DTN News: Pakistan Top Stories/ Headlines News Dated September 20, 2012

DTN News: Pakistan Top Stories/ Headlines News Dated September 20, 2012
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Dawn - Pakistan, Telegraph U.K., Google News & DTN News Images
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Learning from the past

Hate by the textbook

By playing with the minds of our children we are giving rise to a society where the rights of anyone who is not a Pakistani and a Sunni Muslim are irrelevant.

• » The enemy of convenience
• » Seven long decades – II
• » Fanning the flames in Karachi

Hazaras: Exodus to the land down under

“It’s horrible being a refugee. I’d never have left Pakistan if circumstances had been different. It’s my country; it’s where I have an identity...but I was given no option.”

• » PM turns to faith-healers
• » Allies wrong-footed by PPP’s U-turn
• » SHO pays for helping ANF arrest Musa
• » UN panel rekindles hopes for relatives of missing Baloch

PPP’s snide view of Punjab projects

PM’s adviser Fawad Chaudhry alleged that the PML-N government had wasted huge public money on various schemes and was still doing so.

• » SHC restrains authorities from demolishing Hindu temple
• » Tourists are back in Swat
• » Dutch biking team sets off for China’s Karakuli Lake
• » Military operations: Tribesmen threaten to migrate to Afghanistan

From Today's Newspaper

Divided attentions - F.S.Aijazuddin

Wages of misgovernance - I.A Rehman

PTI’s amateur hour - Khurram Husain

The witches’ song - Jawed Naqvi

Democracy and the Maldives - Mohamed Nasheed

Govt urges UN to act against hate-mongers

The cabinet announced Friday would be a national holiday, designating the day as Yaum-i-Ishq-i-Rasool, urging President Zardari to raise the issue at the UN General Assembly.

10 hours ago

CSF receipt system being improved: Naveed Qamar

Speaking to reporters, Qamar said that Pakistan wanted to develop its own drone system which he said was currently in its initial stages.

23 mins ago

Rehman Malik still senator, minister, says Anwar Mansoor

Speaking to reporters after the court's verdict in the dual nationality case, Mansoor said it was up to the Senate's chairman to decide on Malik's membership.

1 hour ago

Three killed, five injured in Karachi violence

At least three people were killed and five injured in various incidents of firing in Karachi on Thursday

2 hours ago

SC disqualifies dual national lawmakers

The verdict stated that Rehman Malik was not transparent with respect to his statements and could no longer be considered 'sadiq' and 'ameen'.

4 hours ago

US Haqqani sanctions come into affect

US sanctions against the Pakistan-based Haqqani network of militants have come into force following the Obama administration's decision to designate the group a ''foreign terrorist organization.''

5 hours ago

Khar says Pakistan committed to Afghan reconciliation

Hina Rabbani Khar told US lawmakers that Pakistan was committed to working with a trilateral mechanism for promoting the Afghan reconciliation process.

8 hours ago

Zardari mends fences with Zulfiqar Mirza

President Asif Ali Zardari paid an unscheduled visit on Wednesday to the residence of former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza in Phase V of Defence Housing Authority.

10 hours ago

10 killed in attack on PAF vehicle

SC rejects govt statement on Balochistan issues

Three MQM men among dozen killed across Karachi

Demilitarisation of Siachen not an option, says Indian army chief

Man accused of blasphemy after refusing to join anti-Islam film protest

Bomb blast kills nine in Peshawar, TTP claim responsibility

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   Sir Salman Rushdie dismisses fatwa talk

    

   Sir Salman Rushdie has dismissed the latest threat against his life as nothing more than talk as he continues to promote his memoir of living under a fatwa.

   19 Sep 2012

   Pakistan activists target French magazine in prophet row

    

   Pakistani hackers claim they were responsible for bringing down a French magazine website after it published nude cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

   19 Sep 2012

   'Green on Blue’ attacks must not deter us

    

   A good relationship with the Afghan army is crucial to our success, says Lt Col Charlie Maconochie

   18 Sep 2012

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   Six killed in Karachi bomb blasts

    

   Bomb blasts killed six people, including a young girl, in a crowded market area of Pakistan's southern port city Karachi.

   18 Sep 2012

   Pakistan government concedes to Supreme Court demands

    

   Pakistan's government appeared to back down in a legal struggle with country's powerful judges when the prime minister said he had asked officials to investigate corruption allegations against the president.

