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| May 29, 2006 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 1, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Coalition raid kills 50 Taliban in Afghanistan: official KANDAHAR, May 29 (AFP) - Coalition war planes bombed Taliban meeting in a mosque in Helmand province's Kajaki district on Monday, killing up to 50 suspected rebels, Afghan and the US-led coalition officials said. Five Canadian soldiers were wounded and a suspected Taliban killed in a gun battle elsewhere in the volatile south. The coalition said they dropped a 2,500-pound-bomb on the rebels when they had retreated into a "compound" after attacking an Afghan and coalition patrol. "The Taliban had gathered for a meeting in a mosque and coalition forces identified their location," Helmand province's deputy governor Amir Mohammad Akhunzada said. "In an attack by planes, around 50 Taliban were killed," he said. A coalition spokesman, Major Quentin Innes, said he could believe the figures given by Akhunzada. In a separate incident, five Canadian soldiers were wounded and a suspected Taliban killed in a gun battle early Monday some 20 kms west of Kandahar, the Canadian military said.(First Posted @ 16:15 PST Updated @ 19:44 PST)
31 killed in Iraq, 20 in bus bombings BAGHDAD, May 29 (AFP) - Three Iraqi buses were ripped apart by bomb blasts in separate attacks Monday that left 20 people dead and 11 injured, while another 11 people were killed in other incidents. Eleven people were killed and 11 wounded when a bomb tore through bus carrying Iraqis to work in Khalis, a town about 80 kilometers north of Baghdad. Another bomb exploded underneath a bus in Kadhimiya in northern Baghdad, killing seven and wounding nine. In southern Baghdad, another bomb went off inside a commuter minibus, killing two Iraqis and wounding one.In other attacks on Monday, a car bomb exploded next to a police patrol in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad near the German embassy, killing three people and wounding five. Elsewhere, there was a series of incidents across the south of Iraq, mostly drive-by shootings against security personnel. (First Posted @ 10:50 PST Updated @ 16:28 PST)
Riots in Afghan capital after US troops kill four KABUL, May 29 (AFP) - Rioters tore through Kabul city on Monday chanting "Death to America" and torching cars and buildings after US troops shot dead at least four people following a traffic accident.In all, 13 persons were killed and at least 107 were injured in the accident involving the US military truck & the day’ long rioting. Gunshots could be heard near Kabul's diplomatic quarter as restaurants, shops, cars and dozens of police posts were set ablaze across the city before Afghan police and soldiers moved in to take control. One hospital reported it had six dead, including a child, and 55 wounded. The trouble began when a US military truck appeared to lose control and smashed into about 12 civilian vehicles at a busy intersection. President Hamid Karzai's office said five people were killed in the collision. People angered by the carnage started protesting and pelting the military vehicle with stones. US troops then opened fire and killed at least four people and several others were injured, an AFP photographer at the scene said. The shooting set off more fury as protesters held aloft one of the bodies and chanted: "Death to America, Death to Karzai." The coalition troops left the scene as Afghan police arrived. The growing mob turned on police, setting alight a police post and several police vehicles, the photographer said. The offices of Care International were among the buildings torched and the complex was also looted but no one was hurt, an employee said.(Posted @ 20:22 PST)
Hindus and Muslims clash in Aligarh; three killed, dozens injured LUCKNOW, India, May 29 (AP) _ Clashes between Hindus and Muslims in Aligarh left three people dead and dozens injured, officials said Monday, as authorities imposed curfew to quell the violence. The riots were sparked by the shooting by unidentified assailants of Hindu nationalist politician O.P. Lala who later died of wounds. Angry mobs of Hindus began looting Muslim shops and burning cars. Police used tear gas and opened fire to disperse the crowds, said an official. He said one person was shot dead in the violence and dozens were wounded. Two others died in hospital,, said a senior home ministry official.(First Posted @ 10:15 PST Updated @ 17:54 PST)
Troops martyr five more Kashmiri youth ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): In occupied Kashmir the Indian troops in their fresh acts of state-terrorism martyred five more Kashmiri youth at different places. Of those martyred, two were shot dead in Qamarwari area of Srinagar today, PTV reported. Troops destroyed a house at Dar Mohalla in Budgam and two dead bodies were recovered from the debris. One youth was killed in military custody in Thannamandi area of Poonch district. Unidentified gunmen shot dead one person each in Kulgam, Sopore and Srinagar areas. Unknown assailants shot at and injured three persons in Sopore and Islamabad areas. A Special Police Officer (SPO) was injured in an attack at Marwah in Kishtwar. (First Posted @ 18:16 PST Updated @ 23:55 PST)
