Mutiny charges framed against 667 Bangladesh border
guards
18 militants killed in
Afghanistan
Palestinian girls race through gender
barrier
Pak considers granting India most-favoured nation
status
Pak rules out barring Hafiz Saeed from
giving hate speeches
Intentions fine, outcomes key: Chidambaram to
PaK
Kashmir CM opposes death to Guru, talks tough on rights
violations
Sudan police arrest models after fashion show
Yemen arrests 30 terror
suspects
Sex and Muslim women: new Asian mag pushes
limits
'Taliban wanted to enter India after overrunning
Pak'
London ad aims to propagate true Islam
8 sentenced to jail, 3,000 lashes each for robbing
cabbies
Cops confirm terrorists using Kashmir youths for
cover-up
Govt May Club All Hindu Terror
Cases
Controversy Over Candidate's Comment On
Mosque
‘Adaptation of Islamic economic system to alleviate
poverty’
Palestinian says women's rights forgotten in
Gaza
Australian State Parliament to Debate Burqa
Ban
Malaysia reality TV seeks young male Muslim
leader
Five injured in Lahore blasts
‘Sasti Roti Dastarkhwan’ next step against poverty: Pak
Punjab CM
Eight extremists killed in Orakzai
action
Father, 2 daughters shot dead in
Mardan
Woman commits suicide with three children
Yemen court upholds death sentence against two
Pakistanis
Somaliland fears Islamists can shatter statehood
dream
Jamaat-e-Islami to hold demonstrations
today
Criticism of president is boon for Pak TV ratings:
WSJ
G8 leaders vow joint action against
terrorism
G8 leaders keep pressure on Iran, North
Korea
Saudi woman arrested for sheltering runaway
maids
US: Turkey must demonstrate commitment to West
Judge orders father to return girl to
mother
Iranian exiles demand tougher sanctions on
Tehran
Indian, Pakistani intel chiefs meet in
Islamabad
Karachi-bound ship carrying arms sets sail for
Kolkata
Tackling terrorism: India for SAARC's
co-operation
US to Karzai: New general won't alter
Afghan plan
FIA and CBI should work together:
Pak
Kashmir CM for proactive measures
Nawaz Sharif: Pervez Musharraf and Zardari are
friends
‘I Cautioned Against Afghan
Pullout’
J & K rallyists negotiate road that Akbar
took
SOMALILAND IS AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS
Protest against Sopore deaths cripples
Kashmir
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Islam News Bureau
Photo: The author of Indian Constitution Baba Bhim Rao
Ambedkar
‘Ambedkar a nominee of the Muslim League’
By Iftikhar Gilani
27 Jun, 2010
NEW DELHI: An Indian scholar on Saturday revealed that author of the
Indian Constitution and famous Dalit leader Dr B R Ambedkar was in fact a
nominee of the Muslim League in the Council of States (Upper House) of united
India’s Constituent Assembly.
Participating in a discussion on a roadmap for the political
empowerment of Indian Muslims, noted historian and former vice-chancellor of the
Agra University, Professor Manzoor Ahmed said the Congress had refused to
support Ambedkar’s candidature for the upper house.
Tracing history, Ahmed, also a former inspector general of police in
Uttar Pradesh, said the Muslim League leader Hussain Shaheed Suharwardi had
nominated Dalit icon Ambedkar and a tribal leader Joginder Nath Mandal as
candidates for the Council of States from Bengal at the behest of the
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. “Both seats belonged to Muslim League,” he
said.
The scholar also blamed the Congress party’s Muslim face, Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad, for the political disempowerment of Muslims in northern
India.
Professor Ahmed claimed that soon after the partition, Azad chaired a
Muslim Political Convention in Lucknow at the Rufai Aam Club. He asked Muslim
representatives to renounce community-based politics. He even took oath from
them to stay away from community parties and urged them to join the mainstream
political parties. Only a south Indian Muslim, Muhammad Ismail, walked out of
the meeting.
He later founded the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in Kerala, a
step that helped Muslims to share power in the successive provincial government
unlike in northern India, where they were left to the mercy and whims of
mainstream political parties.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\06\27\story_27-6-2010_pg7_6
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Mutiny charges framed against 667 Bangladesh border
guards
Jun 27, 2010
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi special court framed mutiny charges against 667
troopers of the BDR border guards for the 2009 carnage that killed 57 army
officers, including its chief Major General Shakil Ahmed.
The Special Court-5 headed by BDR Director General Mohammad Rafiqul
Islam framed the mutiny charges against 667 BDR jawans of 24 Rifle Battalion
linked to the February 25-26 carnage at its Pilkhana headquarters in the
capital, the Star Online said.
Later the court adjourned the trial proceedings till September 4. Of
the total accused, 29 BDR troopers pleaded guilty, the report said.
A total of 74 people including 57 army officers were brutally killed
during the bloodbath at its headquarters at Pilkhana in 2009.
