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--- South Asian News, August 08, 2002 ---
The three men who blew themselves up yesterday at a Pakistani checkpoint were responsible for the church attack, Pakistani sources confirm. A small militant group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on Hindu pilgrims. However, pilgrims continue with their holy trekking amidst tight security. India and Kyrgyzstan agree to set up a joint group against terrorism. A bomb blows up at a Nepali college building. Los Angeles anticipates Pearl's body while Hartford officials deny bond for two Pakistanis for using fradulant visas. Colin Powell's visit to Pakistan has done nothing to stop incursions in Kashmir, argues an article in the editorial section. In the business section, Metrowerks Inc.'s software development tools is being rolled out in India.
Top Stories
* Pakistan says three men who blew themselves up were school attackers (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Boston Herald)
* Lashkar-linked Al-Mansooreen says killed Kashmir pilgrims (Wall Street Journal)
* India, Kyrgyzstan set up joint group against terrorism (Wall Street Journal)
* More Hindus join Kashmir pilgrimage despite raid (NY Times) (Seattle Times)
* Heavy security for Kashmir pilgrims (CNN)
* Pearl's body on way to Los Angeles (NY Times) (Miami Herald) (Boston Globe) (NewsDay.com)
* Indian election chief to tour riot-ravaged Gujarat (MSNBC)
* Sri Lanka: Talks with Tamil Tigers likely in September (NY Times)
* Explosion in Nepal's college building (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Miami Herald) (NewsDay.com) (Las Vagas Sun) (SF Gate)
* Bond denied for 2 Pakistani men charged with visa fraud (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Hartford Courant) (Nando Times)
* Indian journalist arrested (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Chicago Tribune) (Washington Post) (Las Vagas Sun) (SF Gate)
* Kashmiri Hindus go on strike (Boston Globe)
Editorial/Op-Ed
* As Kashmir boils, keep heat on Pakistan (LA Times)
Business/Technology
* Metrowerks works on project in India (Austin Business Journal)
Other Stories
* Camp uses song and story to spread culture of India (Boston Globe)
Top Stories
* Pakistan says three men who blew themselves up were school attackers
August 07, Islamabad -- Pakistan believes three men who blew themselves up with grenades after fleeing a checkpoint in Pakistani Kashmir were responsible for the deadly attack on a Christian school that killed six people, a senior official said Wednesday. ``The way they were running to escape ... we suspect that they were the killers of six innocent people,'' Information Minister Nisar Memon said. Memon said, however, that the Interior Ministry, which supervises law enforcement in Pakistan, has not yet formally concluded the men were responsible for the Monday attack on the Murree Christian School
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-christian-school0807aug07.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug7.html
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/international/ap_pakist08072002.htm
* Lashkar-linked Al-Mansooreen says killed Kashmir pilgrims
August 07, Jammu, India -- Hindu businesses in Kashmir closed Wednesday to protest an attack by Muslim militants that left nine Hindu pilgrims dead. The little-known Al-Mansooreen group claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on worshippers preparing to march to a shrine in the Himalayas. A newsletter of Pakistan-based militants said the same group was responsible for an assault on an army camp in May that killed 34 people and heightened warlike tensions between India and Pakistan .
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020807_004664,00.html
* India, Kyrgyzstan set up joint group against terrorism
August 07, New Delhi -- India and Kyrgyzstan agreed Wednesday to set up a joint group against terrorism and other international crimes, a domestic news agency said. Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, on a two-day visit to India , held discussions with his Indian counterpart A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Press Trust of India said. The two countries also agreed to cooperate in developing their information technology and food processing industries.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020807_004271,00.html
* More Hindus join Kashmir pilgrimage despite raid
August 07, 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. ``Another batch of 2,082 yatris (pilgrims) came here. With this, the number of yatris has touched 90,000,'' a spokesman for the pilgrimage told Reuters.
