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--- South Asian News, November 11, 2002 ---

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* India,US to discuss sophiticated tech deals (reuters): U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Kenneth Juster will hold talks this week with Indian officials on allowing sale of sophisticated technology to New Delhi, banned for years under U.S. law, a spokesman said on Monday. U.S. embassy spokesman Gordon Duguid said Juster would discuss the issue with senior Indian officials on Tuesday and Wednesday, another sign of warming ties between the two countries which were on opposite sides during the Cold War. "We have discussed these issues regularly. But those discussions had to be limited in the past because of the (trade) sanctions," Duguid told Reuters. "The very fact we are having this meeting shows the relationship has moved forward." U.S. firms were not allowed to sell sophisticated equipment or technology to Indian firms under U.S. legislation banning sale of dual-use technology that could be used for both peaceful and military purposes.
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* Bill Gates gives $100 million to fight AIDS in India (reuters): Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates announced on Monday a $100 million grant to battle HIV/AIDS in India, which has the world's second largest number of victims of the deadly disease. The announcement came as Gates, sporting a "tika" on his forehead, began a four-day trip to India with a visit to an AIDS clinic in the Indian capital, where he talked with HIV-positive patients. The donation -- the largest single-country grant by his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -- would provide better access to HIV prevention measures for truck drivers, migrant workers and other mobile people who are seen as vulnerable to HIV infections.
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The people of Pakistan await the formation of a stable government in the month of Ramadan. Widespread appeal by political leaders in Quetta, Pakistan to save Aimal Kasi from the death penalty. In India, Kashmir's top separatist leader Yasin Malik is freed from prison after 8 months. Dozens of suspects detained and security tightened across Nepal in the wake of a general strike. In the editorial, read about the popularity and success that the Islamic parties enjoy at their recent electoral gains. In addition, read about Bill Gates' visit to India and his contribution of $100 million to help fight AIDS.

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* Pakistanis hope political alliance of religious parties brings harmony during Ramadan (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Press Enterprise) (KREM. com) (Sanluisobispo.com) (News Day) (The State) (Las Vegas Sun) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Star Tribune) (Boston) (MSNBC)
* Pakistan religious want U.S. out (Wall Street Journal) (Washington Post) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (News OK) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Star Tribune) (Tuscaloosa News) (Sarasota Herald Tribune)
* Pakistani political leaders ask U.S. to spare life of convicted killer Aimal Kasi (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Press Enterprise) (Sanluisobispo.com) (News Day) (Las Vegas Sun) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Star Tribune) (Boston) (MSNBC)
* Pakistan city hopes for clemency (Washington Post) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (News OK) (Lewiston Sun Journal) (KREM. com)
* Pakistan falls behind in battle for progress, former leader says (The Tennessean)
* Pakistan depositors rush to beat tithe (International Herald Tribune)
* India frees top Kashmiri separatist leader (Wall Street Journal) (The State) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Press Enterprise) (ABC News) (News Day) (Dayton Daily News) (Ohio News) (Burlington County Times) (Las Vegas Sun) (/spacer.gif) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Star Tribune) (Austin American-Statesman) (Sarasota Herald Tribune) (Tuscaloosa News) (Daily Times)
* Indian fishermen say Thai trawlers fired at them (MSNBC)
* Two die as poll campaign starts in India's Gujarat (MSNBC)
* Sri Lanka, rebels meet to discuss resettlement (Voice of America) (MSNBC)
* Nepalese protest King's firing of elected official (Voice of America)
* General strike called by rebels paralyzes Nepal (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Press Enterprise) (News Day) (Las Vegas Sun) (MSNBC) (Star Tribune) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Boston)

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* Islamists make electoral gains (Wall Street Journal) (Washington Post)

Business/Technology
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* India's HCL Tech in large backoffice deal-report (Forbes.com)
* Indians looking for more power under the hood (International Herald Tribune)

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* Bill Gates visits AIDS patients in India (Wall Street Journal) (Houston Chronicle) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Philadelphia Inquirer) (Silicon Valley News) (Mercury News) (ABC News) (Sanluisobispo.com) (Monterey Herald) (Boston) (The News Tribune) (The State) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Press Enterprise) (Ohio News) (News Day) (Dayton Daily News) (Las Vegas Sun) (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) (Burlington County Times) (Biloxi Sun Herald) (/spacer.gif) (Aberdeen News) (Star Tribune) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Austin American-Statesman) (Wichita Eagle) (Miami Herald) (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) (Duluth News Tribune) (Mercury News) (/spacer.gif)
* To Asians a spicy chew, to doctors a deadly habit (NY Times)
* Mediterranean diet lowers heart risk in India study (Life Clinic)
* Try a taste of India (St. Petersburg Times)
* Being in wrong place costs Pakistani year of freedom (San Francisco Chronicle)
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* Pakistanis hope political alliance of religious parties brings harmony during Ramadan

