Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
Monday, August 24, 2009 LAHORE: Secretary Information Pakistan Muslim League-N Ahsan Iqbal Monday maintained that the army launched military operation against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in 1992 without taking the government into confidence.Reacting to the statement of MQM Chief Altaf Hussain, Ahsan Iqbal said the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif had no role to play in initiating the military operation against MQM.“MQM is creating all this hue and cry to avoid investigation into May 12 incidents in Karachi,” he said.Ahsan Iqbal said it was General Asif Nawaz who gave the go ahead to the military operation against MQM and that no political consultation was undertaken in this regard.MQM should direct its queries to Pakistan People’s Party’s Naseeullah Babar who was a minister at that time and now an ally of MQM itself.
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