Pakistan defeated West Indies by four wickets in the fifth and final one-day international at Beausejour Stadium on Wednesday. …read more
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Officials: Gun and bomb attack hits Pakistani spy agency's offices, killing 2 and wounding 37
Gunmen attacked a compound that houses offices of Pakistan’s top spy agency Wednesday in a coordinated assault backed by explosives, killing two people, officials said. …read more
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Congress To Probe Lethal Crash That Killed SEAL Team 6 Members
Congress has launched an investigation of the helicopter crash that killed 30 Americans in Afghanistan, including members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 unit, The Hill has learned. [WATCH VIDEO]
The victims’ families say the Pentagon hasn’t provided answers to their many questions about the deadly attack, which took place on Aug. 6, 2011, three months after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by Team 6 forces.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on National Security, told The Hill, “We’re going to dive into this.”
Chaffetz said he met with the victims’ families about a month ago in what he described as an “emotional” gathering. He is poised to send questions to the Pentagon and may hold hearings on the matter.
Charlie Strange, whose son Michael was among those killed, said he asked President Obama two years ago at Dover Air Force Base to fully investigate. The death toll in the crash was the largest of any single incident for the U.S. military during the Afghanistan war.
Read More at The Hill . By Bob Cusack.
Spanish climbers missing in northern Pakistan
A rescue operation was under way Tuesday for three Spanish climbers who went missing in bad weather in the mountains of northern Pakistan, officials said. …read more
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Dutch court blocks Qaeda suspect's US extradition
A Dutch court on Tuesday blocked the extradition of a Dutch-Pakistani Al-Qaeda suspect to the US, saying there were unanswered questions about the US role in his alleged torture in Pakistan. …read more
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Pakistan takes 'immoral' condom ad off air
Pakistan’s media regulator pulled the plug on a condom commercial starring one of the country’s biggest female stars Tuesday, calling it “immoral”, after public complaints. …read more
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Dutch court blocks extradition to US of Dutch-Pakistani terror suspect
Dutch judges have blocked the extradition of a terror suspect to the United States, saying he was tortured in Pakistan after his 2010 arrest and it is unclear whether American authorities had any involvement. …read more
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Grenade attack kills two, wounds six in Karachi
A hand grenade attack targeting the office of a political party late Sunday killed at least two people and wounded six others in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, police said. …read more
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Official: Pakistan calls off search for 3 Iranian mountaineers missing in northern areas
The head of a mountaineering club says rescuers have called off their search for three Iranian mountain climbers who went missing in northern Pakistan. …read more
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Rain halts fourth Windies-Pakistan one-dayer
Rain has delayed the start of play in the fourth One-Day International of the five-match series between the West Indies and Pakistan at the Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia on Sunday. …read more
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Pakistan power company seeks divine help to stop theft
A Pakistani power company is appealing to its customers’ religious consciences in a desperate bid to get them to stop stealing electricity — a major hurdle in efforts to stem crippling blackouts. …read more
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Twin bomb explosions kill four in Karachi
Two separate bomb explosions late Saturday killed four people and wounded seven others in Pakistan’s port city Karachi, police said. …read more
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Pakistan clashes kill four soldiers, 15 militants
At least 15 militants and four soldiers were killed during clashes in a tribal district in northwest Pakistan, security officials said Saturday. …read more
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Pakistan elders ban women from shopping alone in Khyber
Tribal elders and Islamic clerics in northwest Pakistan have barred women from shopping in bazaars without a male relative, elders and an official said Saturday. …read more
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Warne receives Hall of Fame honour
Australia great Shane Warne was inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Hall of Fame at Lord’s on Friday.
The leg-spin legend received the honour during the tea interval of the second day of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia.
Warne, credited with reviving interest in leg-spin outside Asia, was the first bowler to take 700 Test wickets and represented Australia in 145 Tests between 1992 and 2007. In all he took 708 Test wickets at an average of 25.41.
Warne also took 293 wickets in 194 one-day internationals at an average of 25.73 and was a member of the Australia side that beat Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup final at Lord’s where his team-mates included fellow Hall of Famers Glenn McGrath and Steve Waugh.
His return in the final of four wickets for 33 runs in nine overs saw Warne named man-of-the-match.
“I’m very honoured and proud to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame today and I thank the voting academy very much for even considering me,” Warne said Friday.
“Many of the Hall of Fame members were my heroes when I was growing up, including the likes of Ian Chappell and Dennis Lillee.
“I am delighted that I am celebrating my induction with my friends and family in front of the crowd at Lord’s during the second Ashes Test.