Rawalpindi, Pakistan -- The burial mounds lie in two neat rows outside the tiny Shah Najaf mosque, a reminder that those who lie beneath the soil were pious Muslims martyred by violence. Inside, Shafiq Hussain prays at the bullet-pocked Shiite mosque, marking the first Ramadan since two armed Sunni Muslim extremists walked in andd fire with assault rifles, riddling worshippers with bullets and killing 11 people.

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* Pakistan religious want U.S. out

Islamabad -- A leader of Pakistan's religious right, coming off the bloc's best election showing in the country's 55-year history, demanded Saturday that the U.S. military leave the country. "We were opposed to their war in Afghanistan before and we are opposed now. The vote of the people was clear. They want them out of Pakistan," Fazl-ur Rahman told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

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* Pakistani political leaders ask U.S. to spare life of convicted killer Aimal Kasi

Quetta, Pakistan -- Political leaders in the home state of convicted killer Aimal Kasi are appealing to the United States to spare his life, saying that by forgiving one person, Washington could win the hearts of millions over to the war on terrorism, a newspaper reported Monday. The 38-year-old Kasi, who was born in the dusty southern border town of Quetta, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Virginia on Thursday for gunning down two CIA employees as they sat in their cars outside the intelligence agency's headquarters.

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* Pakistan city hopes for clemency

Quetta, Pakistan -- U.S. authorities plan to execute Aimal Kasi this week for gunning down two CIA employees nine years ago as they sat in their cars outside the intelligence agency's headquarters in Virginia. But in his dusty hometown of Quetta, on the edge of a desert in southwest Pakistan, Kasi is remembered more as a shy but emotional man - one whose life should be spared even though he committed a terrible crime, his friends and tribal members said Saturday.

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* Pakistan falls behind in battle for progress, former leader says

Murfreesboro -- Pakistan is losing the battle for progress, modernization, and ultimately, democracy, a former prime minister of the country recently told an audience in Murfreesboro. Benazir Bhutto, the first and only woman prime minister of Pakistan and head of the Pakistan People's Party, said governments such as the current dictatorship provoke extremism.

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/02/11/25067688.shtml?Element_ID=25067688
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* Pakistan depositors rush to beat tithe

Islamabad -- Mohammad Shahzad withdrew 1.5 million rupees ($25,500) from his savings account at a local bank on Wednesday - a day before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He said he put it back on Friday. For Shahzad and millions of other Muslims, the one-day withdrawal is a way to avoid paying Zakaat, an Islamic tithe or 2.5 percent tax to the government, that banks are ordered to deduct on the first day of Ramadan.

http://www.iht.com/articles/76485.html
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* India frees top Kashmiri separatist leader

New Delhi -- Kashmir's top separatist leader Yasin Malik was freed from prison Monday, eight months after he was arrested for allegedly laundering money to finance terrorism, a security official said Monday. Malik, a former militant leader whose Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front is now a separatist political party, was freed from the Kot Bhalwal prison outside Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir state.

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* Indian fishermen say Thai trawlers fired at them

Calcutta, India -- Indian authorities have sent patrol boats to the Bay of Bengal after fishermen complained they had come under fire from Thai trawlers, a district official said on Sunday. Indian fishermen told officials the incident occured on Saturday near Kendodeep island, 150 km (93 miles) southeast of Calcutta, Alpan Bandopadhyay, the administrator of the South 24-Parganas district, told Reuters.

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* Two die as poll campaign starts in India's Gujarat

Godhra, India -- Two Hindu men were stabbed to death in religious violence on Monday in India's riot-scarred Gujarat state as campaigning began for a crucial state election, police said. Police are on high alert in Gujarat to prevent a recurrence of violence early this year in which more than 1,000 people were killed.

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* Sri Lanka, rebels meet to discuss resettlement

Colombo -- Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels officials met on Sunday to discuss resettlement of displaced people in the war-torn north and east of the island, as the two sides stepped up contact after talks in Thailand. More than 800,000 people are internally displaced and a committee to address resettlement and approaches to ending the 19-year conflict was appointed during a second session of peace talks earlier this month.

