PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2010 ID-26052
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Page No. 10, Vol: 1, Issue: 101 D.L No.79 Dated 19/05/2010 The Bengal Post Rs 2.50 The Bengal Post Kolkata Friday October 8, 2010 Page 10 .
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10 die in Karachi shrine attack .
Karachi: Two Taliban sui-cide bombers on Thursday struck venerated Sufi shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in this Pakistani port city, killing at least 10 people and wounding 60 others in the latest in a slew of attacks on sacred places. The blasts occurred this evening in quick succession at the entrance of the packed shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, considered to be patron saint of Karachi and is revered by millions of people. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, according to reports. PTI .
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France set to impose burqa ban .
Paris: Frances top legal authority on Thursday approved a law banning full-face veils in public, the last hurdle for the ban, which aims to protect womens rights but has been criticised as stigmatising Muslims. The Constitutional Council, which had previously warned that banning the veil may be unconstitu-tional, said it approved the version of the bill, which has been passed by both houses of parliament, after a final review. PTI .
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US deports nearly 4 lakh immigrants .
Washington: The US gov-ernment has deported a record number of undocu-mented immigrants around 400,000 this year, officials said. Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano and assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), John Morton, said 392,000 people have been deported by the ICE till September 30. PTI .
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6 Malay fishermen missing .
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian police say they are searching for six fishermen whose boat collided with a cargo ship and capsized. Marine Police official Zainul Abidin Hasan said rescuers pulled 11 other fishermen out of the water after receiv-ing an alert that their vessel had crashed into a ship off central Selangor state in the Malacca Strait. Zainul Abidin said the ship continued its journey following the acci-dent, which occurred before dawn on Thursday.PTI .
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Iran hangs eight drug traffickers .
Tehran: Iran has hanged eight drug traffickers in a prison in the southeastern city of Kerman, Fars news agency reported on Thursday. The agency, which published only the first names of the eight, did not say when the executions were carried out or if the condemned were all hanged at the same time. The latest hangings bring the number of executions in Iran to 125 this year. At least 270 people were hanged in 2009. PTI .
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Myanmar ferry toll rises to 19 .
Bangkok: Nineteen people died and three are missing after a boat carrying teach-ers and school children sank in Myanmar, an official said on Thursday, updating an earlier toll. The students were travelling to a football tournament when the over-loaded ferry sank on Wednesday on a river in the flood-prone Irrawaddy Delta region. The latest informa-tion is 19 people were killed and three others missing. About 79 people were on board when the boat sank, according to the official, who did not want to be named. PTI .
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Toxic sludge spill reaches Danube .
Budapest: Hungarys toxic sludge spill, which has killed four people, reached the Danube river on Thursday, threatening to contaminate the waterways ecosystem, a water authority official said. Water alkalinity, a measure of river contamination, was already above normal in the major waterway, the official said. PTI .
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drag the nation backward. Sheikh Hasina has asked her Dhaka: Bangladesh Premier .
The government in March archrival and Opposition .
this year constituted a leader Khaleda Zia not to .
three-member special court push the country into chaos .
alongside a special investi-by continuing to speak .
gation agency and prosecu-against the war crimes trial. .
tion panel to expose the sus-I urge the opposition leader .
pected war criminals to jus-not to throw the country .
tice 39 years after the inde-into chaos by opposing the .
pendence in line with ruling.
Sheikh Hasina Khaleda Zia .
trials of war criminals. Awami Leagues electoral The entire nation wants the opposed to the initiatives of war criminals were released pledges. trials, and the international her Awami League-led gov-after the Liberation War. Officially no list of sus-community is also extend-ernment which has prom-A crucial ally of the main pects is yet to be released ing support for the trials, ised to conduct the trial. opposition in the past BNP-with officials saying the Hasina told parliament late Hasinas comments came led government, fundamen-investigating agency would on Wednesday night. a day after Zia alleged that talist Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on finalise the list after a thor-.
