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Seven killed
in India cable car accident |
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Pawagadh, India
-- Cables snapped Sunday and three cable cars carrying the faithful to a
hilltop temple in western India fell to the ground, killing seven
passengers and injuring 24, police said. Indian air force helicopters
hovered over the six cable cars still dangling in the air and lowered
commandos to rescue trapped passengers, said Narsinh Komar, police chief
of the Godhra district in the western state of
Gujarat. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Cable%20Car%20Accident |
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-india-cable-car-accident0119jan19,0,4574916.story |
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/019/world/India_cable_cars_plunge_to_gro:.shtml |
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http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030119/3036810.asp |
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-india-cable-car-accident0119jan19,0,466638.story |
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http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=21345§ion=NATION_WORLD&year=2003&month=1&day=20 |
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http://www.pe.com/ap_news/International/India_Cable_Car_Accident_38673I.shtml |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/19/international0643EST0414.DTL |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/01/20/Worldandnation/Cable_cars_plunge_int.shtml |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030119_000022,00.html |
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India
test-fires surface-to-air missile |
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New Delhi
India on Saturday conducted its second missile test in 10 days, launching
its most sophisticated surface-to-air missile from a remote range on its
eastern coast, a news report said. The domestically built Akash missile
was test-fired for the second time in three months over the Bay of Bengal
from India's testing range at Chandipur, a coastal town in Orissa state,
Press Trust of India news agency said. Chandipur is about 750 miles
southeast of New Delhi. It was a routine test of the missile, which will
be used for air defense by the army and the air force, a defense ministry
official was quoted as saying on condition of
anonymity. |
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http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V5557.AP-India-Missile-T.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Missile%20Test |
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-india-missile-test0120jan20,0,7616126.story |
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http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/world/4988516.htm |
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http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V5557.AP-India-Missile-T.html |
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http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/world/4988516.htm |
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2003/jan/20/012005557.html |
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2003/jan/20/012005557.html |
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-india-missile-test0120jan20,0,3735646.story |
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http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-india-missile-test0120jan20,0,2770007.story |
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http://www.pe.com/ap_news/International/India_Missile_Test_38695Ishtml |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/20/international0408EST0457.DTL |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/18/international2151EST0618.DTL |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030120_000564-search,00.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030118_000053,00.html |
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US military to
train Nepalese army |
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A team of 49 U.S.
military experts is visiting Nepal to train the army to help fight Maoist
rebels and to teach them how to operate weapons recently acquired from
Washington. The United States supplied the Nepalese army with about 3,000
M-16 rifles earlier this month. The Nepalese army was deployed to crush
the rebellion a year-and-a-half ago after the Maoists broke a ceasefire
and walked out of peace talks. |
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India, Russia
sign military protocol |
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Indian Defense
Minister George Fernandes and Russian officials have signed what he called
a landmark military cooperation protocol that includes the joint
development of a next-generation fighter jet and other projects. The
agreement signed Friday covers Indian purchases of new Russian weapons and
joint development of the new fighter and the Brahmos cruise
missile. |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=64AFC0B4-C712-4D47-A04383199B9D8090 |
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Cold spell
kills more than 1,300 in South Asia |
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New Delhi -- The
intense cold spell that has enveloped South Asia for more than three weeks
has killed at least 62 more people, officials said Sunday as the toll in
the region's worst winter in decades rose above 1,300. While bright
sunshine greeted Bangladesh Sunday and brought some respite from the cold
-- which has claimed 533 lives there so far -- the India Meteorological
Department said northern India would not be as fortunate for a few more
days. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-weather-southasia.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AJan19.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=South%20Asia%20Cold |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/17/international0623EST0512.DTL |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030119_000015,00.html |
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Sex slowly
coming into thein India |
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New Delhi The
images, these days, are everywhere: the beer company calendar with Indian
models spilling out of bikinis, the Hindi movie with couples wrapped
passionately together, the magazine offering frank sexual advice. It's
pretty tame stuff, or would be if this were New York or Paris. But this is
India, where kissing remains a seldom-broken movie taboo, Playboy can only
be found on the black market and homosexuality remains, for the most part,
quietly in the closet. Here, in the chastened land of the Kama Sutra,
these hints of flesh reflect an upheaval in sexual
attitudes. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6798-2003Jan17.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Sex%20and%20Sensibilities |
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0117IndiaSex17-ON.html |
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http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/725416p-5307138c.html |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/17/international1336EST0630.DTL |
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http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/international/article/0,1375,VCS_124_1682616,00.html |
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Police in
India arrest Hindu extremists |
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Trivandrum, India
Police have arrested three more members of a Hindu nationalist group
for an attack on an American missionary and seven other Christians in
southern India. Three members of the group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
were arrested Thursday in a suburb of Trivandrum, the capital of southern
Kerala state, said police investigator D. Raja Gopal. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5170-2003Jan17.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Missionary%20Attack |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/17/international0535EST0500.DTL |
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Pakistanis
flee to Canada and uncertainty |
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St. Bernard De
Lacolle, Quebec -- The Faroukhs walk across the border in the dark before
dawn, a Bronx family about to become international flotsam. The wife pulls
tight on her blue cloth coat against the minus 5-degree chill and wind,
and tugs at the hand of her 5-year-old son. He's wrapped in a parka and
carries a red King Babar backpack. They're crying. "Cold," she whispers.
