Somali
Islamists kill two for watching World Cup
Danish soldier among 22 killed in
Afghanistan
Ex-Muslim preacher exposed as fake
Pak to free 300 people to meet JuL demands
Taliban could become part of Afghan set-up: Obama
aide
Has ISI resumed FICN trade?
Gaddafi to pay 2bn to bomb victims
US discovers $1 trillion Afghan mineral
deposits
Israel plans to expel 300 Palestinians
Women must be leaders in faith
About 100 Indian students trapped in riot-hit
Kyrgyzstan
Rights panel says it never visited Batla
Karzai's brother, ally and obstacle in Afghanistan
Fate of 16-yr-old entangled in Indo-Pak
diplomacy
Osama Bin Laden on Twitter!?
Gaza siege must be broken: Moussa
Karzai seeks support for Kandahar op
Schoolchild stranded in private van dies
Key security official taken out in Yemen
Strict regulations discourage people from donating
blood
Fresh violence kills 26 in Iraq
Petition filed in SC against G-B order
Protests against students’ killing in
Balochistan
3 militants killed in Swat encounter
Blast at rally kills 3 in Kenya
Insurgents kill eight Afghan policemen, four
civilians
In boost for Hamas, top Arab diplomat visits
Gaza
Russia sends troops to quell Kyrgyz ethnic
clashes
Two killed as Kyrgyz clashes trap
Pakistanis
Af fallout? UK asks military chief to go
World powers 'naive' in imposing Iran sanctions:
Ahmadinejad
US mounts pressure on BP, Barack Obama heads to Gulf
Coast
Israel to set up own inquiry into Gaza flotilla
raid
UN diplomat pushes for de-listing Taliban
operatives
Thousands flee ethnic bloodshed in
Kyrgyzstan
Philippine bus crash kills 18, mostly Iranians
Pakistan meddling in Afghanistan: Report
Don't mix emotions with law: Khurshid
Pak Rangers Deployed For Security Of Sikhs
Madani may seek anticipatory bail
Indian Embassy in Riyadh denies death term
report
Turkey dismisses Israel's flotilla probe
India asks Pak to 'shed its insecurity'
Insurgent attacks kill 18 Afghan policemen
10 Jemaah Islamiah members arrested since early
2010
Compiled by Asit kumar
Photo: Top Pakistani Taliban commander Waliur
Rehman
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Somali Islamists kill two for watching World
Cup
Jun 14, 2010
Somali militants killed two soccer fans whom they caught watching a
2010 FIFA World Cup game, the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) said
on its website.
In 2006 the Islamic Courts Union which controlled most of Somalia
prohibited the World Cup and other soccer competitions on the grounds that it
was a "satanic act."
The incident took place late on Saturday in a village near the Somali
capital Mogadishu. A group of heavily armed militants of the Hezbal Islam
radical group attacked a house where a group of soccer fans secretly followed
the tense Argentina-Nigeria game.
"Two young men who tried to jump over the wall were shot and killed
while ten others including my husband and my teenage son were taken into
Islamist custody in the village," Halima Ahmed, a mother of five children told
AIPS in a phone conversation.
A Hezbal Islam leader, Sheik Mohamed Abu Abdalla, said the men
violated the Islamic law and those caught by militants will be tried in an
Islamic court.
"Football descended from the old Christian cultures and our Islamic
administration will never allow watching what they call the FIFA World Cup. We
are sending our last warning to the people," he said.
President of the Somali Football Federation, Said Mahmoud Nur,
declined to comment on the report citing "security
reasons."
Meanwhile, residents in the southern Jubba regions have sent a
complaint letter to the Al Shabab militant group, which controls most of the
southern and central parts of Somalia and a large swath of the capital seeking
permission to watch the world's largest sporting event.
But when community elders entered the Al Shabab administrative office
in the southern key port town of Kismayo on Saturday, they were told that they
would be arrested if they came back with a similar
request.
http://en.rian.ru/sports/20100614/159415097.html
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7 of Taliban's top 15 are ISI agents'
ASHIS RAY
Jun 14, 2010
LONDON: Pakistan appears to be playing a double-game of astonishing
magnitude, a new study claims, stressing there is real evidence of extensive
cooperation between the Taliban and the ISI.
The latter is said to compensate families of suicide bombers to the
tune of 200,000 Pakistani rupees, claims the report, which is written by Harvard
University analyst Matt Waldman.
Waldman told UK's Sunday Times: "This report is consistent with
Pakistan's political history in which civilian leaders actively backed jihadi
groups that operate in Afghanistan and Kashmir."
On Afghanistan, which is the primary focus of the fact finding,
Waldman's research reveals: "By backing the insurgents, Pakistan's security
service (ISI) is trying to undermine Indian influence in Afghanistan."
The report says: "Without a change in Pakistani behaviour, it will be
difficult, if not impossible, for international forces and the Afghan government
to make progress against the insurgency."
"We're also saying this is official policy of that agency (ISI). It
(assistance) is both at an operational level, and at a strategic level," he
asserts. These are substantiated by former Taliban ministers and a senior UN
official based in Kabul. Waldman said he himself spoke to nine Taliban field
commanders.
