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Thursday, July 15, 2010

TWO BOMB BLASTS HIT SOUTHEASTERN IRAN

-IRNA NEWS AGENCY
15 Jul 2010 17:46:16 GMT
Source: Reuters
TWO BOMB BLASTS HIT SOUTHEASTERN IRAN-IRNA NEWS AGENCY


Four killed in suicide attack in Iran
15 Jul 2010 18:47:35 GMT
Source: Reuters
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TEHRAN, July 15 (Reuters) - At least four people died in an apparent suicide attack in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan on Thursday, Iranian news agencies said.

Two explosions, believed to be the result of a suicide attack, rocked the Grand Mosque in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which borders Pakistan, and which has been hit by attacks blamed on the Jundollah Sunni Muslim rebel group.

"At least four people were killed in the first explosion," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted lawmaker Hosseinali Shahriari was quoted as saying. "We expect more casualties".

The official IRNA news agency said the explosions killed and injured a number of people, without giving precise numbers.

In May 2009, a suicide bomber killed 25 people and wounded more than 120 in an attack on a mosque in Zahedan.

In October 2009, 40 people, including 15 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, were killed in a bomb attack in the province. It was the deadliest attack in Iran since the 1980s.

Iran hanged Jundollah's leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, last month. (Writing by Myra MacDonald)


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Members of Iran's Rev Guard killed in explosions-agency
15 Jul 2010 19:22:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
TEHRAN, July 15 (Reuters) - Members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were among those killed and injured in two explosions that hit the southeastern city of Zahedan on Thursday night, an official was quoted as saying.

"The first explosion took place behind a checkpoint and a number of Revolutionary Guard members were killed and injured because of it," deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency, without giving further details.

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Over 20 killed in Iran mosque explosions-agency
15 Jul 2010 19:05:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
TEHRAN, July 15 (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed and over 100 were injured in two explosions in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan on Thursday night, a provincial emergency official was quoted as saying by IRNA news agency . "In the two explosions in Zahedan more than 20 people were killed and over 100 were injured," Fariborz Rashedi, the head of the emergency unit at Sistan-Baluchestan province told IRNA.

نسخه چاپي ارسال به دوستان
فرمانده سپاه سيستان و بلوچستان خبر داد:
دو انفجار قوي در مسجد جامع زاهدان

خبرگزاري فارس: سردار عليرضا جاهد اظهار داشت: دقايقي پيشي دو انفجار در مسجد جامع زاهدان رخ داد.

به گزارش خبرنگار دفاعي خبرگزاري فارس دقايقي پيش دو انفجار در مسجد جامع شهر زاهدان به وقوع پيوست
سردار عليرضا جاهد فرمانده سپاه سيستان و بلوچستان در گفت‌وگو با خبرنگار فارس ضمن تأييد اين خبر گفت: نيروهاي ما هم‌اكنون با حضور در محل حادثه مشغول بررسي آن هستند.
جاهد افزود: جزئيات بيشتر اين خبر تا دقايقي ديگر اعلام خواهد شد.



نسخه چاپي ارسال به دوستان
اظهارات شاهدان عيني در محل انفجار مسجد جامع زاهدان:
احتمال كشته و زخمي‌شدن 30 نفر

خبرگزاري فارس: شاهدان عيني مي‌گويند كه انفجار بمب دوم توسط عامل انتحاري صورت گرفته است و احتمال مي‌رود اين حادثه 30 كشته و مجروح داشته باشد.

به گزارش خبرگزاري فارس از زاهدان شاهدان عيني اين انفجار را انتحاري اعلام كرده و هم‌اكنون در حال امدادرساني به مصدومان هستند.
به گفته شاهدان عيني اين حادثه تاكنون بيش از 30 شهيد و تعدادي كشته در پي داشته است.
اين گزارش حاكي است انفجار بمب دوم توسط عامل انتحاري انجام شده است و هويت اين عامل انتحاري هنوز مشخص نيست.
اخبار بعدي متعاقبا ارسال مي‌گردد.


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نسخه چاپي ارسال به دوستان
نماينده زاهدان در گفت‌وگو با فارس تشريح كرد:
جزييات جديد از نحوه انفجار و شهادت هموطنان در مسجد جامع زاهدان

خبرگزاري فارس: حسينعلي شهرياري گفت: ابتدا فردي با پوشش زنانه قصد ورود به مسجد جامع را داشته كه از ورود وي جلوگيري مي‌شود. در انفجار اول سه يا چهار نفر شهيد مي‌شوند چون انفجار اول جلوي درب ورودي مسجد رخ مي‌دهد اما چند دقيقه بعد كه مردم براي كمك‌رساني مي‌آيند در آن شلوغي فرد دومي عمليات انتحاري ديگري انجام مي دهد.

