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June 4 (Reuters) – U.S. copper futures extended an early sell-off Friday, sinking to their lowest levels since mid-October, after a government report showed U.S. non-farm payrolls grew at a less-than-expected rate in May.
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By mid-morning, copper for July delivery HGN0 sank 9.60 cents, or 3.3 percent, to $2.8505 per lb on the New York Mercantile Exchange’s COMEX division, a low dating back to Oct. 19, 2009. (Reporting by Chris Kelly; Editing by John Picinich)
June 4 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasuries extended their gains on Friday after a government report showed a smaller-than-expected increase in payrolls in May, reinforcing the view of gradual U.S. economic recovery.
These latest job figures also bolstered the case that the Federal Reserve will not raise short-term rates until 2011.
U.S. employers created 431,000 jobs in May, the U.S. Labor Department said, below the 513,000 increase predicted by analysts polled by Reuters. The jobless rate fell more than expected to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent in April. For more, see [ID:nOAT004640]
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR last traded up 28/32 in price at 101-30/33, compared with being 10/32 higher shortly before the employment data.
The 10-year yield, which moves inversely to price, was 3.27 percent, compared with 3.33 percent moments ahead of the jobs data. It ended at 3.37 percent on Thursday in New York.
(Reporting by Richard Leong, Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
June 4 (Reuters) – The dollar fell versus the Japanese yen on Friday after a government report showed U.S. non-farm payrolls grew at a lower than expected rate in May. For details, see [ID:nOAT004640]
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The dollar fell 0.8 percent to hit a session low of 91.93 yen JPY=, according to Reuters data. It traded at 92.68 prior to the report.
The euro extended losses and was last trading down more than 1 percent at a session low of $1.2019 EUR=, according to Reuters data. It traded at $1.2064 before the release. (Reporting by Vivianne Rodrigues; Editing by Theodore d’Afflisio)
Beijing, May 24 (ANI): The United States on Sunday asked China to back punitive measures against North Korea over strong evidence that Pyongyang was involved in the sinking of the South Korean warship, Cheonan.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Dai Bingguo, a state councilor of China who oversees foreign affairs, and raised the South Korean government report that formally accused the North of torpedoing the Cheonan in March, killing 46 sailors.
“We want them to take some steps in the international arena to underscore the seriousness of the matter,” the New York Times quoted a senior Obama administration official, as saying.
“We have to be realistic about what we can expect,” he added.
The official said Beijing is still digesting the findings of the investigation, which was aided by the United States and other countries.
China has reacted with extreme caution, waiting for days to express sorrow to South Korea for the loss of the crew and expressing skepticism about North Korea’s role. (ANI)
The hard times are being fought at every battle zone, and Latvia has shown that even bureaucrats are not immune from pay cuts.
Latvian government workers saw their salaries slashed by an average 31 percent over the past two years, according to a government report published Wednesday that reflects the staggering cuts the Baltic state was forced to make to curb public spending and satisfy international lenders.
The average salary for a ministerial worker plummeted from 1,136 lats ($2,225, euro1,620) in February 2008 to 786 lats ($1,540, euro1,120) in February 2008, according to the report.
In some ministries – such as Regional Development and Agriculture – average salary cuts reached 46 percent, while Foreign Ministry employees were hit with only a 17 percent reduction.
After years of excellent growth, Latvia was threatened with insolvency in late 2008 and had to appeal international lenders such as the International Monetary Fund and the European Union for emergency bailout funds.
Lenders pledged euro7.5 billion ($10.5 billion) over three years, requiring Latvia in exchange to make drastic cuts, including to its bloated bureaucracy and in budget expenditures.
During the boom years of 2004-8, public sector salaries skyrocketed, surging some 35 percent in 2007 alone.
The nation of 2.3 million currently has the EU’s worst economy in terms of economic output, with gross domestic product plummeting 18 percent last year.
The government has forecast economic growth will fall another 2 to 4 percent in 2010, though quarterly growth could resume in the second half of the year.
WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) – U.S. business inventories rose slightly more than expected in February to their highest level in seven months as businesses restocked to meet strengthening domestic demand, a government report showed on Wednesday.
