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| May 2, 2006 | Tuesday | Rabi-us-Sani 3, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
German hostages freed in Iraq BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters) Germany's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that two German hostages held in Iraq since January had been freed after more than three months in captivity. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement that they were unharmed and appeared to be in stable condition. The German government is known to have paid ransoms for hostages in the past, but refused to comment on whether it did so in this case also.(Posted @ 23:00 PST)
Musharraf, Karimov vow to expand trade and economic ties ISLAMABAD, May 2 (APP): President General Pervez Musharraf and his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov Tuesday vowed to expand bilateral relations. The two leaders told newsmen in post-talks interactions that Pakistan and Uzbekistan have also agreed to coordinate their efforts in fighting terror. "We expressed the mutual desire to develop road and rail links and Pakistan has offered Uzbekistan to use our seaports for developing commerce with other regions of the world," Musharraf said at a joint stake-out at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The two Presidents also oversaw the inking of a series of agreements and MoUs on intensifying bilateral cooperation in a number of fields including trade and economic relations and fighting international terrorism. They also signed a joint statement, expressing the common resolve to reinforce bilateral ties. In the context of establishing durable peace, the two sides shared the desire for peace and stability in Afghanistan. Replying to a question on cooperation in counter-terrorism, Musharraf said the two sides would share intelligence "so that we can deal with the financial linkages of terrorists." Musharraf also thanked the Uzbek leader for Tashkent's expression of support to Pakistan in securing full membership of SCO. In his remarks, President Islam Karimov expressed the hope that the agreements and MoUs signed between the two sides would lend a new momentum and help them make the most of the vast trade potential between the two countries. Earlier, the two leaders also discussed regional and international issues of common concern during an exclusive meeting. (First Posted @ 18:18 PST Updated @ 22:55 PST)
PM Aziz emphasises strengthening of Pak-Netherlands relations ISLAMABAD, May 2 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Tuesday that Pakistan attaches great importance to relations with Netherlands. Talking to Bernard Bot, Foreign Minister of Netherlands, at the Prime Minister's House, Aziz said Pakistan has a strong interest in further strengthening relations with Netherlands, a press release said. Matters relating to bilateral cooperation, national and international issues related to peace in the region, defence and security were discussed in the meeting.(Posted @ 22:45 PST)
U.S. official confirms capture in Pakistan of a top al-Qaida leader KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) A top al-Qaida leader with a US$5 million bounty on his head and extremist links from Afghanistan to Europe has been captured in Pakistan, a U.S. law enforcement official has confirmed for the first time. The American official, who declined to be identified, said Nasar, who is also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, was captured in Quetta in November 2005 in a sting operation that sparked a gunfight in which one person was killed. U.S. military officials aware of the detention of terror suspects at American prison facilities in Bagram, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had no immediate information Tuesday on whether Nasar had been incarcerated at either jail. Syrian authorities were not immediately available for comment.(Posted @ 22:40 PST)
One farmer killed in Balochistan land mine blast QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) An ox cart carrying two farmers hit an anti-tank land mine on a dirt road in Balochistan province, near the town of Naseerabad, on Tuesday, leaving one farmer dead and the other seriously injured, police said. Meanwhile, a police official in Quetta said three members of the Balochistan Liberation Army were arrested on Sunday in a hideout in Bolan, 65 kilometers southeast of Quetta, and confessed to laying land mines and planting rocket attacks on security forces. None of the men were identified.(Posted @ 22:30 PST)
