Action plane ready for Karachi peace

Staff Report

KARACHI: The Sindh Home Department has made an action plan as peace could be revived in the city, SAMAA reported Thursday.

While talking to SAMAA, Sharfuddin Memon, the advisor on the interior, told that the government will conduct the operation for the recovery of the weapons, if they do not hand over voluntarily.

He said that the government will give reward to those who provide information about men involved in the target killings. He said that culprits would be appeared before the special courts. SAMAA

Five killed, including four police, in Baghdad attacks

BAGHDAD: A spate of bomb attacks in and around Baghdad Sunday morning killed five people, including four policemen, and wounded 24 others, security officials said.

In the deadliest explosion, a suicide car bomb outside a police station killed four policemen and wounded 12 other police officials in Al-Amil district, in the south of the capital.

The blast occurred at around 8:00 am (0500 GMT), officials from the interior and defence ministries said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

And in central Baghdad”s Allawi neighbourhood, an electrical engineer was killed when a magnetic “sticky bomb” attached to his car detonated. Two others were wounded in the attack, the interior ministry official said.

Two other people were wounded in a roadside bomb targeting a police convoy in Baghdad Jadidah (“New Baghdad” in Arabic), in the west of the city.

And in Mahmudiyah, 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of the capital, eight people were wounded in another roadside bomb attack near the town”s municipal council offices.

Iraqi government figures showed that 337 people were killed as a result of violence in May, the fourth time this year where the overall death toll has been higher than the same month in 2009.

Belgian air traffic slowly resumes

BRUSSELS: Air traffic in Belgium, which has been disrupted by volcanic ash from Iceland, partially resumed early Tuesday with landings only authorised after 0600 GMT, the interior ministry said.

The main international airport in Brussels and smaller ones in Charleroi and Liege were expected to be at full landing capacity at midday, with take-offs being authorised after 1200 GMT, spokesman Jan Pauwels said.

However the main Brussels airport”s Internet site said that some flights would leave Tuesday morning for destinations in Africa.

Senior government officials were also due to meet Tuesday to examine measures to help get home some 33,000 Belgians caught abroad by the chaos caused by the closure of much European airspace on April 15.

The government is considering whether to use military planes.

Minister asks Pak ambassador to get back Shoaib’s passport

ISLAMABAD: Federal interior minister Rehman Malik has contacted Pakistan high commissioner in India Shahid Malik on phone to get back Shoaib Malik’s passport.

Here in a statement on Sunday, the interior minister said that the Pakistan high commissioner in New Delhi has been directed to take immediate action for getting Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik back his passport, seized by Indian police.

Rehman Malik Bail Plea Filed in LHC

LAHORE, Pakistan News: Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik has filed a bail plea in Lahore High Court in a corruption case.Chief Justice LHC Justice Khwaja Sharif will hear the bail plea of the interior minister.Khwaja Naveed, the counsel of Rehman Malik, submitted the copy of a bail order from Supreme Court in NAB reference in accountability court in Karachi.The counsel said he will submit a plea of Rehman Malik in the court for reprieve from appearing before the court.

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Rehman Malik Bail Plea Filed in LHC was first posted on December 22, 2009 at 2:36 pm.