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| November 13, 2007 | Tuesday | Ziqa’ad 02, 1428 |
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Benazir to Musharraf: it's time to quit LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov 13 (AFP) Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto called Tuesday on President Pervez Musharraf to quit, vowing never to serve under him in government. Holed up under house arrest with close aides in Lahore as more than 1,000 police manned barbed wire barricades outside, she urged the world to abandon Musharraf. “It is over with Musharraf,” she told an international news agency in an interview from inside the residence where she has been detained. “General Musharraf must quit. He must quit as president and as chief of army staff. I call on the international community to stop backing him - to stop backing the man whose dictatorship threatens to engulf this nuclear-armed state in chaos.” Musharraf was a failed leader for imposing a state of emergency, suspending the constitution, sacking senior judges and cracking down on political dissent and the media, Benazir said. “I would not serve as prime minister under a man who has repeatedly broken his promises, who is a dictator,” she said. “Look what he is giving to the nation - imposing an emergency, suspending the constitution and cracking down on democratic forces. We gave him a roadmap for a peaceful transition but he has flouted that.” Benazir also said she wanted to build an alliance with other opposition leaders including ex-premier Nawaz Sharif. “I want to build an alliance, a single point agenda for the restoration of democracy,” she told reporters, according to a PPP spokesman. (First Posted @ 12:30 PST Updated @ 19:12 PST)
Benazir building opposition alliance LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov 13 (AFP) - Benazir Bhutto moved Tuesday to forge a coalition of Pakistan's opposition parties in an apparent bid to isolate President Pervez Musharraf ahead of elections. She said she was ready for an alliance with Nawaz Sharif, held telephone talks with Imran Khan, agreed with Qazi Hussain Ahmad, leader of MMA, to launch a “joint struggle” against Musharraf besides contacting the leaders of Sharif’s PML, and other smaller parties including a Pashtun party. “I want to build an alliance, a single point agenda for the restoration of democracy,” said Benazir, who is under detention for seven days to stop her leading a protest march. “We are trying to go to a point where we evolve a joint strategy for the restoration of the constitution, restoration of the judiciary, freedom of media and free and fair elections,” key Bhutto aide Safdar Abbasi told AFP. Benazir Bhutto and other opposition leaders say the parliamentary polls cannot be fair if they are held under the state of emergency. Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), the major alliance of several religious parties gave a positive account of talks between Benazir and Qazi Husain Ahmad, with whom she had previously refused to speak. “The consensus between the two leaders was that they should jointly start the struggle against Musharraf's dictatorship,” said Ameerul Azim, a spokesman for Qazi Husain’s party, the Jamaat-i-Islami. “They also talked about holding an all-parties conference, a joint effort against Musharraf, and restoration of the constitution as well as independence of the judiciary and media,” Azim said. (Posted @ 21:24 PST)
Pakistan nukes under control: Musharraf WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (AFP) - Pakistan's nuclear weapons are under “total custodial controls,” President Pervez Musharraf told Fox News radio Tuesday, moving to calm concerns over the arms amid major political turmoil in his country. “They are under total custodial controls,” Musharraf told the network, citing security measures in place since 2000, according to a transcript of the interview. “We created a strategic planning division and we have a national command authority which is overall organization institution into development and employment of strategic assets,” he said. (Posted @ 22:06 PST)
Pakistan rejects Commonwealth suspension threat ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (AFP) - Pakistan on Tuesday strongly rejected a Commonwealth deadline to end emergency rule in 10 days or face suspension, expressing “deep disappointment and regret” over the ultimatum. “Pakistan expresses deep disappointment and regret over the statement issued by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) yesterday,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. Pakistan “firmly rejects the CMAG announcement and demands that are based on lack of realism and absence of understanding.” (Posted @ 21:04 PST)
