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| September 24, 2005 | Saturday | Sha'aban 19, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Nigerian Army Chief calls on President RAWALPINDI, Sep 24 (APP): Lieutenant General ML Agwai, Chief of Staff Nigerian Army, who is currently in Pakistan on an official visit called on President General Pervez Musharraf here Saturday. The President welcomed the Nigerian Chief of Staff and wished him a pleasant and professionally rewarding stay in Pakistan. He expressed the hope that the visit would help enhance existing excellent relations enjoyed between the two armies. Lt. Gen. Agwai thanked the President for the opportunity to call on him and termed his interaction with the military leadership of Paksitan Armed Forces as excellent. Senior officials were also present during the call.(Posted @ 23:26 PST)
Thousands march in Europe against Iraq war LONDON, Sept 24 (AFP) - Thousands of people marched in London on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, while similar protests were held or expected in other European cities and in Washington. Organisers of the London march -- Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain -- said it attracted 100,000 people. Police said just 10,000 turned up. Gathered outside the Houses of Parliament, some carried banners bearing slogans such as "Blair is a liar", "Blair must go", and "Bring troops home." Britain has some 8,500 troops stationed in Iraq. The protesters later moved up Whitehall, chanting "Down with Downing Street" and "Stop the bombing." Around 50 police guarded the entrance to Downing Street itself, site of Prime Minister Tony Blair's office and official residence. Among them was Peter Brierley, from Batley in Yorkshire, whose soldier son Shaun, 28, died in Kuwait in 2003. "I am totally overwhelmed. Now Tony Blair has to listen and bring the troops home," he said. "Looking at what has happened in Iraq through this last week it is obvious that Iraq does not want troops there. If they do not bring them out there will be more families like us," he said. Tension between British troops and Iraqi civilians deteriorated dramatically last week in the usually calm southern city of Basra. Authorities there have suspended cooperation with British forces and on Saturday an Iraqi judge issued warrants for the arrest of two British soldiers for killing a policeman. British troops stormed an Iraqi police station after the two British undercover soldiers were arrested by police and then kidnapped by a Shiite militia. "Clearly what happened in Basra this week shows that British troops aren't helping there, they make the situation worse," Stop the War spokesman Viven Lehal told AFP.(Posted @ 22:20 PST)
PM Reviews goals and targets of Ministry of KANA ISLAMABAD, Sep 24 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Saturday called for marketing tourism potential of the Northern Areas to attract foreign investment. He made these remarks while reviewing the quarterly goals and targets of the Ministry of Kana. The Prime Minister said that the Northern Areas have a lot of potential for tourism and the need is to market and package it so that foreign tourists can be attracted. The Prime Minister said that the Northern Areas have a huge potential for hydro power generation and can augment government efforts to meet the future energy demands in the country due to rapid economic growth.(Posted @ 22:06 PST)
IAEA adopts resolution on Iran's nuclear program VIENNA, Sept 24 (APP/AFP) - The UN atomic watchdog adopted by vote Saturday an EU proposal that sets Iran up for referral to the UN Security Council, a spokesman said, in what would be a sharp escalation of the West's face-off with the Islamic Republic.(Posted @ 21:56 PST)
Four Palestinians, at least two Hamas, killed in Gaza blast GAZA CITY, Sept 24 (AFP) - At least four Palestinians were killed Saturday in an Israeli air strike in an eastern district of Gaza City, medical sources and the Palestinian interior ministry said. Witnesses said two of those killed were members of the armed wing of Hamas who were driving in two cars when a helicopter fired two missiles, one ploughing into each vehicle. Dr Mouawiya Hassanein, head of emergency services in Gaza Strip, told AFP that bodies of the other two victims were torn to pieces .(Posted @ 19:32 PST)
Meeting of Supreme Judicial Council held ISLAMABAD, Sep 24 (APP): The Supreme Judicial Council at a meeting here Saturday deliberated upon ways and means to institutionalize the Council, make it fully operative and functional as an effective forum of accountability.(Posted @ 19:20 PST)
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 24 Sept 24 (Reuters) - Two soldiers were killed and five wounded, including two civilians, when a suicide car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army checkpoint in the Karrada district of Baghdad, police said. One U.S soldier was killed when a road side bomb struck his vehicle southeast of Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said in a statement. One child was killed and two policemen and two civilians were wounded on Friday when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded near a checkpoint in the town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad, police said. Two soldiers were killed and two policemen were wounded on Friday when a suicide car bomb exploded near a joint and police Iraqi checkpoint in Sinjar, 170 northeast Mosul, police said. U.S. troops opened fire on a car in Kerbala, killing a family of four, police said.(Posted @ 17:24 PST)
