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| June 03, 2007 | Sunday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 17, 1428 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Government believes in freedom of press: PM ISLAMABAD, Jun 3 (APP) - Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Sunday said the government believes in freedom of press but the media should exercise it with responsibility and sense of duty and observe the code of ethics, rules and regulations in this regard. Talking to newsmen after visiting Utility Store here in I-10 area, the Prime Minister urged the electronic media that they should abide by the rules, regulations and code of ethics, passed by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). The Prime Minister said PEMRA has code of ethics, and framed rules and regulations for the electronic media, which should be abided by the private TV channels. (Posted @ 23:18 PST)
Bin Qasim Thermal Power Unit-2 starts operation after repairs ISLAMABAD, June 3 (APP) - Bin Qasim Thermal Power Unit-2 Karachi has started operation after necessary repairs, spokesman of Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) Syed Sultan Hassan said. He said that the power crisis in the city had further deepened due to the breakdown (Unit-2) causing 6/8 hours power outage in several areas of Karachi. (Posted @ 19:50 PST)
Sri Lanka fighting kills at least 43 COLOMBO, June 3, (AFP) - At least 25 government troops and 18 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a heavy battle in northern Sri Lanka Sunday, military sources and the rebels said. Military officials said the bodies of 10 soldiers killed in the fierce five-hour battle that raged until early Sunday were recovered by security forces while the Tigers said they captured the bodies of another 15 troops. The guerrillas in a statement over their Voice of Tigers radio said they had lost 18 of their combatants. (Posted @ 23:02 PST)
Suicide bomber kills 7 near Somali PM's home MOGADISHU, June 3, (REUTERS) - A suicide bomber in a car killed seven people near the home of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, but he was unhurt, security sources and witnesses said. “I saw limbs nearly a kilometre from where the suicide bomber detonated,” a police officer at the scene told Reuters by telephone. “Prime Minister Gedi was unhurt. The vehicle exploded outside the gate of his house,” he said. (Posted @ 22:20 PST)
21 wounded in 2 bomb blasts in southern Thailand BANGKOK, Thailand, June 3, (AP) - Two bomb blasts, including one during a soccer match, wounded 21 people in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south on Sunday, police said. Two local teams were playing a friendly soccer game on a school field in Yala province when a bomb went off Sunday, injuring 17 players and spectators; three of them seriously, said police Col. Hanirut Himherb. Hanirut said all the wounded were adults and believed to be Muslim, although this could not be immediately confirmed. (First Posted @ 20: 38 PST Updated @ 21:48 PST)
5 killed in clash between police, militants in southern Russia MAKHACHKALA, Russia, June 3, (AP) - A clash between police and militants in the southern Russian region of Dagestan killed two officers and three rebels, officials said Sunday. (Posted @ 19:30 PST)
Tribal rebels kill four policemen in India's Assam GUWAHATI, India, June 3, (REUTERS) - Tribal guerrillas shot dead four policemen in India's troubled northeastern state of Assam on Sunday, police said. The heavily armed rebels ambushed a vehicle carrying about half a dozen policemen in the state's thickly wooded hill district of Karbi Anglong. (Posted @ 19:18 PST)
Russia may redeploy missiles in Europe, Putin warns ROME, June 3, (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has again blasted a planned US missile shield in Europe and warned that Moscow could redeploy missiles aimed at targets on the continent. “If the US nuclear potential extends across the European territory, we will have to get new targets in Europe,” Putin said in an interview to newspapers from the Group of Eight most industrialised nations. (Posted @ 19:04 PST)
Seyni Oumarou appointed Niger prime minister NIAMEY, June 3, (AFP) - Niger's president on Sunday appointed Seyni Oumarou the country's new prime minister after the collapse of the government last week. “Under the terms of this decree Mr Seyni Oumarou is named Niger's prime minister and head of government,” a statement from the president's office, read on national radio, said. (Posted @ 18:54 PST)
Iran president sees “countdown” to Israel's end TEHRAN, June 3, (REUTERS) - Iran's president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a “countdown button” to bring an end to Israel. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel should be “wiped off the map”, has often referred to the destruction of the Jewish state but says Iran is not a threat. “With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech. (Posted @ 18:22 PST)
At least 12 crushed to death after win over Congo Brazzaville CHILILABONBE, Zambia, June 3, (AP) - At least 12 soccer fans were crushed to death as they were rushing out of the stadium gates after Zambia's victory over Congo Brazzaville in an African Cup qualifier, official media said Sunday. The state-owned Sunday Times said that five more fans were hospitalized after the accident Saturday at Konkola Stadium in the northern town of Chililabonbe in Zambia's Copperbelt province. (Posted @ 17:58 PST)