She asked Zia of the governments initiative Wednesday issued a ough enquiry despite a gov-Bangladesh Nationalist in the name of war crimes statement saying since com-ernment instruction asking Party (BNP) to abandon her trial four decades after inde-ing to power nearly two immigration authorities not efforts to save the war pendence had pushed the years ago, the incumbent allow the high-profile criminals, saying only 12 nation towards a confronta-government was creating know war criminals leave per cent of the people were tion afresh while the real unnecessary debates to the country. PTI .
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German .
militants .
training on .
Dhaka lifts a nthrax alert Pak border .
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Thursday lifted a nation- asked to keep a sharp vigil on the bacterial dis- Islamabad: The video at .
wide anthrax red alert, a ease. first seems like many others .
month after it was issued The state-run Institute filmed in Pakistans tribal .
following the spread of of Epidemiology, Disease areas: The bearded militant .
the bacterial disease to Control and Research sits cross-legged on the floor, .
different districts. (IEDCR) and livestock an AK-47 propped against .
The red alert has been ministry said some 500 the wall behind him. .
lifted as anthrax is now people contracted the But as he applauds his three .
under control, a livestock disease as anthrax was companions decision to join .
ministry spokesman said. detected in 12districts, jihad, the words come out in .
Speaking to newsman inflicting at least 104 fluent German: Wir sind die .
livestock minister Abdul cows, of which 37 died . Soldaten Allahs, he says, .
Latif Biswas earlier on The anthrax inflicted We are the soldiers of .
Thursday said despite the people were exposed to a Allah. .
withdrawal, the con- critical state, an IEDCR Between 15 and 40 .
cerned officials were official said. PTI Germans and a smaller con- .
tingent of other Europeans .
are believed to be getting .
militant training in .
US tries to appease Pakistans lawless border .
region, intending to join the .
Talibans fight against Nato .
forces in neighbouring .
Islamabad, says Afghanistan or return to .
Europe and strike at the soft .
underbelly of those coun- .
sorry for air strikes tries. .
Their presence has .
attracted fresh scrutiny after .
a European terror warning .
Seema Sirohi bargain in the war besides based on information from a .
playing fast and loose with German-Afghan captured in .
Washington: The troubled objectives, methods and Afghanistan, and a CIA drone .
US-Pakistan alliance is a case promises. strike on Tuesday that .
of the tail wagging the dog. General Petraeus, under allegedly killed eight .
The United States govern- pressure to show progress, German militants in North .
ment on Wednesday offered has increased drone attacks Waziristan, an al-Qaida and .
multiple apologies to inside Pakistan while bear- Taliban hub that the .
Pakistan for an air strike last ing down on his Pakistani Pakistani army has so far left .
week that killed three counterparts to crack down largely alone. .
Pakistani soldiers resulting on terrorist groups. The German speaker in the .
in Islamabad closing down He has ordered as many as jihad video, Mounir Chouka, .
supply routes for Nato fuel a dozen commando raids a is one of two Bonn-born .
tankers. night across the border to brothers of Moroccan back- .
Terrorists found the lined hunt down terrorists. ground well known for .
up tankers an easy target to Tensions in the fragile appearances in videos made .
destroy as the Quetta police alliance are growing daily as by the Islamic Movement of .
stood by and watched the President Barack Obama Uzbekistan apparently .
flames. With the Torkham faces questions about out- aimed at recruiting more .
crossing in the Khyber Pass comes, progress and the militants from Germany. .
shut down by Pakistan in future of this war effort. A The clip appeared on a .
retaliation, Nato forces were White House report submit- militant website earlier this .
squeezed for supplies and ted to the US Congress ear- summer, a nearly 40-minute .
Washington had no choice lier this week laid out a bleak video telling new recruits of .
but to placate Pakistan, ana- assessment of Pakistans the legitimacy of jihad, or .
lysts said. military effort in combating holy war. .
The apologies came in terrorists. At every border crossing, .
quick succession from senior The report flatly said gen- at every airport and at every .
officials, including from gen- eral Kayanis forces were search, we pray to Allah ... to .
eral David Petraeus, the US avoiding taking on the mili- make these enemies blind, .
commander in charge of the tants. The Pakistani military he says. Allah answered. .
forces in Afghanistan, who continued to avoid military The proof? We are here. .
said he deeply regretted engagements that would put Germans are thought to be .
the loss of life. it in direct conflict with one of the largest European .
