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| November 2, 2005 | Wednesday | Ramzan 28, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Pakistan asks Saudi Arabia to let Sharif visit London ISLAMABAD, Nov 2 (Reuters) President Pervez Musharraf has asked Saudi Arabia to let exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif travel to London where his son is seriously ill, the government said on Wednesday. If Sharif goes to London it would be the first time he would leave Saudi Arabia since he and his extended family were sent into exile in 2000 under a deal brokered by the Saudi royal family. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said the decision did not mean Sharif would be allowed to return to Pakistan. "This decision is taken purely on humanitarian basis. It has nothing to do with politics," Ahmed told a news conference. "He cannot come to Pakistan." (Posted @ 15:30 PST)
Pakistan assures India of action over blasts ISLAMABAD, Nov 2 (Reuters) Pakistan has assured India it would act against any of its nationals found involved in the weekend bomb blasts in New Delhi that killed 59 people, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The assurance was given by President Pervez Musharraf when he spoke to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhby telephone on Monday to offer condolences on deaths in Saturday's blasts at two crowded markets, ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said. "The president assured Mr Singh of Pakistan's cooperation (in investigations) and he also said that if there was some evidence and it was shared with us then we would take action against those found responsible," she said. Singh thanked the president and both leaders "expressed their resolve to continue the peace process", Aslam said.(Posted @ 18:54 PST)
Suicide car bomber kills four in Occupied Kashmir SRINAGAR, Nov 2 (Reuters) A suicide car bomber killed at least four people in an attack on a busy highway in Occupied Kashmir on Wednesday hours before Ghulam Nabi Azad was due to be sworn as the new chief minister, police said. Policemen and civilians removed body parts from the area where half a dozen vehicles and several houses were damaged in the blast which also wounded six people, most of them policemen. A militant, two policemen and two civilians were killed in the powerful explosion, a police official said. Jaish-e-Mohammed, called newspaper offices in Srinagar and claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack. (Posted @ 15:35 PST)
Cricket-Plunkett and Giles bowl England to tour win RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Nov 2 (Reuters) Ashley Giles and Liam Plunkett took four wickets each as England staged a remarkable comeback to beat a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Patron's XI by 52 runs on the final day of a three-day match. The home team needed just 158 to win after England were dismissed for 112 on Wednesday, with pace bowler Yasir Arafat taking five wickets. But they collapsed from 50 without loss to 105 all out as Plunkett and left-arm spinner Giles caused havoc.(Posted @ 17:10 PST)
CIA declines to comment on report of secret prisons in Europe, elsewhere WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (AFP) The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) declined to comment Wednesday on a newspaper report that said the US spy agency has been hiding and interrogating alleged Al-Qaeda captives at secret prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. The prisons, known as "black sites," are, or have been, located in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and "several democracies in eastern Europe," The Washington Post said, quoting US and foreign officials familiar with the system. The names of the Eastern European countries were withheld by the Post "at the request of senior US officials," who argued that the disclosure might disrupt counterterrorism efforts in those countries and elsewhere. Former US president Jimmy Carter on Wednesday while taking notice of the report accused President George W. Bush's administration of degrading moral standards underpinning decades of US foreign policy.(Posted @ 21:08 PST)
Car bomb near mosque kills at least 21 in Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 2 (AFP) At least 21 people were killed and 61 wounded when a car bomb exploded Wednesday in Musayyib, 55 kilometers, security and hospital sources said. The attack was carried out using a minibus packed with explosives that blew up at 5:20 pm (1420 GMT) "near a Shiite mosque and a market just ahead of prayers marking the end of the Ramadan fast," a police official said.(First Posted@ 19:44 PST Updated@ 21:04 PST)