Afghan government declares six-hour curfew after day of rioting KABUL, May 29, 2006 (AFP) - The government of Afghanistan has declared a six-hour curfew in the capital Kabul Monday after a day of rioting that left at least 14 people dead, the interior ministry said. The curfew will start at 10:00 pm, a ministry official said.(Posted @ 23:52 PST)
PAF to be equipped with latest aircraft and weapons; President ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): President General Pervez Musharraf Monday said Pakistan Air Force will be equipped with high-tech aircraft and weapon systems to make it strong, effective and operationally ready to ensure security of the country. Addressing the concluding session of the two-day PAF Commanders' Conference the President said: "The Pakistan Air Force is required to be made strong, effective and operationally ready" and will be "equipped with high tech aircraft and other associated weapons in near future, so that it could effectively perform its role of defending the aerial frontiers of the country."(Posted @ 21:04 PST)
CBS: Cameraman, soundman killed in Iraq, correspondent seriously injured NEW YORK, May 29 (AP) _ A cameraman and soundman for CBS were killed and a CBS correspondent was seriously injured Monday after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb, the network said. Veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed, CBS reported on its Web site. Correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was seriously injured. The three were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device, CBS said.(Posted @ 20:56 PST)
U.S. military says about 75 Guantanamo Bay prisoners on hunger strike SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 29 (AP) _ The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees staging a hunger strike has grown from three to 75, the U.S. military said Monday, reflecting increasing defiance among men who have been held for up to four years, most without charges and with little contact with the outside world. Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand said from the isolated base that the ballooning number of hunger strikers may be related to a May 18 clash between 10 detainees and 10 U.S. military guards in which six detainees were injured. The same day, two detainees also overdosed on antidepressant drugs they had been hoarding. They have since regained consciousness.(Posted @ 20:52 PST)
Hospitals, tents must be raced to Indonesia quake victims: UN GENEVA, May 29 (AFP) - UN agencies called Monday for field hospitals, medicines and tents to be rushed to Indonesia's earthquake victims within three days. "The most urgent needs to be delivered within three days are three field hospitals, with a capacity of 100 beds each, medical supplies mostly for orthopaedic treatment, generators, tents and shelter items," Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA), said.(Posted @ 19:36 PST)
Bodies of two Pakistanis killed in Iraq to arrive home ISLAMABAD, May 29 (AFP) - The bodies of two Pakistanis killed in a mortar attack on a US military camp in Iraq last week will arrive in Pakistan on Tuesday for burial in their home town, the foreign ministry said Nasar Iqbal Mattu, a labourer, and Muneer Ahmad, an electrician, were killed on May 22 when mortars hit their living quarters in a US military camp in Baghdad, the ministry said in a statement on Monday. As for the Pakistani driver, Muhammad Shafiq, abducted after an attack on a convoy carrying supplies to US troops from Kuwait last month., the foreign office said efforts were continuing to trace the kidnapped Pakistani.(Posted @ 19:34 PST)
Pakistan exports footballs worth Rs 8.5 billion ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): To coincide with the prestigious World Cup football commencing from June 9, Pakistan has already exported footballs worth Rs 8.5 billion while more orders were being received from buyers all over the world. Pakistan football industry produces about 40 million footballs worth over $21 million each year catering to the demand from over 1000 importers across the world.(Posted @ 18:55 PST)
UAE's Vice President to visit Pakistan on Tuesday ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum will arrive here Tuesday on a day-long visit. The Ruler of Dubai is arriving at the Prime Minister's invitation on his first official visit to Pakistan since assuming responsibilities in January this year.(Posted @ 18:48 PST)
