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| October 15, 2006 | Sunday | Ramazan 21, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Over 60 killed, scores injured in Iraq IRAQ, October 15, (Agencies) Militiamen in pickup trucks set up fake checkpoints on Saturday, killing at least 31 people in the town of Balad, 80 km north of Baghdad. Four car bombs, three of them suicide attacks, killed at least 10 people and wounded 60 shortly before midday in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, police said. Two car bombs exploded later in the day, wounding 14 people. Five people were killed, including three policemen, in Tal Afar when a man wearing a bomb vest detonated himself near a group of policemen walking in a street, police said. Police found the bodies of four people, with gunshot wounds and signs of torture, near Falluja. Three U.S. soldiers were killed on Saturday, when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Sunday. Gunmen stormed a house and killed three women and two men in the northern city of Mosul, police said. A roadside bomb targeting the convoy of a Finance Ministry official killed four civilians and wounded six, including the official's bodyguard, in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. Clashes between gunmen and Iraqi police on Saturday night left three policemen wounded in an area between Baghdad and Kut, 170 km southeast of Baghdad, police said. Nine gunmen were also arrested. The body of a civilian was later found in the same area, police said. A roadside bomb wounded two civilians in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. A roadside bomb killed a man and wounded two in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. (Posted @ 23:06 PST)
Insurgent group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq says it has established an Iraqi Islamic state CAIRO, Egypt, October 15, (AP) _ An Iraqi militant group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq announced in a video tape Sunday that it has established an Islamic Iraqi state. (Posted @ 22:52 PST)
Afghan FM accuses Pakistan of playing down Taliban 'terrorism' KABUL, Oct 15, (AFP) - Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta accused Pakistan Sunday of trying to play down the threat of "international terrorism" by labelling the Taliban uprising here an ethnic issue. "The Pakistan president wants to play down the issue of international terrorism ... to an ethnic issue in Afghanistan -- that's not true," he said (Posted @ 22:45 PST)
C-130 aircraft leaves for Lebanon with relief consignment of medicines ISLAMABAD, Oct 15 (APP): A relief consignment of 10.7 MT of medicines, on the directive of Prime Minister was dispatched in a C-130 aircraft to Lebanon on Sunday. Earlier, six planeloads of relief goods containing tents, blankets, food items and medicines were dispatched to Lebanon in the months of July-September, 2006. (Posted @ 20:34 PST)
Dr. A.Q. Khan shifted to Islamabad after surgery KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct 15, (AFP) - Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, was moved to Islamabad Sunday weeks after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer, federal information minister Muhammad Ali Durrani said. Dr. Khan had been staying at his sister's home in Karachi after surgery at the Agha Khan hospital on September 9. Dr. Khan, who was at the centre of an international nuclear proliferation scandal involving North Korea, Libya and Iran, is still revered in military-ruled Pakistan as the "Father" of the Islamic world's first atomic bomb. (Posted @ 18:38 PST)
AJK Development Working Party approves construction of 28 collages, 66 high schools MUZAFFARABAD, Oct. 15 (APP): AJK Development Working Party (DWP) approved construction of 28 collages and 66 high schools in Azad Kashmir at a cost of Rs. 756.327 million. AJK Additional Chief Secretary Development (ACSD) Muhammad Yousaf told media men after the DWP meeting Sunday. (Posted @ 17:46 PST)
31 injured in road accident SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 15 (APP): Around 31 passengers including women and children suffered injuries when a bus plunged into a deep ditch, while overtaking a tractor trolley near Muradke Kalan on Sharqpur road here on Sunday. (Posted @ 16:26 PST)
Olmert says efforts to meet with Abbas have broken down JERUSALEM (AP) _ Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said that efforts to schedule a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have broken down, aides in the prime minister's office said Sunday. The aides quoted Olmert as saying Abbas is demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners as a condition for holding the meeting. Olmert said there would be no prisoner release until Hamas-linked militants in the Gaza Strip release an Israeli soldier. (Posted @ 15:35 PST)
Suspected Militants kill policeman, wounded another in occupied Kashmir SRINAGAR, occupied Kashmir, Oct 15 (AP) _ Suspected militants shot and killed a policeman and wounded another in a shootout in Lal Chowk market in Srinagar, on Sunday, police said. The policemen were on guard duty when the rebels shot at them from close range, killing one instantly, said Farooq Ahmed, a senior police officer. (Posted @ 14:40 PST)
Over 200 ill after gas leak near India's Bhopal RAIPUR, India, Oct 15 (Reuters) - About 200 people were admitted to hospitals with severe breathing problems after an unknown gas leaked from an industrial plant near Bhopal in central India, officials said on Sunday. The accident occurred late on Saturday in Raisen district, which lies adjacent to Bhopal where more than 3,500 people died in December 1984 after gas leaked from an Union Carbide pesticide plant into the city's atmosphere. Authorities were trying to find out whether the leaked gas was ammonia or chlorine. (Posted @ 14:35 PST)
