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--- South Asian News, October 17, 2002 --- (International)

India announces withdrawal of troops from its border except Kashmir and Pakistan reciprocates the move. In a further fillip to the reduction in tensions, Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee plans to visit Pakistan for the South Asia Summit early next year although India has maintained its position that there will be no early Indo-Pak talks. Kashmir politicians get more time to put together a coalition government and in Pakistan, the Islamic alliance which tasted substantial electoral success has named a pro-Taliban cleric as its Prime Ministerial choice.

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Americas

* India recalls troops from Pakistan border, except in Kashmir (The News Mexico)
* Pakistan to withdraw troops along Indian border (The Star)

Asia-Pacific

* India announces partial withdrawal from Pakistan border (Japan Today) (Xinhuanet) (Channel News Asia)
* Pakistan to withdraw troops from border with India (Xinhuanet)
* India's Vajpayee to visit Pakistan for South Asia summit (Channel News Asia)
* India rules out early Indo-Pak Talks (Xinhuanet)
* China welcomes India's decision to withdraw troops from border with Pakistan (Xinhuanet)
* 13 killed in Jammu, Kashmir (Xinhuanet)
* China to sell 150 FC-1 jet fighters to Pakistan (Japan Today)
* Six injured in explosion in Indian bus terminus (Xinhuanet)

Europe

* Pakistan to withdraw front-line troops (BBC) (Swiss Info) (Guardian) (Independent) (Ananova)
* India pulling back troops from border (Swiss Info) (Guardian) (Reuters)
* Kashmir leaders given new deadline (BBC)
* Pakistani Postal Clerks Questioned (Guardian)
* Pakistanis Mixed on Religious Parties (Guardian)
* Norway to meet Tamil rebel leader (BBC)
* Army fights crime in Bangladesh (BBC)

Middle East

* Pakistan to withdraw forces from border (IRNA) (Haaertz Daily)
* India to cut border troop strength (Gulf Daily News) (IRNA)
* Pakistan to examine Indian decision (Gulf News)
* Indian PM to attend regional summit in Pakistan (Haaertz Daily)
* India rules out early talks with Pakistan (IRNA)
* EU urges India and Pakistan to take steps to de-escalate tensions (IRNA)
* Parties given more time in Kashmir (Arab News) (Gulf News)
* Pro-Taliban cleric in running for premier (Gulf Daily News) (Gulf News) (IRNA)
* Musharraf says Pakistan election to herald new era (IRNA)
* Indian military expert views India's decision on troop withdrawal (IRNA)
* Nasrullah Khan rules out cooperation with PML-QA (Gulf News)
* Separatist group in India's northeast calls for plebiscite (IRNA)
* Curfew imposed to prevent clashes (Gulf News)
* 'Time' report called fictitious, malicious (Gulf News)
* Nine injured in Karachi blasts (Gulf Daily News)

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Business/Technology

* Indian drugs firm trumpets US success (BBC)
* Islamists unveil economic policy (BBC)

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Americas

* India recalls troops from Pakistan border, except in Kashmir

India announced Wednesday it would withdraw troops deployed for 10 months on its frontiers with Pakistan but said the build-up would remain in place on the borders of divided Kashmir. In a major step toward de-escalating tensions in nuclear-armed South Asia, Defense Minister George Fernandes said the Indian forces had been "asked to re-deploy from positions on the international border with Pakistan, without impairing their capacity to respond decisively to any emergency." But he added: "There will be no lowering of the vigil in Jammu and Kashmir," giving the formal name for the Indian state. He declined to give the manner or a time-frame for the withdrawal.