حسينعلي شهرياري نماينده مردم زاهدان در مجلس شوراي اسلامي كه در خصوص دو انفجار صورت گرفته در مسجد جامع زاهدان با خبرنگار پارلماني خبرگزاري فارس گفت‌وگو مي‌كرد، اظهار داشت: اين دو انفجار طي عمليات انتحاري انجام شده است.
وي افزود: در ابتدا فردي با پوشش زنانه قصد ورود به مسجد جامع شهر زاهدان را داشته كه در جلوي درب ورودي مسجد از ورود وي به داخل مسجد جلوگيري مي‌شود.
به گفته شهرياري تاكنون مشخص نشده فرد مذكور مرد بوده يا زن.
نماينده زاهدان در خانه ملت ادامه داد: در انفجار اول سه يا چهار نفر شهيد مي‌شوند چرا كه انفجار اول در جلوي درب ورودي مسجد رخ مي‌دهد اما چند دقيقه بعد كه مردم براي كمك‌رساني مي‌آيند و در آن شلوغي فرد دومي مي‌آيد و با عمليات انتحاري انفجار دوم رخ مي‌دهد.
وي با بيان اينكه هنوز تعداد افرادي كه شهيد شده‌اند مشخص نيست، تصريح كرد: به نظر مي‌رسد متأسفانه تلفات اين دو انفجار به اندازه تلفات مسجد علي بن ابيطالب باشد.
شهرياري با تأكيد بر اينكه تاكنون اطلاعات دقيقي از انفجارها و تعداد شهدا در دسترس نيست، عنوان كرد: واقعا اين انفجارها قابل پيش‌بيني بود بنده بارها در مصاحبه‌ها گفته‌ام كه عوامل بازمانده از جريانات وهابيت و ريگي وجود دارند و مي‌خواهند اقدامي انجام دهند تا بگويند كه هنوز حضور دارند.
رئيس كميسيون بهداشت مجلس در بخش ديگري از اين گفت‌وگو متذكر شد بارها اين تذكر را به مسؤلان امنيتي استان زاهدان داده‌ام و حتي قبل از تعطيلات عيد نوروز كتبا طي نامه‌اي به مسؤلان يادآوري كردم كه بايد مراقبت‌هاي امنيتي را در استان سيستان و بلوچستان گسترش دهند.
وي با يادآوري اينكه زمانيكه عمليات انتحاري باشد وضعيت متفاوت است، توضيح داد: اين جريانات تلاش بسيار زيادي داشته‌اند اما اكنون نيز موفق نشده‌اند كه وارد مسجد جامع شهر زاهدان شوند.
وي اضافه كرد: مردم در مسجد در حال برگزاري جشن ميلاد حضرت ابوالفضل (ع) و امام حسين (ع) بوده‌اند.
نماينده زاهدان در مجلس در ادامه با بيان اينكه تاكنون فرد يا گروهي مسؤليت اين انفجار را بر عهده نگرفته است، يادآور شد: اين انفجار به عهده عوامل وابسته به گروهك ترويستي ريگي است.
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نماينده زاهدان در گفتوگو با فارس تشريح كرد: Zahedan, Fars in an interview with the representative explained:
جزييات جديد از نحوه انفجار و شهادت هموطنان در مسجد جامع زاهدان New details of how the testimony of U.S. citizens in the mosque in Zahedan

خبرگزاري فارس: حسينعلي شهرياري گفت: ابتدا فردي با پوشش زنانه قصد ورود به مسجد جامع را داشته كه از ورود وي جلوگيري ميشود. Fars News Agency: Hossein Ali Shahryar said: first, individual coverage to women entering the mosque, which had prevented him from entering is. در انفجار اول سه يا چهار نفر شهيد ميشوند چون انفجار اول جلوي درب ورودي مسجد رخ ميدهد اما چند دقيقه بعد كه مردم براي كمكرساني ميآيند در آن شلوغي فرد دومي عمليات انتحاري ديگري انجام مي دهد. In the first explosion, Shahid are three or four because the first blast occurs in front of the mosque entrance, but several minutes later, people come for Aid in the crowded second suicide attack against the other person does.

