US NEWS SOURCES -May 17&18, 2003 (Weekend)

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Suspected Islamic militants axe six members of a shepherd's family to death in a remote mountainous village in Indian Kashmir. Pakistan appoints Riaz Mohammed Khan as its new high commissioner to India. India reiterates its demand that Pakistan stop supporting Islamic rebels in disputed Kashmir. The death toll in Sri Lanka's floods rises to at least 200 after torrential rains devastate southern Sri Lanka. A group of 14 Indian fishermen begin their voyage home after being held in a Pakistani jail for two years. The editorial says that India and Pakistan require a spirit of compromise as a prerequisite to bring about peace in Kashmir. In the business section, Pakistan International Container Terminal signs an agreement with International Finance Corp for a loan of $9.25 million to finance its creation of a $31 million container handling facility at Karachi Port.

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Suspected militants kill 6 in Indian-controlled Kashmir (Wall Street Journal - Subscription required) (The New York Times - Registration required) (Hoovers)

Pakistan appoints new high commissioner to India (Wall Street Journal - Subscription required) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Washington Post) (Star Tribune)

India PM: Pakistan must stop supporting Kashmir rebels (Wall Street Journal - Subscription required)

At least 200 killed in Sri Lanka floods (New York Times - Registration required) (The Seattle Times) (Wall Street Journal - Subscription required) (Boston Globe) (Las Vegas SUN) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (Philadelphia Enquirer) (Hoovers) (San Diego Union Tribune) (New Jersey Online) (VOANews) (Washington Post) (News Day)

Pakistan releases jailed Indians as goodwill gesture (Wall Street Journal - Subscription required) (VOANews) (Washington Post)

Norway lawmaker urges resumption of Sri Lanka peace talks (Wall Street Journal - Subscription required)

U.S. officials see signs of a revived al Qaeda (The New York Times - Registration required) (LA Times)

India's Vajpayee plans cabinet reshuffle (The New York Times - Registration required) (Washington Post)

TOP STORIES
*	Suspected militants kill 6 in Indian-controlled Kashmir
	Jammu, India -- Suspected Islamic militants axed to death six members of a shepherd's family overnight in a remote mountainous village in the Indian portion of Kashmir, police said Monday. The attack occurred around midnight in thickly forested Kot Dhara, a village 180 kilometers north of Jammu, the winter capital of the Indian state of Jammu-Kashmir, a police officer said. The attackers killed four women and two children, the officer said. The shepherd was missing and was believed to have been taken away by the attackers, the officer said. Initial reports had said that the shepherd was among those killed in the attack.
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030518_001669-search,00.html
	http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Kashmir-Killingshtml
	http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/newsurl.asp?doc_id=NR_89f800031e6c320e
*	Pakistan appoints new high commissioner to India
	May 17, Islamabad -- Pakistan has appointed Riaz Mohammed Khan, a career diplomat, as its new high commissioner to India, an official said. Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali made the announcement during an interview with Indian state television Saturday, a government official said on condition of anonymity. The interview wasn't aired in Pakistan and foreign ministry officials weren't immediately available for comment. India appointed Shiv Shanker Menon, a career diplomat, as high commissioner to Pakistan on May 13. Both Khan and Menon are currently serving as ambassadors to China for their respective countries.
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030517_000255,00.html
	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20India%20Ambassador
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5303-2003May18.html
	http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3889515.html
*	India PM: Pakistan must stop supporting Kashmir rebels
	New Delhi -- India on Sunday reiterated its demand that Pakistan stop supporting Islamic rebels in disputed Kashmir to create conditions conducive for a resumption of dialogue between the countries. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee denied that he was seeking friendship with Pakistan , after a two-year standoff, because of pressure from the U.S. and other Western nations.
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030518_000815-search,00.html
*	At least 200 killed in Sri Lanka floods
	COLOMBO -- The death toll in Sri Lanka's floods rose to at least 200 on Monday with as many missing after torrential rains devastated the south. Authorities said more flooding and landslides could be on the way. With about 100,000 people left homeless after the worst downpour in 60 years, the government geared itself for a massive relief effort and sought help from foreign governments.
	http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-weather-srilanka-floods.html
	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134766966_wdig19.html
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html
	http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/139/nation/141_believed_dead_in_Sri_Lanka_flooding+.shtml
	http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2003/may/19/051904448.html
	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Sri%20Lanka%20Floods
	http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/world/5892104.htm
	http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=query_displaynews&sym=&doc_id=NR_6716000b7b981770
	http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SRI_LANKA_FLOODS?SITE=CADIU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
	http://www.nj.com/newsflash/lateststories/index.ssf?/base/international-0/.xml
	http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=C379F166-3F3C-42F7-96C06D0C79340D51&title=Heavy%20Floods%20Kill%20More%20Than%20140%20in%20Sri%20Lanka
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9405-2003May19.html
	http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-sri-lanka-floods,0,7023176.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dworld%2Dheadlines
*	Pakistan releases jailed Indians as goodwill gesture
	May 17 -- A group of 14 Indian fishermen began their voyage home Saturday after being held in a Pakistani jail for two years for crossing into Pakistan's territorial waters, a jail official said. Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali announced May 6 that Pakistan would free dozens of Indian prisoners, including the fishermen, as a goodwill gesture to India ahead of possible peace talks between the nuclear rivals.
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030517_000231,00.html
	http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=BC34FD8C-5B0D-4766-AE73CC228DB8561B
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5827-2003May18.html
*	Norway lawmaker urges resumption of Sri Lanka peace talks
	May 17 -- Norway's deputy foreign minister urged Tamil Tiger rebels Saturday to resume peace talks with Sri Lanka's government. The Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam rebels withdrew from the peace talks last month and pulled out of a scheduled donor conference in Japan on June 9-10. The insurgents accuse the government of not doing enough to resettle and improve the living conditions of thousands of Tamil refugees displaced by the 19-year civil war.
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030517_000228,00.html
*	U.S. officials see signs of a revived al Qaeda
	May 17, Washington -- Leaders and operatives of Al Qaeda have reorganized bases of operations in at least a half-dozen locations, including Kenya, Sudan, Pakistan and Chechnya, senior counterterrorism officials said this week. The leaders have begun to recruit new members, train the new followers and plan new attacks on Western targets in earnest, according to senior counterterrorism officials in Washington, Europe and the Middle East.
	http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/17/international/worldspecial2/17QAED.html
	http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-war-alqaeda18may18000431.story
*	India's Vajpayee plans cabinet reshuffle
	Manali, India -- Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Sunday he would reshuffle his cabinet and induct new members shortly. "Those ministers with heavy work load will be relieved of some burden, some new ministers will be appointed," he said but did not say when the changes would take place. Mamata Banerjee, leader of the regional Trinamool Congress, might return to the cabinet after a gap of two years, Vajpayee told reporters at the end of his six-day holiday in the scenic state of Himachal Pradesh, without giving details.
	http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-india-reshuffle.html
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5819-2003May18.html

BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY
*	Pakistan container co. plans IPO, signs accord with IFC
	May 17, Karachi -- Pakistan International Container Terminal, which is building a $31 million container handling facility at Karachi Port, Saturday announced plans to list on the Karachi Stock Exchange. The company also signed an agreement with International Finance Corp. - the private sector arm of the World Bank - for a loan of $9.25 million to finance the project that will handle 150,000 twenty feet equivalent container units or TEUs when its first phase is completed in 2004.
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030517_000204,00.html
*	Californians opt for diversity training
	Manoj Mathai's hunt for his first house could be a lesson to Silicon Valley real estate professionals. A home must have certain qualities to make the native of India happy: The front door must face east, because good fortune comes from a rising sun. The master bedroom should be in the southeast corner of the home, because many Indians believe that's where wealth resides. The kitchen needs to be spacious and well-ventilated to accommodate many family gatherings featuring homemade masala, a pungent blend of spices. "In the back of our minds, we Indians are looking for certain things," Mathai said as he viewed homes in San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood. "We can talk about it, but some agents will still show us homes with entrances that face the wrong way, not realizing how important things like this are to us." To avoid such deal-breaking mistakes, home builders and real estate agents across the Bay Area are increasingly making it a priority to understand the cultural differences that define the valley.
	http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/realestate/chi-may18,1,5803997.story

