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| waqarabro | Jun 3 2008, 10:08 AM Post #16 |
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India tops world murder count: report Monday, June 02, 2008 NEW DELHI: India has earned the dubious distinction of being the country where maximum number of murders takes place in the world, three times more than its neighbour Pakistan and double the figures in United States. There were more than 50 lakh incidents of crime reported in 2007-08, which included murder, rape and drug offences, a government report said. There were 32,719 incidents of murder recorded in India, whereas there were 16,692 in the US and 9,631 in Pakistan, the report compiled by National Crime Records Bureau and released by the Union Home Ministry, said. India was followed by South Africa, which registered 30,960 incidents of murders. Austria had recorded just 148 murders, whereas Israel registered 177 such incidents. However, the rate (per lakh population) of murder and other crimes in India was much less compared to other countries. The murder and rape rate in India is three and four (per lakh population) respectively whereas South Africa recorded occurrence rates in the two categories as 65.27 and 115.8 respectively. The number of rape cases was maximum in the US, which recorded 93,934 such assaults followed by South Africa 54,926 and India 18,359. The data was compiled in 22 countries, which included Australia, Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Japan, Canada, England and Wales, Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand and Sri Lanka besides others. In India, there were 44,159 incidents of sexual offence, 2,70,861 cases of serious assault and 22,814 robbery and violent theft-related incidents, the report said. The maximum number of robbery related cases were reported in Japan which had registered 17,25,072 such counts. The US topped the crime list with 2,31,13,708 total crime related incidents, whereas India registered overall 50,26,337 criminal cases. Death toll in blast near Danish embassy in Islamabad rises to eight Monday, June 02, 2008 ISLAMABAD: The death toll in a huge blast near Danish embassy in F-6 II area in the Red Zone of the federal capital Islamabad on Monday has reached to eight, while seven wounded said to be in a critical condition. The car blast near the Denmark embassy damaged a boundary wall of the building, while nearby UNDP office premises were also damaged in the blast. According to sources 10 to 15 kilogram explosives were used in the blast, which also shattered the vehicles parked in the area. Huge clouds of smoke were seen over the area. The blast created four feet deep crater sources said. Police have cordoned off the area to collect evidence about the incident. Relief operations were underway and the wounded being transferred to hospitals. |
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| waqarabro | Jun 3 2008, 10:09 AM Post #17 |
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Bhutto Dealt Nuclear Secrets to N. Korea, Book Says By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 1, 2008. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment -- a route to making a nuclear weapon -- to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new book by a journalist who knew the slain politician well. The assertion is based on conversations that the author, Shyam Bhatia, had with Bhutto in 2003, in which she said she would tell him a secret "so significant that I had to promise never to reveal it, at least not during her lifetime," Bhatia writes in "Goodbye, Shahzadi," which was published in India last month. Bhutto was slain in December while campaigning to win back the prime minister's post. The account, if verified, could advance the timeline for North Korea's interest in uranium enrichment. David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a research organization on nuclear weapons programs, said the assertion "makes sense," because there were signs of "funny procurements" in the late 1980s by North Korea that suggested a nascent effort to assemble a uranium enrichment project. Pakistan -- and, in particular, a nuclear smuggling ring run by Pakistani metallurgist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was instrumental in developing a Pakistani nuclear bomb -- has long been suspected as a source of expertise for North Korea, but such high-level government involvement always has been denied. In 2002, after observing a series of suspect North Korean purchases, the Bush administration accused Pyongyang of having a clandestine program to produce highly enriched uranium -- a charge that helped sink a Clinton-era deal that had frozen North Korea's plutonium-based reactor. North Korea insists that it had no such program, though it recently agreed to "acknowledge" U.S. concerns as part of an agreement to disable its nuclear reactor. Nadeem Kiani, spokesman for the Pakistani Embassy, denounced Bhatia's account as "an absurd and baseless claim," adding, "It has no iota of truth and not even worth commenting." Bhatia is a London-based investigative reporter who has written four other books, including one of the earliest accounts of India's nuclear program. Bhatia said he first met Bhutto at Oxford University in 1974 and kept contact with her until just weeks before she was killed. George Perkovich, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, knows Bhatia and cited his book in Perkovich's own study of the Indian program. "He is very smart, a serious guy, and the work he did on the Indian nuclear program has held up really well," Perkovich said. Selig S. Harrison, a specialist on South Asia and North Korea at the Center for International Policy who has