Six more US soldiers killed in Iraq BAGHDAD, June 3, (AFP) - Six more US soldiers have been killed in a single day of intense fighting around Iraq, the military said on Sunday. Two soldiers were killed and six wounded in two separate attacks on Saturday in Diyala, a restive province northeast of the capital Baghdad which is in the grip of an Al-Qaeda insurgency. (Posted @ 17:08 PST)
Road accidents in southwest China kill 17, injure dozens BEIJING, June 3, (AP) - A truck filled with 71 people on their way to a fair overturned Sunday, killing 11 and injuring 57 in southwest China's Yunnan province, while a separate collision in the region killed six people, state media reported. In the first accident, the truck rolled as it tried to mount a pavement, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The accident in Kafang town, Gejiu City in the Honghe Prefecture left 11 dead at the scene and 57 hurt, seven seriously. (Posted @ 16:32 PST)
Strong quake rocks China, killing at least three BEIJING, June 3 (AFP) - At least three people, one of them a five-year-old boy, were killed and more than 200 injured, 15 seriously, when a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Pu'er city in southwest China early Sunday, state media and local officials said. Roads in the area were severely damaged and water and power supplies to the disaster zone were cut off, Xinhua said. Telecommunications systems were also damaged, making it difficult to assess the situation on the ground, the agency said. Xinhua said government was sending 5,000 tents to the zone, suggesting the damage was relatively severe. (First Posted @ 09:56 PST Updated @ 14:15 PST)
15 killed in Iraq attacks BAGHDAD, June 3, 2007 (AFP) - A car bomb targetting police and an attack on a minibus left 15 people dead on Sunday in Iraq's increasingly violent eastern province of Diyala. The car bomb exploded next to an Iraqi police convoy carrying prisoners and ripped through a nearby market in Balad Ruz northeast of Baghdad, killing 10 people, provincial police headquarters said. The bomb exploded near a police station and a fruit and vegetable market, killing 10 people and wounding 25, Lieutenant Ahmed Ali of the police media office said. One policeman was among the dead, he said. (Frist Posted @ 13:50 PST Updated @ 14:05 PST)
16000 Kashmiris jailed under PSA in 17 years in IHK ISLAMABAD, June 3 (APP): In occupied Kashmir, nearly 16000 innocent people have been jailed for two to 10 years by the successive puppet regimes in the past 17 years under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA). The number is in addition to those arrested by Indian troops incommunicado. The high court has, every now and then, quashed thousands of these detentions but these orders were not implemented. (Posted @ 14:00 PST)
1,000 Muslims rally against troops in Thai south PATTANI, Thailand, June 3 (AFP) -At least 1,000 Muslims rallied at a mosque in southern Thailand for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday to protest against the military presence in the restive region, local police said. The demonstrators called for the withdrawal of troops and an end to a state of emergency in the region, which gives security forces broad immunity from prosecution while giving them sweeping powers of search and seizure. (Posted @ 10:29 PST)
NATO soldier, Afghan interpreter killed KABUL, June 3, (APP/AFP) - A NATO soldier and an Afghan interpreter were killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan that wounded seven other foreign troops, ISAF said Sunday. The convoy was ambushed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades , a statement said. (Posted @ 10:25 PST)
Dozens injured when car ploughs into Washington, D.C. street festival WASHINGTON, June 3 (AP) - A woman ploughed her car through a crowded street festival, injuring about 35 people, including two police officers who drove their motor scooters into her path attempting to stop her, authorities said. Police said seven of the victims, including two children under age 3, suffered major injuries in the incident Saturday night. “We're still trying to piece together exactly just what happened that led up to this,” police said. (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
Cricket-Surgery ends Mahmood's England comeback hopes LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) - Lancashire seamer Sajid Mahmood's hopes of breaking back into the England team for the remaining two tests against West Indies have disappeared after it was announced Saturday that he is to undergo a double hernia operation on Tuesday. He is unlikely to play again for five to six weeks, his county said on their Web site. (Posted @ 10:06 PST)
Israeli troops kill Palestinian gunman in W. Bank JENIN, West Bank, June 3 (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed a19-year-old member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, witnesses and military officials said. (Posted @ 10:01 PST)
Cricket: Uganda, Argentina progress in World Cup qualifying DARWIN, Australia, June 3 (AFP) - Uganda and Argentina go forward into the next phase of qualifying for the 2011 World Cup after reaching the final of the ICC World Cricket League Division 3 played here. Uganda will progress as champions into November's Division 2 qualifier after beating Argentina by 91 runs in the final on Saturday. Despite defeat, Agentina also qualify from the group. They now join the United Arab Emirates, Namibia, Denmark and Oman in the ICC WCL Division 2 in Windhoek, Namibia, in November. A top-four finish there would mean a berth at the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier (formerly the ICC Trophy) in the UAE in 2009 and with it the chance to secure a spot in the next World Cup, on the Asian sub-continent in 2011. (Posted @ 09:51 PST)
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