October 13, 2005	Thursday	Ramzan 8, 1426

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Winter new threat to quake survivors SULTANDAKI: Khatija Bibi sits beside her injured son wrapped in a woollen blanket on a stretcher in front of what was once her house in occupied Kashmir....		11 killed in Afghanistan during Rice’s visit KABUL, Oct 12: Rockets exploded in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday and six soldiers and five aid workers were killed in attacks blamed on Taliban insurgents as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited for talks....
Iraqi leaders amend constitution draft: Sunnis reject compromise BAGHDAD, Oct 12: Iraqi leaders amended a draft constitution on Wednesday just three days before it goes to a referendum, but many Sunnis rejected the compromise Parliament convened in celebratory evening...		Syrian minister’s pre-death interview BEIRUT, Oct 12: “This is going to be the final declaration that I can make,” Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan, the former military intelligence chief for Lebanon, told startled radio Lebanese listeners in a live interview....
American, British journalists kidnapped GAZA, Oct 12: Masked Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a US and a British journalist in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in the latest sign of lawlessness in the coastal territory after Israel’s pullout last month....		US, UK policies have no chance in Europe: Schroeder BERLIN, Oct 12: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who has led Germany since 1998, said for the first time on Wednesday he would not play a role in the next government, in an emotional farewell including broadsides at the United States and Britain....
Indian army rebuilds bunkers turned into graves URI: Convoys of trucks race to and from the heavily-fortified frontline dividing Kashmir as Indian soldiers frantically try to rebuild bunkers where dozens of their comrades were buried alive....		Relief from India opens new peace channel NEW DELHI: The shared tragedy of last week’s earthquake opened new channels between South Asian rivals Pakistan and India, analysts say, as New Delhi delivered aid to Islamabad in the first such airlift in decades....
40,000 homes destroyed in Valley SRINAGAR, Oct 12: The earthquake that killed tens of thousands in Kashmir razed 40,720 homes and damaged nearly twice as many in occupied Kashmir. Rescuers had yet to reach 10 outlying...		Protesters storm jail housing Bali bombing convicts DENPASAR (Indonesia), Oct 12: Hundreds of protesters on Wednesday stormed a prison where some convicted Bali bombers are being held, shouting for their deaths on the third anniversary of the attacks on the Indonesian island....
Bush warns Syria over Iraq, Lebanon WASHINGTON, Oct 12: US President George W. Bush warned Syria on Wednesday to keep out of internal Lebanese affairs and to close off its common border with Iraq to suspected terrorists streaming in to fuel the deadly resistance there....		Discovery of tiny hominid widens anthropology rift PARIS, Oct 12: A tiny hominid whose discovery in a cave on an Indonesian island unleashed one of the fiercest debates in anthropology has suddenly been joined by several other sets of dwarf-sized beings....
3 Japanese still missing TOKYO, Oct 12: Three Japanese nationals are still missing after the earthquake in Pakistan, with two Japanese victims already confirmed dead, the government’s top spokesman said on Wednesday....		Karzai’s appeal for quake aid KABUL, Oct 12: Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the people of Afghanistan on Wednesday to open their purses for Pakistan’s quake victims....
Donors urged to increase aid UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12: Underscoring that developing countries are not much better off today since the amount of aid going into development projects last year remain at the same level as...		US team visits BD’s maritime installations DHAKA, Oct 12: A four-member team of the US coastguards is on a 10-day visit to Bangladesh to see security measures at the country’s Key Point Installations (KPIs), including at the...
Malaysian firm donates Rs2.3m KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12: A Malaysian telephone company has announced a donation of 150,000 ringgits (Rs 2.37 million) for relief work in Pakistan’s quake-hit areas. In addition, a press release said,...		India’s baby girls decimated through infanticide: report UNITED NATIONS: She strangled her first two babies to death because they were girls, terminated two other pregnancies because the foetuses were female and lost two baby boys to infections acquired in infancy....
Why have US, Nato forces not been mobilised? LAHORE: The scale of the disaster has traumatised the entire country — or perhaps not quite. Here in Lahore a group of people collecting funds for earthquake relief were apprehended and charged....		Dilapidated hospital struggles to cope KARNAH: Needles, bloodied bandages, garbage and faeces litter the compound around the main hospital in the earthquake-ravaged Karnah region in occupied Kashmir. Inside the single-storey hospital, the picture is equally as grim....