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--- South Asian News, August 07, 2002 ---(International)
Suspects in school bombing blow themselves up as tension continues to raise in Pakistan. Militant strikes in kashmir contiues, India says its patience is running out. In Business section, Pakistan's export growth soars high. Monsoon holds the key to Indian economic growth.
Africa
* India slams attack on pilgrims (News 24)
* School raid suspects blow themselves up (News 24)
Americas
* Rebels kill nine Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir (Globe and Mail) (Canada.com)
* Pakistani police recover weapons used by attackers of Christian school (Canada.com)
Asia-Pacific
* Nine killed in Kashmir attack (Japan Today) (The Australian News) (Moscow Times)
* Pakistan school raid suspects 'blow themselves up' (Australian Broadcasting) (Daily Telegraph) (The Australian News)
* Pakistan rejects Hindu attack accusation (Australian Broadcasting)
* Restraint not a sign of weakness: India warns Pakistan (Xinhuanet)
* India rules out postponement of polls in Kashmir (Xinhuanet)
* Electoral activities pick up pace in Pakistan (Xinhuanet)
* 72 Pakistani parties submits details to Election Commission (Xinhuanet)
* Pupils survive school attack (The Age)
* Pakistan gets lease of lost Indonesian satellite (Japan Today)
Europe
* Eight die, 27 wounded in Kashmir attack (Independent) (Times Online) (Online Ireland)
* School raid suspects 'commit suicide' (BBC) (Reuters)
* Pakistan blamed over Kashmir attack (BBC) (Guardian) (Independent) (Reuters)
* Kashmir attack revives tensions (BBC)
* Pakistan attack seen aimed at West (Swiss Info)
* Kashmir Chief: Destroy Rebel Camps in Pakistan (Reuters)
* India lists steps for Pakistan on Kashmir violence (Reuters)
* More Hindus join Kashmir pilgrimage despite raid (Reuters)
Middle East
* Rebels slay 9 pilgrims in Kashmir (Gulf Daily News)
* Pakistan school raid suspects die in blast (Gulf Daily News)
* No talks with Pakistan at SAARC regional meeting: Indian official (Theran Times)
* Restraint not a sign of weakness: India (IRNA)
* Pakistan condemns attack on Hindus (Gulf News)
* Fresh killings sour India-Pakistan ties (Arab News)
* India committed to hold free polls in Jammu and Kashmir: Vajpayee (IRNA)
* Nepal to hold polls ahead of schedule (Gulf Daily News)
* Judge held for underworld links acquitted (Arab News)
* PPP chief vows to contest polls (Gulf News)
* PPP wing applies to EC for registration (Gulf News)
* 75 parties apply for registration (Gulf News)
Editorial/Op-Ed
N/A
Business/Technology
* India's stocksfirm on buying at BSE (IRNA)
* View From Islamabad: Strong export growth lifts confidence in economy (Gulf News) (Xinhuanet)
* Drought threatens Indian economy (BBC)
Africa
* India slams attack on pilgrims
Srinagar, India -- The chief minister of Indian Kashmir called for the destruction of guerilla training camps, which New Delhi says are in Pakistan, after suspected Islamic militants killed nine Hindu pilgrims in the region. "Destruction of training camps across the border is the only alternative to uproot terror," Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said in a statement condemning Tuesday's attack on the pilgrims bound for a sacred shrine in the Himalayas.
http://www.news24.com/contentDisplay/level4Article/0,1113,2_1238970,00.html
* School raid suspects blow themselves up
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan -- Three men suspected of attacking a church school in Pakistan earlier this week, killing six people, blew themselves up on Tuesday after being challenged by police, an official said. Tahir Quyoom, deputy inspector general for police in the northern city of Muzaffarabad, told reporters the body of one of the men, who had killed themselves besides a river, had been recovered. The river was being searched for the other two.