حسينعلي شهرياري نماينده مردم زاهدان در مجلس شوراي اسلامي كه در خصوص دو انفجار صورت گرفته در مسجد جامع زاهدان با خبرنگار پارلماني خبرگزاري فارس گفتوگو ميكرد، اظهار داشت: اين دو انفجار طي عمليات انتحاري انجام شده است. Representatives of the people in Zahedan, Hossein Ali Shahriar Islamic Consultative Assembly, which took place in two explosion in mosque in Zahedan, Fars News Agency interview with the reporter made his parliament, said: These two suicide explosion during operation has been done.
وي افزود: در ابتدا فردي با پوشش زنانه قصد ورود به مسجد جامع شهر زاهدان را داشته كه در جلوي درب ورودي مسجد از ورود وي به داخل مسجد جلوگيري ميشود. He added: "At first women's individual coverage plans to enter the mosque in Zahedan, which had prevented him from entering the mosque entrance into the mosque can be prevented.
به گفته شهرياري تاكنون مشخص نشده فرد مذكور مرد بوده يا زن. Shahriar said so far not specified above were male or female person.
نماينده زاهدان در خانه ملت ادامه داد: در انفجار اول سه يا چهار نفر شهيد ميشوند چرا كه انفجار اول در جلوي درب ورودي مسجد رخ ميدهد اما چند دقيقه بعد كه مردم براي كمكرساني ميآيند و در آن شلوغي فرد دومي ميآيد و با عمليات انتحاري انفجار دوم رخ ميدهد. Zahedan's representative in the home nation continued: in the first explosion, Shahid are three or four because the first explosion in front of the mosque entrance occurs in a few minutes later, but people come and Aid for the busy person and comes with a second suicide attack against the second explosion occurs.
وي با بيان اينكه هنوز تعداد افرادي كه شهيد شدهاند مشخص نيست، تصريح كرد: به نظر ميرسد متأسفانه تلفات اين دو انفجار به اندازه تلفات مسجد علي بن ابيطالب باشد. He expressed that the number of people who still are not clear, Shahid, asserted: Unfortunately it seems that these two losses as U.S. casualties is Ali ibn Abi Talib mosque.
شهرياري با تأكيد بر اينكه تاكنون اطلاعات دقيقي از انفجارها و تعداد شهدا در دسترس نيست، عنوان كرد: واقعا اين انفجارها قابل پيشبيني بود بنده بارها در مصاحبهها گفتهام كه عوامل بازمانده از جريانات وهابيت و ريگي وجود دارند و ميخواهند اقدامي انجام دهند تا بگويند كه هنوز حضور دارند. Shahriar emphasized that so far from the explosions and accurate information is available on the number of martyrs, as he said: actually I was a predictable explosion repeatedly interviewed survivors of the factors that Gftham Vhabyt and Rigi currents exist and want to act now to say that yet are present.
رئيس كميسيون بهداشت مجلس در بخش ديگري از اين گفتوگو متذكر شد بارها اين تذكر را به مسؤلان امنيتي استان زاهدان دادهام و حتي قبل از تعطيلات عيد نوروز كتبا طي نامهاي به مسؤلان يادآوري كردم كه بايد مراقبتهاي امنيتي را در استان سيستان و بلوچستان گسترش دهند. Head of the House Health Committee in another part of the dialogue noted repeatedly in this Note to the security authorities in Zahedan province, and I've even before the New Year holidays writing a letter to the authorities should be reminded that I care, security in Sistan and Baluchistan province to expand.
وي با يادآوري اينكه زمانيكه عمليات انتحاري باشد وضعيت متفاوت است، توضيح داد: اين جريانات تلاش بسيار زيادي داشتهاند اما اكنون نيز موفق نشدهاند كه وارد مسجد جامع شهر زاهدان شوند. He is reminded that when the situation is different from a suicide attack, explained: this current lot have tried but not successful now entered the mosque in Zahedan be.
وي اضافه كرد: مردم در مسجد در حال برگزاري جشن ميلاد حضرت ابوالفضل (ع) و امام حسين (ع) بودهاند. He added: people in the mosque in celebration Milad Hazrat Abolfazl (AS) and Imam Hussain (AS) were.
نماينده زاهدان در مجلس در ادامه با بيان اينكه تاكنون فرد يا گروهي مسؤليت اين انفجار را بر عهده نگرفته است، يادآور شد: اين انفجار به عهده عوامل وابسته به گروهك ترويستي ريگي است. Zahedan parliamentary representative continued, stating that since individual or group responsible for this explosion is not, noted: The U.S. agents responsible for duplication Trvysty pebbly.
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Deputy Interior Ministry security in an interview with Fars:
انفجار زاهدان تاكنون حدود 15 شهيد و 22 مجروح داشته است Zahedan blast so far and 22 injured around 15, Shahid has

خبرگزاري فارس: علي عبدالهي گفت: تا اين لحظه انفجار در زاهدان حدود 15 نفر شهيد و 22 نفر مجروح برجاي گذاشته است كه احتمالا اين تعداد افزايش خواهد يافت. Fars News Agency: Ali Abdollahi said: So far about 15 people in Zahedan explosion and 22 injured, Shahid has remained probably the number will rise.