Don't throw it all away, US envoy tells Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (AFP) - Pakistan must not throw away in weeks the progress it took years to achieve, the US envoy to Islamabad Anne Patterson warned Tuesday, saying emergency rule had “seriously set back” the path to democracy. Addressing the National Defence University in Islamabad, she said Pakistan had made enormous strides on the economy and a free media under President Musharraf's government. That was now jeopardised by his November 3 declaration of emergency rule, under which he suspended the constitution, sacked the nation's chief justice and clamped curbs on the media. “Pakistan's move toward democracy has been seriously set back,” she said. “The United States is urging your government not to throw away in weeks what it has taken years to achieve.” (Posted @ 20:58 PST)
Imran Khan says would join Benazir in anti-Musharraf campaign ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (AFP) - Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan said Tuesday he would launch a joint opposition campaign with Benazir Bhutto if she agreed to boycott elections. Benazir phoned Imran and other political leaders opposed to President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of a state of emergency. “I spoke to Benazir Bhutto today. She has talked about boycotting elections which is a welcome step,” He told a private Tv channel from an undisclosed location where he is in hiding after escaping house arrest. “We should all boycott these fraudulent elections under emergency rule and on this point we can run a joint campaign,” Imran said. “We should all agree that until courts are not restored to pre-emergency status, we should not take part in elections.” He added that there should be a “one-point agenda of opposition parties -- remove Musharraf.” (Posted @ 20:14 PST)
Nawaz Sharif welcomes Benazir turning against Musharraf, says opposition should unite ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov 13 (AP) Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday welcomed Benazir Bhutto's call for President Musharraf to resign and said the opposition should unite against the military ruler. Sharif called for Benazir and other opposition parties to work together for the restoration of top judges President Musharraf ousted when he declared a state of emergency. ''What I'm hearing on TV, her statements today that she has cut off all her links with Pervez Musharraf and wants him to resign from both offices, I think it is a positive development and a step toward achieving the objectives of the opposition,'' he told The Associated Press by phone from Saudi Arabia. (Posted @ 18:54 PST)
Pakistani gunships kill four militants in Swat PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 13 (AFP) Pakistani helicopter gunships destroyed several militant positions in the Sambat area of Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley Tuesday, killing four followers of pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah, the army said. The militants were killed when helicopters pounded four bunkers and blew up their ammunition dump, the army said in a statement. Another five insurgents were injured when helicopters blew up a checkpost established by militants in Sarani. Rebel hideouts in two other villages were also targeted, it added. Meanwhile paramilitary troops captured four suspected militants and one Afghan carrying arms and explosives, it said. (Posted @ 18:16 PST)
Pakistan People’s Party starts protest without Benazir LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov 13 (AFP): Supporters of Benazir Bhutto began a protest without her Tuesday as dozens of cars set off from Lahore while she remained under house arrest, her party and police said. The Pakistan People's Party motorcade departed from Lahore toward the eastern town of Kasur near the Indian border, party official Shah Mahmoud Qureshi told AFP. “There is a caravan of more than 100 cars heading out of Lahore. We are on our way,” Shah said. A party statement said there were also “thousands of followers.” Police confirmed several dozen cars and an unspecified number of protesters had formed a caravan. Benazir called the “long march” to rally against a state of emergency imposed by President Musharraf but was detained at the house of PPP Senator Latif Khosa in the early hours of Tuesday. (Posted @ 13:20 PST)
Scores arrested in Lahore trying to reach Benazir LAHORE, Nov 13 (AFP): Police rounded up scores of people who tried to get near the house where Pakistan People’s Party leader Benazir Bhutto is under house arrest. The house was surrounded on all sides by double rolls of barbed wire. Wooden barricades provided a second layer of security and heavy containers blocked entrances to the house and both ends of the street in which it is located. An official said there were more than 1,100 policemen around the residence. “The house has been declared a jail now,” police chief Ayaz Salim said. Prison officials were outside the house to enforce the detention order. “They locked the gate of the house with heavy metal chains and parked an armoured personnel carrier outside. But we will still come out,” Senator Safdar Abbasi, one of Bhutto's senior aides said. Senior PPP spokeswoman Sherry Rehman, a close aide to Benazir, told AFP, she would still try to leave the house to lead the protest. (Posted @ 12:15 PST)
