Afghan suicide attack kills 1 near CIA base
Kabul, May 3: A suicide attack outside a CIA base killed one civilian and wounded two security guards Monday in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said. The blast happened outside Camp Chapman, the same base that was hit in December in one of the worst attacks in the history of the US intelligence agency, said Mubarez Zadran, a spokesman for the provincial governor. The base is in Khost province, a dangerous region southeast of the capital. The suicide bomber was in a car packed with explosives.
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Lankan journo convicted of terror released
Colombo, May 3: Sri Lanka’s President ordered the release Monday of a journalist imprisoned on terrorism charges after criticising the government’s war on Tamil rebels, in a case cited by President Barack Obama as harassment of the press. Mr Rajapakse used his executive powers to release Jeyaprakash Tissainayag-am, an ethnic Tamil journalist convicted in 2009 of supporting terrorism and creating communal disharmony and sentenced to 20 years in prison, external affairs minister Gamini Peiris told reporters. —AP
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1 million more migrants in Britain by 2015
London, May 3: Britain is likely to see an influx of one million more migrants by 2015, a new study said.
According to the study, Britain’s migrant population would soar from 62.2 million to 64.3 million bet-ween now and 2015 becau-se of the Labour government’s “open door” policy on immigration. And, more than half of that growth will be caused by immigration, taking into account both people who move to Britain from overseas and babies born to migrants, the study has predicted. —PTI
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Kyrgyz offers cash for info on ex-Prez, aides
Moscow, May 3: The interim government of Kyrgyzstan announced cash rewards of up to $100,000 for information leading to arrest of close relatives and allies of the deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Mr Bakiyev, toppled on April 7 during a bloody up-rising in which at least 85 people were killed, has taken refuge in Belarus while his powerful allies have gone underground.
The list of fugitives for rewards ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 incl-udes Mr Bakiyev’s three brothers and his younger son Maxim, 33. —PTI
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Malay Punjabi party gets 1st woman prez
Kuala Lumpur, May 3: An ethnic Indian Sikh has been elected as the first woman president of Parti Punjabi Malaysia party, the 24-year-old political group that was formed to take care of the interest of the Sikh community in the country.
Susheel Kaur, 59, whose father Jeswant Singh foun-ded the party in 1986, beca-me its first woman president, elected unopposed by more than 50 delegates at the party’s biennial general meeting here. Multi-ethnic Malaysia has a sizeable Indian population comprising about eight per cent of the total population. —PTI
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