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Girl left to die in blazing car after driver boyfriend told fire crews no one was inside By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 27th May 2009 Abandoned: Emily Brady, 17, died after her boyfriend left her in a burning car A man left his girlfriend to burn to death in a car after he crashed into a tree, a court heard yesterday. Waqas Arshad, 24, told emergency services there was nobody inside, despite knowing 17-year-old Emily Brady was trapped in the burning wreckage. It was only as firefighters tackled the blaze that they realised the teenager was in the car, still strapped...

Police have arrested a close aide of a senior Pakistani al-Qaida operative who used to run a terror training camp in Afghanistan and was recently captured in the United Arab Emirates, an official said Wednesday. The aide, identified only as Arshad, was arrested in a raid late Monday on a hideout in Sialkot, a city about 80 miles northwest of Lahore in eastern Pakistan, Sialkot police chief Nisar Saroya said. He said two of Arshad's associates escaped. Police seized 12 rockets, three rocket launchers, two AK-47 assault rifles, three pistols and ammunition. Arshad is believed to be a close aide...