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Parliament recalled as riots spread in UK
LONDON (Agencies) - Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament Tuesday and ordered thousands of extra police onto the streets after Britain’s worst rioting spread to other English cities including Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool.
As the disorder claimed its first fatality with the death of a man found shot during looting in south London, Cameron vowed to do “everything necessary to restore order to the streets” after three nights of violence.
The prime minister cut short his holiday in Italy to return to Britain for an emergency meeting on the riots, which he condemned as “sickening scenes”.
Police have begun releasing CCTV pictures of the looters, many of them in their teens. Some 525 people have been arrested in London in the last three days, Scotland Yard said.
Cameron warned: “You will feel the full force of the law. And if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishments.”
He said that all police leaves had been cancelled and there would be 16,000 officers on the streets of London on Tuesday night, compared to the 6,000 deployed on Monday evening.
Riots swept through London and in other English cities including Birmingham and Liverpool overnight Monday, the third consecutive night of violence which began in the north London district of Tottenham on Saturday following the shooting of local man by police.
The family of the dead man, Mark Duggan, condemned the violence Tuesday, saying in a statement that they were “deeply distressed” by the unrest, which they insisted “has nothing to do with finding out what has happened to Mark”.
Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh said the rampage by hundreds of hooded youths overnight was “unprecedented” and said police resources were stretched “to an extent I have never seen before”.
He said that plastic bullets - used during sectarian unrest in Northern Ireland but never before in mainland Britain - have been considered as “one of the tactics” to stem the tide of unrest.
The violence has raised questions about security ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games, and it prompted the Football Association to cancel Wednesday’s friendly between England and the Netherlands at Wembley Stadium.
In some areas on Monday, rioters took control of the streets with little sign of a police presence. In Clapham, a mainly affluent area of southwest London, hundreds looted a department store for at least two hours, witnesses said.
Newspapers declared “mob rule”, and one police officer, Paul Deller, admitted on Tuesday: “We simply ran out of units to send.”
Police have also urged parents to keep their children at home.
They said too many people had been arrested to hold in the city’s police station jails, including three for attempted murder after a police officer was hit by a car in Brent, northwest London.
Police said Tuesday they had arrested 138 people in Birmingham.
At least 30 shops and other premises were attacked in Birmingham, Britain’s second biggest city with around one million residents, overnight Monday.
Up to 800 masked rioters smashed and looted shops in the city’s main shopping centre and a police station was also set on fire in an inner city area, West Midlands police said.
About 400 police in riot gear were deployed to deal with the disturbances, with more officers supporting them.
At least 44 police officers were injured overnight Monday, in addition to at least 35 who were hurt on the previous two evenings, police said.
Despite the scenes of devastation, Acting Police Commissioner Tim Godwin said there were “no plans” for the army to get involved.
The speaker of the House of Commons has agreed to recall parliament on Thursday so lawmakers could debate their response to the riots, Cameron said — a highly unusual move highlighting the seriousness of the crisis.
The violence began on Saturday in the ethnically-mixed north London district of Tottenham, following a protest against Duggan’s shooting two days earlier.
An inquest into the 29-year-old’s death opened on Tuesday, and heard that he died of a single gunshot wound to the chest after the taxi he was travelling in was stopped by police investigating gun crime in the black community.
Copycat riots broke out in other flashpoint areas on Sunday, and by Monday night they had spread across the city, from the wealthy districts of Notting Hill and Clapham, to inner-city Peckham and Hackney, and suburban Croydon and Ealing.
Cameron visited some of the worst destruction in Croydon in south London, where an entire block of buildings - including a 100-year-old family furniture business - was burned down, sending flames leaping into the night sky.
A 26-year-old man was found with gunshot wounds in a car nearby, and police said Tuesday he had died, becoming the first fatality of the riots. A murder investigation has been launched.
Meanwhile, rRiots flared in English cities and towns Tuesday night as youths set fire to a retail store, smashed other shop fronts and fought police in the centre of Manchester, northwest England, police said, and rioting that has gripped London in recent days continued to spread across the country.
“I can confirm a shop is on fire and 200 youths that gathered in the city centre have been chased by riot police and dispersed. Seven arrests have been made so far,” a spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said.
The spokesman also said a building in near-by Salford, Greater Manchester, had also been set on fire by groups of youths. BBC television pictures showed riot police standing close to an overturned burning car in Salford.
In Salford, part of greater Manchester in northwest England, rioters threw bricks at police and set fire to buildings. A BBC cameraman was assaulted.
