Karachi, Aug 29: Taking a note of a large number of Hindus migrating to other places in the Sindh province due to an increase in the number of kidnappings for ransom, robberies and other threats, the Pakistan Government has reportedly asked the Sindh provincial government to submit a report on the displacement of Hindus and other minorities.

The federal Interior Ministry has also directed the Sindh government to take action against the worsening law and order situation, the reason for the migration of the minorities, particularly from Kashmore and Jacobabad, reported the Daily Times.

New Delhi, Aug. 28 : Links between Central Asia and South Asia stand a chance of improving only if the historical linkages of the past are given their due importance and applied in the modern context, a strategic affairs expert has said.

Beijing - An explosion at a chemical plant has left 16 people dead and six missing in south-western China's Guangxi region, the State Administration of Work Safety said on Wednesday.

A series of explosions and a fire also injured 57 workers at the Guangwei Chemical Company on Tuesday, state media said.

The fire spread over 10,000 square metres and forced the evacuation of 11,500 local residents in Guangxi's Yizhou city, the official Xinhua news agency said.

New Delhi, Aug 26: A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit Zhongba County, Xigaze prefecture in Tibet on Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

There were no reports of casualties, it said. The quake occurred at 9:22 p. m. The epicenter was about 10 km underground at 31 degrees north and 83.6 degrees east. According to a Zhongba county government worker, the quake was strongly felt in some townships and cracks had appeared in some buildings. There were no reports of casualties.

Special personnel have already been sent to carry out relief work and assess the situation after the quake.

The tremor was also felt in Gerze and Coqen counties, the regional earthquake bureau reported.

Jammu, Aug 26: Four Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were injured on Tuesday when Pakistan troops opened fire at the BSF posts along the border in Sabzian area of Poonch District this morning.

The wounded have been admitted to hospital and their condition is stated to be out of danger.

Under the cover of the indiscriminate firing which took place between 12.30 a. m. to 2:00 a. m. on intervening night of Monday-Tuesday a big group of militants managed to cut open the fence and three to four militants of them have sneaked into the Indian side. The Army has been alerted.

Jakarta - Indonesia issued a tsunami warning Tuesday after a powerful earthquake struck parts of the western tip of Java and southern Sumatra province of Lampung, seismologists said.

The quake, measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, struck under the Indian Ocean at about 10:07 am (0307 GMT), occurred at a depth of 20 kilometres, Indonesia's National Meterology and Geophysics Agency said in a short message.

The quake was located at about 125-kilometres north-west of Ujungkulon in the south-western tip of Java, about 630 kilometres south-west of Jakarta.