Militants stage attacks in Thai south BANGKOK, Nov 2 (Reuters) Militants launched a series of bomb attacks in Thailand's restive south on Wednesday, causing a fire at a gas station and partial blackout on the last day of Ramadan, officials said. There were at least three explosions in Narathiwat, one at an electricity sub-station, another at a restaurant and one at the city prison, which wounded one person, army officials said.(Posted @ 20:58 PST)
Delhi bomb attacks should not hinder peace process: Yasin Malik ISLAMABAD, Nov 2 (APP): Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik urged the leadership of India and Pakistan not to let the Delhi bomb attacks hinder the peace process between the two countries. He told reporters at an Iftar here that the leadership of the two countries should show restraint and not allow confidence building measures to suffer. "If the peace process suffers it means the elements (against peace process) have won," he said. He welcomed the opening of LoC at five points and said the people living on both sides should be able to help each other in the aftermath of the earthquake. He said chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Gillani will visit Pakistan as the head of a 17-member delegation after eid.(Posted @ 20:54 PST)
Hamas vows to end truce at year-end JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip, Nov 2 (AFP) Hamas vowed Wednesday to call off an informal truce at the year-end, as thousands rallied at the funerals of two Palestinian commando leaders killed in an Israeli air raid. "The quiet will finish at the end of this year," a spokesman said at the funerals in Gaza's impoverished Jabaliya refugee camp.(Posted @ 19:42 PST)
Four US servicemen killed in western Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 2 (AFP) Four US servicemen were killed in and around the restive western Iraqi town of Ramadi, including two US marines who died in the crash of their attack helicopter, the military said Wednesday. (First Posted@ 18:50 PST Updated @ 19:40 PST)
Iran to replace dozens of moderate ambassadors TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) Iran said on Wednesday it planned to overhaul its diplomatic corps by replacing dozens of ambassadors, a move critics said was designed to reinforce new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tougher foreign policy stance. The Foreign Ministry denied reports that the diplomatic shake-up was polically motivated. The Foreign Ministry said ambassadors being recalled to Tehran were either retiring from public service or had reached the end of their postings. "The terms of some 40 ambassadors will be ended by March…some others will retire," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the official IRNA news agency. Iran has 97 ambassadors around the world, the ministry said.(Posted @ 19:30 PST)
Dozens of cars torched as Paris suburb riots spread PARIS, Nov 2 (Reuters) President Jacques Chirac urged calm and dialogue on Wednesday after a sixth night of unrest in poor Paris suburbs that has triggered a damaging public row between ministers in France's conservative government. Street fighting, sparked by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted while apparently fleeing police during a local disturbance, spread to other parts of the poor suburbs ringing the capital to the north and the east, police said. The unrest has highlighted increasingly bitter rivalry between Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and his deputy Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister, ahead of 2007 presidential elections. Squabbling broke out within Villepin's government when Equal Opportunities Minister Azouz Begag openly criticised Sarkozy for calling the protesting youths "scum".(Posted @ 18:58 PST)
10 killed in Ethiopia; Special Forces in capital ADDIS ABABA, Nov 2 (Reuters) Ten people were killed in a second day of clashes in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday, hospital officials said, as police confronted stone-throwing youths in the worst anti-government protests in months. Security forces fired teargas and shot in the air to scatter hundreds of demonstrators who formed makeshift barricades, hurled rocks and smashed windscreens in central Addis Ababa in protest against a May poll the opposition says was rigged.(First Posted@ 16:00 PST Updated@18:55 PST)