US ambassador to Pakistan Afghan Taliban or al-Qaida groups in Pakistans north- .
Anne Patterson praised forces in North Waziristan, west, though information is .
Pakistans brave security according to the report. scant. Most are believed to .
forces and admiral Mike President Asif Ali Zardari be immigrants from Muslim .
Mullen, the chairman of the was seen as out of touch nations or their descendants. .
joint chiefs of staff, called with the people and ineffec- The Germans killed on .
Pakistans army chief, gen- tive in dealing with the many Tuesday were hit by a drone .
eral Ashfaq Kayani, on tele- crises engulfing his country strike in Mir Ali, a town .
phone to offer another apol- from the devastating about 20 miles from the bor- .
ogy. floods to the economic der with Afghanistan. .
General Kayani might downturn. US officials are Reporters who have been to .
have won this tactical battle frustrated but mired in their Mir Ali found Internet cafes .
against the US but anger in own policy of cant live with in the basement of shops .
Washington is mounting Pakistan and cant live with- where militants from all over .
against Pakistan, which has out Pakistan because of the the world watch extremist .
failed to deliver its end of the reality of geography. videos or send e-mails. PTI .
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Former US President and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, listens to a man who was displaced by the earthquake, at Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday PTI .
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Fonseka loses parliamentary seat .
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Colombo: Sri Lankas for-.
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place. Fonseka is serving a respective constituency in mer army chief Sarath .
30-month jail term the event of the incum-Fonsekas brief stint as an .
imposed by a court martial bents demise or disqualifi-MP has come to a sudden .
after the ruling was cation. end in the wake of his 30-.
approved by President An ordinance in this month imprisonment for .
Mahinda Rajapaksa in his regard also clearly states corruption in defence .
capacity as the com-that if a member is jailed deals, amid reports that .
mander in chief of the he loses his seat immedi-the President may con-.
armed forces of Sri Lanka. ately, sources said. sider pardoning him if a .
He was sent to jail on Fonseka had contested plea is made personally by Thursday last for corrup-the April 8 general elec-.
Sarath Fonseka .
him or a family member. tion in defence deals dur-tions from the Colombo .
Sri Lankan old Fonseka, who leads the ing his tenure as the army district constituency. The Parliamentary secretary opposition Democratic chief. Daily Mirror newspaper, general Dhammika National Alliance (DNA), The Sri Lankan meanwhile, reported that Kithulgoda on Thursday has fallen vacant. Parliamentary system Rajapaksa has said he informed Election Authorities have allows the candidate would only consider a plea Commissioner Dayananda requested the securing the second high-to release Fonseka if it is Dissanayaka that the par-EC to nominate a person est votes to succeed the made by the former army liamentary seat of 59-year-for the seat in Fonsekas elected member of the chief himself .PTI .
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PM race: Nepal stalemate continues .
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Kathmandu: Political .
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which functions as the newspaper, said on uncertainty over a new gov-.
countrys interim parlia-Thursday. ernment in Nepal deepened .
ment. No clear result was with lawmakers failing to .
Of the 145 lawmakers expected after the single elect a new prime minister .
who took part in the voting largest party UCPN-Maoist, for the eleventh time in a .
on Thursday, 40 remained with 238 seats, and CPN-row on Thursday, as the sole .
neutral, while one voted UML with 109 lawmakers, candidate R C Poudyal of the .
against the Nepali Congress the third highest number of Nepali Congress was unable .
leader. The next round of seats, decided to stay away to garner a simple majority. voting will be held on from the election process. .
Madhav Kumar Nepal .
More than three months October 10. Nepali Congress, which after the 22-party coalition June 30, when Nepal stood The Parliaments Business has 114 members, has ruled led by Prime Minister down under intense pres-Advisory Committee (BAC) out the possibility of form-Madhav Kumar Nepal col-sure from the Maoists. 65-has decided to hold the 12th ing the next government lapsed, 11 rounds of polls year-old Poudyal secured and 13th round of prime under the Maoists leader-have so far failed to elect a 104 votes in favour, far ministerial election on ship as the former rebels new leader. below the magic figure of October 10 and 26 respec-have not yet laid down .