In November last year, Bangladesh set up six "special courts" headed
by its then Director General Major General Mainul Islam to try the soldiers
linked to the February 25-26 mutiny, just two months after the installation of
the new government following the landmark December 29, 2008 parliamentary
polls.
The government had decided to try the suspected massacre culprits
under the fast track 'Speedy Trial Tribunal and others who extended support to
the mutiny but did not take part in the killings under the BDR Act.
The Speedy Trial Tribunal will try the suspects under civil Penal
Code, which prescribed capital punishment for offenses like murder while the BDR
Act suggested the maximum seven years of imprisonment for breaching discipline
in command chain or major service irregularities.
Over 200 border guards so far have already been jailed for various
terms under the BDR Act in six special courts headed by the BDR
chief.
Last week, the government decided to bring about a key amendment to
expedite the trial of mutineers who did not directly take part in the
killings.
According to Abvul Kalam Azad, the Prime Minister's press secretary,
said under the existing law, the BDR chief needed to head all the six
paramilitary special courts set up last year to try the ordinary rebellious
border guards.
Under the proposed amendment, he said, director level officials of
the border force, who generally holds the rank of an army colonel, could head
the courts instead of the director general himself.
Reforms approved by the government led to renaming of the
paramilitary force as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) with a new combat
uniform.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Mutiny-charges-framed-against-667-Bangladesh-border-guards/articleshow/6095606.cms
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18 militants killed in Afghanistan
27 June 2010
KABUL: The NATO-led troops eliminated 18 Taliban militants including
two commanders in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province, police said on
Saturday.
"Acting on intelligence reports the international troops pounded
militants' hideouts in Shar-e-Safa area of the province on Friday night killing
18 rebels including two group commanders Mullah Toorjan and Mullah Ahmad Shah on
the spot," Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy to provincial police chief,
said.
He did not give more details.
Taliban militants fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops are yet to make
comments.
Southern and eastern parts of the post-Taliban Afghanistan have been
the scene of increasing Taliban-led insurgency over the past couple of
years.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/South-Asia/18-militants-killed-in-Afghanistan/articleshow/6098435.cms
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Palestinian girls race through gender
barrier
Jun 27, 2010
RAMALLAH (WEST BANK): Palestinian women are speeding into the record
books by competing in the first all-female car racing team — the Speed Sisters.
Along the way, they're crashing through another gender barrier in this
conservative Muslim society. The eight women have entered a popular race called
'Speed Test.' Souped-up cars race around a track, weaving their way around
obstacles and spinning circles around others.
"I love sports that are tough and dangerous, because I am a dangerous
woman," said Nour Dawood, 20, after a race this week outside the West Bank city
of Ramallah. She wore a yellow-and-black racing suit, sunglasses and a helmet as
she leaned against her car, her curly hair pushed back into a ponytail. Around
her, drivers revved their engines.
Arabic music pounded out of loudspeakers. A group of fans crowded
around the track to watch, including a small contingent of women with large
sunglasses. It's another step for Palestinian women who have been claiming more
positions of influence in an otherwise still male-dominated society. This year,
the first female Palestinian governor was appointed to oversee the West Bank
district of Ramallah. The mayor of the district's main city is a woman, as are
four ministers in the Palestinian cabinet.
Speed Test began in the West Bank in 2005, as violence between Israel
and the Palestinians began petering out. Races take place throughout the
territory that is ruled by Israel, with Palestinians administering parts of
it.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Palestinian-girls-race-through-gender-barrier/articleshow/6096415.cms
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Pak considers granting India most-favoured nation
status
Jun 27 2010
Toronto : In a move that could bolster the trade and economic
relations between the two countries, Islamabad is considering reciprocating the
long-unrequited Indian gesture of treating it as a most-favoured nation
(MFN).
In the recent foreign secretary-level talks between the two countries
in Islamabad, Pakistani officials had indicated their willingness to replace the
policy of keeping a restricted “positive” list of goods for India-Pakistan trade
with a more accommodative “negative list” approach.
This policy change would inevitably lead to India becoming an MFN to
Pakistan.
Although India has treated Pakistan as an MFN for many years,
Islamabad has been unwilling to reciprocate that measure.
Full report at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pak-considers-granting-india-mostfavoured-nation-status/638918/
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Pak rules out barring Hafiz Saeed from giving hate
speeches
Jun 27 2010
Islamabad : Pakistan has virtually ruled out barring Jamaat-ud Dawa
chief Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of the Mumbai terror attack of 2008, from giving
inflammatory speeches targetting India.
"In a democracy, there is freedom of expression in Pakistan as in
India. There are all sorts of people making all kinds of speeches. There are
people with extremist views in both India and Pakistan.... and there is nothing
you can do about it. There are views being expressed in Pakistan that I can do
nothing about," Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters here last
night.