"It's so cold." Her husband walks 10 yards behind, pulling three stuffed
valises wrapped in rope. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8619-2003Jan17.html |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/19/MN154776.DTL |
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Officials burn
films deemed obscene |
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Peshawar,
Pakistan -- Officials in a deeply conservative Pakistani province torched
films and recordings Saturday in a campaign to wipe out material
authorities deem obscene. In front of more than 1,000 people, officials
doused gasoline on the materials piled up in a bazaar in Peshawar and set
the pile on fire. |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-jan19,1,205705.story |
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Distrust
re the door for polio in India |
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Rampur, India -
The little girl sat somberly, eyes large and sad, mouth an unmoving bow,
legs as lifeless as a marionette's. Her face contorted in pain and
frustration. Tears streamed down her cheeks. She clutched at her mother,
who berated herself for her child's agony. In trying to do what she
thought was right for her daughter, Tehazib Jahan had done something
irrevocably wrong. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/international/asia/19POLI.html |
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Japanese envoy
calls for greater support for Sri Lanka peace
process |
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A Japanese envoy
has wrapped up a three day visit to Sri Lanka, calling for greater
international support for the ongoing peace process. This is the latest
visit to assess Sri Lanka's needs since the government and Tamil rebels
began peace talks last September. Japanese special envoy Yasushi Akashi
said Sunday that the international community must speed up financial aid
to Sri Lanka to sustain its peace efforts. |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=3217AC96-04E8-43E3-B9A70478DEE96D5A |
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Pakistan FM
urges US to stop forcing Pakistani nationals to
register |
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Pakistan's
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, traveling to Washington for
official talks, says he hopes to get Pakistan's name removed from a list
of countries, whose nationals are required to register with U.S.
immigration authorities. Foreign Minister Kasuri said he will urge
American officials to exempt Pakistanis living in the United States from
having to register and be fingerprinted. |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=833924BE-83E0-464C-8AECAB3EF22D64A2 |
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New US
immigration policy angers some Pakistanis |
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Under a new U.S.
anti-terrorism policy, citizens of Pakistan residing in the United States
are among the foreign nationals who have until February 21 to report for
fingerprinting and registration. The program affects men over the age of
16 who come from countries that Washington believes are sponsors of
terrorism or in which terrorists have sought refuge. The new U.S. policy
affects immigrants from the designated countries, who entered the United
States as students, as tourists or on business before October 1,
2002. |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=07196FBC-9BD1-471B-AFB93DB41007BFE0 |
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Officials
destroy tapes and CD's in Pakistani province |
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Peshawar,
Pakistan - Officials in a deeply conservative Pakistani province
destroyed audio and video tapes and compact discs today as part of a
campaign to wipe out material the authorities deem obscene. In front of a
crowd of more than 1,000 people, officials doused gasoline on the
materials piled up in a bazaar in Peshawar. The police chief, Tanveer
ul-Haq Sipra, then set the pile on fire. "We are determined to fulfill our
promises about Islamization and cleaning up society," said Maulana Haji
Ihsan ul-Haq, general-secretary of the Muthida Majlis-e-Amal, or United
Action Forum. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/international/asia/19TAPE.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AJan18.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AJan18.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20Religious%20Rise |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/18/international0857EST0487.DTL |
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Blast kills
seven in northern Bangladesh |
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Dhaka -- A bomb
ripped through a village in northern Bangladesh during an annual carnival,
killing seven people and wounding five others, police said Saturday. No
one claimed responsibility for the explosion late Friday in Dariapur, 70
kilometers north of the capital Dhaka, a police official said. Three
people were killed instantly and four more died later in a hospital, the
official said on condition of anonymity. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Bangladesh%20Explosion |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/18/international1157EST0518.DTL |
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Nepal's
princess Prerna gets engaged |
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Kathmandu -- In a
private ceremony, Nepal's Princess Prerna became engaged Friday -
exchanging garlands and gold rings with a commoner selected by her
parents. The 24-year-old princess, only daughter of King Gyanendra and
Queen Komal, is to marry Raj Bahadur Singh, 29, a Nepalese who has a
master's degree in computer programming from the University of California.
