Lebanon arrests three for planning car bombing.

Lebanon arrests three for planning car bombing.

BEIRUT | 20 Aug 2013 :: A Lebanese and two Palestinians suspected of planning a massive car bombing have been arrested, just days after a deadly attack on Hezbollah's southern Beirut bastion, the General Security agency said.

The men were accused of "setting up a terrorist group and conducting activities that affect security on Lebanese territory," according to a statement late Monday.

"They were preparing to stage an attack using an Audi car containing 250 kg (550 pounds) of explosives."

The car was seized in the Naameh area of southern Beirut two days after a car bomb killed 27 people in a bastion of Shiite militant party Hezbollah, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

On Friday, the government said the army identified a network of people suspected of trying to carry out several car bomb attacks in southern Beirut.

The Thursday attack was the deadliest in Lebanon since a car bomb attack killed former prime minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others in February 2005.

It was claimed by a previously unknown cell, whose name has strong Sunni connotations, with a spokesman saying in a video distributed online that it was a response to Hezbollah's support for Assad.

Lebanon is deeply divided between backers of the Assad regime and supporters of Syria's rebels.(Courtesy:Al Arabia)

3 jawans, civilian injured in Pak firing.

3 jawans, civilian injured in Pak firing.

Mohammed Parvez, who was injured in Pakistani firing along
 the Kashmir border, receives treatment at the government
medical college hospital in Jammu on Thursday.

JAMMU | Pti | 15 Aug 2013 :: Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate firing amid rocket and mortar shell attacks on LoC posts injuring three Army jawans and a civilian in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

This is the 11th ceasefire violation in past five days, Army officials said on Thursday.

Pakistani troops opened fire along LoC on several Indian forward posts in Balakote belt of Poonch district from 0630 hours, the officials said.

They fired automatic weapons, rockets and mortar shells in which three jawans received minor injury. They have shifted to hospital.

A shell of 82-mm mortar fired by Pakistan troops fell in Sanjote forward area of Mendhar tehsil resulting in injury to Parvaiz, a civilian, who was shifted to GMC hospital in Jammu.

A rocket fired by Pakistani troops fell and exploded on a cowshed in Basonia village of Mendhar this afternoon resulting in death of a dozen cattle.

Defence Spokesman, Jammu, S.N. Acharya said in a official release that Pakistan Army started unprovoked firing at Indian forward posts in Mendhar sector from 06:30 am.

“Own troops retaliated immediately with heavy calibre weapons,” he said, adding that the firing was on till late in the afternoon.(Courtesy:The Hindu)