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PAKISTAN
Suicide attack kills 35 in garrison city
A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and injured dozens near a government bank in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday, as the Pakistani army pressed an offensive against Taliban militants in a lawless tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
The bomber rode a motorbike close to a line of people waiting to cash their paychecks and set off a huge blast, police and witnesses said.
The bank is close to the Pakistani army's headquarters, and many of those waiting in line were reported to be military personnel. At least four soldiers were killed and nine wounded in the attack, the military said.
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, met with Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, at his Rawalpindi headquarters Monday, but U.S. officials declined to say whether McChrystal was there at the time of the blast.
-- Shaiq Hussain
ISRAEL
Arab envoys seek war crimes inquiries
Arab diplomats agreed Monday to ask the U.N. General Assembly to set a three-month deadline for Israel and Hamas to investigate allegations of war crimes during Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Envoys of 22 Arab nations completed a draft resolution they will present to the General Assembly on Wednesday. It would endorse a U.N.-backed panel's findings that Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during the December-January conflict and ask both sides to conduct investigations. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon would be asked to "transmit" the report to the Security Council.
The Security Council would consider "further action" at the end of the three months in the event the sides didn't follow through, according to the draft. The panel, headed by former U.N. war crimes prosecutor and South African judge Richard Goldstone, recommended referral to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for possible prosecution of war crimes.
