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American killed in Kabul CIA compound attack
Last Updated on Friday, 30 September 2011 07:13 Friday, 30 September 2011 07:06
A US citizen was killed when Central Intelligence Agency compound came under gun attack in Kabul.
A compound in Kabul used by the US s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came under attack Sunday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults in the Afghan capital. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui said police had heard "a couple of minutes" of gunfire from inside the Ariana Hotel compound at around 9.15pm (1645 GMT). "Our police heard there were some shots from inside the Ariana compound," he said. But he added that Afghan forces could not go inside as the site "belongs to coalition forces" and was "not within the reach of police". An Afghan government source said the Ariana compound was used by the CIA. A US official in Washington confirmed an attack against a facility used by US officials in Kabul, saying "the situation is fluid, and the investigation is ongoing" over the incident. The CIA has not commented, but Afghan counter-intelligence sources said at least one attacker was killed in the incident. The CIA declined to comment. A spokesman for the US embassy in Kabul, Gavin Sundwall, also said he could not comment on the incident. Major Jason Waggoner, spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, confirmed that "there were shots fired" near the hotel but did not have further details. In another incident of violence in eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives outside a local police headquarters. Four people were killed in the incident. Abdul Rahman, who coordinates security in Paktika province, says two policemen and two civilians died in the attack Sunday in Yahya Khel district near Afghanistan s eastern border with Pakistan. After the attack, gunmen fired bullets at the police headquarters from two or three directions, but the gunfire ended after 15 minutes and no other casualties were reported. In Kabul, President Hamid Karzai appointed a panel of high-ranking officials, led by Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, to investigate the assassination of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who headed the nation s peace council. A US official in Washington said the American who died was a CIA employee. The official requested anonymity because he was speaking about intelligence matters.
Three Pakistani soldiers killed in Indian border firing
Friday, 02 September 2011 09:55
ISLAMABAD: Indian forces fired across the de facto border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir early on Wednesday, killing three Pakistani soldiers, the Pakistani army said on Thursday.
It said Indian forces opened “unprovoked” fire across the so-called Line of Control (LoC) — which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan — in Neelam valley.
“The soldiers were moving from one post to another when they came under fire. Three soldiers were killed,” military spokesman Major Gen. Athar Abbas said.
Pakistani forces returned fire in retaliation and the incident was raised with local Indian commanders, he said.
A spokesman for the Indian army in Kashmir gave a different account.
“They opened fire first and we retaliated…In the morning again they started firing mortars again and we retaliated and the exchange of fire continued,” Lt. Col. J.S. Brar told Reuters.
The incident underlined the fragility of ties between the countries that have fought three wars since 1947.
There were frequent exchanges of fire between the two forces before the neighbours agreed to a ceasefire across the dividing line there in 2003. They continue to exchange sporadic fire.
The latest incident is unlikely to have any impact on renewed efforts by the two countries to improve their ties.
India and Pakistan in February resumed a formal peace process broken off after the 2008 attack on Indian’s financial capital of Mumbai blamed on Pakistan-based militants, which killed 166 people.
Meeting in the Indian capital of New Delhi in July, foreign ministers of the two countries hailed a new era in ties, and agreed to fight militancy and boost trade and travel.
Mediapersons demonstrate against harassment in Kashmir
Saturday, 27 August 2011 23:56
Srinagar, Aug 25 (PTI) Srinagar-based mediapersons working with local, national and international organisations today staged an hour-long dharna here against alleged harassment by police and CRPF while discharging their professional duties.The scribes including reporters, photojournalists and videojournalists held the protest following the recent assault and detention by police of two photojournalists in the Valley. With black bands tied around their arms and carrying placards, Kashmir's media fraternity demanded an end to the harassment by state police and CRPF personnel.The protests come a week after two photo-journalists including a Mexican national were allegedly assaulted by police and CRPF while covering a demonstration at Nowhatta in Srinagar's old city.
source: ibnlive.in.com
Huge underground river found deep below Amazon
Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:10
A huge underground river appears to be flowing thousands of metres beneath the Amazon River, Brazilian scientists said Thursday.
Valiya Hamza of Brazil's National Observatory said researchers found indications the subterranean river is 6,000 kilometres long, about the same length as the Amazon on the surface.
Hamza said the discovery of the possible underground river came from studying temperature variations at 241 inactive oil wells drilled in the 1970s and 1980s by Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras.
He said the "thermal information" provided by Petrobras allowed his team of researchers to identify the movement of water 4,000 metres under the Amazon River.
Their findings were presented last week in Rio de Janeiro at a meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Society.
The apparent underground river has been named after Hamza, honouring him as the head of the research team that found the signs of the flowing water.
He said the existence of an underground river that also flows west to east would mean that the Amazon rainforest has two drainage systems — the Amazon and Hamza rivers.
Hamza stressed that the studies indicating the underground river were still in their preliminary stage but added that he expected to confirm the subterranean flow by the end of 2014.
He declined to comment on the economic and environmental impact of an underground river in the Amazon rain forest.
Bomb destroys 13 Nato tankers in Peshawar
Last Updated on Sunday, 07 August 2011 22:08 Sunday, 07 August 2011 21:50
PESHAWAR: A bomb destroyed at least 13 tankers on Saturday carrying fuel for Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan police said, the latest in a string of attempts to disrupt supplies. A total of 28 Nato oil tankers were parked at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar, at the time of the explosion, which triggered a fire that engulfed 13 of the vehicles. “We are trying to move away other oil tankers. We are not clear whether the bomb was planted in the terminal or with a tanker,” police official Khurshid Khan told AFP from the site. “Sixteen tankers were completely destroyed.” There were no reports of any casualties, he added. Mohammad Ijaz Khan, another senior police officer in Peshawar, said fire fighters were frantically trying to control the blaze. He said three explosions were heard before the fire swept through the parked tankers. No group has claimed responsibility but the Taliban have in the past said they carried out such attacks to disrupt supplies for more than 130,000 US-led international troops fighting in Afghanistan. Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants frequently launch attacks across northwestern Pakistan and the lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, which Washington has branded the most dangerous place in the world. Most supplies and equipment required by soldiers in Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistan, although US troops increasingly use alternative routes through Central Asia.
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