Police in Pakistan say a bomb targeting an election campaign rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least eight people. The bomb exploded as senior members of the Awami National Party which opposes the Taliban were arriving for a meeting. Attempts by the former president General Pervez Musharraf to stand in the poll have been dented by the rejection of his candidature by election tribunals. His lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri said Mr. Musharraf would appeal arguing that the decision was undemocratic.
巴基斯坦警方表示在东北部城市白沙瓦举行的竞选造势集会活动遭遇炸弹袭击,造成至少8人死亡。反对塔利班的人民民族党一名高级官员到达集会现场时,炸弹爆炸。巴基斯坦法院否决了前总统穆沙拉夫的参选资格。其律师表示穆沙拉夫认为该决定不民主,将进行上诉。
“They are trying to establish that dictatorship or democracy is a frame of mind. A man in uniform can be democrat and a man in the shirt while can be a dictator. And they’ve also had dictatorship judicially.
“他们试图根据心情来实施民主或专制。穿军装的人可以民主,穿衬衫的人也可以专制。他们的判决就很专制。”
Prosecutors in Italy have ordered the seizure of assets worth more than two billion dollars from the Japanese Bank Nomura. They have also opened a criminal investigation into two of the bank’s former senior executives. The measures are part of a probe into allegations that Nomura helped managers of the Italian bank BMPS hide huge losses. In the statement the, Japanese bank said it would vigorously contest any suggestions of wrongdoing.