WHO starts polio drive on Pakistan-Afghanistan border GENEVA, May 2 (Reuters) Millions of Afghan and Pakistani children will be vaccinated for polio next week as health experts try to stamp out a flare-up of the crippling virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. The U.N. health agency said there have been five polio cases in Afghanistan and two in Pakistan since the start of 2006. "Even one case in a country is a problem, because it can circulate in the country and outside the country," a spokeswoman told a news briefing. Medical teams will move from house to house near the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan to administer the drugs in a three-day campaign starting on Sunday, the spokeswoman added. The aim is to vaccinate nearly 14 million in Pakistan and more than two million in Afghanistan. "It is really important to target the shared corridor," she said. "The focus of transmission in these countries is in the border area." (First Posted @ 16:10 PST Updated @ 22:24 PST)
Most American young people can't find Iraq on map-study WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) Most American young people can't find Iraq on a map, even though U.S. troops have been there for more than three years, according to a new geographic literacy study released on Tuesday. Fewer than 4 in 10 Americans aged 18-24 in a survey could place Iraq on an unlabeled map of the Middle East, a study conducted for National Geographic found. Only about one-quarter of respondents could find Iran and Israel on the same map. Sixty-nine percent of young people picked out China on a map of Asia, but only about half could find India and Japan and only 12 percent correctly located Afghanistan. "I'm not sure how important it is that young adults can find Afghanistan on a map. But ... that is symptomatic of the bigger issue, and that's (U.S. young adults) not having a sense that things around the world really matter that much," said John Fahey, president of the National Geographic Society. The study results confirm Fahey's concern: 21 percent said it was "not too important" to know where countries in the news are located. Half of respondents said it was "absolutely necessary" to know how to read a map, but a large percentage lacked basic practical map-reading skills. Only 35 percent identified Pakistan as the country hit by a catastrophic earthquake last October, killing over 70,000 people; 29 percent thought it happened in Sri Lanka. The study was conducted in face-to-face interviews with 510 respondents in the continental United States in late 2005 and early 2006. It has an error margin of 4.4 percentage points.(Posted @ 22:18 PST)
Bush calls Afghan leader for talks on security KABUL, May 2 (Reuters) U.S. President George W. Bush telephoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday and assured Afghanistan of U.S. support in the fight against terrorism and reconstruction, a spokesman for the Afghan president said. Bush congratulated Karzai on the approval of his cabinet by parliament last month and they also exchanged views on a range of other issues, said Karzai's spokesman. The spokesman had no further details of the talks but in Washington, A White House spokesman said they also discussed the deployment of NATO troops to Afghanistan, bolstering the Afghan police force and counter-narcotics efforts. They also discussed the importance of cooperation with Pakistan, the spokesman added.(Posted @ 22:14 PST)
Qatari rights group warns of labour abuse DOHA, May 2, 2006 (AFP) An officially-sanctioned Qatari rights group warned Tuesday of the less-than-human working conditions of the expatriate labour force in the Gulf state and urged the government to take action. The National Human Rights Committee also warned of a growing sex trade in women and highlighted discrimination against women in the labour market and the inequality they suffer when it comes to marriage and personal issues. "The abuse of labour rights is on the rise, especially in the building and construction sector, which is something that would tarnish the image of the country if not checked," the committee said in its annual report. "Domestic help are treated like chattel, they work long hours, they are beaten, detained, sexually harassed and sometimes raped." It said it received 116 individual and 15 group complaints last year. The import of labourers is mostly from India and Pakistan. The Qatari committee said the hardship faced by labourers stem from an inflexible sponsorship system under which employers hold the passports of their employees, the delays in getting paid and unsuitable living conditions. It has called on the government to revise all laws concerning expatriate workers.(Posted @ 19:48 PST)
Pakistan to evacuate "high risk" areas in quake zone MUZAFFARABAD, Azad Kashmir, May 2 (Reuters) Pakistani authorities are preparing to evacuate thousands of survivors of last year's earthquake amid risks their mountain villages may be washed away by the coming rains, officials said on Tuesday. The United Nations has said rains are one of the major challenges for aid agencies as many roads would be blocked by landslides, complicating problems for survivors living in remote mountain areas. Officials said they were preparing plans to relocate around 2,000 families from 22 villages which have been declared by geologists as highly vulnerable to monsoon rains beginning in July. Most of these areas are located near Muzaffarabad, a senior government official said.(Posted @ 19:46 PST)
