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| November 13, 2005 | Sunday | Shawwal 10, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Cricket-England 253-3 v Pakistan at close - first test MULTAN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - England ended the second day of the first test against Pakistan on 253 for three with Marcus Trescothick scoring an undefeated 135 runs at the Multan cricket stadium on Sunday. Score: Pakistan first innings 274 in 98.2 overs (Salman Butt 74, Inzamam-ul-Haq 53; Andrew Flintoff 4-68, Steve Harmison 3-37) England first innings 253-3 in 68 overs (Marcus Trescothick 135 not out, Ian Bell 71).(Posted @ 17:02 PST)
PM returns from Dhaka ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz returned home on Sunday evening after attending the 13th SAARC Conference in Dhaka.(Posted @ 23:10 PST)
Jordan female suicide bomber confesses on television AMMAN, Nov 13 (APP/AFP) - The woman arrested by Jordan and accused of carrying out failed suicide mission in the Amman hotel bombings Sunday evening gave a televised confession wearing her suicide belt. Jordan arrested the Iraqi woman on Sunday, saying she concealed explosives that failed to detonate but her husband managed to blow himself apart in a mission that targeted two other hotels and killed 57 people. "My name is Sajida Mabruk Atrous Rishawi, born in 1970 in Ramadi. I entered Jordan on November 5 with falsified Iraq passports in which the name of my husband was Ali Hussein Ali and mine was Sajida Abdel Kader Latif," she said, wearing a white headscarf and a black coat. She said that she entered the Radisson SAS hotel with her husband and "we each took up a corner. There was a marriage, women, and children. He managed to blow himself up, I tried but I could not. "I saw the people run and flee the hotel and ran out just like them."(Posted @ 22:58 PST)
Pakistan says lack of trust in ties with India DHAKA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Pakistan sees a lack of trust in ties with India despite a year and a half of peace talks, although regular meetings between the two sides are helping remove misgivings, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday. Aziz's blunt comments a day after bilateral discussions with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the lack of any breakthrough appear to signal a setback, or at least a continued deadlock, in the slow-moving peace process. "There is clearly a trust deficit between the two countries," Aziz told reporters in the Bangladesh capital, where the seven South Asian nations are holding a summit meeting. He said as far as Pakistan was concerned, the core issue with India was the dispute over divided Kashmir. "We must make progress on Kashmir and then we can move in parallel on other issues. We do not subscribe to the view that let's do everything else and Kashmir will resolve itself. "For sustainable peace, we must address Kashmir." India's foreign secretary said after Saturday's talks that New Delhi had conveyed its unhappiness over continued attacks in India by militants based in Pakistan and infiltration across the frontier in Kashmir.(Posted @ 22:42 PST)
Aziz calls for demilitarization in Kashmir DHAKA, November 13 (PPI) Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said without demilitarization in Kashmir no understanding was possible with India. In a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Aziz said, "We must make progress on Kashmir and then we can move in parallel on other issues. "For sustainable peace, we must address Kashmir." There is clearly a trust deficit between the two countries," Aziz told local reporters and Pakistani mediamen in the Bangladesh capital, where the seven South Asian nations are holding a summit meeting. He said Pakistan believes in implementation of CBMs until and unless demilitarization in Kashmir no relief could be provided to Kashmiri people. He called for cut in troops in the territory to boost peace efforts. The step will also curb human rights violations in the territory, he further said. Shaukat Aziz, commenting on the South Asian Free Trade Agreement added a note of caution saying: "The implementation of SAFTA may take a little longer time than the targeted deadline of 2006 end."(Posted @ 22:32 PST)
Afghanistan to join South Asian group of nations: Indian PM DHAKA, Nov 13 (AFP) - Afghanistan is to join the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the closing session of the 13th SAARC summit. "We welcome Afghanistan to our group," Singh said in a brief statement summarising the pledges and agreements achieved by the summit. "This is an appropriate recognition of the long ties of culture and history that Afghanistan shares with us," he added. SAARC already groups Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It was founded in Dhaka in 1985 with the aim of promoting economic cooperation and alleviating poverty in South Asia. The region is home to 1.4 billion people, many of whom live below the poverty line. The 13th summit took place in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka this weekend.(Posted @ 22:28 PST)
SA countries have to move from conflict management: Shaukat Aziz Dhaka,Nov 13 (PPI)Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that South Asian countries will have to move from conflict management to conflict resolution for the betterment of its people. Addressing a breakfast meeting with Editors here Sunday,he said dialogue process with India is in progress and interaction between leaders and civil society of both the countries have increased. However we have to address the basic issue of Jammu and Kashmir for sustainable peace in the region in accordance with wishes of Kashmiri people. Prime Minister said that demilitarization of Kashmir will create trust in Kashmiri people and make the environment better in the region. About his meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz said it was productive and we are moving in right direction. Prime Minister said Pakistan is committed to strengthen SAARC and increase cooperation among the member countries in all fields.(Posted @ 19:55 PST)
