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| June 05, 2006 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Top US military official holds talks with Indian military brass NEW DELHI, June 5, 2006 (AFP) General Peter Pace, Washington's highest-ranking military official, held talks in the Indian capital Monday with the heads of India's armed forces, an official said. (First Posted @ 14:10 PST Updated @ 21:50 PST)
Taliban a "tactical threat" to Afghanistan: top US general NEW DELHI, June 5, 2006 (AFP) Washington's top general Monday warned the Taliban posed a threat to Afghanistan but said the US was determined to defeat the rebels. General Peter Pace, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the start of his three-day trip to New Delhi, urged nuclear rivals India and Pakistan to work together to fight the Taliban. "The Taliban is not a strategic threat that could unseat the government in Afghanistan but it is definitely a tactical threat which can create problems," Pace said after talks with Indian military leaders.(Posted @ 21:50 PST)
Pakistan's inches closer to getting Full Dialogue Partner status of ASEAN ISLAMABAD, June 5 (APP): Pakistan and ASEAN Monday agreed to begin talks for Free Trade Agreement (FTA), giving a major boost to Islamabad's efforts for getting Full dialogue Partner status with the ten-member regional economic grouping. Jointly addressing a press conference at the conclusion of a meeting of the third ASEAN-Pakistan Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee, Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan and Secretary General ASEAN Ong Keng Yong termed the meeting an "important milestone". The meeting that focussed on eight areas; trade, investment, industry, environment, tourism, science and technology, drug control and human resources, emphasised on the need to further enhance cooperation in trade and economic ties. The Foreign Secretary said senior economic officials will discuss and complete a study by July next year for the FTA.(Posted @ 21:35 PST)
Saddam trial adjourned until next week BAGHDAD, June 5, (APP/AFP) The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants on charges of crimes against humanity adjourned on Monday until next week after hearing only two defense witnesses. Witnesses testified on behalf of Ali Dayih Ali, a Baathist official during the time of the Dujail incident in which 148 people were executed. The trial will resume on June 12. (First Posted@14:10 PST Updated@ 21:40 PST)(Posted @ 19:00 PST)
5 police killed, 4 missing after attack on checkpoint in southern Afghanistan KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) _ Five policemen were killed and four were missing after suspected militants attacked a vehicle checkpoint early Monday on a highway leading to southern Afghanistan's main city, a highway officer said. The 2 a.m. attack was on a checkpoint in Zabul province outside the city of Qalat on the main highway between Kabul, the capital, and the southern city of Kandahar, said a highway police official. He said five officers were killed, one was wounded and that four were missing. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was concerned Interior Ministry officials did not want him to speak about it publicly. It was not immediately possible to confirm with local or provincial police chiefs because new officials were being assigned to the posts as part of a sweeping shake-up announced after last week's deadly riots in Kabul. An Interior Ministry official said he thought the attack on the police checkpoint had happened but that the ministry could not get in contact with police officials to confirm it. He also asked not to be identified, citing ministry policy because he was not the lead spokesman. Militants have stepped up attacks in recent months, particularly in Afghanistan's southern and eastern regions. In neighboring Uruzgan province on Monday, a firefight between suspected Taliban militants and police left two militants dead, said Allah Ullah Khan, a district police chief. Six militants were also arrested, he said.(Posted @ 19:00 PST)
Eleven students murdered in southern Baghdad BAGHDAD, June 5, 2006 (AFP) Eleven students were killed in southern Baghdad on Monday when gunmen in two cars stopped their bus and riddled it with bullets, said an official with the defense ministry. The attack took place in the southern neighbhorhood of Dura. The students were returning from a local technical college, the official added.(Posted @ 16:30 PST)
Two Afghan soldiers, 10 'Taliban' killed in new Afghan violence KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 5, 2006 (AFP) Two Afghan soldiers died in a bomb blast while 10 suspected Taliban were killed in separate clashes in new violence in southern Afghanistan, security officials said Monday. An Afghan army vehicle struck a roadside mine Sunday in southern Zabul province, killing one soldier and injuring about three others, a defence ministry spokesman said. A second soldier died later in hospital, another army officer said. A group of Taliban were also arrested. Elsewhere in the province Afghan troops on a joint mission with soldiers from the US-led coalition killed around five Taliban fighters and arrested three more on Sunday, the official added.(Posted @ 16:15 PST)
Gunmen kidnap 50 Baghdad transport workers BAGHDAD, June 5 (Reuters) Gunmen in police uniforms abducted up to 50 employees of various Baghdad transport companies on Monday, police and Interior Ministry sources said. They carried out what appeared to be a coordinated operation along a Baghdad street that is home to several companies offering transport to Syria and Jordan, police said.(Posted @ 15:56 PST)