The country has been 301 in the 601-member tively, myrepublica online, arms, managed their com-without a government since Constituent Assembly, the website of the Republic batants .
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Do not push Bangla into chaos: Hasina .
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Double-standard slur on China .
over Vietnam boat controversy .
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Hanoi: Vietnams call for China to release a captured fishing boat and nine crew-men points to Beijings con-tradictory policies on mar-itime disputes, analysts said on Thursday ahead of key regional security talks. .
Vietnamese foreign min-istry officials on Tuesday met their counterparts from the Chinese embassy in Hanoi to demand the immediate and unconditional release of the vessel and its crew, the offi-cial Vietnam News Agency reported. .
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US terror alerts politically motivated .
London: A US terror alert Hasan, a veteran diplomat the Americans have definite and specifically at the White travel to the tribal areas for issued this week about al-who is close to Pakistans information about terrorists House. To stitch together indoctrination and training, Qaida plots to attack targets president, suggested the and al-Qaida people, we [the terror plot claims] in a represented a potentially in western Europe was Obama administration was should be provided [with] seamless narrative is non-serious threat. You have politically motivated and playing politics with the ter-that and we could go after sensical, said one well-discussions about all sorts of not based on credible new ror threat before next them ourselves, Hasan said. placed official. things that does not neces-information, senior months mid-term congres-Such reports are a mix-While Abdul Jabbar, a sarily mean there is any-Pakistani diplomats and sional elections, in which ture of frustrations, inepti-Briton, and others killed by thing concrete. European intelligence offi-the Republicans are tude and lack of apprecia-an American drone strike on It is not easy to set up cials said. expected to make big gains. tion of ground realities. 8 September in North groups, said one counter-.
The non-specific US He also claimed President Any attempt to infringe Waziristan, in Pakistans terrorism official. warning, which despite its Obama was reacting to pres-the sovereignty of Pakistan tribal areas, were heard dis-By making it clear that the vagueness led Britain, sure to demonstrate that his would not bring about sta-cussing co-ordinated plots, US drone strikes were pre-France and other countries Afghan war strategy and this bility in Afghanistan, which including possible com-emptive, and were not in to raise their overseas terror years troop surge, which are is presumably the primary mando-style attacks on any way combating an alert levels, was an attempt unpopular with the objective of the American prominent buildings and imminent threat, European to justify a recent escalation American public, were nec-and Nato forces. tourist sites in European officials raised fresh in US drone and helicopter essary. Dismissing claims of a capitals, security and intelli-questions this time attacks inside Pakistan that I will not deny the fact developed, co-ordinated gence officials said the plots directly involving a British have set the country on that there may be internal plot aimed at Britain, France were nowhere near fruition. nationalabout the legality fire, said Wajid Shamsul political dynamics, includ-and Germany, European The officials did not deny of the attacks, which could Hasan, the high commis-ing the forthcoming mid-intelligence officials also the men, and other foreign-be viewed as assassina-sioner to Britain. term American elections. If pointed the finger at the US, born jihadi recruits who tions.Guardian News Service .
It said they were seized almost one month ago while fishing in the Paracels, a South China Sea archipelago occupied by China but claimed by Vietnam. .
The case illustrates Chinas double standard when it comes to this kind of issue, said Ian Storey, a regional security analyst at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. .
He said the seizure of hundreds of Vietnamese fishermen by Chinese vessels in recent years contrasts with Beijings response to the September 8 arrest by Japan of a Chinese trawler captain. His boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near in the East China Sea. China issued threats and cut all high-level diplomatic contact with Tokyo. .
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It sent two Chinese fish-eries patrol boats to protect its fishermen near the island. Japan released the captain in late September but Chinas patrol boats did not with-draw until Wednesday, Tokyo said. PTI .