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-kashmir.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134508995_kashmir08.html
* Heavy security for Kashmir pilgrims
Srinagar, India -- Security is heavy along the route of a religious pilgrimage in Indian-controlled Kashmir as devotees continue their journey, two days after suspected Islamic militants killed nine Hindus while they rested at a camp. Carrying their religious gear, more pilgrims, or yatris, have begun the next stage of their holy journey, a 50-kilometer trek up steep mountain slopes to the cave shrine known as Amarnath, one of the five holiest sites for Hindus.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/08/07/kashmir.pilgrims/index.html
* Pearl's body on way to Los Angeles
Karachi, Pakistan -- More than six months after his abduction, the body of Daniel Pearl, who was killed while on assignment here for The Wall Street Journal, was flown out early today on a Cathay Pacific flight bound for Los Angeles, Pakistani aviation officials said. A police convoy had transferred the body, in a yellow wooden coffin, to the airport from a mortuary at the Edhi Foundation, a Pakistani relief organization, a foundation official, Rezwan Edhi, said. American diplomats in Islamabad, citing the Pearl family's desire for privacy, declined to give further details on the matter.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/international/08REPO.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2002/08/08/news/world/3820204.htm
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/220/nation/Pearl_s_body_aboard_flight_to_the_US+.shtml
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wopear082814429aug08.story
* Indian election chief to tour riot-ravaged Gujarat
New Delhi -- India's independent election commission will begin a three-day tour on Thursday of Gujarat to decide when the ruling Hindu nationalists can hold elections in a state convulsed by religious rioting, an official said. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whose government is accused of turning a blind eye when Hindu mobs rampaged against Muslims, dissolved the state assembly last month and called elections that were not due until early next year. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which also heads the federal coalition government, has denied it failed to act swiftly to restore order after the country's worst religious bloodshed in a decade erupted earlier this year.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Sri Lanka: Talks with Tamil Tigers likely in September
New Delhi -- Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando said on Thursday that much-delayed peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels could take place as early as September. ``A date will be fixed, which will most probably be in September or thereafter,'' Fernando, in New Delhi for talks with his Indian counterpart, told a news conference. Fernando, however, said the peace process ``could be delayed'' if early national elections were called because of political differences between Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-india-srilanka-talks.html
* Explosion in Nepal's college building
Kathmandu -- A bomb blast at a business college wounded at least six people on Thursday in the Nepali capital, police said. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast at the college in a residential part of Kathmandu. Police said they were checking whether Maoist rebels fighting to topple the constitutional monarchy were involved. ``We are investigating who has done this,'' said a police official. He said six people had been injured in the blast and said he had no further detail
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-nepal.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-nepal-explosion0808aug08.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug8.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/world/3822974.htm
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-nepal-explosion0808aug08.story
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2002/aug/08/080809283.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/08/international0457EDT0477.DTL
* Bond denied for 2 Pakistani men charged with visa fraud
August 07, Hartford, Connecticut -- A U.S. District Court judge ordered two Pakistani nationals held without bond Wednesday on charges they used fraudulent visas to enter the country. Aftab Hussain, 27 and Nabeel Nazar, 21, were arrested Aug. 1 and indicted Tuesday on one count of unlawfully obtaining U.S. nonimmigrant visas. The men allegedly obtained the documents in Qatar. The State Department is investigating claims that dozens of people entered the United States by bribing U.S. Embassy officials in Qatar for visas.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-brf-pakistanis-arrested0808aug07.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug7.html
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-visaarrest0808.artaug08.story
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/492160p-3925489c.html
* Indian journalist arrested
August 07, New Delhi -- A well-known Indian journalist was arrested Wednesday on charges he assaulted a federal investigator, a move that comes as the government faces new claims it is cracking down on the media. Aniruddha Bahal, who works for the news and entertainment Web site Tehelka.com, was granted bail hours after he was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation, India's equivalent of the FBI. Last year, Bahal was one of the two Tehelka reporters who secretly filmed defense officials accepting bribes to push through a fictitious defense equipment deal.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020807_005005,00.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-India-Journalist-Arrest.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-india-journalist-arrest0807aug07.story
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-aug08.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug7.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2002/aug/07/080708632.html
* Kashmiri Hindus go on strike
Many Hindus observed a general strike in Kashmir yesterday to protest a terrorist attack that killed nine pilgrims as they prepared to hike to a Himalayan shrine. Eight people died in new violence. Most shops and businesses stayed closed in Jammu, the winter capital of India's northern Jammu-Kashmir State. Government offices and schoolsd, but attendance was light. The strike call by the World Hindu Council and other affiliates of India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party did not evoke much response in Srinagar, the state's summer capital, which is mostly inhabited by Muslims. A local leader of the state's ruling National Conference party was slain in Srinagar yesterday, and police said Islamic separatists were suspected.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/220/nation/Kashmir_Hindus_go_on_strike+.shtml
Editorial/Op-Ed
* As Kashmir boils, keep heat on Pakistan
August 07 -- Until last week, the American diplomatic effort to head off a war between India and Pakistan had focused sharply on stopping Pakistani-sponsored Islamic extremist incursions into Indian-controlled areas of Kashmir. Now, after his visit to India and Pakistan, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has relaxed his pressure on Islamabad, ignoring continued Pakistani sponsorship of these incursions and efforts to disrupt the key October elections in the Indian-ruled part of Kashmir. This abrupt tilt toward Islamabad has provoked Indian distrust of U.S. bona fides that will make it difficult for Washington to continue acting as a de facto mediator between the two nuclear-armed South Asian rivals.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-harrison7aug07.story
Business/Technology
* Metrowerks works on project in India
August 05 -- The Indian Computer Institute Association is rolling out Metrowerks Inc.'s software development tools across India. The nonprofit association's membership comprises more than 3,000 universities, technical institutes and research-and-development establishments throughout India. Its main objective is to strengthen information technology. The schools are using Metrowerks' CodeWarrior development tools to teach students Java as well as programming for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2002/08/05/daily41.html
Other Stories
* Camp uses song and story to spread culture of India
Arlington -- In a classroom at the Ottoson Middle School last week, youngsters with Indian names and American accents began a two-week journey into their cultural heritage by studying the music, literature, and dance of India, the land of their ancestors. They watched enthralled as Vanita Shastri, 42, who has a doctorate in political science and is an expert in classical Indian dance, told a story through dance. She interpreted the descent from heaven of water that formed India's River Ganges and how Lord Shiva, one of the Hindu Trinity, saved the land from flooding by slowing the water that fell through piles of his matted hair.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/220/northwest/Camp_uses_song_and_story_to_spread_culture_of_India+.shtml
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--- South Asian News, August 08, 2002 ---
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