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| July 28, 2005 | Thursday | Jumadi-us-Sani 20, 1426 |
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U.S. Muslims issue anti-terrorism "fatwa" WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - Top U.S. Muslim scholars issued a "fatwa," or religious edict, against terrorism on Thursday and called on Muslims to help authorities fight the scourge of militant violence. The fatwa was part of efforts by U.S. Muslims to counter perceived links between Islam and terrorism and avert any negative backlash after this month's bombings by suspected Islamic extremists in London and Egypt. "Having our religious scholars side by side with our community leaders leaves no room for anybody to suggest that Islam and Muslims condone or support any forms or acts of terrorism," said Esam Omeish, president of the Muslim American Society, one of the groups which announced the fatwa.(Posted @ 23:35 PST)
Two U.S. troops killed in Iraq Baghdad (DPA) - Two U.S. Task Force soldiers were killed when their patrol struck an improvised explosive device in north Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday. In a statment, the military said one other soldier was wounded in the terrorist attack that took place Wednesday afternoon.(Posted @ 22:15 PST)
786 confirmed killed in western India rains MUMBAI, July 28 (AFP) - A total of 786 people have died in heavy monsoon rains that have lashed western India since Monday, a senior police officer said Thursday. B.M. Kulkarni, who heads Maharasthra state's emergency control room, told AFP that 273 people had died in Mumbai, India's main commercial hub, while at least 513 people had died in other parts of the state. He said the death toll rose sharply after more than 160 deaths by drowning were reported in Mumbai." Around 166 people drowned in these floods and these numbers came in only much later," Kulkarni said.(Posted @ 22:05 PST)
Bush, Musharraf, discuss war on terrorism WASHINGTON, July 28 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf spoke by telephone Thursday, after Pakistani authorities nabbed a suspect in the murder of a US reporter, the White House said. "The president spoke with President Musharraf earlier today. They talked about US-Pakistan relations, they discussed the global war on terrorism, and they talked about regional issues," said Bush spokesman Scott McClellan. The conversation came after Pakistani police said that security services have arrested a fugitive suspect in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl during their ongoing raids against Islamic extremists. Hashim Qadeer, arrested in the eastern city of Gujranwala on Wednesday, is said to have introduced the US journalist to British-born Sheikh Omar, who faces the death penalty for Pearl's grisly 2002 murder. Pearl, the financial daily's Mumbai-based South Asia correspondent, disappeared in Karachi on January 23, 2002, while working on a story on Pakistani militant groups. Pearl was abducted and a graphic video depicting his gruesome decapitation was later delivered to the US consulate in the southern port city of Karachi.(Posted @ 21:50 PST)
Palestinian intelligence officer kidnapped in Gaza GAZA CITY, July 28 (AFP) - A colonel in the Palestinian police intelligence service was kidnapped by gunmen in a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, the interior ministry said.Jihad Abed was abducted on the street by a group who bundled him into a car in the Bureij refugee camp, witnesses and officials said."We are dealing with a kidnap incident but we do not know the reasons behind the abduction," an interior ministry spokesman told AFP. "We have launched an investigation and are conducting a search operation." Witnesses said that the kidnappers were from the Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, whose members are mainly former activists of the mainstream Fatah movement. The same organisation was behind the abduction of then Palestinian police chief Ghazi Jabali in July last year in Gaza.(Posted @ 20:30 PST)
Pakistan moving against extremism, terrorism in its own interest: PM ISLAMABAD, July 28 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Thursday said Pakistan was moving against terrorism and extremism in its own national interests and not under any external pressure. " Steps we are taking or, intend to take, are in the best national interests so that there is a security and peace in the country and people have a better environment," he said. Talking to reporters after giving away compensation cheques of Rs. 500,000 each to two journalists from South Waziristan who were killed early this year while performing their duties he referred to the recent bomb blasts in Egypt and said that media misreported the involvement of Pakistanis that ultimately proved wrong. Similarly, those involved in London incidents were from different countries including Jamica, Somalia and their own people. He said Pakistan would continue to cooperate with the international community in the fight against terrorism. Pakistan condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations , he added.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