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* Nepalese protest King's firing of elected official

Kathmandu --There have been demonstrations in Nepal to protest King Gyanendra's sacking of an elected government last month. The protests come amid mounting concern about the future of democracy in the Himalayan kingdom.The demonstration was held on the 12th anniversary of Nepal's constitution that reinstated democracy in the mountain kingdom.

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* General strike called by rebels paralyzes Nepal

Kathmandu -- Authorities detained dozens of suspects and tightened security across Nepal on Monday as communist rebels tried to paralyze the Himalayan kingdom by ordering a general strike. Schools and businesses were closed and roads were largely deserted as many people in the capital stayed home on the first day of the three-day strike ordered by the rebels, who are fighting to overthrow Nepal's constitutional monarchy.

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* Islamists make electoral gains

Islamist candidates have pulled off a string of election successes in recent weeks, running on appeals to the faithful as well as challenges to entrenched politicians viewed as more corrupt than caring by exasperated voters. The successes - in four countries across a wide swath of the Islamic world from Morocco to Pakistan - represent a new pragmatism by political Islam that is increasingly turning to the ballot box to bring about change.

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* India's HCL Tech in large backoffice deal-report

New Delhi -- HCL Technologies Ltd, India's fifth-biggest software exporter, has bagged a $75 million project to provide back-office services to British Telecom, the Business Standard newspaper said on Monday. Another financial daily, The Economic Times, said U.S.-based human resource services firm Exult Inc is close to awarding a $20 million annual contract to the firm's subsidiary HCL E Serve for outsourcing of human resource services.

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* Indians looking for more power under the hood

New Delhi -- Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and other carmakers plan to introduce new cars in India as rising incomes and falling interest rates encourage Indians to buy bigger and more powerful cars. Indian consumers, who had mostly bought minicars with an engine capacity of 800cc, are increasingly buying cars with larger engines such as Fiat SpA's 1.2-liter Palio. Automakers are catching on, with plans for more compact cars to be introduced in Asia's fourth-biggest automobile market, worth $3 billion a year.

http://www.iht.com/articles/76480.html
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* Bill Gates visits AIDS patients in India

New Delhi -- Bill Gates will contribute $100 million to help fight AIDS in India, his foundation said Monday, as the Microsoft chairmand his controversy-laced visit to the country.ng the 4-day visit, Gates visited an AIDS clinic where he chatted with an HIV-positive patient. During the trip, he is scheduled to hold business meetings and make ''a long-term, strategic commitment to support the country's efforts to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS,'' a statement from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said.

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* To Asians a spicy chew, to doctors a deadly habit

The paan stores are easy to find in Jackson Heights. Just look for red gobs of spit on the sidewalk on 37th Street. For centuries, South Asians have chewed paan, a sweet mixture of lime paste, cardamom, fennel, honey, areca nut and, often though not always, flavored tobacco, all wrapped in a betel leaf. They placed the concoction in their cheeks, relished the flavor and then spit out the juice.

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* Mediterranean diet lowers heart risk in India study

New York -- A study conducted in India suggests that a "Mediterranean"-type diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains and certain oils can reduce the risk of heart attack and death in people who already have heart disease. Such a diet may be more helpful in reducing heart problems than diets that focus solely on cutting saturated fat and cholesterol, according to lead author Dr. Ram B. Singh of the Medical Hospital and Research Center in Moradabad, India and colleagues.

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* Try a taste of India

Tampa -- Young adults are dancing on the stage and all around you vendors are selling beautiful Indian jewelry, clothes, delicious food, art and much more. It's not a scene from a movie but a part of the annual India Festival in Tampa. The 15th edition of the festival will be from 1 to 10 p.m. Saturday. Each year, more than 7,000 to 8,000 people attend India Festival, said Rupesh R. Shah, chairman of the 2002 festival.

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* Being in wrong place costs Pakistani year of freedom

Pattan, Pakistan -- After a yearlong ordeal that took him full circle from this small mountain village to an 8-by-8-foot cell in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and back again, Mohammed Sanghir is just beginning to come to grips with how the international war on terror has changed his life. "Of course I was angry. I was furious . . . but helpless, praying to God they would see my innocence," Sanghir said of his 11-month incarceration. "Now I am full of joy and thanks to be back with my wife and my children."

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