Extremism destroy Pakistan: Musharraf

pakistan President Perver Musharraf said yesterday that extremism and terrorism were destroying both pakistan and Afghanistan. The two countries had to work together to counter" this menace of extremism and terrorism that is destroying both our countries",he said. Since the sept 11, 2001, attacks on United States. The two US-backed leaders have regularly accused each other of not doing enough to rein in militants. At her rally peshawar yesterday, police caught a would-be suicide bomber as he tried to enter the venue. The 15-year-old boy, who has a small bomb consisting of dynamite and nails, managed to make it past the first set up outside the rally, said the police. He was caught at the second checkpoint.

Study mama's death bus driver jailed

He was hoping his own misfortune. The loss of his income as well as his left leg was reprisal enough for causing the death of a chinese national woman on sept11 a road accident. Malaysia bus driver Lai Fook Siang ,41, who lost his leg in a hit-and-run accident in Johor a week later, pleaded in court yesterday for light sentence. In mitigation, Lai said he has three young children, an unemployed wife as well as an ageing mother, to feed. He also had no intention to hurt the victim, a " study mama ", Lai added. Lai was sentenced to three weeks in jail and also banned him from driving all classes of vehicles for a period of five years after finding him guilty of committing a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide.

Another boxing day tragedy

Exactly three years to the day the Asian tsunami toopk about 168,000 lives in Indonesia, the country was hit by another calamity on boxing day yesterday, with dozens killed in landslides triggered by torrential rains. Landslides hit villages in the densely populated Karanganyar and Wonogiri districts in Central Java, with floods also sewlling in several areas. Volunteers dug desperately with their bare hands, hoping to find survivors while they waited for heavy equipment to arrive. At least 42 have been confirmed dead and scores missing in Central Java, with the number of casualties expected to rise.