Full report at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pak-rules-out-barring-hafiz-saeed-from-giving-hate-speeches/639049/
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Intentions fine, outcomes key: Chidambaram to
PaK
Raghvendra Rao
Jun 27 2010
Islamabad : Asking Pakistan to hunt down and prosecute more people
behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today said
the two countries had agreed to “address the situation with the seriousness it
deserves” and he was returning home “with the conviction that this will be
done”.
To try and reduce the “trust deficit”, both sides sought to present a
united front against terror.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik promised a “logical end” to
the 26/11 trial currently underway in his country. And Chidambaram said: “We are
both agreed that the outcome will be good for both countries. Nobody is
questioning the intentions. We are looking at the outcomes. Outcomes alone will
decide if we are on the right track.”
Full report at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/intentions-fine-outcomes-key-chidambaram-to-pak/638980/
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Omar opposes death to Guru, talks tough on rights
violations
Jun 27, 2010
If I am required to sign Guru's death warrant, I will not do
it.
Jammu and Kashmir SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah has said he will oppose Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru's death
sentence, if the Centre seeks his opinion.
A local news agency had quoted the CM as saying he would not put his
signature on the death warrant if he were required to do so. Mohammad Afzal Guru
has been awarded death for his role in the 2001 attack on the
Parliament.
Though Abdullah was not available for comment, his office confirmed
the news. “The CM will oppose the sentence if his opinion is sought.“ “I am
against the death sentence and ... if I am required to sign Guru's death
warrant, I will not do it,“ the agency had quoted him.
Full report at: Hindustan Times
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Sudan police arrest models after fashion show
Jun 27, 2010
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police briefly detained more than 20 models,
make-up artists and designers after a rare mixed-sex fashion show in Khartoum,
participants said on Saturday.
Amateur models taking part in the "Sudanese Next Top Model Fashion
Show" told Reuters they were rounded up late on Thursday by Sudan's public order
police, a body known for its crackdowns on indecent dress and drinking in the
Muslim north.
Police were not available to comment on Thursday's arrests outside a
club in the capital's Khartoum 2 district.
All of the detainees were released on Friday but at least six were
told to report to the police on Sunday to face unspecified charges, said one
participant.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article73955.ece
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Yemen arrests 30 terror suspects
Jun 27, 2010
ADEN: Security forces in Yemen’s port of Aden have arrested 30 people
during a two-day hunt for suspected Al-Qaeda operatives behind an attack on an
intelligence building, a security official and the Defense Ministry
said.
Operations would continue after security forces swept door-to-door
through Aden’s Saada area on Friday seeking out suspected militants, the Defense
Ministry said in a statement.
Yemen has accused Al-Qaeda of the attack last Saturday in which
militants in military uniform raided the police intelligence building, killing
seven security officers, three women and a 7-year-old boy, and freeing several
detainees.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article73902.ece
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Sex and Muslim women: new Asian mag pushes
limits
By Philip Lim
June 27, 2010
SINGAPORE — Flip through the pages of Aquila Asia magazine and it
soon becomes apparent that the publication is different from other glossy
women's magazines sold across the region.
Side by side with ads for expensive handbags and luxury cars are
fashion spreads featuring professional models in Muslim headscarves -- and
articles on topics like virginity and hymen reconstruction.
To be "modest and fabulous" is the motto of the bi-monthly magazine,
whose name means "intelligence" in Arabic, said its vivacious founder and
publisher Liana Rosnita, a Singaporean Muslim married to a Swiss
man.
Full report at:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j9a6beSl4qAXL-FokB-5zZ1pURRg
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'Taliban wanted to enter India after overrunning Pak'
27 June 2010
Islamabad, Jun 27 (PTI) Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has
said that had the Taliban militants overrun his country, their next targets
would have been India and Bangladesh.
"India and Bangladesh would have been next if the Taliban had taken
over Pakistan," Malik told reporters while briefing them on the outcome of the
meeting of SAARC Interior Ministers here yesterday.
Full report at:
http://www.ptinews.com/news/746281_-Taliban-wanted-to-enter-India-after-overrunning-Pak-
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London ad aims to propagate true Islam
Sun, 27 Jun 2010
Television host Kristiane Becker poses in a London taxi bearing a
message aimed at raising the public understanding of Islam.
An advertising campaign has been launched in London to introduce the
true face of Islam and reverse negative attitudes toward Muslims.
The Muslim population of the Western countries is living in tough
conditions amid widespread propaganda that links Islam with
terrorism.
The Exploring Islam Foundation, a group run by British Muslim
professionals has initiated the Inspired by Muhammad campaign in a bid to
challenge "damaging stereotypes about Islam through the medium of creative
resources".
Full report at:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=132206§ionid=351021808
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JEDDAH: 8 sentenced to jail, 3,000 lashes each for robbing
cabbies
By MUHAMMAD HUMAIDAN
Jun 26, 2010
JEDDAH: With the endorsement of Riyadh's Court of Cassation, eight
youths who robbed two expatriate taxi drivers a few month ago were sentenced to
five-year jail terms and 3,000 lashes on Saturday.