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The Commerce Department said inventories increased 0.5 percent, the largest increase since July 2008, to $1.33 trillion – the highest since July. January inventories were revised up 0.2 percent, after being previously reported as being flat. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a 0.4 percent rise in February inventories.
Inventories are a key component of gross domestic product changes over the business cycle and a sharp slowdown in the pace of inventory depletion is driving the economy’s recovery that started in the second half of 2009.
Business sales increased 0.3 percent to $1.04 trillion in February, the highest level since October 2008, following a 0.7 percent increase in January. That left the inventory-to-sales-ratio, which measures how long it would take to clear shelves at the current sales pace, unchanged at 1.27 months’ worth.
Manufacturers’ inventories rose 0.5 percent, the largest increase since August 2008, after increasing 0.3 percent the prior month. Inventories at retailers climbed 0.3 percent in February following a 0.1 percent gain in January. (Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Andrea Ricci)
A State Government report has recommended a ban on vehicles in Aboriginal heritage areas on Tasmania’s west coast.
The report looks at the use of 90 tracks in the Arthur Pieman Conservation Area which is becoming increasingly popular with off-road drivers.
Stuart Lennox from the Parks and Wildlife Service says there is need to balance conservation values with recreational use.
“The Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area is very rich in both its natural and cultural values but it also has terrific recreational values,” he said.
“A lot of our work that the Parks Service does managing that balance between protecting the natural and cultural values and providing a recreational opportunity is always the challenge of the work that we do.”
The Parks and Wildlife Service is seeking public feedback on the recommendations.
London, Mar. 27 (ANI): Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is to adopt a neutral advisory role and has agreed to stop making statements demanding new taxes and other radical policies on cutting emissions, The Times reports.
In an interview with The Times, Pachauri, apologised for the IPCC’s handling of complaints about errors in a report on climate change affecting Himalayan glaciers.
He also apologised for describing as “voodoo science” an Indian Government report that challenged the IPCC’s claims about the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers.
But, Dr. Pachauri, 70, rejected calls for his resignation and insisted he would remain as chairman until after the publication of the IPCC’s next report in 2014.
He claimed he had the support of all the world’s governments and denied that, by remaining in post, he was undermining the IPCC’s chances of regaining credibility with the public.
“It is not correct to say there are people who don’t trust me,” he said.
He admitted it had been a mistake to give the impression, in many interviews, that he was advocating specific actions to cut emissions.
Last year, he called for higher taxes on aviation and motoring, said people should eat less meat, and proposed that hotel rooms should have electricity meters to charge people extra for using air conditioning.
Speaking in London yesterday, he said he would focus in future on presenting the science on climate change rather than advocating policies.
“I will try to clarify that I’m not prescribing anything as a solution. Maybe I should be more careful [in media interviews] in laying down certain riders. One learns from that and I’m learning.”
Dr. Pachauri said he wanted more power over the IPCC secretariat and an extra one million dollarsa year to fund its work, on top of the five million dollars it already receives.
He said the IPCC is planning to recruit more spin-doctors to help it promote its work and defend itself against attacks by climate sceptics. (ANI)
Doctors and nurses on Christmas Island are struggling to cope with the increasing workload in the island’s hospital, ABC News Online has learned.
A source who worked within Christmas Island health services and asked to remain anonymous says the hospital is under strain because of the growing population of asylum seekers and associated staff.
More than 25 boats have arrived in Australian waters this year and Christmas Island’s detention centre is almost at capacity.
The Federal Government is preparing to move some asylum seekers from Christmas Island to the mainland today.
But the source told ABC News Online that Christmas Island is “bursting” and all aspects of the island are under strain, particularly health services.
A 2002 government report found the hospital could handle a population of 10,000, but the source says the nine-bed hospital is understaffed and a lot of the rooms are not being used properly.
“It’s harder on Christmas Island than it used to be. Health facilities are being stretched. Whether they’re at breaking point, we won’t know until there’s a disaster,” the source said.
“The strain is caused by an increase in numbers – that’s not just asylum seekers. Remember they bring in attachments – all those people go through the community facility. The attachments to the asylum seekers put more strain on the local facilities than the asylum seekers do.”