Up to seven of the Afghan Taliban leaders who constitute a 15-man
shura are said to be ISI agents. The report further says that interviews
strongly suggest that the ISI has representatives on the shura, either as
participants or observers, and the agency is involved at the highest levels of
the movement.
Major-General Athar Abbas, Pakistan's military spokesman, predictably
described the claim as ridiculous. He said, "The allegations are
baseless."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/7-of-Talibans-top-15-are-ISI-agents/articleshow/6045007.cms
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Danish soldier among 22 killed in
Afghanistan
14 Jun, 2010
KABUL/COPENHAGEN: A Danish soldier and eight Afghan policemen were
among 22 killed in different incidents in southern Helmand and remote Day Kundi
provinces of Afghanistan, according to Afghan and Danish military officials on
Sunday. In a statement, Danish Army Operations head Major General Niels Henrik
Bundgaard said that a (Danish) soldier was killed and four others wounded when a
roadside bomb hit their patrol in Helmand. Day Kundi Governor Qurban Ali said
that the Taliban attacked a police post in Kijran district, sparking a daylong
battle, which killed eight policemen and four civilians. At least nine militants
were also killed before their comrades fled the area, he said. Day Kundi is a
remote and isolated province.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\06\14\story_14-6-2010_pg7_3
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Ex-Muslim preacher exposed as fake
14 Jun 2010
A prominent Christian preacher that reportedly converted to
Christianity from Islam has come under fire for making suspicious claims about
his Muslim past.
Ergun Caner, the dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in
Lynchburg, Virginia, claims that he was a radical Muslim teenager before
immigrating to the US from Turkey and discovering Jesus Christ at a church in
the US state of Ohio.
Soon after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington,
DC, Caner and his brother, Emir, published a book labeled Unveiling Islam: An
Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs.
In the book, Caner portrays himself as a one-time extremist who
received terrorist trainings in Turkey.
The publication of the book quickly propelled this unknown Baptist
minister to the heights of fame, and in 2005 granted him his current post as the
dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Since then, Caner has established himself as a leading Christian
critic of Islam using his stature as the dean of one of the most prominent
Evangelical theology schools.
However, Caner's contradictory stories and remarks have cast doubt on
his past.
Recent reports show that he and his family had moved to Ohio when he
was just a child -- before being able to receive terrorist training -- and that
some "Arabic" phrases he had uttered in some of his speeches were actual
gibberish.
Following the revelations, Liberty University Chancellor Jerry
Falwell Jr. has initiated a probe into Caner's behavior, with results due later
this month, the Associated Press reported recently.
Jerry Falwell Sr., the founder and former chancellor of the Liberty
University who died in 2007, was an outspoken rhetorical critic of Islam that
lacked little scholarly knowledge of the religion. On numerous occasions he had
made offensive remarks regarding the Prophet of Islam (PBUH).
Many critics regard Caner to be just an opportunist who has sowed
tension between the world's two largest faiths.
"He's done enormous harm … To listen to someone like Caner, you'd
think house meetings to decide what to blow up next are daily fare for all
Muslims," said Charles Kimball, director of religious studies at the University
of Oklahoma.
Analysts say that Caner's climb to fame, however, illustrates how
important Muslim conversion stories are among American Christian communities
today.
It also brings back to mind the longstanding fascination of the
American society -- dating back to the colonial period -- with tales of Muslims
converting to Christianity.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=130354§ionid=35102
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Pak to free 300 people to meet JuL demands
June 14, 2010
The government will free over 300 persons arrested for suspected
Taliban links to meet a demand of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam to keep the Pakistan
People's Party-led coalition at the centre intact, according to a media report
Monday.
The government has also agreed to appoint JUI leader Maulana Muhammad
Khan Sheerani of Balochistan as chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology when
the incumbent retires this week.
The arrested persons, some of them suspected of being close
associates of the Taliban terror network, are being released from jails in
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province because they belong to the JUI led by Maulana Fazlur
Rehman, the Express Tribune newspaper reported.
The JUI has for long been threatening to pull out of the PPP-led
coalition if its demands, including the release of workers arrested on terror
charges, are not met.
Full report at:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Pak-to-free-300-people-to-meet-JuL-demands/Article1-557570.aspx
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Taliban could become part of Afghan set-up: Obama
aide
14 Jun, 2010
WASHINGTON, June 13: A senior
White House official said on Sunday that involving Taliban militants in a future
set-up in Afghanistan could be a part of the solution to the present conflict in
that country.
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the US president, also said that
President Barack Obama was committed to starting withdrawing troops from
Afghanistan from July next year.
“And ultimately if the Taliban are willing to lay down arms and
participate in a peaceful way, that would be part of the solution,” Mr Axelrod
told a US television channel, NBC.
The White House adviser was commenting on a New York Times report
which claimed that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had been pressing to strike his
own deal with the Taliban and Pakistan.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/taliban-could-become-part-of-afghan-setup-obama-aide-460
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Has ISI resumed FICN trade?
