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2012-05-18
PESHAWAR – The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) health department has initiated action against 500 vaccinators for not doing their jobs in the province’s anti-polio campaign, officials said.
“We are probing cases against the health workers who have failed to perform their duties in different districts,” Dr. Jan Baz Afridi, KP deputy director of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), tol...
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2012-05-18
KARACHI – In their ongoing crackdown against criminals and militants, Rangers arrested six suspects in the Pipri area of Bin Qasim town, Karachi, May 17.
The Rangers seized four improvised explosive devices and weapons, including two Kalashnikovs, a Rangers spokesman said May 17.
The suspects belonged to a banned militant outfit and were planning terrorism in Karachi, the spokesm...
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2012-05-18
URALSK, Kazakhstan – One of four suspects in the April 19 assault on Uralsk journalist Lukpan Akhmedyarov has reportedly confessed, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported May 18, quoting the NGO Adil Soz, which cited defence attorney Bagdagul Azhigaliyeva.
Rauan Shyntasov of Zhympity, West Kazakhstan Oblast, “confessed voluntarily,” Azhigaliyeva said May 11, according to Za...
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2012-05-18
ASHGABAT – Conferees May 16 discussed creating a transport system connecting Central Asia and the Caspian Sea, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
Eighteen countries and 10 international organisations sent representatives to the “Prospects of Transport and Transit Development in Central Asia and the Caspian Region” conference, organised by the Turkmen government, the Swiss-...
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2012-05-18
PESHAWAR – The Pakistani field hockey team will play four matches in June in Europe before the London Olympics, media reported.
The team will return to Pakistan June 5, after the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia.
Two matches will be played in Germany, with one apiece in Belgium and The Netherlands, The Pakistan Observer reported May 18.
The team then will return to Pakista...
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2012-05-18
BISHKEK – In 2010, to finance recovery from the June ethnic riots, the Kyrgyz government distributed US $7m (331.5m KGS) from seized bank accounts formerly owned by ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his associates, KirTAG reported May 17, quoting the general prosecutor’s office.
The general prosecutor May 17 disclosed the amounts in response to an inquiry by Parliamentary Budget a...
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2012-05-18
ASHGABAT – Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov May 17 signed a decree pardoning more than 1,000 inmates to honour a May 18 double holiday, media reported.
To celebrate Constitution Day and the Day of Rebirth, Unity and Poetry of Makhtumkuli Fragi – both of which fall on May 18 – Berdymukhamedov freed 987 Turkmens and 35 foreign nationals in Turkmen prisons, Regnum.ru reported,...
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2012-05-18
KARACHI – A two-member bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) May 18 ordered the Sindh government to hold local elections within 90 days, media reported.
The provincial government is constitutionally bound to hold the elections, which haven’t occurred since 2009, the SHC ruled.
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2012-05-18
KARACHI – As many as 16 people, including two police officers, were killed in targeted shootings throughout Karachi May 17-18, Geo News reported.
The dead police officers, identified as Head Constable Muhammad Jan Niazi and Constable Mohammad Arif, were killed after gunmen shot at police vehicles in Baldia Ittehad Town, media reported.
Police said the assailants stole the officers...
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2012-05-18
ASHGABAT – Russian-owned cell phone provider MTS could be operating again in Turkmenistan in three or four months, Investcafe.ru reported May 16, quoting Vladimir Yevtushenkov, chairman of Sistema, the holding company that owns a majority share of MTS.
“The resolution has been signed, and all the licenses have been distributed,” he said. “We need some time to resume operations and hire...
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2012-05-18
ASHGABAT – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has awarded Turkmenistan an international certificate for wiping out measles and rubella, UN Radio’s Russian service reported May 17. Thanks to an immunisation campaign, Turkmenistan hasn’t recorded a single case of measles since 2008, the WHO said, according to Turkmenistan.ru.
Turkmenistan is completely free of polio and malaria, the WHO...
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2012-05-18
BAJAUR AGENCY – Militants continue targeting peace committees, and early May 18 attacked an anti-Taliban lashkar in Mamond Tehsil, Bajaur Agency, while it was on patrol in the Ghari Gall area.
Peace volunteer Rehmat Gul was killed and two others were injured, Assistant Political Agent Muhammad Tariq confirmed.
The two injured volunteers are in the Agency Headquarters Hospital in K...
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2012-05-18
KARACHI – The National Crisis Management Cell of the Interior Ministry has written to the Sindh provincial government, warning that the Punjabi Taliban plan to attack the Karachi Central Jail and other sensitive installations, Express News TV reported May 18.
The Punjabi Taliban reportedly intend to kidnap foreigners and high-profile Pakistanis in the first phase of the plan and then t...
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2012-05-18
ASTANA – The OSCE recently held events promoting children’s and women’s rights in Kazakhstan.
A May 17 roundtable in Astana discussed preventing and combating trafficking and violence against children, the OSCE said in a statement. Held on International Child Helpline Day, the discussion “focused on successes and challenges in protecting and promoting children's rights.”
Forty re...
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2012-05-18
BISHKEK – Sixty-six Bishkek clinics May 16-18 offered free medical exams to all women, as part of the Health Ministry’s Open House Days.
The free exams were meant to honour Mother’s Day (May 20 in Kyrgyzstan), which the country is celebrating for the first time, ministry spokeswoman Svetlana Baitikova said May 16.
The clinics devoted special attention to women with many children ...