US calls on OPEC to increase oil production ROME, Nov 13 (AFP) - US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman called on the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose leaders meet this weekend, to increase oil production. (Posted @ 22:04 PST)
Pakistan Bar Council asks lawyers to gear up drive ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (PPI)- Pakistan Bar Council in a statement Tuesday called upon on the lawyer community to continue their movement and struggle with greater vigour and determination for restoration of the Constitution, reinstatement of independent judges and for the ouster of military regime and its effects like PCO, emergency and PCO judges. “ The PBC boycott of the Supreme Court and the High Courts shall continue till they are under the illegal occupation of the PCO judges and unless the real and constitutional judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts return to resume their constitutional duties and functions'', it said. It further said that the strike and boycott of the subordinate Courts shall continue for at least one hour every day indefinitely. It requested the members of the Bar Association in every district to look after the lawyers detained in their respective district jails. “ (Posted @ 22:02 PST)
Israel, Palestinian leaders address Turkish parliament ANKARA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in a rare joint appearance before a foreign legislature, pledged support on Tuesday for planned Middle East peace talks in the United States this month. In addresses to Turkey's parliament, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the conference at Annapolis, Maryland, in late November would provide a vital chance to kickstart the stalled peace process. “This is a historic occasion which must not become a historic failure,” Peres said in his speech, delivered in Hebrew and dubbed into Turkish in live television coverage. “We are determined to reach a two-state solution for our two peoples, a Palestinian state for the Palestinian people and a Jewish state for the Jewish people,” he said. “We support the American efforts (to revive the peace process) ... We extend our hand for dialogue,” Abbas told the lawmakers, in remarks translated into Turkish from Arabic. (Posted @ 21:34 PST)
U.S. pulls 3,000 troops from Iraq's Diyala province BAGHDAD, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is sending 3,000 soldiers home from Diyala province, the second large unit to leave Iraq as troop levels are cut after a 30,000-strong “surge”.Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, will not be replaced by a new unit when they leave Diyala province by January, U.S. military officials said. “Most of the (brigade) will be home by Christmas and indeed a few people have left,” Kageleiry said on Tuesday. About 2,200 Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit left western Anbar province in late September. (Posted @ 21:34 PST)
Dozen US rights groups ask Bush to cut off military aid to Pakistan WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (AFP) - A dozen US human rights groups Tuesday urged President George W. Bush to cut off military aid to Pakistan and increase pressure by other means if President Pervez Musharraf refuses to end emergency rule and release politicians, jurists and rights activists. The groups included Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, Freedom Home, The Carter Center, Global Rights, International Justice Mission, International League for Human Rights and Physicians for Human Rights. (Posted @ 20:52 PST)
15 Qaeda fighters killed in Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 13 (AFP) - US and Iraqi troops killed 15 Al-Qaeda fighters during a day-long battle, the US military said Tuesday. On Monday, between 35 and 40 Al-Qaeda gunmen attacked four checkpoints In the ensuing battle US warplanes dropped two 500-pound bombs on the roads used by the gunmen, killing 15 militants. (Posted @ 20:50 PST)
Philippine congressman dies in bomb blast MANILA, Nov 13 (AFP) - Philippine congressman Wahab Akbar was killed in a bomb attack at the House of Representatives Tuesday, hospital staff and radio reports said, raising the death toll to two with at least 10 injured. Manila police chief said initial investigation showed the bomb was planted on a motorcycle parked near Akbar's car. “It looks like the congressman was the target of the attack,” he told reporters. Jesus Dureza, a senior presidential aide said Akbar had helped the government in its anti-terrorism campaign against the Abu Sayyaf group on Basilan island. (First Posted @ 20:24 PST Updated @ 20:34 PST)
