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Threat to UN building in Pakistan
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ASIANAGE on 03 July, 2008 04:24:40
 
Islamabad, July 3: A United Nations office in the Pakistani capital received a
telephone call which threatened to blow up its building, prompting the
organisation to ask its staffers to stay at home and beef up security. "A
threatening phone call was made to a gender support programme office of the UN
here on Tuesday and investigations are underway," UN communication officer Amna
Ali Kamal said.
A suicide car bomb attack outside the Danish embassy here in June had caused
extensive damage to the office of a UN-backed non-governmental organisation.
—PTI
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Malay-Indian woman hangs self with sari
Kuala Lumpur, July 3: A Malaysian Indian had a massive heart attack when he saw
his wife had hanged herself using her wedding sari.
T. Selvatharan thought that his wife K. Komathy, 33, had left the bedroom to
drink water at dawn on Tuesday. When she did not return and he went out to
check, he found her hanging by the ceiling fan. "She had been seeking treatment
for depression," Mr Selvatharan, 47, told Tamil Nesan newspaper, while
recovering at a hospital in Johor Baru.
—IANS
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Al Qaeda operative freed on bail
By OUR London CORRESPONDENT
London
July 3: A terror suspect, who is described by the police as an Al Qaeda
operative with "direct links" with Osama bin Laden, has been freed on bail after
spending more than seven years in jail awaiting deportation, according to
reports. The suspect, who is identified only as U, is a 45-year-old Algerian
veteran of Al Qaeda’s Afghan training camps. He has been released from
high-security wing of Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire, according to the BBC
News. U had arrived in Britain in 1994 and claimed asylum on the ground that he
had been ill-treated in Algeria.