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10 die as river ferry sinks in Cambodia

Sunday, October 11, 2009 PHNOM PENH: Police say at least 10 passengers have died after an overloaded river ferry capsized in a tributary of the Mekong River.Police Maj. Leng Sarum said the ferry, with 30 passengers onboard, sank Saturday night in the northeastern province of Kratie. He said 13 were rescued and a search was continuing for seven missing people.

Cilic beat Nadal in China Open semis

Saturday, October 10, 2009 BEIJING: World number two Rafa Nadal's comeback came to a shuddering halt on Saturday when he was crushed 6-1 6-3 by Croatian Marin Cilic in the semi-finals of the $6.6 million China Open.French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, the highest surving women's seed, beat fellow Russian Nadia Petrova 6-1 6-3 in just over an hour to ease into her fourth China Open final, where she will play France's Marion Bartoli or Pole Agnieszka Radwanska.Top seed Nadal had talked this week of getting back to the kind of form he enjoyed before tendonitis of the knees and an abdominal injury disrupted his season.With his first final since May in his sights, however, the Australian Open champion simply had no answer to the power of the eighth seeded wildcard, who will meet Novak Djokovic on Sunday."Cilic is good, is young and has a very good serve but if you are losing 6-1 6-3 there are a lot of things you are doing wrong," said Nadal. "Mentally I prob...

ISPR releases pictures of two terrorists

Sunday, October 11, 2009 RAWALPINDI: Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) has released the pictures of two terrorists who attacked on GHQ early Saturday. According to ISPR pictures of the two of the four terrorists, involved in attack on GHQ, have been released. One of the four terrorists, killed during the attack was suicide bomber. His picture has also been released.

Pak army HQ attack exposes extremist threat

Sunday, October 11, 2009 LONDON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the militant attack on Pakistan's army headquarters Saturday served to underline the extremist threat to the Islamabad government.Clinton, who arrived in London, late Saturday as part of her five-day European tour, said the measures being taken to root out extremists in Pakistan were "very important".Militants were holding up to 15 people hostage after a bid to storm the army headquarters in the garrison town of Rawalpindi left six soldiers and four attackers dead, Pakistani officials said.Clinton told reporters she had been briefed about the attack.She said she wanted to "point out this shows the continuing threats to the Pakistani government and the very important steps that the civilian leadership, along with the military, are taking to root out the extremists and prevent violence and direct assaults on the sovereignty of the state."Up to 10 suspected Taliban gunmen in military unifo...

Commando raid formally completed with last injured terrorist’s arrest

Sunday, October 11, 2009 RAWALPINDI: The commando raid at GHQ Building, where the five terrorists taking hostage of 30 security men had holed up, was announced formally completed with the last injured terrorist Aqeel’s arrest, taking the total terrorists killed to five, loss of the lives of two commandos and three hostages in the process, said the Army spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas here this morning. 3 hostages, 2 commandos, four kidnappers killed in rescue bid Sunday, October 11, 2009 RAWALPINDI: Three hostages, two commandos and four kidnappers were killed in a rescue operation at GHQ Building, an army spokesman told Geo News adding that 25 hostages were freed.

GHQ operation completed with the arrest of injured terrorists’ top dog

Sunday, October 11, 2009 RAWALPINDI: Pak Army commandos, while arresting the wounded top dog of the terrorist attackers, Aqeel alias Dr. Usman winded up its operation at the General Headquarters here, while five more hostages were recovered and two commandos of the Pak Army martyred in the process.Pak Army spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas told that the commandos have completed the search operation at the security building in GHQ with the arrest of the last holed up terrorist, who in his last ditch effort trying to blow up the explosives that he carried injured himself besides some of the security personnel. The operation beginning this morning on the whole rescued 25 hostages in the first phase and at the end of the operation five more hostages were recovered, while three hostages and two Pak Army commandos were also martyred. Earlier, SSG commandos had killed four terrorists in successful operation at security building.The operation for the rescue of hostages taken on Saturday no...