ISLAMABAD: Sources close to President Asif Zardari have denied media reports about him resigning on account of ill health and said he is expected to return after routine medical checkup, Geo News reported Wednesday.The sources term magazine news baseless and fabricated.US magazine claimed that President Zardari is under extreme pressure over the Memogate scandal and has been hospitalised in Dubai for medical checkups, complaining of heartache.Citing former US official, American magazine Foreign Policy reported US government was informed that Zardari had a minor heart attack on Monday night and flew to Dubai via air ambulance on Tuesday.According to the US magazine, Zardari may have angioplasty on Wednesday and may also resign on account of ill health Wednesday, December 7, 2011
President is not resigning: close aides
ISLAMABAD: Sources close to President Asif Zardari have denied media reports about him resigning on account of ill health and said he is expected to return after routine medical checkup, Geo News reported Wednesday.The sources term magazine news baseless and fabricated.US magazine claimed that President Zardari is under extreme pressure over the Memogate scandal and has been hospitalised in Dubai for medical checkups, complaining of heartache.Citing former US official, American magazine Foreign Policy reported US government was informed that Zardari had a minor heart attack on Monday night and flew to Dubai via air ambulance on Tuesday.According to the US magazine, Zardari may have angioplasty on Wednesday and may also resign on account of ill health 
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China bullet train derails, 32 killed
SHANGHAI — A Chinese bullet train lost power after being struck by lightning and was hit from behind by another train, knocking two of its carriages off a bridge, killing at least 32 people and injuring 89, state media reported.
The official Xinhua News Agency said four cars on the second train also derailed, but it did not say how serious that was.
The first train was traveling from the Zhejiang provincial capital of Hangzhou when the accident occurred in Wenzhou city at about 8:30 p.m. (1230 GMT), Xinhua said.
It said one carriage from the first train fell about 65 to 100 feet. Pictures on the Internet showed one badly damaged car lying on its side by the bridge and the second car leaning against the bridge after landing on its end.
Xinhua quoted an unidentified witness as saying "rescuers have dragged many passengers out of the coach that fell on the ground."
The trains involved are "D" trains, the first generation bullet train with an average speed of about 95 miles per hour and not as fast as the new Beijing-Shanghai line.
Xinhua said the train hit by lightning was "D3115." It said the Ministry of Railways confirmed that it was hit from behind by train "D301."
.China's rail network
China has spent billions of dollars and plans more massive spending to link the country with a high-speed rail network. Recently, power outages and other malfunctions have plagued the showcase high-speed line between Beijing and Shanghai since it opened on June 30.
Official plans call for China's bullet train network to expand to 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) of track this year and 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) by 2020.
The huge spending connected with the rail expansion also has been blamed for corruption, and Railways Minister Liu Zhijun was dismissed this spring amid an investigation into unspecified corruption allegations.
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Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has been arrested at Indian
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was detained at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here Sunday on his arrival from Pakistan for allegedly carrying a huge amount of undeclared foreign currency, said to be $100,000, official sources said.”Khan arrived at IGI airport on a flight from Karachi and was intercepted by personnel from Directorate of Revenue Intelligence acting on some prior information,” the sources said.
The singer was carrying a huge amount of foreign currency which he did not declare to the immigration authorities. Two other people accompanying him have also been detained,” the sources added.
Khan is being questioned by the custom officials at the airport itself and the amount of the money is being ascertained, they said.
Famous as a hit playback singer in Bollywood, the 37-year-old nephew of Pakistani singing legend Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, was earlier too involved in a controversy when organisers of a concert in Gurgaon filed a police complaint against him in July last year for his failure to turn up for a show.
Khan has several hit numbers to his credit and had won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer this year for ‘Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji’ from the movie “Ishqiya”.
The singer was carrying a huge amount of foreign currency which he did not declare to the immigration authorities. Two other people accompanying him have also been detained,” the sources added.
Khan is being questioned by the custom officials at the airport itself and the amount of the money is being ascertained, they said.
Famous as a hit playback singer in Bollywood, the 37-year-old nephew of Pakistani singing legend Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, was earlier too involved in a controversy when organisers of a concert in Gurgaon filed a police complaint against him in July last year for his failure to turn up for a show.
Khan has several hit numbers to his credit and had won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer this year for ‘Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji’ from the movie “Ishqiya”.
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