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KABUL: The United Nations said yesterday it would temporarily evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for Western efforts to stabilise the country.
Spokesman Aleem Siddique said the United Nations would relocate about 600 of its ro [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 Militants blow up girls’ school in Khyber
PESHAWAR: Islamist militants blew up a girls’ school in Pakistan’s Khyber district yesterday, the second such attack in the lawless region on the Afghan border in four days, officials said.
“Militants used 25 to 30 kilogrammes of explosives to blow up the two-storey school on the outskirts of Bar [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 Afghan villagers protest against US missile raids
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan: Angry Afghan villagers protested yesterday against what they said was the killing of 11 civilians by foreign troops, but local authorities said only fighters were killed.
The Nato-led force said it had fired a rocket from the ground at a group it believed to be planting [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 Pakistani forces secure fort in South Waziristan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani soldiers secured a fort captured from militants in the northwest of the country yesterday and consolidated their positions on peaks around another insurgent base, the military said.
The army launched an offensive on October 17 aimed at rooting out and defeating Pakistani Tali [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 Karachi models defy Taliban threat with glamourous fashion show
KARACHI: Bare shoulders, backless gowns and pouting models are wowing Pakistan’s glitterati as Karachi fashion week shows the world a different side of the Taliban-troubled nation.
While women in much of Muslim, conservative Pakistan opt for headscarves over baggy shalwar khamis or even burkas, o [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 BJP fails to solve crisis in Karnataka
New Delhi: The political crisis in Karnataka’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government deepened yesterday as the dissenting Reddy brothers, who are demanding Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa’s scalp, refused to meet him while the party central leadership reiterated that there would be no change in the [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 Vande mataram not un-Islamic: Muslim groups
Bhopal: It is not un-Islamic to sing “Vande mataram”, two prominent Muslim groups in Madhya Pradesh said yesterday, two days after the clerics’ body Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind approved an earlier fatwa against the national song.
Claiming to have translated the song into Urdu, the All India Muslim Tehwar [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 Congress and NCP cut ice over Maharashtra cabinet
Mumbai: The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) finally broke their deadlock over power sharing in Maharashtra yesterday, paving the way for swearing-in of the new government by the weekend — more than a fortnigt after the assembly poll results were declared.
As per the formula wo [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 Poll panel strips MP of chief election agent post
By John Mary
Thiruvananthapuram: Lending a blow to the Congress camp ahead of the by-elections on Saturday, the Election Commission removed K Sudhakaran, MP, as the chief agent of the United Democratic Front candidate A P Abdulla Kutty in the northern Kannur town Assembly constituency.
The Co [more...]
Posted on:11/6/2009 Campaigning for Saturday’s by-polls ends
New Delhi: Campaigning for Saturday’s by-elections in 31 assembly constituencies across seven states and a solitary Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh ended yesterday evening.
Balloting will be held for 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in West Bengal, three in Kerala, two each in Rajasthan, Assam and H [more...]
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