Monday, 06 February 2012 11:50
At least nine people have been killed and dozens are feared trapped after a factory collapsed in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore, an emergency official has said.
Central/S. Asia

The president of the Maldives has resigned, after clashes in the capital, Male, between soldiers and police who sided with anti-government protesters.

At least nine people have been killed and dozens are feared trapped after a factory collapsed in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore, an emergency official has said.

At least nine people have been died after a car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters of a southern Afghanistan city, officials said.

An Indian judge has thrown out a petition to prosecute Palaniappan Chidambaram, the country's home minister, for signing off on part of a telecom scandal that may have cost the government as much as $36bn in lost revenue.

More than 3,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during 2011, the deadliest year on record for residents of the war-torn country, according to a UN report.

India's supreme court has revoked all 122 telecoms licences issued under a scandal-tainted 2008 sale, plunging the mobile network market of Asia's third-largest economy into uncertainty.

The US has announced plans to end its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2013 and shift to a training role, one year prior to when most US troops are expected to withdraw.

Pakistan's top court has summoned Yousuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister, to appear later this month for the framing of contempt charges over his refusal to pursue corruption cases against the country's president.

Pakistan has rejected as "frivolous" a leaked NATO report which claims that the country's security services are helping the Taliban, and suggesting that the group believes it is poised to regain power.

Fighting between government soldiers and Taliban fighters over a strategic mountaintop in northwestern Pakistan has killed more than 38 people, a government official says.

India has selected the French firm Dassault over the Eurofighter consortium as the preferred bidder for 126 fighter jets in a major contract estimated to be worth $12bn.
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