   18 Sep 2012

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DTN News: Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 25, 2011

DTN News: Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 25, 2011

 Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources DTN News Images & The New York Times 

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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: 25 Killed By Suicide Bomber In Taluqan City, Capital Of Takhar Province

*Suicide Bomber Strikes Funeral in Northern Afghanistan

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 25, 2011:  A suicide bomber struck a funeral in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 20 people, a government spokesman said, in what appeared to be the Taliban’s latest strike against Afghans who have ties to the national government.

Among those killed in the bombing, which occurred in Takhar Province in northern Afghanistan, was a member of Parliament, Abdul Mutaleb Baik, as well as member of the provincial council, according to a spokesman for the provincial government. A number of Afghan intelligence agents and lower-level government officials were also thought to be among the dead.

The bombing took place shortly after 2 p.m. in the village of Begabad, with the attacker wading into a crowd of mourners and detonating the explosives, said the spokesman, Muhammad Tauhidi. Mr. Tauhidi put the death toll at 30, while the Interior Ministry said that more than 20 had been killed.

A number of officials and elders were attending the funeral, which was for the father of the chief of the provincial fire department, said Mualavi Muhammadullah Wursaji, the head of Takhar’s provincial council.

Neither the Taliban nor any of Afghanistan’s other insurgent groups immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. But suspicion quickly fell on the Taliban or its allies, who often target Afghan government officials and people close to them. In September, a suicide bomber, also believed to be a Taliban insurgent, killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council and a former president.

If the Taliban were behind Sunday’s attack, it would be the group’s second major suicide bombing this year in Takhar, a once relatively calm northern province. In May, a Taliban suicide bomber disguised as a police officer blew himself up during a meeting at the provincial governor’s compound. The chief police officer in northern Afghanistan, Gen. Daud Daud, and the Takhar province police chief, Gen. Shah Jahan Noori, were among the dead in the bombing. Among the wounded was the top German officer in Afghanistan, Gen. Markus Kneip, who served as the commander of NATO forces in northern Afghanistan.

But the Taliban are not the only insurgent faction operating in Takhar. Their allies, the Haqqani militant network, is also believed to maintain presence in the province, as is the rival Hizb-i-Islami group, which is run by the warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former Afghan prime minister who played a major role in the fight against the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan are also thought to be in Takhar province.

On Saturday, an Afghan soldier — or possibly an insurgent wearing an Afghan Army uniform — opened fire on coalition forces in the western province of Farah, NATO and Afghan officials said Sunday.

NATO said only the attacker was killed, and that the shooting was under investigation. But the provincial police chief, Said Muhammad, said two American soldiers were killed after a gun battle broke out between the Americans and Afghans during a joint patrol. The shooting was apparently brought on by an argument, he said.

The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying it had been carried out by an insurgent infiltrator. While the Taliban often overstate the effectiveness of their forces, Afghan soldiers have repeatedly turned on coalition forces over the last few years, giving rise to fears that both the Afghan army and the police face an infiltration problem

Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban

 

American congressmen are calling on Twitter to block Taliban propagandists from the micro-blogging site.

25 Dec 2011

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At least 20 killed in suicide attack in Afghanistan

At least 15 people, including an Afghan MP, were killed Sunday in a suicide attack on a funeral procession in northeast Afghanistan, a provincial governor said.

25 Dec 2011

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RAF serviceman dies after explosion in Afghanistan

 

Royal Air Force death brings the number of British service personnel to have died in Afghanistan to 393.

24 Dec 2011

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Head of the Army pays Christmas tribute

 

General Sir Peter Wall, the head of the British Army, has made a pre-Christmas visit to UK forces in Afghanistan.

24 Dec 2011

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Royal Marine killed in Afghanistan

 

Serviceman believed to be serving with special forces dies after his vehicle was caught in an explosion, the MoD said.

22 Dec 2011

US concedes responsiblity for Nato airstrike

The US has conceded for the first time it bears significant responsibility for a Nato airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

22 Dec 2011

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Afghanistan opens first ever train route

Railway route paves the way for an alternative supply route for Nato troops.

21 Dec 2011

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US soldiers charged with crimes linked to suicide of serviceman

Eight American soldiers have been charged with crimes ranging from dereliction of duty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the apparent suicide of a US serviceman in Afghanistan.

21 Dec 2011

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Cameron warned over Armed Forces pay

David Cameron warned in report that government plans to freeze pay in the Armed Forces is causing concern

20 Dec 2011

David Cameron flies into Afghanistan to greet troops

Prime Minister forced to cancel visit to Camp Bastion due to duststorm.

20 Dec 2011

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