Television pictures showed flames leaping from shops and cars in Salford and Manchester, and plumes of thick black smoke billowing across roads.
Further south in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton, cars were burned and stores raided.
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As the disorder claimed its first fatality with the death of a man found shot during looting in south London, Cameron vowed to do “everything necessary to restore order to the streets” after three nights of violence.
The prime minister cut short his holiday in Italy to return to Britain for an emergency meeting on the riots, which he condemned as “sickening scenes”.
Police have begun releasing CCTV pictures of the looters, many of them in their teens. Some 525 people have been arrested in London in the last three days, Scotland Yard said.
Cameron warned: “You will feel the full force of the law. And if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishments.”
He said that all police leaves had been cancelled and there would be 16,000 officers on the streets of London on Tuesday night, compared to the 6,000 deployed on Monday evening.
Riots swept through London and in other English cities including Birmingham and Liverpool overnight Monday, the third consecutive night of violence which began in the north London district of Tottenham on Saturday following the shooting of local man by police.
The family of the dead man, Mark Duggan, condemned the violence Tuesday, saying in a statement that they were “deeply distressed” by the unrest, which they insisted “has nothing to do with finding out what has happened to Mark”.
Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh said the rampage by hundreds of hooded youths overnight was “unprecedented” and said police resources were stretched “to an extent I have never seen before”.
He said that plastic bullets - used during sectarian unrest in Northern Ireland but never before in mainland Britain - have been considered as “one of the tactics” to stem the tide of unrest.
The violence has raised questions about security ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games, and it prompted the Football Association to cancel Wednesday’s friendly between England and the Netherlands at Wembley Stadium.
In some areas on Monday, rioters took control of the streets with little sign of a police presence. In Clapham, a mainly affluent area of southwest London, hundreds looted a department store for at least two hours, witnesses said.
Newspapers declared “mob rule”, and one police officer, Paul Deller, admitted on Tuesday: “We simply ran out of units to send.”
Police have also urged parents to keep their children at home.
They said too many people had been arrested to hold in the city’s police station jails, including three for attempted murder after a police officer was hit by a car in Brent, northwest London.
Police said Tuesday they had arrested 138 people in Birmingham.
At least 30 shops and other premises were attacked in Birmingham, Britain’s second biggest city with around one million residents, overnight Monday.
Up to 800 masked rioters smashed and looted shops in the city’s main shopping centre and a police station was also set on fire in an inner city area, West Midlands police said.
About 400 police in riot gear were deployed to deal with the disturbances, with more officers supporting them.
At least 44 police officers were injured overnight Monday, in addition to at least 35 who were hurt on the previous two evenings, police said.
Despite the scenes of devastation, Acting Police Commissioner Tim Godwin said there were “no plans” for the army to get involved.
The speaker of the House of Commons has agreed to recall parliament on Thursday so lawmakers could debate their response to the riots, Cameron said — a highly unusual move highlighting the seriousness of the crisis.
The violence began on Saturday in the ethnically-mixed north London district of Tottenham, following a protest against Duggan’s shooting two days earlier.
An inquest into the 29-year-old’s death opened on Tuesday, and heard that he died of a single gunshot wound to the chest after the taxi he was travelling in was stopped by police investigating gun crime in the black community.
Copycat riots broke out in other flashpoint areas on Sunday, and by Monday night they had spread across the city, from the wealthy districts of Notting Hill and Clapham, to inner-city Peckham and Hackney, and suburban Croydon and Ealing.
Cameron visited some of the worst destruction in Croydon in south London, where an entire block of buildings - including a 100-year-old family furniture business - was burned down, sending flames leaping into the night sky.
A 26-year-old man was found with gunshot wounds in a car nearby, and police said Tuesday he had died, becoming the first fatality of the riots. A murder investigation has been launched.
Meanwhile, rRiots flared in English cities and towns Tuesday night as youths set fire to a retail store, smashed other shop fronts and fought police in the centre of Manchester, northwest England, police said, and rioting that has gripped London in recent days continued to spread across the country.
“I can confirm a shop is on fire and 200 youths that gathered in the city centre have been chased by riot police and dispersed. Seven arrests have been made so far,” a spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said.
The spokesman also said a building in near-by Salford, Greater Manchester, had also been set on fire by groups of youths. BBC television pictures showed riot police standing close to an overturned burning car in Salford.
In Salford, part of greater Manchester in northwest England, rioters threw bricks at police and set fire to buildings. A BBC cameraman was assaulted.