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at Villa Madama in Rome on Thursday Reuters .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2010 ID-26052
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Page No. 10, Vol: 1, Issue: 101 D.L No.79 Dated 19/05/2010 The Bengal Post Rs 2.50 The Bengal Post Kolkata Friday October 8, 2010 Page 10 .
WORLD .
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10 die in Karachi shrine attack .
Karachi: Two Taliban sui-cide bombers on Thursday struck venerated Sufi shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in this Pakistani port city, killing at least 10 people and wounding 60 others in the latest in a slew of attacks on sacred places. The blasts occurred this evening in quick succession at the entrance of the packed shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, considered to be patron saint of Karachi and is revered by millions of people. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, according to reports. PTI .
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France set to impose burqa ban .
Paris: Frances top legal authority on Thursday approved a law banning full-face veils in public, the last hurdle for the ban, which aims to protect womens rights but has been criticised as stigmatising Muslims. The Constitutional Council, which had previously warned that banning the veil may be unconstitu-tional, said it approved the version of the bill, which has been passed by both houses of parliament, after a final review. PTI .
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US deports nearly 4 lakh immigrants .
Washington: The US gov-ernment has deported a record number of undocu-mented immigrants around 400,000 this year, officials said. Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano and assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), John Morton, said 392,000 people have been deported by the ICE till September 30. PTI .
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6 Malay fishermen missing .
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian police say they are searching for six fishermen whose boat collided with a cargo ship and capsized. Marine Police official Zainul Abidin Hasan said rescuers pulled 11 other fishermen out of the water after receiv-ing an alert that their vessel had crashed into a ship off central Selangor state in the Malacca Strait. Zainul Abidin said the ship continued its journey following the acci-dent, which occurred before dawn on Thursday.PTI .
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Iran hangs eight drug traffickers .
Tehran: Iran has hanged eight drug traffickers in a prison in the southeastern city of Kerman, Fars news agency reported on Thursday. The agency, which published only the first names of the eight, did not say when the executions were carried out or if the condemned were all hanged at the same time. The latest hangings bring the number of executions in Iran to 125 this year. At least 270 people were hanged in 2009. PTI .
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Myanmar ferry toll rises to 19 .
Bangkok: Nineteen people died and three are missing after a boat carrying teach-ers and school children sank in Myanmar, an official said on Thursday, updating an earlier toll. The students were travelling to a football tournament when the over-loaded ferry sank on Wednesday on a river in the flood-prone Irrawaddy Delta region. The latest informa-tion is 19 people were killed and three others missing. About 79 people were on board when the boat sank, according to the official, who did not want to be named. PTI .
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Toxic sludge spill reaches Danube .
Budapest: Hungarys toxic sludge spill, which has killed four people, reached the Danube river on Thursday, threatening to contaminate the waterways ecosystem, a water authority official said. Water alkalinity, a measure of river contamination, was already above normal in the major waterway, the official said. PTI .
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drag the nation backward. Sheikh Hasina has asked her Dhaka: Bangladesh Premier .
The government in March archrival and Opposition .
this year constituted a leader Khaleda Zia not to .
three-member special court push the country into chaos .
alongside a special investi-by continuing to speak .
gation agency and prosecu-against the war crimes trial. .
tion panel to expose the sus-I urge the opposition leader .
pected war criminals to jus-not to throw the country .
tice 39 years after the inde-into chaos by opposing the .
pendence in line with ruling.
Sheikh Hasina Khaleda Zia .
trials of war criminals. Awami Leagues electoral The entire nation wants the opposed to the initiatives of war criminals were released pledges. trials, and the international her Awami League-led gov-after the Liberation War. Officially no list of sus-community is also extend-ernment which has prom-A crucial ally of the main pects is yet to be released ing support for the trials, ised to conduct the trial. opposition in the past BNP-with officials saying the Hasina told parliament late Hasinas comments came led government, fundamen-investigating agency would on Wednesday night. a day after Zia alleged that talist Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on finalise the list after a thor-.
