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--- South Asian News, August 30, 2002 ---
Osama bin Laden was probably killed in a U.S. air attack in eastern Afghanistan earlier this year, Pakistan's security officials conclude in their latest assessment. Police announce the discovery of video images linking a band of militants arrested this week to Osama bin Laden, providing a rare bright spot in the hunt for terrorists and their supporters in Pakistan. Pakistani election officials give preliminary approval to ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to contest October general elections. In the business section, Sykes Enterprises says it has expanded its foreign presence with a new 255-employee call center in Bangalore, India.
Top Stories
* Pakistan officials conclude bin Laden died during war (Wall Street Journal) (Financial Times - US Edition)
* Video links militants to bin Laden (Washington Times)
* Pakistan, India exchange gunfire (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate) (Burlington County Times)
* Eleven rebels, soldier killed in Indian Kashmir (NY Times) (Washington Post)
* Pakistan jailed extremist leader allowed to run in polls (Wall Street Journal)
* Sharif gets initial nod for Pakistan election bid (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate)
* Pakistan rejects Bhutto's election papers (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate)
* Islamic rebels a new threat in India's northeast (MSNBC)
* Prisoner-of-war swap delayed in Sri Lanka (MSNBC)
* Mob attacks Bangladesh opposition leader's convoy (MSNBC)
* Union Carbide chief 'found' (Financial Times - US Edition)
Editorial/Op-Ed
* A land of guns and whispers (Salon)
* Islam's dilemma: Extremist terror overshadows the tenet of compassion (Detroit Free Press)
Business/Technology
* India again delays process of selling 2 big oil stakes (NY Times)
* India to answer Sykes phones (SP Times)
* Sri Lanka to push economic revival with peace talks (MSNBC)
Top Stories
* Pakistan officials conclude bin Laden died during war
Singapore -- Osama bin Laden was probably killed in a U.S. air attack in eastern Afghanistan earlier this year, Pakistan's security officials concluded in their latest assessment of the whereabouts of al-Qaida leaders, the Financial Times reported on its Web site. Bin Laden, the presumed mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. isn't likely to have survived the intense U.S. bombardment of the militants' mountainous Tora Bora camp in eastern Afghanistan, senior government officials were quoted as saying.
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* Video links militants to bin Laden
Islamabad -- Police announced yesterday the discovery of video images linking a band of militants arrested this week to Osama bin Laden, providing a rare bright spot in the hunt for terrorists and their supporters in Pakistan. Days after Gen. Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command, called for taking the search for al Qaeda into the countries bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani authorities remain sensitive to U.S. participation in the search for terrorists on its territory.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/.htm
* Pakistan, India exchange gunfire
August 29, Islamabad -- Pakistan and Indian soldiers exchanged heavy artillery fire Friday in the northern sector of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, a senior military officer said. The latest hostile exchange between the two nuclear-rivals erupted when the Pakistan Army took a team of journalists to the tense Gultari region to show them where, Islamabad claims, the two sides exchanged heavy fire last week. ``Our valiant soldiers are giving matching response to the enemy forces'' in Gultari, a senior army officer said on the condition of anonymity.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Kashmir-Fighting.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-kashmir-fighting0829aug29.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug29.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/29/international1608EDT0709.DTL
http://www.phillyburbs.com/apNews/apstory.asp?ArticleNo=52897
* Eleven rebels, soldier killed in Indian Kashmir
August 29, Srinagar, India -- Eleven Muslim militants and an Indian soldier have been killed in a string of clashes in Indian Kashmir, police said on Thursday. Violence in the region, at the heart of an eight-month standoff between India and Pakistan, has increased since New Delhi announced it would hold state assembly elections in Kashmir in September and October. Militant groups fighting New Delhi's rule in the region have vowed to disrupt the elections.
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* Pakistan jailed extremist leader allowed to run in polls
Islamabad -- The Pakistan government's election commission Friday approved the application of the jailed leader of an outlawed Islamic group linked to al-Qaida to run for parliament in the October elections. Maulana Azam Tariq, leader of Sipaha-e-Sahaba, had filed to run for a seat from the southern city of Jhang. Election officials said Tariq's application was in order and was approved.
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* Sharif gets initial nod for Pakistan election bid
August 29, Lahore -- Pakistani election officials have given preliminary approval to ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to contest October general elections, his party said on Thursday. However, Sharif's candidacy still requires formal approval from the national Election Commission following an objection and appeals process lasting until September 12, poll officials said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-pakistan-politics-sharif.html
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-politics0829aug29.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-sharif0829aug29.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug29.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug29.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/29/international1047EDT0552.DTL
* Pakistan rejects Bhutto's election papers
Ratto Dero, Pakistan -- Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto lost another round in her comeback bid on Friday when election officials said she could not contest October polls as she had been convicted of failing to answer corruption charges. A lawyer for Bhutto, Ayaz Soomro, accused the election authorities of ''double standards'' and said he would challenge the decision before an election tribunal. On Thursday, poll officials in Lahore gave preliminary approval for another former premier, Nawaz Sharif, to contest the October 10 polls, saying no one had objected to his nomination, even though the military government has said that he, like Bhutto, would be arrested if he returned from exile to Pakistan.
