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South Asian News, September 3, 2002 --- (U.S.)
Musharraf discourages America's attempt to colonize its troops to hunt the al-Qaeda network. Hundreds of soldiers surround a village in northwest Pakistan and negotiate with tribal elders to hand over the militants they were sheltering. Parents outraged over the lackadaisical approach of doctors in a government-run hospital in Calcutta, India, which resulted in the death of thirteen children. In the business section, read about the Indian government's new strategy to use creative marketing and wireless technology to boost its image.
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* Group touts attacks on U.S. soldiers (Wall Street Journal) (Washington Times) (Orlando Sentinel)
* Musharraf says Pakistan doesn't want U.S. troops (NY Times) (Washington Post) (Miami Herald) (Philadelphia Inquirer) (Sun Herald) (FortWayne.com) (Centre Daily)
* Pakistan's Imran Khan loses two poll nominations (MSNBC)
* Pakistan wants no part in attack on Iraq-Musharraf (MSNBC) (CNN.com) (Voice of America)
* Pakistan hopes most of its nationals to be released soon from Guantanamo prison (Wall Street Journal) (LA Times) (NY Times) (Washington Post) (MSNBC) (Las Vegas Sun)
* Army negotiates with tribal elders to hand over suspected al-Qaida men (Wall Street Journal) (LA Times) (NY Times) (Washington Post) (MSNBC) (Las Vegas Sun) (News Observer) (Anchorage Daily News) (The News Tribune) (Fresnobee.com)
* Nepal PM returns home to tackle violence by Maoist rebels (Wall Street Journal)
* Sri Lankan TV resumes transmission to war-torn north (Wall Street Journal)
* Pakistan-based militants eye base in India's Gujarat -police (MSNBC)
* Parents outraged after 13 children die at Indian hospital (Wall Street Journal) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (MSNBC) (Hoovers.com)
* Three wounded in grenade attack on Kashmir security post (Wall Street Journal)
* Indian supreme court rejects immediate elections in Gujarat (Wall Street Journal)
* Pakistan-based group calls for Kashmir poll boycott (Washington Post)
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* India's postal service to go high-tech, shake off colonial legacy (Wall Street Journal) (LA Times) (NY Times) (Washington Post) (Las Vegas Sun) (Herald Sun) (Siliconvalley.com) (Baltimore.com)
* India National Aerospace, Infosys in tech partnership (Wall Street Journal)
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* Group touts attacks on U.S. soldiers
Islamabad -- A group that purports to be a new "Secret Army of Mujahideen" is taking responsibility for attacks on U.S. troops in Arabic leaflets that have surfaced in eastern Afghanistan in recent days. Although similar pamphlets have appeared from time to time since the United States went to war in Afghanistan, this one is unusual because it is written in a language relatively few Afghans speak and even fewer can read.
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http://orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-asecnewmujah03090302sep03.story?
* Musharraf says Pakistan doesn't want U.S. troops
Islamabad -- Deployment of more U.S. troops in Pakistan to hunt for members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network would be unwise and was unnecessary, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said on Monday. Asked in an interview with Cable News Network television how he would respond if the United States asked to put more troops in Pakistan, General Musharraf replied: ''U.S. troops? No, I don't think that would be wise at all. We are looking after any foreign elements in Pakistan. We have deployed a part of our army and the frontier force for this purpose and the United States knows what we are doing.
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-pakistan-usa-musharraf.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-pakistan-usa-musharraf.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep2.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3988188.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/3988188.htm
http:/www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/3988188.htm
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/3988188.htm
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/3988188.htm
* Pakistan's Imran Khan loses two poll nominations
Islamabad -- Former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan has had two of his five nominations to stand in October 10 elections rejected for failing to show his original university degree, his party said on Monday. But Khan's Tehrik-e-Insaf (Justice Movement) said the former cricketer's three other nominations had been accepted. ''We don't know the criteria of the election authorities,'' Tehrik-e-Insaf spokesman Akbar S. Babar told Reuters. ''We had submitted similar sets of nomination papers, which were accepted by three returning officers and rejected by two.''
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters.asp?reg=ASIA
* Pakistan wants no part in attack on Iraq-Musharraf
Islamabad -- Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, said on Monday Pakistan did not want to get involved in any attack on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. ''We wouldn't like to get involved. I don't think Pakistan would like to get involved in this at all,'' Musharraf told Cable News Network in an interview. Musharraf said Pakistan already had its hands full internally and regionally and had no geographical affinity with Iraq. ''We wouldn't want to get involved in anywhere outside,'' he said.
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http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/02/musharraf.iraq/index.html
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=32D420B2-5881-42A1-A21E4F5AB88197B7&title=Pakistan%20Will%20Not%20Join%20in%20Any%20Attack%20on%20Iraq%2C%20says%20Musharraf
* Pakistan hopes most of its nationals to be released soon from Guantanamo prison
Islamabad -- Most of the Pakistani prisoners being held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba are not linked to al-Qaida and Pakistani authorities hope they will be freed soon, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday. ''Our impression is that the majority ... are not linked to al-Qaida,'' spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan told a news conference. ''We are in touch with the U.S. authorities for their repatriation.''
