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--- South Asian News, September 06, 2002 ---
In Pakistan, thousands of tribesmen protest in support of villagers refusing to surrender suspected al-Qaida fighters to the authorities. The Indian government prepares to seek extradition of ex-Union Carbide chief, saying it is in the process of gathering evidence against him. Retired professor Iajuddin Ahmed is the new president of Bangladesh. In the editorial section, read about the White House's lenient policy towards Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. In the business section, India's leading software body sets up a forum to help local companies boost development of software products.
Top Stories
* Pakistanis protest al-Qaida hunt (Wall Street Journal) (LA Times) (MSNBC) (Miami Herald) (Philadelphia Inquirer) (Bayarea.com) (Sun Herald) (Monterey Herald)
* Tribesmen protest against hunt for al-Qaida men sheltering in a border village (Wall Street Journal) (MSNBC)
* Bhutto appeals rejection of her bid to run for parliament (Wall Street Journal) (MSNBC) (Burlington County Times)
* Top al-Qaida leaders interviewed (Washington Times) (Voice of America)
* Kashmiri separatist leaders put under house arrest (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (Washington Post)
* Indian official: government preparing to seek extradition of ex-Union Carbide chief (Wall Street Journal) (LA Times) (MSNBC) (ABC News) (Boston.com) (Life Clinic) (Washington Post) (Burlington County Times)
* India : Rebel incursions from pakistan territory continuing (Wall Street Journal)
* Sri Lanka's Marxists plan protests on peace bid (Wall Street Journal) (MSNBC)
* Boat capsizes in Nepal, 15 missing (MSNBC)
* Retired professor is new Bangladesh president (Wall Street Journal) (MSNBC)
Editorial/Op-Ed
* Pakistan / Why cater to a dictator? (Star Tribune)
* Harassment suit in U.S. shifts India's work culture (NY Times) (Bayarea.com)
Business/Technology
* Indian software body makes a push for products (Washington Post) (Anchorage Daily News) (CNet News)
Top Stories
* Pakistanis protest al-Qaida hunt
Peshawar, Pakistan -- Thousands of tribesmen, chanting slogans against Pakistan's president and the United States, protested Thursday in support of villagers refusing to surrender suspected al-Qaida fighters to the authorities. The protest in the city of Bannu came a day after Pakistani army troops shelled the remote village of Jani Khel and arrested several clerics for sheltering the eight al-Qaida suspects. The area is about 120 miles southwest of Peshawar in the rugged tribal district of the North West Frontier Province, where the authority of Pakistan's federal government has never been widely accepted.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/4008406.htm
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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/4008406.htm
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/4008406.htm
* Tribesmen protest against hunt for al-Qaida men sheltering in a border village
Peshawar, Pakistan -- Thousands of tribesmen, chanting slogans against Pakistan's president and the United States, protested Thursday in support of villagers refusing to surrender suspected al-Qaida fighters to the authorities. The protest in the city of Bannu came a day after Pakistani army troops shelled the remote village of Jani Khel and arrested several clerics for sheltering the eight al-Qaida suspects.
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* Bhutto appeals rejection of her bid to run for parliament
September 5, Karachi, Pakistan -- Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday appealed a decision by electoral officials to eliminate her from parliamentary elections next month. A spokesman for Bhutto, who has been in self-imposed exile since 1999, also said the two-time prime minister has deferred plans to return to Pakistan. Last week, election officials rejected her applications to run for three parliament seats in the Oct. 10 balloting, citing her July conviction in absentia on corruption charges.
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* Top al-Qaida leaders interviewed
September 5, Washington -- An Arabic language satellite television station Thursday previewed an interview with two top al Qaida leaders filmed secretly in Karachi, Pakistan. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, who served in Osama bin Laden's network, spoke to the al Jazeera news channel from a hidden location in an interview that the station says will be continued next week.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/r.htm
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B8480E9A-5C6A-4D36-9C9D21DA73B281E4
* Kashmiri separatist leaders put under house arrest
Srinagar, India -- The chief of Indian Kashmir's main separatist alliance and two other leaders were put under house arrest on Friday to stop them campaigning against state assembly elections starting next week, separatists said. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella organization of separatist political groups, condemned the arrests of chairman Abdul Gani Bhat and two other leaders -- Shabir Shah and Moulana Abbass Ansari.
