Gilgit Baltistan: mysterious explosions underground, unusual movement of mountains

Mountains have started sliding in the district of Gahazar in Gilgit Baltistan, News Trends reported on Monday. Underground mysterious explosions have also taken place while stone-rain has demolished atleast 5 houses in the area. Great fears prevail in the local residents.

Mysterious explosions were being heard from quite some time in the district of Ghazar and as a result stone-rain was also continuously taking place in the area. Last night a huge explosion took place in a mountain in the area and a large number of stones started rolling down. This caused chaos a nd fear in the local people who left their respective houses and came out. People ran desperately to save their lives. The explosions have caused big crakes in the mountain while some water falls have also erupted out of it.

Cylinder explosion kills one in Karak

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KARAK: At least one person has been killed and four others wounded when an explosion took place in a shop, SAMAA reported Monday.

According to police, the explosion was caused by a gas cylinder blast in a puncture shop situated in village Mandha Wah.

The local people turned frightened and harassed as explosion was so powerful.

The dead body of the one deceased victim and four other Injured have been shifted to the district hospital of Karak. SAMAA

Inmate died in Jhang jail

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JHANG: An inmate died on Friday in the district jail Jhang due to lack of medical facilities.

Sources told that Qaisar Abbas was arrested by Shor Kot police and was sent to the district jail.

Abbas was not feeling well in the morning but he was not provided timely medical treatment in the jail therefore he died.

His relatives alleged that Abbas died because of police torture. SAMAA

Three soldiers killed in South Waziristan

Militants attacked a Pakistani military convoy on Tuesday, killing three soldiers in the tribal badlands of Waziristan on the Afghan border, a security official said.
The attack took place in the Kalundar Keley area of South Waziristan, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of the district’s main town Wana.
Militants attacked a security force patrol on Tuesday in Kalundar Keley area, killing three troops and wounding two others, a senior security official in the area told.
The official said an earlier roadside bomb attack in the same area wounded two more soldiers. A second security official confirmed the deaths.

Maulana Ludhyanvi held from Jhang

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JHANG: Police have apprehended the chief of Ahl-e Sunnat-Wal Jamaat, Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhyanvi Friday.

Police arrested Maulana Ludhyanvi from the central secretariat of the organization.

He has been shifted to the district jail, police say. SAMAA

Poverty claims two lives in Mandi Bahauddin

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MANDI BAHAUDDIN: Frustrated by poverty and domestic problems, a husband and wife committed suicide by consuming poisonous pills in Mandi Bahauddin District in Punjab on Monday.

“Mehmud Ayaz, a laborer, and his wife Nazia committed suicide over some domestic problems,” the district police officer, Dar Ali Khatak, confirmed.

On receiving information about the incident, some close neighbors shifted the bodies to Civil Hospital. However, they had already died.

The devastated parents of three children were residents of Shafqatabad colony. SAMAA

Multan: Train-Rickshaw Collision kills 5 In Shuja-abad

At least five people are killed as a train crashed into a rickshaw in Shuja-abad, division of Multan. The incident happened due to an open-gate railway crossing near Basti Daad Wala where a rickshaw ignorantly found itself in the way of a speedy train (Shah Alam Express). Four women (passengers) and rickshaw driver got killed on the spot while two minors (girls) miraculously escaped death.
Relatives of the victims staged protest and called Railway officials responsible for the incident.
The bodies were transferred to the district general hospital, Shuja-abad.

Clinton warns N Korea against provocation

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned North Korea Wednesday to halt what she called its provocations and threats, and said the world must respond to its sinking of a South Korean warship.
Clinton, who is visiting Seoul to show solidarity amid rising inter-Korean tensions, also said the United States was reviewing additional options to hold the North accountable.

Pakistan Taliban ‘attack eastern Afghan district’

Seven Taliban and two policemen have been killed in the fighting in eastern Afghan province of Nuristan. Officials say nearly 300 insurgents led by Pakistani Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah entered the area this week.
Maulana Fazlullah led the Taliban in Pakistan’s north-western Swat valley until a military offensive in 2009. The Pakistani military retook the area and he was reported to have been killed, but in an interview in November Maulana Fazlullah said that he had escaped to Afghanistan.
The Afghan interior ministry spokesman said that police in Nuristan had asked the authorities in Kabul for support and forces had been sent to help them.
Officials have described the attack on Barg-e-Matal district as brazen. Nuristan governor Jamaloddin Badr said intense fighting was still raging in the district between police and Maulana Fazlullah’s men.
Reports say the insurgents attacked the district government building and a small police force has been trying to hold them off.
Gen Mohammad Qasim Jangulbagh, the provincial police chief, told the Associated Press: There are many fewer police than attackers but we have the locals helping us.
He said police had asked for reinforcements, but they were still to arrive. Tribal areas in north-western Pakistan have long been seen as a safe haven for Taliban militants who cross the border to launch attacks in Afghanistan.

Detained US citizens refute terror allegations

SARGODHA: Anti-Terrorism Court special judge Mian Anwar Nazir has ordered the prosecution and police officials to present evidence against arrested American citizens on May 21.

The hearing of five American suspects started at the district jail under strict security. Earlier, an American consulate delegation, led by Hillary Andre, had a meeting with American suspects Ramzi Zam Zam, Waqar Hussain, Umer Farooq, Aman and Abdullah at the district jail.

It has been learnt the American accused rejected all allegations against them levelled by police.

The judge put off the hearing until June 9 and ordered Hassan Dastagir advocate to produce witnesses.

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