Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Blast kills three militants, one police in Karachi

KARACHI: A bomb blast blew up a “High-roof” vehicle near Village restaurant at Sea View and killed three militants and a police official on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.
According to the Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan the alleged militants, riding Suzuki High-Roof, blew themselves up on being stopped for the routine search by the police.
The home minister, who reached at the blast site without delay, said the security had been increased in the area specially around the Abdullah Shah Ghazi Shrine amid fear of further attacks after the blast.

Three alleged terrorists were killed

KARACHI: Three alleged terrorists were killed when a vehicle blew up with a powerful blast here in Defence area on Wednesday, Geo News reported.

According to police, a suspicious vehicle (Suzuki Bolan) in which the alleged terrorists were traveling was chased by two policemen. On seeing the police approaching the terrorists detonated the explosives, blowing up the vehicle.

All the three terrorists were killed while the two policemen who chased the vehicle sustained injuries in the incident, police said.

The vehicle was completely destroyed in the blast and the law enforcement agencies have cordoned off the area.

Rescue and emergency response teams have reached at the site of the incident.

Mirza to address House of Lords today

Zulfiqar Mirza is expected to address House of Lords today.


LONDON: Sindh’s former interior minister Zulfiqar Mirza on Wednesday contacted the officials of Scotland Yard and said he would be holding a meeting with the officials on Monday.
Chief pattern of Friends of Lyari, Habib Jan had confirmed the development to the DawnNews and said that Mirza would address House of Lords today at 11pm, Pakistan time.
The provincial information minister Sharjeel Memon and Imdad Patafi, an MPA, would accompany Mirza during the address.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Peoples Party’s top leadership had shown its anger over the presence of Memon and Patafi in London with Mirza.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah had taken strict notice of the incident and it was decided that show-cause notices will be issued to the two PPP lawmakers.
After the serious concerns shown by the leadership, Memon had decided to return to Pakistan and said he would be coming back through the first available flight.

TOP NEWS FROM PAKISTAN: US president Barack Obama Wednesday said he would ...

TOP NEWS FROM PAKISTAN: US president Barack Obama Wednesday said he would ...: US president Barack Obama Wednesday said he would be pushing for greater efforts by the emerging economies on global warming. CANBERRA...
US president Barack Obama Wednesday said he would be pushing for greater efforts by the emerging economies on global warming.

CANBERRA: US president Barack Obama on Wednesday said he would be pushing for greater efforts by the emerging economies on global warming at coming climate talks in South Africa, which he warned would be a “tough slog”.
Obama described Australia’s carbon tax, passed into law last week, as a “bold strategy” to tackle pollution and said he would be advocating that countries like China and India take greater responsibility at Durban.
“The advanced economies can’t do this alone, and I will continue to insist on this when we go to Durban, is that if we are taking a series of steps then it’s important that emerging economies like China and India are also part of the bargain,” he said.
“It doesn’t mean that they have to do exactly what we do, we understand that in terms of per capita carbon emissions they’ve got a long way to go before they catch up to us, but it does mean that they’ve got to take seriously their responsibilities as well,” he told reporters on a trip to Australia.
High-level climate talks, due to start in Durban on November 28 under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, are being called a make-or-break meeting for legally binding carbon emission reduction targets.
“Ultimately what we want is a mechanism whereby all countries are making an effort and it’s going to be a tough slog, particularly at a time when a lot of economies are still struggling, but I think it’s actually one that in the long-term can be beneficial,” Obama said.
UNFCCC negotiations have made little progress since the stormy Copenhagen Summit of December 2009, which skirted disaster as leaders squabbled over how to share out cuts in carbon emissions.
“As we go forward over the next several years my hope is that the United States, as one of several countries with a big carbon footprint, can find further ways to reduce our carbon emissions,” Obama said.
“I think that’s good for the world. I actually think over the long-term it’s good for our economies as well.”
China and fellow major developing countries Brazil, India and South Africa in August issued a joint call for the Durban talks to extend the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States is the only major nation to have rejected.

At least 15 dead in South Waziristan drone strike


MIRAMSHAH: A salvo of missiles fired by US drones destroyed a Pakistani Taliban base on Wednesday, killing at least 15 suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal badlands on the Afghan border, officials said. Up to 10 missiles slammed into the sprawling compound in the Baber Ghar area of South Waziristan, killing between 15 and 18 militants, most of whom were reported to be local Taliban fighters, the Pakistani security officials said. Five US drones carried out the attack, one of the officials told AFP. “The target was a base of Pakistan Taliban. We have reports that 16 to 18 militants were killed in the attack,” the official told AFP in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Another official in Peshawar put the death toll at 15. But a third official in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, said 16 militants were killed, while also confirming that the target was a base of Pakistan’s umbrella Taliban faction, Tehreek-e-Taliban. “I have reports that some foreigners were also killed,” the official told AFP. Pakistani officials typically use the word “foreigner” to denote al Qaeda and Uzbek Islamist militants. “The area is far-flung and deep in the mountains. We are having difficulties in getting complete information,” the same official added. Officials said the attack took place at around 2:30 am about three kilometres from the border of Afghanistan’s Paktia province, one of the flashpoints in the 10-year Taliban insurgency. Wednesday’s strike was the 63rd so far this year, according to an AFP tally. On Tuesday, six militants were reported killed in a similar drone strike in Miramshah, the main town of the adjacent North Waziristan district.