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-- South Asian News, November 15, 2002 ---

Breaking News/Newswires

* India,US studying sensors to curb inflitration (Reuters): The United States and India have begun evaluating electronic sensors that could be placed along India's border with Pakistan in Kashmir to monitor incursions by Muslim rebels, U.S. officials said on Friday. The ground sensors, which can detect human movement, may be used to monitor Pakistani pledges to curb infiltration of militants in the mountainous terrain. Islamabad vowed to block the incursions when U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited India in June. http://in.news.yahoo.com/021115/137/1xu8i.html

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The Pakistani behind the CIA killings is executed in Virginia even as it was marked by protests and mourning in parts of Pakistan. In other stories, a bomb blast in a Pakistan bus kills two and injures 10. Trial begins for the Swedish company and business tycoon brothers in the Bofors arms deal case in India. In Nepal, the maoist rebels kill more than 50 in attacks on two hill towns. The editorial talks about the power of free elections to restore peace to long standing problems like Kashmir. In business, read about Pakistan Airlines' $1.5 bn deal with Boeing for purchase of airplanes.

Top Stories
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* Two killed, nine injured in Pakistan bus blast (Wall Street Journal) (Houston Chronicle) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (USA Today) (The News Tribune) (CNN) (The Oklahoman) (Sanluisobispo.com) (Herald Sun) (The News Tribune) (Fresnobee) (Anchorage Daily News) (KREM. com) (News Day) (News Observer) (Press Enterprise) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (MSNBC)
* Breakaway boost for Pakistan's pro-military bloc (MSNBC)
* Formation of Pakistan government remains elusive (Voice of America)
* Pakistani man handed over to Pakistan after being released from U.S. custody (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Press Enterprise) (News Day) (MSNBC)
* Pakistani man, killer of two in CIA rampage, is executed (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (Washington Post) (Voice of America) (Virginia Pilot News) (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) (Seattle Times) (Mercury News) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Boston) (KREM. com) (Chicago Sun Times) (Northwest Indiana News) (Biloxi Sun Herald) (Anchorage Daily News) (News Tribune) (Fresnobee) (Hampton Roads Daily Press) (Sunspot.net) (News Observer) (Las Vegas Sun) (ABC News) (Detroit News) (Times Union) (The Union Leader) (Center Daily) (The State) (Monterey Herald) (Philadelphia Inquirer) (Fox News) (Mercury News) (Sanluisobispo.com) (Star Tribune) (Oakland Tribune) (CNN) (CNN)
* Police patrol hometown of executed Pakistani man to guard against violence (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (KREM. com) (Press Enterprise) (Las Vegas Sun) (Dayton Daily News) (Sanluisobispo.com) (San Francisco Chronicle) (News Day) (Action News) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (MSNBC)
* Pakistanis mourn man executed for CIA shootings (NY Times) (Washington Post) (The State) (Philadelphia Inquirer) (Ohio News) (Center Daily) (Mercury News) (KREM. com)
* Pakistanis burn U.S. flag over planned execution (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Voice of America) (ABC News) (MSNBC)
* Pakistanis mixed on U.S. execution (LA Times) (Washington Post) (The News Tribune) (News Observer) (Herald Sun) (News Day)
* Dilemma for Musharraf: Bin Laden's resurfacing hints at al Qaeda haven in Pakistan (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Trail of tape linked to bin Laden began on street in Pakistan (NY Times)
* Afghan leaders worried Taliban's tentacles encircling Pakistan's new government (Seattle Times) (The State) (Sanluisobispo.com) (Ohio News)
* Court orders trial for business tycoons and defunct Swedish company in arms scandal (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (Washington Post) (Press Enterprise) (San Francisco Chronicle) (MSNBC)
* World Bank to lend India $250M to improve tech education (Wall Street Journal)
* Maoist rebels attack district headquarters, police post in northwest Nepal (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (The State) (Herald Sun) (Las Vegas Sun) (Dayton Daily News) (Voice of America) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Press Enterprise) (Ohio News) (News Day) (ABC News) (Sanluisobispo.com) (CNN) (News Observer) (MSNBC)
* Sri Lanka sees road repairs among priorities for international aid (Wall Street Journal)
* Sri Lanka parliament OKs budget; defense spending crunch (Wall Street Journal)
* Eleven dead in S.Asia storm, search on for missing (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (Washington Post) (LA Times) (USA Today) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Press Enterprise) (News Observer) (News Day) (ABC News) (Fox News) (Star Tribune) (Sanluisobispo.com) (The Oklahoman) (CNN) (MSNBC)
* Sri Lanka pres' party: peace talks leading to division (Wall Street Journal) (MSNBC)
* Fireworks erupt on stranded South Korean ship (MSNBC)

