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Over 35,000 Afghan refugees flee Jalozai Camp

Monday, May 05, 2008

PESHAWAR: Atleast 5,755 families have so far returned to Afghanistan after their 2,808 houses at Jalozai camp, the biggest Afghan refugee camp, were bulldozed.

As per the statistics of the Afghan Commissioner Office, 17,000 families comprising 125,000 registered people were camped, among them, 33,200 families went back to Afghanistan while one thousand unregistered families have crossed the Pak-Afghan border and about 6,000 families are still at the camp who will vacate it by May 15.

The Afghan Commissioner Office sources said that about 4,000 families comprising over 35,000 persons went from the camps to various districts, which is strange, because they succeeded in escaping despite security arrangements by the FC, the police and various check-outs.

On the other hand, the UN organization for Afghan Refugees representative said that this is not their responsibility but the administration is responsible for that



Earthquake at Balochistan’s Awaran district


Monday, May 05, 2008

QUETTA: Tremors felt in Awaran district of Balochistan Monday morning at 9:18 am, sources said. The epicenter of 4.1-magnitude earthquake was 1000 kilometer in northwest of Peshawar.



Accidental explosions kill 6; wound more than 20 in Afghanistan


Monday, May 05, 2008

KABUL: Three accidental explosions in the Afghan capital have left six people dead and more than 20 wounded, including some counter narcotics police, officials said Monday.

A policeman dropped a rocket-propelled grenade that exploded as his unit set off from Kabul on Monday on an opium poppy eradication mission north of the city, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary.

One policeman was killed and at least eight were wounded, said Dr. Ahmad Zia Aftali, chief of the hospital where the injured were taken for treatment.

Also Monday, three children died and two others were wounded when an old artillery shell they were playing with exploded, Bashary said.



Govt to meet challenges with consensus of allies: Gilani

Monday, May 05, 2008

MULTAN: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said the PPP would take along all its coalition partners to steer the country out of the challenges it is facing today.

The issues including revival of superior court judges will be taken with consensus of the coalition partners, said Prime Minister Gilani here Monday.

Talking to journalists after inaugurating the bio-technological department at the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) the Prime Minister said Maulana Fazlur Rahman and other allies are members of the committee on independence of the judiciary and any decision would be taken with consensus and there are no differences on the issue.

To a question he said MQM enjoys a substantial political support in Karachi, that is why it has been included in the Sindh cabinet and the PML-N has no reservations on this coalition.

He said to maintain law and order is top priority of his government as without it progress is not possible.

Governor Punjab Lt Gen ® Khalid Maqbool, Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Zafarullah and secretary higher education Punjab Ms Arifa Saboohi were also present.

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