Television pictures showed flames leaping from shops and cars in Salford and Manchester, and plumes of thick black smoke billowing across roads.
Further south in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton, cars were burned and stores raided.
Army concerned over Karachi
Islamabad – The military voiced concern for the first time on Monday over ethnic and political violence in the country’s financial capital that has killed 800 people so far this year.
The military spoke out after generals met during 141st Corps Commanders’ Conference with Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in the chair at Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
The participants of the conference were briefed in detail regarding ongoing law enforcement operations in Kurram and Mohmand agencies within the perspective of evolving security dynamic. The participants also discussed the security situation in the country in general and Karachi in particular.
“The forum expressed concern over the law and order situation in Karachi and its ramifications or implications on the national economy,” the military said in a statement.
Parts of the Arabian Sea port city have become battlegrounds with authorities struggling to stem the violence.
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) says 800 people, most of them poor, have died since January, including 300 last month alone. The HCRP says the violence in Karachi is the deadliest since 1995, when more than 900 killings were reported in the first half of the year.
The HRCP previously said 490 people were killed in the first six months of the year and on Friday that another 300 people died in July. Much of the violence has been blamed on tensions between supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP).
The government launched a peace drive and sent hundreds of extra security forces into the troubled neighbourhoods, and calm has held for a week. The military said recent government measures were expected to “help redress the situation”.
The violence has also affected economic activities in Karachi, the country’’s largest city. Several political parties, including the MQM and ANP, have urged the army to conduct operations in Karachi to end the violence.
Accusations and counter-accusations have continued between the leaders of the MQM and those of the ANP in particular and MQM and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in general. In the recent past, some MQM leaders held the rulers of the PPP in Sindh and at centre responsible for fuelling riots in Karachi. But on August 3, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani dispelled the impression that government wanted to create differences among various segments.
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The military spoke out after generals met during 141st Corps Commanders’ Conference with Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in the chair at Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
The participants of the conference were briefed in detail regarding ongoing law enforcement operations in Kurram and Mohmand agencies within the perspective of evolving security dynamic. The participants also discussed the security situation in the country in general and Karachi in particular.
“The forum expressed concern over the law and order situation in Karachi and its ramifications or implications on the national economy,” the military said in a statement.
Parts of the Arabian Sea port city have become battlegrounds with authorities struggling to stem the violence.
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) says 800 people, most of them poor, have died since January, including 300 last month alone. The HCRP says the violence in Karachi is the deadliest since 1995, when more than 900 killings were reported in the first half of the year.
The HRCP previously said 490 people were killed in the first six months of the year and on Friday that another 300 people died in July. Much of the violence has been blamed on tensions between supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP).
The government launched a peace drive and sent hundreds of extra security forces into the troubled neighbourhoods, and calm has held for a week. The military said recent government measures were expected to “help redress the situation”.
The violence has also affected economic activities in Karachi, the country’’s largest city. Several political parties, including the MQM and ANP, have urged the army to conduct operations in Karachi to end the violence.
Accusations and counter-accusations have continued between the leaders of the MQM and those of the ANP in particular and MQM and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in general. In the recent past, some MQM leaders held the rulers of the PPP in Sindh and at centre responsible for fuelling riots in Karachi. But on August 3, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani dispelled the impression that government wanted to create differences among various segments.
Katrina learns to strum the Guitar
It seems Katrina Kaif is turning into a proper rock chic. The pretty babe who is garnering rave reviews for the Rockstar look in her upcoming rom-com ‘Mere Brother Ki Dulhan’ is learning to strum the Guitar.
The actress is taking lessons from her YRF’s co-star Ali Zafar these days. He will be seen sharing the screen space with Katrina and Imran Khan in the film. Ali as we know is a Pakistani pop star, so Kat is learning to play the instrument from the musician himself.
Katrina during the music launch of the MBKD told the reporters about her new skill. She said, “It was great working with Ali. The nice thing is that Ali is also a musician and since I’m learning how to play the guitar and I’m very interested in it, I’m trying to learn from whoever I can.
“Farhan (Akhtar) taught me some stuff during ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ and Ali has also taught me some stuff during this film. He is a good teacher and we are trying to get into a form where we can play a live song together in one of the promotional events for this film very soon.”
Imran, who was also present at the event, revealed that Katrina is a quick learner.
“Katrina is very good with the guitar. I was quite amazed when I saw her playing,” said the actor.
Well, after trying her hands at editing for Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Don2’ and turning a designer with Yash Raj Banner’s forthcoming films, Katrina is happy adding another string to her bow.
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