Editorial/Op-Ed
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* Could there be a breakthrough over Kashmir? (Transnational Foundation)

Business/Technology
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* Pakistan international air orders eight Boeing 777s (Wall Street Journal) (Wichita Eagle) (The News Tribune) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Reinsurance News Network)

Other Stories
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* Bill Gates welcomed with huge condom (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (InsideVC Network) (Computer User) (Information Week) (Press Enterprise) (ABC News) (Digital Mass Boston) (CMP Media) (The Island Packet) (CNET Networks) (Chicago Sun Times) (The Salt Lake Tribune) (News Day) (San Francisco Chronicle) (International Herald Tribune)
* In Pakistan, trouble looms for 'English' films (NY Times) (San Francisco Chronicle) (San Francisco Chronicle)
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* Two killed, nine injured in Pakistan bus blast

Karachi, Pakistan -- Two people were killed and nine wounded when a bomb exploded in a bus in southern Pakistan on Friday, police and emergency workers said. They said the blast occurred at a bus station in the city of Hyderabad, 160 km, (100 miles), from Karachi. ''Eleven people were injured in the blast. Two died on the way to the hospital,'' an official of Edhi Ambulance Service told Reuters, adding the bomb had been placed underneath a seat.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20Blast
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* Breakaway boost for Pakistan's pro-military bloc

Islamabad -- Ten newly elected members of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's party announced a breakaway faction on Friday, a move expected to boost the bid of Pakistan's main pro-military party to form a government. The group's leader Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat told a news conference after midnight it wanted to facilitate a transfer of power from the army to civilians, but the move was angrily denounced by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
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* Formation of Pakistan government remains elusive

In Pakistan, more than a month has passed since general elections and there is still no sign of a coalition government assuming office. Pakistani voters have elected a National Assembly (the lower house of Parliament), in which no party has enough seats to form a government by itself. Leaders of three major parties in the newly elected National Assembly have held several rounds of talks aimed at forming a coalition government.

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=BB2BE894-AAF0-4C3F-8E86D4E03955912E
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* Pakistani man handed over to Pakistan after being released from U.S. custody

Peshawar, Pakistan -- Pakistan has detained for questioning a Pakistani man who was recently released from a U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Pakistani officials said Thursday. Javed Farouqi, originally arrested in Afghanistan for suspected links to the Taliban and al-Qaida, was flown from Cuba to Bagram Air Base in northern Afghanistan, said a Pakistani security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021114_006766,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Guantanamo.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-guantanamo1114nov14,0,2664196.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ANov14.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20Guantanamo
http://www.pe.com/ap_news/International/Pakistan_Guantanamo_36287I.shtml
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-guantanamo1114nov14,0,7743744.story
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
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* Pakistani man, killer of two in CIA rampage, is executed

Jarratt -- A Pakistani man who killed two CIA employees in a 1993 shooting rampage outside the agency's headquarters was executed Thursday as the State Department warned of global retaliation against Americans. Aimal Khan Kasi, 38, died by injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., at 9:07 p.m. EDT.

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http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/11/14/pak.execution.ap/index.html
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* Police patrol hometown of executed Pakistani man to guard against violence

Islamabad -- Heavily armed paramilitary troops patrolled the dusty streets of Quetta on Friday, guarding against any violence in the hometown of Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani man executed by lethal injection in Virginia for the 1993 murders of two CIA employees. Some 2,000 extra police and soldiers were on the streets, some riding atop vans and pickups and armed with automatic weapons.

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* Pakistanis mourn man executed for CIA shootings

Quetta, Pakistan -- The native city of a Pakistani Islamic militant executed in the United States for murdering two CIA employees mourned his death Friday and hundreds of people thronged to his home to pay respects. The family of Mir Aimal Kansi, who was executed by lethal injection for the twin killings in 1993, appealed for calm after a series of protests earlier in the week hailing him a hero and threatening retaliation against America.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-execution-pakistan.html
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* Pakistanis burn U.S. flag over planned execution

Quetta, Pakistan -- Pakistani protesters burned the U.S. flag and called for a strike in the home town of a Muslim militant due to be executed later on Thursday in the United States. Pakistani Mir Aimal Kansi was scheduled to die by lethal injection in Virginia for the murders of two Central Intelligence Agency employees in 1993. ''Aimal is our hero!'' about 150 members of Kansi's tribe chanted as they marched through the streets of the central city of Quetta, not far from the border with Afghanistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-pakistan-usa-execution.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-kasi-execution1115nov14,0,1262727.story
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* Pakistanis mixed on U.S. execution

