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NEW YORK - The publisher of U.S. author Greg Mortenson's memoir, 'Three Cups of Tea,' said on Monday it was reviewing the bestseller following claims that parts of the inspirational book were fabricated.
Television news program '60 Minutes' said in a Sunday broadcast that parts of Mortenson's account of a failed attempt in 1993 to climb the world's second-highest peak, K2, and being kidnapped in Pakistan in 1996, were untrue, citing several people interviewed. '60 Minutes' also

LAHORE - A '60 Minutes' investigation alleges that the inspirational multimillion seller 'Three Cups of Tea' is filled with inaccuracies and that co-author Greg Mortenson's charitable organisation has taken credit for building schools that don't exist. The report, which airs Sunday night on CBS television, cites 'Into the Wild' author Jon Krakauer as among the doubters of Mortenson's story of being lost in 1993 while mountain climbing in rural Pakistan and stumbling upon the village

KABUL - A bomb killed three NATO soldiers in southern Afghanistan, the joint force said Sunday, bringing to eight the number of foreign troops killed in the country in the deadliest day since June last year.
On Saturday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said five of its troops had been killed in a suicide attack at an Afghan army base in the eastern province of Nangarhar, in which four Afghan soldiers also died.
On Sunday ISAF said three more of its

SRINAGAR - The Police said that they have arrested three persons connected with the murder of the religious scholar, Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah. He was killed in a blast in Srinagar on April 8.
SM Sahai, Inspector General of Police for Kashmir zone, told a media conference in Srinagar that the conspiracy to eliminate Maulana Showkat was hatched in the Srinagar Central Jail some time back.
"A radical religio-political outfit namely 'Sout-ul-Haq' and some other radical

KHOST - Three Afghan policemen were killed Thursday when Taliban militants struck at a police training centre in one of three suicide attacks to hit Afghanistan on the same day.Insurgents are increasingly targeting Afghan security forces, whose role will increase as US-led NATO troops prepare to hand over responsibility for security in seven areas from July and end frontline fighting in 2014.There has also been a recent rash of suicide bombings, a key Taliban tactic, with authorities

GUJRANWALA - An assistant sub inspector (ASI) and three constables of Sadar Kamoke Police Station were sent behind bars for taking Rs 150,000 bribes. Reportedly, ASI Imran Sarwar and three constables stopped a truck of robbed home appliances and after striking a deal of Rs 150,000, the cops let the robbers escape with the booty. The robbers managed to pay Rs 125,000 on the spot while the remaining Rs 25,000 were decided to be paid next morning. The deal was tipped off to the city

DASKA - As many as three girls and a man were abducted in separate incidents from various areas of the Daska city.
In the first incident, two people, Abdullah and Shah Mehmood, forced their entry into the house of Tariq Mehmood in his absence and abducted his daughter at gunpoint.
In the second incident which occurred in the area of Bombanwala police limits, Ali and Hussain abducted the daughter of Munawar Bibi. The girl was going to the fields to answer the call of nature

LAHORE - Iqbal Town police arrested two employees of a franchise of a local telecommunication company after they clashed with the son of a former judge and employees of said franchise late on Sunday. Sources said former judge Shuakat's son, Umer, went to the franchise office of a local telecommunication company to get some issue resolved. They said Umer purchased a mobile card from the franchise and left, but returned after something went wrong with the card. Umer wanted the card

PESHAWAR - At least three militants were gunned down in a clash with police at Hayatabad Industrial Estate in the wee hours of Monday. The encounter also left a police officer dead and a constable injured. The incident occurred when dozens of militants attacked a police post at Hayatabad Industrial estate before the dawn. They killed an assistant sub inspector (ASI), Sajid Khan and injured one police constable.
In retaliation, the policemen cordoned off the militants and killed

PESHAWAR - At least three persons were killed and eight others injured when a passenger vehicle hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near Parachinar, headquarter of Kurram Agency, on Monday morning. The officials at Parachinar said that the ill-fated vehicle was on its way from Karman to Parachinar when the incident occurred.
The IED had been planted by the militants in the area. At least three of the passengers died on the spot while eight severely wounded were rushed to

MANAMA - Bahrain's public prosecutor began questioning on Monday three senior journalists sacked from the Gulf kingdom's only opposition newspaper over accusations of falsifying news about the government's crackdown on protesters.
Bahrain has seen some of the worst unrest in its history since mostly Shi'ite Muslim protesters took to the streets in February, inspired by uprisings that toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, to demand a bigger say in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.