The “attachments” are the workers that come to the island because of the detention centre: Immigration Department employees, Red Cross workers, security guards and interpreters. Family groups and children of the asylum seekers also use the hospital’s services.
There are doctors at the detention centre, but they are only set up to do general practice consultation and offer minor-level care, so asylum seekers are often treated at the hospital.
The source says as the Christmas Island population has grown, the number of doctors and nurses has not increased.
“The number of people being cared for in the hospital is increasing. The waiting times are getting longer. If you double your population, you double your waiting time,” he said.
“The busier you are, the more likely something untoward will happen.
“The isolation is a problem in itself – there’s better medical treatment available in Indonesia than there is on Christmas Island.”
The source says Christmas Island does not have the facilities to cope with complicated medical conditions, with no surgeons or anaesthetists on hand.
“People do die on Christmas Island who wouldn’t die in the city. You can’t treat everything on Christmas Island,” he said.
“If there’s more than two people injured at once in a car accident on Christmas Island, it’s a disaster and it overwhelms the medical facility because they don’t have the staff to cope.
“Calling Christmas Island Hospital a hospital is a bit of an ask. It’s not what people would imagine it to be…. It’s more like a medical centre with in-patient facilities.
“The more people on the island, then the higher the likelihood that specialist services – surgery, cardiology, CT scans, ultrasound or paediatrics – will be urgently needed. The time delay to these services can be critical in severe injury or illness.”
‘Better than mainland services’
The Minister for Home Affairs, Brendan O’Connor, refutes the allegations of under-staffing and under-resourcing at the hospital.
“Hospital staffing at Christmas Island is comparable or better than similar remote health services on the mainland,” he told the ABC.
“The hospital, which is run by the Indian Ocean Territories Health Service, is a first-class facility which is dealing adequately with the health needs of people on Christmas Island.”
A spokesman for Attorney-General Robert McClelland has denied the hospital would not be able to cope in the event of a disaster. He says the island’s emergency plan is integrated with those of other emergency response agencies in the Indian Ocean Territories.
“It is common practice for small hospitals in remote locations not to provide a full suite of services and to transport passengers for more complex and serious injuries to major metropolitan hospitals where specialist treatment is available,” he said.
The spokesman also denies that waiting times for most health services have blown out.
“Demand for dental services has resulted in some delay, but access remains better than in many similar communities,” he said.
“The Department of Immigration and Citizenship is increasing dental services to meet this demand.”
He also says the hospital’s budget was increased this year by $600,000 to support the growing demand.
The Sunshine Coast Mayor says a new government report clearly shows the region needs an alternate population strategy.
The survey on population growth in south-east Queensland found the strongest opposition is on the Sunshine Coast, with 63 per cent of locals surveyed rating it negatively.
Mayor Bob Abbot says he is optimistic the findings will prompt the State Government to develop a different growth strategy for the Sunshine Coast.
“I think the most telling thing of all out of all of the comments is the last dot point in the report which says, ‘as such, a different strategy may be required in the planning for population growth in this region’,” he said.
“I think that’s obvious to us and finally reinforces the argument which we’ve been putting and something needs to happen.”
Johanne Wright from the Organisation of Sunshine Coast Associations of Residents says the Government should hand over more planning control to the council.
“Instructing the council, for example, with some of the structure plans to change the planning that the council had done to accommodate more people,” she said.
“I think that doesn’t reflect what the community wants at all and I think the State Government needs to step back from that highly prescriptive role and allow the local communities to make decisions for themselves.”
Ranchi, March 17 (IANS) Free cycles will be distributed to Class 8 girl students in Jharkhand to check dropout rates in government schools, a minister said.
‘All the girls studying in Class 8 will get free bicycles,’ state Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Hemlal Murmu said Tuesday night while replying in the assembly on his department’s budget for 2010-11.
Earlier, free cycles were provided to girls of tribal and Dalit families.
The move aims to encourage girls to study up to the secondary level. According to a state government report, the majority of girls in the state leave school after studying upto Class 5 or 6.
