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MUZAFFARABAD: Eight mysterious helicopters were seen roaming about in the skies of Muzaffarabad at around 1:15am, Geo News reported.

The copters including seven small and a large remained in the skies for several minutes and returned after inspecting the mountains in Dolai area of AJK capital.

The roaming of these helicopters has created panic among the people of the area.

Military officials have claimed that these helicopters were of Pakistan and that these were on night mission.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has admitted that hiding of Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad was an intelligence failure.

In an interview with an Arabic newspaper, Rehman Malik said killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan has strengthened our resolve to fight the menace of terrorism with renewed vigor.

It was an intelligence failure. Sometimes it happens, but I assure our allies that he was not protected by any government agency, the Interior Minister stated.

He said that 9/11 also happened due to intelligence failure. Not only 9/11, I can cite other incidents in the world which were result of agencies failure. That does not mean that those agencies protected terrorists, he added.

Malik ruled out the possibility of anyone, either from the political leadership or from the military top brass, stepping down for the “intelligence failure.”

No heads will roll in the aftermath of Osama, he said, adding how many people resigned after 9/11 in the US?

Who created Bin Laden and sent him to fight Russians? he questioned. We never invited him to Pakistan. He went there with hundreds of other Arab fighters to wage a jihad against Russian forces, and the world knows who supported them, he added.

An extensive investigation has been ordered to know the circumstances that enabled Bin Laden to stay in the country undetected, he concluded.

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered, President Barack Obama announced on Sunday.

“Justice has been done,” Obama said in a dramatic, late-night White House speech announcing the death of the elusive mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the New York and Washington.

Obama said U.S. forces led the operation that killed bin Laden. No Americans were killed in the operation and they took care to avoid civilian casualties, he said. “The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda and a terrorist who is responsible for the murder of thousands of men, women and children,” Obama said. It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team, after many Americans had given up hope of ever finding bin Laden.

A crowd gathered outside the White House to celebrate, chanting, “USA, USA.” Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring bin Laden to justice “dead or alive” for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly3,000 people, but never did before leaving office in early 2009.

U.S. officials said that after searching in vain for the al Qaeda leader since he disappeared in Afghanistan in late 2001, the Saudi-born extremist was killed in the Pakistani town of Abbotabad and his body recovered. Having the body may help convince any doubters that bin Laden is really dead.

He had been the subject of a search since he eluded U.S. soldiers and Afghan militia forces in a large-scale assault on the Tora Bora Mountains of Afghanistan in 2001. The trail quickly went cold after he disappeared and many intelligence officials believed he had been hiding in Pakistan.

While in hiding, bin Laden had taunted the West and advocated his militant Islamist views in videotapes spirited from his hideaway. Besides Sept. 11, Washington has also linked bin Laden to a string of attacks — including the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 bombing of the warship USS Cole in Yemen.

Breaking News………!

Higher Education Commission, order to keep working

The Supreme Court (SC) ordered the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to keep working under the ordinance until any amendment in the law before adjourning the hearing for indefinite period, Geo News reported.

On Monday, the SC while hearing the constitutional petition against the devolution of HEC issued notices to Attorney General of Pakistan, Ministry of Law, Ministry of Education and HEC and later adjourned the hearing till Tuesday.

A three-judge bench, headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, heard the petition filed by the Directory of Riphah University against the devolution of HEC.

The apex court after hearing the arguments of Advocate Anwar Mansoor and issuing notice to the stakeholders adjourned the hearing.

Once Again Japan under the shock!!!

A major earthquake shook the northeast of Japan late Thursday night (April 7), and a tsunami warning was issued for a part of the coast already devastated by last month’s massive quake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant.

More than 30 people were injured, according to Japan’s National Police Agency.

The 7.4-magnitude quake struck at 11:32pm Japan time and halted operations at some thermal power plants in Aomori and Akita prefectures, news reports said.

No damage was detected at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant and workers had been evacuated without reports of any injuries, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said.

“After the earthquake and the tsunami warning, all the workers evacuated to a safe area. The company confirmed all the workers have cleared the plant safely,” a spokesman said.

“We have no information immediately indicating any abnormality at Fukushima Daiichi plant,” a spokesman told a news conference.

Japan is struggling to bring the crippled Fukushima plant under control after the 9-magnitude quake on March 11 and the tsunami that followed, which killed an estimated 28,000 people.

Neighbouring countries have sounded increasingly alarmed over the risk of radiation from the plant, while tourists are staying away in what should be the peak season, and the country seeks ways to cut power use.

Announcers on Japan’s public broadcaster NHK told coastal residents to run to higher ground and away from the shore after the quake hit on Thursday.

The Japan meteorological agency had issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to 2 metres, but was lifted later.

The strong aftershock hit 25km under the sea and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute.

DERA GHAZI KHAN

Forty-six devotees were killed and over 90 injured in two suicide blasts at Darbar Sakhi Sarwar, some 35 kilometres from here, on Sunday. The Urs celebrations at the Darbar are in progress these days. The rescue teams faced difficulties due to narrow passages and congested localities.

The dead included four children and eight women, while the locals also arrested a suspected suicide bomber, who was attempting to explode his jacket. According to sources, the suspect was arrested with a suicide jacket in his possession. He was handed over to the local police. The police shifted the arrested young suicide bomber to an undisclosed location for interrogation. Eyewitnesses and the police told this scribe that the officials of the border military police shot at the suicide bomber and rendered him unable to blow himself up.

As per the local residents and eyewitnesses, no strict security measures were in place, and no security personnel were among the killed or injured. The suicide bomber blew himself up at the main gate of Darbar Hazrat Sakhi Sarwar, followed by another blast within three minutes, when thousands of devotees were present at the Darbar.

Rescue 1122 official Dr Natiq Hayat said the death toll was over 30. Ambulances from Multan, Muzaffargarh, Layyah and Rajanpur were shifting the dead and injured to the emergency wards of the District Headquarters Hospital, DG Khan.

Angry protesters attacked the police officials as they reached late at the blast site and shouted slogans against the authorities for poor security arrangements. The devotees also attacked the SHO Sakhi Sarwar police station, Zahid Hussain, on his failure to make foolproof security arrangements.

Sources said the unknown assailants had warned the Darbar administration of dire consequences if the traditional dhamaal was not stopped at the Darbar during the annual Urs.

The DG Khan DPO told The News that strict security measures were taken and walkthrough gates were installed, as per the security plan. He said it was a suicide blast while the attempt for the second suicide blast was foiled and the accused had been arrested.

Agencies add: The blasts took place outside the shrine of the 13th Century Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar.

“We have recovered 41 bodies so far,” said an officer, Zahid Hussain Shah, adding that more than 70 were wounded. “Both were suicide attackers, they came on foot and blew themselves up when police on duty stopped them,” he said.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attacks, a militant spokesman said. “Our men carried out these attacks and we will carry out more in retaliation for government operations against our people in the northwest,” Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters by telephone from undisclosed location.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Zardari have strongly condemned the bomb blast and loss of life. Zardari asked the officials concerned to take care of the injured. He expressed condolences with the affected families.

Pakistan VS India seems like a war between two countries…….!