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2012-02-06
DUSHANBE – The Tajik-Kyrgyz commission on delimiting and demarking borders began a new working meeting February 6, AsiaPlus.tj reported, quoting the Tajik Foreign Ministry.
The Kyrgyz delegation will stay in Dushanbe till February 11, the Foreign Ministry said. The countries have defined about 50% of their 1,000km-long border.
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2012-02-06
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani left February 6 for a three-day official visit to Qatar to hold talks with the Gulf state’s leadership over the Afghan peace process, media reported.
Gilani’s office said before his departure that it is Islamabad’s position to support Afghan-led initiatives for a stable Afghanistan, Dawn News reported.
The Foreign Office term...
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2012-02-06
BISHKEK – The Kyrgyz State Narcotics Control Service has announced the arrest of several suspected drug traffickers January 26 to February 4. Authorities arrested two suspects January 26 in Bishkek, identifying one as a leader of a local drug ring. They arrested another man in Bishkek February 2, accusing him of storing and preparing hashish. Police seized more than 43kg of drugs from his r...
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2012-02-06
ALMATY – A northern route for transporting a majority of the Afghan heroin bound for Russia and Europe has emerged, Anatoly Vyborov, chairman of Kazakhstan’s Committee for Fighting the Drug Trade, said February 6, according to zakon.kz.
“If earlier we ... took measures to stop drugs coming from the south through Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, now we see more and more the entry of drugs on ...
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2012-02-06
ISLAMABAD -Pakistan’s Supreme Court February 6 suspended the membership of 28 parliamentarians and provincial assembly members elected during by-polls held after enactment of the 18th Constitutional Amendment.
The move affects three senators, two of whom are federal ministers, nine members of the National Assembly (NA) and 16 members of provincial assemblies.
“The membership shal...
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2012-02-06
LAHORE – At least four people were killed February 6 when a boiler exploded at a three-storey factory, causing it to collapse on Multan Road in Lahore, media reported.
Eyewitnesses said the factory caved in after an explosion that also damaged two nearby houses in a crowded residential area in Kharak locality, Geo News reported. The local administration said the cause of the explosion...
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2012-02-06
ASTANA – Authorities February 3 detained Serik Baymaganbetov, former chief of the Customs Control Committee of Kazakhstan’s Finance Ministry, in connection with charges of abusing his powers and receiving especially large bribes, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported February 6, quoting the Kazakhstani financial police’s press office.
Baymaganbetov was charged and incarcerated February 3, the pr...
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2012-02-06
KANDAHAR - Nine people were killed February 5 in a suicide car bombing of the police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, AFP reported.
Seven policemen were among those killed in the blast, which also wounded 19 people, according to a statement by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office.
“At around noon today (0730 GMT), a suicide car bomber detonated his explosive...
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2012-02-06
BISHKEK – Workers will finish shipping radioactive imported coal from schools in Kyrgyzstan’s Chui Oblast by February 10, the Kyrgyz Emergency Situations Ministry said February 6.
“About 710 tonnes of radioactive coal will be shipped out,” the ministry said in its statement. The coal had gone to 16 schools and pre-schools in Chui and Issyk-Ata districts.
Workers will store the co...
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2012-02-06
DUBAI – Pakistan’s cricket team February 6 defeated England to make a clean sweep of the three-Test series against England in Dubai.
It was England’s first whitewashing by Pakistan and its first sweep by anyone since Australia did it during the 2006-2007 Ashes.
The England team was all out for 252 runs, chasing a target of 324 runs. Fast bowler Umar Gul and off spinner Saeed Ajm...
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2012-02-06
PARIS – The Court of Arbitration for Sport February 6 banned Spanish bicycle racer Alberto Contador for two years for failing a doping test during the 2010 Tour de France, media reported.
The ban excludes him from this year’s Tour de France and Olympics, media reported. However, it is back-dated to expire August 5, Team Astana said in a statement, according to Novosti-Kazakhstan.
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2012-02-06
ALMATY – Kazakhstan February 5 won third place in the January 29-February 5 2012 World Bandy Championship, defeating Finland 10-5. Three Kazakhstani players scored two goals each – Viacheslav Bronnikov, Dmitry Zavidovsky and Viacheslav Markin.
Kyrgyzstan, the only other Central Asian team, finished 14th after losing 4-0 to Japan in the 13th-place game February 4. The contest had 15 te...
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2012-02-06
PESHAWAR-The Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (IRNUM) has said the number of cancer patients in Pakistan and Afghanistan surged last year compared to 2010.
“The number of patients have gone to 5,461 in 2011, up from 4,877 in 2010, including 3,233 or 59 per cent from KP, 685 or 12.5 per cent from Federally Administered Tribal Area and 1,534 or 28 per cent from Afghanistan...