Pakistan permits charities U.S. calls terrorist ISLAMABAD, May 2 (Reuters) Pakistan has no plans to act against two charities listed by the United States last week as terrorist organisations, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The State Department last Friday designated Jamaat ud-Dawa and one of its affiliates, Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq, as terrorist organisations, saying they were fronts for Lashkar-e-Taiba. Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said Pakistan was under no obligation to comply with the U.S. decision. "We are not required, and we do not put any entities on the terrorist lists, if action is taken under the domestic U.S. law," she told her weekly news briefing. "However, if the U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee were to designate any organisation (as a terrorist group), then it becomes legal obligation to take action."(Posted @ 19:44 PST)
Pakistan won't let U.S. question freed scientist ISLAMABAD, May 2 (Reuters) U.S. investigators probing nuclear proliferation would not be allowed to meet a Pakistani scientist recently released from detention, officials said on Tuesday. Authorities last month released Mohammad Farooq, a former director of procurement at a uranium enrichment laboratory set up by disgraced scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said Farooq's release showed the case was closed as far as Pakistan was concerned. "I would presume that with Dr. Farooq's release, we are able to close that chapter," she told weekly news briefing. She said Pakistan would cooperate with any other investigation about the network, but again ruled out allowing U.S. investigators to question its scientists. "We have repeatedly said that whatever information is required, questions can be forwarded to the government of Pakistan. We would get the answer, we would do investigation and we would transmit this information," she said. "(But) there is no question of direct access. We have repeatedly said."(Posted @ 19:40 PST)
Pakistan condemns massacre of Hindus in Occupied Kashmir ISLAMABAD, May 2, 2006 (AFP) Pakistan Tuesday condemned the massacre of 34 Hindus in Occupied Kashmir as an act of terrorism, and hoped the incident would not affect the ongoing peace process between the two countries. "The killing of 34 Hindus in Doda district is unfortunate, it is a terrorist act and we condemn it," foreign office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said at a weekly briefing. "It will not have any impact on the peace process," between Pakistan and India, she said. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.(Posted @ 18:22 PST)
US, Pakistani, Afghan forces begin first anti-terror exercise ISLAMABAD, May 2, 2006 (AFP) Hundreds of US, Pakistani and Afghan special forces began their first joint military exercises Tuesday aimed at boosting anti-terror cooperation, officials said. Officials did not disclose the location of the week-long exercise, but military sources said it was being held inside Pakistan. "The joint military exercises have started and the objective is to enhance anti-terrorism cooperation," Pakistan's foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said at a briefing. Pakistani military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said the exercise involved air assault operations using helicopters, rapid response action by special forces and raids on suspected hideouts. "The purpose is to develop better coordination, understanding and benefit from each other's experience," Sultan said.(Posted @ 18:16 PST)
Hollywood star Robbins blasts US ignorance of 'high crimes' in Iraq ATHENS, May 2, 2006 (AFP) Acclaimed American actor/director Tim Robbins on Tuesday blasted the US government's policy on terrorism and the US media's failure to examine it critically at a news conference in Athens promoting his stage version of George Orwell's "1984". "We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanours of the president of the United States," the star of Hollywood hits including "Mystic River" and "The Player" told reporters. "Clinton lied about a blowjob, and got impeached by the media and Congress," Robbins said. "(Bush) got us into (the Iraq) war based on lies that he knew were lies. ... His war has recruited more Al-Qaeda members than Osama bin Laden could ever have dreamed for ... yet no one in the media is calling for impeachment," he said. Robbins pointed out similarities between current US policies on terrorism and the authoritarian society described by Orwell. Orwell's classic, published in 1949, is based on a futuristic society in which the government, known as "Big Brother", spies on its citizens' every move and tortures them on suspicion of dissent.(Posted @ 18:12 PST)
