Taliban not to attack Pakistan forces: Report
 02.01.2012 12:10  0 views  0 comments
Islamabad: Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan have formed a new grouping which has pledged to stop targeting Pakistani security forces and focus their attention on US-led NATO troops in Afghanistan at the intervention of their elusive supreme commander Mullah Omar. At the...
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NATO hopes for reopening of Pakistan supply route
02.01.2012 12:03 0 views 0 comments
KABUL, Afghanistan-NATO says it hopes for a quick reopening of the blocked supply routes through Pakistan because the...
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Myanmar cuts sentences for many prisoners
02.01.2012 12:03 0 views 0 comments
YANGON, Myanmar-Myanmar's government announced Monday that it is reducing the sentences of many prisoners in a clemency that fell short of the general amnesty many people were expecting. State television and radio said President...
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Sleepy thief caught in front of victim’s house
02.01.2012 12:00 0 views 0 comments
A thief was caught after falling asleep in front of his victim’s house in Depok on Monday morning. Traditional food vendor Agustian said he was suspicious when he...
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Aceh New Year's Eve shooting pure crime: Police
02.01.2012 12:00 0 views 0 comments
National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo has dismissed suggestions saying the recent shooting in Aceh on New Year’s Eve was...
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Decapitated bodies found in C. Kalimantan
02.01.2012 12:00 0 views 0 comments
Two decapitated bodies were found on Sunday in a plantation belonging to PT MA, an Astra...
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Lawyer quits in Pakistan 'memogate' scandal
02.01.2012 11:45 0 views 0 comments
The lawyer of Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to the US, has resigned as his counsel saying she has "no confidence" in the judicial commission set up to investigate a secret memo scandal in which Haqqani has been implicated. The Pakistan supreme court on Friday set up a judicial commission to investigate the "memogate" scandal that centres on a memo allegedly sent in May to Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff at the time. The memo was allegedly drafted by Haqqani and asked for help in stopping a supposed army coup in Pakistan following the US Navy Seals raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden. "I quit as Haqqani’s lawyer but my...
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Myanmar cuts sentences for some prisoners
02.01.2012 11:40 1 views 0 comments
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's government has announced it is reducing the sentences of some prisoners on humanitarian grounds. State television and radio said Monday that President Thein Sein signed a clemency order to mark the country's 64th anniversary of independence. They said some death sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment, while some prisoners serving between 20 and 30 years will have their terms cut to 20 years. Those serving less than 20 years are to have their sentences cut by one-fourth. It was not immediately clear how many prisoners would be affected, or whether they would include political detainees. Several prominent student activists serving 65-year prison terms...
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Indian troops fire on Kashmir protesters, 1 killed
02.01.2012 11:40 0 views 0 comments
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police say troops in Indian-controlled Kashmir have opened fire on hundreds of villagers who were protesting against frequent power cuts, killing one person and injuring two others. Police say the paramilitary troops began shooting Monday as the protesters shouted slogans outside the main gate of a power plant near Baramulla town. They say one protester died on the spot and two others were hospitalized. The Himalayan region faces power cuts of up to 16 hours a day despite bitterly cold winter temperatures as low as 3 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 16 Celsius). Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan. There are frequent protests in the Indian-controlled portion in...
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"No Fatwa Issued Declaring Shia is Deviant": MUI
02.01.2012 11:16 0 views 0 comments
, Jakarta:Umar Shihab, Ukhuwah Islamiyah Commission Chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), said that MUI had never issued any fatwa that declared the...
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Mayapada Group Owner Makes Massive Donation to National University of Singapore: Report
02.01.2012 11:16 0 views 0 comments
, Jakarta:Mayapada Group owner Tahir has, according to a report, made a substantial donation of US$30 million to the National...
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Presidents Expects Political Temperature to Rise in 2012
02.01.2012 11:16 0 views 0 comments
, Jakarta:President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono requested politicians to maintain political stability and prevent political competition that exceeds propriety in 2012....
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Govt. Prepares Infrastructure Financing Institutions
02.01.2012 11:16 0 views 0 comments
, Jakarta:The government is preparing to establish financing institutions to finance national...
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Two Convicts to Testify Against Nazaruddin
02.01.2012 11:16 0 views 0 comments
, Jakarta:The Anti-Graft Court (Tipikor) will continue the graft trial against defendant Muhammad Nazaruddin on...
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Police Fired Live Rounds At Civilians in Bima Tragedy
02.01.2012 11:16 0 views 0 comments
, Bima, West Nusa Tenggara:The cause of death of the two victims who died in the Sape Port tragedy in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, has been revealed. Autopsy...
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India diplomat assaulted in court in Yiwu, China
02.01.2012 10:58 0 views 0 comments
An Indian diplomat has been injured in an assault by a group of Chinese traders in a court in China's eastern business hub of Yiwu, officials say. S Balachandran, a diplomat at the Indian consulate in Shanghai, fainted and was taken to hospital. He was in court to try to secure...
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Iranian border guards still in Pakistani custody
02.01.2012 10:53 0 views 0 comments
QUETTA, Pakistan-Pakistani authorities have yet to decide what to do with three Iranian border guards detained for allegedly crossing into southwestern Pakistan and killing a...
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South Korea says 'new era' possible for Koreas
02.01.2012 10:53 0 views 0 comments
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea's president urged North Korea on Monday to embrace a "new era" by using its recent leadership change as an opportunity to transform Korean ties, as Seoul signaled its willingness to work with Pyongyang's new leader. Lee Myung-bak is reaching out to the late Kim Jong Il's young son as he takes power as supreme commander of the North's military and ruling party leader after Kim's death last month. Lee, however, also warned that Seoul would respond sternly to any North Korean provocations. Lee's comments in a nationally televised speech came a day after the North said in its annual New Year's message that its citizens should turn...
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Tortured Afghan girl to go to India for treatment
02.01.2012 10:53 0 views 0 comments
KABUL, Afghanistan-An Afghan official says a 15-year-old girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws who wanted to...
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Pak Taliban vows to attack NATO forces
02.01.2012 10:51 0 views 0 comments
Islamabad: Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan have formed a new grouping which has pledged to stop targeting Pakistani security forces and focus their attention on US-led NATO troops in Afghanistan at the intervention of their elusive supreme commander Mullah Omar. At the...
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