LJ claims suicide attack that kills 11

QUETTA: A suicide bomber killed 11 people, including a TV journalist and senior police officials, in an attack inside a hospital in Quetta on Friday. Banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed the attack.

A member of parliament from the Pakistan People”s Party was among the scores wounded in the attack outside the emergency ward of the hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, officials said.

“Eleven people, including two senior police officials, were killed in the attack and another 47 wounded,” police and hospitals sources said.

A cameraman from the private TV news channel was among the dead while five other reporters sustained injuries.

They were in the hospital to cover the arrival of the body of a man killed in a drive-by shooting earlier in the day.

Another senior police official said it was a suicide attack and a severed head had been found at the scene. It had not been verified that it was the bomber”s head.

Police said 15 kg (33 lb) of explosives were used in the bomb that badly damaged the emergency ward building. Broken window glass and pools of bloods marked the scene of the attack.

SC has authority to prevent misuse of power: CJP

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Friday asserted that the Supreme Court has authority to examine irregularities of government and its departments and to prevent abuse of power.

Addressing the National Judicial Conference here at the Supreme Court building, the CJP said: “We are accountable before Allah Almighty and the nation.”

Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the judiciary’s duty is not in clash with the executive and the administration and the Parliament should carry out legislation in light of the powers laid out in the Constitution.

“The democratic set up should have a mechanism of check and balance and the judiciary must distance itself from political process and function in an honest manner,” he stressed.

He said some of the law institutions are not imparting standard education and directed judges to dispose of cases within stipulated time. Cases of women, elderly and weak be settled on priority basis, the CJP directed.

Sugar reserves reduces to 200,000 tons as crisis continues

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Bulls contribute 106 points to 100 Index

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Textile minister ensures resolving industry problems

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