2 Jamaat leaders sentenced in B’desh
Dhaka: Two Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, including a lawmaker, were sentenced on Sunday for three months in prison for making “derogatory” remarks about a special court trying perpetrators of 1971 war crimes, prompting the fundamentalist party to call for a nationwide strike on Monday. The International Crimes Tribunal-2 handed down the three months jail term to lawmaker Hamidur Rahman Azad and acting secretary general of the party Rafiqul Islam Khan on contempt charges.
Sarabjit probe: panel grills prisoners
lahore: A judicial commission of the lahore High Court visited Sarabjit Singh’s cell in Kot lakhpat Jail and interviewed prisoners as part of its probe into the brutal murder of the Indian death row convict. Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, the head of the commission, collected the complete record of Sarabjit from prison officials. Registrar Bushra Zaman of the High Court told reporters that the commission had interviewed some prisoners about the incident and gathered complete records of the case.
Indian Army chief to visit Nepal today
Kathmandu: Army chief Gen Bikram Singh arrives here on Monday on an official visit to mark the successful ascent of Mount Everest by a joint Indo-Nepal army team in an effort to clean up the world's highest peak. The army chief is visiting Nepal on a two-day trip at the invitation of his Nepalese counterpart Gen Gaurav Shumsher Rana. Gen Singh and Gen Rana will jointly flag-in the Indo-Nepal Joint Army Everest Clean-Up Expedition at a function at Nepal Army Headquarters in Kathmandu on Monday.
$1.52m watches stolen in london
london: Six men dressed in burqas, who carried out a daring Hollywood-style robbery at one of london’s most iconic department stores, stole watches worth an estimated USD 1.52 million, the Scotland Yard has said. The men, who were disguised in ‘burqas’, smashed glass cabinets and filled holdalls with high-value watches in the dramatic smash-and-raid attack on the world-famous Selfridges store on Thursday.
Iranclerics back Velayati for Prez
Tehran: A leading Iranian conservative clerical group has endorsed veteran diplomat Ali Akbar Velayati to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 14 presidential election, a media report said on Sunday. The Mehr news agency said a majority of members of the Qom Seminary Scholars Association at a meeting yesterday gave their support to Velayati, quoting group chief Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a former conservative head of the judiciary.
Pak lawmaker flees from court
Karachi: A newly-elected Pakistani lawmaker from PPP fled from an anti-terrorism court in Sindh province’s Khairpur district after his interim bail in a murder case was cancelled, according to media reports on Sunday. Nawab Wassan Khan, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) member of the National Assembly, was booked for the alleged killing of a man and injuring 16 others on May 11. After the case was lodged against him, Khan secured an interim bail from the Sindh High Court and reached the Anti-terrorism Court (ATC) for confirmation of his bail on Saturday.