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Breaking News/Newswire
* Gov't sets date for elections in Kashmir (reuters): India said on Friday it will hold elections in September and October in Jammu and Kashmir state but Kashmiri separatists have vowed to boycott the poll and militants have threatened to kill voters. Kashmir is at the heart of a military standoff with Pakistan and New Delhi is battling a separatist revolt against its rule in Jammu and Kashmir state. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the uprising since it began in 1989. India sees the elections as a way to bring peace and establish its legitimacy in the region. Separatists say the poll is bound to be rigged like others before. Polling for the state elections will be held over four days in late September and early October with counting due on October 10, Chief Election Commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh said. http://in.news.yahoo.com/020802/64/1t4ac.html
--- South Asian News, August 02, 2002 ---
Pakistan appoints veteran diplomat Ashraf Jehangir Qazi as its new ambassadar to the US. India announces elections in Kashmir to held in September and October. India gets angry with the rising violence taking its death toll in Kashmir. Musharraf visits longtime ally China. In the Business section, the impact of the late arrival of monsoon on the Indian economy suffers.
Top Stories
* Pakistan appoints veteran diplomat as new ambassador to U.S. (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate) (NewsDay.com) (Las Vegas Sun) (MSNBC)
* Senate confirms Pakistan ambassador (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate) (Las Vegas Sun)
* Pakistan President Musharraf visits longtime ally China (Wall Street Journal) (Voice of America) (MSNBC)
* Musharraf sends mangoes to Vajpayee (CNN)
* India critical of Pakistan's anti-terror effort in Kashmir (Wall Street Journal)
* Indian election commission announces Kashmir elections for September and October (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate)
* Kashmir separatist leader rejects elections (NY Times)
* Violence rises in disputed Kashmir; 20 dead (Houston Chronicle)
* Indian anger mounts as death toll in Kashmir rises (Wall Street Journal)
* Indian officials admit army killed Kashmir civilians (Wall Street Journal)
* Indian police kill militant behind attack on Kashmir slum (Wall Street Journal)
* Regional security, terrorism dominate India-France talks (Wall Street Journal)
* Tamil lawmakers criticize Sri Lanka government on cease-fire (Wall Street Journal)
* Buddhist mission in Pakistan warns on horrors of A-bomb (Wall Street Journal)
* Witnesses testify on Pakistan rape (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate) (Las Vegas Sun)
* Man at rape trial says was married to woman (NY Times)
Editorial/Op-Ed
* Cybercafé crackdown threatens oases of privacy in Pakistan (International Herald Tribune)
Business/Technology
* Newspapers struggle to attract investors despite new laws (Wall Street Journal)
* Late arrival of monsoon rains could impair India's economy (Wall Street Journal)
* Oracle to expand operations in India (Asia Pulse)
Other Stories
* Circle of dread: 'Signs' of these tense times (Washington Post)
Top Stories
* Pakistan appoints veteran diplomat as new ambassador to U.S.
August 01, Islamabad -- Pakistan appointed veteran diplomat Ashraf Jehangir Qazi on Thursday as its ambassador to the United States, replacing a predecessor whose frequent news show appearances had made her a well-known media figure in Washington. Qazi, 60, was Pakistan's ambassador to India for five years until May, when he was expelled amid rising tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020801_007547,00.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-US-Ambassador.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-us-ambassador0801aug01.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug1.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/01/international1605EDT0685.DTL
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-us-ambassador0801aug01.story
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2002/aug/01/080107843.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
* Senate confirms Pakistan ambassador
August 01, Washington -- The Senate confirmed Nancy Jo Powell on Thursday to be ambassador to Pakistan, one of the chief U.S. allies in Asia in the battle against terrorism. Powell, who was approved by voice vote, has been acting ambassador in Islamabad since May. She replaced Wendy Chamberlin, who left to be with her teenage daughters, who had been evacuated in March. Bush nominated her in June to formally take over the job.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-ambassador0802aug01.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug1.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/01/national2145EDT0807.DTL
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2002/aug/01/080108501.html
* Pakistan President Musharraf visits longtime ally China
August 01, Beijing -- Amid tensions with their mutual rival India , Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf arrived Friday in Beijing on his fourth visit to longtime ally China in seven months. Musharraf's plane landed shortly after 1 a.m., arriving from Sri Lanka. He was scheduled to meet later Friday with Chinese President Jiang Zemin before leaving at midday. The Pakistani leader has taken pains to reassure China that their decades-old alliance is sound despite his government's recent close ties to the U.S.. He spent four days touring China in December and made two more one-day visits in January.
