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| December 02, 2008 | Tuesday | Zilhaj 3, 1429 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Ethnic clashes, violence continues in tense Karachi KARACHI: Four people were killed in clashes between rival factions in Karachi on Tuesday but police said they were hopeful violence was easing off after days of bloodshed in which dozens of people have been killed, Reuters reported. Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police, Sindh, placed twelve police officers under suspension and demoted them with immediate effect, in response to their failure to protect public life and property, PPI reported. (Posted 17:46 PST)
No military action against Pakistan: Mukherjee NEW DELHI: India is not considering taking military action against Pakistan over the attacks in Mumbai, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday. ‘Nobody is talking about military action,’ Mukherjee told reporters. (Posted 17:46 PST)
'Systemic failure' led to Mumbai attacks: Indian navy NEW DELHI: The Indian navy said a 'systemic failure' of security and intelligence services led to the militant attacks in Mumbai that killed 183 people, PTI news agency reported on Tuesday. India's police, coast guard and intelligence communities are pointing fingers over whether information existed that could have been acted on to prevent the three-day rampage in the financial hub. (Posted 17:13 PST)
Saakashvili warns West on Russia ties TBILISI: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili urged the West Tuesday not to return to 'business as usual' with Russia without holding it to account for its five-day war with his country in August. He made the appeal in an article in the Wall Street Journal, timed to coincide with a NATO meeting in Brussels at which alliance foreign ministers will consider relaunching a high-level NATO-Russia dialogue, suspended after the war. (Posted 17:08 PST)
Zimbabwe cholera toll nearly 500: WHO Tuesday, 02 Dec, HARARE: A deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed nearly 500 people in the biggest outbreak recorded recently in the crisis-hit country, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. The WHO said in a report that the cholera outbreak is affecting most regions of the country with a fatality rate of up to 50 percent in some areas. It reported 473 deaths from 11,700 cases. 'Cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe have occurred annually since 1998, but previous epidemics never reached today's proportions. The last large outbreak was in 1992 with 3,000 cases recorded,' the WHO said in a report. (Posted @ 16:05 PST)
No military action against Pakistan: Mukherjee Tuesday, 02 Dec, NEW DELHI: India is not considering taking military action against Pakistan over the attacks in Mumbai, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday. ‘Nobody is talking about military action,’ Mukherjee told reporters. His comments followed a meeting earlier of India's security cabinet, the top decision-making body on military and diplomatic affairs, which met in the aftermath of last week's Mumbai attacks that claimed 183 lives. (Posted @ 15:26 PST)
Pakistan offers joint investigation team to India Tuesday, 02 Dec, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will ‘frame a response’ to an Indian demand that it hand over 20 of India's most wanted men, a Pakistani government minister said on Tuesday. The demand was contained in a protest note handed to Pakistan's ambassador in New Delhi on Monday, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters, as tension between the nuclear-armed rivals mounted after the Mumbai attacks. ‘We have to look at it formally once we get it and we will frame a response,’ Information Minister Sherry Rehman told reporters in Islamabad. (Posted @ 15:15 PST)
Four killed in ethnic clashes in Karachi Tuesday, 02 Dec, KARACHI: Four people were killed in clashes between rival factions in Karachi on Tuesday but police said they were hopeful violence was easing off after days of bloodshed in which dozens of people have been killed. Karachi is Pakistan's biggest city and commercial hub and has a long history of political, ethnic and religious violence. The latest clashes between ethnic-based factions have raised fears of a return to the chronic bloodshed that plagued the city in the 1990s. The clashes broke out on Saturday between members of the city's majority community of Urdu-speakers, most of them descendents of migrants from India at the time of the partition of the India in 1947, and ethnic Pashtuns from northwest Pakistan. (Posted @ 15:02 PST)
Iraqi court to decide fate of 'Chemical Ali' Tuesday, 02 Dec, BAGHDAD: An Iraqi court is to decide on Tuesday the fate of Saddam Hussein's notorious hatchet-man 'Chemical Ali' Hassan al-Majid and 14 others accused of committing war crimes during the 1991 Shia uprising. The hearing, comes after harrowing testimony from witnesses of Saddam's crushing of the rebellion who described family members being thrown from helicopters and mass executions. Majid was sentenced to death in June 2007 for genocide after ordering the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign, when Iraqi forces strafed villages with poison gas, the source of his grim nickname. (Posted @ 14:26 PST)
Taliban bomb Afghan supply convoy, three hurt Tuesday, 02 Dec, LANDI KOTAL: Militants set off a roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as trucks supplying Western forces in Afghanistan were passing by, wounding three people, a government official and witnesses said. It was the second attack in two days on supplies for Western forces heading through Pakistan's Khyber Pass, a vital supply route into landlocked Afghanistan. The convoy was bombed in the Landi Kotal area, 30 km west of the main northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. (Posted @ 14:26 PST)
India demands extradition of suspects Tuesday, 02 Dec, MUMBAI: India demanded Tuesday that Pakistan hand over several suspects wanted by the Indian government in connection with terror attacks against India - most recently in Mumbai when 188 people were killed, AFP reported. But Pakistan's prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said his government wanted formal proof of India's allegation that the attackers were Pakistanis, as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours rose over the siege of India's financial capital. India formally demanded 'the arrest and hand-over of those persons who are settled in Pakistan and are fugitives of Indian law,' Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said. (Posted @ 13:23 PST)
