UN Gathers New Pledges for $2Bn Pak Appeal
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INTERNATIONAL London Edition In collaboration with the Daily Jang Also published from Karachi, Lahore & Rawalpindi and soon from New York Monday JANG GROUP OF NEWSPAPERS September 20, 2010 N The News Internet address: www.jang.com.pk Shawwal 11, 1431 A.H. Two hurt as gunmen UN gathers attack tourist bus in Delhi new pledges NEW DELHI: Gunmen on a mo- torbike opened fire with an auto- matic pistol on a tourist bus out- side New Delhi’s Jama Masjid on Sunday, injuring two Taiwanese for $2bn tourists, police said. The attack came just a fort- night before the start of the Com- monwealth Games, when 7,000 foreign athletes and offices are ex- Pak appeal pected in the Indian capital amid ongoing concerns about security from participating nations. Norway triples assistance for flood Witnesses said two men wear- ing raincoats and helmets arrived victims; Clegg unveils major aid boost on a motorcycle outside the mosque, with the passenger open- UNITED NATIONS: The United The floods, caused by weeks of ing fire first at the mosque and Nations gathered new aid pledges torrential rain have killed more then at the tourist minibus as pas- for the Pakistan flood disaster on than 1,700 people, according to sengers disembarked. Sunday after making a record $2 an official toll, but the UN said the “According to our preliminary billion appeal to feed millions of massive surge has exposed more investigation, they (the gunmen) victims. than 20 million people to home- finished off an entire magazine of Twenty-five top ministers, in- lessness, malnutrition, risks of epi- their sten gun,” assistant police cluding US Secretary of State demics and loss of livelihood. commissioner Jagbir Singh told Hillary Clinton, gathered in New The UN said money was AFP, referring to an automatic pis- NEW DELHI: Indian police guard the area around gate number three of the Jama Masjid after foreign tourists were attacked by unknown York ahead of the UN summit this needed to buy food, set up emer- tol. gunmen here on Sunday.—AFP wirephoto week, to discuss the new crisis in gency camps, rebuild agriculture One of the victims suffered a Pakistan. UN Secretary General and villages which have seen serious stomach wound, said Amit Ban Ki-moon has called the floods drinking water and sanitation Banerjee, head of Lok Narayan “the worst natural disaster the wiped out. The flood water is still Jay Prakash Hospital where the Babar describes United Nations has responded to moving from the north of Pakistan tourists have been transferred. in its 65-year history. ” to southern provinces causing The other has a superficial head Lib Dem leaders criticised Punjab as The UN secretary general and huge new emergencies. wound that is not life-threatening, Pakistan Foreign Minister Foreign Norway more than tripled its he said. ‘police state’ Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi emergency aid to Pakistan to $66 The incident in the ancient for backing Tory policies will co-chair Sunday’s meeting at million on Sunday. “The situation is walled city, a top tourist attraction News Desk the UN headquarters. French For- still highly critical for nine million for visitors, happened as a series LONDON: Liberal Democrats the Press defending in detail poli- leadership to recognise it was eign Minister Bernard Kouchner people. We must now show our of security drills were under way turned on the party’s leadership cies that I know to be Tory poli- hard to remain distinctive if they RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister and Britain’s International Devel- solidarity with the flood victims,” in New Delhi on Sunday, with a on Sunday, with one senior peer cies that this party does not agree sound like “mini-me Conserva- for Law and Justice Babar Awan opment Minister Andrew Mitchell beefed-up security presence on accusing Nick Clegg and govern- with, which are against party pol- tives”. “I’ve got to say, as someone on Sunday called Punjab adminis- will also be present. Continued on page 11 many of the capital’s main roads. ment ministers of causing “dis- icy and which will not be party who felt very awkward about the trators as “illegal” and said what- Indian officials have been may” among supporters about the policy at the next general election. coalition, very difficult about ever they do would also be con- forced to defend security arrange- way Tory policies were being en- “I look at this and I see the glee working with the Conservatives, I sidered unlawful. ments in the city ahead of the Oc- thusiastically promoted. that this is causing amongst our would find it a lot easier to take if Addressing a programme of tober 3-14 Commonwealth During a session of public soul enemies, amongst the cynics in some of the announcements about