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US airport security man steals $80,000 from PIA passenger’s bag

NEW YORK—A baggage screener at New York’s Kennedy Airport stole $80,000 in cash from a checked suitcase belonging to a passenger bound for Pakistan, according to reports on Thursday  >>> >
 

NATO set to join relief operations

BRUSSELS—NATO has finalized plans to send up to 1,000 troops and other staff and a handful of helicopters to quake-hit Pakistan, after the UN’s top aid official lobbied them to do more to help. “We are finalizing arrangements on the basis of extending the airlift and doing more in Pakistan itself,” said NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, following talks with NATO ambassadors attended by UN aid chief Jan Egeland.
He declined to give details, but a NATO official said the extra >> >>


 

World quake aid pledges inadequate: President
Says re-building to cost $5b
DM Monitoring

MUZAFFARABAD—President Pervez Musharraf has lashed out at the world for pledging “inadequate” reconstruction aid after the massive South Asian quake, as the death toll climbed above 51,000. But a day after the United Nations also begged other countries to wake up and prevent a second wave of deaths, Turkey stepped in with the biggest donation so far as the magnitude of the disaster began finally to sink in. Two weeks after the disaster, thousands of survivors  >> >>

 

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