The literacy rate in the state is 54 percent against national average of 65 percent. The women’s literacy rate is below 40 percent.
The minister also announced appointment of 48,410 primary school teachers.
WASHINGTON: In 2009, India accounted for the third highest increase in the number of illegal immigrants in the US in ten years, according to a new government report, though only two percent of all illegal immigrants were Indians.
The number of illegal immigrants in the US fell by seven percent to 10.8 million last year.
A majority of them came from Latin America, according to the department of homeland security (DHS) report, though India with 200,000 was the sixth biggest sender of illegal immigrants to the US.
In overall numbers, Indians accounted for only two percent of illegal immigrants. Mexico (6.7 million) topped the list with 62 percent, followed by those from El Salvador (530,000), Guatemala (480,000), Honduras (320,000) and the Philippines (270,000).
Between 2000 and 2009, the Mexican-born unauthorised immigrants increased by two million or 42 percent. But the greatest percentage increases occurred among unauthorised immigrants from Honduras (95 percent), Guatemala (65 percent), and India (64 percent).
“The number of unauthorised residents declined by one million between 2007 and 2009, coincident with the US economic downturn,” said the report based on census data and extrapolations from the total foreign population in the country.
Beside the US and global financial crisis, other reasons the report adduces for the drop in the undocumented population include tougher border enforcement and a national crackdown on illegal immigrants.
The overall annual average increase in the unauthorised population during the 2000-09 period was 250,000 with ten leading countries of origin representing 85 percent of the unauthorised immigrant population in 2009.
Of the nearly 11 million undocumented people living in the US in January 2009, 37 percent, or four million, arrived since January 2000, 44 percent since the 1990s and 19 percent since the 1980s, the DHS said.
Between January 2008 and January 2009, the number of unauthorised immigrants living in the US decreased seven percent from 11.6 million to 10.8 million after growing from 8.5 million to 11.8 million between 2000 and 2007, DHS said.
An estimated 8.5 million of the 10.8 million unauthorised immigrants living in the US in 2009 were from the North America region, including Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. The next leading regions of origin were Asia (980,000) and South America (740,000).
California remained the leading state of residence of the illegal immigrants in 2009, with 2.6 million, followed by Texas (1.7 million), Florida (720,000), New York (550,000) and Illinois (540,000).
California’s share of the national total was 24 percent in 2009 compared to 30 percent in 2000. The greatest percentage increase in the illegal population between 2000 and 2009 occurred in Georgia (115 percent), Nevada (55 percent) and Texas (54 percent).
In 2009, 61 percent of unauthorised immigrants were aged 25 to 44 years, and 58 percent were male. Males accounted for 62 percent of the illegal population in the 18 to 34 age group in 2009 while females accounted for 52 percent of the 45 and older age groups.
New Delhi, Sep. 2 (ANI): Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, said on Wednesday that India is looking forward to a fair and equitable agreement at Copenhagen meet on climate change.
“We are definitely looking forward to Copenhagen. We are looking forward to a fair and equitable agreement that recognizes common and differentiated responsibility principle. An agreement that doesn’t allows perfect to be the enemy of good. An agreement that is flexible enough to have an agreement in areas of where there is relatively less discord,” Ramesh said, addressing delegates at a carbon conclave here.
Ramesh said that India’s efforts against climate change are not confined to adaptation to alternative energies.
“National action plan on climate change is actually a mix of adaptation and mitigation. Two missions are specifically oriented towards the mitigation and a large number of activity whether it is energy efficiency mission, whether it is solar mission, whether it is a mission on sustainable habitat,” Ramesh said.
According to the World Resources Institute, India’s total GHG emissions stood at 1,853 million metric tons equivalent of carbon dioxide, about 4.9 percent of global emissions in 2005.
A new government report says that the country contributes around five percent to global carbon dioxide emissions and is still only about a quarter of the emissions of China and the United States.
India’s per capita emissions are estimated at only one-twentieth of the United States and about one-tenth of Western Europe and Japan.
International summit on climate change is scheduled at Copenhagen in December where international community concerned about impacts of degrading climate is scheduled to meet. (ANI)
London, July 2 (ANI): As many as 8,000 cases of forced marriage were reported in England last year, according to a Government report.