The two-day wedding ceremony begins Wednesday. The marriage was arranged
by both sets of parents, a tradition in Nepal. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Nepal%20Princess |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/17/international1345EST0635.DTL |
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Kashmir
grenade blast injures 20 bus passengers |
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Srinagar, India
-- At least 20 bus passengers were wounded on Sunday when a grenade thrown
by suspected separatist militants missed a police patrol and hit a bus in
Kashmir, police said. "Militants lobbed a grenade at police patrol in
Kulgam. The grenade missed the target and hit a bus," a police official
told Reuters. He said the injured passengers had been admitted to
hospitals. |
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=834&ncid=731&e=10&u=/nm/20030119/wl_india_nm/india_101063 |
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Indian envoy
says obstructed by Pakistani agents |
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Islamabad --
India's senior diplomat in Pakistan complained on Sunday that his official
car was repeatedly blocked by Pakistani intelligence vehicles when he was
trying to drive to diplomatic functions at the weekend. Sudhir Vyas,
charge d'affairs at the Indian high commission in Islamabad, told Reuters
he had lodged a formal complaint with the foreign ministry after being
obstructed on three separate occasions on Saturday and delayed for several
hours. |
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=834&ncid=731&e=10&u=/nm/20030119/wl_india_nm/india_101062 |
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Police officer
and son killed in Kashmir attack |
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Srinagar, India
-- A police officer and his teenage son were killed on Sunday and 20 bus
passengers were injured in separate attacks by suspected Islamic
guerrillas in Kashmir, police said. "Three gunmen entered the house of
Mushtaq Ahmad, a police inspector with SOG (Special Operations Group), andd indiscriminate fire," a police spokesman said. Mushtaq and his
16-year-old son Mudasir died on the spot while a child was injured in the
shootout which took place near Bandipur town, 57 km north of
Srinagar. |
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=834&ncid=731&e=10&u=/nm/20030119/wl_india_nm/india_101067 |
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India firm
allegedly sent Iraq weapons materials |
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New Delhi -- An
obscure Indian trading company has provided the first clear evidence that
Iraq obtained materials over the past four years to produce or deliver
weapons of mass destruction. The company, NEC Engineering Private Ltd.,
used phony customs declarations and other false documents, as well as
front companies in three countries, to export 10 consignments of raw
materials and equipment that Saddam Hussein's government could use to
produce chemical weapons and propellants for long-range missiles,
according to Indian court records. |
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http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/4983247.htm |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/19/MN244410.DTL |
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Phone services
restored in Delhi |
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New Delhi --
Phone services in the capital, disrupted over the weekend for poor
connectivity between cellular and fixed-line networks, were restored on
Sunday, two leading telecoms firms said. Hundreds of thousands of
telephone users in and around New Delhi had not been able to call between
fixed and mobile phones since late on Friday as cellular and fixed-line
phone companies fought over an interconnect agreement. |
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Iraq war
called peril to Pakistan Christians |
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Christians in
Pakistan, second-class citizens long before 9/11, have suffered a series
of massacres and will suffer more if the United States attacks Iraq, said
the Rev. Maqsood Kamil, executive secretary of the Presbyterian Church of
Pakistan. He is visiting Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian Church, where he
will preach at 8:30 and 11 a.m. tomorrow. Kamil teaches at an
interdenominational seminary in a town where Islamist extremists have been
active. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/World/20030118pakistan3.asp |
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Indian,
Pakistani leaders exchange verbal payloads |
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Islamabad -- In a
sibling-like rivalry that could endanger the lives of 1.3 billion people,
archrivals India and Pakistan are stubbornly engaged in a fresh war of
words over each other's expanding nuclear programs. The latest round of
verbal jousting erupted after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told a
group of air force veterans late last month that India should "not expect
