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| June 29, 2005 | Wednesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 21, 1426 |
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Pakistan defeated Belgium 3-1 Rotterdam :- (Hockey) Pakistan.defeated Belium 3-1, in the opening match of the junior World cup Hockey championship here today.(Posted @ 21:30 PST)
Israeli planes hit Lebanon after Hezbollah attacks Tel Aviv/Beirut (dpa) - Israeli aircraft raided targets in southern Lebanon Wednesday shortly after the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement said it attacked Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms area.Lebanese security sources said Israeli jets made two runs, firing four rockets in the area of Ksar Chouba village. There was no immediate word on casualties.(Posted @ 21:30 PST)
India, Pakistan fail to break dam deadlock NEW DELHI, June 29 (Reuters) - India and Pakistan failed on Wednesday to break a deadlock in their dispute over a dam(Wuller Barrrage) New Delhi is building in occupied Kashmir but officials said they had made some progress and planned to hold more talks. "There has been progress, there has been more understanding of points of view of both sides," Ashfaq Mahmood, Pakistan's water and power secretary, told reporters after the two-day talks. A joint statement said the two sides had agreed to continue discussions at a next round but did not give dates. Under the terms of the 1960 Indus Water Treaty, mediated by the World Bank, India has rights over the waters of the Ravi,Sutlej and Beas rivers while Pakistan has rights over the waters of the Indus, the Chenab and the Jhelum.(Posted @ 19:00 PST)
Mumbai residents brave rain and surf and rush for "diamonds" at beach MUMBAI, June 29 (AFP) - Police tried Wednesday to block access to an exclusive beach as thousands dug for diamonds reputedly buried under the sands in a treasure hunt that left one teenage boy dead. Vendors sparked the scramble for diamonds at Juhu Beach by spreading the rumor the sands are ripe with precious stones, police said. Jewellers said the "diamonds" on the five-kilometre (three mile) stretch of beach are likely cubic zirconia fakes that cost 50 rupees, but that hasn't stopped thousands of residents from scooping up handfuls of sand in pouring monsoon rain and heavy surf and hoping to strike it rich, police said. A teenage boy drowned while searching for diamonds, police said. Police say a Bollywood movie was shot along the coast recently and the fake stones could have been used in the film.(Posted @ 19:00 PST)
Pakistan waits for ship to repair submarine telecom cable |KARACHI, June 29 (AFP) - Pakistan was Wednesday waiting for a ship to sail from Dubai and fix its main undersea telecommunications link. The repair vessel was due to leave the United Arab Emirates late Wednesday and arrive off the Pakistani coast within two days, but officials said the cable might remain out of order for up to five days. "The ship will start sailing this afternoon as it had to be equipped with cables, joints and other accessories," Mashkoor Husain. senior executive vice president of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), told AFP. "Taking into account the normal sailing time of the ship and then locating the exact location of fault may take another three to five days at the worst." The work may require a complete shutdown, potentially causing disruption in India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Djibouti and Oman, which are also linked to the damaged cable,other officials apprehend. PTCL said it had made special arrangements for call centres, Internet banking activities and Internet service providers with the satellite backup.(Posted @ 18:50 PST)
Pakistan, Afghanistan and US to enhance security ahead of polls KABUL, June 29 (AFP) - Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States agreed Wednesday to step up security against possible attacks by the ousted Taliban regime ahead of landmark Afghan parliamentary polls due in September. The decision came during a meeting of the tripartite commission, composed of senior military and diplomatic officials of the three countries . "All parties are committed to increasing security efforts in order to ensure the success of these historic elections," said a joint statement. "They recognized, in particular, that stability in Afghanistan is in the national interest of Pakistan and other neighbouring states." The delegates agreed to take several steps to "improve the effectiveness of operations" against the Al-Qaeda network and Taliban militants.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Casualties mount in Iraq BAGHDAD, June 29 (AFP) - At least 12 Iraqis died early Wednesday, including four civilians who were killed when mortar rounds slammed into their homes in the northwestern town of Tal Afar while they were sleeping. In Samarra, north of Baghdad, three police commandos died and six were wounded in midday clashes with heavily armed insurgents, police Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Nissani said.In Tal Afar, the four civilians, including a child, were killed and 21 wounded when four mortar rounds slammed into their homes before dawn, said Jassem Majid, director of the city's general hospital.(Posated @ 18:30 PST)
Pak-US joint naval exercise concludes Karachi, June 29 (PPI): Pak-US joint naval exercise "Inspired Union 2005" concluded Wednesday in the North Arabian Sea. The week-long exercise was a combination of Inspired Siren and Inspired Response - two bilateral exercises conducted annually between US and Pakistan Navy forces. A number of surface, subsurface and air units from both the navies actively participated in the exercise.(Posted @ 17:45 PST)
Car speeds into Malaysian school compound, runs over 17 students Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Seventeen students at a Malaysian primary school were seriously injured when a car sped into their school compound and rammed into a group of some 200 children, reports said Wednesday. Three of the students, aged 11, were pinned beneath the car and dragged along for several metres before one of the wheels of the vehicle was stuck in a drain(Posted @17:30 PST)
