Gaddafi's last minutes

Don't shoot! Dictator begs for his life after being dragged from a drain. Seconds later he was summarily executed

Pleading: Muammar Gaddafi pleaded with his captors for his life after he was found cowering in a storm drain

Paraded: Gaddafi struggled with his captors in video footage taken by rebel fighters after he was captured

Terrified: Gaddafi pleaded for his life after he was captured by rebel fighters

Fear: Becoming increasingly desperate, Gaddafi asked a rebel fighter 'What did I ever do to you'

Chaotic: Gaddafi was pushed around by rebel fighters, one of whom filmed the incident on a mobile telephone

Struggle: Video footage shows Gaddafi being hauled off a rebel fighter truck minutes after his capture

Manhandled: Rebel fighters pictured being taken off a truck shortly after he was detained

Arguing: Gaddafi pictured in chaotic video footage minutes before he was killed

Bundled: An ambulance carries Gaddafi's body from Sirte to Misrata

Transporting: An ambulance, containing happy rebel fighters, carries Gaddafi's body after he was executed

Brutal: There had been fierce fighting around the drain before Gaddafi was finally killed. The body of a fighter can be seen in the dust at the centre of the screen

Already a monument: As celebrations continued, more and more graffiti appeared at the entrance to the drain where the leader was eventually found

Battleground: Bodies of suspected Gaddafi loyalists lie outside the storm drains their leader was captured

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Shahzad Afzal
http://www.pakistanprobe.com/

France's banning of face veils (niqabs)

Hebah Ahmed and Mona Elthaway, both Muslim women, debate France's decision to ban face veils (niqabs) in public.

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Shahzad Afzal
http://shahzadafzal.blogspot.com/

Tsunami Hits Japan After 8.9 Deadly quake

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A 33ft tsunami kills at least 88 people across Japan's northeastern coast after the country's biggest earthquake on record.

The fifth largest earthquake on record slammed the nation Friday. Hundreds are confirmed dead.

Many hundreds of people are feared dead after a tsunami, caused by a huge 8.9-magnitude earthquake, strikes north-eastern Japan.

Debris swirls as a tsunami waves smashes into a road in Sendai, Japan, following a massive earthquake -- sweeping cars, trees and buildings along in its wake.

• Thousands feared dead after tsunami

• 8.9-magnitude quake triggers huge waves

• Evacuations near nuclear power plant

• Tsunami alert for 50 countries, territories

Hundreds are dead as a massive wall of water ravages cities and spawns apocalyptic scenes

TOKYO — A magnitude 8.9 earthquake — the biggest in modern Japanese history — slammed the island nation's eastern coast Friday afternoon, unleashing a 23-foot tsunami that swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland and prompting a "nuclear emergency."

Hours later, the tsunami reached Hawaii, with initial reports citing little damage. Warnings blanketed the Pacific, putting areas on alert as far away as South America, Canada, Alaska and the entire U.S. West Coast.


According to Japanese police, 200 to 300 bodies were found in Sendai, the coastal city closest to the epicenter. Another 137 people were confirmed killed, with 531 missing. At least 627 people were injured. 

Tokyo residents shook off the horror of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake only to watch on television as the first tsunami waves crashed into coastal areas hundreds of miles northeast of the city.

The temblor was the most powerful on record in earthquake-prone Japan, government officials said. In Tokyo, traffic, trains and power shut down and air traffic halted, created an eerie scene on the streets of one of the world's largest cities as people stood outside and wondered what to do.

It shook dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) stretch of coast, including Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the epicenter. A large section of Kesennuma, a town of 70,000 people in Miyagi, burned furiously into the night with no apparent hope of being extinguished, public broadcaster NHK said.

Koto Fujikawa, 28, was riding a monorail when the quake hit and had to later pick her way along narrow, elevated tracks to the nearest station.