read the book, said Bhatia "is credible on Bhutto. . . . He knew her very well and is a reputable Indian journalist." In his book, Bhatia writes that Bhutto brought up the North Korea visit during a discussion in 2003 about her difficulties with Pakistan's military. "Let me tell you something," she declared, before telling Bhatia to turn off his tape recorder. "I have done more for my country than all the military chiefs of Pakistan combined." At the time, Pakistan was in desperate need of new missile technology that would counter improvements in India's missiles. Bhutto said she was asked to carry "critical nuclear data" to hand over in Pyongyang as part of a barter deal. "Before leaving Islamabad she shopped for an overcoat with the 'deepest possible pockets' into which she transferred CDs containing the scientific data about uranium enrichment that the North Koreans wanted," Bhatia writes. "She implied with a glint in her eye that she had acted as a two-way courier, bringing North Korea's missile information on CDs back with her on the return journey." Bhatia said Bhutto did not tell him how many CDs she carried or who she gave them to in Pyongyang. His repeated efforts to persuade her to go on the record about the story were not successful. Highly enriched uranium, a fuel for nuclear weapons, is produced by cascades of centrifuges that spin hot uranium gas. Albright, who has read Bhatia's account, said the CDs probably contained blueprints of the more than 100 centrifuge components as well as general assembly drawings. "It is tricky to assemble a centrifuge," he said. Bhutto has always publicly said that Pakistan paid cash for the missile cooperation, though Albright has located one quote by Bhutto in 2004 making reference to computer disks being involved. |
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| waqarabro | Jun 3 2008, 10:10 AM Post #18 |
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N-data leak allegation against BB rejected WASHINGTON, June 1: The Pakistan embassy on Sunday took strong exception to a claim — revealed in a book and reported by The Washington Post — that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto personally smuggled nuclear data to North Korea in 1993. “It is absurd and highly ridiculous,” said an embassy spokesman Nadeem Kiani while talking to Dawn. “Why would a prime minister do such a thing and then disclose it to an Indian journalist knowing that Indian journalists are not known for their love for Pakistan?” According to the book, “Goodbye, Shahzadi,” Ms Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled critical data on uranium enrichment to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang. The information could have been used to make a nuclear weapon, the report suggested. The assertion is based on conversations that the author, Shyam Bhatia, had with Ms Bhutto in 2003, in which she said she would tell him a secret “so significant that I had to promise never to reveal it, at least not during her lifetime.” “The book is written in a sensational style, the sourcing is weak,” said Mr Kiani. “Mr Bhatia has in the past also published speculative stories relating to Pakistan’s nuclear programme, the source of which has not always been authentic.” Mr Kiani noted that it was not appropriate to soil the memory of Pakistan’s “icon of democracy”. |
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| waqarabro | Jun 17 2008, 08:21 PM Post #19 |
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Washington backs Afghan hot pursuit into Pakistan LONDON: In the American administration’s first significant, if possibly highly selective, approval for the cross-border pursuit of “extremists in safe havens” in South Asia, George Bush has said he understands Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s frustrations. Commenting on Karzai’s first-ever threat to send Afghan troops to fight notorious Taliban leaders inside Pakistan, Bush told the world media that America’s strategy “is to deny safe haven to people who do harm to people, those who murder to achieve political objectives and seek safe haven”. He said “if people are coming from one country to kill innocent people (in another), they (the victims’ country) will be concerned”. He added, in what many believe to be the strongest-ever justification of South Asian countries’ right to what Karzai called ‘self-defence’, that the world “can’t allow cross-border havens, can’t allow extremists to have safe havens”. But commentators said the apparent American understanding of Afghanistan’s concerns may not extend to other countries, such as India, which have, in the past been warned not to pursue militants operating out of Pakistan across the border. Bush’s refusal to slap down Karzai for delivering his controversial angry warning to Afghanistan’s eastern neighbour for an escalating series of bloody cross-border attacks is certain to infuriate Islamabad, which has already complained about last week’s aerial attacks by US forces along the Afghan-Pakistan border. On Sunday, Pakistan PM Yousaf Raza Gilani warned Karzai that his country was a sovereign state and “neither do we interfere in anyone else’s matters, nor will we allow anyone to interfere in our territorial limits and our affairs”. Bush, Musharraf, Ahmadinejad least trusted leaders WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush is ranked only slightly above the rulers of Pakistan and Iran as one of the least-trusted leaders in the world, a survey released on Monday showed. The survey, carried out by WorldPublicOpinion.org in 20 countries around the world, found that no national leaders inspired wide confidence outside their own countries. But Bush, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ranked at the bottom, the polling showed. Only 23 per cent of people outside the United States had "a lot or some" confidence in Bush, compared to 22 per cent for Ahmadinejad and 18 percent for Musharraf. The leaders of other countries fared little better. Only 26 per cent had confidence in French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 28 per cent in Chinese President Hu Jintao, 30 per cent in British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and 32 per cent in Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has since become prime minister. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had the highest confidence levels, at 35 per cent. "While the worldwide mistrust of George Bush has created a global leadership vacuum, no alternative leader has stepped into the breach," said Steven Kull, director of WorldPublicOpinion.org. "Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin are popular among some nations, but more mistrust them than trust them." WorldPublicOpinion.org is a project involving research centres around the world and is managed by the Programme on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland. The group polled 19,751 people in nations that represent 60 per cent of the world's population. The survey was conducted between January 10 and May 6, with margins of error of plus or minus 2 to 4 per cent. PPP will soon appoint next president: Zardari LAHORE: With rival-turned ally Nawaz Sharif stealing the limelight with his full-throttle demand for Pervez Musharraf's ouster, PPP chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said his party will soon "appoint" the next president, hinting that the former general's days in office could be numbered. "The day is not far off when someone like Salman Taseer will be in the presidency. The PPP will soon appoint the next president," Zardari said addressing a gathering of PPP workers at the governor's house here on Monday night. He was referring to Tasser, a Pakistan People's Party stalwart who was recently made governor of Punjab province. Zardari said the presidency will soon resound with slogans like "Jeay Bhutto" (Long live Bhutto). Though Zardari had last month described Musharraf as a "relic of the past standing between the people and democracy, the PPP has been lukewarm to PML (N) leader Sharif's demand to remove him from presidency. The PPP has accepted the challenge of ridding the country of dictators, Zaradari, husband of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, said. "We are determined to make Pakistan a real democratic country and will make a decision as to when to take the initiative in this regard." In a veiled reference to last week's "long march" by the lawyers' movement, where Sharif made a vociferous demand for Musharraf's sacking and trial, Zardari said it was a "mere carnival". The PPP knew better how to organise a successful long march and when it arranges such a protest, the whole world would see huge public participation in it, he said. Zardari said the PPP will take revenge against the "anti-democratic forces" that assassinated party chairperson and former premier Benazir Bhutto by bringing real democracy into the country. "The PPP has the credit of struggling against (military rulers) Ayub Khan and Zia-ul-Haq and will continue its struggle to ensure real democracy." As the PPP workers shouted slogans like "Jeay Bhutto" and 'Zinda hai zinda hai Benazir", he said, "The day is not far off when president's house will also echo with such slogans." The PPP's leadership and workers have the power to save Pakistan from dictatorship, he said. |
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| waqarabro | Jun 17 2008, 08:22 PM Post #20 |
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4 killed in blast outside DIK Shia mosque * Police says timed device used in explosion DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A bomb blast inside a Shia mosque killed at least four people and wounded two others on Monday, police said. Local police officer Asghar told Daily Times over the telephone that the bomb went off inside Imambargah Hazrat Ali in Mohallah Roshan Chirgah as worshippers were coming out of the mosque after offering evening prayers. Timed device: District police chief Abdul Ghaffar Qaiserani told AFP that it was a time-controlled device as police found a number of battery cells from the rubble, which indicated the bomb, planted near the main entrance, was on a timer. Qaiserani declined to say if it was a sectarian attack, but similar bombings and gun attacks have taken place between the supporters of Shia and Sunni extremist groups active in Dera Ismail Khan, which borders the Tribal Areas. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. The blast shattered the mosque’s front wall and damaged its dome. A crater was also caused near the front wall, AFP reported. Twisted fans hung from the ceiling inside the mosque and prayer mats were scattered across the bloodstained floor. The police cordoned off the area as people sifted debris looking for survivors. Witnesses said that nearby markets were shut down immediately after the incident to curb possible protests. Last month, gunmen opened fire on a car, killing four Shias in Dera Ismail Khan. Hours later, a Sunni Muslim was shot dead elsewhere in the city. agencies Benazir attack suspect freed KARACHI: The police have freed a key suspect in a suicide bombing that killed around 150 people at last year’s homecoming rally for former premier Benazir Bhutto, an official said on Monday. Prisons Inspector General (IG) Yameen Khan told AFP Qari Saifullah Akhtar was released on June 8. Benazir accused Qari Saifullah Akhtar in her book Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, of