Pakistan curbs import of satellite equipment ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (AFP) Pakistani authorities Tuesday effectively banned the import of satellite television equipment, placing a further curb on coverage of the country's political crisis. An order issued by the commerce ministry said satellite dishes, decoders, recording and reception equipment could now only be imported into the country with the specific permission of Pakistan's electronic media regulatory body. “All equipment used for reception, broadcast and distribution of satellite signals ... shall be allowed into the country only after obtaining specific permission” from the authority, the ministry said in a statement. (Posted @ 18:58 PST)
Seven Polish NATO force soldiers held over Afghan civilian deaths WARSAW, Nov 13, 2007 (AFP) Seven Polish soldiers were arrested Tuesday by military prosecutors probing the killing on August 16 of several civilians in Afghanistan by Polish troops from a NATO-led security force, the defence ministry said. (Posted @ 18:28 PST)
Pak-UAE sign agreement to set up oil refinery ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (PPI) - Pakistan and UAE Tuesday signed an Implementation Agreement for the setting up an oil refinery at Khalifa Point in Lasbela district of Balochistan. It will cost about five Billion dollars and will be completed by December 2012. The plant would refine 300,000 barrels oil per day. The Government has already announced twenty years tax holiday and provided one thousand acres of free land for the project. (Posted @ 18:20 PST)
Hajj operation starts ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (PPI) - The pre-Hajj operation began with the departure of first hajj flight from Peshawar on Tuesday. The first Hajj flight from Islamabad will leave Wednesday afternoon. (Posted @ 18:10 PST)
17 more held in Sindh as JI, ANP join anti-emergency protest HYDERBABAD, Pakistan, Nov 13 (PPI) Seventeen more political activists including zonal leaders were arrested Tuesday from various parts of Sindh province as Jamat-i-Islami and Awami National Party joined Awami Tehrik in protest against imposition of emergency, removal of judges of superior courts and trial of civilians under army act. Awami Tehrik had launched the movement on Monday and claimed that over 100 of its workers were arrested from all over Sindh on the first day. (Posted @ 17:54 PST)
Hamas arrests scores of Fatah men after deadly rally GAZA CITY, Nov 13 (AFP) Hamas arrested scores of Fatah party members in night-time raids in the Gaza Strip, Fatah officials said Tuesday, hours after gunmen opened fire on a mass rally, killing seven people. The Hamas force “arrested scores of senior Fatah members and members of our branch offices last night,” a senior Fatah official told AFP. The raids came hours after Hamas police violently dispersed a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people who had massed in Gaza City to commemorate late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (Posted @ 16:50 PST)
Kurdish rebels kill four soldiers in southeast Turkey ANKARA, Turkey, Nov 13 (AP) Kurdish guerrillas killed four Turkish soldiers, including a lieutenant, in a clash Tuesday in southeastern Turkey, private NTV television reported.The clash occurred on Mountain Gabar near Sirnak city, NTV said. (Posted @ 16:40 PST)
Gunmen fire at police during protest in Karachi KARACHI, Nov 13 (Reuters): Gunmen opened fire on two police stations in Karachi Tuesday as supporters of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto were protesting against her house arrest, but no one was hurt, police said. “About 35 to 40 armed men fired ... while the PPP workers were holding a protest rally,” said senior police official Fayyaz Khan, referring to Benazir's Pakistan People's Party. The attacks occurred in the Lyari neighbourhood but it had not been confirmed the gunmen were party supporters, he said. (Posted @ 16:35 PST)
Police tear gas protesters in Peshawar PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 13 (AFP): Police fired tear gas and baton-charged hundreds of protesters rallying in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan against emergency rule Tuesday. Around 700 activists from the Jamat-i-Islami party here pelted police with stones, an AFP reporter witnessed. Police broke up the rally and fired several tear gas shells to disperse the demonstrators, the correspondent said. Separately in the city police clashed with 300 activists from a Pashtun nationalist party and arrested two people. (Posted @ 16:35 PST)
