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-- South Asian News, August 12, 2002 ---
The reng of the US consulate in Karachi is still hindered by insecurity. Pakistan acknowledges the presence of al Qaeda fugitives after terrorists launched a series of attacks last week. In the business section, the U.S. is looking at ways to help shoulder some of the security-related risks borne by American companies investing in Pakistan.
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* Security still a concern for US Karachi consulate
The United States is looking at ways toits consulate in Karachi, closed last week after the local government red a nearby road following a bloody car bomb attack in June, the consul general said. John K. Bauman told reporters the U.S. was still concerned about the security of its staff. He added that the State Department would make an announcement on the reng of the consulate in the next few days. ''We are looking for ways to rethe consulate, but we want to put some space between any possible attack and our staffers,'' Bauman said. ''We are concerned about their security.''
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Pakistan acknowledges presence of al Qaeda fugitives
Islamabad -- Federal officials acknowledge that al Qaeda operatives fleeing Afghanistan have been able to pass through Pakistan on their way to their homelands, and a newspaper says hundreds have gone underground in Pakistani cities. It is not clear whether any are directly connected to a wave of attacks on Westerners - including two incidents aimed at Christians last week - but authorities believe the perpetrators are at least loosely connected to al Qaeda. Many members of Osama bin Laden's Afghanistan-based terror network are believed to have crossed the border into Pakistan's rugged tribal areas in the face of U.S.-led attacks late last year.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/.htm
* Fearing more attacks on Christians, Pakistan seeks militants
August 11, Islamabad -- Pakistani officials said tonight that they were searching for at least 15 members of an Islamic militant group who may be planning to carry out more attacks on Western and Christian targets in Pakistan. Law enforcement officials said they believed that the same group carried out attacks last week, on a Christian hospital and a missionary school, that killed 10 Pakistanis and injured 23 people.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/international/asia/12STAN.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/82225_pakistan12.shtml
* Pakistani opposition accuses Musharraf of blocking fair elections
Islamabad -- The head of Pakistan's main 15-party opposition alliance Monday accused the country's military ruler of pre-election "rigging" by ordering provincial government officials to help parties that favor President Pervez Musharraf. "He wants to block the way of democracy leaders from contesting the next elections," Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, head of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD), told The Associated Press from the eastern city of Lahore. "We will resist the army dictator's plans ... We will contest the elections."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020812_001421-search,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7670-2002Aug12.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/12/international0824EDT0485.DTL
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/224/world/Pakistani_opposition_accuses_M:.shtml
* India clears debris of burned Muslim homes
Ahmadabad, India -- Tens of thousands of Muslims in Gujarat state have waited six months for the debris of their houses, razed by Hindu mobs, to be cleared so that they could go home and start over. The visit Monday of India's new president to the scene of the country's worst Hindu-Muslim carnage in a decade appears to have finally pushed this western state's Hindu-nationalist government into action.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020812_001435-search,00.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-India-Religious-Strife.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-india-religious-strife0812aug12.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7649-2002Aug12.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/12/international0811EDT0483.DTL
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/224/world/Six_months_after_Hindu_Muslim_:.shtml
* Ten die in fresh Kashmir clashes
August 11, New Delhi -- Ten people have been killed in weekend clashes in the Kashmir region as violence intensifies ahead of state elections in the troubled region. In one incident, Indian army forces shot and killed four militants trying to cross into Indian-controlled Kashmir. Army sources told CNN the incident happened in the Machil sector along the line of control that separates the disputed region between Indian and Pakistani control.
http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/08/11/india.kashmir/index.html
* Jailed separatist leader urges non-violence in Kashmir
Srinagar, India -- Grenade attacks are a common form of rebellion in this Kashmir city, but on a recent afternoon, protest against India took the benign form of a hunger strike. A group of men sat shoeless under a tent, fasting in solidarity with Yasin Malik, a prominent Kashmiri separatist leader, who has spent the last several months in jail. The activists chose this form of non-violent protest, they said, because it was one favored by Malik himself, a frail, intense man known among his supporters as the Mahatma Gandhi of Kashmir.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-aug12.story
* Sri Lanka to allow rebels sea passage from North to East
Colombo -- The Sri Lankan government Monday accepted a major demand of the Tamil Tiger rebels that their cadres should be allowed to use a sea passage from the north to east to avoid the circuitous land route. "Yes, the government has informed us that from now on the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam will be allowed the sea passage," Teitur Torkelsson, a spokesman for the Norwegian-led international monitoring mission, said.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020812_001003-search,00.html
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* US may assist US companies investing in Pakistan: US official
Karachi, Pakistan -- The U.S. is looking at ways to help shoulder some of the security-related risks borne by American companies investing in Pakistan, a U.S. official said Monday. John K. Bauman, the U.S. consul-general in Karachi, said U.S. government-linked bodies such as the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the U.S. Export-Import Bank "are looking at ways to shoulder the burden of risks that businessmen investing here will be taking on, because of the security environment."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020812_001511-search,00.html
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* Immigrants' fears make them mark for con men
When Mamoon Darazi arrived in the United States from Pakistan last year he had a job, a family in Woburn, and one big need: the legal paperwork to stay in the country. So, prodded by a friend, he visited the International Institute for Africa & Caribbean's, Inc. in Cambridge. There, Darazi said he paid Al Mondel $1,400 to process an asylum claim with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/224/metro/Immigrants_fears_make_them_mark_for_con_men+.shtml
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--- South Asian News, August 12, 2002 ---
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