She asked Zia of the governments initiative Wednesday issued a ough enquiry despite a gov-Bangladesh Nationalist in the name of war crimes statement saying since com-ernment instruction asking Party (BNP) to abandon her trial four decades after inde-ing to power nearly two immigration authorities not efforts to save the war pendence had pushed the years ago, the incumbent allow the high-profile criminals, saying only 12 nation towards a confronta-government was creating know war criminals leave per cent of the people were tion afresh while the real unnecessary debates to the country. PTI .
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German .
militants .
training on .
Dhaka lifts a nthrax alert Pak border .
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Thursday lifted a nation- asked to keep a sharp vigil on the bacterial dis- Islamabad: The video at .
wide anthrax red alert, a ease. first seems like many others .
month after it was issued The state-run Institute filmed in Pakistans tribal .
following the spread of of Epidemiology, Disease areas: The bearded militant .
the bacterial disease to Control and Research sits cross-legged on the floor, .
different districts. (IEDCR) and livestock an AK-47 propped against .
The red alert has been ministry said some 500 the wall behind him. .
lifted as anthrax is now people contracted the But as he applauds his three .
under control, a livestock disease as anthrax was companions decision to join .
ministry spokesman said. detected in 12districts, jihad, the words come out in .
Speaking to newsman inflicting at least 104 fluent German: Wir sind die .
livestock minister Abdul cows, of which 37 died . Soldaten Allahs, he says, .
Latif Biswas earlier on The anthrax inflicted We are the soldiers of .
Thursday said despite the people were exposed to a Allah. .
withdrawal, the con- critical state, an IEDCR Between 15 and 40 .
cerned officials were official said. PTI Germans and a smaller con- .
tingent of other Europeans .
are believed to be getting .
militant training in .
US tries to appease Pakistans lawless border .
region, intending to join the .
Talibans fight against Nato .
forces in neighbouring .
Islamabad, says Afghanistan or return to .
Europe and strike at the soft .
underbelly of those coun- .
sorry for air strikes tries. .
Their presence has .
attracted fresh scrutiny after .
a European terror warning .
Seema Sirohi bargain in the war besides based on information from a .
playing fast and loose with German-Afghan captured in .
Washington: The troubled objectives, methods and Afghanistan, and a CIA drone .
US-Pakistan alliance is a case promises. strike on Tuesday that .
of the tail wagging the dog. General Petraeus, under allegedly killed eight .
The United States govern- pressure to show progress, German militants in North .
ment on Wednesday offered has increased drone attacks Waziristan, an al-Qaida and .
multiple apologies to inside Pakistan while bear- Taliban hub that the .
Pakistan for an air strike last ing down on his Pakistani Pakistani army has so far left .
week that killed three counterparts to crack down largely alone. .
Pakistani soldiers resulting on terrorist groups. The German speaker in the .
in Islamabad closing down He has ordered as many as jihad video, Mounir Chouka, .
supply routes for Nato fuel a dozen commando raids a is one of two Bonn-born .
tankers. night across the border to brothers of Moroccan back- .
Terrorists found the lined hunt down terrorists. ground well known for .
up tankers an easy target to Tensions in the fragile appearances in videos made .
destroy as the Quetta police alliance are growing daily as by the Islamic Movement of .
stood by and watched the President Barack Obama Uzbekistan apparently .
flames. With the Torkham faces questions about out- aimed at recruiting more .
crossing in the Khyber Pass comes, progress and the militants from Germany. .
shut down by Pakistan in future of this war effort. A The clip appeared on a .
retaliation, Nato forces were White House report submit- militant website earlier this .
squeezed for supplies and ted to the US Congress ear- summer, a nearly 40-minute .
Washington had no choice lier this week laid out a bleak video telling new recruits of .
but to placate Pakistan, ana- assessment of Pakistans the legitimacy of jihad, or .
lysts said. military effort in combating holy war. .
The apologies came in terrorists. At every border crossing, .
quick succession from senior The report flatly said gen- at every airport and at every .
officials, including from gen- eral Kayanis forces were search, we pray to Allah ... to .
eral David Petraeus, the US avoiding taking on the mili- make these enemies blind, .
commander in charge of the tants. The Pakistani military he says. Allah answered. .
forces in Afghanistan, who continued to avoid military The proof? We are here. .
said he deeply regretted engagements that would put Germans are thought to be .
the loss of life. it in direct conflict with one of the largest European .
