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• U.N. chief concerned over Kashmir situation; calls for peace

  
  
  

  AP U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon, during a press conference in Kabul. File photo

  Ban ki-Moon underlines the need for patience, perseverance and compromise on all sides U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the unrest in Kashmir, which exploded last month claiming the lives of seventeen people. “In relation to recent developments in Indian-administered Kashmir, the Secretary-General is concerned over the prevailing security situation there over the past month,” Farhan Haq, Mr. Ban’s spokesperson, said in a statement.

  
  
• ISLAMABAD: Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of at least 20 people from the wreckage of an Air Blue passenger plane which crashed in the Margalla Hills in Islamabad on Wednesday, an official said. 
  
  “So far, rescue people have recovered at least 20 dead bodies,” Ramzan Sajid, a spokesman for Islamabad's Capital Development Authority (CDA), said. 
  
  At least 157 people were on board the ABQ-202, a civil aviation official said. The 157 included 151 passengers and six crew members, the official said.