According to The Telegraph, the study published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families claims that the overwhelming majority of victims are teenage girls from Pakistan or Bangladesh.
They are often coerced into getting married to preserve “family honour” rather than allow them to form relationships with boys from other cultures or religions, it is claimed, or to help others move to Britain.
The report says some of the young brides are forced to marry abroad after being taken on a supposed holiday then having their passports confiscated, while others are drugged or subjected to violence or threats if they protest.
Many forced marriages remain hidden because those involved are taken out of school, fear reporting relatives to the authorities or cannot obtain help overseas.
Some community groups in the UK also deny that the problem exists or claim that opposition to forced marriage is a form of racism, the new study says.
However the report calculates that, in 2008, between 5,275 and 7,750 cases were reported to the authorities in England.
The Foreign Office’s dedicated unit dealt with 420 cases last year – almost treble the 152 in 2005 – and has now issued guidance to health workers and teachers on how to spot potential victims. (ANI)
Warsaw – Joining the European Union boosted Poland’s economy and sped up development, said a government report Friday as Poland neared five years of membership.
The Polish economy reaped the most benefits from joining the union, according to the report from the Office of the Committee for European Integration, which measures how well Poland meets EU commitments.
Average Poles have also grown more pro-EU and say it’s now easier to work and travel abroad, according to the Polish Press Agency PAP. Poles list benefits like an improved job market, a better farming industry and their country’s growing role in international affairs.
Sectors like health, culture and education have also improved because of EU funds, the report said.
The report also claims Poland has a chance to avoid recession thanks to EU membership and is considered one of the most competitive markets in the EU, reported PAP. (dpa)
London, May 01 (ANI): Plans to introduce computers in England’s primary school curriculum will ruin kids’ handwriting skills, experts have warned.
As per a government report by former chief schools inspector Sir Jim Rose, computers should be used in every lesson.
His review of the primary school curriculum said that Information and Communication Technology should be a ‘core skill’ alongside literacy and maths.
The reform proposals mean students could use Internet search engines during lessons.
And foreign language teachers might use video conferencing to link up with classes in other countries.
As per the plans, teachers would get extra training to stay one step ahead of ‘computer savvy’ pupils.
Rose said good computer skills are essential for people to play a full part in society in a digital world.
The review also proposed dramatically cutting the number of compulsory subjects, arranging them into six broad ‘areas of learning’ instead.
Rose suggested this would provide more flexibility and enable kids to apply their knowledge more widely.
However, critics suggest that introducing computers would ruin kids’ basic skills.
“When children’s basic standards of reading, writing and arithmetic are so low, it seems ridiculous for them to be spending more time on computers,” the Daily Express quoted Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, which lobbies for higher standards, as saying.
“Even to Google something you need to know the basics and what to look for,” Seaton added. (ANI)
WELLINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – New Zealand will better its target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol because of drought and reassessment of its forests, a government report said on Wednesday.
The country was now expected to produce around 9.6 million tonnes less of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than allowed in the protocol’s first commitment period of 2008-2012.
Under the Protocol, the U.N.’s main weapon in the fight against climate change, New Zealand is meant to show no increase from 1990 levels between 2008-2012.
That compared with an estimate last year that New Zealand would have a greenhouse gas deficit of around 21.7 million tonnes.
“It is good news that we may exceed our Kyoto target but we need to be cautious of these projections given their volatility,” Climate Change Minister Nick Smith said in a statement.
The surplus would be worth NZ$241 million ($140 million) against last year’s liability of NZ$546 million. The costs were based on a price of NZ$25.31 a tonne of carbon set by the Treasury.
The data is a net estimate of how
Kuala Lumpur, April 12 (IANS) Unhappy over being given the same portfolios again in the government under Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) may withdraw from the ministry, media reports suggested.
The party, which represents the two million-plus Indian diaspora, has officially denied any plan to withdraw, but has acknowledged discontent among the grass root workers.
S. Subramaniam, who retained the human resource portfolio, has called media reports on the issue as ‘wrong and mischievous’.