Preetam Srivastava
Jun 14th, 2010
The recent arrest of Nepal-based fake Indian currency notes (FICN)
runner Kanhaiya Lal Gupta has Intelligence Bureau (IB) worried that Pakistan’s
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has succeeded in restarting a well-oiled
racket.
In the 1990s, the nefarious trade — aimed at hitting at the roots of
the Indian economy —was taken care of by Krishnanagar MP Mirza Dilshad Beg.
After his gory murder, the mantle was passed on to Mirza’s protégés Majid
Manihar and Pervez Ahmed aka Tanda, who were also mysteriously murdered.
Later, on ISI’s information, Nepal Police arrested Yunus Ansari, who
was part of the syndicate after rivals eliminated his father and a former
Nepalese Minister Salim Miya Ansari.
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/262413/Has-ISI-resumed-FICN-trade.html
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Yrs after supplying explosives to IRA, Gaddafi to pay 2bn to bomb
victims
Liam Clarke
14 June, 2010
The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is to pay up to 2-billion to
victims of Irish terrorism for his role in supplying shiploads of explosives to
the IRA.
About 800 million will go directly to victims of the violence.First
in line will be the 147 families of those caught in atrocities in which
Semtex,the plastic explosive supplied by Libya,was used.Libya's insistence that
it will not acknowledge specific liability means the thousands of others
affected by the troubles will come forward for a share of the
cash.
A trade deal between Britain and Libya is also expected to be part of
the historic settlement.Gadaffi is seeking to present the payment as a goodwill
gesture and is not expected to admit liability.
Full report at: Times of India
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US discovers $1 trillion Afghan mineral
deposits
James Risen
Jun 14, 2010
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in
untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known
reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the
Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron,
copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big
and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that
Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important
mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/US-discovers-1-trillion-Afghan-mineral-deposits/articleshow/6045517.cms
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Israel plans to expel 300 Palestinians
By MOHAMMED MAR’I
Jun 13, 2010
RAMALLAH: A senior Palestinian official on Sunday revealed that
Israel plans to expel 300 Palestinian political figures from occupied
Jerusalem.
“The expulsion of political figures is the first step before the
expulsion of Palestinian families from Jerusalem ... the plan is in accordance
with the Israeli military order under which the Israeli occupation authorities
will expel 70,000 Palestinian from Jerusalem and the West Bank to the Gaza Strip
and other countries under the pretext that they do not have residency permits,”
said Khaled Abu Arafeh, a Jerusalem-based Hamas
legislator.
The development came a week after Jerusalem police confiscated the
Israeli identity cards of four Hamas legislators and gave them until July to
leave the city after they refused to meet Israeli demands to quit the
movement.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article65494.ece
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Women must be leaders in faith
Shaista Gohir
14 June 2010
A woman led Muslim prayers in Oxford last week. Her actions and those
of others like her, across faiths, deserve our support
So far, it seems only Muslim women from abroad dare lead men in
Friday prayers in the UK. A Canadian, Raheel Raza, became the second Muslim
woman to do so at the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford last week. An
African-American convert, Amina Wadud, was the first Muslim woman to lead mixed
prayers at the same centre in 2008. It's not surprising that British Muslim
women are not brave enough to follow their footsteps – both have been demonised
after leading men in prayers in their own countries.
Full report at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/jun/14/women-lead-muslim-prayers
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About 100 Indian students trapped in riot-hit
Kyrgyzstan
Jun 14, 2010
NEW DELHI: About 100 Indian students are trapped in Kyrgyzstan's
violence-hit Osh and Jalalabad cities and are pleading for authorities to bring
them back home saying their lives were in danger.
"Anyone can die at any moment," Zaheer Khan, an Indian student, told
Times Now channel over the phone from Osh.
Indian students, he said, were confined into their homes.
Said student Amrit Das: "The building next to my home is burning. We
are stuck inside our home."
The violence on the street has meant that students can't go to the
airport to catch a flight home.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/About-100-Indian-students-trapped-in-riot-hit-Kyrgyzstan/articleshow/6045935.cms
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Rights panel says it never visited Batla
By Aman Sharma
14 June, 2010
THE NATIONAL Human Rights Commission ( NHRC) has conceded that it did
not visit the site of the Batla House encounter even once during its 11- month
long probe. The panel said it found the version of the Delhi Police sufficient
to rule that the incident was not a fake encounter.
“ The NHRC did not send its team for a probe to the
spot.
This was because, to reach the conclusion, the various reports sent
by the department concerned ( Delhi Police) were found to be adequate and
sufficient,” said a damning note from NHRC deputy registrar Sunil
Arora.
He was responding to a right to information ( RTI) plea filed by
Jamia Millia Islamia University student Afroz Alam Sahil.
Full report at: Mail Today
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Karzai's brother, ally and obstacle in
Afghanistan
Joshua Partlow
14 June, 2010
On March 8, at NATO headquarters in Kabul, Gen. Stanley McChrystal
presided over a classified briefing that some military officials hoped would
lead to the ouster of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half- brother of Afghanistan's
president and the most pow- erful figure in southern
Afghanistan.
But what has emerged instead appears to have left Karzai stronger
than ever.