former nazims and naib nazims Drone kills five militants Games, a multi-sport event that searching about the coalition deal the media. I see the confusion it’s necessary cuts weren’t made by and later talking to the media, the brings together athletes from and future strategy at the Lib Dem causing our members in many our politicians with quite so much federal law minister said Punjab in North Waziristan conference in Liverpool one of the places and the dismay it’s causing relish.” was giving an impression of a ‘po- Continued on page 11 city’s councillors criticised minis- amongst people who vote for us. David Rendel, former MP for lice state’. News Desk added: “The nationalities of the mil- ters for talking about spending The way in which coalition policy, Newbury, said the leadership “Those who entered the power itants killed were not immediately cuts with “relish”. when it is not Liberal Democrat “seem terrified of the tabloid sto- politics from backdoor have al- PESHAWAR: A US missile strike known.” One former MP said the party policy, is being presented has got ries that they might get about ready fled; whereas, those look- killed five suspected militants In the ongoing deadly feud be- Iran, Pentagon leadership were so “terrified” of to change.” splits in the coalition...so terrified ing for a secret exit have become while scores of others were killed tween Bangash and Turi tribes in stories highlighting splits in the He called for new rules to re- that they pretend that every coali- politically bankrupt,” he noted. in clashes in northwestern tribal the Kurram Agency, at least 40 deny seizing coalition they were endorsing poli- place the convention of collective tion policy is agreed on both sides. He challenged Pakistan Muslim areas near the Afghan border on tribesmen were killed and several cies which came from the Tories responsibility in government deci- “The result is that people who League chief Nawaz Sharif to Sunday. others injured when Taliban mili- of US troops and failing to promote Lib Dem sion-making to help Lib Dem min- are normally not our supporters muster some ‘moral courage’ and Intelligence officials said a US tants, belonging to the Haqqani achievements in government. isters set out their own policies. get a very misleading idea about enter parliament. “A horse and drone fired four missiles targeting group, stormed a remote village 10 TEHRAN/WASHIGTON: Pentagon Senior peer Lord Greaves said: Paula Keaveney, who repre- what our policies and ideas are.” arena is awaiting him,” he added. a vehicle and a hideout for militants kilometres from Parachinar on Sun- denied reports on Sunday that US “I see Liberal Democrat spokes- sents Cressington on Liverpool Awan suggested that anything linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban day. troops entered Iranian territory, people going on television and in City Council, called on the party’s Continued on page 11 worth discussing be put forth in the 14th such attack this month The death toll is expected to moments after officials in Tehran through parliament. He said the - the most intense barrage since the rise further as many of the injured dismissed reports that its security year for a change is 2013 when strikes began in 2004—killing at are said to be in critical condition. forces seized seven US troops people would re-elect the Pak- least five militants. A senior government official said near the border with Pakistan. 3 protesters, istan Peoples Party for another The officials, speaking on con- that the Taliban militants also set “We have no missing soldiers. ‘Police hunting two term. dition of anonymity, said the house parts of the Kurram tribal region’s All accounted for,” Pentagon press woman killed in People have been pinning high belonged to a local militant and main town, Khaiwat, on fire. secretary Geoff Morrell said in an hopes on parliament whose both was located in Dehgan, a village in The 40 tribesmen were killed email, rejecting an Iranian website killers of Imran Farooq’ held Kashmir houses would be meeting on Mon- the Datta Khel, a town in the North “while the whole village was set on report as “false”, which claimed day during which three bills, Waziristan Agency. fire by the militants”, the official that seven US forces “who in- News Desk added. “Police are urgently seek- HELD SRINAGAR: Three more pro- A security official in Peshawar tended to enter Iranian territory at ing witnesses following a murder testers and a female bystander died Continued on page 11 confirmed the attack and toll, and Continued on page 11 the Kuhak border area near Sara- LONDON: Detectives probing the in Green Lane, Edgware, on on Sunday in occupied Kashmir, van were identified and arrested murder of Muttahida Quami Move- Thursday, 16th September 2010,” sparking further rallies against rule by border patrols”.