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* Indian official: government preparing to seek extradition of ex-Union Carbide chief
New Delhi -- Despite a delay of 18 years, the Indian government is preparing to seek the extradition of the American who headed Union Carbide Corp. when a gas leak killed thousands in India in 1984, a top official said Thursday. The government was processing evidence gathered against Warren Anderson, former chairman of the company, before seeking his extradition from the United States to face trial in India, the official told reporters.
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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020905_192.html
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/wire_story.html?uri=/dailynews/248/economy/Indian_official_government_pre:.shtml
http://www.lifeclinic.com/healthnews/article_view.asp?story=21342
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep5.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep5.html
http://www.phillyburbs.com/apNews/apstory.asp?ArticleNo=56331
* India : Rebel incursions from Pakistan territory continuing
New Delhi -- The Indian prime minister is expected to tell the U.S. president next week in New York that Pakistan has not kept its pledge to end cross-border infiltration by Islamic militants into India's portion of Kashmir, a government official said Friday. The level of incursions by the insurgents doubled in August compared with the previous two months, the official said on condition of anonymity. He refused to give details. Atal Bihari Vajpayee will meet George W. Bush in New York on Thursday on the fringes of the U.N. General Assembly session, the official said.
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* Sri Lanka's Marxists plan protests on peace bid
Colombo -- Sri Lanka's red-shirted Marxists said on Friday they would wage a street campaign of protest against government peace plans that include talks with Tamil Tiger rebels in less than two weeks. The warning from the People's Liberation Front (JVP) came as the main opposition People's Alliance party said it would hold its own protests a day after the government lifted a ban outlawing the Tamil Tigers.
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* Boat capsizes in Nepal, 15 missing
Kathmandu -- A ferry carrying villagers down a flooded river in southern Nepal has capsized and up to 15 passengers are missing, state radio said on Friday. Radio Nepal said rescue workers were searching for survivors after the boat sank on the swollen Lalbakaiya river. No further details were immediately available. Officials say about 500 people have lost their lives this year in monsoon rains that start in June and continue through September.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Retired professor is new Bangladesh president
September 5, Dhaka -- Retired professor Iajuddin Ahmed was named the new president of Bangladesh on Thursday. The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Wednesday named Ahmed as its candidate for the largely ceremonial post. The main opposition Awami League party with only 58 members in the 300-member parliament did not name any candidate. ''Professor Iajuddin Ahmed, the lone presidential candidate, has been declared elected unopposed,'' the Election Commission said in a statement.
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Editorial/Op-Ed
* Pakistan / Why cater to a dictator?
The war against terrorism has made for strange bedfellows, and two of the strangest are George W. Bush and Pervez Musharraf. While one professes democracy's gospel, the other is fireproofing a dictatorship. Unless President Bush puts pressure on his favorite despot, Pakistan will labor under military rule for years to come. That's how things are sizing up in one of the world's most repressive nations -- a country now counted among America's most indispensable allies. Desperate for help in hunting down Al-Qaida in neighboring Afghanistan, the White House has strained not to notice that Pakistan's chief executive is also its chief tyrant.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/3213042.html
* Harassment suit in U.S. shifts India's work culture
Bangalore, India -- The close software industry bond with the United States, which has brought India great riches, is also bringing it an increasing awareness about the rules of global play. In a recent jolt to corporate India, a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed in the United States against a top executive of a leading Indian software provider. The litigation is forcing Indian software concerns, many of which have large numbers of employees deployed abroad, to rethink their workplace policies and processes.
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Business/Technology
* Indian software body makes a push for products
Bangalore, India -- India's leading software body said on Thursday it had set up a forum to help local companies boost development of software products, which carry higher profit margins than services, in which the industry is well entrenched. "We are talking about identifying a new growth opportunity for Indian companies," Som Mittal, vice-chairman of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), told a news conference.
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--- South Asian News, September 06, 2002 ---
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