Dutch raise suicide attack fears with Pakistan ISLAMABAD, May 2 (Reuters) The Netherlands asked Pakistan on Tuesday to supply whatever intelligence it could to combat the threat of suicide attacks on Dutch troops being deployed in Afghanistan over the coming months. Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said during a visit to Islamabad that up to 1,600 extra troops were being sent on a two-year mission to Afghanistan's central Uruzgan province as part of a beefed up NATO-led peacekeeping force. "The request I made is that, in the exchange of information, we be as open and frank as possible," Bot said. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri on Tuesday proposed that U.S. and Afghan forces could fence and mine their side of the border, if they didn't like Islamabad's earlier suggestion that Pakistani troops should do the fencing and mining. "If the Afghans do not want that, let the Americans and the Afghans mine it on their side, fence it on their side. Let there be no excuses," Kasuri said.(Posted @ 18:10 PST)
Iran holds talks with India on gas pipeline; fears possible U.S. attack NEW DELHI, May 2 (Reuters) Iran's deputy oil minister said on Tuesday there was "some possibility" of a U.S. attack on his country over its nuclear programme. "I am worried. Everybody is worried," Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian said after talks with Indian officials on a proposed $7-billion pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan. Nejad-Hosseinian said crude prices could exceed $100 a barrel by winter as supplies could not be increased in the short term. But Tehran did not plan to use oil as a weapon in dealing with Western pressure, added Hosseinian. New Delhi said it would not be pressured by Washington to abandon the gas pipeline. "I don't think Americans can pressurise us," Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora told reporters after talks with the Iranian minister. Hosseinian also said India's vote with the United States against Iran had not diminished energy cooperation. "We are working with India in a friendly manner. India is a good friend of Iran."(Posted @ 18:08 PST)
Iran enriched uranium to 4.8 pct, says official TEHRAN, May 2 (Reuters) Iran has enriched uranium to 4.8 percent but will not enrich above 5 percent, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, told the students' ISNA news agency on Tuesday, keeping the country's enrichment work within a range used for nuclear power stations. "Enrichment above 5 percent is not on Iran's agenda," he said. Experts said uranium enriched to a range of 3 to 5 percent is a low level used in atomic power reactors. Uranium would have to be enriched far higher, to 80 percent or more, to make nuclear weapons.(Posted @ 18:05 PST)
Suicide bomber attacks Iraqi governor, three dead RAMADI, Iraq, May 2 (Reuters) A suicide car bomber attacked the motorcade of the governor of Anbar province on Tuesday, killing three bodyguards, hospital sources and local residents in the regional capital Ramadi said. A local government official said there was no word on the fate of governor Maamoun Sami Rasheed after the attack.(Posted @ 18:02 PST)
US private guards kill Baghdad ambulance crewman BAGHDAD, May 2 (Reuters) American security contractors shot dead an Iraqi ambulance crewman on Tuesday when they opened fire on his vehicle after a roadside bomb blasted their convoy. Two American civilians were wounded in the incident in north Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Tens of thousands of armed foreigners work in Iraq licensed by U.S. authorities and beyond the reach of Iraqi law. Reuters journalists saw the dead crewman sprawled in the passenger seat of the ambulance. Clearly marked with a Red Crescent symbol, its windows had been shattered by bullets. Asked about the incident, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said: "The Americans killed the ambulance driver. They just killed him and left. They did not stop to check." Video footage posted on the Internet last year apparently showing Western security guards firing on civilian cars in Baghdad, accompanied by a musical soundtrack, provoked new accusations that some such contractors were out of control.(Posted @ 17:58 PST)
Berlusconi hands in resignation to Italy president ROME, May 2 (Reuters) Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi handed in his government's resignation to Italy's president on Tuesday, the presidential palace said in a statement. Berlusconi's resignation starts the countdown to the formation of a new government headed by centre-left leader Romano Prodi.(Posted @ 17:12 PST)
Four UK soldiers face trial for Iraqi's drowning COLCHESTER, England, May 2 (Reuters) Four British soldiers face a court martial on Tuesday over the death of an Iraqi prisoner who drowned in a canal in Basra. Soldiers James Cooke, 22, Joseph McCleary, 24, and Martin McGing, 22 of the Irish Guards and Colour Sergeant Carle Selman of the Coldstream Guards, 39, deny manslaughter in the death of Ahmed Kareem. The Iraqi youth was among a group of four that the soldiers captured as suspected looters while on patrol in Basra in May 2003. The soldiers are accused of forcing the prisoners at gunpoint to swim. Kareem could not swim and drowned. (Posted @ 16:05 PST)
