Curfew continues in several parts of Kashmir Valley

State administration on Friday imposed curfew and restrictions in several parts of the Valley even as life remained normal for second consecutive day elsewhere. At least fifteen people, including eight troopers and cops were injured in fresh clashes.
Meanwhile, women in Held Kashmir have started a signature movement against Indian brutality in the region. Dr. Attiya Inayatullah inaugurated the movement in Muzaffarabad. These signed documents would be sent to President Obama and Indian PM Manmohan Singh through Pakistani High Commissions. Obama would be appealed to play his role to force the Indian government to end manhandling of women in the Indian-Occupied Kashmir.

Curfew continues in several parts of Kashmir Valley

State administration on Friday imposed curfew and restrictions in several parts of the Valley even as life remained normal for second consecutive day elsewhere. At least fifteen people, including eight troopers and cops were injured in fresh clashes.
Meanwhile, women in Held Kashmir have started a signature movement against Indian brutality in the region. Dr. Attiya Inayatullah inaugurated the movement in Muzaffarabad. These signed documents would be sent to President Obama and Indian PM Manmohan Singh through Pakistani High Commissions. Obama would be appealed to play his role to force the Indian government to end manhandling of women in the Indian-Occupied Kashmir.

Lakki Marwat: Police foils suicide attack, 15 hurt

Police killed a suicide bomber and destroyed an explosive-filled vehicle in Jabukhel area of Laki Marwat, Dunya News reported on Monday.
Some 15 people also got injured during police action.
According to police sources, there was information that a double-cabin may enter the city for suicide bombing. On the tip-off, police were put on guard since morning with pickets erected on various places to stop any such vehicle. According to police sources, a police beckoned an explosive-packed vehicle to stop at a check point in Jabukhel area; however, driver did not stop. To stop the suspected vehicle, police opened fire, causing the explosives on board vehicle to go off with a loud bang, killing the suicide bomber as well. As a result of the loud explosion, at least six houses caved in, where 15 including eight women and four kids were injured.The blast caused a four-foot deep and 20-foot wide crater. Later on, all entry and exit points of the city have been closed.

Suicide bomber kills at least one in Tajikistan

DUSHANBE: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police station in northern Tajikistan on Friday, killing at least one person and wounding 20, a police source said.

“There were people in the buiding and it’s now burning,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.

He said the death toll was likely to rise but that it was not immediately clear if the dead included the suicide bomber.

The attack occurred in Khujand, about 340 km (211 miles) north of the capital Dushanbe and near the border with Uzbekistan.

Governments in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia are clamping down on what they see as growing radicalism in the predominantly Muslim, though secular, region after a rise in clashes between security forces and armed groups

Tajikistan, which has a porous 1,340-km (832 miles) border with Afghanistan, has jailed 115

Stalled funding hits Pakistan aid effort: UN

THATTA: Relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan are being stretched by the ‘unprecedented scale’ of the disaster, with the flow of international aid almost at a standstill, the UN said Thursday.

Thousands remained trapped by floodwaters in the hardest-hit southern province of Sindh, while others complained of going without food or water for days and some were being forced to live in the rubble of their ruined homes.

Although the initially slow pace of aid had improved since a visit by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in mid-August, the UN said it had “almost stalled” since the beginning of last week, rising from 274 million dollars to 291 million dollars — about two thirds of aid needs.

The deluge has engulfed an area the size of England, affecting more than 18 million people, including eight million who are dependent on aid handouts to

200 feared dead in Brazil mudslides

NITEROI: Some 200 people were feared dead after being buried in mudslides near Rio de Janeiro, officials said Thursday, bringing new tragedy to Brazil following massive floods which have already killed more than 150.

“From what the neighbors said, some 200 people may be buried, but it is not clear, there could be more,” local fire chief Pedro Machado told media Thursday as crews battled to dig through mudslides in Niteroi, a city across the bay from the city of Rio.

Twenty-five people, including eight small children, were pulled out alive on Thursday after spending hours buried under mud and debris.

The rescues fueled new hope for anxious relatives desperate to find their loved ones, as 150 rescue workers — soldiers, firefighters and civil defense workers armed with spades and pickaxes — searched for more survivors.

Six bodies had been recovered following the mudslide late Wednesday in a Niteroi slum.

But firefighters said there was little chance of finding survivors after part of the hillside fell away and slid some 700 meters (yards) swallowing everything in its path, including 50 houses, a day-care center and a pizzeria.

The death toll on Thursday rose to 157 in floods and mudslides around Rio since it was hit Monday by the worst rains in half a century.

Most of the casualties were trapped in landslides in the slums around Rio, a metropolis of some 16 million people that will host the World Cup football tournament in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Clash in S Waziristan, 11 Militants killed

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Clash in S Waziristan, 11 Militants killed was first posted on October 27, 2009 at 3:16 pm.