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--- South Asian News, September 14, 2002 ---
Pakistan has made no decision on the extradition of the September 11 suspect who was arrested last week in a joint operation with the U.S. In India, hours before the start of Kashmir's crucial elections, army soldiers shoot and kill nine suspected Islamic rebels in a border sweep. In the editorial, a look at how rapid-transit rails and subways are to change India's capital's congested transport system. The business section spotlights India's new venture - space bazaar - launching satellites and supplying sub-systems for satellites and providing services for tracking and monitoring.
Top Stories
* Pakistan is still undecided on extradition of suspect (Wall Street Journal) (Salon.com)
* Police interrogating al-Qaida suspects believed to include key planner of 9-11 attacks (NY Times) (USA Today) (MSNBC) (Boston.com)
* US Rice: US to urge Pakistan to turn over September 11 suspect (Wall Street Journal) (Fox News) (ABC News) (Philadelphia Inquirer) (Miami Herald) (Monterey Herald)
* Head-on bus, oil tanker collision kills 20 in Pakistan (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (MSNBC)
* One dead, five wounded in Pakistan bus bomb (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (MSNBC) (Fox News)
* Indian Kashmir prepares for violent vote (NY Times) (Reuters Alert) (ABC News) (CNN.com) (Bayarea.com) (News Day)
* Nine suspected rebels killed hours ahead of Kashmir vote (Wall Street Journal) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (Boston.com) (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Two members of Kashmir candidate security unit killed (Wall Street Journal)
* Earthquake hits SE India; two killed (MSNBC) (Boston.com)
* India rejects dialogue with Pakistan (NY Times)
* Maoists bomb Nepal minister's home, no one hurt (MSNBC)
Editorial/Op-Ed
* New Delhi sees hope in technocrat's rapid-transit dreams (Wall Street Journal) (Bayarea.com)
Business/Technology
* India to offer cheaper taxi rides into space with polar launcher (Space Daily)
Top Stories
* Pakistan is still undecided on extradition of suspect
Karachi, Pakistan -- Pakistan has made no decision on the extradition of Ramzi Binalshibh, the suspected Sept. 11 plotter who was arrested last week in a joint operation by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence, officials said Sunday. Interior Minister Moinuddun Haider told The Associated Press on Sunday there was no doubt that the Mr. Binalshibh was among those taken into custody in raids here Tuesday and Wednesday, despite claims to the contrary by an Arabic language Web site.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/09/15/extradition/index.html
* Police interrogating al-Qaida suspects believed to include key planner of 9-11 attacks
Islamabad -- The questioning of a man believed to be a senior member of Al Qaeda who was intimately involved in planning the Sept. 11 attacks continued in Pakistan today as efforts to extradite him to the United States advanced. The German interior minister announced that his country would not request the extradition of the man, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, clearing the way for him to be turned over to the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/international/asia/16STAN.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/-pakistan-interrogations_x.htm
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/15/al_qaida_suspects.htm
* US Rice: US to urge Pakistan to turn over September 11 suspect
Washington --The U.S. wants custody of Ramzi Binalshibh and will work with Pakistani authorities to have them hand over the suspected Sept. 11 plotter captured last week in Karachi, President George W. Bush's national security adviser said Sunday. "Oh, we will be working with the Pakistani officials to make certain that he gets to the right place," Condoleezza Rice said. "There's no doubt that the United States will want to have access to him and to have him, because this is an important breakthrough."