Seven Brazilians killed in road smash in Japan TOKYO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Seven Brazilian men were killed and three people injured on Sunday in a seven-vehicle pile-up on a highway in western Japan, the Kyodo news agency quoted police as saying. The seven men, aged between 18 and 24 and all of them factory workers in the city of Hino, Shiga Prefecture, were killed when a truck smashed into them as they stood in the breakdown lane. The van they had been in was involved in a smaller collision with another truck.(Posted @ 19:45 PST)
More than 10,000 evacuated, 30 hurt after China chemical plant blasts BEIJING, Nov 13 (AFP) - Thirty people were injured and more than 10,000 evacuated after seven explosions at a chemical plant in northeast China on Sunday, state media reported. Windows of buildings 100 to 200 meters (330-660 feet) from the Jilin Petroleum and Chemical Company were shattered in the Sunday afternoon explosions, Xinhua news agency quoted witnesses as saying. The cause was not known. Xinhua said the scene of the accident at Jilin City in the province of the same name was closed off. Television footage showed a cloud of thick black smoke rising from the plant and firefighters trying to bring the blaze under control.(Posted @ 19:40 PST)
13th SAARC summit ends, pledge to make it effective organization DHAKA, Nov 13 (APP): The 13th SAARC summit Sunday concluded here with a pledge from all the leaders to reinvigorate the organization and make it an effective organization. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh and the new chairman of SAARC Begum Khaleda Zia Sunday while closing the summit at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Prime Minister's office, announced India would host the 14th SAARC summit in 2007, adoption of declaration and also the report of the Council of Ministers on health and pandemic Bird Flu(Posted @ 17:50 PST)
Taliban kill three Afghan police in restive south KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas killed three policemen after kidnapping them in a volatile southern province, an official said on Sunday, in the latest spate of fresh violence in Afghanistan. The trio were kidnapped from their vehicle while traveling in a district of Helmand province on Saturday night and then were shot dead, Haji Mohammad Wali, a spokesman for Helmand's governor said. A Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf had claimed responsibility for the attack. The U.S. military said it had no reports of casualties in response to another claim by Yousuf -- that Taliban fighters had killed five U.S. soldiers in a clash in the southern province of Zabul, another province in the south. Southern Afghanistan was the main bastion of the Taliban before U.S.-led troops drove them from power in 2001, after their leaders refused to surrender Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. The Helmand incident was the latest in a series of attacks. At least three policemen were killed, and eight wounded in separate attacks in the south and east on Friday night. Taliban fighters were also suspected of killing a deputy provincial governor of Nimroz province on Thursday. He was ambushed while travelling from his southern province to attend a conference in Kabul on national reconciliation.(Posted @ 17:40 PST)
Jordan's king says failed suicide bomber in custody AMMAN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A woman who failed to blow herself up in Wednesday's triple suicide bombing in Amman is now in custody, Jordan's King Abdullah said on Sunday. "I just heard from our intelligence services that there is a fourth bomber, a woman, who failed to blow herself up and she's in custody," he told a group of media editors attending a forum in Amman.(Posted @ 17:08 PST)
Coordinator of Delhi blasts arrested: police NEW DELHI, Nov 13 (AFP) - The suspected key coordinator of last month's serial blasts in New Delhi that killed 62 people has been arrested, a senior police officer said Sunday. "He was arrested (in Kashmir) on November 10," police commissioner K.K. Paul told a press conference in New Delhi, naming him as "Tariq". He said the hunt was on for four accomplices who had been identified. All are members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Paul said.(Posted @ 16:54 PST)
Saddam lawyers vow to stay away from trial BAGHDAD, Nov 13 (AFP) - Saddam Hussein's defence team has insisted it will not take part in the deposed Iraqi leader's trial to protest what it calls a lack of adequate protection following the murder of two lawyers. "Because of the murders of members of the collective who carry out their work in a professional and independent way, 1,100 lawyers have withdrawn and ended their collaboration," the team said in a statement late Saturday. (Posted @ 14:35 PST)
Two Muslims shot dead in Thailand's restive south NARATHIWAT, Thailand, Nov 13 (AFP) - Two Muslims including a former village chief have been shot dead by suspected militants in Thailand's restive south, police said Sunday (Posted @ 11:40 PST)
South Asian leaders set to wrap up summit with free trade deal DHAKA, Nov 13 (AFP) - The leaders of seven south Asian nations held a second and final day of summit talks Sunday in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, expected to result in a deal on implementation of a regional free trade agreement. (Posted @ 11:40 PST)