Two Polish soldiers survive insurgent attack in Iraq Warsaw (dpa) - Two Polish soldiers were wounded injured Wednesday when their joint patrol with Iraqi soldiers suffered a grenade attack in a southern area of Diwaniyah, close to the command headquarters of the multinational troop corps under Polish command. Both were hospitalised.(Posted @ 17:30 PST)
Maoist bomb wounds 16 in western Nepal KATHMANDU, June 29 (Reuters) - Suspected Maoist rebels hurled a crude bomb near a hospital in western Nepal, wounding at least 16 civilians, an army officer said on Wednesday. "The bomb, which was aimed at an army truck, missed its target, hit an electric pole and exploded in front of the Nepalgunj Medical College," the officer told Reuters. "All those injured were pedestrians." (Posted @ 16:35 PST)
US military deaths in Iraq LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was killed and two were wounded when a car bomb exploded on their patrol west of Tikrit, the military said in a statement on Tuesday. (Posted @ 16:34 PST)
Seventeen aboard crashed US chopper in Afghanistan KABUL, June 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. military helicopter that crashed during an anti-guerrilla mission in eastern Afghanistan may have been shot down and the fate of 17 U.S. troops aboard is not immediately known, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. Initial reports indicated Tuesday's crash in Kunar province, which borders Pakistan, may have been caused by hostile fire in the operation against al Qaeda militants, the military said. The twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook came down in remote and mountainous terrain west of Kunar's capital Asadabad, U.S. spokeswoman Lieutenant Cindy Moore said. Kunar Governor Asadullah Wafa said it was hit by a rocket and a spokesman for the Taliban, Abdul Latif Hakimi, claimed the guerrillas shot down the aircraft in the village of Shorak using "a new type of weapon" he did not describe. (Posted @ 16:34 PST)
Musharraf says gang rape victim free to travel ISLAMABAD, June 29 (AFP) - President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday said he was pained by the plight of a woman who was gang raped on the orders of a tribal council and said she was now free to go anywhere. Musharraf also defended his earlier decision to slap a travel ban on Mukhtaran Mai saying he did not want her to tarnish the country's image. "Let me make it absolutely clear that Mukhtaran Mai is free to go wherever she pleases, meet whoever she wants and say whatever she pleases," Musharraf said on his personal website in response to a series of emails about Mai. "I have full faith in her and in her patriotism." (Posted @ 14:48 PST)
Six killed in violence in Afghanistan KABUL, June 29 (AFP) - Four policemen were killed when suspected Taliban militants detonated a landmine in eastern Afghanistan, while one militant and a civilian died in a gunfight in the south, officials said Wednesday. The remote-controlled mine killed a police chief and three other policemen in the Sirkanay district of Kunar province, an official said. In south-central Uruzgan province a one-hour gunfight erupted when militants attacked a government checkpoint, killing a civilian, a suspected militant and injuring three policemen, the official added. (Posted @ 14:27 PST)
Four killed, eight injured in occupied Kashmir attacks SRINAGAR, June 29 (AFP) - A suspected militant and three policemen were killed in a fierce gun battle, while eight people were injured in two attacks in occupied Kashmir, police said Wednesday. The gun battle in southern Doda district killed one suspected militant and three policemen, a police spokesman said. Two policemen and two civilians were also injured in a grenade attack in Srinagar Wednesday. Furthermore four soldiers were injured in an ambush by suspected militants late Tuesday in the northern district of Kupwara, a police spokesman added. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the two attacks. (Posted @ 14:20 PST)
Saudi Arabia protests UAE-Qatar bridge plan RIYADH, June 29 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has protested to neighbours Qatar and the United Arab Emirates over plans to build a bridge linking their two states, saying it would pass through Saudi territorial waters, local media said on Wednesday. (Posted @ 14:12 PST)
US, India sign defense pact WASHINGTON, June 28 (AFP) - The defense ministers of United States and India signed a 10-year agreement Tuesday paving the way for stepped up military ties, including joint weapons production and cooperation on missile defense, officials said. It called for "an enhanced level of cooperation covering military to military relations as well as a defense industrial and technological relationship," a statement said following the signing by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee in Washington. (Posted @ 10:48 PST)
Bush rejects major changes to Iraq strategy FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, June 28 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush Tuesday acknowledged worries about deadly violence in Iraq but rejected calls for sending reinforcements or setting a deadline to bring US troops home. "Our strategy can be summed up this way: As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down," he said in a late night speech that came one year after the March 2003 Iraq invasion. (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 64.59 points: KARACHI, June 29: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 7496.39, up 64.59 points from Tuesday's close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:25 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, June 29: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.45 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Posted @ 14:25 PST)
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