Czech ambassador and two US marines among 53 killed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Czech Ambassador to Pakistan Ivo Zdarek, two Americans and a Vietnamese woman were among the 53 people killed in the suicide bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday evening....
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Waziristan link seen in attack on Marriott: Blast caused by RDX and TNT: Malik
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik has said that Saturday’s blast in Islamabad that claimed 53 lives had links with Waziristan....
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PM’s House was target of terrorists, says Gilani
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the target of the suicide bomber who blew up an explosive-laden truck near the Marriott Hotel on...
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US leaders urge Pakistan to intensify war on terror
WASHINGTON, Sept 21: US leaders — from President George W. Bush to this year’s presidential candidates — have all urged Pakistan to intensify its fight against the terrorists while condemning Saturday’s deadly blast that killed at least 53 people in Islamabad....
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Zardari in London on way to UN
LONDON, Sept 21: President Asif Ali Zardari who arrived here on Sunday afternoon by a British Airways flight is scheduled to fly early on Monday morning to New York....
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UAE wants Pakistanis to stand behind government: Attack slammed across world
ABU DHABI / PARIS, Sept 21: The United Arab Emirates on Sunday urged Pakistanis to support their government after an attack on an Islamabad hotel killed at least 50 people....
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Hotel blast targeted democracy, Singh tells Gilani
NEW DELHI, Sept 21: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condoled with his Pakistani counterpart Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday, describing Saturday’s suicide attack in Islamabad as an assault on democracy and pluralism....
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Afghans mark ‘peace day’ with truce
KABUL, Sept 21: Medics with anti-polio drops pushed into some of Afghanistan’s most volatile provinces on the United Nations’ Peace Day on Sunday with a Taliban pledge they should not be harmed during the three-day drive....
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Nato denies ambushed troops were ill-equipped
BRUSSELS, Sept 21: Nato denied on Sunday that French soldiers had been ambushed by better armed Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last month but expressed concern about increasingly sophisticated cross-border attacks....
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Over 12,000 babies hospitalised after drinking tainted milk
BEIJING, Sept 21: Almost 13,000 infants in China have been taken to hospital after falling ill from drinking tainted milk powder, the health ministry said on Sunday, according to the state media....
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Lone suicide bomber carried out blast: report
RAWALPINDI, Sept 21: A report submitted to the prime minister by a joint investigation team is reported to have said that a lone suicide bomber carried out the deadly explosion at the Marriott hotel on Saturday....
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Danish intelligence agent missing
COPENHAGEN, Sept 21: A Danish intelligence agent is missing after Saturday’s devastating suicide bomb attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Denmark’s foreign minister said on Sunday....
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Trapped ambassador called for help
PRAGUE, Sept 21: The Czech ambassador to Pakistan was killed in the suicide bomb attack on Islamabad’s Marriott hotel, the Czech foreign ministry announced on Sunday....
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Blast exposed weaknesses in disaster management
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Saturday''s horrendous suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel was a security lapse or not, its aftermath certainly exposed weaknesses in disaster management....
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Altaf calls for buying heavy machinery for relief work
KARACHI, Sept 21: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain called upon the government on Sunday to prepare a disaster management plan on an urgent basis and equip its organisation with advanced heavy machinery....
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Islamabad attack worst act of terrorism: Apma chief
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (Apma) Chairman and member of National Assembly Shahbaz Bhatti has termed the suicide blast at Marriott hotel the worst act of terrorism....
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Commercial areas desserted by hotel blast
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: The devastating suicide blast outside Marriott spread a wave of sorrow and grief in the capital city, leaving even the busiest markets deserted on Sunday....
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Naek’s house near Marriott damaged
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Law Minister Farooq H. Naek’s son narrowly escaped injury when glasses of windows and doors in his house shattered by the impact of blasts at the nearby Marriott Hotel showered all around him....
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