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| June 18, 2006 | Sunday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 21, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline is a viable project: Shaukat Aziz KARACHI, Jun 18 (APP)- Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said here Sunday that Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline is a viable project and there is a need for the region to meet its growing energy requirements. The Prime Minister was replying to a question at the concluding session of the three day South Asian Electronic Media Workshop. (Posted @ 23:48 PST)
Pakistan considers US-India nuclear deal bilateral arrangement: Musharraf BEIJING, June 18 (APP): President Pervez Musharraf has stated that the recent US-Indian nuclear deal was a bilateral arrangement but Pakistan should be treated on equal basis for maintaining geo-strategic balance in the region. In an interview with China Central Television telecast Sunday, the President said Pakistan deals with the United States bilaterally in accordance with its own interests. As far as US relationship with India is concerned, he said, Pakistan wants that it should be treated at par with India as far as strategic capabilities are concerned. He said Pakistan would not like anyone to treat it differently from India, "because we have the same status." He observed that India and US have their own bilateral interests and Pakistan's relationship with the United States is totally different from that of US-India relations.(Posted @ 23:40 PST)
US, Iraqi forces surround rebel town of Ramadi BAGHDAD, June 18, 2006 (AFP) - US and Iraqi forces were surrounding the Sunni rebel town of Ramadi on Sunday by setting up new checkpoints on all the entry and exit roads in a bid to bottle up the insurgents. A US military spokesman said additional checkpoints were set up "to restrict the flow of insurgents, but citizens will still be able to enter and leave the city." "This is just one part of a long-term plan to restore stability in Ramadi," the spokesman told AFP. He said the operation was still "part of the continuous operations that the coalition forces and Iraqi forces have been conducting for several months."(Posted @ 23:12 PST)
UN chief says Iran looking 'seriously' at new nuclear offer COPENHAGEN, June 18, 2006 (AFP) - UN chief Kofi Annan said Sunday the government of Iran is looking "seriously" at a new international offer of incentives for Tehran to give up uranium enrichment. "We do have an opportunity to really move ahead and resolve this issue diplomatically," Annan said in Copenhagen after a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "In my own contacts with the Iranians I consider that they are taking this offer seriously. They are studying it and I hope they will respond in the not-distant future." (Posted @ 23:04 PST)
Landslide in southwest China kills 11 - Xinhua BEIJING, June 18 (Reuters) - A landslide in a village in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has killed 11 people and injured six others, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. The landslide happened in the early hours in a remote region near the Tibetan border, Xinhua said. The village of Shiji was hit by almost 100 cubic metres of rocks which destroyed 12 houses and damaged 40 others, cutting off power, water and road links, the agency reported.(Posted @ 22:56 PST)
US hunting for missing US soldiers: White House WASHINGTON, June 18, 2006 (AFP) - White House spokesman Tony Snow said Sunday that the United States had no news about two US soldiers apparently captured by Iraqi insurgents, but was trying to find them. "There are efforts underway to try to locate them," the White House press secretary said in an interview with "Fox News Sunday." "Everybody's following it carefully. We've just been in contact with Baghdad and there's no news."(Posted @ 22:45 PST)
Pakistan promises judicial inquiry into journalist's killing KARACHI, June 18, 2006 (AFP) - Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz promised on Sunday to hold a judicial inquiry into the killing of a local journalist who was abducted while investigating the killing of a senior Al-Qaeda operative. "We will constitute a judicial inquiry into the murder of journalist Hayatullah Khan soon," Aziz told reporters. He gave no dates. The premier's pledge came amid protests by Pakistani journalists demanding the arrest of the killers. The body of Khan, 35, who worked for a local newspaper and European Pressphoto Agency, was found dumped outside the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan on Friday. Khan was kidnapped while on his way to cover a student demonstration when five men armed with AK-47s stopped his vehicle and bundled him into another car on December 5.(Posted @ 21:58 PST)
Shaukat Aziz calls upon SAFMA to play proactive role Karachi, June 18 (PPI): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that South Asian Free Media Association SAFMA was in in position where it can build opinion to influence governments in the region to appreciate the paradigm shift and emerging realities of new millennium and seek durable resolution of all outstanding issues and refocus energies to make 21st century truly the Asian century. Addressing the Addressing the concluding session of a 3-day SAFMA workshop at a local hotel in Karachi, Prime Minister said," South Asia`s geographic location is at the critical crossroads between the East and West. Vital sea and air links pass through this region. To our North and west are the energy rich regions of Central and West Asia. To our East is China, the emerging super power of 21st century, as well as the economically vibrant countries ASEAN, South Korea and Japan. South Asia`s proximity to these regions provides us with multiple opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation."(Posted @ 18:48 PST)