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http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=PACRIM
* Musharraf sends mangoes to Vajpayee
Islamabad -- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, locked in a tense standoff with neighbouring India, has sent several boxes of mangoes to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee as a goodwill gesture. The Foreign Office in Islamabad played down the significance of the gift at a time when the two nuclear powers have massed more than a million soldiers on their border, calling it an annual ritual. "Mangoes are sent to a number of world leaders every year," a Foreign Office spokesman told Reuters on Thursday. "This has been going on for more than 25 years."
http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/08/01/musharraf.mangoes.reut/index.html
* India critical of Pakistan's anti-terror effort in Kashmir
New Delhi -- India accused Pakistan of not doing enough to stop cross-border terrorism on Thursday, after an Indian army captain and four suspected Islamic militants were killed during a clash in a high security area in Kashmir. Soldiers in the town of Rajouri evacuated a neighborhood that houses top Indian government and security officials, before hunting down the suspected militants who had taken shelter in some buildings under construction.
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* Indian election commission announces Kashmir elections for September and October
New Delhi -- India will hold elections in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir in four stages at the end of September and the beginning of October, Chief Election Commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh said on Friday. He told a news conference in New Delhi that state elections would be held in different areas on September 16 and 24 and October 1 and 8.
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-kashmir-elections.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-kashmir-elections0802aug02.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug2.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/02/international0651EDT0498.DTL
* Kashmir separatist leader rejects elections
New Delhi -- Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah said on Friday his group would not take part in elections due in September and October in Indian Kashmir. He was speaking shortly after India's Election Commission announced it would hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir state, at the heart of a military standoff with Pakistan, in four stages at the end of September and start of October.
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* Violence rises in disputed Kashmir; 20 dead
August 01, Jammu, India -- Twenty people were reported killed today in fighting in the Kashmir region disputed by nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan. The latest spate of violence follows a weekend peace mission to India and Pakistan by Secretary of State Colin Powell. In one clash, four Islamic militants and an Indian soldier were killed in a gun battle that was similar to an incident that brought the two countries close to war in May.
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* Indian anger mounts as death toll in Kashmir rises
August 01, New Delhi -- India accused Pakistan of not doing enough to stop cross-border terrorism, as the death toll from militant attacks in India's northern Jammu-Kashmir state mounted Thursday and Indian shelling across the border killed two teenage boys in Pakistan. An Indian army captain and four suspected Islamic militants were killed Thursday during a shootout in a high security area in the town of Rajouri, 180 kilometers northwest of Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir.
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* Indian officials admit army killed Kashmir civilians
New York -- Indian army troops hunting for terrorists involved in an attack in Kashmir killed and buried innocent civilians, and when protests by villagers forced exhumation of their bodies, they fudged DNA tests to try to prove that the remains were those of Pakistani militants, government reports have revealed, The Washington Times reported in its Friday editions. The government suspended the doctors who had collected the DNA samples, and a new team, headed by a senior police officer, collected blood samples in April this year.
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* Indian police kill militant behind attack on Kashmir slum
Jammu, India -- Police said Friday they fought and killed an Islamic militant who claimed responsibility for a July 13 attack on a shanty town in Kashmir that left 30 people dead. A police officer also died in the gunbattle Friday in the Raika forests near Jammu, winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, Inspector General of Police P.L. Gupta told The Associated Press. Police cordoned off the area after Islamic rebels hiding in the mountainous forests ambushed a police search team Thursday, killing two officers. Gupta said the militant killed Friday has been identified as Abu Adnan
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* Regional security, terrorism dominate India-France talks
New Delhi -- French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin met with Indian leaders Friday to discuss regional security, terrorism and bilateral ties. De Villepin, who arrived in New Delhi early Friday, began his visit by laying a wreath at a memorial to Indian freedom leader Mohandas K. Gandhi and then met with Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani. He also was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha before leaving for Islamabad, where he was expected to urge Pakistan's leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf to do more to ease tension in South Asia, Indian officials said.
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* Tamil lawmakers criticize Sri Lanka government on cease-fire
August 01, Colombo -- The main Tamil political alliance said Thursday it was dissatisfied with the manner in which the Sri Lankan government was implementing a cease-fire with the Tamil Tiger rebels. "We discussed the implementation of the cease-fire. We are unhappy about the armed forces relocating themselves near places of worship and schools," said R. Sambanthen, president of the Tamil National Alliance after a meeting with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The meeting took place on the eve of a 160-day deadline for government troops to vacate public buildings and schools occupied by them in the Tamil dominated northeast.
