Woman bites off lover”s tongue following row in Germany!

Melbourne, May 8 (ANI): A 35-year-old woman named Tina Mueller has been convicted after biting her male lover’s tongue off following a row in Germany.

According to the hearing in a German court, Mueller tempted her lover Marc Schmidt for a kiss. She pressed his tongue with her teeth, chewed part of it away after he told her to “p*** off.”

The incident happened after Schmidt returned home after a drinking spree at a carnival in the British Army garrison town of Paderborn in February last year.

“You”re not coming in in that state — you are totally loaded,” Mueller said after being annoyed with his drunken state.

The court heard she then kissed him in the head, showing some affection.

Schmidt told her, “Take your tongue and p*** off.”

“Tina often had such outbursts and I tried to reason with her. I went into the kitchen and she came in shortly afterwards and was feeling sorry. She said she was sorry she hit me. She let me take her into my arms and kissed me passionately,” Schmidt said.

“I just felt this terrible pain. I thrashed around a bit and I felt my tongue was gone,” he added.

Blood oozed out from his mouth. Scared by the attack, he ran for about a kilometre to reach his grandmother”s house for help. His grandmother took him back to his house to find the missing piece of the tongue so that it could be stitched, reports The Daily Telegraph.

But doctors could not re-attach it and spent two and a half hours sewing up the wound.

Mueller was held guilty of severe bodily harm whereas her lawyer said that she was not responsible for the act, as she had taken psychotic drugs.

She was ordered to do community service after writing a letter to Schmidt apologizing for the assault, but he refused to accept it.

“I cannot forgive her. She ruined my life. I can”t bear the thought of kissing a woman again,” Schmidt said after the verdict was passed. (ANI)

British boy kidnapped in Pakistan freed unharmed

(Reuters) – A British boy kidnapped 12 days ago while on vacation in Pakistan was freed unharmed by his abductors on Tuesday, police said, ending a high-profile ordeal.

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“We are very happy. Thank God he is safe and sound,” said Raja Basharat, the grand-uncle of five-year-old Sahil Saeed.

Pakistan will hand the boy over to the British embassy, Aslam Tarin, regional police chief, told a news conference.

Sweets were handed out at the home of the boy’s relatives in the town of Jhelum after they received a call from the kidnappers that he had been left in the nearby garrison town of Kharian.

Tarin said Sahil was “playing with the police.”

Gunmen held several of Sahil’s family members at gunpoint for several hours and took away 150,000 rupees ($1,750) and some gold during the kidnapping, and later demanded a 10 million rupee ($118,000) ransom.

Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told Reuters an “international gang of kidnappers” was responsible.

“We are trying to bust this gang with the help of other countries,” he said, without elaborating.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said he suspected some relatives were involved in the abduction, which made big news in the British and Pakistani media.

But Tarin said: “We have found no evidence of involvement of his father or any of his family members in it (the crime).” The father has returned to the United Kingdom, he added.

“It is fantastic news which brings an end to the traumatic ordeal faced by Sahil and his family,” the British High Commissioner in Islamabad, Adam Thomson, said in a statement.

“I would like to praise the high-level of cooperation between U.K. and Pakistani authorities and in particular, I would like to thank the Jhelum police for their role in bringing about the safe return of Sahil.”

Kidnapping is a major problem in Pakistan and many of the crimes go unreported. Local media said on Tuesday that the dead body of a two-year-old Pakistani girl who was kidnapped for ransom was found near the northwestern city of Peshawar.

(Additional reporting by Kamran Haider and Zeeshan Haider in ISLAMABAD; Writing by Michael Georgy)

UN panel probes Pakistan army’s role in Bhutto murder

ISLAMABAD: In a new twist, the UN Commission, probing into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is now suspecting involvement of Pakistani soldiers in the plot.

Pakistani officials said they were searching for four military personnel who had disappeared just before the suicide attack on Bhutto during an election rally in Rawalpindi in December 2007.

The missing soldiers were retired army personnel who were among the eight army men related to the main accused and a proclaimed offender in the case Ibad Ur Rehman, interior ministry officials said.

The investigators were facing difficulties in determining the exact status of these soldiers and so far no record had been provided. The four other soldiers are still serving the army, the officials told DawnNews.

The four missing army personnel had never been mentioned before in the legal proceedings.

Pakistan had sought a UN probe a year ago after its own investigations and those by Scotland Yard failed to make headway into Bhutto’s killing Dec 27, 2007 in a gun and bomb attack as she left a political rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi.

The four-member probe commission which was constituted in June last year is expected to submit its report by the end of this month.