Benazir’s house arrest sparks demonstrations across Sindh KARACHI, Nov 13 (AP): Pakistan Peoples Party, Sindh, has announced three-day protests across the province against the detention of Benazir Bhutto and the countrywide arrests of PPP workers. The announcement was made by PPP Sindh President Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Tuesday. Meanwhile, PPP workers and supporters today protested throughout Sindh. Reports said hundreds of PPP workers held demonstration in Larkana where police resorted to baton charge. Ten PPP workers were arrested. In Badin, seven PPP workers were arrested from Golarchi when they blocked the main Badin-Thatta Road and chanted slogans. The protesters also burnt tyres in Tando Bago, Pangrio, Matli, Kadhan and other towns of Badin District. In Thatta, police arrested PPP MPA Sasui Palijo among 25 workers when hundreds of protesters reached Thatta Press Club and raised slogans against the regime for detaining Benazir and imposing emergency. Five PPP workers were arrested in Mirpurkhas while protesting against Benazir’s detention. In Karachi, people took to streets in Lyari and burnt tyres and stoned the police after shelling and baton charge. Meanwhile, in Diplo Jail 16 PPP workers went on hunger strike against the detention of Benazir. (Posted @ 16:30 PST)
Suicide bomber enters Lahore to target Benazir Bhutto: Punjab Home Department LAHORE, Nov 13 (PPI): Punjab Home Department said according to reliable information, a suicide bomber has entered Lahore to target important leaders including Benazir Bhutto and some other PPP personalities. A circular issued to police says that extra security measures should be taken to ward off any danger. It also recommended that Benazir Bhutto should not participate in public meetings for some time, Radio Pakistan reported Tuesday. Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Cheema also referred to credible intelligence reports that terrorist groups and various other extremist elements are out to target Benazir Bhutto and that there is real threat to her life. He told a news briefing Tuesday that the government is taking exceptional security measures to ward off the threat and ensure her safety. (Posted @ 16:20 PST)
Bomb kills one at Internet cafe in Peshawar PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 13 (AP): A bomb exploded inside an Internet cafe in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, killing a 12-year-old boy, police said. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. Peshawar's police chief Tahir Khan said the boy was alone in the cafe when the blast occurred. (Posted @ 16:10 PST)
Bush wants emergency lifted ahead of Pakistan vote WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (AFP): US President George W. Bush wants emergency rule lifted in Pakistan ahead of parliamentary elections and Washington is sending a top envoy to meet President Musharraf, officials said Tuesday. “The president thinks that we need to lift the emergency rule in order to have free and fair elections,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters as Bush returned to Washington from his Texas ranch Monday. President Musharraf must also shed his army uniform “since the president (Bush) thinks you can't be both president and the chief of the army,” Perino said. However officials at the US embassy in Islamabad told AFP that US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte will visit Pakistan shortly, without confirming if he is the special envoy. The Negroponte visit “was planned for some time as part of the long-term strategic dialogue,” US embassy spokeswoman Liz Colton told AFP. (First Posted @ 14:45 PST, Updated @16:00 PST)
Iraq bombings, shootings kill six BAGHDAD, Nov 13 (AFP): Insurgents killed at least six people across Iraq in bomb attacks and shootings Tuesday, including two soldiers and two policemen, security officials said. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and two wounded when a roadside bomb struck their patrol near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi army officer Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Hassan told AFP. In Kirkuk, gunmen shot dead a police officer and wounded his wife in the southern Wasiti neighbourhood, captain Mahmud Abdullah said. Police in Kirkuk also found two corpses, he added. A roadside bomb targetting a police patrol near the town of Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad, killed one policeman and wounded another, a local police official said. Also south of Baghdad in the town of Jurf al-Sakhr, two civilians were killed and another two wounded in a roadside bomb attack, police said. (First Posted @ 11:45 PST, Updated @ 15:25PST)
Four more judges take oath under PCO Islamabad, Nov 13 (PPI): Justice Mohammad Akhtar Shabbir and Justice Zia Pervez took oath as Judges of the Supreme Court under PCO Tuesday morning. Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar administered the oath. The strength of the Supreme Court judges who took oath under PCO is now eleven. Meanwhile in Lahore, Justice Mian Mohammad Najmuzzaman and Justice Maulvi Anwar-ul-Haque took oath as the Judges of the Lahore High Court under the PCO. Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry administered oath to them. The number of judges of the Lahore High Court has now risen to twenty. (Posted @ 14:55 PST)