More bombers may try to strike-London police chief LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) - London's police chief warned Britons on Thursday that more cells of would-be bombers could strike as police made nine arrests in their hunt for the men behind failed attacks on the city's transport system last week. Commissioner Ian Blair said the capital had been lucky that bombs on three underground trains and a bus had not exploded fully on July 21. Three men still wanted for the attacks remained a danger and might not be the only threat, he said. "This is not the B-team, these weren't the amateurs," Blair said of the second group of attackers. "They made a mistake -- they only made one mistake and we're very very lucky." Police arrested nine men in Tooting, south London, on Thursday morning, bringing to 20 the number of people being held in connection with the failed July 21 attacks. Police said the nine did not include the three suspected bombers they are still hunting. They hope the arrest of Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, will provide a breakthrough in the search for the three other suspects. Blair said his force was reviewing 15,000 closed circuit television tapes, had taken 1,800 witness statements and received 5,000 calls to its anti-terrorism hotline.(Posted @ 18:25 PST)
Explosion on Indian train leaves many injured NEW DELHI, July 28 (Reuters) - An explosion on a train in northern India on Thursday killed two people and injured about 20 more, television channels reported. The train was travelling from the eastern city of Patna to New Delhi. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.(Posted @ 18:20 PST)
Cricket-England agree to play one-dayer in Karachi KARACHI, July 28 (Reuters) - England have agreed to play a one-day international in Karachi after earlier rejecting the southern port city as a test venue. A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official told Reuters on Thursday that the itinerary for England's tour from October 25 had been finalised with one match in Karachi, on December 15. "Both boards have wrapped up the tour programme and England will play tests at Multan, Faisalabad and Lahore and five one-day internationals - at Karachi and two each at Lahore and Rawalpindi," the official confirmed.(Posted @ 18:14 PST)
IRA orders militants to end armed campaign BELFAST, July 28 (AFP) - The Irish Republican Army on Thursday ordered all its militants to end their armed campaign and adopt exclusively peaceful means to end British rule in Northern Ireland, the paramilitary group said in a historic statement. "The leadership of the IRA has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign," starting at 4 p.m. (1500 GMT) Thursday, the statement said. "All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. All volunteers (militants) have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programs through exclusively peaceful means," it said.(Posted @ 17:50 PST)
AI assails Indian army's brutal killing of Kashmiri boys LONDON, July 28 (PPI) Human Rights Watchdog, Amnesty International (AI) has taken strong exception to the unlawful killing of three teenaged boys and serious injuries to a fourth boy last Sunday in Kupwara district of occupied Kashmir.In a statement here AI denounced the Indian army's uncalled-for action showing lack of consideration for children's' right to life and safety in the occupied state.(Posted @ 17:32 PST)
Cricket-ICC says goodbye to Lord's after 96 years LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) - The International Cricket Council (ICC) will cut its ties with Lord's on Friday after 96 years at the venue to start operating from new premises in Dubai on August 1. ICC president Ehsan Mani thanked the Marylebone Cricket Club, which owns Lord's, for its support since 1909, adding: "As the ICC prepares to enter the next exciting phase of its development it does so physically far removed from the shores of England, but forever spiritually at home at Lord's." The ICC, however, will return to Lord's for its annual conference in June and July 2006.(Posted @ 17:10 PST)
Six Iraqi soldiers killed in clashes BAQUBA, Iraq, July 28 (Reuters) - Six Iraqi soldiers were killed in clashes with insurgents in two towns north of Baghdad on Thursday, security sources said. The fighting began when guerrillas fired mortars and light arms at three checkpoints in Baquba and two in Khan Bani Saad, the sources said.(Posted @ 17:08 PST)
Discovery docks with ISS HOUSTON, Texas, July 28 (AFP) - The space shuttle Discovery on Thursday successfully docked with the International Space Station, two days after blasting off into space on the first shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster."We have contact and capture," a NASA official said when the delicate maneuver was completed at around 1118 GMT.(Posted @ 16:50 PST)
US and Afghan forces kill three militants, capture 15: US military KABUL, July 28 (AFP) - US and Afghan troops killed three militants and arrested 15 after they came under attack in south-central Afghanistan on Thursday, the US military said. Two Afghan National Army soldiers were also injured. "Afghan and US forces killed three and captured 15 while conducting operations west of Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province today,' the US military said in a statement. "Coalition attack aircraft provided close air support."(Posted @ 16:48 PST)
