20 held as Sikh protest in UK
london: Twenty protesters have been arrested by the British police after a Sikh demonstration outside the Indian High Commission against alleged police brutality in Punjab turned violent, leaving one policeman injured. Hundreds of demonstrators of a group called ‘Sikh lives Matter’ gathered for a sit-in protest yesterday against the alleged police brutality against Sikhs in Punjab, but the initially peaceful demonstration turned violent forcing police to cordon off the area around the Indian mission in central london.
lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader arrested
lahore: The Pakistan Police have arrested the last main leader of the banned lashkar-e-Jhangvi sectarian militant group. After the death of leJ chief Malik Ishaq, his two sons and 11 other activists in a shootout with police this July in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province, Haroon Rashid Bhatti said to be the “last main leader” of leJ who was leading the outfit from Dubai has also been nabbed. The Punjab police had placed a Rs 2.5 mil bounty on his head.
woman flier might pay compensation for birth
Taipei: A woman deported to her homeland Taiwan after giving birth on a flight to the US in an apparent attempt to give her baby American citizenship may have to pay hefty compensation for forcing the plane to divert. The China Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Alaska en route from Taipei to los Angeles on October 8.
27 dead in mosque blast in Yola
Yola: At least 27 people were killed in a bomb blast at a newly-inaugurated mosque in Yola, northeast Nigeria, on Friday, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. “So far we have 27 dead and 96 injured,” NEMA’s co-ordinator in the Adamawa State capital, Sa’ad Bello, told AFP. The explosion happened at about 2:00 pm at the Jambutu Juma’at mosque in the Jimeta area of the city, shortly after the imam had finished his inaugural sermon.