http://www.news24.com/contentDisplay/level4Article/0,1113,2_1238647,00.html
Americas
* Rebels kill nine Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir
Nunwan, India -- Suspected Islamic extremists lobbed a grenade andd fire Tuesday on Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir, killing nine of them and wounding 27 others, police said. In other parts of the disputed region, four suspected militants and three soldiers were killed, a news report said. Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have been on a war footing for eight months because of similar attacks. New Delhi accuses Islamabad of backing the Islamic guerrillas fighting for Kashmir's independence or merger with Pakistan.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20020806/wkash08063/Front/homeBN/breakingnews
http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id={811408B4-BAA1-4A02-AECE-349E2F544AA5}
* Pakistani police recover weapons used by attackers of Christian school
Murree, Pakistan -- Police recovered grenades, knives and ammunition abandoned by masked gunmen who killed six Pakistanis at a school for children of foreign Christian missionaries, officials said Tuesday. The discovery indicated the attackers, believed to have numbered up to four, may have planned to kill students at the Murree Christian School or take them hostage had they not been driven off Monday by campus security guards.
http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id={36AAFD8D-7486-4DEF-9EA3-F7F2E46DBB8A}
Asia-Pacific
* Nine killed in Kashmir attack
Suspected Islamic militants killed nine Hindus and wounded two dozen others yesterday as the devotees slept in tents along a Kashmir pilgrimage route, in an attack India blamed on Pakistan.
One of the attackers was killed when Indian troops returned fire, while others fled into surrounding forests. Pilgrims at the scene chanted slogans against the Indian Government for failing to ensure security for the annual procession to the Amarnath cave, which Hindus believe is the abode of the god Shiva.
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4854996%255E2703,00.html
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=225587
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/08/07/251.html
* Pakistan school raid suspects 'blow themselves up'
Three men suspected of attacking a church school in Pakistan yesterday, killing six people, have blown themselves up after being challenged by police. Tahir Quyoom, deputy inspector general for police in the northern city of Muzaffarabad, says the body of one of the men, who had killed themselves besides a river, has been recovered. The river is being searched for the other two.
"It is most likely that they are the attackers on the church school," Mr Quyoom said. The attack on the Christian Murree School was seen as being aimed at the foreign community as pupils were children of missionaries.
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s641806.htm
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,4856155%255E1702,00.html
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4856155%255E401,00.html
* Pakistan rejects Hindu attack accusation
Pakistan has rejected "with contempt" Indian accusations that it was behind the massacre of nine Hindu pilgrims in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The pilgrims were killed as they slept in a dawn attack by suspected Islamic militants. The chief minister of Kashmir, Doctor Farooq Abdullah, gave this reaction to the killings. "They have started attacking our very basic things, our religious tolerance that we've had in this state," he said.
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s641750.htm
* Restraint not a sign of weakness: India warns Pakistan
New Delhi, August 06 -- India Tuesday warned Pakistan notto mistake its restraint as a sign of weakness, asserting that India would act with firmness against those who threaten its sovereignty and security. "India has been the soul of restraint and maturity in its reaction to these terrible events. But let that not be mistaken asa sign of weakness or softness when it comes to dealing with the situation," said Indian External Affair Ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao, reacting to the terrorist attack on Amarnath pilgrims in the India-controlled Kashmir area this morning.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/06/content_513265.htm
* India rules out postponement of polls in Kashmir
New Delhi, August 06 -- Indian Deputy Prime Minister L.K.Advani ruled out postponement of the assembly elections in the India-controlled Kashmir area in the wake of a terrorist attack onpilgrims there. Advani told reporters here that elections in the India-controlled Kashmir area will be held as scheduled despite the terrorist attack on Amarnath pilgrims there Tuesday morning that killed nine devotees and injured 30 others.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/07/content_513280.htm
* Electoral activities pick up pace in Pakistan
Islamabad, August 07 -- As the October parliamentary elections draw closer, Pakistan's political landscape is beginningto show more clear picture with mainstream leaders Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif certain to miss the national polls.
