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US launches new offensive in Iraq
Bodies of 25 Maoists found in Nepal
Exercise reduces risk of dying from breast cancer
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Geelani rules out travelling by Muzaffarabad bus
Lahore, May 25 The government has also invited leaders of the APHC group led by Mirwaiz Omar Farooq on June 2. “How can we travel through the bus service which we have been opposing?” Mr Geelani asked. He said his group was thinking of travelling up to the Line of Control in Kashmir in a private vehicle and making the same arrangement on the other side to avoid using the bus service. He said the plan required permission of the Indian and Pakistani authorities. He said he did not want Islamabad’s advisory on whom to meet during the visit. “We should be allowed to talk our mind in Azad Kashmir and other areas of Pakistan and hold discussions with all political forces and leaders there. “We have already met President Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and ruling party chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain in New Delhi and there is no sense in restricting our meetings to them while being in Islamabad,” said Mr Geelani, who is suffering from backache these days. In reply to a question, he said the two groups would travel separately. “We shall urge Islamabad to stick to United Nations resolutions while discussing the Kashmir issue with New Delhi,” he said. Mirwaiz Omar Farooq expressed complete support to President Musharraf’s approach on the Kashmir issue and said his group would carry to Islamabad its suggestions in this regard. He said he doubted that New Delhi would allow them to go across the LoC and said the Indian Government feared that their visit might strengthen the Kashmiris’ demand for tripartite talks. Our New Delhi correspondent adds:
Kashmir’s resistance leaders said on Tuesday they would discuss an invitation by Pakistan with their followers before deciding to visit Islamabad but some leaders believed that meeting militant groups across the Line of Control would benefit the current peace moves. Mirwaiz Omar Farooq told the NDTV he wanted to travel across the LoC, among other reasons, to meet militant leaders so as to bring about a unified perspective on their struggle against Indian rule in Jammu and Kashmir. He told Dawn earlier in the day that a general council meeting of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference would be held on Wednesday to discuss the agenda for the visit to Pakistan. |
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Six killed in Pak blast
Islamabad, May 25 The bomb, planted at the wall of a tribesman Khwazi Khan’s house in the Makeen area, exploded killing four children and two women of a family, reports reaching here said.
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President Kalam concludes Russia visit
St Petersburg, May 25 During an interaction with scientists at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Dr Kalam also stressed the need for more collective efforts to address issues such as ecological imbalances. The Institute is part of the Russian Hydrometeorological Centre. Scientists at the institute briefed Dr Kalam on the prospects of Russian-Indian cooperation in Antarctic exploration. The Indian Maitri and the Russian Novolazarevskaya stations in the Schirmacher oasis in the Antarctic are located within 3 km of each other. According to Russian officials, the two sides have formulated about a dozen joint research projects. The President also spent some time at the Institute of Laser Equipment and Technology, where he was briefed about its activities. He also saw the Biometric Astive System and Laser Coil Power Medium facilities at the institute. Dr Kalam was received, on his arrival from Moscow, by St Petersburg Governor Valentina Ivanova and other senior officials, including the Mayor of the city. Shortly afterwards, he drove to the Hermitage Museum, one of the best art museums in the world and by far the most important tourist attraction in St. Petersburg. Kalam left for Geneva at the end of his four-day visit to Russia. — UNI, PTI
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US launches new offensive in Iraq
Haditha (Iraq), May 25 The offensives are aimed at uprooting insurgents who have killed more than 620 persons since the new Iraqi government was announced on April 28. Helicopters swept down near palm tree groves dropping off Marines, who blocked off one side of Haditha, while other troops on foot and in armoured vehicles established checkpoints and moved toward the centre of this city, 220 km north-west of Baghdad. US warplanes circled overhead. The assault, called Operation New Market, focused on this city of about 90,000 persons where the US military said insurgents had been using increasingly sophisticated tactics. According to the reports, three insurgents were killed during several fierce gun battles that broke out after the US forces entered the town before dawn, Marine Capt Christopher Toland said. Two Marines were also wounded and evacuated, Capt Toland said. — AP
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Bodies of 25 Maoists found in Nepal
Kathmandu, May 25 The bodies were found at the Tamlicha area of Nepal’s Udaypur district, 350 km southeast of Kathmandu, on Saturday, an army statement said, adding 70 rebels were injured in the clashes. In a separate incident, security forces shot dead five more rebels, sources said. While three rebels were killed while trying to attack an armed police force base in Banbehada of Kailali district, two died in another operation at the Naula Gaun area of Kanchanpur district. Meanwhile, the Maoists allegedly raped two women in Singhdevi area of Ramechhap district, The Kathmandu Post reported. Eight Maoist rebels surrendered in Bharatpur Municipality in Chitawan district. — PTI
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Exercise reduces risk of dying from breast cancer
Washington, May 25 Breast cancer patients who walk or do other kinds of moderate exercise for three to five hours a week are about 50 per cent less likely to die from the disease than sedentary women, the findings from a study by the Harvard Medical School showed. The findings, The Washington Times pointed out, are particularly striking because the benefit appears strongest for the most common form of breast cancer and it holds true whether the cancer was diagnosed early or not until after it had spread.
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