Troops kill three militants in Dagestan raid MAKHACHKALA, Russia, July 28 (AFP) - Russian special forces killed at least three militants Thursday in a raid on an apartment in Makhachkala, capital of the Caucasus province of Dagestan, officials said. Two members of the security forces were also wounded. Officials said the raid was connected to an investigation into the leader of the Sharia militant cell who was killed in another raid in Makhachkala on July 6.On Wednesday a senior intelligence officer in Russia's interior ministry died from head wounds received during a shootout with insurgents near the Chechen border. Also Wednesday, two soldiers died in the possibly accidental explosion of a shell they were carrying to their base near Agvali after uncovering explosives in an arms cache. A third soldier was wounded in the blast.(Posted @ 16:42 PST)
Advani charged by court in Babri mosque demolition case RAE BAREILLY, India, July 28 (AFP) India's former deputy premier Lal Krishna Advani and seven other Hindu leaders were charged in court Thursday with inciting a mob to tear down a mosque, an act which sparked nationwide religious riots that left at least 2,000 people dead. They all pleaded not guilty. Advani, 77, and others were bailed in the sum of 10,000 rupees (230 dollars) to appear again in court on August 30. (Posted @ 14:26 PST)
Egypt's Mubarak says he will seek fifth term SHIBIN EL-KOM, Egypt, July 28 (Reuters) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Thursday he would seek a fifth six-year term in presidential elections in September. "I will seek to win the trust and support of the people for a new term," Mubarak, 77, said. (Posted @ 14:25 PST)
Twelve die, hundreds rescued in Indian oil rig fire NEW DELHI/BOMBAY, July 28 (Reuters) Twelve people died and 367 were rescued after fire destroyed Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC)’s oil platform off India's west coast, officials said Thursday adding that it may take a year to rebuild a platform that produced a sixth of the country's oil. (Posted @ 14:24 PST)
Two police sergeants killed in Russia NALCHIK, Russia, July 28 (APP/AP) Two police officers were shot and killed as they were patrolling in the southern city of Karachayevsk early Thursday, police officials said, in the latest violence to target law enforcement in Russia's troubled Caucasus region. (Posted @ 14:24 PST)
Suspected bomb hits train near Baghdad, huge fire BAGHDAD, July 28 (Reuters) - A suspected bomb on a railway line hit a train carrying oil products near Baghdad on Thursday, causing a huge fire, Iraqi police said. One person was killed and four wounded in the blaze, police added. (Posted @ 13:04 PST)
Egypt calls for Aug 3 Arab summit in Sharm el-Sheikh CAIRO, July 28 (Reuters) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday called for an Arab summit on third August in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, which was bombed at the weekend. "I call for an exceptional Arab summit and I propose that it be held in Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday, August the 3rd," Mubarak said in a speech broadcast on state television. (Posted @ 13:03 PST)
United States and North Korea hold two-hour bilateral talks BEIJING, July 28 (AFP) The United States and North Korea held a two-hour bilateral meeting Thursday as they attempted to narrow differences over denuclearising the Korean peninsula, a US official said. It was the third contact between the two sides this week. There was no immediate word on how the talks went or what was discussed. (Posted @ 10:35 PST)
Seven dead including one militant in Thailand YALA, Thailand, July 28 (AFP) At least seven people were killed including a suspected militant in a fresh swell of violence in restive southern Thailand, police said Thursday. (Posted @ 10:35 PST)
Stash of 16 bombs found in car boot of London's July 7 attackers LONDON, July 28 (AFP) The four suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7 left a car packed with 16 bombs, newspapers said Thursday, with one claiming that the devices were made by the same person who armed a second wave of attackers two weeks later. Police at Scotland Yard, however, refused to comment on the images of the bombs published in the papers. (Posted @ 10:34 PST)
Fourteen confirmed dead in southwest China mine explosion BEIJING, July 28 (AFP) Fourteen miners trapped underground after a coal mine gas explosion in southwest China's Guizhou province have all been found dead, state press said Thursday. They were killed when a blast ripped through the Fengxiangpo Coal Mine in Kaiyang county in the early hours of Wednesday, a news agency reported. (Posted @ 10:27 PST)
Karachi Stocks down 2.43 points: KARACHI, July 28: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 7215.17, down 2.43points from Wednesday's close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, July 28: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.5 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:30 PST)
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