General elections to the National Assembly (lower house), Senate (upper house) and four provincial assemblies will be held simultaneously on October 10.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/07/content_513506.htm
* 72 Pakistani parties submits details to Election Commission
Islamabad, August 06 -- So far 72 Pakistani parties have submitted their details of party elections, manifesto, constitution and accounts to the Election Commission, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan. Newly formed Pakistan People's Party Parliameans also filed the details of party elections to the Chief Election.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/06/content_513212.htm
* Pupils survive school attack
As gunmen forced their way into his Pakistan school, Australian Russell Morton had thoughts only for his young charges. Mr Morton, the head of Murree Christian School in northern Pakistan, said the gunmen tried to reach the Australian, American and European children who were locked inside a building.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/06/.html
* Pakistan gets lease of lost Indonesian satellite
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan --Hughes Global Systems said Tuesday it has leased a satellite for five years to Pakistan that was originally launched in 1996 for Indonesia and later put out of use when it developed power problem. Don Gonzales, president of the American company, said in a ceremony marking the lease that the power problem was being corrected and two telemetry, tracking and control ground stations would be set up in Europe to make the satellite functional.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=225697
Europe
* Eight die, 27 wounded in Kashmir attack
Eight people died and 27 were injured today when suspected Islamic militants lobbed a grenade andd fire on Hindu pilgrims in disputed Kashmir, police said. The attack could exacerbate the already serious tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, who have been on a war footing for eight months due to similar attacks.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=321967
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-376561,00.html
http://www.online.ie/news/irish_examiner/viewer.adp?article=1803823
* School raid suspects 'commit suicide'
Three men suspected of attacking a Christian missionary school for foreigners in Pakistan on Monday have committed suicide, police say. Officers said the suspects were challenged by police after a hand grenade was recovered from one of them; they rushed towards a nearby river and killed themselves with other explosives.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2177664.stm
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=DV12TWOJPZJEQCRBAEOCFEY?type=worldnews&StoryID=1298620
* Pakistan blamed over Kashmir attack
Indian government officials have accused a militant group based in Pakistan of killing nine Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir on Tuesday morning. Another 37 people were injured in the attack, when gunmend fire on a camp where the pilgrims were staying, near the resort town of Pahalgam. One of the militants was also killed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2175775.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4476781,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=322224
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DIPXBVK0CYHJGCRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&storyID=1296833
* Kashmir attack revives tensions
The attack on Hindu pilgrims in Indian-administered Kashmir has come at a particularly sensitive time. Fresh elections to the Indian-held part of the disputed state have been announced and will take place next month. Islamic militant groups have said they plan to disrupt the elections, and since polling dates were announced last week there has been an upsurge in violence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2176565.stm
* Pakistan attack seen aimed at West
Jhika Gali, Pakistan -- An attack on a school for children of foreign missionaries in Pakistan that killed six Pakistanis appears to have been aimed at Westerners rather than Christians, officials and diplomats say. Monday's attack was the just the latest strike on a foreign target in Pakistan since the military government of General Pervez Musharraf incensed militant Muslim groups by siding with the U.S.-led war against terror after the September 11 attacks.
