Taiwan's China-friendly ruling party has come out ahead in key local elections.President Ma Ying-jeou's Nationalist Party claimed victory Saturday in three out of five mayoral elections, winning in the major cities of Taipei, Xinbei and Taichung.The opposition Democratic Progressive Party held onto mayoral seats in the southern cities of Kaohsiung and Tainan.
Election observers have said
ugg sale the results could help determine the outcome of the island's presidential election in 2012.President Ma's Nationalist Party has been pushing for closer ties and more cooperation with mainland China.
Taiwan and China split nearly 60 years ago, but Beijing claims sovereignty over the island.The campaign was marred by violence Friday, when the son of a former Taiwanese vice president was shot in the face during a campaign rally.Hospital officials have reported that
discount ugg boots he underwent surgery and his life is not in danger. Another man was shot dead in the same incident.Police said the gunman was arrested at the scene. They said the suspect claimed he was targeting a local city councilman.
Pakistan is offering a reward of about $120,000 for information about
Taliban militants linked to attacks or planned attacks in the country.
Interior
Minister Rehman Malik announced the reward Saturday saying the
government would be willing to resettle informants and their families in
Pakistan or possibly abroad if they feared retaliation.
The
Associated Press of Pakistan
quotes Malik as saying the government has "broken the back" of the
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Taliban which he said is "breathing" its last breath. He said the
militant group is "desperate" as it carries out "terrorist activities"
in mosques, shrines and other public places.
He commented a day
after Pakistani authorities announced the arrests of two suspected
suicide bombers accused of planning
discount ugg boots to attack a mosque and government
buildings in Islamabad. A senior police official said both men were
linked to the Pakistani Taliban.