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* Pakistan to withdraw troops along Indian border

Pakistan today announced it would withdraw hundreds of thousands of troops deployed along its border with India to their "peacetime locations," matching a similar pledge by India. The moves were the most concrete steps by the two South Asian nuclear rivals to reduce tension since they nearly went to war in May. "The government of Pakistan has decided to withdraw its forces from the Pakistan-India border to their peacetime locations," the Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement. "The pullback will commence shortly." The ministry said the decision was made after a top level meeting chaired by Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

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Asia-Pacific

* India announces partial withdrawal from Pakistan border

The Indian government said Wednesday it will withdraw part of the military forces that had been moved to the border areas with Pakistan last December. In making the announcement at a news conference, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said Indian troops deployed in Kashmir along the Line of Control, the effective border between Pakistan and India, will maintain full alert.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=234766
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-10/16/content_599172.htm
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/21997/1/.html

* Pakistan to withdraw troops from border with India

Pakistan has decided to withdraw its troops from the border with India to their peace-time locations, a press release from the Foreign Office said on Thursday. "The government of Pakistan has decided to withdraw its forces from the Pakistan-India border to their peace-time locations," the press release said. The decision was taken in a high-level meeting chaired by President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday. The pull back will commence shortly, the press release said.

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* India's Vajpayee to visit Pakistan for South Asia summit

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will visit Pakistan for the next South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation summit early next year. Mr. Vajpayee is making the trip not to discuss bilateral matters with Pakistan but as head of government of a member of the regional grouping. The South Asian grouping, which has seven members, holds an annual summit of heads of state and government. Mr. Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf both attended the grouping's last summit earlier this year in Nepal.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/22054/1/.html

* India rules out early Indo-Pak Talks

India Wednesday ruled out early resumption of talks with Pakistan, asserting that a climate for dialogue could be created only if Islamabad put a permanent end to cross-border terrorism. "The climate for dialogue can be created only if Pakistan jettisons cross-border terrorism including its sponsorship," an External Affairs Ministry spokesman told reporters. "I don't believe that the situation has changed in this regard," he said indicating that there has been no let up in Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and infiltration. New Delhi's views have also been conveyed to the United States and other key countries who have been pressing India for resumption of dialogue with Pakistan.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-10/17/content_599212.htm

* China welcomes India's decision to withdraw troops from border with Pakistan

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said here on Thursday that China welcomed India's decision to withdraw some of its troops from its border with Pakistan. Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes Wednesday announced a partial withdrawal of troops from the international border with Pakistan, but announced no changes in the deployment of armed forces in India-occupied Kashmir. Speaking at Thursday's regular press conference, Zhang said that China welcomes all efforts aimed at reducing the current tension between India and Pakistan.

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* 13 killed in Jammu, Kashmir

Nine militants, including four infiltrators, and a security soldier were among 13 people killed and two injured in Jammu and Kashmir since Tuesday night, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Security forces averted a major tragedy with detection of power Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in busy Bandipora area of Baramaulla district, the spokesman said. The IED planted by militants in a gas cylinder near a petrol pump at Vihar in the area which was detected by Army on Wednesday, he said. Army also foiled an infiltration bid when troops gunned down four Pakistani intruders at Fateh Gali in Keran sector of Kupwara district Tuesday night, the spokesman said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-10/17/content_599197.htm

* China to sell 150 FC-1 jet fighters to Pakistan

China has begun production of the FC-1 multipurpose fighter jet in preparation to sell about 150 of the highly maneuverable, lightweight planes to Pakistan, an Asian military source said Wednesday. The start of production of the fighter, jointly developed by China and Pakistan, on Sept 16 will strengthen ties between the countries' defense forces while also threatening to agitate Pakistan's neighboring fellow nuclear power India.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=234732

* Six injured in explosion in Indian bus terminus

At least six persons were injured on Wednesday night in a crude bomb explosion inside the state transport bus terminus at Lunavada bus terminus, about 40 kilometers from Godhra of west India's Gujarat state, a police spokesman said. The explosion took place around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday inside the bus terminus complex, the spokesman said. Two of the injured are staff members of the State Transport Corporation, according to the Press Trust of India. The police spokesman said, "It might be similar to Tuesday's nature of planting of the crude bomb," he added.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-10/17/content_599200.htm

Europe

* Pakistan to withdraw front-line troops

Pakistan has said it will withdraw its forces from its border with India, a day after India announced it would partially reduce its own front-line troops. A Pakistan foreign ministry statement said the move would begin shortly, after describing India's decision as "a step in the right direction". On Wednesday India announced it would partially pull back troops from its border with Pakistan, although it would keep them deployed in Kashmir. And Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is to travel to Pakistan for a summit in January according to a government minister. India's junior Foreign Minister, Digvijay Singh, has said that Mr. Vajpayee will attend the next meeting of the seven nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc).

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2096977,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=343376
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* India pulling back troops from border

India's army is due to begin pulling hundreds of thousands of soldiers back from the border with Pakistan, a spokesman said, ending the longest and biggest peacetime deployment in the country's history. "We expect to receive the formal order today. We will start redeploying as soon as the orders are received," Brigadier Shruti Kant told Reuters on Thursday. In the biggest breakthrough in a tense confrontation with nuclear neighbour Pakistan, India on Wednesday announced a limited withdrawal of troops and armour from the western border where they had been on battle alert since December.

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* Kashmir leaders given new deadline

October 16 -- The governor of Indian-administered Kashmir has given the three major political parties until 5 pm on Monday to stake a claim to form the next government. A communication issued by the governor's office says the leader of any of the three parties, claiming to form the government, must produce letters of support from the parties or individual legislators supporting backing him for chief minister. These main parties are the National Conference, the Congress and the People's Democratic Party (PDP). According to the constitution, the new government should have been in place by 17 October, or the region would have come under direct rule from Delhi.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2333891.stm

* Pakistani Postal Clerks Questioned

Karachi, Pakistan -- Authorities are questioning eight post office employees about a series of parcel bombs that exploded in quick succession in Karachi, injuring nine people, police and postal officials said Thursday. Police hope the men will be able to give descriptions of the people who posted the packages, said the head of Karachi police's investigations department, Fayyaz Leghari. The small bombs went off at two police stations and a government office on Wednesday. One of the postal employees being questioned was injured when the parcel went off in a senior police official's office.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2096986,00.html

* Pakistanis Mixed on Religious Parties

Many Pakistanis downplay the impact of the bloc of religious parties, known as the United Action Forum, pointing out that their major power bases are rooted in the country's two most rural provinces, areas steeped in religion and poverty. Both border Afghanistan, and many who live there have relatives who went to fight for the Taliban. The parties ``may pursue their manifesto, but they are not in a position to bring any overall change in the society,'' said Malik Suhail Ahmed, a 40-year-old real estate agent in the southern port city of Karachi.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2096984,00.html

* Norway to meet Tamil rebel leader

October 16 -- The Norwegian-led team will travel to a Tamil Tiger-controlled area of Wanni in northern Sri Lanka to meet the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran says rebel controlled radio. The rebel's radio station, the Voice of the Tigers, made the announcement quoting the chief Tamil negotiator Anton Balasingham who has recently travelled from London to Wanni. Mr. Balasingham said Norway's Deputy Foreign Minister, Vidar Helgessen will lead the team. The development of a joint task force, representing both the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government already raised at the Thai peace-talks last month, will be a focal point of discussion. The other issue of high security zones controlled by government security forces in the north and the east of the Tamil homeland will also be on the agenda.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2334019.stm

* Army fights crime in Bangladesh

Thousands of army troops have been deployed across Bangladesh to fight a rising crime wave. The Bangladesh Government says the army has been called in to help other law enforcing agencies to crack down on criminals. The government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, which celebrated its first anniversary in power early this month, has been facing sharp criticism for it's failure to improve the law and order. From early on Thursday, the soldiers took up positions in all the major cities including the capital Dhaka, and began conducting raids to arrest suspected criminals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2335849.stm

Middle East

* Pakistan to withdraw forces from border

Pakistan has decided to withdraw its forces from the Pak-India border to their peacetime locations, a Foreign Office statement said Thursday. The decision was taken today in a high-powered meeting chaired by the President General Pervez Musharraf, the statement said. The Pakistan decision came one day after India's decision to partially pull back troops from its border with Pakistan. However, India said it will not withdraw troops along the Line of Control (LoC) which divides Pakistan and India in the disputed Kashmir region. The pullback will commence shortly, the statement further said.

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* India to cut border troop strength

India announced a limited withdrawal of troops from its border with Pakistan yesterday, a move analysts said could help defuse a stand-off between the two nuclear powers. But forces would not be reduced in disputed Jammu and Kashmir state, Defence Minister George Fernandes told reporters after a meeting of the cabinet's security committee. Meanwhile, 14 people, 10 of them Muslim rebels, were killed in fresh separatist-linked violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, where pro-India political parties are trying to form a new government, police said yesterday.

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* Pakistan to examine Indian decision

Pakistan said it would examine the Indian decision yesterday to withdraw its troops from the international border between the two countries before giving its reaction. "We will first examine this decision and then respond," Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan told Gulf News. Defence analyst Ghulam Umar, a retired lieutenant general and former director of military operations, welcomed the Indian move, saying it would help improve the climate for a dialogue on resolving Kashmir dispute and other outstanding issues.

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=65879

* Indian PM to attend regional summit in Pakistan

India's prime minister planned to visit Pakistan for a regional summit soon, a junior minister said on Thursday, a day after India announced it would withdraw troops from the border to ease tensions with its nuclear rival. Junior foreign minister Digvijay Singh told Aaj Tak television Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee would attend the summit of South Asian leaders due to be held in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, early in 2003. "India has always been supportive of SAARC... so the prime minister will go to this summit," he said, referring to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.

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* India rules out early talks with Pakistan

October 16 -- India on Wednesday ruled out early resumption of talks with Pakistan, asserting that a climate for dialogue could be created only if Islamabad put a permanent end to cross-border terrorism. India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson told reporters on Wednesday evening, "The climate for dialogue can be created only if Pakistan jettisons cross border terrorism including its sponsorship. "I don't believe that the situation has changed in this regard," the spokesperson said indicating that there has been no let up in Pakistan-sponsored infiltration. New Delhi's views have also been conveyed to the US and other key countries who have been pressing India for resumption of dialogue with Pakistan.

http://www.irna.com/en/world/.ewo.shtml

* EU urges India and Pakistan to take steps to de-escalate tensions

October 16 -- The European Union Wednesday welcomed the completion of multi-party National and Provincial elections in Pakistan. "The EU hopes all parties and political forces will work together to achieve good governance and functioning democratic institutions in Pakistan and the transfer of power from a military to a civilian administration,'' said a EU-Presidency announcement. ''Furthermore, and after the conclusion of both the electoral process in Jammu & Kashmir and elections in Pakistan, the European Union calls on India and Pakistan to take steps to de-escalate tension between them and to resume as soon as possible a diplomatic dialogue on all issues that divide them, including Kashmir,'' concluded the statement.

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* Kashmir problem by its very nature appalling, says British

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Mike O'Brien said here that there was no justification for militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and the problem by its very nature is "appalling." Mike O'Brien, who arrived here on Wednesday, said Britain has a strong policy against terrorism. "Terrorism by its very nature is appalling. India has faced terrorism in its most appalling form during the attack on Parliament." Referring to the recent elections in Kashmir, the British minister said "it will now be an opportunity for India and the elected representatives in Kashmir to talk to others to resolve the long-term problems of Kashmir and resolve threats from terrorism."

http://www.irna.com/en/world/.ewo.shtml

* Parties given more time in Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir Governor G.C. Saxena yesterday gave political parties time till Monday to form a new government following the state assembly poll. The caretaker government of Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah would continue in office till then, Saxena said in a four-line statement read out to reporters. It was believed here that governor's rule would have been imposed in the state if a new government were not formed before the life of the previous assembly ends today. That has now apparently been put off for the time being.

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=19488
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=65865

* Pro-Taliban cleric in running for premier

A pro-Taliban cleric was formally nominated as candidate for prime minister yesterday by an alliance of fundamentalist Islamic parties holding the balance of power in Pakistan's hung parliament. "The supreme council meeting of Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has decided to propose Maulana Fazlur Rehman as candidate for prime minister," MMA chief Shah Ahmed Noorani announced at a press conference here. Rehman heads the pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema-I-Islam (JUI), one of six parties in the alliance which won massive gains in last week's general elections and are now the kingmakers in the national assembly.

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* Musharraf says Pakistan election to herald new era

October 16 -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf described the holding of general elections on October 10 as the beginning of a new phase in the country, which he hoped would herald not only a democratic order but also ensure democratic governance in the country. The president expressed satisfaction over the fact that his government succeeded in fulfilling its promise to the nation to hold elections within three years as mandated by the Supreme Court.

http://www.irna.com/en/world/.ewo.shtml

* Indian military expert views India's decision on troop withdrawal

An Indian former major general said that the withdrawal of forces from the international border with Pakistan will not cause basic changes in the situation but will reduce the chances of army clashes between the two countries. Afsir Karim (retd.), who is also the founding member of the Forum for Strategic and Security Studies in New Delhi, made the comment to IRNA in an exclusive interview on Thursday after India's decision last night to withdraw forces from the international border with Pakistan. The reduction of tensions between India and Pakistan will depend on whether Islamabad will end the cross-border terrorism or not, he added.

http://www.irna.com/en/world/.ewo.shtml

* Nasrullah Khan rules out cooperation with PML-QA

Veteran politician Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan has said the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) "will never cooperate with the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam (PML-QA) in forming a government in Punjab or the centre. Nasrullah was talking to journalists at his residence yesterday. "We have basic differences with the PML-QA. They supported the referendum and constitutional amendments. They were labelled as the 'king's party.' Can we be a partner of the party which always worked against our struggle?" he asked. He said the two key ARD component parties, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the PML-N have indeed rejected the polls.

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=65880

* Separatist group in India's northeast calls for plebiscite

October 16 -- A frontline separatist group in India's north eastern state of Assam Wednesday called for a plebiscite to decide whether the people want to secede or remain within the federal union. "We the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have been saying that a free and fair plebiscite is the only way to judge the people's mandate whether it is in favor or against the union with occupation of India," the ULFA said in its mouthpiece Freedom.

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* Curfew imposed to prevent clashes

The police yesterday imposed a curfew in an eastern town of Sri Lanka to prevent clashes as tension built over the alleged abduction of a Muslim youth by Tamil guerrillas and the detention of three Tamils in the eastern region. The curfew was clamped in the Akkaraipattu town, the same area where police fired at a group of Tamil guerrilla-backed demonstrators killing eight of them last Wednesday. The Police said that the curfew was imposed as a precautionary measure after the people planned to carry out a protest campaign throughout the day after calling for the closure of all shops and offices in the area.

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=65867

* 'Time' report called fictitious, malicious

Bangladesh's Foreign Secretary Shamser Mobin Chowdhury yesterday termed the Time magazine article on the country as "fiction" and "an orchestrated campaign" to hurt Bangladesh's democratic image. "It is fiction and a figment of wild imagination. There is nothing to substantiate it. It's irresponsible journalism," Chowdhury told reporters at a weekly briefing. Time in its current issue carried an article entitled Deadly Cargo that said "signs abound that Bangladesh has become a safe haven for jihadis, including Taliban and Al Qaida fighters fresh off the boat from Afghanistan".

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=65868

* Nine injured in Karachi blasts

Nine people, including at least five policemen, were wounded yesterday when three parcel bombs exploded at different locations in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, officials said. Two blasts occurred at two police stations in the sprawling city while the third took place at the offices of senior officials of the southern Sindh province of which Karachi is the capital. A further five parcel bombs were defused at various police and investigation centres in the city, and police said they believed all eight packages were linked.

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* Indian drugs firm trumpets US success

India's top drugs firm, Ranbaxy Laboratories, has reported a 79% jump in profits, thanks to surging exports of a generic antibiotic to the US. Ranbaxy beat expectations with a net profit of 1.6bn rupees (Ј21m; $33m) in the three months to end-September, up from 891m rupees a year earlier. The said exports for the quarter nearly doubled to 5.2bn rupees, with sales of a cheap generic copy of GlaxoSmithKline's Ceftin antibiotic earning $75m since its US launch in March. Indian pharmaceutical firms, lacking significant global brands of their own, have prospered in recent years by copying well-known drugs whose patents have lapsed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2335863.stm

* Islamists unveil economic policy

The five-member alliance of Islamic parties in Pakistan, which unexpectedly emerged as a third biggest political force in the 10 October elections, says that it would not insist on any changes in the country's economic policy which could harm its international commitments. "We want foreign capital coming into Pakistan, not going out," Qazi Hussain Ahmed, a central leader of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and chief of Jamat-e-Islami, told the BBC from Islamabad. "And to achieve this, we want to create peaceful and investor-friendly conditions."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2334535.stm

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