PML to support Muslim Conference in elections: Pervaiz Elahi LAHORE, May 29 (APP): Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi Monday said the courageous leadership of president General Pervez Musharraf and foresighted foreign policy of the present government has led to strengthening Kashmiris' struggle of right to self-determination and highlighting the issue at international level. Talking to a delegation of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference led by its president Sardar Attiq Ahmed Khan he said PML would fully support Muslim Conference in the next elections in Azad Kashmir as the two parties have complete intellectual and ideological harmony.(Posted @ 18:38 PST)
Nine die in China as fog causes multiple pile-ups BEIJING, May 29 (Reuters) - Heavy fog caused a pile-up of 28 vehicles on an expressway in east China on Monday, killing at least nine people and injuring 30, Xinhua news agency said. There were 18 successive accidents between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. within a three-km section of the highway linking the Anhui provincial capital of Hefei with Nanjing, capital of neighbouring Jiangsu province.(Posted @ 18:30 PST)
Two Hindu pilgrims killed in Pakistani attack SUKKUR, Pakistan, May 29 (Reuters) - Three unidentified gunmen attacked a convoy of Hindu pilgrims killing two and wounding seven, police said on Monday. The convoy of about 20 vehicles carrying Pakistani and Indian Hindus was attacked late on Sunday while returning from pilgrimage in a remote part of Sindh province, said police official Rana Sanaullah adding that all of the dead and wounded were Pakistanis.(Posted @ 18:22 PST)
Congo militia hold 7 Nepalese UN soldiers -sources KINSHASA, May 29 (Reuters) - Seven Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers have been captured in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by militia fighters who are demanding a ransom for their release, U.N. and Congolese sources said on Monday. The soldiers were seized during a U.N. military operation in Congo's violence-prone Ituri district on Sunday in which one other peacekeeper from Nepal was killed and three wounded.(Posted @ 18:10 PST)
59 Pakistani fishermen freed from Indian jails return home LAHORE, May 29 (AP) _ India released 59 Pakistani fishermen on Monday, and they walked into the country at Wagah, the main border crossing with India. The Pakistanis, between 16 and 50 years old, had been held in various Indian jails for periods ranging from eight months to two years. On Tuesday, Pakistan will release and send back home 71 Indian fishermen.(Posted @ 18:08 PST)
Land mine explosion kills 3 children in northwestern Pakistan KHAR, Pakistan, May 29 (AP) _ A land mine exploded Monday in a village in northwestern Pakistan, killing three young girls who were playing in a field, an official said. One of the girls apparently stepped on the land mine triggering it to explode in Inayat Qala, a village about 10 kilometers north of Khar, the main town in Bajur tribal region, local government official Amir Zaman Khan said. The girls, whose bodies were badly mutilated in the explosion, were cousins and between 7 and 10 years old, Khan said. (Posted @ 17:56 PST)
6 world powers to meet in Vienna Thursday aiming to approve Iran package VIENNA, Austria, May 29 (AP) _ The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany will meet in Vienna on Thursday in hopes of approving a package of incentives and penalties meant to persuade Iran to give up uranium enrichment, diplomats said Monday.(Posted @ 17:02 PST)
Iran says it has conducted research on nuclear fusion TEHRAN, May 29 (AP) _ Iran has conducted research into nuclear fusion, an Iranian nuclear official was reported as saying Monday by state television.``Iranian nuclear scientists are competing with the advanced world in the field of producing nuclear energy through fusion,'' the official, Sadat Hosseini, was reported as saying by the television. Nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus. It is accompanied by the release or absorption of energy depending on the masses of the nuclei involved. (Posted @ 16:58 PST)
Indonesia quake death toll passes 5,100: official JAKARTA, May 29 (AFP) - The death toll from the earthquake that rocked Indonesia's main island of Java at the weekend has risen to at least 5,136, the social affairs ministry said Monday.(First Posted @ 10:05 PST Updated @ 16:25 PST)
Two British soldiers killed, two injured in Iraq bomb attack LONDON, May 29 (AFP) - Two out of four British soldiers hit by a roadside bomb in Basra on Sunday were killed, Britain's Ministry of Defence said. The other two suffered minor injuries. (Posted @ 16:20 PST)
Turkish soldier killed by Kurd rebels in Turkey DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 29 (Reuters) A Turkish soldier was killed and four other members of the security forces injured during a clash with Kurdish guerrillas in Turkey's troubled southeast, officials said on Monday. The incident occurred on Sunday evening in a rural area north of Diyarbakir.(Posted @ 14:05 PST)
