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12 killed in Peshawar blast
I am Pak’s constitutional CJ, says Chaudhry
Pak blocks fuel supply to Western forces
Did Palin have an affair?
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Dalai Lama’s brother dies in US
Suicide bomber kills 6 in Afghanistan
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Islamabad, September 6 The powerful blast destroyed the checkpost in the Badabher area of Peshawar, the capital of the north-west frontier province, and severely damaged two nearby markets and about 15 vehicles. Twelve persons were killed and over 30 were injured in the attack. Bodies were flung up to 50 m by the blast, which created a large crater, local police officials were quoted as saying by TV channels. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out as provincial legislators and parliamentarians were voting in poll to elect Pakistan's new President. The injured were rushed in private vehicles to hospitals. Angry people pelted stones at police contingents, when they arrived at the scene almost an hour after the blast. They also complained that the authorities had not speedily dispatched ambulances to take the injured to hospital.The check-post that was targeted was the first police position on a key road linking Peshawar to the restive tribal areas.— PTI
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I am Pak’s constitutional CJ, says Chaudhry
Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has reiterated that he was the constitutional Chief Justice of Pakistan and indicated that he was unruffled by the crumbling resistance of some of the judges who have accepted reappointment and taken fresh oath. “The evolving scenario has further strengthened my resolve to continue the struggle for the independence of judiciary,” Iftikhar was quoted by The News as saying. Three deposed judges of the Supreme Court took oath from Justice Dogar, who was installed by Musharraf as the Chief Justice after sacking Iftikhar and 60 other judges on November 3, 2007. Law minister Farook Naek on Friday announced that Justice Hameed Dogar would continue to be the Chief Justice and offered to let Iftikhar Chaudhry return to the court by taking fresh oath as a judge and not as Chief Justice. “I am the constitutional Chief Justice of Pakistan and have already ruled that the November 3, 2007, actions were unconstitutional,” he said while referring to the verdict of the seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court declaring the emergency and removal of the judges as illegal. Without offering any comment on those judges who had opted to side with him for the cause of an independent judiciary but had now started taking fresh oath following the PPP government’s offer, he said: “Inshaallah (God willing), you will see me determined and always ready for any sacrifice.” He recalled that he and his young children withstood all possible rigours for five months in confinement. “We are also prepared for worse even now,” Justice Iftikhar said, vowing that he would not yield to any pressure or influence to the detriment of the cause for an independent judiciary.
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Pak blocks fuel supply to Western forces
Peshawar, September 6 The officials said supplies had been blocked from crossing through the main crossing point on the Pakistani-Afghan border near Peshawar, capital of north-west frontier province on the border with Afghanistan. “We got instructions from Islamabad. The frontier Corps has been directed to stop oil supplies for NATO,” a senior official in Peshawar said. Another official said the supplies were being halted at Torkham, the main border crossing point to the north-west of Peshawar, because of deteriorating security on the Pakistani side. “The Torkham highway has become extremely dangerous and the administration needs to beef up security on the highway. Once we have enough troops to ensure safety for the oil trucks, we will let them go,” he said. — Reuters
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Did Palin have an affair?
Did Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain’s ultraconservative running mate and champion of family values, have an extramarital affair with her husband’s business partner? If a US supermarket tabloid is to be believed, Sarah did. But it’s not often that The National Enquirer is taken seriously. This time, however, the situation is slightly different. The Enquirer was the first to report last year that former Senator John Edwards had an extra-marital affair with a woman hired to produce video films for his presidential campaign. Edwards, who was at the time running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, had defiantly dismissed the story as a pack of lies. The Enquirer account eventually proved to be accurate, prompting the shamed Democrat to tender a meek apology and the Enquirer to soar to prominence. With this recent history in mind, the mainstream media that was savaged by conservatives for ignoring the Edwards’ story, is paying closer attention to the Palin one this time. Earlier, the Enquirer alleged that the Governor of Alaska had a fling with a business associate of her husband, Todd Palin. The candidate’s husband discovered the infidelity and dissolved the business, the article said. The McCain campaign has threatened legal action against the publication and called the article a “vicious lie”. The Enquirer pointed to the credibility it built following the Edwards’ story to tout its report on Palin. McCain senior advisor Steve Schmidt said: “The smearing of the Palin family must end. The allegations contained on the cover of The National Enquirer insinuating that Governor Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false. It is a vicious lie.”
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Dalai Lama’s brother dies in US
Beijing, September 6 Rinpoche, who had been ill for several years, died in his home in Indiana, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet said. A family member confirmed the death. “Maybe it will serve to add serious urgency to calls for negotiations” between the Dalai Lama’s envoys and China,” Robbie Barnett, a Tibet expert at Columbia University in New York, said. — Reuters
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Suicide bomber kills 6 in Afghanistan
Herat (Afghanistan), September 6 The bomber, who had explosives strapped to his body, had tried several offices in the building in the town of Zaranj on the southwestern border with Iran before entering that of the attorney, Nimroz province Governor said. Once inside, he blew himself up, bringing down the single-storey building, Governor Ghulam Dastgir Azad said. “We have so far recoverd six bodies,” he said. The dead included provincial attorney Anwar Shah Khan, his 20-year-old son, and his deputy and three civilians, Azad said. He said the bomber had been able to get past an outer security gate because guards had taken shelter from a sandstorm in the desert province. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. There has been a wave of suicide blasts in Afghanistan in the past three years, most of them claimed by Taliban extremists, who are waging an insurgency against the US-backed government in Kabul.
— AFP
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