Bus veers off mountain in northern India, killing 10 students and teachers LUCKNOW, India Oct 15 (AP) _ A bus carrying schoolchildren and teachers swerved off a steep mountain road and plunged into a gorge near Bageshwar, a small town in Uttaranchal state, Saturday night, killing at least 10 people, including six children, police said Sunday. At least 20 students and teachers were injured in the crash. (Posted @ 14:30 PST)
Five dead in new Taliban attacks across Afghanistan KABUL, Oct 15 (AFP) - A bomb exploded near a foreign security convoy in Herat Sunday, killing two civilians, while three policemen were killed overnight when hundreds of rebels stormed a checkpost in the east.Two Canadian soldiers were meanwhile recovering after being wounded in an intense battle in the province of Kandahar that killed two of their colleagues, the Canadian military said. Police in Khost province reported meanwhile that hundreds of rebels attacked a police checkpost near the border with Pakistan. "The fighting lasted from midnight to three in the morning. Three policemen were killed and one injured," a border police commander said. (Posted @ 14:20 PST)
French president 'regrets' Armenia bill: Turkish PM ANKARA, Oct 15 (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac expressed his regret to Turkey's prime minister over a French bill that insists the World War I massacres of Armenians were genocide, Turkish media reported at the weekend. "Mr Chirac expressed to me this morning (Saturday) his regrets" and said he understood the fierce reaction in Turkey to Thursday's approval of the bill by France's lower house, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency. (Posted @ 14:05 PST)
Pakistan registers Afghans for the first time ISLAMABAD, Oct 15 (AFP) - Pakistan began on Sunday to register Afghan refugees for the first time and to provide them with official identification during their temporary stay in the country. The government exercise, helped by the UN refugee agency, is a follow-up to the 2005 census of Afghans who fled to Pakistan after December 1, 1979 to escape the Soviet invasion of their homeland. "Only Afghans included in the census can take part in the registration," said Nayar Agha, the Chief Commissioner for Afghan Refugees in Islamabad. "For them, registration is mandatory and they will get a Proof of Registration (PoR) card at the end of it." The 10-week programme will be conducted through 90 centres supported by mobile registration vehicles across Pakistan. "More than 2.8 million Afghans have returned home from Pakistan since 2002. Another 2.5 million are believed to be still living in Pakistan," Indrika Ratwatte, the UNHCR's assistant Representative in Pakistan, said. "Starting next March, we will introduce new repatriation arrangements tied to the PoR card to help returnees in their area of origin," it said. The registration exercise is expected to be completed by December 31. (Posted @ 14:05 PST)
Two grenades hit building near U.N. HQ in Beirut BEIRUT, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Two rocket-propelled grenades hit a building near the headquarters of the United Nations in Beirut early on Sunday, slightly wounding four people, security sources and witnesses said. The grenades, fired from a small hill in central Beirut, hit a building that houses offices, a bank branch and a nightclub in Riad el-Solh some 30 metres from the U.N. offices. (Posted @ 11:10 PST)
2 Sri Lankan soldiers killed, 13 injured in Tamil Tiger attack COLOMBO, Oct 15 (AP) _ Tamil Tiger rebels fired artillery and mortars at military positions in Jaffna Peninsula on Saturday night, killing two soldiers and wounding 13 others, the government said Sunday. Rebel casualties were not immediately known. (Posted @ 11:05 PST)
Sri Lankan navy destroys Tamil Tiger trawler carrying arms COLOMBO, Oct 15 (AP) _ Sri Lankan navy Sunday destroyed a Tamil Tiger trawler carrying arms along the western coast, killing at least five rebels, the military said. Three sailors were wounded, it said. (Posted @ 11:00 PST)
'Taliban bomb' kills two civilians in western Afghanistan HERAT, Afghanistan, Oct 15 (AFP) - A remote-controlled bomb exploded near a western military convoy in Herat Sunday, killing two Afghan civilians and injuring a third, police said. The bomb exploded as the men, believed to be police force trainers, passed by the convoy, provincial police commander Mohammad Ayoob Salangi told reporters near the explosion site. (Posted @ 10:55 PST)
Saudi King Abdallah and Malaysian PM discuss Iraq MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Oct 15(AFP) - King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Saturday discussed the situation in Iraq and the Palestinian question at a meeting at the royal palace at Mecca, where the Malaysian visitor is currently on a pilgrimage. King Abdallah also received President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi of the Comoros Island. (Posted @ 10:55 PST)
Two Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan KANDAHAR, Oct 15 (AFP) - Two Canadian soldiers were killed Saturday in Kandahar province when their unit was ambushed, the Canadian defence ministry announced. Officials in Afghanistan said three other troops were wounded when they were attacked by rocket propelled grenades and small arms. Canadian authorities said two of its own were in stable condition with non-critical injuries. (Posted @ 10:50 PST)
Australian ex-army chief says Iraq war boosted militants: report SYDNEY, Oct 15 (AFP) - Australia's former defence force chief general Peter Cosgrove believes the war in Iraq has increased the threat of Islamic militancy there,he said in remarks published Sunday in Sunday Telegraph. (Posted @ 10:40 PST)
N. Korea wants talks on denuclearization of Korean peninsula to continue MOSCOW, Oct 15 (AFP) - North Korea wants six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula to continue, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev said Sunday following talks with his North Korean counterpart, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. (Posted @ 09:45 PST)
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