Police arrested the suspects, all of them in their 20s, when two
expatriates complained about five youths calling cabs in separate incidents and
beating and robbing the drivers at knife-point. The other three acted as
lookouts. All of the accused allegedly confessed to their crimes.
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article73821.ece
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Cops confirm terrorists using Kashmir youths for
cover-up
Rahul Datta/ Mohit Kandhari
Jun 27, 2010
The latest incident of a rampaging mob — comprising mostly youths —
attacking CRPF personnel in Sopore to protest the killing of a suspected
militant in an encounter, has aggravated the concerns of the security
establishment about terror outfits increasingly using mobs as cover to take on
the paramilitary forces. More so, since youths form a major chunk of such
mobs.
As Sopore remained tense for the second day after two persons,
including a 15-year-old, were killed when the CRPF personnel fired at them,
senior police officials pointed out that their fears about militants on the
lookout for gullible youth to make up for their own dwindling numbers was
confirmed recently.
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/265323/Cops-confirm-terrorists-using-Kashmir-youths-for-cover-up.html
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Govt May Club All Hindu Terror Cases
Jun 27th, 2010
Amidst reports received by the Union home ministry of radical Hindu
outfits hand in the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, the government is
considering clubbing all “Hindu terror” related cases to be handed over to one
investigating agency.
The Abhinav Bharat and Sanatan Sanstha are the two Hindu terror
outfits under the scanner.
The government intends to speed up the investigation to enable a
dedicated nation-wide probe against the radical Hindu outfits’ funding and
terror modules.
Full report at:
http://www.asianage.com/india/govt-may-club-all-hindu-terror-cases-269
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Controversy Over Candidate's Comment On Mosque
By Chris Cannon
Jun 27, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The heavy-hitters in Tennessee's Republican Party
attended Friday night's annual Statesmen's Dinner at the Nashville Convention
Center. Many of the politicians steered clear of the controversy that surrounds
a proposed Murfreesboro mosque.
Thursday, Lou Ann Zelenik, a republican candidate seeking the
nomination for Tennessee's sixth congressional district released a statement
about the mosque some people found offensive.
"This 'Islamic Center' is not part of a religious movement; it is a
political movement designed to fracture the moral and political foundation of
Middle Tennessee," according to the statement on Zelenik's web site.
Full report at:
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=12713447
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‘Adaptation of Islamic economic system to alleviate
poverty’
June 27, 2010
KARACHI: Ex Governor State Bank, Ishrat Hussain has said that
Islamisation of economic system, if adopted and practiced in its true form, at
any time in the future will strengthen the economy particularly income
distribution and poverty alleviation which have proved elusive under the present
western economic model.
This will, in fact, eliminate the sources of instability, violence
and propensity towards terrorism arising from a sense of deprivation. He
expressed these views while delivering a speech on Islam and the future of
Economics at a Conference on ‘Islamic Economics and Finance’ organised by IBA at
State Bank Building on Saturday.
Full report at:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\06\27\story_27-6-2010_pg5_5
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Palestinian says women's rights forgotten in
Gaza
By Edmund Sanders
June 27, 2010
Naila Ayesh's path to becoming a Muslim activist for women's rights
began when she miscarried in an Israeli detention center in 1987 after being
arrested for belonging to a Palestinian student union.
Today Ayesh, 49, founder of the Gaza Strip-based Women's Affairs
Center, has become one of the only feminist voices in the seaside territory that
was seized three years ago by Hamas, an armed Palestinian group that aspires to
impose Islamic law.
Besides being married to Jamal Zakout, a top advisor to Prime
Minister Salam Fayyad of the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority — Hamas' political
rival that rules the West Bank — Ayesh also raises eyebrows in Gaza as she moves
in public without covering her head and sometimes even partakes of a shisha
water pipe.
Full report at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza-feminist-qa-20100627,0,6959559.story
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Australian State Parliament to Debate Burqa Ban
Phil Mercer
June 27, 2010
A legislator in Australia is calling for new laws banning the burqa
in public places in the country's most populous state, New South Wales. Reverend
Fred Nile has introduced a private members bill to state parliament that would
make it an offense to wear a full-face veil in shopping centers and on
buses.
Reverend Fred Nile, a Christian Democratic Party MP in the New South
Wales upper of house of parliament, insists the burqa does not fit Australian
values.
Only a small number of Muslims in Australia wear the loose garment
that covers a woman from head to foot, including the face.
But Reverend Nile believes Australia should follow the example of
European governments, including France, that have outlawed the
burqa.
Full report at:
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Australian-Parliament-to-Debate-Burqa-Ban-97222284.html
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Malaysia reality TV seeks young male Muslim
leader
By SEAN YOONG
June 27, 2010
The 10 young men have washed corpses according to Islamic rites,
cried while counseling unmarried pregnant women and joined a police crackdown on
teenage motorcycle racers _ all before judges on national TV.