Rita weakens to Category 2 storm WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Hurricane Rita weakened to a Category 2 storm on Saturday morning with maximum sustained winds of about 100 mph (160 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest update at 8 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT on Saturday).(Posted @ 17:16 PST)
Hurricane Rita roars into U.S. refinery row GALVESTON, Texas, Sept 24 (Reuters - Hurricane Rita roared in from the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, striking refinery row in Texas and Louisiana with 120 mph (193 kmh) winds and torrential rains. The powerful storm knocked a huge container ship loose from its moorings in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and caused power outages across the region as it came ashore near the Texas-Louisiana border. In Port Arthur and Beaumont in southeastern Texas and LakeCharles, 60 miles (96 km) to the east, trees toppled in the rising winds and streets were littered with blowing debris. (Posted @ 16:33 PST)
British film producer John Brabourne dies at 80 LONDON, Sept 24 (APP/AFP) - Veteran British film producer John Brabourne, whose many movies included "A Passage to India" and "Murder on the Orient Express", died Thursday at the age of 80, a spokesman for his family said Friday. Brabourne produced many films based on author Agatha Christie's murder mysteries, including "Murder on the Orient Express", "Death on the Nile", "The Mirror Crack'd" and "Evil Under the Sun". He also produced "A Passage to India," directed by David Lean, in 1984, as well as "Othello" with Lawrence Olivier in 1965 and "Up The Junction" and "Romeo and Juliet" in 1967. He was part of a boat party that was blown up by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) at Mullaghmore Bay in the Irish republic in 1979. The dead included his mother, his 14-year-old son and his father-in-law Lord Mountbatten. (Posted @ 16:14 PST)
Indian PM urges Iran to make concessions on nuclear issue NEW DELHI, Sept 24 (AFP) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has advised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to make concessions on the issue of its nuclear program, the foreign ministry here said in a statement. Singh received a phone call from Ahmadinejad and they discussed the growing storm over Iran's nuclear agenda, said the statement issued late Friday. "(Singh) advised him that Iran should consider taking a flexible position so as to avoid a confrontation. The prime minister repeated the necessity for Iran to make concessions to this end," it said. (Posted @ 15:51 PST)
Iraqi judge seeks arrest of freed British soldiers BASRA, Iraq, Sept 24 (Reuters) An Iraqi judge issued arrest warrants for two British undercover soldiers who were freed after a controversial British raid in the city of Basra, an Iraqi lawyer said on Saturday. The judge accused the men of killing an Iraqi policeman and wounding another, carrying unlicensed weapons and holding false identification, the head of a lawyers syndicate said. Britain's Ministry of Defence said on Saturday the warrants had no legal basis. "All British troops in Iraq come under the jurisdiction of Britain," a defence spokesman said in London. (Posted @ 14:16 PST)
Row between Chappell and me, says Ganguly MUMBAI, Sept 24 (AFP) Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly said Saturday that a spat with coach Greg Chappell should stay between the two men and should not be allowed to drag down the team ahead of a busy international schedule. The coach-captain spat worsened Friday when Chappell reportedly said in an e-mail sent to the Indian cricket board that he believed Ganguly was no longer fit to lead the side. (Posted @ 13:40 PST)
Two killed as Taliban storm prison in southeast Afghanistan KHOST, Afghanistan, Sept 24 (AFP) An insurgent and a prisoner were killed early Saturday after suspected Taliban insurgents stormed a prison and police headquarters in the south-eastern Khost province, officials said. (Posted @ 13:33 PST)
Three killed, 12 wounded in grenade blast at Philippine dance ZAMBOANGA, Philippines, Sept 24 (AFP) Three teenagers were killed and 12 others wounded after a grenade was hurled into a dance party in the southern Philippines, a military report said Saturday. (Posted @ 11:18 PST)
Two U.S. troops hurt in Afghan roadside blast KABUL, Sept 24 (Reuters) Two U.S. soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb in the Afghan south, while there were conflicting reports on the whereabouts of a Taliban commander earlier believed to have been surrounded, officials said on Saturday. (Posted @ 11:03 PST)
Total blockade on Palestinian territories: Israeli army JERUSALEM, Sept 24 (AFP) The Israeli army Saturday imposed a total blockade on the Palestinian territories, its spokesman said in a statement. (Posted @ 10:21 PST)
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