ATC awarded 69 times death sentence to terrorist

ATC awarded 69 times death sentence to terrorist updates.

An anti-terrorism court has awarded death sentence on 69 counts to Hameedullah Khan, who was arrested after the two suicide blasts outside Pakistan Ordinance Factories Wah in which 69 factory workers were killed.

ATC-II Raja Ikhlaq Hussain gave Hameedullah death sentence as he was part of a four suicide bombers team, which carried out two blasts outside the gates of POF on August 21, 2008.

The court sentenced him death for killing 69 people with a fine of Rs 200,000 on 69 counts, life term jail for conspiring to carry out the blasts, 10-year jail term on 44 counts for attempting to kill more people with Rs 100, 000 fine on 35 counts and 10 more years jail for injuring 70 people.

The court in the same case declared another accused Maqsood Ahmed as proclaimed offender.

Minister rules out veil ban in Britain

LONDON: Britain was “very unlikely” to introduce a ban on Muslim women wearing face-covering veils despite widespread public support for such a move, Immigration Minister Damian Green said.

He told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that a ban similar to that approved in France, and which a poll on Friday showed was backed by 67 percent of Britons, was a “rather un-British thing to do”.

A fellow Conservative lawmaker had earlier said he refused to meet female constituents who wore the face veil and had proposed a law to ban the practice.

However, Green said: “Telling people what they can and can”t wear, if they”re just walking down the street, is a rather un-British thing to do. We”re a tolerant and mutually respectful society.”

The immigration minister acknowledged there were occasions when it was important to be able to see someone”s face.

“But I think it”s very unlikely and it would be undesirable for the British parliament to try and pass a law dictating what people wore,” he said.

Green added that unlike France, Britain was not “aggressively secular”.

This week French lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to ban face-covering veils in public, in a bill which will go to the Senate for approval.

Philip Hollobone, a member of parliament (MP) from Prime Minister David Cameron”s Conservative party, said Saturday that he demands women remove their face veils when they visit him in his constituency in central England.

“If she said: ”No”, I would take the view that she could see my face, I could not see hers, I am not able to satisfy myself she is who she says she is,” he told the Independent newspaper.

Latest drug violence kills 15 in northern Mexico

CIUDAD JUAREZ: The latest spate of drug-related violence in northern Mexico left 15 people dead, including five factory workers near the US border, officials said Saturday.

The Chihuahua state prosecutor said the workers were gunned down when armed men burst into a party at a house in Ciudad Juarez late Friday.

Ciudad Juarez, which borders El Paso, Texas, is a key battleground for drug traffickers seeking routes to the United States. It is also home to many factories, called maquiladoras, for US firms that can use Mexican workers.

Six other violent deaths were recorded in Ciudad Juarez, including a man and his daughter, who were shot by gunmen who entered his home early Saturday, authorities said.

In other municipalities of Chihuahua, which shares a long border with Texas, there were four killings late Friday, prosecutors said.

Late Thursday, a car bomb detonated on a police convoy killed four people and injured 11 in the border town”s first such attack.

Violence linked to drug cartels has left 7,000 people dead so far this year in Mexico, compared with 9,000 killed in all of 2009.

Nearly 25,000 people have died in suspected drug violence since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown on organized crime three and a half years ago, according to official figures released Friday.

Bus fire in central China kills 24

BEIJING: A fire on a shuttle bus carrying steel factory workers in central China killed 24 people and injured 19, state media reported Monday.

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Salaries Payments Railway Carriage Factory Worker’s Starts

RAWALPINDI: On the directives of Chairman Railway, payment of salaries to carriage factory workers has begun.

According to factory management, payments will continue till tonight and all the workers will be paid.

Meanwhile, Railway officials and Railway police personnel left for Sabzi Mandi police station to get free more than 100 employees arrested by police.

Earlier, factory workers had blocked the IJ Principal Road in protest against non-payment of salaries and hurled stones on Geo News van present at the scene for coverage and other vehicles.

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Salaries Payments Railway Carriage Factory Worker’s Starts was first posted on September 11, 2009 at 1:07 pm.
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