World powers ready to guarantee Iran's right to nuclear energy: Russia MOSCOW, May 29, 2006 (AFP) The world's major powers are ready to guarantee Iran's right to develop nuclear energy provided Tehran cooperates fully with the UN nuclear safety agency, Russian news agencies quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying here Monday. Lavrov said representatives of the five permanent UN Security Council countries along with Germany were talking this week about formulating a basis for resumption of negotiation with Iran over controls on its nuclear activities. "We are ready and mutually interested in drawing Iran into full economic cooperation as well as in cooperation in regional security," Lavrov said as he met in Moscow with the head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Any guarantees to Iran would be contingent on Tehran's full compliance with its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and within the guidelines of the IAEA, the Russian minister said.(Posted @ 14:00 PST)
Iraqi army captures aide of Zarqawi in Baghdad BAGHDAD, May 29 (Reuters) The Iraqi army arrested a senior aide of al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Baghdad on Sunday evening, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Monday. "The Iraqi army forces arrested three terrorists who belong to al Qaeda, one of them is a senior aide of Zarqawi in Baghdad, Kassim al-Ani," a Defence Ministry spokesman said.(Posted @ 13:00PST)
Trial of Saddam resumes BAGHDAD, May 29, 2006 (AFP) The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants over the killing of villagers resumed on Monday with further witness testimony on behalf of the defense. The first witness will testify on the behalf of Awad al-Bandar, chief judge of the revolutionary court, who is being tried for convicting and sentencing to death 148 Shiites from Dujail town.(Posted @ 12:55 PST)
Palestinian man shot dead near security fence GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man near the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel, the military said. Soldiers identified three men near the fence, and fired at them, the military said.At least one of the men was hit, and was later evacuated by Palestinian rescue services, it said.(Posted @ 11:55 PST)
Non-aligned states urged to support nuclear Iran PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, May 29 (Reuters) Non-Aligned Movement chairman Malaysia called on Monday for the 114-member grouping to back Iran's right to nuclear technology, accusing the West of nuclear double-standards. Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in his opening speech at a NAM meeting said "Allowing Israel to develop nuclear weapons with impunity…while others in the region are prohibited from doing so, is a blatant case of double standard". "In this matter, we must recognise Iran's right to develop such technology for peaceful purposes," he added. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting, after Abdullah's speech that the world should recognise Iran's "essential rights".(Posted @ 11:45 PST)
Tigers agree to Oslo talks ahead of European ban COLOMBO, May 29, 2006 (AFP) Sri Lanka's Tiger rebels have accepted an invitation from Norway’s peace broker to travel to Oslo next month to discuss the safety of Scandinavian truce monitors, a pro-rebel website said Monday.The Tigers said they would send representatives for a two-day meeting starting June 8, the rebel's political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan told the website, to discuss the role of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission.(Posted @ 11:40 PST)
Bangladesh court orders seven militants to hang DHAKA, May 29 (Reuters) A Bangladeshi court on Monday sentenced seven top militants to death for killing two judges in a bomb attack in southern Jhalakati town in November last year. The seven included chiefs of two outlawed groups: Shayek Abdur Rahman of Jamaat-ul Mujahideen and Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh. All but one of the convicts are in custody, police said. The other one is on the run and was tried in his absence.(First Posted @ 10:55 PST Updated @ 11:20 PST)
Sniper fire kills 1 soldier in northern Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) _ A suspected Tamil Tiger sniper fatally shot a Sri Lankan soldier early Monday in the north of the country,the military said. The soldier, a corporal in the infantry, was shot twice and taken to a hospital where he was declared dead, the Defense Ministry said.The military blamed the shooting on Tamil Tiger rebels. The victim was part of a night patrol returning to its base when the attack occurred near Vavuniya, a government-held garrison town near the frontier with rebel territory.(Posted @ 09:30 PST)
Karachi Stocks down 412.80 points: KARACHI, May 29:At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 10247.59 ,down 412.80 points. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:20 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, May 29: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.5 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:20 PST)
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