Fresh clashes kill 12 in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Nov 13 (AFP): At least 12 people including two civilians died in fighting in Sri Lanka's northern and eastern regions, the defence ministry said Tuesday. Troops shot dead four members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) along the de facto frontline with guerrilla-held territory at Vavuniya in the north of the island Monday, the ministry said. It said six more Tigers were killed in two clashes elsewhere in the north and the east in the 24 hours ending Tuesday noon. The civilians were gunned down by suspected Tamil rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula Monday, the ministry said. (First Posted @ 10:10 PST, Updated @ 14:35 PST)
Pakistan says no plans to fly Benazir out of Lahore ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (AFP): Pakistan's government on Tuesday denied reports it was planning to forcibly remove opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from house arrest in Lahore and fly her back to Karachi. “There is no truth in the reports that Benazir Bhutto is being shifted to Karachi from Lahore. There is nothing of the sort,” interior ministry spokesman Javed Cheema told AFP. Benazir, who was placed under house arrest in Lahore to prevent her leading a mass protest against emergency rule, said earlier she was unaware of any such plans, which reportedly involved a C-130 military transport plane. A Pakistani security official speaking under cover of anonymity said there were no plans so far to move her. (Posted @ 14:30 PST)
Musharraf must end military rule in 10 days: Britain LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters): British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Tuesday that military rule imposed by President General Pervez Musharraf must be lifted within 10 days. Asked if the British government backed a call by Commonwealth ministers Monday that military rule must end by November 22, Miliband said: “Absolutely, the Commonwealth position was one that the UK played an important part in creating.” (Posted @ 13:15 PST)
Bomb kills soldier in Miram Shah MIRAM SHAH, Nov 13 (AFP): A roadside bomb hit a paramilitary vehicle in Miram Shah killing one soldier and wounding nine others, the army said Tuesday. The blast happened late Monday as a convoy left a paramilitary Frontier Corps camp near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan district. “One security forces personnel was killed and nine injured,” chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP. Two were seriously injured and the vehicle was badly damaged, local security officials said. (Posted @ 11:50 PST)
Fire injures 22 in Berne high-rise building ZURICH, Nov 13 (Reuters): A fire in a high-rise building in the Swiss capital, Berne early Tuesday left 22 injured, 4 seriously. Firefighters received an alarm around midnight that an apartment on the fourth floor of the building was in flames, said Swiss news agency SDA. Residents who tried to flee were trapped in a smoke-filled stairwell, the report said. More than 20 residents were rescued. (Posted @ 11:10 PST)
Brown calls on Musharraf to lift emergency LONDON, Nov 13 (AP): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown chastised President General Pervez Musharraf and demanded he lift the nine-day-old state of emergency. “We call on (Musharraf) to restore the constitution and implement the necessary conditions to guarantee free and fair elections on schedule in January,” Brown said. He also pledged to press for tough new sanctions on Iran and warned Tehran that unless pending reports on its nuclear program show signs of progress, he will push the European Union and United Nations for tighter sanctions. (Posted @ 10:05 PST)
Japan threatens to slash Pakistan aid TOKYO, Nov 13 (AFP): Major donor Japan warned Tuesday it may cut aid to Pakistan after the military regime declared emergency rule and placed key opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest. Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura told reporters, “we may have to examine carefully whether to increase aid at this point while closely watching the democratisation process in the country,” he said. Asked if Japan may cut its current aid to Pakistan, the foreign minister said: “We'll consider every option.” (Posted @ 09:40 PST)
Pioneering TV, film director Delbert Mann dies LOS ANGELES, Nov 13 (AP): Delbert Mann, who directed Paddy Chayefsky's classic teleplays “Marty” and “The Bachelor Party” and then transformed them into big-screen triumphs, has died. He was 87. Mann died of pneumonia Sunday in Los Angeles, his son Fred Mann said Monday. Mann's 1955 feature version of “Marty” won four Oscars, including for best picture and direction. (Posted @ 09:30 PST)
Karachi Stocks down 35.47, points: KARACHI, Nov 13: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16287.23 ,down 35.47, points. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:20 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, Nov 13: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 61.1, to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 14:20 PST)
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