“I was very lucky to play in a wonderful era of Australian cricket and make so many friends along my 20 year journey. I hope I kept everyone entertained and on the edge of their seat when they watched the Australian cricket team play.”
Seeing Warne was a reminder of happier times for many Australian fans in a capacity Lord’s crowd of over 28,000 as they watched Michael Clarke’s men collapse to 128 all out, a first innings deficit of 233.
Warne is the 69th male member of the Hall of Fame and the 18th from Australia.
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Indian Kashmir shut down after 4 killed by troops
Protesters clashed with government troops in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, defying a government curfew imposed to quell large scale demonstrations over the killing of four villagers in the disputed Himalayan region.
Locals, responding to a call to protest by separatist groups, threw rocks as police and paramilitary soldiers tried to stop them by hitting them with batons and firing tear gas and, at one location, live ammunition, a police officer said on customary condition of anonymity.
Six police and paramilitary troops and at least two protesters were injured in the clashes.
The unrest follows the fatal shootings of four villagers by government troops on Thursday. More than 40 others were injured as troops clashed with locals protesting the alleged desecration of the Muslim holy book by border guards in a remote, mountainous village in the region.
The protesters have accused the Indian Border Security Force of tearing pages of several copies of the Quran and beating a school caretaker at a religious seminary during a search for militants Wednesday night.
Rajiv Krishna, a senior Border Security Force officer, rejected the desecration charges.
Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde ordered a probe into the incident. Rights groups say such investigations rarely lead to prosecutions and are mainly used to try to calm public anger.
The violence, which comes during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, could trigger widespread protests in the disputed Himalayan region, with separatist groups that reject India’s sovereignty over the region calling for three days of strikes and demonstrations.
In response, the government put a curfew in place. On Friday, thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers erected checkpoints and laid barbed wire on roads in Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir to try and enforce the curfew and prevent any anti-India protests. They drove through neighborhoods warning people to stay indoors and barred Friday prayers in Srinagar’s main mosque.
Several other Kashmiri towns were also deserted as shops, businesses and public transportation shut down due to the curfew and strike. Authorities have postponed university examinations scheduled for Friday and blocked Internet services on cell phones in an attempt to prevent demonstrators from organizing.
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Bollywood films keep up gangster fascination
A string of Bollywood releases this year show the Indian film industry’s ongoing fascination with Mumbai’s underworld, following a murky history of links between the mafia and the movie business.
Spy thriller “D-Day”, which opened in Indian cinemas on Friday, is one of three new Hindi films that appear to draw inspiration from the lives of Mumbai’s notorious gangsters.
Directed by Nikhil Advani, “D-Day” tells the story of Indian intelligence agents trying to capture “India’s most wanted man” from Pakistan, known in the film as “Iqbal” or “Goldman.
The character, played by veteran star Rishi Kapoor, bears a striking resemblance to former Mumbai mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, one of India’s real-life most-wanted men.
Like the film’s antihero, Ibrahim is known for donning a thick moustache and sunglasses, is thought to be in Pakistan and is the alleged mastermind behind the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai, which killed 257 people.
“We have used real life events as triggers to create a public enemy and tell a story with fictionalised situations, without going into the main character’s back story,” the director told AFP.
When asked about the likenesses to Ibrahim, he said “a hint is enough for the intelligent”.
Any real-life basis to gangster films is rarely openly stated by filmmakers to avoid any legal or personal backlash.
The upcoming thriller “Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobara (Again)” looks at a love triangle involving a gangster called Shoaib Khan, who is also widely thought to be inspired by Ibrahim.
“The characters are based on research and references. But unlike real world dons, our cinematic dons sing on rooftops and are flamboyant. Ours is a work of fiction,” said the film’s director Milan Luthria.
Its 2010 prequel “Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai” told the story of Sultan, rumoured to be based on late gangster Haji Mastan, but the filmmakers released a statement denying this after Mastan’s family took the matter to court.
It is a scenario Sanjay Gupta was keen to avoid in his film “Shootout at Wadala”, released in May, about the rise of a gangster called Manya Surve who was killed in 1982 by the Mumbai police.
While Surve’s name stays the same in the film, those of several other principal characters were changed just before the release.
Gupta said there were grey areas in the law and that it was difficult to know exactly who would be angered by any perceived likenesses.
“My wife was most relieved when we decided to change the names,” he said.
“Shootout at Wadala” is based on a chapter from the book “Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia” by crime reporter S. Hussain Zaidi, who has written about the underworld’s links to the Hindi-language movie business.
