Pakistani girl burnt alive for resisting rape
lahore: A man allegedly burnt a teenage girl to death after failing to rape her in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police officials said on Wednesday. According to the FIR registered by police, the girl from Rahim Yar Khan district, 400 km from lahore, had gone to the home of her friend on July 19 to learn how to stitch clothes. Muhammad Imtiaz, the brother of her friend, tried to rape her. When the girl put up a resistance, Imtiaz allegedly doused her with petrol, set her on fire and fled. The girl was taken to Shaikh Zayed Hospital, where doctors declared her condition critical as she had 80 per cent burns.
Ten killed in fire accident in China
Beijing: Ten miners were confirmed dead in a fire accident in a sulphur mine in a Northwest China province, rescuers said on Wednesday. Seven bodies of the trapped miners have been lifted from the pit while the remaining three also have been confirmed dead, state run Xinhua news agency reported.The mine, located in Chengcheng County of Shaanxi province, caught fire around 1 pm yesterday when 27 workers were working underground to repair air shaft facilities, a statement from the county’s publicity department said.
UN chemical weapons experts arrive in Damascus
Damascus: Two senior UN inspectors tasked with examining claims that chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria’s civil war arrived in Damascus on Wednesday. Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom and Angela Kane, the UN high representative for disarmament, arrived at a hotel in the Syrian Capital. The pair are to hold talks with senior government officials during their two-day visit, Damascus-based UN media and communications analyst Khaled Al Masri told AFP.
Magsaysay award for Afghan, Myanmar women
Manila: Afghanistan’s first and only female provincial Governor and an aid worker from Myanmar’s Kachin minority are among the winners of this year’s prestigious Ramon Magsaysay awards, the award foundation said on Wednesday. The Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, named after a popular Filipino President, was established in 1957 to honour people or groups who change communities in Asia for the better. Both Habiba Sarabi, Governor of the Afghan province of Bamyan, and Myanmar aid worker lahpai Seng Raw did not allow their minority origins to stop them from empowering other people, said the foundation.