No one has claimed responsibility of the attack

ISLAMABAD, June 8 -- Ten police recruits were Sunday shot dead by snipers in the southwest Pakistani city of Quetta, capital of Balochistan, local police officer Raja Ishtiaq said.Two gunmen riding motorcycles sprayed a group of police trainees with machine-gun fire. The eleventh victim later died of his injuries in a hospital. Nine others were wounded. Raja Ishtiaq said that two gunmen, carrying Klashnikov, opened indiscriminate firing on a police van at 4 p.m.The assailants fled after the shooting. No one has claimed responsibility of the attack.

Also, Senior Superintendent Police Quetta Rehmatullah Niazi told reporters that 25 police recruits were coming to attend training school after spending holiday. All those killed belong toQuetta. Niazi said that all the entry and exit routs have been closed and extra police force has been deployed at various places in the city. Some of the injured police trainees are in critical condition.

British intelligence deny report on resignation over Iraq dossier

LONDON, June 8-- British Intelligence Services on Sunday denied a report by the Sunday Express newspaper that chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the director-general of the Security Service (MI5) have threatened to resign over the intelligence content of the British government publications aboutIraq's banned weapons.

"Both the government and both Intelligence Services wish tomake it crystal clear that there is no truth in this allegation whatsoever," a statement on the website of the Foreign Office said Sunday.

The statement came amid reports that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's closest adviser has promised the secret services totake much more care in presenting intelligence material to thepublic after a row over the so called "dodgy dossier" that was published in January.

The document, entitled "Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment,Deception and Intimidation," came under widespread cynicism afterit was revealed that parts were lifted via the Internet from athesis by an American student.

The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported Sunday that AlastairCampbell, Blair's director of strategy and communications, haswritten a letter apologizing to MI6 head Richard Dearlove ford is crediting the service with the release to journalists of thedossier, which had failed to make clear the source of some of theinformation that was used to back the case for war on Iraq.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, senior intelligence officers were furious that randomly assembled material had been combinedwith intelligence reports by the coalition information center, aspecial unit set up by Campbell inside the Foreign Office.

However, the Downing Street has denied that Campbell had apologized for embarrassing the security service by doctoring thedossier, stressing that Campbell was on "excellent terms with thehead of the Secret Intelligence Service." The British government has been under pressure in recent weeks as no weapons of mass destruction, which Britain and the United States said justified war against Iraq, has been found in thecountry.

Iran accuses US of making effort to block Iran's economicdevelopment

TEHRAN, June 8 -- Iran's Supreme Leader AyatollahKhamenei has accused the United States of making every effort toblock Iran's economic development and progress, the official IRNAnews agency reported on Sunday.In reaction to US accusation that Iran is trying to developnuclear weapons, Khamenei said Iran has never violated theinternational commitments and said its nuclear facilities are togenerate electricity for modernizing social life.

He made clear that Iran "will never back down on the Islamiccriteria and ethical requirements."In a meeting with university students and teachers, Khameneisaid Iran insists on its own distinct rights in the internationalcommunity and proceeds with its scientific progress.

"The United States has designs for every class of Iraniansociety especially for the academics who have made great strides inthe field of science and technology. By making accusation againstIran, the US wants to play down the social progress the Iraniannation has achieved in the past 24 years," the supreme leader said.

Referring to US threats to attack Iran, Khamenei said suchthreats are nothing new. "The US has embarked on systematic threatsagainst Iran from the morrow of victory of the Islamic revolution.""The Iranian nation will defend its dignity and achievements,"Khamenei said.He said the US threats are rooted in animosity emanating fromthe overthrow of the US-backed puppet regime in Iran and putting anend to the two-century record of colonialism in the country by theIslamic Revolution in 1979.

Gene tests reveal remains in Iraq belong to Kuwaiti POW: minister

KUWAIT CITY, June 8-- DNA tests revealed that samples taken from a corpse remains found in a mass grave in Iraq belonged to a Kuwaiti Prisoner of War (POW), Kuwaiti State Minister of Cabinet and National Assembly Affairs Mohammed Dhaifallah Sharar announced Sunday.

Following the weekly cabinet meeting, the minister told reporters that Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, who is the head of the working team assigned to look for Kuwaiti POWs in Iraq, briefed the cabinet on the efforts made for tracing the Kuwaiti remains in Al-Samawa mass grave. Sharar also said that the tests and analyses carried out by the interior ministry proved that the remains belonged to a Kuwaiti citizen, identified as Saad Mishal Aswad Al-Anzei, who had been kidnapped by Iraqis on Nov. 1, 1990.

"Al-Anzei was shot dead between 1991 and 1992," the minister said, expressing the cabinet's deepest condolences to the dead's families. He added that the cabinet urged the team to exert more efforts and boost coordination with different parties to uncover the destiny of all POWs.

He also called on the Iraqi people and US-British coalition forces to help Kuwait solve the humanitarian issue. Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and the Iraqi troops were driven outof the Gulf state by a US-led alliance after seven-month occupation.

Kuwait says 605 people disappeared during the occupation and believes many were held in Iraqi jails. Since the US-led Iraqi war, which broke out in March this year and toppled the former Iraqi government, Kuwait has exerted great efforts to trace the POWs. The government-appointed team has been in Iraq for several weeks, trying to track down any information on the prisoners.