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| July 30, 2005 | Saturday | Jumadi-us-Sani 22, 1426 |
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One injured in bomb blasts in Jacobabad Jacobabad, July 30 (PPI): At least one person was injured when two powerful bombs exploded in limits of Jacobabad City Police Station on Saturday. The first explosion occurred at around 9:00 pm at a garbage den behind Old Saddar Police Station building on Dastagir Colony street which caused damage to nearby houses. The second blast occurred just 15 minutes after the first one on Quaid-i-Azam Road near a cellular phone company office. Caretaker/DCO Jacobabad Shasuddin Soomro, DPO Munir Ahmed and TPO City along with heavy contingent of police reached the spots. The injured Miran, 25 s/o Sher Ali was shifted to Imam Medical Centre where his condition is stated to be out of danger.(Posted @ 23:15 PST)
Cricket-Sri Lanka beat India by three wickets DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka, July 30 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka beat India by three wickets in the opening match of the triangular one-day series. Scores: India 205-9 in 50 overs (R. Dravid 54, M. Muralitharan 3-33) v Sri Lanka 209-7 in 48.2 overs (S.Jayasuriya 43 not out)(Posted @ 21:53 PST)
Tornado kills 15 in east China BEIJING, July 30 (AFP) - At least 15 people were killed and 37 injured when a tornado swept through a county in east China Saturday, state media said. Eight of the victims were killed on the spot when the tornado flattened a factory in Lingbi county, Anhui province, Xinhua news agency said, citing sources in the local civil affairs department.(Posted @ 19:43 PST)
President announces development initiatives for Malakand division SAIDU SHARIF, July 30 (APP): President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday announced a number of development schemes for the Malakand division including construction of a sport complex, Cadet College and a network of infrastructure for the area's fast-paced development Addressing a large public meeting here the President said the highway authority would be directed to work on the construction of Khawazakhela- Bisham road and Chakdarra-Kalam roads, and demand for supply of electricity and gas to villages would be met at the earliest. The President announced the upgradation of Saidu Sahrif hospital to 300 beds and said that since Swat was badly affected by floods and heavy snowfall, agro loans up to rupees twenty five thousand would be waived off.(Posted @ 19:38 PST)
India should control human rights violations in IHK: Mirwaiz ISLAMABAD, Jul 30 (APP): Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has expressed grave concern over the increasing violence and human right violations in the occupied state specially in Kashmir Valley. According to Radio Srinagar, he demanded the Indian government to control human right violations and killing of innocent people in occupied Kashmir for the success of ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan.(Posted @ 19:25 PST)
President urges people reject forces wanting to plunge Pakistan into darkness SAIDU SHARIF (Swat) July 30 (APP): President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday urged the masses to reject retrogressive elements wanting to plunge the country into darkness, stressing that Pakistan needs progressive and prudent policies to move forward as a strong and dynamic Islamic state. Seeking a vigorous support for his policies at a public meeting here the President asked people to distinguish clearly between forces of backwardness and the leadership that wants to develop Pakistan befitting its vast human and economic potential. President Musharraf particularly appealed to the women to see the contradictory approach to women representation by some parties, whose leaders have got their women relatives elected as members of the parliament but oppose female representation at the grass roots level. Pakistan, he said, would refine and enhance its missile and nuclear technologies and ruled out any sell-out on these. On Hasba bill, the President said, a reference has been filed in the Supreme Court, which will decide about it.(Posted @ 18:30 PST)
Suicide bomber kills at least 5 in Baghdad attack BAGHDAD, July 30 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded at an Iraqi police checkpoint in Baghdad on Saturday killing at least five people and wounding 20, the police said. The bomb exploded at a checkpoint set up near the National Theatre in the Karada district in the centre of the capital. No further details were immediately available.(Posted @ 18:25 PST)
