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News for Saturday, 21 May 2011

Six dead in suicide blast at Kabul military hospital

Six medical students were killed and 23 others wounded in a Taliban suicide attack at Afghanistan’s main military hospital in Kabul on Saturday, officials said.The blast took place at lunchtime...

Palestinians set on UN statehood bid in September

Palestinians will seek recognition as a United Nations member-state in September given the deadlock in US-brokered peacemaking with Israel, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday. Nabil Shaath urged President...

At least 44 Syrians killed in bloody Friday

Syrian security forces shot dead at least 44 civilians in attacks on pro-democracy demonstrations that erupted across Syria on Friday, the Syrian National Organisation for Human Rights said on Saturday....

Yemen’s Saleh says al Qaeda to take over if he goes

Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday that al Qaeda could take over in many parts of the Arabian Peninsula country if he leaves office under a Gulf-brokered deal...

Fleeing Syrians say Assad must go

Syrians who fled for their lives from a security crackdown in the border town of Tel Kelakh say violence has hardened attitudes towards President Bashar al-Assad and unrest will not...

Zardari ‘restricts’ political activities at presidency

Despite the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders’ condemnation of the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict in President Asif Ali Zardari’s dual office case, President Zardari has restricted his political activities...

President phones Ahmadinejad

President Asif Ali Zardari telephoned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday evening and discussed bilateral relations, economic cooperation and the regional situation with him. The two leaders agreed on stepping...

ATC issues contempt notice to FIA DG in BB murder case

The Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued contempt of court notice to FIA Director General Malik Iqbal for separating the investigation officer from the probe into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination....

Acting CEC postpones by-election in Jaffarabad

Owing to an incomplete Election Commission, the acting chief election commissioner has postponed the by-election in PB-26 Jaffarabad (II) for six weeks. The election was scheduled to be held on...

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