علي عبدالهي معاون امنيتي وزارت كشور در گفتوگو با خبرنگار حوزه دولت خبرگزاري فارس با ارائه توضيحات بيشتر درخصوص عمليات انتحاري انجام شده در مسجد جامع زاهدان گفت: انفجارهاي عصر امروز شهرستان زاهدان بعد از نماز مغرب و عشاء كه اين روزها به دليل مراسم ميلاد سوم شعبان كمي نيز طولاني است اتفاق افتاده است. Ali Abdollahi deputy security Interior Ministry in an interview with the Fars News Agency correspondent field by providing more detailed explanation about the suicide attacks carried out in Zahedan mosque said: explosions in Zahedan city today evening after vespers and Esha these days because of BC's third quantitative Shaban too long has happened.
وي با بيان اينكه هنوز هيچ گروه يا فردي مسئوليت اين انفجارها را بر عهده نگرفته است تصريح كرد: براساس بررسيهاي انجام شده تا اين لحظه اين انفجار حدود 15 نفر شهيد و 22 نفر مجروح برجاي گذاشته است كه احتمالا اين تعداد افزايش خواهد يافت. He still stating that no group or individual responsible for the explosion has not asserted: According to studies up to this moment of the blast around 15 persons and 22 injured, Shahid has remained probably the number will rise.
معاون امنيتي وزارت كشور با اعلام اينكه دو انفجار در مسجد جامع شهرستان زاهدان اتفاق افتاده است اظهار داشت: انفجار اول كه انتحاري بوده پشت محل بازرسي صورت گرفته و موجب شهادت و مجروح شدن تعدادي از پاسداران انقلاب اسلامي شده است. Deputy security Interior Ministry announced that two in mosque blast in Zahedan city said happened: The first explosion was behind the suicide site inspection took place and led to martyrdom and injured a number of Iranian Revolutionary Guards of the Islamic Revolution has been.
عبدالهي ادامه داد: انفجار دوم زماني رخ داده كه مردم پس از انفجار اول در اين محل تجمع كرده بودند و اين انفجار تلفات بيشتري داشته است. Abdollahi continued: when the second explosion occurred after the first explosion had been the gathering place and has had more casualties in this explosion.
وي با بيان اينكه اطلاعات دقيقتر نيازمند بررسي دقيق و بيشتري است كه متعاقبا اعلام خواهد شد خاطرنشان كرد: از آنجايي كه گروههاي تروريستي و افراد شرور از جانب دشمنان نظام جمهوري اسلامي ايران مخصوصا آمريكا حمايت ميشوند و اخيرا نيز شاهد حمايت امريكا از گروه تروريستي ريگي بوديم چه بسا جريانات ديگري نيز تحت حمايت آمريكا قرار گرفتهاند كه به اين گونه عملياتهاي تروريستي اقدام ميكنند. He expressed that require more precise information and more precise assessment that will be announced later be pointed out: Since the terrorist groups and rogue individuals from the enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially the United States are supporting recently witnessed America's support for terrorist groups were Rigi How many other trends have been under U.S. protection that these operations are terrorist action.
معاون امنيتي وزارت كشور يادآور شد: هدف از انجام اينگونه عملياتهاي تروريستي ايجاد اختلاف ميان اهل تسنن و شيعيان است. Deputy security Interior Ministry noted: The aim of these terrorist operations to create differences between Sunnis and Shiites is.
عبدالهي همچنين گفت: اخيرا و بخصوص بعد از دستگيري ريگي شاهد شرايط خوبي در اين منطقه بوديم كه مردم نيز از آن رضايت داشتند و حتي تعداد بالاي سفرهاي نوروزي نيز نشان از امنيت بالاي اين مناطق داشت كه اين موضوع براي برخيها قابل تحمل نبود از همين رو گروهها و افراد شرور را به انجام عملياتهاي تروريستي تحريك ميكنند. Abdollahi also said: "Recently, and particularly after the arrests Rigi control conditions were good in this area that the people that were satisfied and even the number of trips Norouzi also show high security was the top regions that it was not tolerable for some Therefore groups and individuals to do evil terrorist operations are stimulated.


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نسخه چاپي ارسال به دوستان
نزديك به 40 نفر تاكنون در حادثه تروريستي زاهدان به شهادت رسيده‌اند

خبرگزاري فارس: تعداد شهداي حادثه تروريستي شب گذشته زاهدان تاكنون نزديك به 40 نفر بوده و اين اقدام بيش از 55 مجروح بر جاي گذاشته است.