a conventional war from Pakistan." |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/18/MN147077.DTL |
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Southern
Baptist missionaries say anti-Islamic statements put them at
risk |
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A group of
Southern Baptist missionaries working in Muslim countries has asked the
U.S. leaders of their denomination to tone down their harsh criticism of
Islam for safety reasons. The missionaries said denigrating Islam puts
them at risk as they work to spread Christianity under dangerous
conditions overseas. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/17/national1629EST0704.DTL |
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Pakistan PM to
visit gulf states for talks on Iraq |
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Islamabad --
Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali will visit several Gulf
Arab states in the next week in an attempt to find consensus with their
leaders over Iraq, a spokesman said Sunday. Information Minister Sheikh
Rashid Ahmed said Jamali's proposed visit would last up to five days but
did not say which countries are be on his itinerary or when exactly he
would leave. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030119_000057-search,00.html |
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French experts
to visit Karachi on suicide bombing probe |
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Karachi, Pakistan
-- French investigators plan to visit Pakistan later this month as part of
a police probe into a suicide bombing attack in Karachi last May that
killed 11 French engineers and three others, officials said Sunday. The
team will likely arrive in Pakistan later this month, said Fayyaz Leghari,
chief police investigator in the province of Sindh, where Karachi is
located. He said the exact date of their arrival and other details of
their schedule weren't yet known. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030119_000046,00.html |
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World Bank
says Sri Lankan aid must be distributed evenly |
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Colombo --
International donors helping Sri Lanka recover from nearly two decades of
war should fund projects in both rebel and government territories so that
the entire country can benefit from peace, a top World Bank official said
Sunday. "We must remember that the whole island has suffered. So the focus
must be the whole island," World Bank regional Vice-President Mieko
Nishimizu said in an interview with The Associated Press. "The people want
a peace dividend with equity." |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030119_000039,00.html |
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Musharraf:
'foreigners' in Pakistan to hurt US interests |
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Lahore, Pakistan
-- Pakistan's president said Saturday that Muslim extremists from abroad
were in his country to harm U.S. interests and warned his people not to
support them. "Some foreigners in Pakistan are harming U.S. interests
here, though we take them as brothers," said Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in an
apparent reference to al-Qaida operatives believed to be hiding in
Pakistan. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030118_000109,00.html |
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Doctors
testify at Pakistan's US consulate car bomb trial |
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Karachi, Pakistan
-- Doctors who examined the bodies of 12 Pakistanis killed in a suicide
car bombing outside the U.S. Consulate here testified Saturday at the
trial of five men accused with plotting the attack. Five medical examiners
described to an anti-terrorism court in the southern port city of Karachi
how the victims died and the injuries sustained by 50 others who were
caught in the June 14 attack. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030118_000102,00.html |
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India PM seeks
foreign investment for Kerala state |
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Cochin, India --
India's prime minister on Saturday urged foreign businesses to invest in
southern Kerala state. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee also announced
that the federal government would invest 100 billion rupees (US$2 billion)
in the state over the next few years. The money would be used to set up a
container terminal, a power plant and an oil refinery. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030118_000076,00.html |
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IMF assures
Pakistan of support in reducing poverty |
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Islamabad -- A
top International Monetary Fund official Saturday praised Pakistan's
President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, for pursuing an aggressive reform agenda
and promised to continue backing the new democratic government in reducing
poverty. "Homegrown, indigenous, prudent and sound economic policies ...