http://www2.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&eid=1259163
* Kashmir chief: Destroy rebel camps in Pakistan
Srinagar, India -- The chief minister of Indian Kashmir called for the destruction of guerilla training camps, which New Delhi says are in Pakistan, after suspected Islamic militants killed nine Hindu pilgrims in the region. "Destruction of training camps across the border is the only alternative to uproot terror," Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said in a statement condemning Tuesday's attack on the pilgrims bound for a sacred shrine in the Himalayas.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=VZ4KWOBKA4WS0CRBAE0CFEY?type=worldnews&StoryID=1300543
* India lists steps for Pakistan on Kashmir violence
New Delhi -- India listed on Tuesday a series of steps it said it expected Pakistan to take against Kashmiri separatists, including ordering militants inside Indian Kashmir to stop violence, before the neighbors could resume talks. The demand came after a fresh guerrilla attack in Jammu and Kashmir killed nine Hindu pilgrims in the disputed region, which is at the heart of a seven-month military stand-off between the nuclear-capable neighbors.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=PJYIFVKQZDOKECRBAEKSFFA?type=worldnews&StoryID=1297566
* More Hindus join Kashmir pilgrimage despite raid
Srinagar, India -- More than 2,000 Hindu faithful joined an annual pilgrimage in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, undeterred by a deadly attack on the holy trek by suspected Islamic militants. The pilgrims arrived in Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, and were bound for Pahalgam, base camp for an arduous 30-mile hike to a cave shrine in the Himalayas.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=XMX4MC5QEZNK4CRBAEKSFEY?type=worldnews&StoryID=1300974
Middle East
* Rebels slay 9 pilgrims in Kashmir
Suspected militants yesterday killed nine people and wounded two dozen others as devotees slept in tents along a Kashmir pilgrimage route, in an attack India immediately blamed on Pakistan. One attacker was killed when Indian troops returned fire, while others fled into surrounding forests. In other parts of the region, 11 people including three soldiers were killed in what appeared to be stepped up attacks by guerillas, according to police.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=29489&Sn=WORL&IssueID=25140
* Pakistan school raid suspects die in blast
Islamabad: Three men suspected of attacking a Christian school in Pakistan this week, killing six people, blew themselves up yesterday when they were challenged by police, a police official said. Tahir Quyoom, deputy inspector general of police in the northern city of Muzaffarabad, said the body of one of the men had been recovered and a search was on for the remaining two. Officials and diplomats believed Monday's attack on the Murree Christian School in Jhika Gali was a strike against Western interests rather than a religiously motivated attack on minority faiths.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=29487&Sn=WORL&IssueID=25140
* No talks with Pakistan at SAARC regional meeting: Indian official
New Delhi -- India on Tuesday ruled out talks with Pakistan on the sidelines of a regional meeting in Katmandu later this month but said the upcoming polls in Indian Kashmir would be "the litmus test" of Islamabad's commitment to rein in Islamic militants in the disputed Himalayan region. "Not a chance," a senior Indian government official said when asked if Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha would meet Pakistan's Deputy Foreign Minister Inamul Haq on the margins of the South Asian meeting in Katmandu on August 20-21.
http:///Detailview.asp?Keyword=India&Da=8/7/2002&Cat=2&Num=24
* Restraint not a sign of weakness: India
New Delhi, August 07 -- India warned Pakistan not to mistake its show of restraint as a sign of weakness, and asserted that it would act with firmness against those who threaten its sovereignty and security. India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Nirupama Rao, reacting to the militant attack on pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir, told reporters Tuesday evening that "India has been the soul of restraint and maturity in its reaction to these terrible events. But let that not be mistaken as a sign of weakness or softness when it comes to dealing with the situation."
http://www.irna.com/en/world/.ewo.shtml
* Pakistan condemns attack on Hindus
Pakistan yesterday condemned the terrorist attack on Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir, dismissing remarks by an Indian minister implicating Islamabad in the incident. "The government of Pakistan condemns the terrorist attack on the Hindu pilgrims in Indian-occupied Kashmir, which led to many deaths and a large number of injured," a foreign office spokesman said in a statement. The spokesman rejected "with contempt" the remarks made by I.D. Swami, Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs, involving Pakistan in the attack.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/News.asp?ArticleID=59933
* Fresh killings sour India-Pakistan ties
New Delhi, August 07 -- Nine Hindus were killed and 31 wounded by gunmen in Indian Kashmir yesterday. The killings worsened India-Pakistan relations as New Delhi promptly blamed Al Mansoor, a Pakistan-based group, for the attack. The attack near Pahalgam, the base camp for those making a grueling 50-km (30-mile) trek to a cave shrine high in the Himalayas, was the bloodiest in Jammu and Kashmir since 28 Hindu slum-dwellers were killed last month.
