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President of Pakistan signs new summary of judges appointment
Following the advice of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday night signed the summary of appointment of justices Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa as permanent judges of the Supreme Court and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday as ad hoc judge of the apex court for one year.
The summary was [...]
Paris court mulls extradition of Iranian engineer Kakavand
Paris court on Wednesday asked for additional information before deciding on a request to extradite Majid Kakavand, a little-known Iranian engineer, to the US.
The case has further strained relations between Paris and Tehran. France awaiting a verdict for Clotilde Reiss, a French national held in Tehran, while Iran has demanded the liberation of Kavakand and [...]
Riyadh unwilling to lobby China over Iran sanctions
Saudi Arabia on Monday played down suggestions it could encourage China not to block sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme by giving Beijing oil supply guarantees.
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said after talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Beijing needed no prodding from Riyadh over how to deal with Iran in [...]
Top Taliban military commander ‘captured in Karachi’
US and Pakistani spies have captured the Taliban’s top military commander, US media reported, but the militia denied his arrest and said he was still leading the fight in Afghanistan.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was arrested in Pakistan’s sprawling port city of Karachi “several days ago” by US and Pakistani intelligence services, the New York [...]
Chavez scrambles F-16s to intercept US warplane
President Hugo Chavez said he ordered two F-16 jets to intercept a U.S. military plane that twice violated Venezuelan airspace on Friday in what he called the latest provocation in the South American nation’s skies.
Brandishing a photo of the plane, which he described as a P-3, Chavez said the overflight was the latest incursion in [...]
Appeals court upholds life sentence for 9/11 conspirator
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court on criminal charges related to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, lost a bid on Monday to overturn his guilty plea and get a new trial.
A U.S. appeals court based in Richmond, Virginia, rejected arguments by Moussaoui, who is serving a a life sentence at [...]
Blast rocks Shiite parade in Karachi, at least 43 killed
Pakistan’s interior minister appealed for calm on Tuesday in the country’s commercial capital Karachi, where shopowners surveyed gutted premises a day after a suicide bomber killed 43 people and triggered a city-centre riot.
The bombing of a Shi’ite Muslim procession in Karachi underscored multiple security challenges facing the nuclear-armed U.S. ally at a volatile time for [...]
Ahmadinejad calls for more pro-government rallies
Iranian authorities continued arresting opposition members on Tuesday, as hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed Western governments for supporting anti-government protests since Sunday in which at least eight people died.
“Americans and Zionists are the sole audience of a play they have commissioned and sold out. A nauseating play is performed,” the president was quoted by state [...]
Israel approves new funding for settlements
The Israeli cabinet approved listing some Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as “national priority zones,” entitling the communities to millions of dollars of extra state funding.
The decision is certain to stir furore as it comes just weeks after Israel instituted a 10-month moratorium on new building permits in the settlements after months of [...]
Five held with plane full of weapons from N.Korea
Thailand detained five men after they made an emergency landing in Bangkok with a cargo plane from North Korea full of heavy weapons, ministers and officials said.
The crew requested to land for refuelling at Don Mueang airport, where inspectors discovered a haul of weaponry including firearms and missiles, said deputy prime minister Suthep Thaungsuban.
“They declared that [...]