Islamabad -- A delivery man, car washer and former spy chief in Pakistan were all opposed to Thursday's execution of countryman Aimal Khan Kasi in the United States for killing two CIA employees. But their reasons differed, underscoring the complex and unusual relationship between America and Pakistan - allies in the ongoing war on terror.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-kasi-execution1114nov14,0,2330723.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ANov14.html
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-kasi-execution1115nov14,0,5721156.story
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* Dilemma for Musharraf: Bin Laden's resurfacing hints at al Qaeda haven in Pakistan

Islamabad -- As the clues to the whereabouts of the world's most wanted man add up, almost all seem to point toward Pakistan. American officials say they believe that Osama bin Laden and many high- ranking al Qaeda leaders fled to this country during last year's U.S.-led onslaught to oust the Taliban regime from Afghanistan.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/15/MN227136.DTL
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* Trail of tape linked to bin Laden began on street in Pakistan

Islamabad -- The audiotape that appears to be Osama bin Laden's latest message to the world was handed over by a man on the street here two days ago, the correspondent for Al Jazeera who received it said. Ahmed Muhaffaq Zaidan, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, said a man called him at 10 p.m. and asked to meet him at once, saying he had something important to give him. The man spoke English with a Pakistani accent. When they met, Mr. Zaidan said, the man had his face half-hidden with a scarf and left immediately without answering any questions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/15/international/asia/15TAPE.html
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* Afghan leaders worried Taliban's tentacles encircling Pakistan's new government

Kabul -- Afghanistan's government is growing increasingly alarmed that the political ascendancy of pro-Taliban Islamic fundamentalist parties in neighboring Pakistan will significantly increase the ability of the former Taliban to reorganize and regroup. A year after the Taliban was driven out of Kabul, most of its senior leaders are still at large and continue efforts to challenge the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai, Afghan and U.S. officials say.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134576618_pakistan15.html
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/4517447.htm
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/4517447.htm
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/world/4517447.htm
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* Court orders trial for business tycoons and defunct Swedish company in arms scandal

New Delhi -- A court on Thursday ordered the trial of defunct Swedish company Bofors and a trio of business tycoon brothers on corruption charges related to the 1986 sale of artillery guns to the Indian army. Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja, who are British citizens, and their brother Prakash, a Swiss citizen, were charged Thursday with accepting $8.3 million in illegal commissions from the defunct Swedish weapons maker, AB Bofors, to speed the sale of the howitzers.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-India-Bofors.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ANov14.html
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http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
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* World Bank to lend India $250M to improve tech education

Washington -- The World Bank said Thursday it will provide a $250 million zero-interest loan to India to help the country strengthen its technical and engineering-education system, a step it said will make Indian industry internationally competitive. The loan will finance a program launched by the Indian government to improve the quality of technical education in states that agree to undertake specific reforms. India has more than 800 educational institutions that offer engineering degrees, and more than 1,200 that offer related diplomas.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021114_010126,00.html
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* Maoist rebels attack district headquarters, police post in northwest Nepal

Kathmandu -- Maoist rebels fighting to topple Nepal's constitutional monarchy attacked two mountain towns, killing at least 56 policemen and soldiers in a setback to possible peace talks. The Thursday night assaults came just hours after the deputy prime minister said that the government was working to start negotiations with the rebels.

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http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/620699p-4771705c.html
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* Sri Lanka sees road repairs among priorities for international aid

Colombo -- Rebuilding houses, roads and sewage systems in war-ravaged Sri Lanka are the government's priorities for funds it hopes to raise at a donor conference in Oslo, Norway later this month, a Cabinet minister said Thursday. At least 10 countries including the United States, Britain, France and Australia are expected to attend the Nov. 25 conference, which comes amid new hope for an end to the country's 19-year civil war.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021114_004465,00.html
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* Sri Lanka parliament OKs budget; defense spending crunch

Colombo -- Sri Lanka's parliament Thursday approved the national budget for 2003 which the government said would help revive the economy of this war-ravaged island. The budget was passed with a 36-vote majority, with 129 votes in favor and 93 against. The main opposition People's Alliance party and the Marxist People's Liberation Front, the third largest party in the 225-member house, voted against the budget, while the governing United National Front coalition and its allies voted in favor.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021114_005657,00.html
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* Eleven dead in S.Asia storm, search on for missing

