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| October 11, 2005 | Tuesday | Ramazan 6, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Tremors Mild tremors rock Karachi KARACHI, Oct 11 (APP)- Tremors of low magnitude struck Karachi at 28 minutes past midnight (00-28 hours) Tuesday, an official of Meteorological Office said. The magnitide of tremors was 4.0 on Richter Scale, the official said. Epicentre of the tremors was in the Arabian Sea. These jolts had no relevance to the quake in northern Pakistan, the official added.(Posted @ 00:28 PST)
1,400 missing in Guatemala considered dead as rescue effort ends PANABAJ, Guatemala, Oct 11 (AFP) - Search and rescue operations in Guatemala have ended, and the 1,400 people who were missing after a mudslide devoured their communities "are considered dead," firefighters' spokesman Mario Cruz told AFP. The decision brings the death toll from the mudslide and accompanying heavy rains and flooding to more than 2,000. Guatemalan and Spanish firefighters had little hope of finding survivors as they searched with sniffer dogs after a mudslide on the San Lucas volcano, triggered by the relentless rains unleashed by Tropical Storm Stan, plowed into the towns of Panabaj and Tzanchaj.(Posted @ 21:52 PST)
Indian troops kill eight militants in quake-hit occupied Kashmir SRINAGAR, Oct 11 (AFP) Indian troops killed eight suspected militants in occupied Kashmir on Tuesday, police said, despite a unilateral ceasefire called by the militants. "Security forces today foiled an infiltration bid on the (Line of Control)", a police spokesman said. He added that that arms and ammunition were recovered from the dead.(Posted @ 20:06 PST)
Cricket-Kallis named ICC test player of the year; Pietersen scoops double at ICC awards SYDNEY, Oct 11 (Reuters) South African all rounder Jacques Kallis was named on Tuesday as the International Cricket Council's (ICC) test player of the year. Meanwhile Pietersen beat his English team mate Andrew Flintoff to win the one-day international player of the year award and was also named as the emerging player of the year. South Africa's Jacques Kallis and England's Andrew Flintoff shared the player of the year award at the International Cricket Council (ICC) awards here Tuesday.(Posted @ 17:32 PST)
Iraq bombs kill nearly 30 BAGHDAD, Oct 11 (Reuters) Two bomb attacks killed nearly 30 Iraqis in the northern town of Tal Afar and in Baghdad on Tuesday. A car bomb blew up in a market in Tal Afar, killing at least 24 people and wounding 36, according to a hospital official. A suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army convoy in a part of western Baghdad killing five people and wounding 12, an Interior Ministry official said.(Posted @ 17:20 PST)
Afghanistan's president replaces US bodyguards with Afghans KABUL, Oct 11 (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has replaced his hundreds of US bodyguards with Afghans, officials said Tuesday. More than 300 American bodyguards from private US security firm DynCorp, hired by the US State Department to protect Karzai in 2002, left Kabul after their mandate expired on September 27, presidential spokesman Khaliq Ahmad said."Now all of his bodyguards are Afghans," he told AFP. (Posted @ 14:35 PST)
Two foreign fighters, Taliban commander arrested in Afghanistan KABUL, Oct 11 (AFP) - The Afghan army arrested a Chechen and a Pakistani in Zabul province while a Taliban commander was arrested in a separate action, the defence ministry said Tuesday. "Two armed foreign nationals were arrested Monday with a Thuraya satellite phone, two radios, some weapons and five motorcycles," it said. Provincial officials said however that at least three armed Pakistanis and seven Afghans were arrested in Monday's operation by Afghan and US-led coalition forces. A Pakistani and two Chechens were killed, said a spokesman for Zabul province's governor, Gulab Shah Ali Khail. Also in Zabul Monday, a Taliban commander identified as Mullah Abdul Baqi was arrested with light weapons and explosives. (Posted @ 12:40 PST)
Four Tamil rebels killed, seven injured in ambush by Sri Lankan breakaway faction COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Oct 11 (APP/AP) _ Four Tamil Tiger rebels were killed and seven others injured when a group of breakaway guerillas attacked a convoy in eastern Sri Lanka late Monday, a Web site reported. Police confirmed the incident but provided no information on casualties (Posted @ 12:20 PST)
Insurgents kill more Iraqis in effort to wreck constitutional referendum BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct 11 (APP/AP) _ Iraq has issued arrest warrants against the defense minister and 27 other officials from the U.S.-backed government of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi over the alleged disappearance or misappropriation of $1 billion ($830 million) in military procurement funds, officials said. Those accused include four other ministers from Allawi's government, Iraq's Integrity Commission said Monday. Meanwhile, in Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated a car full of mortars near an entrance to the fortified Green Zone on Monday, killing a U.S. soldier and six Iraqis in one of a string of insurgent attacks in which at least 13 other Iraqis also died.2 (Posted @ 12:10 PST)
Police arrest nine in huge British smuggling ring LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - British police arrested nine people suspected of being involved in one of Europe's largest illegal immigration rackets in a series of dawn raids on Tuesday.Scotland Yard said the arrests followed a two year investigation into the large-scale smuggling ring which brought illegal immigrants, predominantly from Turkey, into London from mainland Europe. Police raided twelve addresses in London and one in Lincolnshire, arresting seven men and two women. (Posted @ 11:50 PST)
18 policemen killed in ambush in Afghanistan KABUL, Oct 11 (AFP) - Eighteen Afghan policemen, including a provincial police director, were killed in an ambush by suspected Taliban militants in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said Tuesday.The policemen were ambushed Monday on their way to introduce a newly appointed district police chief to officers in Helmand province, ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai told AFP. "Eighteen police, including the Helmand province police director Amanullah Khan, were martyred last night in an ambush," he said. (Posted @ 10:45 PST)
Space tourist Olsen returns to Earth MOSCOW, Oct 11 (AFP) - The Soyuz space capsule carrying US millionaire businessman Greg Olsen, the third civilian in history to pay for a space flight, returned to Earth on Tuesday, the Russian Space Flight Control Centre said. (Posted @ 09:40 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 102.21 points: KARACHI, October 11: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 8622.93, up 102.21 points from Monday's close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 13:40 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, October 11: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.15 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 13:40 PST)
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