Explosion kills Hamas member in northern Gaza GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) A large explosion ripped through a house in a northern Gaza town on Monday, killing a member of Hamas group and wounding two other people, including an 8-year-old boy, hospital officials said. There were no details on the cause of the blast in Jebaliya. The Israeli army said it wasn't involved in the incident.(Posted @ 14:10 PST)
Pakistani soldier killed in rocket attack in North Waziristan tribal region MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) Militants fired rockets at a roadside military post in northwestern Pakistan early Monday, killing one soldier and wounding another, an intelligence official said. Fifteen rockets were fired in the pre-dawn attack and one destroyed the post in North Waziristan tribal region, the official said. The other rockets landed nearby without causing any damage, he said. The attack killed one soldier and wounded another, he said. On Sunday, two soldiers were killed and two wounded in an attack on a military convoy near Miran Shah.(Posted @ 13:00 PST)
Turkish soldier killed, eight injured in Kurdish rebel ambush DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, June 5, 2006 (AFP) Kurdish rebels ambushed a military convoy in south-eastern Turkey, killing a soldier and wounding eight others, officials said. The security forces launched an operation to hunt down the assailants.Meanwhile, a Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), claimed responsibility for a blast in the southern Mediterranean city of Mersin on Saturday which injured 15 people.(Posted @ 12:35 PST)
Construction workers find mass grave in northeast China BEIJING, June 5, 2006 (AFP) Construction workers in northeast China have uncovered a mass grave with 500 skeletons, state media reported Monday. Workers digging on a site in Jilin province's Changchun city found six ditches with the skeletons laid out in an orderly fashion about 1.5 meters underground, the Beijing Morning Post reported. Little information has emerged about the origin of the skeletons but the report, citing local elderly residents, speculated it could have been a burial ground during the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and '40s. (Posted @ 11:22 PST)
Egypt police break up Brotherhood meeting, hold nine CAIRO, June 5 (Reuters) Egyptian police raided a Cairo study centre connected with the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and arrested nine leading members of the group, police and the Brotherhood said on Monday. The raid on Sunday evening was at the Umma Studies Centre in the Manyal quarter of the capital. An Interior Ministry statement said the people arrested were attending "a secret organisational meeting of Brotherhood cadres". Police took publications, documents and computers from the centre, the statement added. The Brotherhood's said: "This escalation comes against the background of the widespread detentions among the Brotherhood by the security forces during the Egyptian uprising to support the judges in their position towards the government." (Posted @ 11:22 PST)
Rumsfeld in talks with Vietnam military chief HANOI, June 5 (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began key talks with Vietnamese military officials on Monday in the latest advance in ties between the former enemies. Rumsfeld, the second Pentagon chief to visit Vietnam sincethe fall of U.S. ally South Vietnam in 1975, held talks with his Vietnamese counterpart, Pham Van Tra, and and was due to meet Prime Minister Phan Van Khai later on Monday.(Posted @ 09:35 PST)
Storms, floods kill 29 in southern China BEIJING, June 5 (Reuters) Rainstorms and floods have killed 29 people and destroyed thousands of homes in southern China, state media reported on Monday.In Fujian province, floods killed 22, destroyed 19,000 homes and forced the evacuation of over 50,000 people, the China Daily said. Landslides killed seven people in neighbouring Guangdong's Meizhou city, with heavy rains destroying 784 homes and damaging 15,000 hectares of cropland. Weather forecasts predicted more heavy rains would pound southern China over the next 10 days.(Posted @ 09:35 PST)
Garcia claims victory in Peru elections LIMA, June 4, 2006 (AFP) Alan Garcia, 57, a once disgraced ex-president, claimed victory in Peru's presidential election Sunday and said voters defeated the "expansion" designs of Venezuela's president, who backed his rival. The outcome was certain to be welcomed by the US administration, which feared the possible rise to power of another ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez just months after Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales took office. Garcia had more than 55 percent of the vote and a lead of almost 11 points over Ollanta Humala, according to a count of 77 percent of the ballots. (Posted @ 09:30 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 28.08 points: KARACHI, June 5: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 10374.31 , up 28.08 points. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:20 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, June 5: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.55 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14.20 PST)
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