New Pakistani PM orders detained judges freed Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:16am EDT
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - New Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani ordered on Monday the immediate release of all judges detained by President Pervez Musharraf after he imposed emergency rule in November.
"I order the immediate release of detained judges of the superior judiciary," Gilani told the National Assembly, shortly after it overwhelmingly voted for him to become prime minister.
Gilani, a top member of the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, also appealed to judges to resolve disputes through parliament, not through protests. (Editing by Robert Birsel)
Oil trucks attacked on Pakistan-Afghan border Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:56am GMT
JAMRUD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected militants in Pakistan have attacked oil tankers supplying fuel to foreign forces in Afghanistan, destroying 36 tankers and wounding up to 70 people, officials and residents said on Monday.
The attack took place on Sunday night in Torkham, the main crossing point on the Afghan-Pakistani border just west of the Khyber Pass, where about 100 oil tankers were parked in a field.
"We have reports of 60 to 70 injured but none in critical condition," said a senior official in Jamrud, the main town in the Khyber tribal region.
The militants set off two bombs that started a fire and many people who had gathered in the field were hurt when some of the tankers exploded, said the official, who declined to be identified.
"There were huge flames. People began running when the fire spread," said witness Waheed Afridi.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, the second on oil tankers bound for Afghanistan in two weeks, but the official blamed militants.
Foreign forces fighting the Taliban in land-locked Afghanistan get many of their supplies via Pakistan, where militants have been stepping up attacks on supply lines.
Pakistan has been battling militancy in its lawless tribal lands on the Afghan border since U.S.-backed forces toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
(Reporting by Ibrahim Shinwari; Writing by Kamran Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel and Jerry Norton)
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