A Malaysian cable station has given a reality show makeover to its
Islamic programming, and it's taking this moderate Muslim-majority country by
storm.
The show, called "Imam Muda" or "Young Leader," is halfway through a
10-week run. With its blend of doctrine and drama, it is a natural fit for
Malaysia, a Southeast Asian nation that has tried to defend its Islamic
traditions while also welcoming high-tech industry and Western culture. It's
these parallel strains in society that the program taps so
successfully.
Full report at:
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1301893&lang=eng_news
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Five injured in Lahore blasts
June 27, 2010
LAHORE: Five people were injured when low-intensity time devices
exploded in two CD shops in Zaitoon Plaza, Hall Road, on Saturday.
The explosions in the crowded market created panic among shopkeepers
and buyers.
Officials of Edhi, police, Bomb Disposal Squad and fire brigade
reached the spot.
Police said the first explosion occurred at 7:15pm on the ground
floor and the second on the first floor after five to seven minutes. The injured
were identified as Ashiq, Usman, Iqbal, Sher Mohammad and Yaqoob.
Windowpanes of dozens of shops were shattered and goods damaged,
police said. Some miscreants had planted the time devices and fled.
Shops of movies and songs on Hall Road had been receiving threats for
a long time. Some time back, they received a warning letter and threats by an
organisation through the SMS. However, neither the traders nor the police had
made security arrangements after receiving threats.
http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=29684
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‘Sasti Roti Dastarkhwan’ next step against poverty: Pak Punjab
CM
June 27, 2010
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that
provision of cheap meal at “Sasti Roti Dastarkhwan” with the cooperation of the
affluent people is the next step of our struggle against hunger and
poverty.
He said the target of setting up 300 “Sasti Roti Dastarkhwans” for
providing meal to the poor throughout the province should be achieved during the
next month.
Addressing the meeting regarding “Sasti Roti Dastarkhwans” here on
Saturday, Shahbaz Sharif said the programme was the part of the “Sasti Roti”
scheme in which well-to-do people were taking part generously. He said besides
big cities, the “Dastarkhwans” should also be set up in small cities so that
maximum number of deserving people could benefit from them. He said there was no
dearth of people having spirit of service to humanity in society and they would
be ready to cooperate in the welfare programme.
Full report at:
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=247422
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Eight extremists killed in Orakzai action
June 27, 2010
PESHAWAR: At least eight extremists were killed in Orakzai Agency in
an action by the security forces, Geo News reported Sunday.
The security forces pounded the hideouts of the extremists in Orakzai
area of Mamonzai, killing eight extremists and injuring six others. Also, two
hideouts of the extremists were destroyed in the action.
Meantime, the militants fired five rockets at a check post of
security forces; however, no fatality was reported.
Soon afterwards, the forces returned the action killing a militant
commander and injuring three others.
The attackers fled the area after they met tough fight from the
forces.
http://www.thenews.jang.com.pk/6-27-2010/67424.htm
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Father, 2 daughters shot dead in Mardan
June 27, 2010
TAKHTBAI: A father and his two daughters were gunned down while a
minor kid sustained injuries over a family feud in Takht Bhai locality in Mardan
district on Saturday night, Geo news reported.
According to police sources, a marriage row of a person namely
Mukhtar led to firing.
Unknown miscreants opened fire on their house late on Saturday night
besides; they also hurled hand grenades at house, which resulted in immediate
deaths of Mukhtar and two his daughters, witnesses told police.
Police said firing also left a minor kid wounded who was rushed to
hospital for medical treatment.
http://www.thenews.jang.com.pk/6-27-2010/67412.htm
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Woman commits suicide with three children
27 Jun, 2010
RAHIMYAR KHAN, June 26: A woman took her life as well as her three
children’s on a railway track here on Saturday.
According to neighbours, Bashiran, a 30-year-old from a village near
Rahimyar Khan, told them she needed to see a doctor. “But later we learnt that
she has ended her life to get rid of domestic problems,” one of the neighbours
said.
Bashiran hurled herself and the three children onto a rail track near
Basti Peer Shahdan when the Faisalabad-bound Millat Express approached the
place. The bodies were shifted to Sheikh Zayed Medical College.
The three children who died with Bashiran were: Samina (six), Waqar
(four) and Riaz (two).
Bashiran’s husband Mohammad Yaqoob, a construction worker, admitted
he had had quarrels with Bashiran over money matters. “I often run into
financial difficulties as I do not have a regular job.”
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/woman-commits-suicide-with-three-children-760
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Yemen court upholds death sentence against two
Pakistanis
27 Jun, 2010
SANAA, June 26: An appeals court in Yemen on Saturday upheld
drugs-trafficking sentences against four Pakistanis, condemning two to death and
giving 25-year jail terms to the others, AFP reported quoting defence ministry’s
website.
Court president Mohammed Al Hakimi confirmed the verdicts handed down
in October 2009, condemning Salim Daoud Abdelrahim and Imam Bakhsh Ayub Yakub to
death.