A summertime US military offensive in the Taliban stronghold of
Kandahar has now been delayed, in what American officials said was an
acknowledgment of opposition among local offi- cials, without singling out
Karzai by name.
Full report at: The Indian Express
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Fate of 16-yr-old entangled in Indo-Pak
diplomacy
Balwant Garg
Jun 14, 2010
FARIDKOT: In a jail-cum-observation home for juvenile offenders in
Faridkot which is running short of space and basic amenities, 16-year-old Salim
Khan (name changed) is crammed in the jail with 32 other inmates.
For the last over two years, he has been praying for improvement in
diplomatic relations between India and Pakistan. He is hopeful a thaw in the
relations between the belligerent counties will pave the way for his release.
He has already undergone punishment for a crime he mistakenly
committed. Punjab government withdrew in January 2010 the criminal case against
him for entering India illegally. The ministry of home affairs has no objection
to his release but Salim is still lodged in jail, waiting for repatriation.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Chandigarh/Fate-of-16-yr-old-entangled-in-Indo-Pak-diplomacy/articleshow/6045130.cms
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Osama Bin Laden on Twitter!?
Jun 14, 2010
Here to provide us with his regular updates and opinions, the fake
Osama Bin Laden is the newest to join Twitterville.
Going by the name of "FakeBinLaden", the man in demand already has a
plethora of fans on social networking site FaceBook. Reveals an inside source
"Following in the footsteps of our many celebrities - the fake Bin Laden is here
to entertain us with his thoughts and opinions. He already has created a stir on
FB and is now here to take micro blogging site Twitter by storm"
You can find this fake Osama Bin Laden on
http://twitter.com/FakeBinLaden.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.hotklix.com/Hotklix/link/News/World/Osama-Bin-Laden-on-Twitter
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Gaza siege must be broken: Moussa
Jun 13, 2010
GAZA CITY: Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa visited the Gaza
Strip on Sunday, the highest Arab official to do so since its seizure by Hamas
in 2007, and called for an end to Israel's blockade of the Palestinian
territory. Moussa crossed into the enclave from Egypt, two weeks after Israel's
deadly interception of a Gaza aid flotilla.
"This blockade ... must be lifted and must be broken and the Arab
League decision is very clear in this regard," Moussa said. "Not only the Arabs,
but the entire world should stand with the Palestinian people against the siege
of Gaza and what is happening in the occupied territories, especially East
Jerusalem," he said, referring to Jewish settlement growth in the annexed Arab
half of the city.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article65580.ece
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Karzai seeks support for Kandahar op
By DEB RIECHMANN
Jun 14, 2010
KANDAHAR: President Hamid Karzai called Sunday on community leaders
in Kandahar to support a NATO campaign to bolster security in this Taleban
stronghold, urging people to work with his government to “bring dignity
back.”
NATO has already begun an operation to ramp up security in Kandahar,
and the campaign is expected to accelerate in the coming months. Many of the
estimated half-million Kandahar residents are skeptical of the operation,
fearing it will lead to more bloodshed.
During a meeting in Kandahar city, several hundred people including
tribal chiefs and religious leaders cheered as Karzai denounced corruption among
police and local power-brokers.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/world/article65496.ece
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Schoolchild stranded in private van dies
By SIRAJ WAHAB
Jun 14, 2010
DAMMAM: A private van driver faces charges of criminal negligence
following the death on Sunday of a five-year-old girl who was left unattended
for five hours in the vehicle in the full glare of the sun outside the
International Indian School in Dammam’s Al-Raka district.
The kindergartener, Fida Haris, started attending the school only two
months ago. Authorities allege the driver forgot to ensure she came off the
15-seater van when he dropped off other children at the school in the morning.
Ostensibly the child dozed off and remained inside the van, which had tinted
windows.
On a day when mercury reached 47 degrees Celsius, school officials
said Fida apparently suffocated inside the vehicle. “Her body had turned pale
because of lack of oxygen and the intensity of the heat,” said her class teacher
Gita Radhakrishnan. “It was a horrible sight.”
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article65581.ece
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Key security official taken out in Yemen
Jun 13, 2010
ADEN: Gunmen shot dead a senior security official in south Yemen,
scene of escalating separatist tensions, and two soldiers died defusing a bomb
near a southern army camp, officials and witnesses said on Sunday. A provincial
official said Jalal Al-Uthmani, a senior security official in the flashpoint
Abyan province, was killed outside his house in a hail of gunfire on
Saturday.
In neighboring Dalea, two soldiers died on Sunday when a bomb they
were trying to defuse outside the gate of an army camp exploded, witnesses and
local officials said.
Yemen, neighbor to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, has been a Western
security concern since a Yemen-based regional Al-Qaeda arm claimed
responsibility for a failed December attempt to bomb a US-bound
plane.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article65495.ece
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Strict regulations discourage people from donating
blood
By WALAA HAWARI
Jun 13, 2010
RIYADH: Every year 500,000 women in the US die during childbirth due
to lack of blood, said Hind Al-Humaidan, director of the blood bank at Riyadh’s
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, adding that although there
are no statistics on the issue in the Kingdom, there is also a high demand for
blood here.
