Zardari condemns Lakki Marwat attack

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Condemning today’s car bomb blast at a police station in Lakki Marwat, President Asif Ali Zardari termed the attack a cowardly act of terrorism.

In a statement issued from the President House on Monday, President Zardari said his government, police and nation are fully determined to root out the menace of militancy.

Describing the martyred policemen as national heroes, he said the government would leave no stone unturned for the complete elimination of terrorism.

He directed authorities to provide the best treatment available to injured policemen.

At least 17 people, including nine policemen, were killed and several others injured following a powerful suicide car attack at a police station in Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa early Monday morning. SAMAA

White House notes Iran nuclear deal skeptically

WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday showed deep skepticism about Iran’s new deal to ship low-enriched uranium off its soil, saying it has the chance to be a positive step but warning that the deal still allows Iran to keep enriching uranium toward the pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

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Blast in Nepal, 3 Dead

KATHMANDU: Blast in Nepal, 3 Dead, Three people were killed and two others injured on Monday when a bomb suspected by police to be a left-over from Nepal’s civil war went off in the southwest of the country, officials said.

“Three people of a same family died on the spot and two were seriously injured,” police officer Prabin Adhikari, told media from Chitwan district, 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Kathmandu.

The blast occurred while the family was working on the field at the back of their house on Monday morning, according to police.

“We suspect the bomb must have been left unattended on the field during the armed conflict,” Adhikari said.

Rebel Maoists waged a 10-year war against the government until a peace deal was struck in 2006.

Many unexploded bombs litter the country, left in villages and jungles during the conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 16,000 people.

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Blast in Nepal, 3 Dead was first posted on December 28, 2009 at 1:06 pm.