) - Philippines troops killed 14 New People's Army (NPA) communist guerrillas in a battle north of the capital Manila, the military said Monday. (Posted @ 10:08 PST)
Hizbollah, allies win 10 seats in Lebanon polls BEIRUT, June 12 (Reuters) - Lebanon's pro-Syrian Hizbollah guerrilla group and its allies swept all 10 seats in general elections in East Lebanon constituency on Sunday in the third stage of parliamentary elections. The win brings the number of seats won by pro-Syrian Shi'ite Muslim allies to 33 in the 128-member assembly. (Posted @ 10:03 PST)
Pakistan very hopeful of resolving Kashmir row: Musharraf KUALA LUMPUR, June 13 (Reuters) - Pakistan is very hopeful of resolving the the Kashmir dispute with India, President Pervez Musharraf said on Monday, but he declined to give a time frame. "The most important thing for the leadership is to have the will to reach a conclusion and I feel that at this moment the leadership has the desire and the will." he told reporters on a stopover in Malaysia en route to Australia and New Zealand. "Therefore I am optimistic that it will be resolved in a certain time frame," Musharraf added when asked if the dispute could be resolved in a year or two. (Posted @ 09:44 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 108.53 points: KARACHI, June 13: At 13:18 PST, the KSE-100 index was at 7453.82, up 108.53 points from Friday’s close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 13:20 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, June 13: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.44 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 13:20 PST)
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