“In addition to women giving birth, there are many other patients who
need large amounts of blood such as those suffering from leukemia and those who
undergo chemotherapy, as bone marrow stops producing blood for a few months,”
said Al-Humaidan, adding that kidney, heart transplant and open-heart patients
all require blood transfusions.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article65552.ece
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Fresh violence kills 26 in Iraq
Jun 13, 2010
BAGHDAD: At least 26 people were killed and 22 wounded on Sunday
after a bomb attack on Iraq’s central bank and a subsequent gun battle between
security forces and gunmen, officials said.
The attackers, who might have been attempting to rob the bank’s
vaults, had ended up on the rooftops of some of the buildings within the Central
Bank of Iraq’s compound, said a bank spokesman.
At least one bomb exploded on Sunday at an entrance to the central
bank, killing five people and sending a thick plume of smoke over Baghdad after
setting the bank’s generator on fire, officials said.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article65493.ece
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Petition filed in SC against G-B order
By Nasir Iqbal
14 Jun, 2010
ISLAMABAD, June 13: Through a petition the Supreme Court has been
requested to declare the Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment and Self-Governance)
Order 2009 illegal and order the federal government to substitute it with a
statute similar to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Interim Constitution Act 1974.
Moved by Advocate Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on behalf of Mir Tariq
Mehmood of the Jamaat-i-Islami, the petitioner pleaded that the Gilgit-Baltistan
Order 2009 infringed upon the fundamental rights as it “discriminated against
all norms of justice, mandate of the Constitution, dictum of the superior
courts, international law and the UN resolutions”.
This is the second such petition before the apex court, the earlier
one being moved by Advocate Ikram Chaudhry on behalf of Shafqat Ali Khan, which
pleaded that the order was confusing and self-contradictory since it failed to
explain whether Gilgit-Baltistan was part of Pakistan or Kashmir or had its own
identity.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/petition-filed-in-sc-against-gb-order-460
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Protests against students’ killing in
Balochistan
14 Jun, 2010
QUETTA, June 13: A partial strike was observed and demonstrations
were held in Khuzdar and some other towns of Balochistan on Sunday in protest
against the killing of two students belonging to the Balochistan Students
Organisation-Azad last week.
Vehicles belonging to government departments were set on fire in
Khuzdar, Turbat and Panjgur towns.Shops remained closed and traffic off roads in
Khuzdar and protesters put barricades on the Quetta-Karachi highway, disrupting
traffic between the two cities.
In Turbat, BSO-Azad activists attending a rally stormed a government
office and set on fire two vehicles there. In Panjgur, protesters set on fire a
PTCL equipment. According to a BSO spokesman, strike was observed in Pasni, Nal,
Wadh, Kalat and Mastung. —Staff Correspondent
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/protests-against-students-killing-in-balochistan-460
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3 militants killed in Swat encounter
14 Jun, 2010
MINGORA, June 13: Security forces killed three suspected militants
during an encounter in Tali Gram area of Swat district on Sunday.
Officials said that security forces were conducting search operation
in the area when militants attacked them.
They said that during a brief encounter three militants were killed.
Weapons were also recovered from the killed militants.
Meanwhile, six families whose members were involved in militancy were
expelled from Beshbenr area on Sunday.
Security forces set on fire the houses of wanted militants Abdul
Wahab and Bekht Zaman while their relatives were expelled from the area.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/3-militants-killed-in-swat-encounter-460
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Blast at rally kills 3 in Kenya
14 Jun, 2010
NAIROBI: An explosion ripped through a park in Nairobi’s capital
during a packed political rally late Sunday, killing three people and wounding
75, officials said.
The rally was held to protest a draft constitution the country will
vote on in August.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga confirmed the toll of dead and wounded.
He said officials don’t yet know the cause of the blast.
“It is a very, very regrettable incident, and this incident is
condemned in the strongest terms possible,” Odinga said at the site of the
blast. “We don’t know as yet the cause of this incident.”
A prominent backer of the campaign against the draft constitution,
Agriculture Minister William Ruto, attended the rally.
The blast took place in Uhuru Park, a wide expanse of green space in
the middle of downtown Nairobi. Hundreds of people attended the
rally.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/international/blast-at-rally-kills-3-in-kenya-460
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Insurgents kill eight Afghan policemen, four
civilians
13 Jun, 2010
KABUL: Taliban militants attacked a police post in central
Afghanistan, sparking a day-long battle Sunday which killed eight policemen,
four civilians and nine militants, a provincial governor
said.
Insurgents first attacked a police post overnight in the Kijran
district of Day Kundi province, killing two policeman and wounding two others,
provincial governor, Qurban Ali, told AFP.
Police reinforcements were sent Sunday morning to support the police
post, initiating a day-long battle with the militants, he
said.
“Six policemen and four locals supporting the police forces in
fighting against the Taliban were killed, and two policemen were wounded,” said
Ali.