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* Buddhist mission in Pakistan warns on horrors of A-bomb
August 01, Lahore, Pakistan -- Chanting scripture and beating drums, a group of foreign Buddhist monks held a prayer vigil on the Pakistan-India border Thursday to urge the two nuclear-armed rivals to avoid the horrors of atomic war. The 10 monks stopped for the brief vigil while walking across the Wagha border point, near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. They are on a three-month peace mission that is taking them overland through parts of India , Pakistan and the disputed region of Kashmir.
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* Witnesses testify on Pakistan rape
August 01, Multan, Pakistan -- An uncle of a Pakistani woman who was allegedly gang-raped and a member of her tribe testified in court Thursday that they witnessed her being dragged off by the four men accused of raping her, a court official said. The gang-rape, which prosecutors say was ordered by a tribal council in the southern village of Meerwala, drew world condemnation. The attack also highlighted the low status of women in poor remote areas, where tribal councils often settle disputes following ancient codes of honor and revenge.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-gang-rape0802aug01.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug1.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/01/international2310EDT0840.DTL
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2002/aug/01/080108645.html
* Man at rape trial says was married to woman
Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan -- One of four men accused of a high-profile gang rape in Pakistan said on Thursday he was married to the woman at the time of the alleged offence. In his defense application to a court in Punjab province, Abdul Khaliq said he was married to 30-year-old divorcee Mukhtaran Mai under an agreement brokered by village elders after he discovered her brother having sex with a member of his family, defense lawyer Mohammad Yakub said.
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Editorial/Op-Ed
* Cybercafé crackdown threatens oases of privacy in Pakistan
Lahore, Pakistan -- Shahid Masood is a bit down on the Internet these days. But he has never seen anyone who looks like a terrorist at the cybercafé he owns here. Mostly, he says, his customers are boys trying to look at naked girls. "People do not use it in a positive manner," he said in this vibrant city with two universities and many students - enthusiastic customers if not always rich ones. "Most of the people access porn sites. Then it is e-mail and chat sites. Otherwise, there is not much usage of the Internet." In this sense cybercafés in Pakistan are not too different from those anywhere else. But in this strict Islamic society of segregation between the sexes and strict bans on sexual content in the media, privacy on the Internet is highly prized. So there is more than a little worry about new government rules, set down in the name of fighting terrorism, that are to keep track of cybercafé users.
http://www.iht.com/articles/66490.html
Business/Technology
* Newspapers struggle to attract investors despite new laws
The Indian government in late June took the first significant step toward relaxing its notoriously strict print-media ownership laws, allowing foreign companies to hold as much as a 26% stake in local publications. But the change comes at a moment when the landscape for all but a few of the country's newspapers is so bleak that attracting foreign investment could be a hard sell.
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* Late arrival of monsoon rains could impair India's economy
August 01, Rewari, India -- When the seasonal rains that sweep across India every year failed to arrive on time in late June, farmer Vinod Sharma began to worry. One month later, scanning the empty blue sky for signs of clouds, his worry has turned to despair. Across broad swaths of India , farmers like Mr. Sharma are experiencing the country's worst drought in 15 years. The lack of rain will wilt India's economic growth, say economists, because agriculture accounts for a quarter of total economic output and sustains two-thirds of the billion-strong population.
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* Oracle to expand operations in India
Multinational information technology company Oracle Corporation will acquire over 7 acres land at Madhapur in Andhra Pradesh for creating office space for its expanding operations. The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the state government for acquiring land in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Oracle Executive Vice-President (Asia Pacific and Japan) Derek H Williams, on Monday at Hi-tec city. Oracle that set up its Development Centre at Hi-tec city in 1999 is in the process of expanding its operations. The company will treble its office space with an investment of Rs 600 million in the first phase. Country Manager of Oracle India Ltd Shekhar Dasgupta said about 580,000 sq ft office space, with library and recreation facilities, would be created for 2,400 staff.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/020802/8/1t45j.html
Other Stories
* Circle of dread: 'Signs' of these tense times
No other director working today can infuse everyday life with as much dread as M. Night Shyamalan. In "Signs," children's swings sway by some unseen volition; crows sustain an incessant, foreboding cackle. Fields of corn rustle ominously. Even the crickets portend certain doom. As he did so well in "The Sixth Sense" and not nearly well enough in "Unbreakable," in "Signs" Shyamalan explores the supernatural, not through special effects and weird sounds but in the faces of the people who are alive to it. He isn't as interested in portraying the netherworld as he is in examining the permeable membrane that separates it from objective reality, and what happens when the worlds bump up against each other.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug1.html
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