US, Iraqi forces kill over 100 insurgents in Ramadi BAGHDAD, May 2 (Reuters) U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 100 insurgents last week in the town of Ramadi in Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. Two Iraqi soldiers died in the fighting and no Americans were killed, the military said in a written response, confirming a media report. It did not provide more details. (Posted @ 16:05 PST)
Explosion in north Gaza causes casualties GAZA, May 2 (Reuters) An explosion inside a building in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed two people and wounded three others, Palestinian security sources said. The Israeli army said it was not involved in the incident. Palestinian security sources initially said an Israeli artillery shell slammed into the building, and that a captain was killed. At least three others were injured, the sources said. (First Posted @ 15:05 PST Updated @ 16:04 PST)
Kuwait hangs five including a Pakistani KUWAIT CITY, May 2, 2006 (AFP) Three Kuwaitis and an Indian convicted of murder and a Pakistani found guilty of drug trafficking were hanged in Kuwait Tuesday, the largest number of executions in a single day in 16 years. (Posted @ 15:15 PST)
Indian bus falls into river, 18 killed MUMBAI, May 2 (Reuters) At least 18 people were killed when an overcrowded bus plunged into a river near India's commercial hub of Mumbai on Tuesday, police said. The bus, carrying about 60 people, veered off a bridge after the driver lost control. Rescue workers were looking for survivors. (Posted @ 15:05 PST)
India, Pakistan begin talks on trade, transportation links in Kashmir region NEW DELHI (AP) India and Pakistan began talks Tuesday on increasing trade and transport links in disputed Kashmir and at creating meeting areas for families who have been divided by the dispute in the region that is split between the two countries, officials said. A seven-member Pakistani delegation was in New Delhi for the two-day talks. The talks were expected to cover arrangements for a truck service to conduct trade along the route linking Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, said a statement from India's foreign affairs ministry. Also covered will be plans for a bus service linking the two sides' towns of Punch and Rawalkot, the statement said. (Posted @ 14:57 PST)
Roadside bombs kill 3 people in Iraq, including a U.S. soldier BAGHDAD, May 2 (AP) _ Three roadside bombs killed a U.S. Army soldier and two Iraqi civilians, and police found the bodies of four Iraqi men in Baghdad who apparently had been kidnapped and tortured, police said Tuesday. The American casualty occurred late Monday, 60 kilometers south of Baghdad. Monday's deadliest insurgent attack occurred in Madain, 22 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, when a bomb exploded in an outdoor vegetable market, killing four Iraqis and wounding two. In Tuesday's violence, a roadside bomb missed a U.S. convoy in Waziriyah, northern Baghdad, killing one civilian pedestrian. A roadside bomb also missed an Iraqi police patrol, killing one civilian and injuring another one in western Baghdad. Separately, police found the bodies of four Iraqi men on the streets of Kazimiyah, in northern Baghdad. The legs and hands of the men were bound with rope, and each had been shot in the head and chest before being dumped on a street. Meanwhile, the U.S. command announced that Iraq's Central Criminal Court had convicted 12 suspected insurgents in April of crimes such as joining a terrorist group. They included two men who were given life sentences for joining al-Qaida in Iraq operations: Hassan Abdullah Muhsin and Mohammed Dhaher Ibrahim Yassen Jazzah. (First Posted @ 11:35 PST; Updated @ 13:10 PST)
Nepal's new seven-member Cabinet KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 2 (AP) _ Nepal's new prime minister announced a seven-member Cabinet on Tuesday. It includes four members from Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's Nepali Congress party, and one each from the Communist Party of Nepal, the Nepali Congress Democratic, and the United Left Front. Three other parties in the seven-party alliance that led weeks of bloody protests which forced King Gyanendra to hand over power to an elected Parliament last week are expected to get appointments later. The ailing 84-year-old Koirala named Khadga Prasad Oli of the Communist Party Nepal as deputy prime minister and foreign minister in an apparent compromise after negotiations for the crucial No. 2 slot bogged down on Monday and threatened to divide the seven-party alliance. Krishna Sitaula was picked as home minister, while Ram Sharan Mahat was named finance minister. Both are from the Nepali Congress party. (Posted @ 12:50 PST)