Nine militants were also killed before their Taliban comrades fled
the area, he added.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/06-insurgents-kill-eight-afghan-policemen-four-civilians-rs-03
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In boost for Hamas, top Arab diplomat visits
Gaza
14 Jun, 2010
GAZA CITY: The Arab world’s top diplomat declared support Sunday for
the people of blockaded Gaza in his first visit to the Palestinian territory
since Hamas violently seized control of it three years
ago.
The visit was latest sign that Israel’s deadly raid on a flotilla
trying to break the blockade of Gaza has eased the diplomatic isolation of the
Islamic militant group.
Israel, meanwhile, appeared to grow more isolated in the fallout over
the May 31 raid as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak abruptly canceled plans
Sunday to visit Paris.
Barak’s office said he canceled his trip while Israel forms a
committee to investigate the raid. The statement denied that the decision was
connected to attempts by pro-Palestinian groups to seek his
arrest.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/21-in-boost-for-hamas-top-arab-diplomat-visits-gaza-sk-01
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Russia sends troops to quell Kyrgyz ethnic
clashes
June 14, 2010
Death toll rises to 113, over 1,400 wounded; ethnic Uzbeks targeted
by Kyrgyz gangs
OSH, Kyrgyzstan: Russia sent hundreds of paratroopers to Kyrgyzstan
on Sunday to protect its military facilities, Interfax reported, as ethnic
clashes spread in the Central Asian state, bringing the death toll from days of
fighting to 113.
Tens of thousands of Uzbek refugees fled raging violence in
Kyrgyzstan as the interim government struggled to stem the country’s worst
ethnic clashes since the end of the Soviet Union.
unbattles between rival groups turned cities into warzones and
marauding mobs torched whole villages on a third day of bloodshed in the Central
Asian nation, leaving 113 people dead and more than 1,400
injured.
Full report at:
http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=29466
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Two killed as Kyrgyz clashes trap Pakistanis
By Waseem Shamsi and Tariq Saeed
14 Jun, 2010
SUKKUR / TOBA TEK SINGH: Two Pakistani students have been killed and
at least ten others taken hostage during ethnic violence in
Kyrgyzstan.
Ubaidullah Ansari, a student of medical science at the Osh State
University, who has returned to Jacobabad, told Dawn on Sunday that more than
500 Pakistanis were stranded in the Central Asian state.
He said a female student of final year at a medical university and
Ali Raza, a fourth-year student of engineering, were killed and more than a
dozen others taken hostage in the south of Kyrgyzstan.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the government was in
touch with Kyrgyz officials to gain access to Pakistanis and ensure their
evacuation.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/03-kyrgyz-govt-to-reinforce-south-ethnic-riots-kill-80-ss-05
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Af fallout? UK asks military chief to go
Jun 14, 2010
LONDON: The British government said on Sunday it is shuffling its top
military team as it grapples with the unpopular conflict in Afghanistan.
Defense Secretary Liam Fox said the head of the armed forces, Air
Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup, will leave his job in the autumn, about six months
early. His term had not been due to end until April 2011. The top civilian
defense official will leave at the same time. Fox said that the two men had been
in their jobs "longer than they needed to be."
Stirrup was appointed in 2006 by the Labour government, which lost
power in May to a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said the two men were not being
punished for the rising death toll in Afghanistan. He told BBC they were leaving
at "a natural time to have a change of personnel." However, media reports
claimed Stirrup will be replaced for "failures in
Afghanistan".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Af-fallout-UK-asks-military-chief-to-go/articleshow/6045011.cms
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World powers 'naive' in imposing Iran sanctions:
Ahmadinejad
Jun 14, 2010
TEHRAN: World powers have been "naive" in imposing new UN sanctions
on Iran that will only end up hurting them, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on
Sunday said on his return to Tehran.
"The bullying powers issued this resolution in order to defend
themselves," he told his government's senior officials, state television's
website reported.
"But of course this defence is very naive because they themselves are
going to be hurt," he said.
Soon after the sanctions were imposed on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad
lashed out against world powers from Dushanbe while on an official visit and
compared the measures to a "used hanky" which deserved to be thrown away.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/World-powers-naive-in-imposing-Iran-sanctions-Ahmadinejad/articleshow/6045498.cms
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US mounts pressure on BP, Barack Obama heads to Gulf
Coast
Jun 14, 2010
WASHINGTON: The US increased pressure on energy giant BP to boost
capacity to contain the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, as President
Barack Obama makes a fourth trip to the area on Monday.
As public outrage intensifies, Obama will travel to Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida, for the first time since the crisis began, on Monday
and Tuesday. He is scheduled to address the nation at 8pm on Tuesday.
On Saturday, White House adviser David Axelrod said that BP should
set up an escrow account - administered by an independent panel - to pay claims
by workers whose livelihoods and businesses have been impacted by the worst oil
spill in US history.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-mounts-pressure-on-BP-Barack-Obama-heads-to-Gulf-Coast/articleshow/6045381.cms
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Israel to set up own inquiry into Gaza flotilla
raid
Jun 14, 2010
JERUSALEM: Israel said on Sunday it would set up its own
investigation into a deadly raid on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships, and that
its panel would include two foreign observers.