The other two convicts, Ghulam Khan Wali Mohammed and Mohammed Sidiq
Ahmed, were sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The court “confirmed the death sentences against two Pakistani drug
convicts and 25 years imprisonment against another two,” the report
said.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/yemen-court-upholds-death-sentence-against-two-pakistanis-760
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Somaliland fears Islamists can shatter statehood
dream
By Ali Musa Abdi
27 Jun, 2010
HARGEISA: The leader of Somalia’s Al Qaeda inspired Shebab was born
in Somaliland – and many in the breakaway state fear he could now derail their
two-decade-old bid for international recognition.
Days before Saturday’s presidential polls in the self-declared state,
another key democratic test for Somaliland, the militant Islamist movement’s
overall leader Ahmed Abdi Godane issued a chilling warning to
voters.
“Those who take part in those so-called elections will face the
consequences,” said Godane, who was born in the Somaliland capital Hargeisa and
has proclaimed his allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/international/somaliland-fears-islamists-can-shatter-statehood-dream-760
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Jamaat-e-Islami to hold demonstrations today
27 Jun, 2010
KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Sindh Ameer Asadullah Bhutto has given
a protest call across the province against targeted killings of JI activists. JI
spokesman said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and its allied parties in the Sindh
government were creating panic, usurping government land and resorting to
unauthorised construction in parks and on other amenity plots to show their
monopoly in the city.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\06\27\story_27-6-2010_pg12_11
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Criticism of president is boon for Pak TV ratings:
WSJ
27 Jun, 2010
KARACHI: TV executives in Pakistan, supported by a boom in
advertising revenue and feeding off a public taste for conspiracy theories, are
using popular news channels to chip away at the standing of President Asif Ali
Zardari, stated a report appearing in The Wall Street Journal on
Saturday.
According to the article, news anchors often use populist,
anti-government and anti-US rhetoric in a bid to raise their
viewership.
Anchors at Geo Television, the country's largest broadcaster by ad
revenue and viewership, regularly attack President Zardari's government-a US
ally prosecuting a war against the Pakistan Taliban, the report
said.
Full report at:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\06\27\story_27-6-2010_pg7_11
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G8 leaders vow joint action against terrorism
27 Jun, 2010
TORONTO: G8 leaders Saturday pledged to work together in an
“integrated and coordinated” manner to combat the threat posed by terrorism and
attack violent extremism at its roots.
Vowing to support weak governments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the
Sahel, Somalia and Yemen fight terrorism, G8 leaders said they would step up
efforts to promote the rule of law.
“Terrorist groups and other criminal organizations tend to flourish
where governments lack the capacity and resiliency to address security
vulnerabilities, in some cases threatening the stability of states,” the joint
statement said.
Full report at:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/03-g8-leaders-vow-joint-action-against-terrorism-ss-09
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G8 leaders keep pressure on Iran, North Korea
By DAVID LJUNGGREN
Jun 27, 2010
HUNTSVILLE, Ontario: The Group of Eight rich nations on Saturday
deplored what it said was North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship and
urged Pyongyang and Tehran to halt atomic saber-rattling which has set the world
on edge.
The G8 closed its annual summit with a strongly worded statement
accusing Pyongyang of stoking dangerous tensions that could spread far beyond
northeast Asia.
"Such an incident is a challenge to peace and security in the region
and beyond," the G8 final communique said at the end of a two-day meeting in
Huntsville, Ontario, north of Toronto.
The group, which includes the United States, Japan, and Russia,
called for "appropriate measures" to be taken against the perpetrators of the
March 26 attack which killed 46 South Korean sailors.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/world/article74045.ece
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Saudi woman arrested for sheltering runaway
maids
By MUHAMMAD HUMAIDAN
Jun 27, 2010
JEDDAH: Passport authorities in the Eastern Province have arrested a
Saudi woman, identified as Um Khaled, for allegedly sheltering runaway maids and
arranging jobs for them.
Police sources told Arab News that the woman’s brother, an Arab who
is under her sponsorship, was transporting the maids to different houses for
work.
Police arrested the man while he was supplying two maids to a client
in Alkhobar, the source said. The man told the police that he was working for
his sister.
Police also arrested an Arab expatriate near Thuqba traffic office
for allegedly forging driving licenses and selling them to foreigners. Police
arrested the man after keeping a close watch on his activities.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article74011.ece
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US: Turkey must demonstrate commitment to West
By DESMOND BUTLER
Jun 27, 2010
WASHINGTON: The United States is warning Turkey that it is alienating
US supporters and needs to demonstrate its commitment to partnership with the
West.
The remarks by Philip Gordon, the Obama administration's top diplomat
on European affairs, were a rare admonishment of a crucial NATO
ally.
