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| June 14, 2005 | Tuesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 6, 1426 |
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APHC leaders exchange views with Senate Foreign Relations ISLAMABAD, Jun 14 (APP): Leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Tuesday held a detailed meeting with members of Senate Foreign Relations Committee here at the Parliament House and exchanged views on peace process and importance of inclusion of Kashmiris in this process. Chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed welcoming the leaders of the APHC said Pakistan wanted to change the status quo on Kashmir issue and committed that the Kashmiris should be made part of the dialogue process between Pakistan and India. Leader of APHC Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, responding to questions of the senators regretted that international community is not playing effective role in projecting the Kashmir issue and even the human rights violations in occupied Kashmir are not being highlighted properly. He said in the name of fight against terrorism, the struggle of Kashmiris for their just cause and rights is being tarnished and punished.(Posted @ 17:09 PST)
Blair arrives in Paris for high-tension talks with Chirac Paris (dpa) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Paris Tuesday for talks with French President Jacques Chirac as relations between the two leaders continued to deteriorate. Talks were expected to centre on the upcoming E.U. summit in Brussels and the E.U.'s budget for the years 2007 to 2013.(Posted @ 16:42 PST)
Pakistan's Musharraf says Osama bin Laden still alive CANBERRA, June 14 (AFP) - Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden is alive and probably living in the rugged mountains bordering Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday. Speaking at the Australian Press Club lunch in Canberra he said Pakistan had suffered 250 casualties in fighting bin Laden's Al-Qaeda and other militant groups . It had also destroyed the logistics and communications hubs of the terror Networks. However, bin Laden was proving elusive because of the difficulty of the terrain. Maybe he is in the border region,he said.(Posted @ 16:37 PST)
At least 29 dead, 60 wounded in Iraqi attacks BAGHDAD, June 14 (AFP) - At least 29 people were killed and 60 wounded Tuesday in bombing attacks in northern Iraq. A blast ripped through waiting civil servants outside a bank in the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk, killing at least 19 people and wounding 53 others, police said.Ten Iraqis, including two children, were killed and seven wounded by a car bomb in the town of Kanaan north of Baghdad, according to security and hospital sources.(Posted @ 16:31 PST)
Afghan blast wounds four US troops, interpreter KABUL, June 14 (Reuters) - Four U.S. military personnel and an Afghan interpreter were wounded on Tuesday when an explosive device detonated near their armoured vehicle in southeastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. The explosion occurred during a routine patrol near the town of Ghazni and appeared to have been caused by an improvised explosive device, a military statement said. (Posted @ 15:36 PST)
Iraqi police find 24 bodies west of Baghdad BAGHDAD, June 14 (Reuters) - Iraqi police have discovered two dozen bodies, including 17 employees of an Iraqi security firm, dumped west of Baghdad, the latest in a trail of victims found in the area in recent weeks. The 17 bodies were found near Habbaniya, a town about 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, late on Monday,while west of Habbaniya, near the town of Euphrates river town of Hit, police found seven more bodies , six of them Iraqis and one of them Nepali, all employees of local mobile phone company Iraqna. (Posted @ 15:37 PST)
Attacks will not sidetrack Kashmir peace talks-Pakistan CANBERRA, June 14 (Reuters) - Pakistan and India's quest to resolve a long-running row over Kashmir will not be pushed off course by militant violence in the Himalayan region, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday. Musharraf, talking to Reuters a day after a deadly car bombing in Kashmir, said nobody could stop the violence, which he vowed would not distract India and Pakistan from the peace process they have both described as irreversible. (Posted @ 15:29 PST)
Algerian Islamic militants kill 4 policemen-reports ALGIERS, June 14 (Reuters) - Three policemen and a local government guard have died in two separate attacks in Algeria blamed on Islamic militants, newspapers said on Tuesday. The policemen died on Monday when rebels ambushed a patrol near Hadjaret Enes, 100 km (63 miles) west of the capital Algiers, and a local government guard died in a separate bomb attack on Sunday during a patrol of an area near Ain Defla 120 km west of Algiers. (Posted @ 15:19 PST)
UN nuclear experts want access to Iran military site VIENNA, June 14 (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog urged Iran on Tuesday to allow agency experts to return to a military site called Parchin, which they inspected once but have since been barred from returning to "I would also ask Iran to support the agency's efforts to pursue further its investigation of the Lavizan-Shian and Parchin sites," Mohamed ElBaradei said, adding that his agency wanted to visit "areas of interest" at Parchin. (Posted @ 15:16 PST)
Musharraf says trade linked to end of terror networks CANBERRA, June 14 (AFP) - President Pervez Musharraf Tuesday urged Australia to help in the war on terror by improving its dismal trade record with his poverty-stricken country, but stressed that the Al-Qaeda terror network no longer functions cohesively in Pakistan. Australian investment in Pakistan would provide jobs and build industries, helping ease the poverty which drives people into militant groups, he said. "When you assist us in our industry you are indirectly assisting us in fighting terrorism," Musharraf told an Australian Press Club audience in Canberra. "No other country in the world has done what Pakistan has done," he added. "We occupied their sanctuaries and they are now on the run.” Howard, who will visit India next month, will also be extended an invitation to visit Pakistan, Musharraf said. (Posted @ 12:55 PST)
Eighteen militant commanders surrender to Afghan government: police KHOST, Afghanistan, June 14 (AFP) - Eighteen Afghan commanders linked to warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar have surrendered as part of a reconciliation drive aimed at former militants, police said Tuesday. Hekmatyar himself, a former Afghan prime minister wanted by United States for alleged human rights violations, reportedly rejected the offer. (Posted @ 12:09 PST)
Two militants killed, one wounded in southern Afghanistan KABUL, June 14 (AFP) - Two militants were killed and another wounded in a fire fight with Afghan and US-led forces near Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, the US military said Tuesday. Twelve other enemy combatants were also arrested, a statement said. (Posted @ 12:09 PST)
Britain to reduce troops in Iraq, send more to Afghanistan LONDON, June 14 (AFP) - Britain will reduce the number of its troops in Iraq soon and send more to Afghanistan to fight remnants of the Taliban, a senior military officer said in remarks published in The Daily Telegraph Tuesday. (Posted @ 10:47 PST)
Communist rebels kill 10 Filipino troops MANILA, June 14 (Reuters) - Communist rebels ambushed an army convoy in the northern Philippines on Tuesday and killed at least 10 soldiers, police and military officials said. (Posted @ 09:28 PST)
Powerful quake kills eight in Chile SANTIAGO, Chile, June 13 (Reuters) - A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Chile's northern mining region on Monday, causing at least eight deaths, cutting power and driving residents from their homes in the port city of Iquique. The quake was also felt in the coastal cities of Arica and Antofagasta, in Chile, in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, and in southern Peru. (Posted @ 09:28 PST)
Karachi Stocks down 70.90 points: KARACHI, June 14: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 7370.87, down 70.90 points from Mondays’s close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, June 14: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.44 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
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