The internal inquiry into the March 31 raid, which falls short of a
UN proposal for an international investigation, was decided on after
consultations with the United States.
The White House welcomed the move as an important step and said
Israel was capable of conducting a fair investigation.
"But we will not prejudge the process or its outcome, and will await
the conduct and findings of the investigation before drawing further
conclusions," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Israel-to-set-up-own-inquiry-into-Gaza-flotilla-raid/articleshow/6045322.cms
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UN diplomat pushes for de-listing Taliban
operatives
Jun 14, 2010
UNITED NATIONS: A top UN official in Afghanistan has suggested speedy
removal of Taliban operatives from the world body's sanctions list in order to
facilitate the peace process in the war-torn country.
"It is essential that the momentum of the recent peace jirga held in
Afghanistan is maintained and utilised to advance dialogue towards development
and stability in the country," said Staffan de Mistura, the Secretary General's
Special Representative in Afghanistan.
The diplomat was referring to the consultative peace gathering called
Jirga held from 2 to 4 June outside Kabul and was attended by around 1,600
participants.
The UN sanction list under Security Council resolution 1267 passed in
1999 includes 142 Afghanistan officials who have been connected to the Taliban
and 360 more with links to al-Qaeda.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/UN-diplomat-pushes-for-de-listing-Taliban-operatives/articleshow/6045251.cms
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Thousands flee ethnic bloodshed in Kyrgyzstan
Jun 14, 2010
BISHKEK: Tens of thousands of Uzbek refugees have fled raging
violence in Kyrgyzstan that left 113 dead as the interim government struggled to
stem the worst ethnic clashes since the end of the Soviet Union.
Gunbattles between rival groups turned cities into warzones and
marauding mobs torched whole villages on a third day of bloodshed in the Central
Asian nation.
Neighbouring Uzbekistan said up to 80,000 ethnic Uzbeks, mostly women
and children, had fled the fighting and were being housed in hastily set up
camps along the border. Rights groups warned of a looming humanitarian crisis.
Russia sent paratroopers to protect its airbase in Kyrgyzstan but
rejected requests from Bishkek to help end the unrest, the worst since President
Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted in April.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Rest-of-World/Thousands-flee-ethnic-bloodshed-in-Kyrgyzstan/articleshow/6045426.cms
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Philippine bus crash kills 18, mostly Iranians
Jun 13, 2010
CEBU (Philippines): A tourist bus packed with Iranian nationals
plunged into a ravine on Sunday while negotiating a mountain road in the central
Philippines, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 30 others.
The bus, carrying dozens of mostly Iranian medical students and
doctors, apparently suffered brake failure then plummeted into a 100-foot
(30-meter) ravine in Balamban town in Cebu province, police Senior
Superintendent Erson Digal said.
At least 18 people, mostly Iranians and including children, were
killed, said regional military spokesman Lt. Col. Wilson Feria, who was at the
scene of the accident.
Villagers and police pulled at least 10 bodies from the mangled bus
wreckage at the rocky bottom of the ravine. Several seriously injured passengers
were brought to hospitals, Digal told The Associated Press.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Rest-of-World/Philippine-bus-crash-kills-18-mostly-Iranians/articleshow/6044275.cms
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Pakistan meddling in Afghanistan: Report
Jun 14 2010
Kabul : Pakistani military intelligence not only funds and trains
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan but is officially represented on the movement's
leadership council, giving it significant influence over operations, a report
said.
The report, published by the London School of Economics, a leading
British institution, on Sunday, said research strongly suggested support for the
Taliban was the "official policy" of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI) agency.
Although links between the ISI and Islamist militants have been
widely suspected for a long time, the report's findings, which it said were
corroborated by two senior Western security officials, could raise more concerns
in the West over Pakistan's commitment to help end the war in
Afghanistan.
Full report at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pakistan-meddling-in-afghanistan-report/633529/
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Don't mix emotions with law: Khurshid
Jun 13 2010
Bangalore : Amid outrage over Bhopal gas verdict, Union Corporate
Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday said emotions should not be mixed
with law and stressed the need for enacting a special legislation to deal with
such disasters.
"We must not mix emotions with law", Khurshid said in Bangalore. "Law
Minister M Veerappa Moily has given some indication that he is unhappy with the
law as it exists and he would want to take a fresh look at
it."
"We (Corporate Affairs department) will wait and if he (Moily) wants
any inputs, we will provide those inputs. I think what is missing is special law
for disasters of this kind (Bhopal gas tragedy)," he
added.
Full report at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/dont-mix-emotions-with-law-khurshid/633216/
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Pak Rangers Deployed For Security Of Sikhs
Jun 14th, 2010
The Pakistan government has deployed paramilitary Pakistan Rangers
for the security of the 300 Indian Sikh pilgrims who are here for their
religious rituals.
“Pakistan Rangers have been deployed to protect about 300 Indian
Sikhs who will participate in the Jore Mela at Gurdwara Dera Sahib in Lahore,” a
government official said.
The Indian Sikhs, who arrived in Pakistan over the past few days,
have travelled to Gurdawa Punja Sahib at Hasanabdal near Rawalpindi. They will
reach Lahore on Monday to take part in the three-day
festival.