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020915_000120,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63119,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020915_113.html
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/4080274.htm
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2002/09/16/news/world/4082953.htm
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/4080274.htm
* Head-on bus, oil tanker collision kills 20 in Pakistan
Quetta, Pakistan -- A bus collided Sunday with an oil tanker truck near a remote southwestern town, killing at least 20 people, hospital authorities said. Seventeen people, three in the truck and 14 on the bus, died at the scene. Three other bus passengers died at the hospital at nearby Khuzdar, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Quetta, police said. The drivers of the bus and tanker truck died at the scene.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020915_000054,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-pakistan-accident.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-accident0915sep15.story
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
* One dead, five wounded in Pakistan bus bomb
Hyderabad, Pakistan -- One man died and five were injured when a small bomb went off inside a bus in southern Pakistan on Sunday, police and witnesses said. The bus had just left the terminal in the southern city of Hyderabad bound for Karachi when the bomb exploded. A young brother and sister were among the wounded, while one of the passengers lost his left leg, police and doctors said.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020915_000035,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-pakistan-blast.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-explosion0915sep15.story
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63123,00.html
* Indian Kashmir prepares for violent vote
Srinagar, India -- Islamic militants ambushed a Kashmiri minister's car on Sunday as the Indian state appeared set for a violent start to voting in elections that are likely to do little to ease tensions with Pakistan. Two policemen died in the attack in the southern village of Boh, but Tourism Minister Sakina Itoo was not injured, officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Kashmirs-Choices.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/514059
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020915_50.html
http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/15/kashmir.election.reut/index.html
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/4079522.htm
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wokash162926362sep16.story
* Nine suspected rebels killed hours ahead of Kashmir vote (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Srinagar, India --Hours before the start of Kashmir's crucial elections, Indian soldiers shot and killed nine suspected Islamic rebels in a border sweep, after a key government minister survived an assassination attempt Sunday. The nine suspected rebels were killed by Indian soldiers in a fierce gun battle, an army spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The casualties are the largest in a single shoot-out in months.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020915_000152,00.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-kashmir-elections0916sep15.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep15.html
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/258/world/Nine_rebels_killed_Militants_a:.shtml
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/4082541.htm
* Two members of Kashmir candidate security unit killed
Srinagar, India -- Suspected Islamic militants ambushed the well-guarded campaign convoy of the Kashmir tourism minister Sunday, leaving two members of her security unit dead and three other people injured, police said. Sakina Yatoo, who is a candidate in Kashmir elections that begin Monday, was traveling with dozens of soldiers and paramilitary forces near her home constituency of Damhal-Hanjipora when a remote-controlled bomb went off under one of the escort vehicles and an unknown number of guerrillasd fire, said T. Acharya, a spokesman for the paramilitary Border Security Force.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020915_000039,00.html
* Earthquake hits SE India; two killed
New Delhi -- A strong earthquake hit India's southeast early Saturday, killing at least two people and damaging some homes on the Andaman islands, officials said. The epicenter of the magnitude-6 tremor was in the sea 1,500 miles southeast of the Indian capital, said J.L. Gautam, an official at the New Delhi Meteorology Department. The first tremor was at 3:59 a.m. and was followed by several aftershocks.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/808053.asp
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/257/world/Earthquake_hits_India_s_southe%3A.shtml
* India rejects dialogue with Pakistan
New York -- Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said on Sunday the United States must do more to pressure Pakistan to stop cross-border attacks by Muslim extremists and he rejected dialogue with Islamabad until the violence abates. Days after President Bush urged the leaders of the two South Asian nuclear rivals to directly address the root problems of their dispute, Sinha said ensuring Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf adheres to his promise to end cross-border attacks on India is ``America's problem.''
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-southasia-india-minister.html
* Maoists bomb Nepal minister's home, no one hurt
Kathmandu -- Maoist rebels bombed a telecommunications tower, a radio station and the house of a junior minister in Nepal late on Saturday, but nobody was hurt, a government official said. The tower and the radio station were damaged at Bara, 150 km (90 miles) south of Kathmandu. ''There was no injury,'' the official said.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
Editorial/Op-Ed
These news clips are sponsored by the Indian American Center for Political Awareness.
* New Delhi sees hope in technocrat's rapid-transit dreams
New Delhi -- It's evening rush hour on the New Delhi stretch of the Grand Trunk Road, the centuries-old highway that slices through the Indian subcontinent, and things are fairly normal. "People will come over to our system," said E. Sreedharan, the managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corp., ticking off the promises of his soon-to-network: "the ease of travel, the safety, the lack of pollution."
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020914_000144,00.html
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/4079519.htm
Business/Technology
* India to offer cheaper taxi rides into space with polar launcher
New Delhi -- In the burgeoning world market for satellite launches and space services, India offers the cheapest taxi rides on its rockets. On Thursday afternoon , for a mere 15 million U.S. dollars, India launched a meteorological satellite into "geo-synchronous" transfer orbit some 36,000 kilometres above the equator using a modified version of its highly successful space workhorse, the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV).
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/india-02i.html
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--- South Asian News, September 14, 2002 ---
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