LONDON: Chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain, said Sunday that a conspiracy was being hatched to trigger ethnic riots and to sabotage the current atmosphere of harmony among permanent residents of Sindh.

This he said while speaking at the Rabita Committee?s meeting held simultaneously in London and Karachi.

He said that the MQM had been striving hard to end the rural-urban divide and to create ethnic harmony in Sindh for the past many years. However, he noted that some so-called leaders and ministers of the ruling PPP were making an attempt to start ethnic riots in the province with the help of nationalist parties.

Those trying to start a clash between permanent residents of Sindh are agents of the feudalists and landlords, he remarked.

The MQM chief also directed the concerned persons to remain vigilant of any plot against the people of Sindh. Hussain urged the Haq Parast people to deal with the situation amicably.

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Karachi

Lyari Town Municipal Administration has started work on a project to install an ejector plant in order to pour out sewage from low-lyin

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FAISALABAD: Former President Pervez Musharraf should face the probe being conducted into Benazir Bhutto?s assassination if he is interested to join politics, PPP General Secretary Jehangir Badar said Sunday.

Interacting with media persons here, he said the UN report has held Musharraf and his government responsible for the Bhutto?s slaying.

?We are not going to be scared no matter how many bullets does Musharraf have in his pistol,? he remarked.

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Pakistan News

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: West Indies captain Chris Gayle admits the hosts will have to go ?back to the drawing-board? ahead of their World Twenty20 Super

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GUJRAT: Defence Minister Ahmed Muhktar Sunday asked Pakistan Muslim League-N to refrain from issuing threats of taking to streets for effecting decisions.

Talking to media men here, Mukhtar said Faisal Shahzad, the suspect involved in carrying out botched bomb attack at Times Square, has not done something good. His act has affected the lives of the Muslims living in the US, he said.

The Defence Minister said if Hamesh Khan has committed a crime, he will be certainly be punished.

The power load-shedding will be overcome in three years? time, he said.

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PESHAWAR: Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain on Sunday said that creation of new districts on administrative basis could be considered.

Speaking to Geo TV, he said that following the call for a separate Hazara province, people were now making a demand to divide Abaseen, Shangla and Swat divisions into two districts each.

These proposals, he said, could be considered to improve the governance at administrative level.

Hussain further said that some members of the KP assembly have also already tabled resolutions to support these demands

Acting on public demand, several new districts were made in the past also, he said.

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ST KITTS: Australia and West Indies advanced to the semifinals but defending champions England were knocked out of the Women?s World Twenty20 Cup here

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to field against hosts West Indies in their second match in the World Twenty20 Super Eights here at the Kensington Oval on Sunday.

India are unchanged but West Indies have brought Denesh Ramdin in to replace fellow wicketkeeper/batsman Andre Fletcher.

Both teams are looking to recover from defeats in their opening matches in the Super Eights.

India crashed to a 49-run defeat to Australia last Friday, and on the same day, West Indies slumped to a 57-run loss to Sri Lanka.

Teams:
West Indies: Chris Gayle (captain), Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Dwayne Bravo, Wavell Hinds, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Darren Sammy, Jerome Taylor, Kemar Roach, Sulieman Benn.

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Vijay Murali, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Patham, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra

Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ), Simon Taufel (AUS), TV UMPIRE: Steve Davis (AUS)
Match Referee: Jeff Crowe (NZ), Reserve Umpire: Billy Doctrove (WI).

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PESHAWAR: Central Amir Jamat-e-Islami Siraj-ul-Haq Saturday said the provincial government should quit because it has failed to protect the people.

Addressing a public meeting of JI, Siraj-ul-Haq said the rulers have confined themselves to the boundaries of their houses, leaving the people to the mercy of terrorists.

The children cannot go to schools and markets give a deserted look. Peshawar, which was known as a city of flowers, has turned into a city of thorns, he said.

He said soaring prices, lawlessness and unemployment have made people?s lives a living hell.

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Islamabad

To celebrate the 65th anniversary of the victory in ?The Great Patriotic War,? 1941-1945, the ambassador of the Russian Federation an

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