--- South Asian News, November 23&24, 2002 ---(Weekend)

Pakistan swears in a new Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and other legislators putting an end to the three year military dictatorship. American intelligence agencies track evidence against Pakistan in exchanging missile technology and nuclear weapons with Korea. In Indian-controlled Kashmir four soldiers are killed and 11 wounded when two militants disguised as police officers stormed army barracks. Finance ministers from G-20 nations began talks on ways to jump-start the global economy and other issues like terrorism and globalization.

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* Pakistan swears in a prime minister, officially ending three year military dictatorship (Wall Street Journal) (Chicago Tribune) (Washington Post) (USA Today) (Voice of America) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (CNN) (Boston) (ABC News) (Knoxville News-Sentinel) (Sanluisobispo.com) (MSNBC)
* Pakistan government names cabinet ministers (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (MSNBC)
* Pakistan's Shaukat Aziz appointed as adviser to new PM (Wall Street Journal)
* Pakistan officially ends three year military dictatorship (Fox News)
* Pakistani who threatened Bush is among deportees (Washington Post)
* Pakistan, N.Korea swapped arms expertise (Wall Street Journal) (Washington Post) (MSNBC)
* In North Korea and Pakistan, deep roots of nuclear barter (NY Times) (The Commercial Appeal)
* Putin questions Pakistani, Saudi anti-terror efforts (Wall Street Journal) (Chicago Tribune)
* Pakistani security detains Iraqi doctor suspected of treating Taliban, family says (Wall Street Journal) (Washington Post) (The News Tribune) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Oakland Tribune) (KREM. com) (MSNBC)
* Pakistan ethnic-based political group factions clash; 1 dead (Wall Street Journal)
* Pakistan ferry capsizes; 6 children, 1 woman feared dead (Wall Street Journal)
* Kashmiri militant group demands release of leader (MSNBC)
* Separatist gunmen in Kashmir attack Indian barracks, kills 4 (Wall Street Journal) (The Oklahoman) (Sanluisobispo.com) (Reuters) (San Antonio News) (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
* Police kill bombing suspect in southern India (Wall Street Journal)
* India judge resigns from probe of defense bribery (Wall Street Journal)
* India Jalan: RBI to intervene in forex market when necessary (Wall Street Journal)
* Finance ministers from G-20talks in New Delhi (Wall Street Journal) (Voice of America)
* India advised to educate young (Sanluisobispo.com) (KREM. com) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
* Tiger rebelslaw court in eastern Sri Lanka (MSNBC)
* Forty rebels said killed in remote west Nepal (MSNBC)

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* Pakistan swears in a prime minister, officially ending three year military dictatorship

Islamabad -- A supporter of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was sworn in Saturday as head of a new civilian government that was seen as sympathetic to Pakistan's support for the United States in the war on terrorism. Zafarullah Khan Jamali's election is likely to ease concerns in the West about the rise of Pakistan's ultraconservative religious parties, who came in a surprising third in Oct. 10 elections and called for greater distance from the United States.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021123_000226,00.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-nov24.story
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/327/nation/ISLAMABAD_Pakistan_AP_Zafarull:.shtml
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* Pakistan government names cabinet ministers

Islamabad -- Pakistan's newly elected civilian government, sworn in on Saturday to end three years of military rule, announced key cabinet positions with the exception of finance minister. Three of the most powerful portfolios went to members of the anti-military Pakistan People's Party (PPP) who swapped sides earlier in the week to back Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali of the pro-military Pakistan Muslim League (PML) as prime minister.

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* Pakistan's Shaukat Aziz appointed as adviser to new PM

Karachi, Pakistan -- Pakistan's outgoing finance minister, Shaukat Aziz, was appointed Saturday as adviser to the newly elected prime minister, Zafarullah Jamali, a sign that he will continue his role in economic policymaking in the government. The announcement was made on state-run television and comes ahead of the former Citibank (C) executive's eventual election in the upper house of the parliament, the Senate, where he is contesting a seat on behalf of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam party.

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* Pakistan officially ends three year military dictatorship

Islamabad -- A supporter of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was sworn in Saturday as head of a new civilian government that was seen as sympathetic to Pakistan's support for the United States in the war on terrorism. Zafarullah Khan Jamali's election is likely to ease concerns in the West about the rise of Pakistan's ultraconservative religious parties, who came in a surprising third in Oct. 10 elections and called for greater distance from the United States. They had pushed to become part of a coalition government but will sit in opposition.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71287,00.html
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* Pakistani who threatened Bush is among deportees

A Pakistani man who threatened to kill President Bush a week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was deported to his home country this week along with 86 others in a special airlift, officials said yesterday. Khushal Khan, who attended George Washington University on a student visa, sent an e-mail to Bush, Vice President Cheney and their wives with the heading, "I will kill you," a week after the terror strikes in New York and on the Pentagon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ANov22.html
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* Pakistan, N.Korea swapped arms expertise

New York -- Pakistan has been helping North Korea's nuclear weapons program in return for missile technology that would strengthen its hand against India, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The paper, quoting unnamed officials and experts in Washington, Pakistan and South Korea, said the relationship between North Korea and Pakistan ''now appears much deeper and more dangerous than the United States and its Asian allies first suspected.''