"We think Turkey remains committed to NATO, Europe and the United
States, but that needs to be demonstrated," Gordon told The Associated Press in
an interview. "There are people asking questions about it in a way that is new,
and that in itself is a bad thing that makes it harder for the United States to
support some of the things that Turkey would like to see us support." Gordon
cited Turkey's vote against a US-backed United Nations Security Council
resolution on new sanctions against Iran and noted Turkish rhetoric after
Israel's deadly assault on a Gaza-bound flotilla last month. The Security
Council vote came shortly after Turkey and Brazil, to Washington's annoyance,
had brokered a nuclear fuel-swap deal with Iran as an effort to delay or avoid
new sanctions.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article74082.ece
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Judge orders father to return girl to mother
Jun 27, 2010
MADINAH: A judge has ruled that a father must return his young
daughter to his ex-wife. Three-year-old Lana went missing more than a week ago
and her mother had been searching for her since then.
Madinah authorities had been looking for the 30-year-old ex-husband
who was accused by the mother of kidnapping the girl and her nanny from the
custody of the mother.
The judge convinced the father to return the child to her mother
until she reaches the marriage age. The father said he wanted to take the
custody because the mother is a scholarship student abroad.
The judge forced him to return the child to the mother, and ordered
the child to remain in the custody of her maternal grandmother the next time her
mother travels abroad for studies.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article74023.ece
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Iranian exiles demand tougher sanctions on
Tehran
By LAURENT HAMIDA
Jun 27, 2010
PARIS: An Iranian exile group, backed by international politicians,
said on Saturday that much stiffer sanctions would have to be imposed on Tehran
if world powers hoped to curtail Iran's nuclear program.
Thousands supporters of the French-based National Council of
Resistance of Iran (NCRI) filled a makeshift stadium just north of Paris to
denounce Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and demand more pressure be
brought to bear on Tehran.
John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, and former
Spanish Prime Ministers Jose Maria Aznar, joined more than 100 lawmakers from
across Europe, the Middle East and North America to voice their opposition to
Ahmadinejad.
Full report at:
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article74079.ece
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Indian, Pakistani intel chiefs meet in
Islamabad
Jun 27, 2010
ISLAMABAD: The chiefs of intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan
held a meeting here as part of cooperation to fight terrorism and deal with
security issues.
The Director General of Intelligence Bureau Rajiv Mathur met his
Pakistani counterpart Javed Noor here last night and are understood to have
discussed cooperation in security and combating terrorrism, sources
said.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said last evening that
the agencies of the two countries would be working together to prevent any
repeat of Mumbai attacks.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Indian-Pakistani-intel-chiefs-meet-in-Islamabad/articleshow/6097521.cms
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Karachi-bound ship carrying arms sets sail for
Kolkata
Jun 27, 2010
KOLKATA: A Karachi-bound ship, intercepted on the Hooghly with arms
and ammunition used by multi-nation troops in a UN peacekeeping mission, Sunday
set sail for the Kolkata dock amid tight security.
A senior police official said the Liberia-registered 'Aegean Glory',
carrying rocket launchers, smoke bombs and anti-aircraft guns, apart from other
sophisticated arms and ammunition, is being brought to the Kolkata dock for a
thorough investigation.
The vessel was intercepted on the Hooghly Friday as it had not
furnished the declaration documents necessary for carrying the arms and
explosives.
At the Kolkata dock, the customs officials will open the container
cargo to ascertain its contents.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Karachi-bound-ship-carrying-arms-sets-sail-for-Kolkata/articleshow/6097544.cms
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Tackling terrorism: India for SAARC's
co-operation
Jun 27 2010
Islamabad : Warning that the South Asian region is faced with a
"serious" security situation, India on Saturday sought fullest cooperation among
SAARC countries in sharing information on potential terrorists and planned acts
of terrorism to create a more secure environment.
"The increasing threat of terrorism poses a major challenge to the
maintenance of peace and security and adversely affects economic development in
our region," Home Minister P Chidambaram said while addressing the SAARC Home
Ministers' Conference here.
"We can all undoubtedly agree that the South Asian region is faced
with a serious security situation," he told the meeting being attended by the
ministers from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Maldives,
besides India and Pakistan.
Full report at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tackling-terrorism-india-for-saarcs-cooperation/638820/
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US to Karzai: New general won't alter Afghan
plan
Jun 26, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan: America's top military officer assured President
Hamid Karzai on Saturday that newly chosen NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus
would pursue the policies of his ousted predecessor, whom the Afghan leader
warmly praised for reducing civilian casualties.
Karzai's emphasis on preventing civilian deaths and injuries could
make it difficult for NATO to relax rules of fighting that some US troops say
give the battlefield advantage to the Taliban. For now, however, no changes have
been proposed, said a spokesman for visiting Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Full report at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/US-to-Karzai-New-general-wont-alter-Afghan-plan-/articleshow/6096145.cms
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FIA and CBI should work together: Pak
Jun 27, 2010
Sending out positive signals, Pakistan today indicated its
willingness to provide voice samples of 26/11 handlers and offer any other kind
of cooperation to India, which pressed for "visible" outcomes in action against
all those involved in the Mumbai carnage.