يكي از مسئولان اورژانس زاهدان در گفتگو با خبرنگار فارس با اشاره به حادثه تروريستي شب گذشته در مقابل مسجد جامع زاهدان و خسارات ناشي از آن گفت: تعداد شهداي اين حادثه تاكنون نزديك به 40 نفر بوده و بيش از 55 مجروح اين اقدام تروريستي بر جاي گذاشته است.
بر اساس اين گزارش شهادت اين تعداد از هموطنانمان در شب ولادت سالار شهيدان امام حسين(ع) موجب خشم و نفرت هر چه بيشتر مردم سني و شيعه شهر زاهدان و ساير شهرهاي استان سيستان و بلوچستان شده است.
نماينده ولي فقيه در استان و امام جمعه زاهدان و نيز استاندار اين استان در بيانيه مشتركي اين اقدام را محكوم و با خانواده هاي شهدا و مجروحان اين حادثه ابراز همدردي كردند.
بر همين اساس مولوي عبدالحميد امام جمعه اهل سنت زاهدان نيز در بيانيه اي اين اقدام را ترفندي براي تفرقه بين مسلمانان عنوان كرد.
سياسيون نيز ضمن محكوم كردن اين اقدام تروريستي اين تحركات را ناشي از توطئه‌هاي هميشگي بيگانگان و بكار گيري افراد خود فروخته عنوان كردند و خواستار دستگيري عاملان اين جنايت شدند.
انتهاي پيام/م

So far nearly 40 people in terrorist martyrdom reached Zahedan

Fars News Agency: Devastated terrorist incident the previous night in Zahedan was already close to 40 people and injured 55 more than the action on the left is.

One emergency official in Zahedan, Fars in an interview with reporter, referring to the terrorist incident last night in front of mosque in Zahedan and damages it said: the number of martyrs since the incident nearly 40 people and injured more than 55 left in this terrorist act is.
Based on this testimony reports the number of our compatriots in the night S. Martyrs Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS) and hate what angered most people Sunni and Shia and other cities of Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchistan province has been.
Supreme Leader's representative in the province and Friday in Zahedan Governor of the province and a joint statement condemning this action with the families of martyrs and injured in this incident had sympathy.
Accordingly Molavi Abdul Hamid Sunni imams Zahedan in a statement this action as a trick to be divided between Muslims.
Statesmen also condemns this terrorist act due to the mobility of foreign conspiracies and continuous use of their people and sold as they were demanding the arrest of the perpetrators of this crime.
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Iran Guards warn US of "fallout" over bomb attack
17 Jul 2010 11:20:20 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Revolutionary Guards warn United States of consequences

* Bombing victims buried with chants of "Death to America"

* Police say reserve right to pursue rebels abroad

By Ramin Mostafavi and Hashem Kalantari

TEHRAN, July 17 (Reuters) - The United States will face "fallout" from a deadly rebel bomb attack in southeast Iran, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying on Saturday by a semi-official Iranian news agency.

Massoud Jazayeri did not elaborate on what he meant. Iran has accused arch-foe Washington of backing Jundollah, the group that claimed responsibility for Thursday's blasts that killed 28 people and wounded 306, including members of the Guards.

"Jundollah has been supported by America for its terrorist acts in the past ... America will have to await the fallout of such criminal and savage measures," said Jazayeri, deputy head of the dominant ideological wing of Iran's armed forces.

Jundollah, a Sunni Muslim rebel group, said it set off the bombs at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the city of Zahedan in retaliation for the Islamic Republic's execution in June of Jundollah leader Abdolmalek Rigi.

Iran says Jundollah has links to Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and in the past has accused Pakistan, Britain and the United States of backing Jundollah to create instability in the southeast of predominantly Shi'ite Iran.

All three countries have denied this, and Jundollah denies having any association with al Qaeda.

Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, an envoy of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the funeral, also blamed Washington for the attack, the official news agency IRNA reported.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday condemned the bombing and said those responsible must be brought to account.

"The murder of innocent civilians in their place of worship is an intolerable offense, and those who carried it out must be held accountable," Obama said in a statement.

The United States is embroiled in a stand-off with Iran over its nuclear programme, which Tehran insists is for peaceful energy purposes but Washington and other world powers suspect is a cover to develop the means to build atom bombs.

Tehran and Washington severed diplomatic relations shortly after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Jundollah, which says it is fighting for the rights of Iran's Sunni Muslim minority, said Rigi's relatives carried out the bombings targeting a Revolutionary Guards gathering.

The bodies of those killed were buried on Saturday in a ceremony in Zahedan attended by tens of thousands of people, according to Iranian state television.

Live footage showed the coffins, shrouded in Iranian flags, being carried on trucks with mourners chanting "Death to America" and demanding punishment of the attackers.

Iran arrested Rigi in February, four months after Jundollah claimed responsibility for a bombing which killed dozens of people, including 15 members of the Guards. That was the deadliest attack in Iran since the 1980s.

Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province on the border with Sunni Muslim Pakistan. The province is dogged by serious security problems with frequent clashes between Iranian police and drug dealers and bandits.