Musharraf finally vacates Pakistan Army House

Musharraf finally vacates Pakistan Army HouseIslamabad, May 24 (IANS) Eighteen months after retiring as the Pakistani Army chief, former president Pervez Musharraf has finally vacated Army House in the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi that he had continued to occupy on grounds of security.

Citing sources, Dawn said Sunday that Musharraf’s belongings had been moved to his sprawling country villa in the Chak Shahzad suburb of Islamabad.

Musharraf is currently on an extended lecture tour abroad and it is not clear when he would return, given the precarious security scenario in the country.

“The sources said very few belongings of the former army chief had been moved to Chak Shahzad. They said it was not clear whether or not Musharraf intended to settle down in Chak Shahzad,” the newspaper added.

When contacted, Maj. Gen. (retd) Rashid Qureshi, who has twice served as Musharraf’s spokesman, said he was unaware of the former president shifting out of Army House but that he had no plans to settle abroad.

“He has no plans to settle abroad,” Qureshi said, adding Musharraf would soon return home.

The Pakistani government is believed to have quietly suggested to Musharraf, who twice survived assassination attempts while he was army chief, to stay abroad at least till the present anti-Taliban operations by the security forces in the country’s restive northwest conclude.

Musharraf is known to be on the hit list of the Taliban and various other extremist groups.

Musharraf had retired as army chief in November 2007 and stepped down as president in September 2008. Though he continued to live in Army House, the present army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, had ordered the removal of all the highly sophisticated communications equipment from the facility.

It was not immediately clear when Kayani would move into Army House.

Taliban begin leaving Buner, Pakistani Army prepares for action

Islamabad, April 23 (IANS) Ending their standoff with the Pakistani government, the Taliban, which had occupied Buner in the country’s northwest just 100 km from this federal capital, have begun withdrawing from the area amid reports that the army is preparing to go into action against the militants.

The withdrawal followed talks between the government’s representative, Syed Mohammed Javed, and Sufi Mohammad, the Taliban-backed radical cleric who had brokered a controversial Feb 16 peace deal to impose Sharia laws in Swat, Buner and five other districts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), that is collectively known as the Malakand division, in return for the fundamentalist militants laying down their arms.

‘There has been a major breakthrough in the talks and Maulana Sufi Mohammad has agreed to travel to Buner and convince the Taliban to leave the area,’ DPA news agency quoted Javed, the divisional commissioner of Malakand, as telling reporters earlier Friday.

The cleric then visited Buner, following which the Taliban began pulling out and headed for their Swat headquarters.

The withdrawal notwithstanding, the Pakistani Army was mobilising and would be ready to go into action against the Taliban by Sunday, Dawn News channel said, quoting military sources.

Analysts here pointed out that should the army go into action, it would effectively nullify the peace accord. The army had been fighting the Taliban till early February, when the militants declared a truce to enable the peace accord be worked out.

On his part, Pakistani Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said Friday the military fully backed the government in its fight against terrorism. Speaking at a meeting of the top brass at the General Headquarters in the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi, he said victory against militancy will be achieved by all means.

Emboldened by the peace deal, the Taliban had moved out of their Swat headquarters to occupy Buner, triggering international alarm and prompting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Wednesday accuse Pakistan of ‘abdicating’ to the militants.

On his part, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani warned of action against Taliban if they didn’t abide by the Feb 16 peace deal. He added to that Friday, saying: ‘Whatever be their demands, we will do what is in the best interests of the nation.’

The reference was to the Taliban demand for setting up Darul Qazas or Islamic courts of appeal to hear challenges to verdicts handed down by the Qazi courts to be set up in Malakand under Sharia laws.

Sufi Mohammad has previously termed as un-Islamic the Peshawar High Court and the Supreme Court which would hear the appeals.

That the Pakistani Taliban was softening was evident Thursday when it indefinitely extended the April 23 deadline it had set for establishing the Darul Qazas. The Taliban also clarified that it wasn’t seeking to create a state within a state with its Darul Qaza demand.

Pakistani ‘confesses’ to role in Mumbai attacks

Islamabad, April 16 (IANS) A Pakistani claiming to be a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative has ‘confessed’ to his role in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, saying four other leaders of the terror group were also involved.

Quoting sources in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), The News said that Shahid Jamil Riaz who belongs to the LeT had confessed that he and four others had provided transportation facilities, accommodation, Internet and other facilities to the terrorists who had attacked Mumbai.

The four men Riaz has named are LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, its communications specialist Zarar Shah, Hamad Ameen Sadiq and Hamza alias Abu Alqa.