Supreme Court gives bail to alleged front man of Imtiaz Shaikh KARACHI, Nov 02 (APP) A full bench of Supreme Court of Pakistan comprising Justice Rana Bhagwandas, Justice Sayyed Saeed Ashhad and Justice Hamid Ali Mirza on Wednesday admitted Mehboob Shaikh, an alleged front man of Imtiaz Shaikh to bail against solvent surety of rupees one million each in two corruption cases.(Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Delhi police push bomb probe, tight vigil for Eid NEW DELHI, Nov 2 (Reuters) Indian police have made progress in the Delhi bomb blasts case with the release of sketches of a suspect in the attacks but a breakthrough eludes investigators, a top officer said on Wednesday. Identikits prepared by Delhi Police show the face of the suspect with a goatee, a second without a beard but a moustache and the third shows him to be clean shaven. It said the man was in his early twenties, slim, medium height, wore a shirt with a white base and grey stripes and grey cotton trousers. He had a bandage on his left arm. Besides investigating the blasts, policemen were on high alert to ensure a peaceful Eid-al-Fitr which falls on Friday or Saturday depending on the sighting of the moon. The blasts have also triggered fears of communal trouble as they came close to the Hindu and Muslim festivals. But a police chief said there were no reports of tension.(Posted @ 18:42 PST)
Small bomb blast near BP, British Airways in Iran TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) A small bomb exploded outside the offices of BP and British Airways in Tehran on Wednesday, causing some damage but no casualties, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which appeared to be a carbon copy of a bombing outside the same offices in August. The perpetrators of the August blast have still not been identified.(Posted @ 17:45 PST)
Bird flu spreads in Thailand, fighting cocks blamed BANGKOK, Nov 2 (Reuters) The illegal movement of infected poultry, especially fighting cocks and ducks, has helped spread the bird flu virus to seven provinces in Thailand, officials said on Wednesday. In the latest outbreak of the H5N1 virus, which has killed 13 Thais, laboratory results confirmed it in chickens and pigeons in the central province of Ang Thong, the Department of Livestock Department said. Tests from 40 other provinces where poultry were reported to have died in suspicious circumstances were under way.(Posted @ 17:44 PST)
Cricket-Seven test players in Pakistan A squad to face England RAWALPINDI, Nov 2 (Reuters) The Pakistani selectors have announced a strong Pakistan A squad to take on England in the second three-day tour match in the eastern city of Lahore from Nov. 6. The selectors have not retained any of the players from the PCB Patrons XI which lost to England by 52 runs on Wednesday in the first three-dayer in Rawalpindi. Pakistan A squad: Hasan Raza (captain), Imran Farhat, Taufeeq Umar, Shahid Yousuf, Faisal Athar, Mansoor Amjad, Arshad Khan, Amin-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Asif, Shahid Nazir, Mohammad Khalil, Rizwan Ahmed, Junaid Zia and Usman Tariq.(Posted @ 17:18 PST)
Car bomb in southeast Turkey injures 23 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 2 (Reuters) Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb in front of security headquarters in a town in southeast Turkey, injuring 23 people and damaging dozens of buildings, officials and media reports said on Wednesday. The blast ripped through Semdinli on the border of Iraq and Iran at 11.30 pm (2130 GMT) on Tuesday, leaving four soldiers, three police officers and 16 civilians hurt, the provincial governor's office said in a statement. (Posted @ 15:50 PST)
Iran president nominates Mahsouli as oil minister TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated Sadeq Mahsouli, a total unknown in the energy business, as oil minister of the world's fourth biggest crude producer on Wednesday. The original candidate delivered to the parliamentary energy commission board had been conservative academic Aliasghar Zarei. It was not immediately clear why the nomination had switched to Mahsouli. Mahsouli now faces a parliamentary vote of confidence. (Posted @ 15:55 PST)
Palestinian gunmen kill Israeli soldier on raid JERUSALEM, Nov 2 (Reuters) Palestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli soldier during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. The soldier's death, which followed militant vows for revenge after Tuesday's Gaza airstrike, was Israel's first military fatality in action since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon engineered the withdrawal after 38 years of occupation. (Posted @ 15:50 PST)
Taliban kill five Afghan police in ambush KABUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) Taliban guerrillas killed five Afghan policemen in an ambush in the restive southern province of Helmand, a police officer said on Wednesday. The policemen were on patrol in a car in the remote area of Bahramcha when they were attacked late on Tuesday, the officer said. (Posted @ 15:25 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 189.28 points: KARACHI, November 02: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 8436.62, up 189.28 points from Monday's close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 13:20 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, November 02: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 59.75 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 13:20 PST)
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