PESHAWAR: Sudden erupted fire, at Bilal-Terminal on Ring road, engulfed the trucks bound to supply materials to NATO trucks on early Tuesday while no casualty was reported in the incident.Senior Superintendent of Peshawar Police Kashif Alam told Geo News that no reports of firing rockets from any where on to Bilal Terminal were reported however, he suspected unknown miscreants set terminal on fire by throwing a burning object there which caused gigantic fire blazes.He further added that the fire tenders had been called in to tame ablaze meanwhile he confirmed that fire has burnt NATO material-laden trucks.
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PESHAWAR: Rockets were fired at different locations in Peshawar after which fire erupted meanwhile, fire tenders were called at the scene, sources said.According to details, Peshawar was shaken by the rocket explosions, which were fired from five different locations on to Link road Truck station.It is pertinent to mention here that link road truck stand was intermediate stopping place for container and truck taking supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan.According to preliminary reports no casualties were reported in the attacks.
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NEW YORK: Slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto’’s son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has arrived here to accept the United Nations Human Rights Prize, awarded posthumously to his mother at a ceremony to be held in New York. Bilawal, 20, was made chairman of the ruling PPP, days after the assassination of his mother in December last year. He is currently studying at Oxford University in London. The 2008 Human Rights Prize has been awarded to late Benazir Bhutto in recognition of the former premier’’s struggle for democracy and fundamental freedoms in Pakistan. The award ceremony will be held at the UN headquarters in New York on December 10, marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Benazir Bhutto, the then chairperson of the PPP, was killed by a suicide attacker on December 27 last year shortly after she had addressed an election rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
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WASHINGTON: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here Sunday that the US-led war in Iraq will turn out to be a “strategic achievement” for not only President George W. Bush but for the United States. Interviewed on U.S Television Channel, Rice said she “would give anything” to revisit the issue of weapons of mass destruction, but said the 2003 invasion was still right even if the weapons were never found. “I still believe that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is going to turn out to be a great strategic achievement, not just for the Bush administration, but for the United States of America,” Rice told media. Instead of a repressive dictator who has sown instability, triggered wars and used weapons of mass destruction, “you now have a young democratic multi-ethnic Iraq,” Rice said. She said she would liked to have had a better system for assessing intelligence on weapons of mass destruction. Bush said in an interview last week that he came to office “unprepared for war” and that his “biggest regret” was the US “intelligence failure” on Iraq. Rice also suggested things could have been done better. “If I had it to do over again, yes, I”d have the system in place that we have now, not the system that we had then,” Rice said, referring to a system of putting alternative views in “a crisper and clearer way.” But she said people worldwide suspected Saddam was hiding his weapons of mass destruction, as he had used them in the past. “And so while it’’s fine to go back and say what might we have done differently, the truth of the matter is we don”t have that luxury. And we didn”t at the time,” Rice said. She also defended the administration’’s actions during an interview with another television channel. When asked if Rice would still have pushed for the war in Iraq knowing what she knows now, she replied, “You don”t have that luxury.” “We were living in a post-9/11 world in which it was very clear that you shouldn”t let threats multiple and collect without acting against them,” Rice said.
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ABU DHABI: England will go ahead with a two-Test series in India after receiving security assurances following the Mumbai terror attacks, it was announced at their training base here Sunday. Officials also confirmed that England would be travelling with a full-strength squad following reports that senior players Stephen Harmison and Andrew Flintoff were uncertain about whether to play in India. “This is a very brave and courageous decision which will be respected around the world,” England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) managing director Hugh Morris told a news conference here Sunday. “It’’s obviously been a very emotional 10 days or so since the atrocities in Mumbai,” added the former England batsman. “Following the meeting we have had this evening, we can confirm that the England team will be travelling to Chennai in the next 24 hours to play in the first Test match against India.”It has been a very difficult situation, a very emotional, sensitive time for everybody and it has been hard for the players to come to this decision but they all have, and we are looking forward to the challenge of playing India.” The series, which is due to start on Thursday in Chennai, had been called into question following last month’’s attacks in Mumbai, one of the original Test venues, left 172 people dead. England, who were 5-0 down in the seven-match one-day international series, then cut short the limited overs section of their tour with players flying home before going out to train in Abu Dhabi. ECB security advisor Reg Dickason arrived in Abu Dhabi on Sunday from India to deliver his assessment to the players. After an hour-and-a-half of discussions involving players, officials and Dickason, it was eventually confirmed that the Test series was going ahead. In response to the terror attacks, Indian officials have switched the venues for the Tests from Ahmedabad and Mumbai to Chennai and Mohali respectively. The matches, as originally scheduled, take place in quick succession with the first Test starting on December 11 and the second on December 19.
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