OTHER STORIES
*	Widening the Gates of faith
	They surround the room, some swathed in silks and golds, others in floral garlands. There's Krishna, about to play his flute. And Shiva, twirling his trident. Saraswati strums her lute-like veena and Mahavir sits cross-legged, eyes closed. The dozen or so deities at the Rajdhani Mandir, a Hindu temple in Chantilly, draw hundreds of devotees each week who stand or kneel before the various incarnations of God to seek blessings. But this weekend, Hindus found themselves praying alongside newcomers of a different faith.
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4727-2003May17.html
*	Indian heart surgeon took talents home
	NEW DELHI � Taken out of context, it looks like Naresh Trehan is playing a video game. He stares intently into a console at a three-dimensional image, his feet pressing on pedals, his hands maneuvering levers. But in this case, context is everything. On a television screen several feet from Dr. Trehan, a heart, embedded in gelatinous tissue and blood, throbs insistently. Several feet farther still, lies the body that is home to the heart, on which Dr. Trehan is, at this moment, operating.
	http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/international/asia/18INDI.html
*	India soap runs afoul of novelist
	May 16 -- Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford has obtained an Indian court injunction forbidding a television channel from airing, until further notice, a soap opera she said copied from her novels. India's Sahara Television had already pulled "Karishma � The Miracles of Destiny" off the air a day after its debut on Monday, following an interim order by the Supreme Court. The New York novelist stated in her case for infringement of copyright that the soap drew from three of her novels, particularly "A Woman of Substance," one of the top 10 bestselling fiction titles of all time.
	http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/qtakes/cl-et-quick16.6may16.story
*	Pakistanis restrict women's sports
	Peshawar, Pakistan -- Male coaches have been banned from training female athletes and sports teams in a deeply conservative province in Pakistan. Male spectators also will be barred from watching sports events where female athletes compete, and male journalists are forbidden from covering them, Asif Iqbal Daudzai, information minister of the North-West Frontier province, told a news briefing. The new measures, decided at a provincial Cabinet meeting Friday, mark the latest attempt by the six-party religious alliance to impose a strict interpretation of Islam.
	http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-may18,1,3548050.story
*	'Devdas' Wins 7 Indian Bollywood Awards
	"Devdas," a big-budget remake of a popular Indian novel, won seven awards Saturday, including best picture and best director, at the India International Film Awards. The love story, said to be the most expensive movie ever made in India, had received 12 nominations in 10 categories. "I think its God's wish that I made this. It's taught me how to pray," director Sanjay Leela Bhansali said in accepting the award. He also paid his respects to two crew members who died during the filming. Shah Rukh Khan won best actor and Aishwarya Rai won best actress for their roles in "Devdas" as lovers whose plans to marry are derailed by their parents.
	http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-india-movie-awards,0,3710725.story
	http://www.startribune.com/stories/675/3889561.html
	http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/custom/wire/sns-ap-india-movie-awards.story
*	THIS DATE IN HISTORY
	In 2002, India and Pakistan exchanged fire across their border, renewing fears the countries were on the brink of nuclear war over the region of Kashmir.
	http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-hist0518q3290956may18,0,1500175.story
*	Fires, floods plague New Delhi shanytown
	The young mother, whose weathered face makes her appear well into middle age, nods toward the ashes of what used to be her house. "I thought Delhi would be better than this," said Shakila Khatoon, 28, who 15 years ago fled the rural poverty of northeastern India for the sprawling riverside shantytown of Yamuna Pushta and has seen her house burn three times since. "Delhi is a big city, and we came here hoping for a good future." On Wednesday, a fire consumed hundreds of shacks in Khatoon's neighborhood. At least 800 homes are believed to have been destroyed, most of them tiny huts of bamboo and plastic, and at least two people were killed. It remains unclear how it started.
	http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-calamitys-neighborhood,0,2927832.story
*	Orphanages proliferate in carnage of Kashmir
	Swirling scarves through the air, the juggler draws a laugh from the 5-year-old boy, who is wrapped in a blanket in a drafty red-brick orphanage on a Kashmir mountaintop. "It is so freaky how he makes colorful circles with those strips of cloth," a beaming Aijaz Ahmad Rather said. Aijaz has rarely smiled since his father, a separatist militant, was killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces three years ago. Left destitute, his mother couldn't care for him and so sent him to the Garden Palace orphanage.
	http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-adfg-orphans18may18,1,623475.story
*	Downright rude or just different? It can be a fine line
	".... The approach to propriety in public is different in England. "When two people bump into each other on the street, there's a fixed protocol," he says. "Both assume responsibility, say they're sorry and walk on. Britons are experts at avoiding awkwardness." They are also the sacred guardians of the queue, it seems. "Forming lines is how order is maintained in England," says "Survival Kit" author Kohls. Hargraves recalls that he saw Brits form an orderly line at bus stops long before the bus ever got there. We Americans must have learned it from them. But elsewhere, the notion that lining up is the fairest and most sensible way to get something that you and many other people want is about as foreign to them as eating ants is to us. Lonely Planet's George was initially dismayed by the lack of line etiquette in India, where people push and yell as they rush to the ticket window or boarding ramp. "Queues don't exist there," he says. "When you try to board a domestic flight, it's just chaos. I remember being horrified. Civilization was coming to an end. But then I just rolled up my sleeves and dove in."
	http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-spano18may18,1,7592834.story