Peshawar: Blast rocks mosque in Salman Khel, kills 4

A bomb blast has rocked a mosque in the area of Salman Khel near Badh Bir, Peshawar, Dunya News reported on Friday evening.
According to the sources the blast occurred during the Isha prayers in a mosque in Salman Khel while many members of the Peace Jirga were also present in the mosque at the time of blast. Sources have revealed that more or less three hand grenades were thrown into the mosque.The magnitude of the blast was so immense that its voice was heard in a large surrounding area. The security agencies cordoned-off the area soon after the blast and restricted the movement of people near the mosque. According to the police sources, the nature of the blasts is yet to be identified.
On the other hand rescue teams reached the mosque and started the rescue operation and shifted the injured to the nearby hospitals. According to reports, four people have been killed in the blast while the injured have been shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar.
Earlier 67 people died while more or less 100 got injured when a suicide blast ripped through a mosque in Darra Adam Khel during Friday prayers. Tehreek-e-Taliban has claimed the responsibility of the blast.
The blast occurred in a mosque of Akhorwal, an area of Darra Adam Khel, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to an eye witness, it was a suicide blast and the bomber blew himself up before the gate of the mosque. Whereas, companions of the bomber, who were outside the mosque, opened fire. The mosque was totally destroyed while nearby houses and buildings were been damaged in the blast. Relief activities were started immediately after the unfortunate incident and the injured were shifted to hospitals of Peshawar and Kohat. At least 50 injured were shifted to the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain confirmed that it was a suicide blast. He said that war against militants will be continued till the menace of terrorism is uprooted. He further said that these attacks can not demoralize us.Senior Minister Bashir Bilour said that suicide attackers cannot be Muslims or even human beings. He also condemned the blasts that claimed the lives of innocent people.

Bolivia hosts ”people”s conference” on climate change

COCHABAMBA: Environmental activists, indigenous leaders and Hollywood celebrities were gathering in Bolivia Tuesday ahead of the first self-styled “people”s conference” on climate change here.

Attendees say the summit will focus on the plight of the world”s poorest, which they argue went largely ignored at official United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen last December.

The Copenhagen meeting was widely drubbed for failing to produce a new treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions and critics said the deal it produced will not avert a climate catastrophe.

The “People”s World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights,” which runs through Thursday, will draft new proposals to be offered for consideration at the next UN climate talks in Mexico at the end of the year.

Bolivia”s UN ambassador Pablo Solon said the conference, which was expected to draw some 18,000 people, was “the only way to get the climate change talks back on track.”

Developing nations have resisted a legally binding climate treaty, arguing that wealthy nations must bear the primary responsibility for climate change.

Nearly 130 countries, including many of the world”s poorest, will be represented at the Cochabamba conference.

Anti-globalization activists Naomi Klein of Canada and Jose Bove of France are set to attend, and organizers have also invited James Cameron, director of the blockbuster film “Avatar,” and James Hansen, a US researcher who was among the first to warn about climate change.

Indigenous leaders, including Nilo Cayuqueo, an indigenous Mapuche from Argentina, were also in town, concerned about the impact of climate change on their homelands.

“We have great extremes of heat and cold, and as a result we”re seeing illnesses and outbreaks that once had disappeared,” said Cayuqueo.

This week”s gathering will also give a giant megaphone to a left-leaning bloc of Latin American leaders, including presidents Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales, the indigenous president of host nation Bolivia.

The conference will seek to refine proposals presented by Morales in Copenhagen that included the creation of a world tribunal for climate issues and a global referendum on environmental choices.

The conference begins the day after representatives from the world”s leading economies gathered in Washington for a preparatory meeting ahead of the December UN summit in Cancun.

The US-led Major Economies Forum comprises 17 countries responsible for the bulk of global emissions and excludes smaller nations such as Sudan whose firebrand negotiators held up sessions at December”s Copenhagen summit.

Washington hopes the closed-door talks will allow key nations to quietly assess what they can achieve heading into the next major climate summit in December in Cancun.

“Clearly, there is still a gap between the views of the developing and developed world,” State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said. “We”re going to see if we can, through the course of this discussion, narrow that down.”

Qissa Khawni Bazaar bomber’s sketch issued

PESHAWAR: Local police issued the sketch of the suicide bomber who blew up himself in Qissa Khawni Bazaar in a rally organized by Jamaat Islami to protest against power load sheddings, Geo News reported Tuesday.

According to police sources, the head of the suicide bomber was found from the blast site after the bomber blew him up killing at least 24 people in the famous historic market of the city.

According to police, the suicide attacker was aged 15 years.

Bomber’s head found: police

PESHAWAR: Police have found the head of a suspected suicide bomber, who blew himself up in crowded Qissa Khwani market, killing at least 23 people and injuring dozen others.

Shafqat Malik, the head of bomb disposal squad, said that the bomber, aged between 15 to 16, used 6 kg of explosives in the attack.

12 killed in Dagestan blasts

MAKHACHKALA: Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed at least 12 people and injured18 others in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, officials said.

In Wednesday”s attacks, a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the town of Kizlyar near Dagestan”s border with Chechnya, when police tried to stop the bomber”s car, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said in televised comments.

Suicide Bomber Struck Kot Addu

A suicide bomber struck Chowk Sarwar Shaheed in Kot Addu today.
The incident took place near a shop located at Adda Darogha, some 7kms off Chowk Sarwar Shaheed. Police said that bomber’s target was something else, however, his payload detonated on the way.
The identity card recovered from the suicide bomber carried the name of Dera Ismail Khan. DPO Muzaffargarh said that the bomber was carrying explosives.

Suicide Bomber Strikes Iraqi Army HQ

MOSUL: A suicide bomber blew up a car bomb in an Iraqi army headquarters in the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, wounding 33 people, police said.

Among the wounded at the army compound, near a police station in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, were 18 soldiers, five police officers and 10 civilians, police said.

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Suicide Bomber Strikes Iraqi Army HQ was first posted on January 20, 2010 at 8:40 pm.

Suicide Bomber kills Seven in Iraq

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a police station in Iraq’s western Anbar province on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding six, police said.

The bomber struck in the centre of a town just north of Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad.

Police said two of those killed and four of the wounded were police officers. Authorities immediately imposed a curfew in the town.

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Suicide Bomber kills Seven in Iraq was first posted on January 13, 2010 at 1:43 pm.

Britain Clashes With US Over Bomber’s Terror Links

TrendPK.com Britain Clashes With US Over Bomber’s Terror Links:British and U.S. intelligence services are at loggerheads, with London, rejecting claims that information about the Detroit bombers and other men considered to be terrorist risks was not sent to America.
In a break from protocol, the British Prime Minister’s office publicly claimed that Britain [...]

Suicide Attack Foiled By Cops In Kohat

KOHAT, PAKISTAN: A suicide bomber exploded himself here in Kohat following his attempt to abduct a youth from a house was foiled by police but he retaliated and the explosion occurred after a brief exchange of fire with police, Geo news reported on Friday.

According to police sources, police took action after they received intelligence in regard to presence of a suicide bomber in a house who was making it hard to kidnap a youth from there.

Police intercepted him but in reply, he opened fire on police, which police retaliated and after a brief exchange of fire, the bomber exploded himself, sources added.

Police said the bomber could not be identified as yet while the investigation into the incident has commenced, sources said.

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Suicide Attack Foiled By Cops In Kohat was first posted on August 22, 2009 at 12:22 pm.