US ambassador to Pakistan Afghan Taliban or al-Qaida groups in Pakistans north- .
Anne Patterson praised forces in North Waziristan, west, though information is .
Pakistans brave security according to the report. scant. Most are believed to .
forces and admiral Mike President Asif Ali Zardari be immigrants from Muslim .
Mullen, the chairman of the was seen as out of touch nations or their descendants. .
joint chiefs of staff, called with the people and ineffec- The Germans killed on .
Pakistans army chief, gen- tive in dealing with the many Tuesday were hit by a drone .
eral Ashfaq Kayani, on tele- crises engulfing his country strike in Mir Ali, a town .
phone to offer another apol- from the devastating about 20 miles from the bor- .
ogy. floods to the economic der with Afghanistan. .
General Kayani might downturn. US officials are Reporters who have been to .
have won this tactical battle frustrated but mired in their Mir Ali found Internet cafes .
against the US but anger in own policy of cant live with in the basement of shops .
Washington is mounting Pakistan and cant live with- where militants from all over .
against Pakistan, which has out Pakistan because of the the world watch extremist .
failed to deliver its end of the reality of geography. videos or send e-mails. PTI .
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Former US President and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, listens to a man who was displaced by the earthquake, at Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday PTI .
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Fonseka loses parliamentary seat .
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Colombo: Sri Lankas for-.
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place. Fonseka is serving a respective constituency in mer army chief Sarath .
30-month jail term the event of the incum-Fonsekas brief stint as an .
imposed by a court martial bents demise or disqualifi-MP has come to a sudden .
after the ruling was cation. end in the wake of his 30-.
approved by President An ordinance in this month imprisonment for .
Mahinda Rajapaksa in his regard also clearly states corruption in defence .
capacity as the com-that if a member is jailed deals, amid reports that .
mander in chief of the he loses his seat immedi-the President may con-.
armed forces of Sri Lanka. ately, sources said. sider pardoning him if a .
He was sent to jail on Fonseka had contested plea is made personally by Thursday last for corrup-the April 8 general elec-.
Sarath Fonseka .
him or a family member. tion in defence deals dur-tions from the Colombo .
Sri Lankan old Fonseka, who leads the ing his tenure as the army district constituency. The Parliamentary secretary opposition Democratic chief. Daily Mirror newspaper, general Dhammika National Alliance (DNA), The Sri Lankan meanwhile, reported that Kithulgoda on Thursday has fallen vacant. Parliamentary system Rajapaksa has said he informed Election Authorities have allows the candidate would only consider a plea Commissioner Dayananda requested the securing the second high-to release Fonseka if it is Dissanayaka that the par-EC to nominate a person est votes to succeed the made by the former army liamentary seat of 59-year-for the seat in Fonsekas elected member of the chief himself .PTI .
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PM race: Nepal stalemate continues .
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Kathmandu: Political .
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which functions as the newspaper, said on uncertainty over a new gov-.
countrys interim parlia-Thursday. ernment in Nepal deepened .
ment. No clear result was with lawmakers failing to .
Of the 145 lawmakers expected after the single elect a new prime minister .
who took part in the voting largest party UCPN-Maoist, for the eleventh time in a .
on Thursday, 40 remained with 238 seats, and CPN-row on Thursday, as the sole .
neutral, while one voted UML with 109 lawmakers, candidate R C Poudyal of the .
against the Nepali Congress the third highest number of Nepali Congress was unable .
leader. The next round of seats, decided to stay away to garner a simple majority. voting will be held on from the election process. .
Madhav Kumar Nepal .
More than three months October 10. Nepali Congress, which after the 22-party coalition June 30, when Nepal stood The Parliaments Business has 114 members, has ruled led by Prime Minister down under intense pres-Advisory Committee (BAC) out the possibility of form-Madhav Kumar Nepal col-sure from the Maoists. 65-has decided to hold the 12th ing the next government lapsed, 11 rounds of polls year-old Poudyal secured and 13th round of prime under the Maoists leader-have so far failed to elect a 104 votes in favour, far ministerial election on ship as the former rebels new leader. below the magic figure of October 10 and 26 respec-have not yet laid down .
