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| January 28, 2007 | Sunday | Muharram 08, 1428 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
12 die as electric wire falls on train at Shikarpur SHIKARPUR, Sindh, Jan 28 (PPI): At least 12 persons died and dozens injured when a electric wire fell on a train going from Shikarpur to Rohri near here Sunday evening. According to details, hundreds of people were going to Rohri to join a mourning procession at Rohri. Many of them were travelling on roof of train bodies, when an electric wire fell on the train near Mando Rail-crossing. Many of them were electrocuted and some jumped from the moving train to save their lives. Initial reports suggest some 12 persons died and dozens injured in the incident. The train was stopped after the incident. Bodies and injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Shikarpur, where emergency was declared. Seriously injured were referred to the Chandka Medical College Hospital Larkana. (Posted @ 21:56 PST)
U.S., Iraqi forces kill 250 in Najaf battle -police NAJAF, Iraq, Jan 28 (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 250 gunmen in a fierce battle involving U.S. tanks and helicopters on the outskirts of the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf on Sunday, an Iraqi police officer said. The day-long battle was continuing after nightfall, Colonel Ali Nomas told Reuters. Shi'ite political sources said the gunmen appeared to be both Sunni Arabs and Shi'ites loyal to a cleric called Ahmed Hassani. (Posted @ 23:58 PST)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for promoting interfaith harmony DAVOS, Jan 28 (PPI) Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has urged the world political and religious leaders to play their due role to promote interfaith harmony and bridge the divide between different faiths. He was addressing as a key-note speaker at a discussion on Religions in Davos. Referring to message of peace, tolerance and brotherhood by Islam, the Prime Minister said, the same message is also projected by all other religions therefore; the world leaders and scholars should promote the message. (Posted @ 23:54 PST)
Hamas member shot dead in Gaza-hospital GAZA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen shot dead a member of a Hamas-led police force on Sunday, local residents and hospital officials said. Islam Shahwan, a spokesman for the Hamas force, blamed members of Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades for the shooting, which took place shortly after a top intelligence official loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was abducted. (Posted @ 23:42 PST)
Four killed, 13 injured in road accident MUZAFFARGARH, Jan 28 (APP): Four passengers were killed and thirteen others injured after the wagon they were travelling collided with a bull cart on the highway at Alipur-DG Khan road, some five kilometres away from Khangarh on Sunday. According to police, a wagon was heading towards DG Khan from Alipur when it collided with a loaded bull cart at Adda Suleman Wala. (Posted @ 23:30 PST)
Saddam's cousin says he gave orders to destroy Kurdish villages BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan 28, (AP) _ Saddam Hussein's cousin acknowledged on Sunday he had given orders to destroy scores of Kurdish villages and the prosecution in the so-called Anfal trial introduced two dozen documents it said incriminated members of Saddam Hussein's regime in the campaign that killed tens of thousands of Kurds in the 1980s. ``All the orders given to relocate people were my decisions. The orders were given as the region was full of Iranian agents. We had to isolate these saboteurs,'' said Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as ``Chemical Ali'' for his alleged use of chemical weapons against the Kurds. (Posted @ 23:14 PST)
Coal mine blast kills 11 in China BEIJING, Jan 28, (AFP) - A coal mine gas blast killed 11 miners in southwest China on Sunday and five more are missing, state media reported, quoting local authorities. Twenty-five miners were working underground when the blast occurred in a coal mine in Guizhou province and only nine managed to escape, state news agency Xinhua quoted a local mines official as saying. (Posted @ 22:46 PST)
Car bombs kill 16 in Iraq oil city KIRKUK, Iraq, Jan 28, (AFP) - Two car bombs killed 16 people and wounded 30 in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a police commander told AFP. Major General Torhan Yussef said the first blast hit in front of a car showroom in the city's northern Almaz district, a normally peaceful area inhabited largely by Kurds and Christians. (Posted @ 22:26 PST)
PM arrives in Brussels for a three-day visit BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived here Sunday for a three-day visit, where he will hold important discussions with the leaders of Belgium, European Union and senior officials of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The Prime Minister was received at the airport by senior officials and Pakistan's ambassador Syed Khalid, after representing Pakistan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Posted @ 21:42 PST)