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-pakistan-election-bhutto.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Bhutto.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug30.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug30.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/29/international0227EDT0446.DTL
* Islamic rebels a new threat in India's northeast
Guwahati, India -- Indian security officials said on Friday an Islamic militant group is trying to stoke tension between immigrant Bangladeshi Muslims and local ethnic groups in the remote northern insurgency-hit state of Assam. Police and intelligence officials said the Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) has trained cadres to launch suicide attacks at Hindu religious congregations, temples and on buses and trains.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Prisoner-of-war swap delayed in Sri Lanka
August 29, Colombo -- A prisoner-of-war exchange set for Saturday has been delayed but the gesture of goodwill should still happen before the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels sit down for peace talks next month, an official said. The Tigers had announced that they would hand over six soldiers and a naval officer and had given a list to the government of 23 rebels they wanted freed.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Mob attacks Bangladesh opposition leader's convoy
Nearly 100 people armed with sticks and stones attacked a convoy of cars carrying Bangladesh opposition leader Sheikh Hasina and some of her party leaders on Friday, party officials said. ''Hasina escaped unhurt but one car in the convoy was damaged in the attack,'' said Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Hasina's political secretary and a senior leader of her Awami League party. ''The attack was pre-planned,'' he said. The attack took place on a highway linking the southwestern districts of Satkhira and Jessore. Former prime minister Hasina was in the area after visiting a young woman who was injured in a recent ''terrorist'' attack, he said.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Union Carbide chief 'found'
Environment group Greenpeace said yesterday it had located a former head of Union Carbide and called on US authorities to extradite him to India, where he is wanted over a 1984 gas disaster that killed thousands. The leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal was one of the world's worst industrial accidents and killed 3,000 people. Thousands of others were left with lifetime illnesses.
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Editorial/Op-Ed
* A land of guns and whispers
August 29 -- For the past six days, Pakistani armed forces and police have been sweeping through the tribal areas north of Peshawar searching for arms, contraband and members of criminal gangs. In a bid to keep up with the U.S. habit of naming military operations, the latest action has been dubbed "Operation Clean Up" by the Pakistanis. On Tuesday, Frontier Corps soldiers were seen in Toyota pickups, driving at breakneck speed down Bara's main street searching for suspected criminals. Clusters of armed men guarded the entrances to small alleys separating the traditional Afghan mud-brick houses, while the locals did their best to go about their daily routine.
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/29/tribal/index_np.html
* Islam's dilemma: Extremist terror overshadows the tenet of compassion
After Muslim extremists burned down Javed Nazir's newspaper in Pakistan and threatened him with death for blasphemy, the Muslim journalist and his wife, Ameera, fled to the United States. Passing through New York City one year ago today on their way to the safety of a research fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ameera Nazir's one request was to tour the symbol of U.S. economic power: the World Trade Center.
http://www.freep.com/news/metro/faith30_20020830.htm
Business/Technology
* India again delays process of selling 2 big oil stakes
August 29, Bangalore, India -- The opposition of a central cabinet member appears to be bogging down India's efforts to step up the pace of privatization. The cabinet committee responsible for getting the large number of state-controlled companies into private hands has repeatedly put off meetings. It did so most recently today, when it was to have discussed plans for selling large stakes in two petroleum refining and retailing companies, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum. The meeting has been rescheduled for Sept. 7, but there is no assurance that it will take place then either.
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* India to answer Sykes phones
Tampa -- Sykes Enterprises said Thursday it has expanded its foreign presence with a new 255-employee call center in Bangalore, India. Sykes, a Tampa company that made its name providing technical support to computer hardware and software users, said the center will field calls for an unidentified U.S. credit-card issuer. The expansion marks a loosening of foreign investment policies, which had kept Sykes from joining the parade of competitors headed for India.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/08/30/Business/India_to_answer_Sykes.shtml
* Sri Lanka to push economic revival with peace talks
Colombo -- Sri Lanka will announce it isfor business after two decades of war at the same time the government sits down to talk peace with Tamil Tiger rebels next month, a senior cabinet minister said on Friday. The government will use the talks that start on September 16 to launch efforts around the world to attract investment and aid to the island, Constitutional Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris told a weekly cabinet news conference.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
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--- South Asian News, August 30, 2002 ---
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