Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk)
has directed all ISPs of the country to block access
to www.youtube.com web site for containing
blasphemous web content/movies.

The site would remain blocked till further orders from
PTA. Meanwhile, Internet users can write to
youtube.com to remove the objectionable web
content/movies because this removal would enable
the authorities to order un-blocking of this web
site.

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The Fox News TV (USA) asked the Iranian President Ahmedinejad;

'When you look into the mirror in the morning what do you say to yourself'?

He answered: I see the person in the mirror and tell him 'Remember' you are no more than a small servant, ahead of you today is the heavy responsibility, and that is to serve the Iranian nation'.



Ahmedinejad, the Iranian President who astonished many when he first reached to the office of the Presidency by donating all the high valued Iranian carpets to one of the mosques in Tehran by replacing them with the low cost ordinary carpets. He observed that there was a huge extravagant lounge for receiving and welcoming the VIPs and he ordered it to be closed and asked the protocol office to arrange for an ordinary room only with the wooden chairs.Read the rest of this entry »

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The leader of PPP (Pakistans Peoples Party) Benazir Bhutto died today due to the wound caused by the bullet shot by a terrorist just moments before she was entering her car after she had finished her rally at Rawalpindi Pakistan.

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General Pervez Musharraf has declared a state of emergency rule in Pakistan according to state television in the country.

A newscaster on Pakistan TV said that "the chief of army staff has proclaimed a state of emergency and issued a provisional constitutional order."

The announcement had been expected after several independent television stations reported the president's intentions earlier in the day. Read the rest of this entry »

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An earthquake in Indonesia could be felt over 700 miles awqay in Singapore. A 12yo girl catches the tremors on video of her fishtank and chandelier shaking.

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KABUL: US-led coalition airstrikes killed nearly a dozen Islamist Taleban fighters in the southern province of Zabul overnight, the US military said on Wednesday, as the bloodiest period since the militants' 2001 ouster grinds on.

Afghan and US-led coalition troops called in air support after detecting a group of more than 20 Taleban preparing to ambush them near a village in the Arghandab district of the province on Tuesday, it added.

"The Afghan National Army called in coalition close-air support to strike the insurgents before they could launch their attempted ambush," the US military said in a statement.

"The coalition aircraft used a precision-guided munitions and machine-gun fire to eliminate the insurgent threat."

"Nearly a dozen Taleban fighters were killed during the brief engagement," it added, saying more than 245 Taleban had been killed in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Zabul since late August.Read the rest of this entry »

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WASHINGTON: The United States has said that fighting the al-Qaeda in Pakistan is as critically important to America as coming to terms with the terror network in Iraq.

"I could say a few things based on my two-and-a-half years in Pakistan, and that is the presence of al-Qaeda in the Pakistan and Afghanistan border areas is a major challenge to us," former American Ambassador to Pakistan Ryan Crocker said.Read the rest of this entry »

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A new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle was confirmed in Britain today, prompting the European Union to reimpose a ban on British meat exports.

The new case was discovered close to a farm south of London where an outbreak was first reported last month.

Restrictions imposed then were lifted only four days ago and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) imposed a new England-wide ban on the movement of cattle, sheep, pigs and other ruminants.

Cattle were ordered slaughtered on the affected farm, near Egham, west of London. Egham is 21 km from the village of Normandy, where foot and mouth disease was confirmed on August 3.

A three kilometre protection zone was thrown around the farm with a wider 10 km surveillance zone imposed on the farm.

The European Union reimposed a total ban on meat and livestock exports from Britain to the other 26 member states, the European Commission said.

Britain's red meat export market is worth about STG500 million ($A1.2 billion) a year, mostly with the EU. Britain was the ninth largest beef exporter last year among the 27 European Union members.

After chairing a meeting of COBRA, Britain's top-level cell to cope with national crises, Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed that his government would do everything to stamp out the disease and find its "root cause".

But Brown said: "I don't think it's possible to say at this stage what finally caused this particular outbreak".

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said that the foot and mouth outbreak was "news that nobody wanted to hear".

An official investigation last week concluded that the earlier outbreak was probably caused by leaking drains, flooding and vehicles moving from nearby animal vaccine laboratories without pinpointing the exact source.Read the rest of this entry »

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MIRANSHAH: Pakistani helicopter gunships and artillery pounded militant hideouts in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing up to 40 insurgents, the army said Wednesday.

"We have reports from local sources that 30 to 40 miscreants have been killed in a security forces operation targeting a hideout in South Waziristan," GEO TV channel quoted Director General ISPR Major General Waheed Arshad as sayingRead the rest of this entry »

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Three earthquakes have hit Indonesia in 24 hours, killing at least nine people and sending residents fleeing to high ground in fear of tsunamis.

The most recent tremor, with a magnitude of 6.2, struck Thursday off Sulawesi island in eastern Indonesia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

That tremor came after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck earlier Thursday off Sumatra island in western Indonesia, while on Wednesday, an 8.4-magnitude tremor shook the same part of Sumatra.Read the rest of this entry »

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A suicide car bomb struck a checkpoint guarding the house of a Sunni tribal Sheikh in the Ramadi city in western Iraq on Thursday, killing the Sheikh, a local police source said.

The suicide car bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into the checkpoint guarding the house of Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, head of the Anbar Awakening Council, which is backed by the U.S. and Iraqi government to fight the al-Qaida in Iraq network, the source said on condition of anonymity.

Abu Risha, an aide and two of his bodyguards were killed in the attack, the source said.

Last week, Abu Risha attended a meeting with President George W. Bush and Iraqi officials in the Anbar province during Bush's surprise visit to a U.S. military base in the western province of Anbar.

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F18 fighter jet does two gun runs and drops 3 rockets on insurgent position at a pharmacy in Karmah, Iraq in support of infantry soldiers during an engagement.

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Taliban insurgents freed eight South Korean hostages in two separate batches, the first of 19 Christian volunteers the Taliban agreed to release

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One Afghan soldier was killed and several people including some international troops were injured when a suicide car bomb exploded outside a NATO military airport in Kabul Friday.

Shots of scene of blast (fire engine, locals gathering, international troops investigating, arrival of police car, Afghan policemen investigating) 00:00-01:28

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