Warnings have been coming for months, publicly from independent commentators, privately from concerned officials and military commanders: the insurgent and terrorist threat is growing and spreading north to what has been, until now, the relatively stable and calm part of Afghanistan. But the huge death toll from Tuesday’s suicide attack in the northern town of […]
‘Cold’ girlfriend dumps Prince Harry
PRINCE Harry’s Zimbabwean girlfriend Chelsy Davy has ended their relationship because Britain is too cold, it was reported today. Clarence House would not comment on yesterday’s reports that Ms Davy had ended the three-year relationship with Harry after he missed her 22nd birthday party to go to the Rugby World Cup Final in Paris. Ms […]
Bhutto Ban on Visiting Musharraf Opponent
POLICE have blocked opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from visiting Pakistan‘s deposed chief justice, as President Pervez Musharraf resisted US calls to end emergency rule. Ms Bhutto, who herself was kept under house arrest for most of yesterday, tried to approach former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s home, where he is being detained, but police parked two […]
President Bush wants Musharraf to call early elections in Pakistan
US president George Bush has called on Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf to hold elections and give up his military post as soon as possible . He did make knwon to him the consequences of refusal to conply to the call. This is the first time president bush is making comments on Pakistan’s state of emergency […]
132 insurgents killed in two days fighting
Kabul: 132 Taliban insurgents and a number of security forces and civilians have been killed in fresh Afghan violence on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the officials. The fresh fighting erupted after the insurgents attacked and captured Gulistan district of western Farah and Arghandab district of southern Kandahar provinces Monday evening. The Afghan […]
Pakistan Militants Behead six Guards
Militants in North west Pakistan have beheaded six security officials and killed seven civilians in apparent reprisals for an army attack. The army attack on the stronghold of pro-Taleban militant Maulana Fazlullah on thursday left at least 17 soldiers and a number of civilians dead. The bodies of the guards reportedly had notes saying they […]