The country has been 301 in the 601-member tively, myrepublica online, arms, managed their com-without a government since Constituent Assembly, the website of the Republic batants .
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Do not push Bangla into chaos: Hasina .
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Double-standard slur on China .
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Hanoi: Vietnams call for China to release a captured fishing boat and nine crew-men points to Beijings con-tradictory policies on mar-itime disputes, analysts said on Thursday ahead of key regional security talks. .
Vietnamese foreign min-istry officials on Tuesday met their counterparts from the Chinese embassy in Hanoi to demand the immediate and unconditional release of the vessel and its crew, the offi-cial Vietnam News Agency reported. .
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US terror alerts politically motivated .
London: A US terror alert Hasan, a veteran diplomat the Americans have definite and specifically at the White travel to the tribal areas for issued this week about al-who is close to Pakistans information about terrorists House. To stitch together indoctrination and training, Qaida plots to attack targets president, suggested the and al-Qaida people, we [the terror plot claims] in a represented a potentially in western Europe was Obama administration was should be provided [with] seamless narrative is non-serious threat. You have politically motivated and playing politics with the ter-that and we could go after sensical, said one well-discussions about all sorts of not based on credible new ror threat before next them ourselves, Hasan said. placed official. things that does not neces-information, senior months mid-term congres-Such reports are a mix-While Abdul Jabbar, a sarily mean there is any-Pakistani diplomats and sional elections, in which ture of frustrations, inepti-Briton, and others killed by thing concrete. European intelligence offi-the Republicans are tude and lack of apprecia-an American drone strike on It is not easy to set up cials said. expected to make big gains. tion of ground realities. 8 September in North groups, said one counter-.
The non-specific US He also claimed President Any attempt to infringe Waziristan, in Pakistans terrorism official. warning, which despite its Obama was reacting to pres-the sovereignty of Pakistan tribal areas, were heard dis-By making it clear that the vagueness led Britain, sure to demonstrate that his would not bring about sta-cussing co-ordinated plots, US drone strikes were pre-France and other countries Afghan war strategy and this bility in Afghanistan, which including possible com-emptive, and were not in to raise their overseas terror years troop surge, which are is presumably the primary mando-style attacks on any way combating an alert levels, was an attempt unpopular with the objective of the American prominent buildings and imminent threat, European to justify a recent escalation American public, were nec-and Nato forces. tourist sites in European officials raised fresh in US drone and helicopter essary. Dismissing claims of a capitals, security and intelli-questions this time attacks inside Pakistan that I will not deny the fact developed, co-ordinated gence officials said the plots directly involving a British have set the country on that there may be internal plot aimed at Britain, France were nowhere near fruition. nationalabout the legality fire, said Wajid Shamsul political dynamics, includ-and Germany, European The officials did not deny of the attacks, which could Hasan, the high commis-ing the forthcoming mid-intelligence officials also the men, and other foreign-be viewed as assassina-sioner to Britain. term American elections. If pointed the finger at the US, born jihadi recruits who tions.Guardian News Service .
It said they were seized almost one month ago while fishing in the Paracels, a South China Sea archipelago occupied by China but claimed by Vietnam. .
The case illustrates Chinas double standard when it comes to this kind of issue, said Ian Storey, a regional security analyst at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. .
He said the seizure of hundreds of Vietnamese fishermen by Chinese vessels in recent years contrasts with Beijings response to the September 8 arrest by Japan of a Chinese trawler captain. His boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near in the East China Sea. China issued threats and cut all high-level diplomatic contact with Tokyo. .
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It sent two Chinese fish-eries patrol boats to protect its fishermen near the island. Japan released the captain in late September but Chinas patrol boats did not with-draw until Wednesday, Tokyo said. PTI .
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at Villa Madama in Rome on Thursday Reuters .
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