A senior police official, Ahmadreza Radan, warned that Iran had a right to "pursue rebels inside Pakistan territory ... Iran has limited patience. Instability in Sistan-Baluchestan is rooted abroad (where) there is lack of will to confront rebels."

He said 40 people "who wanted to create instability" in Zahedan had been arrested there since the latest bombing.

Iran is grappling with ethnic and religious tensions in the southeastern province ande authorities have responded to attacks by Sunni rebels with a spate of hangings. Human rights groups and the West have condemned the hangings.

Iran rejects allegations by rights groups that it discriminates against ethnic and religious minorities.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

JPMC MLO booked for attempted murder of NICVD nurse

Staff Report

KARACHI: Police have booked a medico-legal officer (MLO) of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for attempting to murder a nurse of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD).

As per details, MLO Dr Jabbar Memon was booked in FIR No 332/10 under Section 324 (attempt to murder) at the Saddar police station on the complaint of JPMC security in-charge Arshad Janjua.

Janjua told the police that Maxiline, 22, a second-year student at the NICVD, was pushed out of the window of Memon’s room on the first floor of the doctors’ hostel.

JPMC Accident and Emergency department in-charge Dr Seemin Jamali told Daily Times that Maxiline had sustained head injuries and the doctors were operating on her.

According to Saddar SHO Shabbir Haider, both the girl and the doctor had sustained injuries due to jumping out of the room window; however, the girl’s injuries were more serious than the doctor’s.

The SHO said the police was investigating the case, but both the accused and the victim were not in a position to get their statement recorded.

“The girl might have jumped out trying to save herself from being raped by Dr Memon, fallen out by accident or pushed out by the doctor. However, the presence of the victim in Dr Memon’s room went against the doctor,” the SHO added.

He said the police found broken glass, television and other things in the room during examination, suggesting a confrontation had taken place before the girl and the doctor jumped out the window.



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Attempted rape of trainee nurse

JPMC nurses hold protest demonstration against MLO

By Atif Raza

KARACHI: The Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) nurses suspended their duties on Wednesday and staged a protest against JPMC medico-legal officer (MLO) Dr Abdul Jabbar Memon who allegedly attempted to rape and kill a trainee nurse.

As per details, the JPMC nursing staff demanded immediate legal action against Memon during a demonstration in front of the JPMC.

They blamed the JPMC administration and claimed the police was providing Memon shelter by trying to delay solving the case.

However, JPMC Accident and Emergency department head Dr Seemin Jamali said Memon had been detained and the case would be solved within 48 hours.

The nurses demanded the administration to remove the outsiders living at the nurses hostel as it made them feel insecure.

While talking to Daily Times, Investigation Officer Mubashir said DNA samples were sent for tests, and the case would be further investigated after the report.

“The girl is still unconscious and the police is also waiting for eyewitnesses to come forward,” he added. It is pertinent to mention here that Memon was booked in FIR No 332/10 under Section 324 (attempt to murder) at the Saddar police station on Tuesday.

As per Malir DSP Mazhar Hussain, the ‘attempt to rape’ Section would also be included in the FIR if the investigation results point in that direction.


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Medical report says JPMC nurse was raped, DNA test results awaited
By Tufail Ahmed/ Arshad Baig

July 16, 2010

Police add sexual harassment to the FIR against the MLO

A medical report has said that Jinnah hospital’s trainee nurse was raped, said medico-legal officer (MLO) Dr Fehmida Mubin.

The 22-year-old third-year student was treated for head injuries a day ago after she was discovered bleeding, face down on the ground in a housing complex for doctors at the hospital. It appeared that she had either jumped or fallen from the first floor flat of MLO Dr Abdul Jabbar Memon. Dr Memon jumped from the first floor and fractured his leg. He was treated for his injuries as well.

Sindh Health Department’s chemical examination laboratory confirmed the rape after inspecting the samples collected from the victim. Chemical examiner Dr Fazal Ilahi Memon has signed the report (6713/14).

After the MLO’s report was prepared, the police added the relevant charges to the FIR against Dr Abdul Jabbar Memon but did not present him in court on Thursday. The case’s investigation officer requested an extension in his full-body remand till July 28 but the request was turned down by the court as Memon was not present. The officer explained that Memon had been directed by his doctor to refrain from walking. The court expressed its disapproval.

Saddar SI Rao Mubashir, deputy public prosecutor Babar Sohail and judicial magistrate south Abdul Qadir appeared before the court and said that an attempted-murder case has already been filed against Dr Memon but rape charges (Section 376) have also been added.

According to Dr Fehmida’s medical report, the nurse had six injuries and she was sexually abused. The reports were also presented in court.

The court allowed the IO to present Memon immediately, otherwise the remand would not be extended. But the officer failed to present him until the end of the day.

