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| October 22, 2006 | Sunday | Ramazan 28, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Nine killed, 15 injured in road mishap in Pakistan JACOBABAD, Oct. 22 (APP): Nine persons including two women were killed and 15 others injured in head-on collision between a truck and passenger van on Indus Highway early Sunday morning. The ill-fated van was heading towards Sukkur from Shikarpur. (Posted @ 22:54 PST)
Germany's Pakistan envoy injured in bike accident ISLAMABAD, Oct 22, (AFP) - Germany's ambassador to Pakistan was injured Sunday after being knocked off his bicycle accidentally by a car in the capital Islamabad, hospital officials said. Ambassador Guenter Mullak was riding his bike near the German mission in Islamabad's heavily-guarded diplomatic enclave when the incident happened, doctor Ali Goya from the Poly Clinic Hospital told AFP. Mullak, who injured his nose and sustained a minor fracture to his arm in the accident, received a few stitches before being transferred to the city main Shifa Hospital, the doctor said. (Posted @ 22:48 PST)
29 dead in Bolivia bus crash LA PAZ, Oct 22, (AFP) - Officials in Bolivia on Sunday said a total of 29 people died after a bus plunged into a ravine in central Bolivia. Fifteen people were injured in the accident, authorities said, after rescue and recovery worker ended their operations Sunday. (Posted @ 22:42 PST)
India aspires to share intelligence with Pakistan NEW DELHI, Oct 22, (AFP) - An anti-terrorism cooperation mechanism agreed last month by India and Pakistan could pave the way to intelligence-sharing, India's national security advisor said Sunday. Although intelligence-sharing was not immediately on the cards, it was the "ultimate hope" of the mechanism, M.K. Narayanan told the CNN-IBN television network. "(If) we see there is a great deal of cooperation forthcoming from Pakistan and there is a great deal of comfort between India and Pakistan, then may be we could share intelligence," he said. (Posted @ 22:30 PST)
Sudan orders top U.N. envoy to leave within 3 days KHARTOUM, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Sudan on Sunday ordered top U.N. envoy Jan Pronk to leave the country within three days following comments he made that the army's morale was low after suffering two major defeats in the violent Darfur region. "He has until mid-noon on Wednesday to leave," said foreign ministry spokesman Ali al-Sadig. He added the reason was Pronk's comments on the army. (Posted @ 22:20 PST)
Federer crushes Gonzalez to win Madrid Masters MADRID, Oct 22, (AFP) - Roger Federer won his tenth title of the season as he beat Fernando Gonzalez 7-5, 6-1, 6-0 on Sunday to lift the Madrid Masters. (Posted @ 21:50 PST)
Tennis-Sharapova beats Hantuchova for Zurich title ZURICH, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova claimed her fourth title of the year on Sunday by beating unseeded Slovak Daniela Hantuchova 6-1 4-6 6-3 in the final of the Zurich Open. It was Sharapova's first title in Zurich, after she finished as runner-up to Alicia Molik in 2004. (Posted @ 20:44 PST)
One killed in train attack in India's northeast NEW DELHI, India, Oct 22, (APP/AFP) - A paramilitary soldier was killed and five people were wounded when separatists in India's northeast fired on a train, a day after troops foiled a major railway attack, officials said Sunday. Heavily armed militants fired on the interstate Arunachal Express train late Saturday shortly after it pulled into a station about 70 kilometers north of Assam state's main city of Guwahati, a police spokesman said. "A Railway Protection Force guard was killed and five others, including two security men and three passengers, were seriously injured," K. Sharma, a senior police official, told AFP. (Posted @ 19:48 PST)
NATO soldiers kill 15 insurgents in Afghanistan KABUL, Oct 22, (APP/AFP) - NATO-led troops killed 15 insurgents in southern Afghanistan after the rebels attacked their convoy with guns and rocket-propelled grenades, the force said Sunday. The rebels attacked an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol in the southern province of Zabul on Saturday, an ISAF statement said. "ISAF forces returned fire killing 15 insurgents. Two ISAF vehicles were damaged and no ISAF personnel were injured," it said. (Posted @ 18:34 PST)