At a joint press interaction with Home Minister P Chidambaram,
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the agencies of the two countries
would be working together to prevent any repeat of Mumbai attacks and suggested
that its Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) and CBI work together on the issue
of terrorism, including on the 26/11 case.
"I will leave tomorrow with the conviction that we have both
exchanged views, we both understand the requirements of the situation,"
Chidambaram said about his talks with Malik in Islamabad on Friday.
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/265331/FIA-and-CBI-should-work-together-Pak.html
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Kashmir CM for proactive measures
Khursheed Wani
Jun 27, 2010
The Jammu & Kashmir Government on Saturday promised action
against human rights violation as it is alarmed by the worsening security
situation in the Valley.
On a day when Sopore remained under curfew and the Valley observed a
shutdown against the Friday killing of civilians, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
asked the administration to take “proactive preventive measures” to avoid
civilian deaths.
In the backdrop of the worsening security situation, Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah on Friday convened a joint meeting of a Group of Ministers and
senior police and civilian officers. “My Government is concerned, conscious and
vigilant,” he told the meeting. “While no human rights violations will be
tolerated, perpetuators, instigators and disruptive elements will be dealt with
severely,” a spokesman quoted him as saying.
Full report at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/265370/Omar-for-proactive-measures.html
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Sharif: Pervez and Zardari are friends
Jun 27, 2010
Islamabad, June 26: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Nawaz Sharif
on Saturday said that President Asif Ali Zardari and former military dictator
Pervez Musharraf enjoy friendly relations.
“We noticed harmony between Pervez Musharraf and President Zardari.
Accordingly, the dictator was accorded the safe exit abroad (after removal from
power in 2008),” Mr Sharif said. Addressing a public gathering in Sialkot, he
said the nation wants the dictators to be dragged to the dock, reports our
Pakistan correspondent. “We want the government to take action against violators
of the Constitution”, the PML-N chief said.
http://www.asianage.com/international/twin-blasts-hit-pak-cd-market-340
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‘I Cautioned Against Afghan Pullout’
Jun 26th, 2010
A powerful US Senator has said that he personally cautioned against
setting a date for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan but asserted that US
President Barack Obama is committed to the drawdown of his forces from the war
torn country beginning July 2011. “Was it a mistake for the President to set a
date?” Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
was asked on the popular Charlie Rose Show.
“Well, you know, not if you can have those other ingredients working
correctly and in place. Right now we don’t. I personally cautioned against a
date simply because I think that it was very difficult for people in Afghanistan
at this current moment to, at the same time as we’re setting it, accept the
notion that they’ve got a future, that there’s a prospect for them of security
and safety and sufficient success,” Mr Kerry said in response.
Full report at:
http://www.asianage.com/international/%E2%80%98i-cautioned-against-afghan-pullout%E2%80%99-181
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J & K rallyists negotiate road that Akbar
took
By Arjun Sharma
Jun 27, 2010
MORE THAN 30 Indian motoring enthusiasts participated in the ‘ Mughal
Rally- 2010’ — a two- leg race through the Kashmir valley — which ended in
Srinagar on Saturday.
The event, organised by the J& K tourism department and the
Himalayan Motor Sports Association to boost the region’s waning tourist
potential, kicked off on Friday as participants made their way in specially
designed SUVs from Srinagar to Jammu.
On Saturday, the return lap back to Srinagar took the motorists
through the challenging Mughal road — named after the eponymous Mughal emperor
Akbar who used it to reach the Kashmir valley four centuries ago.
While the road proved difficult in stretches, the racers glimpsed the
scenic snow- capped mountains and lush- green forests of the Pir Panjal ranges —
strategically important to the troubled region’s security forces.
Full report at: Mail Today
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SOMALILAND IS AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS
Hussein Ali Noor
Jun 27, 2010
Presidential elections in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland
began peacefully on Saturday after multiple delays in the last two
years.
The rest of the Horn of Africa state has been gripped by violence for
almost two decades and the latest government is wrestling to overcome near-
daily attacks by Islamist rebel groups bent on ousting it.
The violence, mostly between government troops and al Qaeda's proxy
in the region known as al Shabaab, has killed at least 21,000 people and
uprooted another 1.5 million from their homes.
Full report at: Hindustan Times
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Protest against Sopore deaths cripples Kashmir
By Naseer A. Ganai
Jun 27, 2010
PROTEST against the killing of two civilians at Sopore in Baramulla
district late on Friday brought Kashmir to a standstill on Saturday.
Businesses, schools, government offices and other institutions
remained closed in Srinagar and other districts, and traffic remained off the
roads following a call for a complete shutdown by the Hurriyat Conference.
Clashes were reported from different parts of Baramulla district, including
Sopore. Sources said four trains from Srinagar to north Kashmir were suspended
in view of the deteriorating law and order. It was the first time in the past
two years that train services were affected.
Full report at: Mail Today
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