Pakistan Islamic groups protest move to send home foreign Koranic students ISLAMABAD, July 30 (AFP) - Pakistan said Saturday that 800 suspected militants have now been arrested in raids following the deadly London bombings as Islamic groups rejected a move to expell 1,400 foreign Koranic students. Police arrested 200 prayer leaders after Friday sermons on charge of inciting anti-Western and sectarian hatred, raising the total in the ongoing raids to 800, an official monitoring the crackdown told AFP.Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said Saturday authorities were now checking the foreigners' visas and would cancel those still valid in order to repatriate them to their home countries."There are 1,400 foreign students in the seminaries in Pakistan and we have decided to send all of them back to their countries," Sherpao said. But Islamic groups Saturday voiced anger at the repatriation order. "It is an undemocratic and unconstitutional decision ," Liaqat Baluch, deputy parliamentary leader of the six-party religious alliance the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, told AFP.(Posted @ 18:12 PST)
Militants killed as intense clash with troops in occupied Kashmir ends SRINAGAR, July 30 (AFP) - Two militants who fought a day-long gunbattle with security forces were killed Saturday ending an intense clash in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk area, police said. The fighting, which started Friday afternoon, also left two security force personnel dead and 21 others injured -- seven news cameramen and photographers, six security force personnel and eight civilians. Firing had intensified early Saturday around dawn when troops targeted the two buildings where the suspected the militants were hiding out. "Both sides were exchanging fire and grenades," a police officer said. The clashes broke out when the militants attacked a paramilitary bunker with rifle fire and a grenade, sparking panic. They later barricaded themselves inside a shopping complex and a hotel, and exchanged constant heavy fire throughout the night .(Posted @ 18:03 PST)
KASHMIR: Solve issue as per Kashmiris' wishes: Says Beushan Bazaz SRINAGAR, July 30 (PPI) Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDF) has said the resolution of Kashmir dispute according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people alone will pave way for the restoration of peace in South Asian region. According to Kashmir Media Service, JKDF President Pandit Bhushan Bazaz participating in two day seminar on Kashmir in New Delhi urged India to evolve policy for resolving Kashmir dispute. "The leadership on both parts of Kashmir should be engaged in the process", he said.(Posted @ 17:10 PST)
Explosions rock Kohlu LORALAI July 30 (PPI): Three explosions rocked Kohlu Town early Saturday. However there was no report of any loss of life or property. According to reports the explosions this morning took place in Kohlu Bazar, near a Church, and near the Tehsil Office. Windowpanes of nearby houses and shops were shattered.(Posted @ 17:05 PST)
Discovery astronauts go spacewalking HOUSTON, July 30 (Reuters) - Two astronauts stepped outside the shuttle Discovery on Saturday in the first U.S. spacewalk since 2002 and set to work testing damage-repair techniques developed after the Columbia disaster. "What a view," Japan's Soichi Noguchi said as he drifted out into space while Discovery, docked to the International Space Station, sailed 224 miles (358 km) above southeast Asia. "Yeah, it's been a long road," said spacewalking partner Steve Robinson. They left the shuttle a little more than an hour behind schedule and were to spend 6 1/2 hours outside in the first of three planned spacewalks.(Posted @ 16:55 PST)
Casualties in Iraq, July 30 BAGHDAD, July 30 (Reuters) Two British civilians were killed and two Iraqi children were wounded when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Basra, a British army officer said..Meanwhile, the casualty toll from a suicide bombing of Iraqi army recruits in the town of Rabia on Friday rose to 40 dead and 57 wounded, police said. A prominent Sunni Arab leader escaped an assassination attempt in Baghdad but his bodyguard was wounded, said a spokesman. The bodies of three people who were blindfolded and shot were discovered in the Hay al-Amil area of Baghdad. Police said the three men were Baghdad Airport employees kidnapped a few days earlier in the capital. A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi civilian and wounded three in a car on a road south of Baghdad, and a roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy killed one Iraqi civilian in the Doura district of Baghdad, police said. An Iraqi health ministry official, Eman Naji, was kidnapped by gunmen who stormed her home in the capital's upscale district of Mansour, police added.(Posted @ 16:48 PST)