But party officials, who were not be named, told The Star that a proposal to withdraw had been prepared and would come up for discussion at the highest level next Thursday.
Besides Subramaniam, the party also has two deputy ministers – M. Saravanan (federal territories ministry) and S.K. Devamany (prime minister’s department).
Party officials, not wishing to speak on record, claim his portfolio is considered ‘junior’ in political terms.
Past MIC nominees have headed the relatively more important transport and works ministries, they say.
Party officials said MIC had requested for works portfolio that was earlier held by its president S. Samy Vellu, but this was not accepted. Vellu lost the election held in March last year.
MIC is the third-biggest component of the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) and has shared power since independence in 1957.
‘Even if we do withdraw our representatives, MIC will remain in Barisan but would concentrate on uniting the Indian community,’ an official said.
Subramaniam, however, said: ‘If there are differences within Barisan, it will be discussed behind closed doors and resolved amicably.’
MIC information chief M. Saravanan said that while there was a general feeling that the party lacked strong representation in the cabinet, there was no way that the party would resort to such drastic action.
He said that increasing the quota for ministerial posts or reshuffling the cabinet posts was the prerogative of the prime minister and that no one but the party president Vellu could discuss the issue with the prime minister, New Straits Times reported.
Riga – A landmark bridge project in the Latvia’s capital Riga wasted billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money, according to an official government report Wednesday.
The 800-metre-long Dienvidu Tilts or “Southern Bridge” was the biggest construction project in the Baltic states for 25 years and opened in November 2008 -but has been beset by controversy and rumours about its true cost.
Now an official audit conducted by state auditor Inguna Sudraba says at least 27 million lats (50 million dollars) of public money was wasted on shoddy tendering processes and poor contracting procedures.
Even that sum pales into insignificance compared to ballooning construction costs which rose from an initial estimate of 108 million lats to 570 million lats.
“People did not follow good management rules and were not interested in using taxpayers’ money as efficiently as possible,” Sudraba told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
“Over several years double payments were being made for the same things,” she said. “This could be incompetence if it was just one case, but these payments were being made every month,” she added.
The report paints a damning picture of Riga city council’s procurement procedure.
“Before taking its decision to commence construction on the bridge, the municipality had not finalised either the project, its deadlines or its result,” the audit office said.
The audit also says EU money was used inappropriately.
“It (Riga city council) had not undertaken appropriate and sufficient research on the project’s requirements and their impact on traffic problems in Riga, and failed to develop a project feasibility study to qualify for the European Union’s Structural Fund co- financing,” the report says.
Agreements including one with Germany’s Deutsche Bank on a 567 million lat loan were concluded in violation of standard book-keeping procedures, Sudraba told dpa.
Contracts involved convoluted currency exchange deals to make it seem that less money was being borrowed for the bridge than was really the case.
“It’s not sound practice,” Sudraba said.
The information has now been passed to Latvia’s state prosecutor who will decide if criminal charges can be brought.
The newly-formed government of Valdis Dombrovskis now finds itself having to slash amounts roughly equivalent to the bridge’s construction cost from the state budget, in order to qualify for a 7.5-billion-euro (9.5-billion-dollar) assistance package brokered by the International Monetary Fund.
In a television interview on Wednesday morning Dombrovskis expressed little surprise at the damning nature of the bridge audit, describing the bridge itself as being of “very average quality” considering that it became one of Europe’s costliest civil engineering projects. (dpa)
Lahore, Mar.12 (ANI): Over a week after the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket players, the Punjab government has admitted that it has failed to nab any of the culprits who had carried out the attack.
According to an official report of the provincial government, not a single perpetrator of the terror attack has been put behind the bar yet.
The report viewed the attackers as members of a highly-trained group, and feared that they could initiate more such attacks in near future.
According to The Daily Times, the government has expressed apprehensions that foreign embassies and nationals, especially Chinese nationals working in Pakistan could be targeted next.
The government report is in complete contrast with the statement of Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik, who a day after the attack had claimed that few persons were taken into custody and told media persons that intelligence agencies had gathered sufficient information about the terrorists involved.
“A major breakthrough would be achieved in the next few days,” Malik had said. (ANI)
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