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh -- Indian and Bangladeshi authorities were searching on Thursday for about 160 fishermen still missing two days after a cyclone lashed their coasts, killing at least 11 people. The storm, which hit the area on Tuesday, killed two people in India and at least nine in Bangladesh. "Six bodies have been recovered from the Bay of Bengal and with these, the deaths of nine people were confirmed," a senior Bangladeshi police officer told Reuters at Cox's Bazar, 260 miles southeast of the capital Dhaka.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70235,00.html
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3428896.html
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/4512432.htm
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=946355&pic=none&TP=getarticle
http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/11/13/bangladesh.storm/index.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
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* Sri Lanka pres' party: peace talks leading to division

Colombo -- Sri Lanka's opposition party on Friday questioned Norway's neutrality in peace talks between the government and the Tamil rebels and expressed concern that the talks may lead to creation of a separate Tamil state. "Recent actions of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam demonstrate a clear trend toward the consolidation of its authority in the northern and eastern provinces, which creates a grave risk of a separate state being established as a reality on the ground," the Peoples' Alliance said in a statement

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021115_001260-search,00.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
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* Fireworks erupt on stranded South Korean ship

Colombo -- Explosions aboard a South Korean ship carrying fireworks to Rotterdam left it burning off the southeast coast of Sri Lanka for a fourth day on Friday, after an initial blast killed one person. Nineteen crew members of the 285-metre (930 ft) long Hanjin Pennsylvania were rescued but one remained missing, said an official at Colombo Radio, which monitors maritime communications around Sri Lanka.

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
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Editorial/Op-Ed
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* Could there be a breakthrough over Kashmir?

Elections do have a way of clearing the air, sometimes as with Turkey's earlier this week, bringing in an entire new weather pattern. So it was too with last month's election in Kashmir. The Indian prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, presiding over a government of Hindu nationalists, gave his opposition rival, the Congress party of Sonia Gandhi, tacit encouragement to form a coalition government with a local moderate Muslim party, the People's Democratic Party.

http://www.transnational.org/forum/power/2002/11.01_Kashmir.html
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* Pakistan international air orders eight Boeing 777s

Seattle -- Boeing Co. (BA) sold eight Boeing 777 airplanes to Pakistan International Airlines for $1.5 billion. In a press release Thursday, Boeing said deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2004 and continue through 2008. The airplane order includes three 777-200ER, two 777-200LR and three 777-300ER airplanes for use on Pakistan International's long-haul routes.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021114_006731,00.html
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/business/4522924.htm
http://www.tribnet.com/business/story/2139074p-2226195c.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/11/14/financial0142EST0005.DTL
http://www.newsre.com/display_news.asp?doc_id=CT2002317w4091&subject=All+Industry+News&category=Non-Life

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Other Stories
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* Bill Gates welcomed with huge condom

Hyderabad, India -- An eight-foot tall condom greeted Microsoft chairman Bill Gates Thursday during a visit to an Indian city, a tribute to mark his generosity in fighting AIDS. The world's richest man smiled when he saw the giant air-filled condom in India's rising technology hub of Hyderabad, where his company hasd its first software development center outside the United States.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021114_000292,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-india-condom.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/12/international/asia/12GATE.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-india-bill-gates1114nov14,0,2697556.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ANov14.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Bill%20Gates
http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/international/article/0,1375,VCS_124_1547571,00.html
http://www.computeruser.com/news/02/11/15/news2.html
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021113S0005
http://www.pe.com/ap_news/International/India_Bill_Gates_36286I.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20021114_1165.html
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/wire_story.html?uri=/dailynews/318/economy/Gates_visits_India_s_software_:.shtml
http://www.commweb.com/article/IWK20021114S0001
http://www.islandpacket.com/24hour/technology/story/619379p-4763211c.html
http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/.html?tag=ats
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-gates14.html
http://www.sltrib.com/11152002/nation_w/16789.htm
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-india-bill-gates1114nov14,0,6908984.story
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/15/ED97878.DTL
http://www.iht.com/articles/77094.html
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* In Pakistan, trouble looms for 'English' films

Peshawar, Pakistan -- About a dozen young Pakistani men stood in silent clusters in front of the Shama movie theater on a recent night, doing their best to look casual. But when the box officed, the rush was on. The young men standing near the entrance surged forward and tried to slip in before anyone could see them. A few older men emerged from the shadows and darted inside. Stragglers arrived for the next 15 minutes, including one young man who held a scarf in front of his face as he entered the theater.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/15/international/asia/15STAN.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/15/MN184018.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/11/14/international0610EST0503.DTL

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--- South Asian News, November 15, 2002 ---

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