US envoy likely to attend Hiroshima ceremony
July 28, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
TOKYO: US President Barack Obama will likely send an envoy to a ceremony next week marking the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the first US government official to attend the event, media said Wednesday.
US ambassador John Roos is expected to lay a floral wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on August 6, the 65th anniversary of the World War II bombing that helped force Japan”s surrender on August 15, reports said. The US embassy in Tokyo did not confirm the reports. Japan is the only nation to have been attacked with atomic bombs.
More than 140,000 people were killed instantly in Hiroshima or died in the days and weeks after the US attack. Three days later a US plane dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing more than 70,000 people.
President Zardari Pays Homage to Quaid-e-Azam
KARACHI, Pakistan News: President Asif Ali Zardari, Friday visited the Mazar of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to pay homage to the founder of Pakistan on the occasion of his birth anniversary.
The President, who was accompanied by Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan, laid a floral wreath at the Mazar-e-Quaid and offered fateha.
Meanwhile, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah along with cabinet ministers also visited the Mazar of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to pay homage to the founder of Pakistan.
They laid floral wreaths at the Quaid’s Mazar and offered fateha.
President Zardari Pays Homage to Quaid-e-Azam was first posted on December 25, 2009 at 9:07 pm.