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-guantanamo-prisoners0903sep02.story
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Guantanamo-Prisoners.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep2.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2002/sep/02/090203522.html
* Army negotiates with tribal elders to hand over suspected al-Qaida men
Islamabad -- Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers were sent to a remote region of northwest Pakistan on Monday after tribesmen offered refuge to six suspected al-Qaida men, authorities said. The government was negotiating with the tribesmen to hand over the men, officials said on condition of anonymity. The soldiers had virtually surrounded the village of a few hundred people, they said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Al-Qaida.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep2.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2002/sep/02/090203475.html
http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/520936p-4134243c.html
http://www.adn.com/24hour/world/story/520936p-4134243c.html
http://www.tribnet.com/24hour/world/story/520936p-4134243c.html
http://www.fresnobee.com/24hour/world/story/520936p-4134243c.html
* Nepal PM returns home to tackle violence by Maoist rebels
Kathmandu -- Nepal's prime minister cut short an overseas trip and returned home Tuesday to tackle growing violence by suspected Maoist rebels after a state of emergency was lifted last week. "With all the attacks and the situation back home, I decided to turn back," said Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on his return from Europe, skipping the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa.
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* Sri Lankan TV resumes transmission to war-torn north
Colombo -- Sri Lankan state-run television on Monday resumed transmission to war-wracked Tamil heartland in the north after a gap of 15 years. "It is a victory to be able to start the transmission when we are about to enter a historic phase in the peace process," said Ganganath Dissanayake, chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.
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* Pakistan-based militants eye base in India's Gujarat -police
Ahmedabad -- A senior Indian police official said on Monday militant groups based in Pakistan are trying to secure a foothold in the riot-savaged western state of Gujarat by recruiting and training young Muslims. Vipul Vijoy Singh, head of Gujarat's anti-terrorist squad, told Reuters militant groups were trying to exploit a deep divide between Hindus and Muslims after some of the country's worst religious bloodshed late in February and March.
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* Parents outraged after 13 children die at Indian hospital
Calcutta -- After the deaths of children at a hospital in eastern India this weekend, angry protesters claimed the absence of doctors and a lack of available oxygen were to blame. Parents asserted that 13 kids have died since Saturday at the government-operated B.C. Roy Memorial Child Hospital in Calcutta, the capital of the West Bengal state.The state's Health Minister, Pratyush Mukherjee, acknowledged at least eight to 10 children, ages 1 to 4, died at the hospital, but didn't say why. In the meantime, the hospital stopped accepting new patients.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep2.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap.asp?reg=ASIA
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2002/sep/02/090202813.html
http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR_d91d06
* Three wounded in grenade attack on Kashmir security post
Jammu, India -- Suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade at a security post in Indian-controlled Kashmir, wounding three policemen, police said Tuesday. The attack on the Central Reserve Police Force post occurred Monday night in Kishtwar, police spokesman Subhash Raina said. Violence in the disputed Himalayan province has been on the rise since the Indian government announced plans last month to hold elections to the legislative assembly of Jammu-Kashmir state. The voting is scheduled to begin Sept.16.
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* Indian supreme court rejects immediate elections in Gujarat
New Delhi -- A Hindu nationalist government on Monday suffered a setback as the Supreme Court refused to order immediate elections in a western Indian state where more than 1,000 people were killed in the worst Hindu-Muslim rioting in a decade. The Gujarat state's top elected official, Chief Minister Narendra Modi, had resigned and dissolved the state legislature in July, a move that some analysts said was intended to take advantage of an upsurge of Hindu sentiment that followed the rioting.
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* Pakistan-based group calls for Kashmir poll boycott
Srinagar, India -- A banned Pakistan-based guerrilla group has urged the people of Indian Kashmir to boycott state assembly elections, a local newspaper said on Tuesday quoting a statement from the group. The elections, due to start on September 16, have triggered fears of increased violence by separatist guerrillas fighting New Delhi's rule in Kashmir which is at the center of a military stand-off between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.
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* India's postal service to go high-tech, shake off colonial legacy
New Delhi -- For 138 years, India's colonial-era postal network -- the largest in the world -- has worked like a rusty clock, with dingy offices, low-paid mail carriers and a creaky infrastructure. Now, the government hopes that some creative marketing and wireless technology will get the mail where it needs to be and on time. On Monday, India's postal service was thrownfor the first time to advertisements, giving private companies the chance to have their message splashed across mailboxes and postcards, even on mail carriers' uniforms.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep2.html
http://www.herald-sun.com/technology/33-263118.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2002/sep/02/090203256.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3988658.htm
http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/ats-ap_technology10sep02.story
* India National Aerospace, Infosys in tech partnership
New Delhi -- India's National Aerospace Laboratory and software company Infosys Technologies Ltd. (INFY) will work jointly on advanced technology solutions for the aerospace industry, a government press release said Monday. An arrangement between the two parties will enable them to work as partners, with NAL contributing infrastructure and domain knowledge in aerospace, while Infosys will offer international expertise in software development, the release said. The program was set out in a recent memorandum of understanding signed by the two parties, the release added.
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South Asian News, September 3, 2002
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