India sends more troops to hunt Kashmir killers JAMMU, occupied Kashmir, May 2 (Reuters) – India rushed hundreds of extra troops to hunt for terrorists in the remote mountains of occupied Kashmir on Tuesday, after 35 Hindus were killed over two days in one of the worst massacres in the region in years. The troop deployment began as a general strike -- called to protest against the killings -- shut down the predominantly Hindu Jammu region where some half a million soldiers and policemen are deployed. "We are definitely augmenting troop levels to prevent easier movement of militants in these areas," a senior police officer said. Schools, banks and offices in many areas in Doda and Udhampur districts were closed and traffic was largely limited to security vehicles and government cars. (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Israeli army chief: World has military means to stop Iranian nuclear program JERUSALEM, May 2 (AP) _ Israel's army chief said in an interview published Tuesday that the world has the military might to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz also said that, if Iran does obtain nuclear capability, it will constitute a threat to Israel's existence. When asked if the world can, militarily, stop Iran's nuclear program, Halutz told the Maariv newspaper ``Yes, yes. Regarding whether or not the world can, the answer is yes.'' Questioned on whether Israel would be involved in such a military operation against its top enemy, Halutz said ``We are part of the world.'' (Posted @ 11:50 PST)
Israel's Olmert to meet Abbas after US summit: Peres JERUSALEM, May 2, 2006 (AFP) - Israeli prime minister designate Ehud Olmert is likely to meet Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas after a summit in Washington this month, a senior member of the incoming cabinet said on Tuesday. Former prime minister Shimon Peres, who will be a deputy premier in the next cabinet, told the Jerusalem Post that the incoming government still believed a negotiated peace settlement with the Palestinians was possible even though it is working on a plan to unilaterally fix the Jewish state's final borders. "I think that Olmert will meet with (Abbas) after the establishment of the government -- I think maybe after his visit to the United States -- because we said that we are going to try for a while to reach a bilateral agreement," Peres told the daily. (Posted @ 11:35 PST)
Suspected suicide bomber kills self, one other in Afghanistan KABUL, May 2 (AFP) - A suspected suicide attacker set off a car bomb on a road linking Kabul to a main US military base north of the capital, killing himself and a civilian, officials said. Highway police official Ajab Gul said that one Canadian soldier was wounded in the attack but NATO headquarters in Kabul were unable to confirm the information. According to Interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai the man had been plotting a "terrorist attack" but the bomb went off too soon. "He died when his car -- we believe prematurely -- exploded on his way to Kabul. One horse-cart driver and his horse also died," Stanizai said. (First Posted @ 10:00 PST; Updated @ 11:30 PST)
Sino-Pak border opens after closure of four months GILGIT, May 2 (APP): Pakistan-China boder at Khunjrab top was opened Monday for all sort of traffic. "This boder closes on 31 December every year and reopens on first of the May under a protocol between two countries" Deputy Director FIA ALi Sher said. Thousands of people cross the borders at this point for trade and international tourism. (Posted @ 10:30 PST)
Pakistani father charged in federal terror probe released from custody SACRAMENTO, California, May 2 (AP) _ Umer Hayat whose son Hamid was convicted of supporting terrorism by attending an al-Qaida camp in Pakistan was released Monday after nearly a year in federal custody. Umer Hayat, a 48-year-old ice cream vendor, had been held since he and his son, Hamid, were arrested last June. Umer Hayat was charged with two counts of lying to the FBI about his son's attendance at the training camp, but his case ended in a mistrial last week after the jury said it was deadlocked. Prosecutors must decide by Friday if they will seek a new trial. Hamid was convicted last week of one count of providing material support to terrorists and three counts of lying to the FBI. He faces a minimum of 30 years in prison when he is sentenced July 14. His attorney, Wazhma Mojaddidi, said she would seek a new trial.(Posted @ 10:00 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 230.77 points: KARACHI, May 2: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 11572.94, up 230.77 points. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:17 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, May 2: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.15 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:17 PST)
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