Jinnah hospital’s security officer Muhammad Akram Janjua had filed the case at Saddar police station. He said that on July 13, a second-year trainee nurse had jumped out of the window of Room 96 of the doctors’ mess at the hospital to save her life and suffered severe injuries.

It has been over 48 hours, but the nurse has yet to gain consciousness and hence her statement has not been recorded. A DNA test will also be conducted to find out if the nurse was gang-raped but the final report can only be complete after she records her statement.

The neurosurgeon, who operated on her, Professor Sattar Hashim, and other doctors on his team are trying to save her life. According to Dr Hashim, there is still some swelling on the nurse’s brain and her treatment became complicated due to blood clotting. She is being treated in the intensive care unit where she is constantly being monitored, he added.

On Thursday, Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed, Secretary Health Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi, head of the department’s inquiry committee, Captain Abdul Majid, and police surgeon Dr Hamid Padhia visited the hospital.

According to an inquiry committee, the accused doctor’s statement has been recorded. He denied any involvement in the incident and blamed the nurse of conspiring against him. The committee will submit its report on Friday.

The victim’s sister told the media that her sister had complained to the administration that Memon used to bother her during work but no one took any action.

Nurses continue to protest at JPMC

The nurses, paramedical staff and students at Jinnah hospital continued their protest for the third day on Thursday. They completely boycotted the wards. The call for the strike was made by the Pakistan Nursing Federation and Provincial Nurses Association.

Patients had to face problems as the staff stayed clear of the Out-Patients Department as well. Nursing officials, Jehanzeb Khan and Sehar Naz, accused the hospital administration of shifting the accused to a private hospital even though he was not as severely injured as the victim, who is currently under treatment at JPMC.

They said that their protest will continue until the MLO is barred from practice and other doctors, who are living illegally in the doctors’ colony, are removed.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2010.
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The doctor should be executed, says sister of JPMC trainee nurse

July 19, 2010

Police cannot take action against 3 other people for want of proof. PHOTO : ONLINE

“Never again will my sister or I go out to earn a living, no matter how short we are on money,” said the elder sister of the trainee nurse who was allegedly raped by a Medico Legal Officer at Jinnah hospital last week.


Shehla Ashraf held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Sunday. “We want to dissociate ourselves with the profession of nursing,”
said Ashraf, who was of the belief that Dr Jabbar Memon should be executed by hanging or stoning.

Although she admitted that her sister was being well looked after by the JPMC management, Ashraf said that she feared for her security and wanted her out of the hospital as soon as possible.

“We are being threatened. We also feel that we are being followed,”
she told The Express Tribune, adding that her family has yet to figure out how to go on with their lives.

MPA Humera Alwani had been mistakenly believed to be making a declaration to the media on my sister’s behalf, said Ashraf. She clarified that the trainee nurse’s statement to the police has yet to be recorded as she is not fit to make one.

The 22-year-old is still admitted at the surgical ICU and her family wants her to wait till she is well enough to be able to deal with the legal matters, which are currently at a stand-still.

The nurse’s NIC and mobile phone are still missing, said a welfare organisation’s Awais Abdullah, who accompanied Ashraf to the press conference.

The nurse is being represented by Advocate Javed Ahmed Chatari. Abdullah alleged that the accused MLO had tried to escape to Dubai but that his name had been put on the Exit Control List with the help of the DIG South to stop him from leaving the country.

SIO Inspector Toor Khan told The Express Tribune that Dr Memon was in police custody. “Memon will be a hard nut to crack as he is a clever man,” said Khan, who added that the police cannot taken action against three other people accused of involvement in the alleged rape as there was no proof against them yet. “The victim has yet to give a statement and we do not have any other clues,” he added.

People across the country have united against the injustice, said Sohail Johnson, a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and chief coordinator of the NGO Sharing Life Ministry of Pakistan.

Dr Liaquat Munawwar said that 90 per cent of the nurses in Pakistan are Christian, which is why the community was at stake.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 19th, 2010.

Four NATO soldiers killed in Afghan bomb attack

14 Jul 2010 12:49:28 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds details, background)

By David Fox

KABUL, July 14 (Reuters) - Four members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force were killed on Wednesday in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said in a statement.

The 150,000-strong force is suffering mounting casualties as an operation continues to take on the Taliban in their southern heartland, and June saw over 100 troops killed -- the bloodiest month of the nine-year-old war.

Another ISAF member died on Wednesday in a separate insurgent attack, also in the south, NATO said.

The alliance rarely gives more details on casualties, leaving home nations to first contact next of kin.

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In the most shocking incident, three members of the British Gurkha regiment were killed when an Afghan National Army soldier they were serving alongside turned on them with a machine-gun and rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) before escaping.

