DHAKA: A student of Government Titumir College, located in Dhaka, was killed and five others sustained injuries as fire broke out at a Chinese restaurant in the city’’s Gulshan area last night. The deceased Rukhsana Akhter, 20, Honours (English) second-year student, sustained severe burn injuries when she and around 70 others were attending a birthday party at Deja Vu Café opposite to Azad mosque in the area. The injured were admitted to United Hospital in Gulshan. Abdur Rashid, deputy director of Fire Brigade, said upon information, they rushed to the spot and found the restaurant on the second floor of a three-storey building grappled in flames. He said according to witnesses, sparks from illuminations originated the fire around 9:10pm. “We managed to rescue the girl alive and sent her to United Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries,” Rashid added. Fire fighters brought the fire under control around 10:10pm.
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KAMPALA: Explosions ripped through two restaurants in the Ugandan capital Sunday, killing at least 23 people including a US citizen, as crowds watched the World Cup final, police said, terming the blasts terrorist attacks. The Inspector General of Ugandan police Kale Kayihura linked the explosions to recent threats by Somalia’’s Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab militia against countries that have sent troops to the African Union (AU) peace force there. Shebab leader Mohamed Abdi Godane on July 5 accused the AU peacekeepers — comprising Ugandan and Burundian troops — of killing civilians in Mogadishu and called on Somalis to join the war against “the enemy of Allah”. “You know there have been declarations from Shebab and Al-Qaida. Terrorism is a modern-day threat. You know the region we are in and our commitment in Somalia,” Kayihura said. “Obviously this is terrorisn. That one is clear,” he added. “At this stage we can”t rule out anything.” The explosions hit an Ethiopian restaurant in Kabalagala, a crowded suburb in the south of Kampala littered with several pubs popular with football fans, and a rugby sports club in the eastern region of the capital city. “Here there are 13 dead,” said the police chief in reference to the Ethiopian restaurant, adding that “I can talk of deaths in the tens,” when asked about the toll at the sports club. “These bombs were definitely targeting World Cup crowds,” Kayihura said. One American national was among those killed in the attacks, a US embassy spokeswoman said. “At this time we can confirm that one American has been killed,” said Joann Lockard. “I have no further information about American citizens.” A correspondent saw three wounded US citizens at Kampala’’s main Mulago hospital where dozens other injured people had been taken for treatment. “We just wanted to watch the World Cup, unfortunately we went to the Ethiopian village,” said 18-year-old Chris Sledge who suffered serious injuries to his legs and a bruised eye. “I feel OK. Am gonna need surgery.” US President Barack Obama called the deadly explosions “deplorable and cowardly”, National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement. “The United States is ready to provide any assistance requested by the Ugandan government,” he added. A senior administration official said the United States was in contact with its embassy in Kampala and was in touch with the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding requests for assistance from Uganda’’s government. It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosions or what anybody’’s motivation could have been, but Kampala city police spokesman Idi Ssenkunzi said they suspected that the perpetrators detonated bombs. Uganda became the first country to send troops to Somalia in early 2007 to prop up the war-torn country’’s transitional government, which were later joined by Burundian forces. The hardline militia have repeatedly attacked the AU peackeepers, killing scores and confining the fragile government’’s control of Mogadishu to just a few blocks. Last week, a regional bloc pledged to send additional 2,000 soldiers to Somalia to boost the AU peacekeepers” strength to the required 8,100 troops, sparking belligerent reaction from the radical Islamist groups. On Saturday, the leaders of Somalia’’s two Islamist movements met for talks aimed at joining forces against the Western-backed government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed they are fighting to overthrow. In Kampala, Uganda’’s police chief urged residents to avoid huge gatherings. “As we grapple to find out what could have caused this, I would appeal to members of the public to avoid big gatherings,” Kayihura said.
