Pakistan has indicated it may extradite Mullah Baradar and other top Afghan militant commanders to Afghanistan as part of its efforts to help President Hamid Karzai reach a negotiated settlement with the Taliban, according to a media report on Wednesday. “We are working with Afghanistan’s government to come up with a mutually acceptable arrangement for Mullah Baradar’s extradition,” a security official was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
Afghanistan recently made a renewed call for the extradition of Baradar and other Taliban commanders detained in Pakistan. Pakistan cold-shouldered such extradition requests from Kabul in the past.
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Pak-origin lawyer pleads guilty to graft
London, June 30: A top Pakistani-origin barrister in UK has admitted accepting a share in £20,000 bribe to drop a case against a man accused of a serious assault.
Sarfraz Ibrahim, 51, who worked for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in South Wales for 19 years, was caught when he told the accused disguised as an undercover agent that he could manoeuvre an assault charge the man was facing.
Ibrahim did not know that the accused was an undercover officer working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Swansea Crown court heard that an investigation began after a tip off that Ibrahim, a father of three, had agreed to stop an assault case for cash.
—PTI
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South Korean actor-singer kills himself
Seoul, June 30: A popular South Korean actor and singer was found dead on Wednesday, in an apparent suicide that would be the latest in a recent string of high-profile suicides in the Asian country, the police and a news report said.
Park Yong-ha, 33, apparently hanged himself in his home in Seoul, Yonhap news agency reported, citing police. An official with Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency told the Associated Press that Park was found hanging by the electric cord of his mobile phone battery charger.
However, the police was still trying to determine the exact cause of death, the official said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy. —AP
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90-yr-old man held for raping 4 Thai sisters
Bangkok, June 30: A 90-year-old Australian was arrested and charged with raping four young sisters whom he allegedly lured to his home in Thailand with imported chocolates and English lessons, the police said on Wednesday. One girl was 5 when the alleged abuse began. The sisters are now 7 to 15, the police said.
Karl Joseph Kraus was arrested on Tuesday at his home near the northern city of Chiang Mai, where the police confiscated about 100 photographs of naked children, said Doi Saket police chief Kritapol Yeesakorn. Some photos showed Kraus posing naked with other children, and the police is trying to identify them and contact their families. —AP