School Blown up in Khyber, Explosion in Hangu, No Casualties

trendpk: A roadside bomb exploded in Hangu on Monday. No casualties were reported.

The explosion took place in Kotaki area of Hangu, but no casualties were reported. Security forces reached on the site. The bomb was planted on the roadside by militants.

On the other hand, militants blew up a girls primary school in Khyber Agency.

Fire breaks outs in Karachi’s garment factory

KARACHI: A fire broke out at a garment factory in SITE, Karachi late Tuesday night. No casualties were reported in the incident.

According to fire-fighting officials, an electric short-circuit caused the fire.

Fire tenders managed to bring the fire under control after a two hour struggle.

It caused financial losses worth million of rupees. Trend Pk

Militants blow up three schools in Peshawar

Staff Report

PESHAWAR: Militants have blown up three government schools with explosive material in Suleman Khel area of Budhber in Peshawar, SAMAA learnt Thursday.

According to police, two Girls Primary Schools and a Boys High School were destroyed in militants’ attack.

No casualties were reported in the attack.

The local residents have demanded a substitute place for the educational activities.

According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa minister for education Sardar Hussain Babak, 1300 schools have been blown up by terrorists in the last few years.

“Anti-education forces want to push the society towards darkness so they can thrive,” he said. SAMAA

Iran: Blast rocked military parade; 10 killed

At least 10 people were killed while dozens others injured in an explosion ripped through a crowd watching a military parade in north-western Kurdish town of Mahabad on Wednesday, media reported. No casualties were reported among the military personnel and political dignitaries attending the annual parade one of several held across the country to commemorate Iran’s eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s. Local officials blamed the blast on militants. Counter-revolutionary groups, by inserting themselves among the people attending the armed forces parade, showed their heinous face, Vahid Jalalzadeh, the provincial governor of Iran’s West Azerbaijan province, was quoted as saying. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast. Kurdish militants have been active in the past in the region which borders Iraq and Turkey. Iranian forces have often clashed Kurdish guerrillas some of whom operate out of bases in northern Iraq.

Blast reported in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: A powerful explosion has been heard in Peshawar area of Saddar, Geo News reported Wednesday.

The sounds of gunshots rang up in the area following the blast.
There is no report as to the nature and magnitude of the blast; however, the reports received said the blast was so powerful that it was heard far and wide.

According to eyewitness, soon after a blast, a black car was seen engulfed by a fire.

The law-enforcers soon arrived on spot.

The blast site is being said to the commercial area surrounded by government office.

Casualties reported in Peshawar blast

PESHAWAR: Several casualties were reported in a powerful blast in Peshawar area of Saddar, Geo News reported Wednesday.

The blast occurred at Deens Chowk, a usually crowded commercial spot.

Some injured were seen being rescued to the hospital.

The fire that engulfed a couple of cars, has been extinguished.

The reports said the FC Headquarters is situated near the blast site.

The police and other law enforcement agencies approached the area before long and put a security cordon around the blast site.

The nature of the blast could not be ascertained at this point in time.

Baghdad bombs kill three, including Iraqi general

BAGHDAD: Bombers killed three people in Baghdad on Tuesday, one of them an Iraqi general, as insurgents sabotaged a key oil pipeline on the northern outskirts of the capital, security officials said.

The general, whom police identified only by his first name Khodr, was blown up by a magnetic bomb in Aden Square in the Shiite shrine district of Kadhimiya in the north of the city.

A second magnetic bomb killed one person and wounded two outside an army officers” club in Al-Hurriya in northwest Baghdad, police said. There was no immediate word on whether the casualties were soldiers or civilians.

A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded four in a car in the southern district of Dora, police said.

Saboteurs blew up the oil pipeline in Rashidiyeh district on the northeastern fringes of the capital, Baghdad operations command said.

A major pipeline links an oil refinery and power station in Dora with the northern town of Baiji, another refining and power generating hub that is a key junction point on the supply network from Iraq”s northern oil fields around Kirkuk.

Rocket lands near Peshawar airport; no casualties

PESHAWAR: A rocket landed near Peshawar airport Sunday night from an unknown direction, Geo News reported.

No casualties were reported in the incident.

Seven Militants Arrested From Mohmand Agency

Security forces have arrested at least seven militants including an extremist commander Chota Usman during an operation from Mohmand Agency.

According to sources, security forces arrested Taliban commander Chota Usman during a search operation from Doezai, district of tehsil Pandyali of Mohmand Agency.
Chota Usman is recognized as one of the important commander of Taliban. He was a local commander of area Tozai.

Six other militants were also arrested with Chota Usman.

United States Congress Passed Landmark Bill

The US House has passed the most-awaited landmark bill to overhaul the country’s health care system today by a vote of 219 to 212.

The Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.

‘This is what change looks like’, Obama said a few moments later in televised remarks.
Widely viewed as dead two months ago, the Senate-passed bill cleared the House on a 219-212 vote. Republicans were unanimous in opposition, joined by 34 dissident Democrats.

For the first time, most Americans would be required to purchase insurance, and face penalties if they refused. Much of the money in the bill would be devoted to subsidies to help families at incomes of up to $88,000 a year pay their premiums.

For the president, the events capped an 18-day stretch in which he traveled to four states and lobbied more than 60 wavering lawmakers in person or by phone to secure passage of his signature domestic issue. Obama watched the vote in the White House’s Roosevelt Room with Vice President Joe Biden and dozens of aides, exchanged high fives with Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, and then telephoned Speaker Nancy Pelosi with congratulations. ‘We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things’, Obama said.

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