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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

High value terrorist Fidaullah arrested in Islamabad

Islamabad police has arrested a terrorist Fidaullah who had been involved in attacking Police Special Branch and FC Check Post.SSP Islamabad Tahir Alam told a news conference that Fidaullah hailed from Buner and that he was a student of a local Madressa.Police went after Fidaullah after getting a lead from Khairullah and Khurram Shahzad who were arrested in the case of attacks on FC Check Post and Special Branch.The SSP said that the accused had been targeting security forces besides he also beheaded 3 persons in Buner and Swat on charges of spying.He said Fidaullah established a new network with the name of Ghazi Force and set up its center in Guljo near Hangu. The accused had also been taking youngsters from Islamabad to make turn them into suicide bombers in the name of Jihad. The SSP said that Fidaullah was planning a kidnap of a foreign personality.

Hundreds of students feared kidnapped by Taliban

Hundreds of Pakistani students travelling from a tribal area near the Afghan border to the north-western town of Bannu have gone missing along with teachers and relatives. A Pakistani official says they have been abducted by Taliban militants.Hundreds of Pakistani students coming from a restive tribal area near the Afghan border went missing late Monday, police said, while a government official said he feared they had been abducted by Taliban.The students from a cadet college in the tribal North Waziristan region were going to the northwestern town of Bannu in more than 30 buses after a summer vacation, Bannu town police chief Iqbal Marwat told AFP.Only two buses have arrived in the town, Marwat said."Two vehicles carrying some 25 students reached Bannu, we are investigating about other students," Marwat said.Mirza Mohammad Jihadi, an adviser on tribal affairs to Pakistan's prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told local television "according to my reports they were kidnapped by Taliban militants."However, Marwat and another senior official in the North West Frontier Province, Habibullah Khan, told AFP: "We have reports about missing students, but I can not say at this stage that they have been kidnapped."

Fears over missing Air France plane

An Air France airliner carrying 228 people is believed to have fallen into the Atlantic Ocean after hitting heavy turbulence en route from Brazil to France.Air France said Flight AF 447 had sent an automatic message reporting an electrical fault and suggested it could have been hit by lightning.Brazilian authorities have sent out aircraft over the ocean to search for the missing passenger jet, which dropped off radar screens at 06:00 GMT on Monday."We are without a doubt faced with an aviation catastrophe. The entire company is thinking of the families and shares their pain," Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, Air France chief executive, said.The Airbus A-330, carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members, had been due to land at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris at 09:10 GMT. Authorities at Charles de Gaulle had said that there was "no hope" for the airliner."It seems to have simply vanished from radar screen. President Sarkozy has expressed his great concern and asked his government to put all its efforts into finding the missing plane," she said.