Posts Tagged ‘Sui’

Record civilian death toll in Afghan war last year: UN

A record number civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s decade-long war last year, with a dramatic rise in the number of deaths from suicide attacks, the United Nations reported Saturday.

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Woman kills to save ‘honour’

LAHORE – A woman clubbed her brother-in-law to death, burned the body and made hue and cry that he committed suicide. Nadia Bibi, of the Factory Area, told the police on Thursday, that Akram Maseeh, a resident of Model Colony in Walton Road, wanted to establish illicit relations with her.
Investigators said Akram Maseeh had been living in a house located yards away from the houses of his …

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Suicide hit kills three Ansar commanders

PESHAWAR – At least three commanders of the banned outfit Ansar-ul-Islam were killed and eight others including two children were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the house of a commander in Pakha Ghulam area of Peshawar. Police sources said the house was owned by Haji Akhunzada, a commander of Ansar-ul-Islam in Khyber Agency. The blast created panic in the area and badly …

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At least 3 killed, 8 injured in Peshawar suicide attack

At least three people were killed and eight injured as a result of a suicide attack in the Pakha Ghullam area of Peshawar Monday, private TV reported. According to initial reports, the explosion took place at a under construction house belonging to the leader of a banned organization. Among the eight injured two are children.

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Balochistan MPAs call for ending gas loadshedding

QUETTA, Jan 28: The Balochistan Assembly passed a resolution on Saturday, asking the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to end forthwith gas loadshedding in Quetta and other districts of the province.

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France to withdraw from Afghanistan early

PARIS – President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that France would pull its forces out of Afghanistan a year earlier than planned. After meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Paris, Sarkozy said France had decided to transfer security in the eastern Kapisa province to Afghan forces from March of this year.
“The pursuit of the transition and this gradual transfer of combat responsibilities …

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England 39-4 at tea in pursuit of 146

Recalled spinner Monty Panesar took six wickets, leaving England only 145 runs to win the second test and square the series.

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Suicide car bomb outside Baghdad hospital kills 31

A suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed car hit a funeral procession in Zafraniyah, confirmed an interior ministry official.

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FC man killed in Dera Bugti

QUETTA – A Frontier Corps man was killed and four others wounded when unidentified gunmen attacked them in Sui area of Dera Bugti district on Friday.
According to reports, the armed men opened indiscriminate fire on the personnel of FC in Uch Field in Sui tehsil, killing an official and wounding another three. The deceased was identified as Haider Zaman. The forces cordoned off the area and …

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Suicide car bomber kills 28 in Baghdad

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 28 people in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal, officials said. Police officials said the blast occurred at 11:00 a.m. local time in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, where mourners had gathered for the funeral of a person …

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Afghan car bomber hits Nato convoy

kabul   – A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah on Thursday, killing at least four civilians and wounding 34 others including three foreigners, an official said. The bomber hit a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) convoy near the education department in what is the provincial capital of Helmand, a focus of attacks by Taliban …

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5 FC personnel killed in Dera Bugti

At least five troops of Frontier Corps (FC) were killed when some unidentified militants attacked a check post here in Dera Bugti on Thursday.
According to police sources, a group of militants ambushed at FC check post in Sui area of Dera Bugti with automatic weapons and opened fire at security forces, killing five troops on the spot.
The assailants managed to flee from the scene after the …

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Memo commission summons Malik over ‘controversial’ statements

The commission probing the memogate scandal has resumed the hearing of the case and said that Mansoor Ijaz is the prime witness in the case, therefore, his security should be ensured, report said on Tuesday. Ijaz’s counsel, Akram Shaikh, said that his client was receiving threats from the government machinery. Shaikh said government’s representatives were issuing threatening …

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Financially-hit father of four drinks poison to end his life

LAHORE – A 40-year-old shopkeeper committed suicide by drinking poisonous chemicals here in Shahdara area, police said on Monday.
The deceased’s family told the police investigators that Abdul Razzaq committed suicide because he suffered huge financial loss in his business. He was running a shop in Urdu Bazaar.
Father of four, Abdul Razzaq, got dejected and took poisonous chemicals …

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Nato soldier among 13 dead in Afghan violence

KABUL – At least 13 people, including five Afghan border police, a NATO soldier and two would-be suicide bombers were killed across Afghanistan Saturday, officials said. T
he border guards died when their vehicle was ambushed in Gulran district of Hirat province in western Afghanistan, General Sulaiman, the commander of rapid reaction forces in the area, told AFP. “The vehicle first hit a …

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Thirteen killed in Afghan violence

At least 13 people, including five Afghan border police, a Nato soldier and two would-be suicide bombers were killed across Afghanistan Saturday, officials said.

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Defamation suit filed

KARACHI, Jan 20: Mairaj Mohammad Khan, one of the founders of Pakistan People’s Party, has filed a Rs100 million defamation suit in the Sindh High Court against the owner and two employees of a news channel.

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