“Keeping in view the law and order situation, we have deployed
Pakistan Rangers and the police for the security of the visiting yatris,” said
Syed Asif Hashmi, chairman of the Evacuee Trust Property Board that organises
such pilgrimages.
Full report at:
http://www.asianage.com/international/pak-rangers-deployed-security-sikhs-550
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Madani may seek anticipatory bail
VR Jayaraj
Jun 14th, 2010
Islamist leader Abdul Nasser Madani, whom the Karnataka Police had on
Friday named as an accused in the Bangalore blasts case, is likely to file an
anticipatory bail plea in the Karnataka High Court on Monday even as Kerala Home
Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said the State Government would cooperate with
their Karnataka counterparts if any request was made in this
regard.
However, unconfirmed reports on late Sunday evening said the
Karnataka Police had already given a letter to the Kerala Government requesting
assistance in arresting Madani. Refusing to confirm or deny the report, sources
in the Kerala Home Department said action would be taken on any request from the
Karnataka Police after examining the legal aspects
involved.
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/262421/Madani-may-seek-anticipatory-bail.html
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Indian Embassy in Riyadh denies death term
report
Jun 14th, 2010
DUBAI: The Indian Embassy in Riyadh has denied reports that Sabir
Ansari, an Indian national, has been sentenced to death for killing one of his
compatriot in Saudi Arabia.
“We have checked our records about Indians on death row, and the name
of Sabir Ansari is not on the list,” sources in the embassy told
PTI.
Earlier, reports said Ansari was convicted of the charge of killing
Mohammed Sharik by a court in Saudi Arabia, and the execution was scheduled for
June 18. The reports said Sharik, who hails from Bulandshahr, was stabbed to
death in Riyadh on June 7 by Ansari of Muzaffarnagar district. He was sentenced
to death on June 11, reports said.
An official said verdict in such cases took years to come, and the
death sentence in such a short time-frame seemed unlikely.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/14/stories/2010061455321200.htm
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Turkey dismisses Israel's flotilla probe
Jun 14, 2010
ANKARA: Turkey dismissed on Monday a commission set up by Israel to
probe the deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships, warning of unspecified measures
if a UN-led inquiry was not carried out.
"We have no trust at all that Israel, a country that has carried out
such an attack on a civilian convoy in international waters, will conduct an
impartial investigation," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters.
"Any investigation conducted unilaterally by Israel will have no
value for us," he said.
Turkey insists that the May 31 raid, in which eight Turks and a dual
Turkish-US national were killed, be investigated by a commission "under the
direct control of the United Nations... an impartial one with the participation
of Turkey and Israel," he said.
"To have a defendant acting simultaneously as both prosecutor and
judge is not compatible with any principle of law.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Turkey-dismisses-Israels-flotilla-probe/articleshow/6046613.cms
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India asks Pak to 'shed its insecurity'
Jun 14 2010
New Delhi : Ahead of its engagement in the process of bridging "trust
deficit" with Pakistan, India has asked it to "shed its insecurity" on
asymmetries in sizes and capabilities between them, including the strategic
leverage gained after Indo-US nuclear deal, as they were not targeted against
it.
Emphasising that as the two countries commence the exercise of
overcoming the difficulties in the relationship, it was important to reiterate a
few points, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said India seeks a stable, peaceful
and economically progressing Pakistan.
"Secondly, we sincerely desire peace with Pakistan. Thirdly, we have
to learn to live with the asymmetries in our sizes and capabilities. Such
differences of scale should not deter us from working with each other. Pakistan
should shed its insecurity on these counts," she said.
Full report at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/india-asks-pak-to-shed-its-insecurity/633623/
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Insurgent attacks kill 18 Afghan policemen
14 Jun, 2010
KABUL: Taliban insurgents killed 18 policemen in a series of attacks
across Afghanistan in recent days, the interior ministry said on
Monday.
Ten police were killed in an attack on Sunday on an outpost in Dai
Kundi province in central Afghanistan, the ministry said, while six officers
were killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Kandahar on
Saturday.
Two others died in an attack in the south.
Some 21 militants were killed in the Dai Kundi clash, the ministry
said. The Taliban could not be reached for comment.
The Taliban insurgency is at its strongest since the hardline group
was overthrown in 2001 and 38 foreign troops have died in Afghanistan this month
alone.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-afghanistan-insurgents-qs-08
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10 Jemaah Islamiah members arrested since early
2010
2010-06-14
KUALA LUMPUR, Monday 14 June 2010 (Bernama) -- Malaysian police
arrested 10 members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast Asian terror group,
since early this year, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa
Hassan.
He said the 10 foreigners, who were remnants of JI, were trying to
revive the movement's struggle.
"The JI members who were harboured by locals were arrested at various
locations since six months ago and banished from this country," he told a press
conference after attending the federal police monthly assembly in Bukit Aman,
here, today.
Musa said the JI members were trying to recruit 20 to 30 local
university students and youths to take part in jihad or holy war
abroad.
Full report at:
http://www.mysinchew.com/node/40386
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