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Who shot Osama bin Laden? Media feud among Navy SEALs
Najam Sethi sworn in as caretaker
CM of Punjab
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US flies stealth bombers over South Korea Seoul, March 28 The deployment of the stealth bombers was clearly meant to deliver a potent message to Pyongyang about the US commitment to defending South Korea against any aggression as military tensions on the Korean peninsula soar. It came shortly after the North severed its last-remaining military hotline with South Korea and put its rocket units on combat status with a threat to target US bases in the Pacific region. The two B-2s, from Whitman Air Force base in Missouri, flew the 20,800 km round-trip in a "single continuous mission", dropping dummy ordnance on a target range in the South, the US military said in a statement. "This demonstrates the United States' ability to conduct long-range, precision strikes quickly and at will," the statement said. The bombers were participating in the South Korean-US military exercises that have incensed North Korea, which has threatened to unleash a second Korean War and launch pre-emptive nuclear strikes on South Korea and the US mainland. "The B-2 bomber is an important element of America's enduring and robust extended deterrence capability," the US statement said. — AFP Counter threat
* The deployment of the B-2 stealth bombers is meant to deliver a potent message to Pyongyang about the US commitment to defending South Korea *
It came shortly after the North severed its last-remaining military hotline with South Korea and put its rocket units on combat status with a threat to target US bases in the Pacific region |
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Malala seals $3mn deal to publish memoir London, March 28 "The life story of a 15-year Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban will be published later this year, in a deal reported to be worth over $3 million)," the UK-based Guardian newspaper reported. The book, titled "I am Malala", will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in the UK and Commonwealth and by Little, Brown in the rest of the world, the paper said, adding that a spokeswoman for the publisher could not confirm reports about the value of the publishing deal. "I want to tell my story, but it will also be the story of 61 million children who can't get education," Malala said. "I want it to be part of the campaign to give every boy and girl the right to go to school. It is their basic right." She said: "I hope this book will reach people around the world, so they realise how difficult it is for some children to get access to education." Malala escaped death by a matter of inches when she was shot on a school bus in north-western Pakistan on October 9, 2012 as the bullet entered just above her left eye and ran along her jaw, grazing past her brain.— PTI
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Who shot Osama bin Laden? Media feud among Navy SEALs Washington, March 28 Esquire magazine published a long interview in February with a man identified only as "the shooter" who said he had shot the Al-Qaida leader twice in the head on the night of the May 1, 2011 raid on his Pakistan hideout. The commando said he had been alone when he entered Osama's third-floor room in his Abbottabad hideout. But CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, an Al-Qaida expert, dismissed that account as completely false. A SEAL Team 6 member interviewed by Bergen told him three SEALs out of the 23-strong team were the first to make it to the top floor of the compound, including "the shooter" and "the point man". The third was Matt Bissonette, who published his "No Easy Day" book last year about the raid under the pen name Mark Owen. According to Bergen, it was "the point man" who ran up the stairs and saw Osama poking his head around his bedroom door and shot him first, gravely wounding the Al-Qaida leader. The "point man" -- who was not identified -- then rushed two women in the room, fearing they might be wearing suicide vests packed with explosives "gathering them in his arms to absorb the explosion", Bergen writes. Two more commandos then entered the room and shot the fallen Osama in the chest, killing him. — AFP
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Mandela responding positively to treatment for lung infection Johannesburg, March 28 Asking people to pray for the 94-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the Presidency said Mandela was admitted to the hospital just before midnight yesterday "due to the recurrence of his lung infection", for the third time in four months. "Doctors are attending to him, ensuring that he has the best possible expert medical treatment and comfort," Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj said in a statement. Maharaj appealed "for understanding and privacy in order to allow space to the doctors to do their work." He did not identify the hospital, but added that Mandela was "conscious" at the time of admission. — PTI
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Najam Sethi sworn in as caretaker CM of Punjab Eminent journalist and TV anchor Najam Sethi was sworn in on Wednesday as caretaker chief minister of Punjab. Punjab Governor Ahmed Mahmood administered the oath. Talking to mediapersons, Sethi vowed to run a clean, non-partisan and impartial interim government with a small cabinet, glued solely to ensuring free, fair and transparent elections. Sethi is editor of a weekly political magazine ‘Friday Times’. He also hosts a popular TV programme of political analyses on Geo TV. |
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The United States said two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers flew "deterrence" missions over South Korea on Thursday, defying apocalyptic threats of retribution from North Korea against ongoing war games.
Malala
Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head at point-blank range by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, has become a millionaire by signing a deal for over $3 million to publish her memoir.
"The life story of a 15-year Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban will be published later this year, in a deal reported to be worth over $3 million)," the UK-based Guardian newspaper reported.
A new version of the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden was unveiled, sharply contradicting earlier claims by a Navy SEAL who said he pulled the trigger.
Esquire magazine published a long interview in February with a man identified only as "the shooter" who said he had shot the
Al-Qaida leader twice in the head on the night of the May 1, 2011 raid on his Pakistan hideout.
