London: Police arrest 42 after riots

Police make arrests after London disturbances and looting and vandalism hits shops and council premises. Groups of youths attacked shops and damaged a police car in north London as police sent in reinforcements to prevent more rioting on the scale that laid waste to another area of the British capital 24 hours earlier.

Scattered incidents broke out on Sunday evening in Enfield, a few miles north of the deprived London neighbourhood of Tottenham, which was hit by some of the worst riots seen in London for years on Saturday night after a protest over the fatal shooting of a man by armed police earlier in the week turned violent.

Three shops were damaged, and two of them looted, in Enfield and the rear window of a police car was smashed, police said, adding that several people had been arrested.

Fire engines were still on site of smouldering buildings, with bricks littering the roads and burglar alarms still ringing.

Earlier in the day in Tottenham, an area with large numbers of ethnic minorities and high unemployment, workers began cleaning up shops trashed by looters and police sealed off a main street to investigate crime scenes after rioters throwing petrol bombs set fire to police patrol cars, buildings and a double-decker bus.

Police said 26 officers had been injured as rioters bombarded them with missiles and bottles, looted buildings including banks, shops and council offices, and torched three patrol cars near Tottenham police station.

At least 42 people have already been arrested, with police anticipating further arrests.

Huge quake rocks Pakistan overnight

ISLAMABAD: A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook southwestern Pakistan early on Wednesday, jolting residents of cities as far apart as Delhi and Dubai, but the epicentre was far from major population centres.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was more than 80 km underground, close to the town of Dalbandin in Baluchistan province, near the Afghan and Iranian frontiers.

Poor communications ensured there were no immediate reports from the vicinity of the quake, but despite the major strength of the shock, the great depth may have limited damage. The USGS had first said that the earthquake was very much shallower.

The USGS said the epicentre was 55 km (34 miles) west of Dalbandin, a town of about 15,000 people, and at a depth of 83km (52 miles).

In Dalbandin, several people were injured when the roofs of their houses collapsed.

Explosion in Peshawar mosque

Peshawar:- Explosion in Peshawar mosque reported by trendpk.Com.

2 killed, 10 injured in blast 2 people heve been killed while 10 were injured in the blast inside a mosque in Pushtkhara, Peshawar on Friday.

According to the initial reports, several people had been offering the Juma prayer when the blast occurred. The nature of the blast is yet to be confirmed. Police and rescue teams have reached the place and started the relief activities. The injured are being shifted to the nearby hospital.

Anjaana Anjaani postponed further?

With the Ayodhya verdict deferred to next week, rumours started flying fast and furious within the industry that ANJAANA ANJAANI has been postponed yet again. The film was pushed from 24th September to 1st October and was now rescheduled for 8th October. The news gave panic attacks to several people in the film industry, especially film producers whose films are slated to release in October. A further postponement of ANJAANA ANJAANI would only mean that the release schedule would go haywire, yet again.

However, ANJAANA ANJAANI producer Sajid Nadiadwala denied he had decided to shift the film any further. “There’s no truth to these rumours. I am not pushing the film ahead. ANJAANA ANJAANI is confirmed for 1st October and that’s final,” the enterprising producer put an end to all speculation.

Drug addict kills five in Hangu

Some five people got killed when a drug addict opened fire in Darsamand, Hangu, Dunya News reported on Wednesday.
Reportedly, several people were gathered to rejoice over the birth of twins at the house of a man identified as Gul Hasan in Darsamand, when suddenly a man namely Sharif opened fire.
As a result, five people inlcuding Luqman, Shafique, Gul Hassan, Qadar Mast and Naseeb Mast died on the spot. Police are investigating.

Drug addict kills five in Hangu

Some five people got killed when a drug addict opened fire in Darsamand, Hangu, Dunya News reported on Wednesday.
Reportedly, several people were gathered to rejoice over the birth of twins at the house of a man identified as Gul Hasan in Darsamand, when suddenly a man namely Sharif opened fire.
As a result, five people inlcuding Luqman, Shafique, Gul Hassan, Qadar Mast and Naseeb Mast died on the spot. Police are investigating.

Pak army opens road links between Sindh and Balochistan

Staff Report

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army Engineers have opened the road links between Sindh and Balochistan from Dera Murad Jamali, Mangoli, Goth Jani, Ahmed Pur, Dolat Pur and Garhi Rahim Dad up to Thal for all types of traffic, and have also plugged the breaches in Muzaffargarh Canal and Rang

Pur Canal.

Army engineers, in collaboration with the civil government are working on opening the road link between Dera Allah Yar and Jacobabad.

Army engineers have plugged the breaches at Tori near Ghora Ghat and Ghuspur in Sindh.

The Pakistan army has evacuated 2,784 people from flood affected areas of Johi, Mehar and Dadu to safer places. The army distributed 86 tons of dry rations and provided cooked food to 34,447 people in Sajawal, Bathoro and Shiharpur in the last 24 hours.

40 trucks carrying 20,000 special Eid packages containing

Nawaz Sharif losing grip on his party: Awan

Staff Report

KARACHI: Federal Law Minister Babar Awan has said that Takht-e-Lahore (Throne of Lahore referring to PML-N leaders) has always practiced a politics of hypocrisy.

Addressing a press conference in Karachi today (Tuesday), he said that Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) would not field any candidate against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif if he decided to contest election.

He said that Nawaz Sharif should not be afraid of the losses he had to suffer at the hands of PPP in Punjab’s by-election.

Nawaz Sharif is losing grip on his party, he commented.

“What will be the security situation of a province, where an absconder is given the task to arrest other absconders?” he questioned.

Awan said that law and order situation in Punjab had deteriorated after appointment of Rana Maqbool as Public Prosecution Department secretary. SAMAA

WHO medicines for Charsaddah flood victims being replaced

Staff Reported

PESHAWAR: World class medicines provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) for flood victims of Charsaddah are being replaced with substandard, local drugs, SAMAA reported on Tuesday.

According to sources, the WHO and various other welfare organizations are constantly providing medicines in bulk to the Health Department Charsaddah for the treatment of epidemics and other diseases in the surrounding flood hit areas.

These world class medicines are not being given to the deserving patients, and are deceitfully being replaced by the local, low grade drugs.

It was learnt that a team of medical experts at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Islamabad, handed over a bulk of WHO medicines, for a free Charsaddah medical camp of PIMS, to the EDO of Charsaddah Health Department.

When the same team from PIMS reached

Car bomb kills 21 in Kohat

Staff Report

KOHAT: At least 21 people were killed and over a dozen wounded on Tuesday after a car packed with explosives struck a residential complex of police officers in Kohat on Tuesday.

Women and children are among the dead.

The blast was so powerful that it demolished several houses and smashed windowpanes of nearby buildings.

The death toll could rise as several people were reportedly trapped under the debris of collapsed houses. Twelve women, two children and three men were shifted to nearby hospitals.

The nature of the blast is not yet clear.

SAMAA’s Kohat office is also among several buildings collapsed in the blast.

Speaking to SAMAA, Kohat commissioner Khalid Khan said that efforts were under way to pull the stranded people out of debris.

Meanwhile, security agencies cordoned off the area and started

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