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NEW YORK: Britain’’s Queen Elizabeth II pleaded for world peace Tuesday in her first visit in five decades to UN headquarters during a whirlwind tour of a sweltering New York. The 84-year-old monarch, who was last in the Big Apple in 1976 and at the UN in 1957, wore a two piece white ensemble with blue and beige print and a matching silk hat as she arrived with husband Prince Philip for the one-day visit, which followed a nine-day stay in Canada. After addressing the world body she went to Ground Zero, where she laid a wreath in tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed when Islamist hijackers slammed two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. At the UN General Assembly, Elizabeth II noted she”d last visited there 53 years earlier, when the United Nations was in its infancy. Praising the “remarkable” achievements of the UN since then, she said that “the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.” New challenges of “terrorism” and “climate change” were adding to the huge tests facing the world body, she said. “When people in 53 years from now look back on us, they will doubtless view many of our practices as old-fashioned. But it is my hope that, when judged by future generations, our willingness to take a lead… will stand the test of time.”
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Srinagar Two persons were killed in separate incidents in Kashmir valley today when security forces allegedly opened fire at mobs protesting the death of a youth in the apple town of Sopore.The first …
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Baramulla, Jun 26 : Indefinite curfew, imposed in apple township of Sopore in this north Kashmir district following the violence which left two youths dead allegedly in the firing by security forces c…
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LAHORE: Federal Interior Minister Rehman A Malik said the terrorists could not enervate the government of Pakistan, as it would bear down upon the havoc-wreaking assassins in concert with the entire nation for the national integrity, Geo News reported Sunday. Talking to media while on visit to the worshipping place of the Qadianis here, he said the anti-Pakistan forces which were defeated in Fata and Swat, have unleashed their activities in Punjab. The interior minister added the outfits like Laskhkar-e-Jhangavi and Jaish-e-Muhammed were part to Al-Qaieda and on receiving training, they were busy with sabotage activities in Punjab. The federal minister said at least 1764 people of banned 29 groups belonged to Punjab, adding the terrorists holed up in Southern Punjab, were making appearances now and that he spotted them to have links even in Balochistan as well. Malik said, ‘I am here not to grapple with the Punjab government; instead, we hand in hand, will put to an end the terrorism.’ The confident minister appealed on the occasion to Punjab Chief Minister to make public the inquiry report on Gojra Tragedy. The Interior Minister informed that the government is bringing a bill in connection with the rights accorded to the minorities enshrined in the Constitution.
WASHINGTON: The space shuttle Atlantis undocked Sunday from the International Space Station (ISS) and headed back to Earth to complete its final mission after successfully delivering tons of supplies. The shuttle uncoupled from the orbiting space laboratory at 11:22 am (1522 GMT) after its six-member crew unloaded the last equipment, which included a crucial communications antenna, power storage batteries and a radiator. The biggest single element was the five-ton Rassvet research module, or MRM-1, which will provide additional storage space and a new docking port for Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft. The Rassvet — “Dawn” in Russian was permanently attached to the bottom of the space station’’s Zarya module. It carries important hardware on its exterior including a radiator, airlock and a European robotic arm. Astronauts completed the 12-day mission’’s final spacewalk on Friday, plugging a new ammonia jumper cable into the station, transferring a grapple fixture from the shuttle to the station and reconfiguring some tools.
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approached the IMF in 2008 for a rescue package as it grappled with a 30-year high inflation rate and fast-depleting foreign exchange reserves that were barely enough to cover nine weeks of import b…
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NEW YORK: Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City “will not tolerate any bias” following the arrest of a U.S. citizen from Pakistan in the Times Square car bombing attempt. Bloomberg said Tuesday that also applies to potential backlash against Muslim New Yorkers. The mayor said there are “a few bad apples” among any groups. He also cited New York’’s long history of accepting cultures from the around the world.
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Apple’s latest gadget IPAD is already making waves all around the world. In Pakistan IPAD is availble in the big cities as well as on the internet for a price ranging between Rs.60,000 – Rs.80,000 (depending on features etc). So if you are interested in buying one , you can get it from Homeshopping.pk , besides
