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QUETTA - Gunmen in the Balochistan's town Mithri attacked five oil tankers carrying supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
"Unknown gunmen fired at five NATO oil tankers. Two of them caught fire while oil leaked from three others," district administration chief Muhammad Azam said.
"There were no injuries to drivers," he said. Local intelligence officials confirmed the attack. NATO trucks and oil tankers are regularly the targets of arson attacks

BUCHAREST - An explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Romania, killing five miners at a depth of some 400 metres (1,000 ft) below ground, authorities said late on Saturday. A rescue team found the bodies of the miners, between 30 and 35 years old, who had been working to repair a power transformer, Dan Buhaescu, mayor of the town of Uricani, was quoted as saying by news agency Agerpres.
Mining was once a thriving industry employing almost half a million people in Romania

DOHA - Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt was banned for 10 years, and fast bowling pair Muhammad Asif for seven years and Muhammad Amir for five years on Saturday after being found guilty of corruption. The head of the International Cricket Council tribunal Michael Beloff announced the verdict after a lengthy nine-hour hearing in the Qatari capital.
"The Tribunal found that the charges under Article 2.1.1 of the (ICC) code that (respectively) Asif agreed to bowl and did bowl a

ISLAMABAD - Fate of 5 national institutions hangs in balance after devolution of federal ministries to provinces under the 18th Amendment. These institutions include Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), National Book Foundation (NBF), National Language Authority (NLA), Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) and National Lok Virsa Museum (NLVM).
Under the devolution plan, control of all institutions, previously working under federal ministries of education and culture, is to be

LAHORE - The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) elected five member directors for the year 2011 here on Friday. All five members elected as directors belong to Panel A. They include Mirza Ejaz Baig and Jahanzeb Mirza, who bagged 71 and 70 votes respectively. In addition, Ammar ul Haq, Mazhar Rafiq and Naeem Anwar have also been elected to the Board of Directors, obtaining 69, 65 and 55 votes respectively.
Polling started in the LSE Auditorium at 11am and continued till 5pm, except for a

PARIS - Five EU nations urged an immediate political transition to end violent unrest in Egypt, in a joint statement on Thursday by Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. "Only a quick and orderly transition to a broad-based government will make it possible to overcome the challenges Egypt is now facing," said the statement. "That transition process must start now."
Egypt's long-standing president Hosni Mubarak is facing mass protests calling for him to quit power, which

CAIRO - Egypt's capital resembles a battlefield, with burned-out cars, streets littered with rubble and clouds of thick dark smoke billowing above the seat of government as protesters demand that President Hosni Mubarak step down.
"Allahu Akbar! (God is greatest)" and "The people want the president out" were some of the slogans chanted by thousands of demonstrators gathered on Saturday on Tahrir square in downtown Cairo. "Mubarak, go!" they cried. The anti-regime demonstrators

LAHORE - National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) N-5 Central on Thursday arrested five criminals involved in different criminal activities and seized stolen vehicles, cash, mobiles, animals and other valuables from their possession.
NH&MP also recovered 7 bags of urea fertilizers, and helped three-year-old kidnapped girl Tayyaba to reunite with her family. NH&MP arrested Waheed, Afshan, Nasir Ali, Rafiq and Ghazanfer for their involvement in different crimes and took a

KASUR - Some unidentified thieves excavated five graves in Bullhey Shah Graveyard and took away three bodies. When some people went to the graveyard, they found the graves open and the dead bodies missing. According to eyewitnesses, the graves of women were also found excavated. Later, it was learnt that one grave was the mother of Amanat, a petrol pump owner, who was buried 15days ago.
The second grave was an aunt of policeman Munir Shah who was buried four days ago. The

DASKA - Technology Upgrade and Skill Development Company (TUSDEC) has established five National Institute of Design and Analysis centres in Sialkot, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta. According to details, Ceramics Development Centre Eminabad costing Rs 321 million would be operational soon while three engineering centres in Hyderabad, Peshawar and Hub costing Rs 600 million are being set up with the financial support of Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The purpose behind the

MIRANSHAH - Five civilians were killed and six wounded when mortar shells fired from Afghanistan hit a border village in the Tribal Areas, military officials said on Friday.
"Five mortar shells fired from the Afghan side landed in Teti Madakhel village," in the Mir Ali district of North Waziristan late on Thursday, a military official said. He said the mortars hit houses located just three kilometres from the border. "As a result, five civilians - three women and two men - were

QUETTA - Five people, including two women, were burnt in an explosion caused by gas leakage in a house on Quetta's Raisani Road on Monday. Police said explosion occurred when a woman lit a matchstick in a room filled with gas that caused the explosion injuring Paind Khatoon, Khadeeja, Hayat, Naimat Ullah and Naeem. The Injured were shifted to the Bolan Medical Complex

QUETTA - Machineries of five gas wells in Sui area of Dera Bugti district were blown up with explosives on Sunday, with the Baloch Republican Army claiming responsibility for the attack.
Reports from Sui said miscreants planted explosives near wells number 24, 34, 43, 82 and 83 and detonated them at 2am. As a result, the machinery attached to the wells was badly damaged.
However, the explosion did not lead to gas leakage and the underground safety valves prevented the lines

ISLAMABAD - Textile export registered an increase of 26.88 percent during the period from July to November 2010 as compared to the same period of the last financial year. According to the data available with Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) the export of raw cotton increased by 15.43 percent as about 49,688 metric tonnes of raw cotton worth $121.433 million was exported.
Meanwhile, the export of cotton yarn also grew by 17.80 percent The export of cotton yarn was recorded at

QUETTA - At least five students along with personnel of Balochistan Frontier Corps (FC) got injured in a remote controlled bomb blast in Turbat, a town in Kechh district on Tuesday.
FC spokesman who requested not to be named said that an FC school bus carrying more than three dozen students was passing in front of Atta Shahad Degree College when remote controlled device planted in the roadside exploded as the vehicle passed by.
As a result, five students identified as Kamil,

JERUSALEM - Israeli police and agents of the Shin Bet security service have arrested five Arab men suspected of involvement in a plot to fire a rocket into a Jerusalem football stadium, the agency said on Sunday.
A Shin Bet statement said that two of the men, Mussa Hamada and Bassem Omari, had for several years been active in the militant Islamic movement Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in Jerusalem. It said they received support from the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia.