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--- South Asian News, October 28, 2002 ---
Prisoners from the Guantanamo prison reach Pakistan even as their release raised questions. And police officials recover passports of three wives' of Osama from a terror suspect in Pakistan. In India, finally a coalition government is formed in Kashmir which promises fresh steps to end revolt. In the eastern India, suspected separatist guerrillas kill 22 villagers and another 14 are killed in home-made bomb blast. In Nepal, a bomb exploded near the King's residence and at least 13 Maoist rebels are killed while trying to raid a rural airport. The editorial section looks at the social angle of girls education in Pakistan and another story on the troops pullout and how it promises to be a fresh start. In the business section, India officially launches the 'Simputer' priced below $200 that is supposed to take computing to the third world.
Top Stories
* First Pakistani arrives home from Guantanamo prison (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (Washington Post) (ABC News) (Kentucky.com) (The State) (San Francisco Chronicle) (News Day) (Star Tribune) (Action News) (MSNBC)
* Passports found on terror suspect (Houston Chronicle) (Washington Post) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Star Tribune)
* Strike over vote fraud shuts southern Pakistani city (Wall Street Journal)
* Pakistan wants evidence of India's pullback - official (Wall Street Journal)
* Pakistan's Musharraf to visit Saudi Arabia (MSNBC)
* New Pakistani PM to be elected on Nov 7 (MSNBC)
* Rebels attack government compound in India's Assam (NY Times) (Washington Post) (MSNBC)
* Police say 22 killed in attack by separatist guerrillas in India's northeast (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Salon) (ABC News) (Star Tribune) (Worcester Telegram) (San Francisco Chronicle) (News Day) (Charlotte Observer) (Herald Sun) (Hampton Roads Daily Press) (Boston) (MSNBC)
* Bomb explodes while being made in India, kills 14 (Houston Chronicle) (MSNBC)
* India, Pakistan trade accusations over terrorism (Voice of America)
* India's Gujarat state poll set for December 12 (CNN) (MSNBC)
* Groups agree on new Kashmir govt (Boston) (Fox News) (CNN) (San Antonio News) (San Francisco Chronicle) (News Day) (Star Tribune) (Action News)
* Coalition leader in Indian Kashmir offers steps to end revolt (Voice of America)
* Landmine kills Indian paramilitary officer in Kashmir (Voice of America)
* India's young men test themselves, seek their future, in the army (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Army kills 13 rebels in attack on rural Nepal airport (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (CNN) (Action News) (ABC News) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Star Tribune) (MSNBC) (News Day) (Tuscaloosa News) (:Central Florida & Orlando's News) (Austin American-Statesman)
Editorial/Op-Ed
* Girls school proves power of knowledge (Houston Chronicle)
* India and Pakistan: The dispute burns on (Star Tribune)
Business/Technology
* India officially launches Simputer (Slashdot) (Hoovers Online)
Other Stories
* Light shines on festive Hindu holiday (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
* Autumn for a patriarch (San Francisco Chronicle)
Top Stories
* First Pakistani arrives home from Guantanamo prison
Islamabad -- Pakistan's government said on Monday that the first of its citizens had arrived back in the country overnight from U.S. custody in Cuba, the start of a process that would return more people in the near future. ''The process is on. It is just a beginning,'' Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, chairman of the interior ministry's National Crisis Cell, told Reuters.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021027_000173-search,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Guantanamo-Prisoner.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AOct28.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20021028_52.html
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/world/4386545.htm
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/4386545.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/10/27/international2013EDT0604.DTL
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-guantanamo-prisoner1028oct27,0,4544848.story
http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3392702.html
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/wsbtv/news/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V1760.AP-Pakistan-Guanta.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Passports found on terror suspect
Berlin -- Passports for three of Osama bin Laden's wives were found in the apartment of a Yemeni arrested last month in Pakistan and believed to have been the key contact person between the Hamburg cell of Sept. 11 plotters and al-Qaida, a German news magazine reported Saturday. Der Spiegel, which did not cite sources, said passports for an unspecified number of bin Laden's children also were found when Ramzi Binalshibh was arrested in Karachi last month. Binalshibh is now in U.S. custody.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1635256
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AOct26.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/10/26/international1515EDT0636.DTL
http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3391038.html
* Strike over vote fraud shuts southern Pakistani city
Quetta, Pakistan -- Police and paramilitary troops patrolled streets in the southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday as businesses closed in a strike that a political group called to protest alleged election rigging. The nationalist Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement urged the one-day strike for all of Baluchistan province, said Usman Kakar, an activist of one of the political parties in the group.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021026_000026,00.html
* Pakistan wants evidence of India's pullback - official
Islamabad -- Pakistan said Sunday it is still looking for signs that India is withdrawing its troops from the border before it starts its own pullback. "We have no evidence that India has started moving its troops back to peacetime locations," Gen. Rashid Quereshi, spokesman for Pakistan's military government, told The Associated Press.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021027_000050-search,00.html
* Pakistan's Musharraf to visit Saudi Arabia
Islamabad -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will start a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday during which he will discuss his country's standoff with India and other regional security issues. A statement from the foreign office in Islamabad said Musharraf would meet Saudi King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah. Saudi Arabia is one of Pakistan's staunchest allies. Musharraf last visited there in June at a time of intense diplomatic efforts to pull Pakistan and India back from the brink of war.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=MIDEAST
* New Pakistani PM to be elected on Nov 7
Islamabad -- The Pakistani parliament will convene on November 4 for the first time since a 1999 military coup and elect a prime minister three days later, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Quoting official sources, the English-language daily The News said the government had decided to convene a preliminary session of parliament on November 4, which would be followed by another session on November 5 to elect the speaker and deputy speaker.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Rebels attack government compound in India's Assam
Gauhati, India -- Unidentified rebels launched a mortar attack on a high-security residential compound housing state ministers and legislators in India's northeastern state of Assam but no one was hurt, police said on Monday. Many state ministers, state assembly legislators and senior government officials live in the complex in Dispur, the Assam state capital, which was attacked late on Sunday, they said.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-india-assam.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AOct27.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Police say 22 killed in attack by separatist guerrillas in India's northeast
Gauhati, India -- Suspected separatist guerrillas knocked at the homes of villagers in India's remote northeast just after midnight, asked the men to come out and then killed 22 of them, survivors and police said Sunday. Another 12 were wounded in the attack on Dadgiri, a village in Assam state close to India's border with Bhutan, said P. K. Bhuyan, a local police officer.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-India-Separatist-Killings.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-india-separatist-killings1027oct27,0,2204223.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AOct27.html
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/10/27/guerillas/index.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20021027_1306.html
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3391938.html
http://www.telegram.com/news/inside/mixdig.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/10/27/international0441EDT0426.DTL
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-india-separatist-killings1027oct27,0,7055973.story
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4385551.htm
http://www.herald-sun.com/firstnews/37-281440.html
http://www.dailypress.com/news/ats-ap_top16oct27%2C0%2C6145178.story%3Fcoll%3Ddp%252Dbreaking%252Dnews
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/301/nation/22_in_India_die_in_attack_by_separatist_guerrillas_police_say+.shtml
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
* Bomb explodes while being made in India, kills 14
Calcutta, India -- Fourteen people, including four children, were killed in a part of eastern India known for political violence when a crude bomb exploded accidentally, police said on Monday. The accident happened late on Sunday in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, where violence involving ruling communist party supporters and members of rival opposition parties is common.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1636238
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* India, Pakistan trade accusations over terrorism
New Delhi -- Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has called Pakistan a terrorist state that allows Islamic militants to mount cross-border attacks in India. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry rejected the charge, saying Islamabad condemns terrorism in all its forms. The exchange comes just days after the two countries agreed to pull back troops massed along their common border. Mr. Vajpayee says Pakistan makes a show of combating terrorism, but "does not hesitate to send" suicide squads into India to kill innocent people. He said "the demon of terrorism" must be destroyed.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectid=5D3F5C34-7CA8-4398-BF124F7DCF8FBBFC
* India's Gujarat state poll set for December 12
New Delhi -- India's Election Commission, which had rejected plans for an early election in riot-scarred Gujarat state, said on Monday the poll would now be held on December 12. ''The date of the poll will be 12/12,'' Election Commission chief J.M. Lyngdoh told a news conference, adding the vote would be completed in one day using electronic voting machines.
http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/28/gujarat.poll.reut/index.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Groups agree on new Kashmir govt
New Delhi -- The new ruling coalition in the part of Kashmir administered by India offered soothing words today to separatists, proposing to release some political prisoners and to investigate the deaths of people held in custody. "The goal of the coalition is to heal the physical, psychological and emotional wounds inflicted by 14 years of militancy," said a plan agreed on by the two parties in the coalition, the regional People's Democratic Party and the main opposition Congress Party.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/300/nation/India_opposition_seeks_coalition_in_Kashmir%2B.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,66772,00.html
http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/27/kashmir.strike/index.html
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=190&xlc=849409
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/10/26/international1027EDT0521.DTL
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-india-kashmir1026oct26.story
http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3390755.html
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/wsbtv/news/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V9162.AP-India-Kashmir.html
* Coalition leader in Indian Kashmir offers steps to end revolt
Srinagar, India -- The man who will head the new coalition government in Indian Kashmir is offering bold ways to end the separatist revolt and give what he calls a "healing touch" to the troubled state. Chief Minister-designate Mufti Muhammad Sayeed says he will require investigations of custodial killings and human rights abuses, and seek a reorganization of an anti-insurgency unit accused of abuses, the Special Operations Group. He also vows to release political prisoners against whom there are no cases.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectid=A1CC3BAA-EBD7-4E58-9C76D074B0954712
* Landmine kills Indian paramilitary officer in Kashmir
Srinagar, India -- An Indian paramilitary officer was killed and two police constables severely wounded in a land mine explosion, early Monday, in India's Jammu and Kashmir State. The violence comes as a new coalition government prepares to take over the state assembly, following elections in September and October that ousted the long-time ruling party in the state. As violence continues in Indian-administered Kashmir, the new coalition government, made up the opposition Congress Party and the smaller regional People's Democratic Party, is preparing to form a government.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectid=BBCFBB3B-9C31BFB921B623F3
* India's young men test themselves, seek their future, in the army
Khasa, India -- Thousands of young men, strong and sinewy, streamed into this small town to seek a life among the tools of war. For many, the choice was a family affair. Their fathers fought for the Indian army, their grandfathers for the British. Most of their ancestors were warriors in centuries past. "My dad, my brother and my grandfather joined the army, so I will continue with the family career and I will join, too," said Gurpreet Singh.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/10/26/international1215EDT0552.DTL
* Army kills 13 rebels in attack on rural Nepal airport
Kathmandu -- At least 13 Maoist rebels and a soldier were killed in Nepal when the guerrillas, fighting against constitutional monarchy, tried to raid a rural airport, the country's interior secretary said on Monday. The rebel attempt to attack the airport in Rumjatar in Okhaldhunga district, 250 km (155 miles) east of the capital Kathmandu, was made late on Sunday, resulting in a fierce gunbattle with security forces, Tika Dutta Niraula said.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20021027_000044-search,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Nepal-Rebels.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/27/nepal.rebels.reut/index.html
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/wsbtv/news/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V0955.AP-Nepal-Rebels.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20021026_64.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/10/27/international0824EDT0450.DTL
http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3391965.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-nepal-rebels1027oct27,0,6554918.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20021027&Category=API&ArtNo=210270594&Ref=AR
http://www.icflorida.com/partners/wftv/news/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V0955.AP-Nepal-Rebels.html
http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V0955.AP-Nepal-Rebels.html
Editorial/Op-Ed
* Girls school proves power of knowledge
Mand, Pakistan -- When the Jalal family went door to door 20 years ago urging parents to let their daughters attend a new girls school, people in this desert outpost branded them heretics. The town's elders, many of them illiterate, declared that the Jalals were "ng the gates of hell." Once girls started getting educated, one man charged, they'd be able to write letters to their boyfriends.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1634053
* India and Pakistan: The dispute burns on
New Delhi -- In an undertaking almost as mammoth as preparing for war, India and Pakistan are preparing to pull hundreds of thousands of troops back from their border after the largest and longest peacetime standoff in their history. Seeing the possibility of a new beginning in the stalemate's end, U.S. officials have begun talking hopefully of renewed dialogue between the nuclear-armed rivals. But officials and others on both sides of the border, the Line of Control dividing the disputed region of Kashmir claimed by both India and Pakistan, said the dispute is no closer to resolution.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3383952.html
Business/Technology
* India officially launches Simputer
The Communications and IT Minister, Pramod Mahajan, has launched India's indigenously developed low-cost handheld Personal Computer -- Simputer -- at an IT and Communication expo, SMAU 2002, in Milan. A low-cost handheld PC on GNU/Linux working through a browser for international markup language IML, priced at Rs.9000 (less than $200). 200Mhz StrongArm processor, 32MB DRAM, 24 MB flash, touchscreen, speakers, USB, text-to-speech, MP3 capability.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/0118252&mode=thread&tid=100
http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR_cc
Other Stories
* Light shines on festive Hindu holiday
Battery-operated lights might replace the traditional lamps, and religious meanings might be obscured. But over the next two Saturdays, one point is clear for the local Indian community: It's time for Diwali.The largest and perhaps most festive Hindu holiday, Diwali is widely celebrated throughout India and in Indian communities elsewhere. Diwali is known as the "festival of lights" and traditionally includes the lighting of oil lamps or candles.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/92607_cdiwali24.shtml
* Autumn for a patriarch
In a wistful moment in the middle of "Family Matters," a beautifully fashioned, admittedly old-fashioned, Dickensian-style novel set in contemporary Bombay, one of the main characters, the idealistic Mr. Kapur, owner of a sporting goods shop, says to his store manager, "Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories -- your life, my life -- they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/27/RV141516.DTL
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--- South Asian News, October 28, 2002 ---
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