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KARACHI - The Karachi police have reportedly identified the men involved in the killing of Akhter Hussain, the vice chairman of Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) Afaq Group, and his two aides, it was learnt on Saturday.
Hussain and his two aides were killed on Shaheed-e-Millat Road near Bahadurabad on April 12. A female passerby was also killed and a child injured when the assailants fired at the MQM-H men's car.
A Karachi police official said the suspects were being

KARACHI - The Karachi police have reportedly identified the men involved in the killing of Akhter Hussain, the vice chairman of Muhajir Qaumi Movement (Afaq), and his two aides, it was learnt on Saturday.
A Karachi police official said the suspects were being searched for and would be arrested soon. Hussain and his two aides were killed on Shaheed-e-Millat Road near Bahadurabad on April 12. A police mobile van was present in the surroundings when the incident took place and gave

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will visit Afghanistan for weekend talks with President Hamid Karzai, Islamabad said Thursday.
The visit comes ahead of the main fighting season in neighbouring Afghanistan, where 130,000 US-led troops are battling Taliban insurgents whose leaders are widely believed to be based in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Relations have been strained over insecurity, with both accusing each other of destablising their countries,

FAISAL ABAD - The party which has been involved in the assassination of hundreds of innocent people in Karachi is now making tall claims and hollow promises to protect the people of the Punjab, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) central executive committee member and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) former chairman Hamza Shahbaz on Tuesday. Commenting on the political campaign of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the Punjab, he said: "It is ironical that those who openly use

KARACHI - At least four people, including the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqqiqi (MQM-H) Afaq Ahmed group vice president and member of the Karachi Organising Committee, were killed by unidentified armed motorcyclists in Karachi on Monday. The MQM-H leader was on his way home after meeting party President Afaq Ahmed in Central Prison Karachi when four armed motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire on his vehicle on Tariq Road signal and fled.
Ferozabad SHO Aurangzaib Khattak said

TRIPOLI - A Libyan government spokesman said the country is open to political reforms and elections, but Muammar Gaddafi must remain as the Libyan leader.
"We are ready for political solutions: constitution, election, anything, but the leader has to lead this forward," Mussa Ibrahim said.
The spokesman said the Libyan people, rather than other countries, must decide the country's future and whether the Libyan leader should stay or go.
He added no conditions could be

SRINAGAR - A bomb went off outside a mosque in Kashmir's main city on Friday, killing a prominent Muslim cleric, police and witnesses said, the first such attack near a religious place in recent years.
Moulana Showkat Shah, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith which is involved in social work, was entering the mosque to lead Friday prayers when the bomb went off. One worshipper was wounded.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack in

PORT-AU-PRINCE - Michel Martelly, a carnival singer with a colorful past who seized the mantle of change, is Haiti's new president after storming to a landslide victory, preliminary results showed.
The 50-year-old faces the huge challenge of rebuilding the Caribbean nation, which was the poorest country in the Americas even before a January 2010 earthquake flattened the capital Port-au-Prince and killed more than 225,000 people.
Martelly, with 67.57 percent of the vote,

ASTANA - A promise of stability in a volatile region won veteran Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev an overwhelming victory on Monday in a snap presidential election criticised by European monitors for irregularities. Nazarbayev, 70, won another five years at the helm of Central Asia's largest economy by pledging peace and economic growth in the predominantly Muslim country, where the echo of popular revolutions across the Arab world is almost inaudible. The former steelworker, who

ASTANA - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev scored a crushing win Monday in presidential polls that saw him harvest over 95 percent of votes and raised worries about democracy in Central Asia's richest state.
The Central Election Commission said the first official results showed the incumbent had won 95.5 percent of the vote on mass turnout of 89.9 percent -- both figures beating Nazarbayev's performance in his last re-election in 2005.
The snap poll was boycotted by the

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on Sunday for the U.S. Congress to condemn the burning of Quran by a radical fundamentalist U.S. pastor and prevent it from happening again, his office said in a statement.
Karzai made the request at a meeting with U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry and General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, the statement said.
Eikenberry read to Karzai from U.S. President Barack Obama's earlier condemnation of

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke out for the first time Wednesday about the "heart-rending" media accounts of a rogue US army unit accused of deliberately killing civilians for sport.
In his first public reaction to the scandal, Hamid Karzai said he wanted to ensure ordinary Americans knew about an alleged rogue army unit "kill team" accused of murdering Afghan civilians and mutilating their corpses. Karzai said he was disturbed by the accounts in US media of American

SANAA - Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh told thousands of supporters in Sanaa on Friday that he was prepared to hand over power to save bloodshed but only to what he described as "safe hands".
"We don't want power, but we need to hand power over to safe hands, not to sick, resentful or corrupt hands ... We are ready to leave power but only for safe hands," Saleh said in the speech, which came as tens of thousands of his opponents protested in another part of the capital.