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* In North Korea and Pakistan, deep roots of nuclear barter

Seoul -- Last July, American intelligence agencies tracked a Pakistani cargo aircraft as it landed at a North Korean airfield and took on a secret payload: ballistic missile parts, the chief export of North Korea's military. The shipment was brazen enough, in full view of American spy satellites. But intelligence officials who described the incident say even the mode of transport seemed a subtle slap at Washington: the Pakistani plane was an American-built C-130.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/international/asia/24KORE.html
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/nation_and_world/article/0,1426,MCA_454_1565475,00.html
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* Putin questions Pakistani, Saudi anti-terror efforts

Pushkin, Russia -- Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday the U.S. shouldn't wage war alone against Iraq, and he put Bush on the spot by questioning whether White House allies like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are doing enough to fight terrorism. "Where has Osama bin Laden taken refuge?" the Russian said in a joint news conference with Bush at an 18th century czarist castle.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021122_007298,00.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-nov23.story
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* Pakistani security detains Iraqi doctor suspected of treating Taliban, family says

Quetta, Pakistan -- Pakistani security officials working with FBI agents have arrested an Iraqi doctor on suspicion of treating members of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime, his family and a colleague said Saturday. Pakistani police and three Americans arrested Dr. Shokat Nafeh Hekmat at his home in Quetta, a western city near the Afghanistan border, on Oct. 16, his son, Mustafa Nafeh, told The Associated Press.

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* Pakistan ethnic-based political group factions clash; 1 dead

Karachi, Pakistan--Supporters from rival factions of an ethnic-based political group in Pakistan clashed in Karachi city Friday, leaving one man dead, police said. The fighting broke out among members of the Mutahida Qami Movement when supporters of one faction entered an area controlled by the other.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021122_004684,00.html
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* Pakistan ferry capsizes; 6 children, 1 woman feared dead

Multan, Pakistan -- Six children and one woman were missing and feared drowned after a river ferry capsized in central Pakistan, police said Saturday. The accident occurred at 11 a.m. (0600 GMT) in the town of Pano Aqil, 330 kilometers west of the city of Multan in eastern Punjab province, police spokesman Abdul Jabbar said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021123_000197,00.html
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* Kashmiri militant group demands release of leader

Islamabad -- A group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir demanded on Saturday that Pakistan release their leader they say is detained in the capital Islamabad. Calling Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar a ''big name in the Kashmiri separatist movement,'' a statement issued by his Al-Umar Mujahideen group said Pakistani authorities would be responsible for the consequences if he was not released immediately.

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
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* Separatist gunmen in Kashmir attack Indian barracks, kills 4

Srinagar, India -- Two men disguised as police officers stormed a barracks in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, killing four Indian soldiers and wounding 11 in a two-hour shootout that also left the assailants dead. Indian security forces blamed Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, one of several separatist groups behind a 12-year insurgency in Jammu-Kashmir, India's only predominantly Muslim state. The insurgents are fighting for independence or a merger with neighboring Pakistan

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* Police kill bombing suspect in southern India

Hyderabad, India -- Police in southern India on Saturday killed a suspected member of a Pakistan-based militant group, linking it to a bomb blast that killed two and wounded 19 others this week. The man, identified as Mohammed Azeem, was killed in a shootout on the outskirts of Hyderabad, capital of the Andhra Pradesh state, said M.V. Ramchandra Raju, the local police chief.

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* India judge resigns from probe of defense bribery

New Delhi, India -- The head of a judicial commission probing allegations of defense bribery resigned Saturday amid charges of impropriety from opposition parties, an Indian news agency reported. Justice K. Venkataswami resigned a day after opposition lawmakers said he had committed a wrong by taking a job with the Indian finance ministry to head a body that settles tax disputes.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021123_000214,00.html
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* India Jalan: RBI to intervene in forex market when necessary

New Delhi -- The Reserve Bank of India Governor, Bimal Jalan, said Saturday that flexibility in the exchange rate was necessary so that the central bank had the ability to intervene in the market as and when necessary. Jalan was speaking at a panel discussion at the meeting of the central bank governors and finance ministers of the Group of 20 nations. The Group of 20, created in 1999 to address international financial concerns, consists of the European Union and 19 separate nations: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S.

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* Finance ministers from G-20talks in New Delhi

New Delhi -- Finance ministers from around the world began talks Saturday on freezing funds to terrorist groups and ways to jump-start the global economy. Discussions among the Group of 20 nations were also expected to include issues crucial for international financial stability, such as crisis prevention and resolution, globalization, combatting the financing of terrorism, development and aid.

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* India advised to educate young

New Delhi -- An Indian businessman asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill on Friday what India should do to boost its economy. He replied: educate your children and keep them from dying of disease. Deeply affected by HIV-positive children who sang for him on his first day in India, O'Neill had a humane message for American and Indian business leaders worried about a slump in world economic growth, competition with China and high trade tariffs.

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* Tiger rebelslaw court in eastern Sri Lanka

Colombo -- Tamil Tiger rebels have set up a law court in eastern Sri Lanka to maintain law and order in rebel-held areas, a pro-rebel Web site said late on Friday, as the government and rebels prepare for a donor conference in Oslo. ''Weour police stations and law courts in our areas only and not in areas held by the government to maintain law and order,'' the Tamilnet Web site reported Para, the head of the Tamil Eelam Judicial Service, as saying.

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* Forty rebels said killed in remote west Nepal

Kathmandu -- Nepali soldiers blocked escape routes of Maoist rebels on Saturday after a fierce overnight gun battle in the remote west of the country that newspapers said killed more than 40 guerrillas. The soldiers battled rebels at Thulo Kavre village in the heavily forested Lamjung district, 150 km (95 miles) west of Kathmandu, late on Friday.

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