Mirwaiz urges Indian to show flexibility for resolution of Kashmir ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP): Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Mirwaiz Omar Farooq has urged India to show flexibility for resolution of longstanding issue of Kashmir. In an Interview to Radio Tehran he said Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and kashmiri leadership have flexed their longstanding stance on Kashmir. Yet Indian leadership has been following policy stubborness despite holding talks. However, Mirwaiz Omar Farooq expressed hope that Indian would adopt a positive attitude with regard to solution of Kashmir issue in the wake of changing international scenario. To a question he said United States was taking interest in resolving the Kashmir issue. (Posted @ 17:42 PST)
Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill at least five shoppers BAGHDAD, Iraq, October 22, (AP) _ Bombs ripped through crowds of shoppers stocking up on sweets and other delicacies, killing at least five people, police said Sunday. Northeast of the capital, a roadside bomb hit an ambulance in Balad Ruz, killing the driver and further injuring six patients he was transporting, police said. (Posted @ 16:26 PST)
Phone breakdown cuts Cyprus off from outside world NICOSIA, Oct 22, (AFP) - Cyprus was cut off from the outside world on Sunday as a technical fault hit incoming and outgoing overseas telephone calls plus browsing on the internet, the Cyprus telecommunications authority (Cyta) said. A Cyta hotline said that a "technical problem had affected international telephony on fixed and mobile lines". Local calls were not affected. (Posted @ 15:16 PST)
Israel admits using phosphorus bombs in Lebanon JERUSALEM, Oct 22, (AFP) - Israel admitted for the first time to using controversial white phosphorus shells against military targets in Southern Lebanon, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday. (Posted @ 14:40 PST)
U.S. diplomat says America showed 'arrogance' and 'stupidity' in Iraq BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (AP) _ A senior U.S. diplomat said the United States had shown ``arrogance'' and ``stupidity'' in Iraq but was now ready to talk with any group except Al-Qaida in Iraq to facilitate national reconciliation. In an interview with Al-Jazeera television aired late Saturday, Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department offered an unusually candid assessment of America's war in Iraq. ``We tried to do our best but I think there is much room for criticism because, undoubtedly, there was arrogance and there was stupidity from the United States in Iraq,'' he said. ``We are open to dialogue because we all know that, at the end of the day, the solution to the hell and the killings in Iraq is linked to an effective Iraqi national reconciliation,'' he said, speaking in Arabic from Washington. ``The Iraqi government is convinced of this.'' (Posted @ 11:25 PST)
Masked gunmen in Gaza kill senior Fatah militant GAZA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Masked gunmen killed Mohammed Shahadeh, commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on Sunday. Gunmen wearing masks shot Shahadeh, who also serves in the Preventive Security service loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, at his door steps, residents and Fatah officials said. Fatah militants then torched several cars belonging to Hamas members. (Posted @ 09:58 PST)
British minister warns Al-Qaeda is winning war of ideas: report LONDON, Oct 22 (AFP) - Britain's interior minister has warned that the government risks losing the "battle of ideas" with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper said. Home Secretary John Reid spoke at an emergency meeting of ministers and security officials and pressed for an urgent escalation in the propaganda war against such groups, the weekly said. (Posted @ 09:43 PST)
Bomb kills one, injures 12, in Thailand's Muslim-majority south NARATHIWAT, Thailand, Oct 22 (AFP) - A bomb in Thailand's insurgency-torn south on Sunday morning killed one soldier and injured a dozen people including five Buddhist monks, local police said. The southern region was an ethnic Malay sultanate until Buddhist Thailand annexed it a century ago. Separatist unrest has simmered ever since. (Posted @ 09:35 PST)
Britain risks defeat in Afghanistan: former military chief LONDON, Oct 22(AFP) - The former chief of the British military said the country's armed forces risked defeat in operations in Afghanistan due to a lack of clear strategy, The Observer newspaper reported Sunday. Field Marshal Sir Peter Inge, the former chief of the defence staff, attacked Britain's military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. "I don't believe we have a clear strategy, either in Afghanistan or Iraq," Inge said at a meeting sponsored by the Open Europe think tank last week, the newspaper said. "Deep down inside me, I worry that the British army could risk operational failure if we're not careful in Afghanistan." (Posted @ 09:30 PST)
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