pursued by the government of Pakistan in the past three years have enabled
Pakistan to achieve macro-economic stability and have set the stage for
higher growth rate to alleviate poverty," said George T. Abed, according
to a Pakistani government statement. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030118_000070,00.html |
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20Financial%20News&T=markets_box.ht&middle=ad_frame2_all&s=APitFURT4SU1GIE9m |
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Pakistani
demonstrators hold anti-war on Iraq protests |
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Lahore, Pakistan
-- Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators marched through the streets of
several Pakistani cities Saturday, urging the United States and its allies
to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Iraq. About 200 people -a mix
of young students and human right activists -marched in the eastern city
of Lahore, while 150 gathered in the southern city of Karachi to express
concern over the increasing danger of a U.S.-led attack on
Iraq. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030118_000057,00.html |
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Pakistan
minister on way to US to discuss registration
rules |
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Islamabad --
Pakistan's foreign minister left for the U.S. Saturday, amid anger and
frustration at home over Washington's decision to include Pakistan in a
group of countries whose citizens must be photographed and fingerprinted
if they are to stay in the U.S. Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri has been
at the forefront of calls here to exempt Pakistanis from the new
requirements. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030118_000040,00.html |
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Religious
province in Pakistan to waive interest on loans |
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Peshawar,
Pakistan -- A senior minister in Pakistan's deeply conservative
northwestern province said Saturday his government will waive interest on
loans obtained by thousands of people because the payments are not in
keeping with Islamic teaching. "This is a first step toward elimination of
an interest-based banking system," Sirajul Haq, finance chief in the North
West Frontier Province told The Associated Press. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030118_000038,00.html |
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Grenade
explosion injures more than 20 in Kashmir |
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Srinagar, India
-- Suspected Islamic rebels exploded a grenade at a crowded bus station in
the strife torn northern Indian state of Jammu-Kashmir on Sunday injuring
at least 21 people, police said. The grenade was thrown at an army truck
passing near the bus station, but missed its target and exploded wounding
passengers waiting to board a bus in Kulgam, 70 kilometers (45 miles)
south of Srinagar, the summer capital of
Jammu-Kashmir. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030119_000037,00.html |
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Kashmir to set
up new anti-insurgency force |
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Srinagar, India
-- Jammu and Kashmir (news - web sites) will raise a new anti-insurgency
force made up of local volunteers to combat Muslim rebels opposing Indian
rule in the Himalayan region, a senior police official said on Saturday.
The new force, which will receive commando training, will be drawn from
among the 22,000 special police officers in the state -- who include
former rebels -- and trained members of village defence
committees. |
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2 rebels
killed; soldier, civilian wounded in Kashmir |
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Srinagar, India
-- Paramilitary soldiers fought and killed two suspected Islamic
guerrillas in the Indian-controlled portion of disputed Kashmir on
Saturday, police said. A civilian and a soldier were also wounded in the
gunbattle in Seerjagir village, about 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of
Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state. |
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India urges
southeast Asian nations to block terror funds |
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New Delhi --
India's deputy prime minister on Friday urged Southeast Asian nations to
enact new laws to choke the financial channels of terrorists to improve
defenses against terrorism, the Press Trust of India reported. Deputy
Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani said some countries were actively
helping terrorists to disrupt multi-religious harmony in the
region. |
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Pakistan's
Musharraf to visit Moscow next month |
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Islamabad --
Pakistan's leader will travel to Moscow next month to meet with Russian
officials who are concerned nuclear weapons from Pakistan's arsenal could
fall into the hands of al-Qaida terrorist networks. President Gen. Pervez
Musharraf will visit Russia from Feb. 4 to 6 to meet Russian President
Vladimir Putin who invited him last June, a Foreign Ministry statement
said Friday. |
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Myanmar
foreign minister to visit India next week |
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Myanmar Foreign
Minister Win Aung will go to neighboring India next week for bilateral
talks to improve warming relations between the two countries, an official
said. It will be the first official visit to India by a Myanmar foreign
minister since the current military junta came to power in 1988. Win Aung
will arrive in India Jan. 19, at the invitation of his Indian counterpart,
Yashwant Sinha, said Thaung Tun, the director-general of the Foreign
Ministry's political department. |
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US executive
in Pakistan works for Egyptian-owned company |
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Islamabad -- The
president of the Egyptian-owned Mobilink cellular telephone company
narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when unknown gunmend fire
on his car in the federal capital of Islamabad, a senior company official
said Friday. "The attack occurred when A.L.F. Barry, chief executive and
president of Mobilink, was going home Wednesday night," company Chairman
Javed Saifullah told a news conference at his office. Police were
investigating the shooting in the heavily patrolled
capital. |
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India says
concerned at Afghan Taliban regrouping |
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New Delhi --
India is worried about reports that remnants of Afghanistan ousted Taliban
rulers are regrouping in the south and east of the country, National
Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra said on Friday. "This is a dangerous
situation," he said during a reception for the launch of a new book. "We
are concerned about recurring evidence of the regrouping of Taliban
elements." Before the September 11 attacks in the United States, India
accused nuclear rival Pakistan of using close links with the Taliban and
Afghanistan-based Al Qaeda network to train militants before sending them
to join an insurgency in Indian Kashmir. |
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