Gayari rescue

KARDU: Body of one soldier, trapped in Gayari sector of the Siachen glacier some 50 days back, has been recovered, 

According to sources, rescue operation is continuing to reach out to the 124 trapped soldiers and 11 civilians hit by an avalanche on April 07.

The body of the solider has been shifted to Gomal Army hospital.

The soldier has been identified as Shaheed Muhammad Hussain who hails from Skardu.

There are reports of recovering of another body but the military sources have not confirmed yet.

Clearance efforts are continuing round the clock since the avalanche hit the camp more than a month ago.

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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first trip outside the country in more than two decades when she visits Thailand next week to attend a regional conference, a spokesman for her party said Thursday.

Suu Kyi, a pro-democracy campaigner who endured years of house arrest under Myanmar's military rulers, will travel to the Thai capital of Bangkok on Monday where she will participate in the World Economic Forum on East Asia, said Nyan Win, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy.

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Russia tests secret missile

A new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) so secret it has no name yet has been successfully tested in Russia, the defence ministry says.

The new weapon is designed to penetrate Nato's European missile defence shield, Russian defence sources told the Interfax news agency.

The test came days after Nato said its system had reached "interim operational capability".

The missile carried a dummy warhead and was fired 6,000km (3,730 miles).

It was reportedly the second test of the missile, the first in September having failed.

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EU wants Greece

EU leaders want Greece to remain in the eurozone but to "respect its commitments", European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has said.

Mr Van Rompuy, speaking at an informal EU summit, said continuing "vital reforms" were essential for Greece to overcome its economic problems.

The eurozone crisis has overshadowed the talks, amid fears that Greece may have to exit the single currency.

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Bank online. Why not vote online?

WASHINGTON: Shop online. Bank online. Why not vote online?

Pressure is building to make Internet voting widely available in the United States and elsewhere, even though technical experts say casting ballots online is far from secure.

In the 2012 US elections, more than two dozen states will accept some form of electronic or faxed ballots, mostly from military or overseas voters, according to the Verified Voting Foundation.

But there is a growing expectation that online voting will expand further.

"The number one question I'm asked is when we will get to vote on the Internet," Matt Masterson, Ohio's deputy election administrator, told a Washington forum this month.

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Petrol price hike fuels

EW DELHI: Angry UPA partners did some tightrope walking on the Centre's sudden announcement of a monstrous petrol price hike, but key Congress's alliance partner, Trinamool Congress, pulled no punches, calling the hike a result of "mismanagement of the economy".

A somewhat muted DMK demanded an immediate roll-back. But Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, who on Tuesday shared the dais with the UPA leadership at the Prime Minister's dinner, sarcastically said that this was the government's gift to the people.

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Nawaz Sharif criticises

ATTOCK: Former prime minister and president PML-N Nawaz Sharif has said that the integrity of Pakistan was the prime responsibility of his party and they would not allow anti state elements to destroy it.

Addressing a public gathering at Lalazar stadium here on Wednesday, Sharif said he had a special attachment with Attock because military dictator Pervez Musharraf had castigated him in Attock fort and he spent a difficult time there. He said now he was among his people and the dictator who had imprisoned him had fled the country.

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Police foil

KARACHI: Police foiled an attempt to kidnap an accomplished Banker, the President and CEO of a private bank Husain Lawai from his house in KDA Scheme, Geo News reported.

According to police, kidnappers entered house with the help of one of Husain Lawai's security guard and detained him while he was leaving for mosque last night.

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US drone | kills four|in Pakistan's North Waziristan

A US drone strike has killed at least four suspected militants in the North Waziristan tribal area, security officials say, in an area known to be a stronghold of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

The attack is the third since March, when Pakistan's parliament called for the use of drones to cease.

Pakistan says the raids serve to drive local people closer to the militants.

Washington has cut the number of drone operations but has ruled out stopping them altogether.

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