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Friday, September 3, 2010
Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson appeals for flood affectees
UNITED NATIONS: Professor Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on Friday joined Pakistani Ambassador to the UN Hussain Haroon in appealing for international help to meet the huge challenge posed by the worst-ever floods in Pakistan, warning that the country could face a humanitarian crisis if the world did not come to its aid in a big way. “What you are seeing now is the tip of iceberg, the worst is yet to come,” Ambassador Haroon told a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York with Professor Rajmohan Gandhi on his side. Gandhi came from Chicago where he teaches at the University of Illinois. Professor Gandhi said that the terrible natural disaster afflicting Pakistan called for stepped-up financial and material help for the millions of “brave”...
Pakistan Taliban say their bomber kills 43 Shiites
QUETTA, Pakistan – A suicide bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed at least 43 Shiite Muslims at a procession in southwest Pakistan on Friday. The assault sharply drove up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country battered by massive flooding.
To the northwest in Pakistan's restive tribal regions, two suspected U.S. missile strikes killed at least seven people in an area controlled by one of the main groups battling Americans in neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
Two other militant bombings left at least two people dead and several wounded on a day convulsed by the violence that threatens the stability...