NATO and Afghan troops increasingly fight side-by-side against the Taliban as the West tries to pass on more responsibility for security ahead of a gradual withdrawal starting next year.

Officials and politicians have stressed that the policy will continue, but complete trust in your fellow troops is the cornerstone of any fighting force, and the incident would have shaken.

The rapid creation of a national army and police force since the Taliban's ousting and following decades of war has seen tens of thousands of Afghans join the security services, and there are fears insurgents may also have signed up.

The complexity of the Afghan war was further highlighted by the deaths of five civilian Afghan translators working for ISAF forces in Kandahar.

Three ISAF troops also died in the attack, with insurgents staging a commando-style raid on a police post after a suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into the main gate. (Editing by Ron Popeski) (sayed.salahuddin@thomsonreuters.com; Kabul newsroom: +93 799 335 285)) (If you have a query or comment about this story, send an e-mail to news.feedback.asia@thomsonreuters.com)

Monday, July 12, 2010

Iran's Grand Bazaar on strike in tax showdown

12 Jul 2010 15:46:35 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Strike at Grand Bazaar enters second week

* Merchants historically influential in Iran

* Vendors want value added tax scrapped

TEHRAN, July 12 (Reuters) - With shops that sell everything from herbs and spices to carpets and gems now firmly closed, Tehran's Grand Bazaar is on strike with merchants warning that higher taxes could force them to shut down for good.

The usually bustling corridors of the centuries old market, known as "Iran's economic pulse", have been deserted for the past week in a standoff between the hard-line government and merchants. Some shops were draped with black banners in protest.

Work stoppages are rare in Iran but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision to raise the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods set off a strike that merchants have threatened to extend despite a government offer to suspend the increase.

"We cannot even pay salaries to our employees. How can we pay higher taxes?"
said Ali Akbarzadeh, a bazaar jeweller.

"For sure closing shops damages us financially. What else can we do? Higher taxes will paralyse the bazaar," said one vendor, declining to be named, adding: "We have families to take care of."


The strike poses a political and economic challenge to Ahmadinejad, after last year's election which the opposition says was rigged and the leadership said was fair. The vote triggered bloodshed and authorities are anxious to avoid unrest.

"I heard some angry merchants chanting slogans against Ahmadinejad," said a shopkeeper, who gave his name as Ali, adding: "I also saw security forces clashing with some vendors ... Police were forcing some merchants to open their shops."

Opposition websites, including Norooznews, said: "Some people with sticks and stones shattered the windows of some shops that were closed in the bazaar."

Reports of clashes could not be confirmed independently.

Iran's economy is over 60 percent dependent on oil income and the sharp fall in oil prices threatens its finances. The government had hoped to fill the shortfall by increasing tax.

The tax forms part of wider economic reforms planned by the government, including a bill that will end subsidies on energy and food.

Iran's government is locked in a row with the West over its nuclear programme which the West suspects aims to produce a nuclear bomb and which Tehran says is intended to generate power. Tightening sanctions also hurt Iran's economy, analysts say, but the authorities deny this.

POWER OF THE BAZAAR

It was the second time traders had closed their shops on such a scale since the 1979 revolution, when the bazaar and its merchants played a key role in ousting the U.S.-backed shah.

In 2008, Ahmadinejad was forced to suspend implementing the plan to introduce a three percent VAT for two months after merchants in Tehran and other cities went on strike for a week.

Located in southern Tehran, the centuries-old bazaar sells anything from paper and copper to confectionary and watches. Conservative politicians traditionally adopt a low-tax, free-market approach to the bazaar.

Since its implementation, the VAT rate has been raised annually by between six and 15 percent, depending on the goods. But the government recently proposed increasing the top rate of VAT to 70 percent. This was so unpopular the plan was suspended.

"The government reached an agreement with merchants not to increase the tax more than its annual 15 percent," said state media. But merchants want the plan to be scrapped altogether.


The government, however, has made it clear it has no intention of completely abandoning the tax.

Shopkeepers say the imposition of higher VAT will only push up further already high prices and hurt business.

Some shop-owners closed their businesses, fearing violence and only a few stalls were open. Police patrolled the bazaar's empty winding streets and alleys.

One merchant in the steel section of the bazaar said the strike would continue on Tuesday.

"Today we came to our offices to sort out our financing issues but there are plans to carry on the strike on Tuesday," the steel merchant, who asked not to be named, told Reuters by telephone.

Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005 on a pledge to share out Iran's oil wealth fairly. But critics say his spending of petrodollars fuelled inflation, said to be running at an annual 10 percent. Some critics say inflation is more than 30 percent.

The opposition Jaras website said strikes were held in other cities like the northeastern holy Shi'ite city of Mashhad.

Judiciary officials were not available to comment.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing Peter Millership)