10 killed in failed Cambodia jail break PHNOM PENH, June 18 (Reuters) - Nine inmates and their prison guard hostage were killed on Sunday during a failed jail break in northwest Cambodia, police said. The inmates seized a security guard armed with a gun and hand grenade and barricaded themselves inside a jail cell in Battambang, about 200 km (124 miles) from the capital Phnom Penh. After negotiations failed, police fired tear gas into the cell and rushed the hostage takers. "As police fired the gas, an inmate put the grenade under our guard and pulled the pin," police official Seng Hor told Reuters by telephone from Battambang. "They said they decided to kill themselves instead of surrendering," he said. Nine inmates and the hostage guard were killed and another two inmates were seriously wounded.(Posted @ 18:36 PST)
Pakistani troops kill two militants near Afghan border MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, June 18, (AFP) - Pakistani troops Sunday shot dead two pro-Taliban militants after an attack on a military checkpoint in a restive tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said. Soldiers at the post near the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan tribal district spotted two armed men and cautioned them to stop. But the pair opened fire and were killed in a "retaliatory strike" by the troops, local administration official Fida Mohammad Khan told AFP. "Both were local tribesmen," he added. Earlier troops recovered 18 hand grenades from a vehicle and arrested five suspected tribal militants, Khan said. The rugged tribal region has been troubled by recurring violence involving pro-Taliban militants.(Posted @ 18:32 PST)
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup field hockey result KUALA LUMPUR, June 18, 2006 (AFP) - Results from the 15th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup for field hockey on Sunday: Australia 4 (Elder, 7, Naylor 11 and 41, Doerner 62) India 1 (Tejbir, 22) New Zealand 3 (Shaw 37, Brooks 41, Petheric 62) Argentina 2 (M Villa, 3 and 28)(Posted @ 18:24 PST)
28 killed and injured as truck plunges into occupied Kashmir gorge JAMMU, June 18, 2006 (AFP) - At least 28 people were killed and an equal number hurt Sunday when a truck filled with workers plunged into a gorge in occupied Kashmir, police said. The accident took place at Ramban, 157 kilometres (97 miles) from Jammu. The workers were being ferried from Jammu to Srinagar, when the driver lost control of the truck which toppled 350 feet (106 metres) into a gorge, a police spokesman said. Rescuers recovered 20 bodies from the scene of the accident and three of 28 wounded died in hospital, he said. (Updated @ 18:50 PST)
Four children killed in stampede at Afghan school HERAT, Afghanistan, June 18, 2006 (AFP) - Four children were killed and 15 were hurt in a stampede at a girls' school in western Afghanistan Sunday, police said. Three girls, aged about 11 or 12, and boy of about six were killed at a multi-storey school in the western city of Herat, police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said. The boy had likely been brought to the school with a sister. A gas bottle on the second floor of the building exploded, causing a loud bang and starting a small fire. The incident sent hundreds of children scrambling downstairs for the exits, Salangi said. (Posted @ 13:35 PST)
Gunmen abduct 10 bakery workers in Baghdad-police BAGHDAD, June 18 (Reuters) - Gunmen in five cars stormed a Baghdad bakery on Sunday and abducted 10 of its workers, police sources said. No other information was immediately available about the incident in the northwestern Kadhimiya district, a predominantly Shi'ite Muslim area of the Iraqi capital. Insurgents often target labourers as part of a campaign to topple the U.S.-backed, Shi'ite-led government. Bakeries have also been bombed. (Posted @ 13:05 PST)
Palestinian rocket hits southern Israel JERUSALEM, June 18 (AFP) - A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot early Sunday, without causing casualties, an Israeli military source said. The rocket blew out the windscreens of several cars and destroyed electric pylons, causing power cuts in the Negev desert town. Earlier a Palestinian rocket was fired at an Israeli sector in the northern Gaza Strip, the source said. There were no casualties or damage from that blast. (Posted @ 09:55 PST)
Drop of missile on Japan to be regarded as attack: FM TOKYO, June 18 (AFP) - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned on Sunday that if North Korea test fires a missile and it drops on Japan, Tokyo would regard it as an attack. (Posted @ 09:20 PST)
Islamic foreign ministers to address Palestinian situation, Iran DUBAI, June 18 (AFP) - Foreign ministers of Islamic nations gather on Monday in Baku for a meeting expected to be dominated by the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme, as well as developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and in Iraq. "The Palestine question and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the current situation in Iraq" will head the agenda of the meeting, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) said in a statement ahead of the meeting. The meeting will also address "cooperation of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the International Atomic Energy Agency," the statement said. Among other issues expected to be discussed in Baku is the crisis that erupted over the publishing of blasphemous cartoons in the European press and elsewhere, said the OIC. The ministers will also discuss "economic problems facing less-developed Islamic countries, in addition to... (ways to) establish an Islamic common market". (Posted @ 09:20 PST)
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