plotting against her. “We released him on Friday after the expiry of his detention period,” the IG said. Akhtar’s lawyer Hashmat Habib said he was freed because of a lack of evidence. “He is a free person. There is no case against him anywhere in Pakistan,” Habib said, adding that the authorities had “facilitated” his return to Lahore. Akhtar was arrested in February 2008 in Lahore soon after the book was published. A court in Karachi released him on bail after police said they had no evidence against him, but he was re-arrested in late March under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance. He met Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden several times in Afghanistan, security officials said. The attorney admitted that Akhtar used to command a guerrilla group that fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but said his client had renounced militancy, denying that Akhtar had anything to do with the Karachi attack, AP reported. Akhtar was arrested in the United Arab Emirates in August 2004 and later extradited to Pakistan, where he was released under unclear circumstances. Benazir was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack in Rawalpindi two months after the attack on her Karachi rally. agencies ‘Subsidies on up to 200 power units not to be withdrawn’ ISLAMABAD: The government will not withdraw subsidies on electricity up to 200 units to provide relief to the poor people, Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Monday. Talking to journalists here, the minister said only the privileged class using over 200 electricity units will share the burden while the deprived segment will be given subsidy. He said the country is facing severe power crisis and the government is taking short, medium and long-term measures to combat load shedding. He said load shedding hours would be reduced within a few days as additional power of 1,500 MW has been added in the system due to efforts made by the government. The minister added that an additional power generation has been achieved through system optimisation. Ashraf said that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had approved an amount to bear the expenditure of oil supply to thermal power plants. He said a major chunk of the export-oriented industry has been exempted from load shedding while power supply is also being increased in other sectors. In order to boost the agriculture sector, 10 hours of continuous power supply was being provided at night to achieve maximum production while the textile industry was also being provided 100 percent supply of power, he said. Power-looms are also being provided continues spells of power to increase productivity as this export-oriented industry is a major contributor to the country’s foreign exchange reservoirs, he said. |
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| waqarabro | Jun 19 2008, 08:09 PM Post #21 |
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[size=7]Racist MQM city mayor Kamal wants Sindhis-Pakhtuns clash [/size] Sometime back, he threatened to send 5,000 dead bodies of Sindhis from Karachi KARACHI, SINDH: [SindhWeek.Com Report] The racist & chauvinist Mayor of City District Govt Karachi (CDGK) Syed Mustafa Kamal who belongs to the racist and terrorist Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) is now trying hard to create clash between Sindhis and Pakhtuns. He has recently refused to accept writ of Sindh Govt on CDGK.The racist city mayor in an interview with an American Radio NPR, has said that Pakhtuns are 'dangerous and extremists' and they are 'dangerous' for Karachi also as they are planning to 'occupy,' Karachi. He said the main objective of Pakhtuns is to set up 'religious extremism and religious fundamentalism. 'Chauvinist Mustafa Kamal said Pakhtuns are choosing such areas for building of their illegal localities which are hindering in development of the city. He said Pakhtuns are also being settled in Interior Sindh, therefore, Sindhis should take action against them otherwise this would create problem for "Sindhis and us", he added.It may be pointed out that racist city mayor has miserably & completely neglected Sindhi and Baloch areas of Karachi in prevailing gigantic development projects by showing his and his party's hatred against Sindhi & Baloch people so much so, the Lyari Town which is the largest out of total 18 Towns of Karachi, was turned into garbage centre. However, the racist MQM Mayor shamelessly claimed that he has spend billion of rupees on the development of Lyari whereas facts speaks otherwise. For this, he hired the services of two mercenary journalists namely Agha Masud Hussain and Salahuddin Haider to write articles for the so-called development in Lyari. It may be pointed out that racist & terrorist city mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal while giving an interview to ARY private satellite channel had threatened to send 5,000 dead bodies to interior Sindh [obviously of Sindhis] after the riots erupted as result of assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto, ex-prime minister of Pakistan. |
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| Rachna Sindhi | Dec 24 2008, 06:56 AM Post #22 |
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Dear Friends, First of all Iam sorry that Iam going to ask a question in topic category, which is totally unrelated with this category.Infact it relates with jobs category,but Iam not able to see any category like jobs etc. Iam keen interested to do work as presenter on FM radio in sindhi language,so can any one guide me in this regard. You can reply me, on my user id here Rachna sindhi. Thankyou |
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