The connections ran deep in the 1980s and 1990s, when the film industry depended on the underworld for funding. Extortion, kidnapping, threats and shootings were signs of how the two worlds appeared to collide.
Before he fled India in the early 1990s, Ibrahim himself was photographed alongside various Bollywood stars at social events, underlining the once-extensive connection between the worlds of …read more
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Indian Kashmir shuts down over killing of protesters
Indian Kashmir largely shut down amid heavy security on Friday after troops shot dead four people during a protest over a paramilitary raid on an Islamic school.
Shops, banks, schools and most government offices were closed in towns across the region, after a separatist leader called a three-day strike to protest Thursday’s killings.
Srinagar, the main city in the region, was largely deserted after hundreds of police and paramilitary troops were deployed on the streets to halt any demonstrations over the deaths, an AFP reporter on the scene said.
Although authorities have not officially declared a curfew in the troubled Himalayan region, residents said they were not being allowed to go about their business.
“Early in the morning, troops appeared all around my neighbourhood disallowing people from coming out onto the streets,” a resident of the old part of Srinagar, Farhan Ahmed, said by phone.
“It is undeclared curfew,” he said.
Troops fired on protesters on Thursday, after residents of the district of Gool gathered to demonstrate against what they said was a desecration of the Koran by troops during their search of a madrassa.
They gathered outside a base of the Border Security Forces (BSF) in Gool region, 230 kilometres (143 miles) south of Srinagar.
Residents accused BSF troopers of beating up a caretaker and desecrating a Koran, during a search for militants inside the madrassa in Gool late on Wednesday.
Police officers initially said six protesters were killed in the firing. But inspector-general of police, Rajesh Kumar, clarified on Friday that only four had died.
“The fact is that the number of dead is four. The confusion was because we were busy in dealing with law and order and also due to the spotty nature of telecommunications in the mountainous area,” Kumar told AFP.
He said 37 protesters were also injured in the incident.
The region’s chief minister, Omar Abdullah, condemned the shootings while India’s Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde ordered an investigation, saying the deaths were regrettable.
A top separatist leader, Syed Ali Geelani, called for a shutdown to protest the killings.
Most separatist leaders have been detained or put under house arrest to prevent them from leading protest rallies, sources said.
Chairman of the pro-independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) called for a protest before he was detained by police on Thursday.
The main university in the region postponed examinations scheduled for Friday without announcing any fresh dates.
Elsewhere, in Pakistani Kashmir’s main city Muzaffarabad around 500 protesters took to the streets, chanting slogans and burning the Indian flag, to condemn the forces’ actions.
A revolt against Indian rule has going on for decades in Kashmir, the country’s only Muslim-majority state.
The insurgency has been a regular source of tensions between residents and security forces, which often spill over into violence.
About a dozen rebel groups have been fighting Indian forces in Kashmir since 1989, either for independence or for a merger with Pakistan. The fighting has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead.
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Pakistan Poisoning: Cook Mohammad Rafiq Arrested For Attack That Claimed 22 Lives
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LAHORE, Pakistan — Police have arrested a cook in central Pakistan who is accused of poisoning to death 22 people as part of a political feud between two branches of the same family, a local police chief said.
The incident in the town of Mailsi in Punjab province followed recent provincial elections in which Arsal Khan Khichi lost to his cousin Jehanzaeb Khan Khichi, police chief Sadiq Dogar said late Thursday.
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Pakistani accused of poisoning to death 22 in feud
Police have arrested a cook in central Pakistan who is accused of poisoning to death 22 people as part of a political feud between two branches of the same family, a local police chief said.
The incident in the town of Mailsi in Punjab province followed recent provincial elections in which Arsal Khan Khichi lost to his cousin Jehanzaeb Khan Khichi, police chief Sadiq Dogar said late Thursday.
Arsal Khan Khichi is accused of paying a cook, Mohammad Rafiq, 50,000 rupees ($500) to poison food at his rival’s home on June 9, Dogar said. Nearly 50 people became sick and were taken to the hospital, and 22 died. Jehanzeb Khan Khichi was not at home when the incident occurred, Dogar said.
Rafiq has confessed to poisoning the food, Dogar said. Police waited to arrest him until they received medical reports that confirmed the dead had been poisoned. Arsal Khan Khichi is still on the run, and a murder case has been registered against him as well, Dogar said.
Politics are often a family affair in Pakistan, where it is not uncommon to have members of the same clan running against each other as members of rival political parties.
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