Pak tribunal rejects Musharraf’s appeal
Islamabad: A Pakistani election tribunal on Monday rejected former president Pervez Musharraf’s appeal against the rejection of his nomination papers for a parliamentary constituency in Karachi.
B’desh forces pledge to uphold constitution
Dhaka: In an unusual move, the chiefs of Bangladesh
armed forces on Monday pledged before a parliamentary body to uphold the constitution “at any cost” amid rising political tension over electoral system and 1971 war crimes trial. “They (army, navy and air force chiefs) expressed their firm determination
to discharge duties under their mandate upholding the constitution at any cost,” chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on
Defence ministry M Idris Ali said.
‘Iran does not need atomic bomb’
Abomey-Calavi: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday defended his country’s controversial nuclear programme while on a tour of West Africa, calling it peaceful and arguing that Tehran has no use for an atomic bomb.
Kuwait Opp leader jailed over ‘insults’
Kuwait City: A Kuwaiti court on Monday sentenced main Opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison after he was convicted of insulting the emir. “The court has sentenced the defendant Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison with immediate effect,” said judge Wael al-Atiqi.
Editor sued in Bangladesh
Dhaka: Bangladesh authorities on Monday sued an editor
of a fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami newspaper for “illegally” printing a pro-opposition Bengali daily Amar Desh, whose editor was arrested
last week on charges of sedition and inciting religious tension. The publication of Amar Desh, the mouthpiece of main Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami, was barred from using facilities of any other daily.
Afghan roadside bomb kills 7 civilians
Kabul: A roadside bomb hit a tractor in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing seven civilians and wounding four others, officials said. The tractor and trailer hit the anti-vehicle mine in the Mali Zai area of Zabul province, the ministry of interior said in a statement.
WORK TO retrievE
jet wreckage BEGINS
Denpasar: Indonesian investigators on Monday began retrieving the wreck of a lion Air plane that crashed at Bali’s airport, as accounts emerged of a freak storm that could have caused the accident. The Boeing 737-800 missed the runway as it came in to land on Saturday, slamming into the sea and splitting in two. Dozens of the 108 people on board were injured, but there were no fatalities.
Peres for peace
with Palestinians
Jerusalem: Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday said that he still dreams of living in harmony with Palestinians and the troubled region would see peace in the coming five years. “I think there are no two ways about it, and there will be peace,” Peres said ahead Israel’s 65th Independence Day on Tuesday.