Israel kills militant leader in West Bank town - medics JENIN, West Bank, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian militant leader who belonged to President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group in a village near the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian medics said on Sunday. An Israeli military source said troops had identified three gunmen there late on Saturday and shot at them. During sweeps conducted the day after, they found in a nearby house the top militant, who was wanted by Israel, dead from a gunshot wound (Posted @ 11:35 PST)
US forces winding up operations in western Iraqi town BAGHDAD, Nov 13 (AFP) - US and Iraqi forces Sunday were winding up operations in the western town of Karabilah, next to the Syrian border, after defusing three booby-trapped buildings and a car left behind by rebels. Military forces first cleared the nearby town of Husaybah, before moving on to Karabilah, two kilometres (1.25 miles) away. "When the Iraqi soldiers and Marines entered Karabilah November 9, they found that the Al-Qaeda in Iraq-led terrorists had hidden improvised explosive devices throughout the city, slowing but not stopping clearing operations," a US military statement said. Some 19 improvised explosive devices, three homes booby-trapped with explosives and one vehicle car bomb were discovered in the town (Posted @ 11:30 PST)
Amin Fahim says PPP to bring Benazir back with dignity Hyderabad Nov 12 PPI: Makhdoom Amin Fahim Saturday said PPP would bring Benazir Bhutto back to Pakistan with honour and dignity and That the people would be duly informed whenever the party takes a decision in this respect. Speaking at a reception hosted in his honour by Dr. Qadir Magsi chairman of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party he said we have witnessed the historic rigging in the recent local bodies elections and said that the present setup was the result of rigging, horse trading and use of force in which minority was turned into majority. (Posted @ 09:35 PST)
Iraq's Mahdi sees partial US troop pullout in 2006 DEARBORN, Mich., Nov 12 (Reuters) - The United States and coalition forces will likely reduce the number of troops in Iraq next year, Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Saturday. "I think you will see a partial withdrawal of multinational forces from Iraq in 2006," he told reporters in Dearborn, a city near Detroit. Mahdi was visiting Dearborn after meeting with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other White House officials in Washington this week. The Dearborn area has the largest Arab population outside the Middle East, including more than 150,000 Iraqis."I've discussed the pullout possibilities with Secretary Rumsfeld and we agree on the future course. We are optimistic about the buildup of Iraqi forces to cope with the situation," he said. (Posted @ 09:15 PST)
Twenty slain as soldiers, Muslim extremists battle in Philippines ZAMBOANGA, Philippines, Nov 13 (AFP) - As many as 20 people were believed killed as fighting between soldiers and members of an Al-Qaeda-linked militant group went into its third day in southern Philippines on Sunday. Brigadier General Alexander Aleo, who heads an anti-terror task force on the island, said the total number of soldiers killed had risen to four, with 21 others wounded. Intelligence reports and radio intercepts revealed that 16 Abu Sayyaf members had been killed, although soldiers had only recovered three bodies, Aleo said. (Posted @ 09:05 PST)
Pakistan gets $698 million in military and development assistance WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (APP)- The U.S. Congress Friday approved an assistance of $698 million for Pakistan in its Foreign Appropriations Bill for FY06. This was the amount proposed by the U.S. Administration earlier. It includes $300 million for military financing, and $300 million in economic support fund, as part of the $3 billion five-year assistance package announced by President Bush in Camp David in June 2003, during President General Pervez Musharraf's visit.The House Appropriation Committee initially reduced the allocation by $80 million but finally agreed with the Administration and the Senate to restore the full amount. (Posted @ 09:00 PST)
Paris clampdown as French violence smoulders PARIS, Nov 12 (AFP) - Car-burning rioters called for "acts of violence" in the French capital and youths clashed with riot police in the country's second city Lyon as police late Saturday reported incidents of cars being set alight in the cities of Toulouse and Lyon. For the first time Saturday afternoon, clashes between police and rioters erupted in the heart of Lyon where teargas shells were fired to disperse stone-throwing youths in the historic Place Bellecour in the city centre. By late evening 11 youths had been arrested in Lyon where 24 cars were torched . Three cars were torched in the area of St Etienne. In the Paris suburbs, where the disturbances began on October 27, there was a small drop in the number of car-burnings to 86. Overall, some 2,503 people have been arrested since the start of the trouble, of whom 364 have already been sentenced to prison terms. Nearly 456 youths under the age of 18 have been brought before juvenile courts, and 103 of these given detention orders. In Carpentras, where a mosque was firebombed with Molotov cocktails Friday, a preschool school was set on fire, damaging a classroom, storeroom and corridors. (Posted @ 08:50 PST)
Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza Strip GAZA CITY, Nov 13 (AFP) - A Palestinian was killed and another wounded by gunfire from Israeli soldiers Saturday, a Palestinian security official said. The body of Bilal Al-Shahr, 19, was found in the southern Gaza Strip near the security fence that separates it with Israel. Israeli gunfire also injured another Palestinian, said the official. An Israeli army spokeswoman earlier confirmed "the forces opened fire at the two and identified hitting them." (Posted @ 08:45 PST)
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