All for are in custody but have not been formally charged with involvement in the Nov 26-29, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that claimed the lives of over 170 people, including 26 foreigners.

They had been picked up in a crackdown by Pakistani security forces in December 2008 after the UN, acting on US and Indian pressure, proscribed the Jamaat-ud Daawa that the LeT had morphed into after being banned in the wake of the Dec 13, 2001 attack on the Indian parliament that New Delhi blamed on the terror group.

Riaz, who was arrested from Europe last month, is not among the eight men the FIA has charged with their alleged involvement in the Mumbai attacks.

Of the eight, six are in custody and the seventh is at large. The eight is Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive during the Mumbai carnage and whose trial has now begun.

Riaz recorded his confession before special judicial magistrate Ahmed Masood Janjua, who sent him to Adiala Jail in the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi on 14-day judicial remand.

He was brought to court amidst tight security, with two officials of the Special Investigation Cell (SIC) accompanying him to the magistrate’s chamber, from which the media was banned, for recording his statement.

A junior officer of the interior ministry, meanwhile, rejected Riaz’s confession, saying he had made a statement in court but this could not be termed a confession.

Manawan academy attack: 625 rounded up in Islamabad, Rawalpindi

Islamabad, April 13 (IANS) Police in this Pakistani capital and the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi have, in a four-day swoop, rounded up 625 people for their alleged involvement in the terror attack on a police academy near Lahore.

Those found innocent will be released after interrogation, Dawn News channel Monday quoted the police as saying.

At least 150 people were rounded up from Rawalpindi on Monday. They include some Afghan nationals.

‘The suspects were taken into custody for investigations into the Manawan attack and possible links with militancy in Swat,’ the channel said.

A survey of Islamabad’s slums was also conducted to check suspicious activities and individuals.

A group of heavily armed terrorists had stormed the Manawan academy, located 12 km from the border with India and held some 400 trainees hostage for nearly eight hours before the security forces recaptured the complex. Eight attackers, an equal number of trainees and two civilians were killed in the assault.

Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud has claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it was in retaliation for the repeated drone strikes by the coalition forces in Afghanistan on supposed Taliban and Al Qaeda strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas along its western border.

Hundreds of civilians, including women and children, have been killed in the strikes, which have also caused massive damage to non-military property in the area.

The US has refused to halt the attacks despite repeated calls by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Mehsud is also blamed for the Dec 27, 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a gun-and-bomb attack as she left a political rally in Rawalpindi.

Pakistan claims to arrest Indian planning terror attack

Islamabad, April 11 (IANS) The authorities claim to have arrested an Indian national and five Pakistanis who were said to be planning a terror attack on a police academy near the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi.

While the Indian national was arrested Friday morning, the other five were arrested later in the day on the basis of information provided by him, Dawn News channel said Saturday.

It said the group was planning to attack the police college at Sihala that lies within the Islamabad federal capital territory.

‘The Indian was wearing five thick shirts and a belt,’ the channel quoted a a police official as saying, adding that he was arrested on suspicion after being seen in the area.

An investigation team has been set up to question him, deputy inspector general of police and college commandant Fateh Sher Joyia told DawnNews.

Maps of important Pakistani cities along with some phone numbers were recovered from his possession, Joyia added.

‘Sources said the alleged Indian spy admitted that he and others were planning terror attacks on the police college,’ the channel said.

Officials declined to give the name and other information on the Indian, saying details could be shared only after the investigations had been completed.

Curiously enough, no further details are available about a blast followed by firing late Friday near the Manawan police training academy on the outskirts of Lahore.

Gunshots were heard half a kilometre from the academy, an eyewitness said.

Heavily armed gunmen had attacked the academy March 30, holding some 400 trainees hostage for nearly eight hours before the security forces recaptured the complex. Eight trainees, an equal number of attackers and two civilians were killed in the assault

UN team arrives for Bhutto killing probe

Islamabad, April 7 (IANS) A UN team has arrived here to lay the ground for a probe by the world body into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The six-member team is headed by Mark Quarterman. It is likely to visit the spot in the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi where Bhutto was killed Dec 27, 2007 in a gun and bomb attack as she left a political rally.

The team will also meet officials of the police and other law enforcement agencies.

Pakistan had earlier this year sought a UN probe into Bhuttto’s killing after its own investigations and one by Scotland Yard failed to make headway.

This is largely because the spot where Bhutto was killed was hosed down soon after, destroying whatever evidence that could have been gathered.

Baitullah Mehsud, who leads the Pakistani Taliban, is one of those suspected of having a hand in Bhutto’s killing.