Mortars strike girls' school in Baghdad, killing 5 students BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan 28, (AP) _ Mortar shells rained down Sunday on a girls' secondary school in a mostly Sunni area of western Baghdad, killing five pupils and wounding 20, witnesses and police said. At least seven other people died in a series of bombings and shootings across the capital, mostly in Shiite areas. (Posted @ 20:04 PST)
131 Afghanis handed over to Afghan authorities at Chaman CHAMAN, Jan 28, (APP) The law enforcement agencies have released 131 Afghanis and handed over to Afghan government here Sunday on Pak-Afghan border, an official at Chaman told APP. He said these people were arrested from different areas of the province and cases had been registered against them under Foreign Act. They have been released on completion of their sentences. (Posted @ 19:36 PST)
Pakistan is moving in right direction on Kashmir:Mirwaiz ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 (APP): Chairman APHC Mirwaiz Omar Farooq has said that Pakistan was moving in the right direction on Kashmir. After having consultation with the Kashmiri leadership, he said pressure would further mount on Indian leadership to resolve Kashmir issue as President Pervez Musharraf has assured the APHC delegation that any decision on Kashmir would be made after consultation with the Kashmiri leadership, private TV News channel reported. Mirwaiz said formal and informal dialogue between Pakistan and India is continuing with the Kashmiri leadership facilitating both the countries to reach an understanding on the dispute. (Posted @ 19:02 PST)
Six army, police killed in clashes with followers of Yemeni Shiite rebel leader SAN`A, Yemen, Jan 28, (AP) _ Six Yemeni army and police troops were killed and 20 others injured in clashes in the past 24 hours with followers of a Yemeni Shiite rebel leader in the Saada province, a police statement said Sunday. The police did not say if there were casualties among the attackers, led by Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi, a Shiite Muslim. Yemeni troops have often clashed with the al-Hawthi followers in Saada, about 120 kilometers north of the Yemeni capital. Persons close to al-Hawthi rebels, speaking on condition of anonymity because they fear government reprisal, said the rebels accused the army of shelling their positions by tanks and artillery, which ``forced ... (rebels) to retaliate.'' (Posted @ 18:40 PST)
26 people, including 6 children, killed in road accident in Syria DAMASCUS, Syria, Jan28, (AP) _ Six children were among 26 people killed when a speeding bus collided head-on with a truck in Syria, a government newspaper reported on Sunday. The Al-Baath daily of the ruling Baath Party said the accident occurred Saturday on the Raqqa-Aleppo highway in northern Syria, when the passenger bus with the children, traveling at high speed, crashed into the incoming sugar-loaded truck. Six other people were injured in the accident and taken to nearby hospitals, the paper said. There were no other details on the accident. (Posted @ 18:12 PST)
Former Afghan president's son-in-law shot dead; 5 Taliban killed in the south: officials KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan 28, (AP) _ The son-in-law of a former Afghan president was shot dead in his home in the capital, officials said Sunday. Gunmen broke into the Kabul home of a son-in-law of Burhnuddin Rabbani, Afghanistan's president in the 1990s, late Saturday, said Zemeri Bashary, the Interior Ministry's spokesman. Wahidullah, who like many Afghans goes only by one name, was killed and one of his two wives was wounded, though it was not Rabbani's daughter, Bashary said. One suspect has been arrested, but a motive has not yet been established, he said. (Posted @ 17:42 PST)
Cricket: South Africa beat Pakistan in third Test CAPE TOWN, Jan 28, (AFP) - South Africa beat Pakistan by five wickets on the third day of the third and final Test at Newlands Sunday. South Africa won the series 2-1. Scores: Pakistan 157 and 186. South Africa 183 and 161-5. (Posted @ 17:26 PST)
Cricket: Australia beats New Zealand PERTH, Australia, Jan 28, (AFP) - Australia beat New Zealand by eight runs in their triangular series one-day international at the WACA Ground here on Sunday. Australia's total was a record in one-day internationals at the ground and they are unbeaten after six games. Scores: Australia 343-5 in 50 overs; New Zealand 335-5 in 24.3 overs. (Posted @ 17:18 PST)
US Speaker Pelosi meets Afghan president KABUL, Jan 28 (APP/AFP) - The new Democratic Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, met President Hamid Karzai Sunday on a short fact-finding tour of Afghanistan focused on efforts to defeat the Taliban. The Speaker and her delegation of other senior Democratic lawmakers would meet the commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) before leaving Afghanistan Sunday, spokesman Joe Mellot told AFP. "She came to see what is happening on the ground," Mellot said. Her visit was in the context of discussions about a new US strategy in Afghanistan, he said. (Posted @ 16:56 PST)