At least 14 injured in Disney rollercoaster crash : local official LOS ANGELES, July 29 (AFP) - At least 14 people were rushed to hospital Friday after two trains on a rollercoaster at California's Disneyland theme park collided, a government official said.The crash occurred when one car rear-ended the other on "California Screamin'" ride. Some 48 people were on the trains.(Posted @ 16:35 PST)
US military evicted from Uzbek air base: report WASHINGTON, July 30 (AFP) - Uzbekistan has formally evicted the United States from a military base that has served as a hub for its combat operations in Afghanistan, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Citing unnamed Pentagon and State Department officials, the newspaper reported the notice of eviction from Karshi-Khanabad air base, known as K2, was delivered by a courier from the Uzbek foreign ministry to the US Embassy in Tashkent on Friday. Uzbekistan will give the United States 180 days to move aircraft, personnel and equipment, according to the report. (Posted @ 16:18 PST)
London bomb suspect left London by train on July 26, says Italian minister ROME, July 30 (AFP) - London bombing suspect Osman Hussain left London by train on July 26, five days after the failed bombings on the city's transport system, Italy's Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said Saturday, giving the first details of his arrest to parliament. "It has been possible to document in real time the stages of Osman Hussain's escape from England, from July 26 when he left London via Waterloo Station," Pisanu said. Newspaper reports Saturday said police had located Hussain in Paris on Wednesday July 27 by monitoring his mobile phone, before picking up his trail again on Thursday in Milan and Bologna before he arrived by train in Rome and was finally arrested in an apartment in the east of Rome on Friday afternoon. Pisanu also told lawmakers at a special session of parliament to debate new anti-terrorism measures that police were searching "at least 15" addresses in various provinces in Italy in connection with the investigation. Hussain had a network of contacts in the Ethiopian and Eritrean community in northern Italy to help him evade capture, Pisanu said. (Posted @ 16:03 PST)
London bomb suspect's brother arrested LONDON, July 30 (AFP) - A third man arrested in police raids in west London is Wahbi Mohammed, 23, the brother of suspected bomber Ramzi Mohammed, a report said Saturday.The domestic Press Association quoted unnamed police sources as saying Wahbi Mohammed was arrested Friday along with his brother and another suspected bomber, Muktar Said Ibrahim. Police would not release the third man's name when contacted by AFP, saying only that he was a person "of interest" in their investigation into the botched July 21 London bomb attacks. (Posted @ 15:58 PST)
Man attacks Saddam in Baghdad court: lawyers AMMAN, July 30 (AFP) - An unidentified man attacked ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein during a court hearing in Baghdad on Thursday and the pair exchanged blows, his defence team said Saturday "As the president was leaving the courtroom a person... attacked the president and there was a fist-fight between them," the Jordan-based team said in a statement. (Posted @ 15:53 PST)
Over hundred British Councillors of Pakistani heritage condemn terrorism LONDON, July 30 (APP) Over a hundred elected British councillors and Mayors of Pakistani heritage from all over UK condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and expressed solidarity with the victims of the terrible atrocities in London. The meeting, held at the Pakistan High Commission here late Friday was also attended by the Pakistani Consul General in Manchester Salauddin Chaudhry and Consuls in Bradford and Birmingham Arif Mehmood and Ayaz Hussain. (Posted @ 14:06 PST)
Two hurt after U.S. helicopter crashes in Afghanistan KABUL, July 30 (Reuters) A U.S. Apache helicopter crashed during a routine training mission in Afghanistan, injuring the two crewmen aboard, a military statement said. The military also said two U.S. servicemen and their Afghan interpreter were hurt on Saturday when their patrol was hit by a makeshift bomb in the central province of Uruzgan. (Posted @ 14:01 PST)
U.S. to make initial F-16 shipment to Pakistan WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) The Bush administration has approved an initial shipment to Pakistan of with two older but refurbished F-16s, congressional sources briefed on the plan said Friday.(Posted @ 13:59 PST)
US scientists announce discovery of possible '10th planet' LOS ANGELES, July 29 (AFP) A US astronomer announced Friday the discovery of a 10th planet that is larger than Pluto in the outer reaches of the solar system. If confirmed, the discovery by Professor Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology would be the first planet to be identified since Pluto in 1930. (Posted @ 10:30 PST)
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