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=17545
* India committed to hold free polls in Jammu and Kashmir: Vajpayee
New Delhi, August 07 -- The Centre (gov't) is committed to hold free and fair elections in Jammu and Kashmir and is providing all assistance to the Elections Commission in this regard, says India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, local media reported on Wednesday. Vajpayee on Tuesday gave the assurance to the Congress delegation led by the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House), Manmohan Singh, when it called on him in Parliament House. The Indian premier said that enough security forces had been dispatched to Jammu and Kashmir state and more were being sent to ensure free and fair polls without violence, according to official sources.
http://www.irna.com/en/world/.ewo.shtml
* Nepal to hold polls ahead of schedule
Nepal's Supreme Court rejected yesterday petitions seeking to reinstate the Himalayan kingdom's parliament in a ruling that cleared the way for fresh elections later this year. The country's parliament was dissolved last May and early elections ordered after Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba failed to win the support of the ruling Nepali Congress party to extend emergency rule to battle an increasingly violent Maoist revolt. Elections will be held in the poverty-stricken nation wedged between India and China on November 13, a year-and-a-half ahead of schedule.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=29484&Sn=WORL&IssueID=25140
* Judge held for underworld links acquitted
Bombay, August 07 -- A former judge who was arrested more than two years ago for his alleged links with the underworld was yesterday acquitted by a special court here. The former judge, Jaysingh Wadhu Singh, was suspended from service in March 2000 and had been in jail for the last 28 months. Special Court Judge Abhay Thipsay yesterday ordered Singh's release after ruling that the Bombay Police had not followed the correct procedures for tapping his telephone. Singh was accused of approaching alleged Pakistan-based gangster Chhota Shakeel to recover a sum of four million rupees from one Sardarsingh Abrol, who ran a private savings company. He was also accused of hiring goons to recover the money.
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=17539
* PPP chief vows to contest polls
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said yesterday she would defy a ban on her participation and contest Pakistan's general elections in October even if it meant doing so from a prison cell. In a telephone interview from self-imposed exile in London, the 49-year-old told Reuters: "I am returning to contest the next election." "I would like to contend. My party wants me to contend. The people want me to contend. But I am being stopped by a general who seized power in a coup who happens to be a key ally to the West."
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/News.asp?ArticleID=59d930
* PPP wing applies to EC for registration
The Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians, a group hastily crafted to circumvent possible disqualification of the Benazir Bhutto-led PPP, presented its registration papers to the election commission (EC) here yesterday for the general elections in October. The group was launched on Monday on the advice of Benazir, PPP chairperson and former prime minister, who stands barred from political office or taking part in the elections under a law enforced by the military government.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/News.asp?ArticleID=59931
* 75 parties apply for registration
Seventy-five Pakistani political parties and groups have presented their documents to the election commission to fulfil legal requirements for running in the October general elections, EC officials said yesterday. The papers submitted under the Political Parties Order 2002 provide details related to party elections, manifesto, constitution and accounts Some more groups may come forward until August 12, the last date fixed for the purpose by the election commission.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/News.asp?ArticleID=59932
Editorial/Op-Ed
N/A
Business/Technology
* India's stocksfirm on buying at BSE
New Delhi, August 07 -- India's stocksd firm and later witnessed narrow movements at early stages on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Wednesday on buying support in response to a strong turnaround in global markets. Mirroring the upturn, the BSE sensitive indexd firm at 3042.28 as against Tuesday's close of 3023.26 and later moved upwards to 3050.82 Wednesday morning.
http://www.irna.com/en/world/.ewo.shtml
* View From Islamabad: Strong export growth lifts confidence in economy
The latest bit of good news for Pakistan's exports has helped to lift confidence surrounding an otherwise beleaguered economic environment. Estimates from the government's National Statistics Bureau suggest that exports rose more than 19 per cent in July compared to a year ago. The trend, though still in its initial stages, has overshot the official target of raising exports by 14 per cent this year, in an objective to bring Pakistan's annual trade deficit to $700 million, down from $1.2 billion for the financial year which ended this June.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/News.asp?ArticleID=59954
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/06/content_513046.htm
* Drought threatens Indian economy
After a delay of over a month, it finally rained over much of northern and central India on Sunday, but farmers say it is too little, too late. They say they have already suffered huge crop losses. In Punjab and Haryana, two main wheat and rice growing states in northern India, the damage to crops has been extensive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2174092.stm
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--- South Asian News, August 07, 2002 ---(International)
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