Eight Iraqis killed in Sadr City bombing BAGHDAD, Jan 28, (AFP) - Eight people were killed and 18 wounded Sunday when a car bomb ripped through Baghdad's Sadr City, a security source said. "A car bomb exploded around midday (0900 GMT) in Sadr City," the source said. At least 24 people have been killed in Iraq on Sunday alone, including 15 in Baghdad where Iraqi and US authorities are gearing up for a broad offensive against insurgent and militia groups engaged in a bitter sectarian war. (Posted @ 16:32 PST)
Gaza fighting erupts as death toll hits 24 GAZA CITY, Jan 28, (AFP) - Fighting between rival Palestinian forces erupted again Sunday in the Gaza Strip, where 24 people have been killed in the fiercest bout of internecine bloodletting since Hamas won elections a year ago. Two Palestinians died overnight as militants from the ruling Hamas clashed with Fatah gunmen loyal to president Mahmud Abbas in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, witnesses said. Two others died when a landmine they were burying exploded prematurely in Beit Lahiya. (Posted @ 16:14 PST)
First Arab Muslim to join Israeli cabinet JERUSALEM, Jan 28, (AFP) - The Israeli government voted Sunday to appoint an Arab Muslim to the cabinet for the first time in the history of the Jewish state, the prime minister's office said. Ghaleb Majadleh from the centre-left Labour party becomes minister without portfolio. (Posted @ 15:58 PST)
Tennis: Federer wins Australian Open in straight sets MELBOURNE, Jan 28, (AFP) - World number one Roger Federer defeated Chile's 10th seed Fernando Gonzalez 7-6 (7/2), 6-4, 6-4 for his 10th Grand Slam title in the Australian Open final on Sunday. (Posted @ 15:36 PST)
US may cite Israel for use of cluster arms -report NEW YORK, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Bush administration will notify Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with Washington when it fired U.S.-supplied cluster munitions into Lebanon in its war with Hezbollah last summer, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions. (Posted @ 10:46 PST)
Defection of Sri Lankan MPs scuppers peace deal COLOMBO, Jan 28, 2007 (AFP) - Eighteen members of the right-wing United National Party (UNP) formally joined the leftist government of President Mahinda Rajapakse on Sunday, a spokesman for the president said. Some of the defectors have been rewarded with cabinet portfolios, the spokesman said, adding that there were several others also waiting to join the administration. The move may scupper the peace deal as the minority government needs the support of the opposition to pursue the deal with the Tamil Tiger rebels and the opposition is set to withdraw that support after this develo0ment. (Posted @ 10:39 PST)
Roadside bombs kill 7 U.S. soldiers in three days BAGHDAD, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A series of roadside bombs killed seven U.S. soldiers in Iraq over the past three days, the U.S. military said. Three soldiers died and anoher injured when a bomb went off near their vehicle north of Baghdad on Saturday,two soldiers died and two others injured on Thursday when their patrol was attacked in eastern Baghdad, while two soldiers died and three others were wounded in separate incidents on Friday in the province of Diyala. (Posted @ 10:22 PST)
Probe after Pakistan bomb blast kills 14 ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 (AFP) - Pakistani investigators on Sunday hunted for clues to a suspected suicide bombing that killed 14 people including two top police officers -- the second such attack in the country in two days. The blast late Saturday also injured about 30 people in the Qisakhawani bazaar in Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier province which borders Afghanistan. (Posted @ 10:12 PST)
Iran atomic energy organisation denies centrifuges installed TEHRAN, Jan 28 (AFP) - Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation denied Saturday that installation had begun of 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium under its disputed nuclear programme, state media said. "No new centrifuge machines have been installed in the Natanz facility," Hossein Cimorgh, public relations director of the organisation, was quoted as saying by IRNA news agency. His comments were made in response to an earlier statement by the head of parliament's foreign affairs and national security commission, Alaeddin Borujerdi, who said: "We are now installing the 3,000 centrifuges," according to IRNA. (Posted @ 10:05 PST)
Gunmen kill two US women in Kenya carjacking NAIROBI, Jan 28 (AFP) - Two American women were shot dead in a United States embassy vehicle during a carjacking in the Kenyan capital on Saturday, police said. The pair, believed to be the mother and wife of a US diplomat, were among four occupants of the vehicle who were waiting for a colleague to arrive when the attackers struck, they said. (Posted @ 10:04 PST)
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