Pakistan to respond to Indian wanted list Tuesday, 02 Dec, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will ‘frame a response’ to an Indian demand that it hand over 20 of India's most wanted men, a Pakistani government minister said on Tuesday. The demand was contained in a protest note handed to Pakistan's ambassador in New Delhi on Monday, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters, as tension between the nuclear-armed rivals mounted after the Mumbai attacks. ‘We have to look at it formally once we get it and we will frame a response,’ Information Minister Sherry Rehman told reporters in Islamabad. Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi also said on Tuesday that Pakistan has offered a joint investigation team to help India probe the Mumbai attacks. (Posted @ 13:15 PST)
Rival groups urged to end Karachi clashes Tuesday, 02 Dec, KARACHI: Political parties in Pakistan's biggest city must help stop violence between rival ethnic-based factions, a provincial minister said on Monday, after days of bloodshed in which at least 40 people have been killed. DawnNews reported that at least 47 people have been killed in the two days of violence; also schools and colleges will remain closed for the second consecutive day. Earlier, the city's police chief Waseem Ahmed told AFP that 'we have confirmed reports of 32 people killed since Saturday in Karachi,' adding that some of the 55 people injured in the violence had been shot. Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital and home to its main port, has a long history of political, ethnic and religious violence and the clashes have raised fears of a return to the bloodshed that plagued the city in the 1990s. (Posted @ 13:00 PST)
Oil slumps to 3-˝ year low on economy worry Tuesday, 02 Dec, SINGAPORE: Oil slid to a 3-˝ year low under $48 on Tuesday, extending the previous day's sharp drop as signs grew the global economy is in worse shape than expected and after OPEC opted to delay talks on further output cuts. Japan's Nikkei average slid 5 percent on Tuesday, with exporters hit by a stronger yen after signs the US economy has been in a recession for a year heightened risk aversion. US light crude for January delivery fell $1.43 to $47.85 a barrel by 0342 GMT, the lowest since May 2005 and almost $100 off the record $147.27 peak reached in July. That followed an over 9 percent dive on Monday. (Posted @ 09:25 PST)
Train bomb blast in Assam kills 3, injures 60 Tuesday, 02 Dec, GUWAHATI: A bomb exploded in a train coach in India's insurgency-hit northeast on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring another 30, a state government official said The explosion occurred shortly after the train arrived at Diphu railroad station, about 200 miles (300 kilometers) south of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, said District Magistrate M.C. Sahu. The train was heading from Lumding in central Assam to the eastern commercial hub of Tinsukhia, Sahu said. (Posted @ 08:48 PST)
'India-Pakistan tension could harm border fight' Tuesday, 02 Dec, LONDON: Rising tension between India and Pakistan over the Mumbai attacks could set back Pakistan's offensive against militants along the Afghan border, Britain's top military officer warned on Monday. Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup said he had been encouraged in recent weeks by Pakistan's approach towards insurgents in the semi-autonomous tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. But Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, said last week's attacks in Mumbai, when 10 gunmen killed 183 people, 'could set us all back considerably.' (Posted @ 05:43 PST)
India lodges formal protest over Mumbai attacks Tuesday, 02 Dec, ISLAMABAD: After days of finger pointing India on Monday formally accused ‘elements from Pakistan’ of involvement in Mumbai carnage and asked Pakistan to take strict action against those elements. The move is feared to further escalate the tensions between the two countries. In the first diplomatic salvo after the Mumbai incident, India handed over two demarches to Pakistan, one of which was made in Islamabad at the Foreign Office by the Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal, while the other was issued to Pakistan’s High Commissioner in New Delhi Mr Shahid Malik by the Indian External Affairs Ministry. (Posted @ 05:14 PST)
Obama hints at India’s 'right' to retaliate Tuesday, 02 Dec, WASHINGTON: US President-elect Barack Obama hinted on Monday that India would be within its rights if it took retaliatory actions against militants hiding inside Pakistan. Obama made the comments when reminded at a news conference in Chicago that during the election campaign he had said the United States had a right to attack high-value terrorist targets inside Pakistan if given actionable intelligence with or without the government's permission. 'Do you think India has that same right?' he was asked. (Posted @ 03:30 PST)
Rice to visit Islamabad on Thursday Tuesday, 02 Dec, WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will arrive in Islamabad on Thursday, a day after her visit to New Delhi, for talks on the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Rice will focus on reducing tensions between India and Pakistan as Washington fears that the Mumbai attacks could reverse the peace process in South Asia, US and diplomatic sources told Dawn. Earlier on Monday, the White House described South Asia as 'a jungle ready to catch fire'. (Posted @ 02:26 PST)
Rival groups urged to end Karachi clashes Tuesday, 02 Dec, KARACHI: Political parties in Pakistan's biggest city must help stop violence between rival ethnic-based factions, a provincial minister said on Monday, after days of bloodshed in which at least 40 people have been killed. DawnNews reported that at least 47 people have been killed in the two days of violence; also schools and colleges will remain closed for the second consecutive day. Earlier, the city's police chief Waseem Ahmed told AFP that 'we have confirmed reports of 32 people killed since Saturday in Karachi,' adding that some of the 55 people injured in the violence had been shot. (Posted @ 01:35 PST)
Zardari warns 'non-state actors' may trigger war Tuesday, 02 Dec, ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday again offered unconditional cooperation to India to investigate the Mumbai carnage after the Indian government formally accused elements in Pakistan of being involved in the incident, sources close to the president told Dawn. In response to allegations by the Indian media that there was a possibility that the banned Jihadi outfit, Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, was involved in Mumbai attacks that killed over 200 people, the president was of the view that security forces of Pakistan were already fighting the same forces and many other groups in the war against terror, the source said. (Posted @ 01:17 PST)
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