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Thursday,
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Pak
parties near deal to form govt
4 new
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Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammed A. Aldouri speaks to reporters at the
UN in New York on
Wednesday. Aldouri said that Baghdad had accepted the conditions of the Security Council resolution on weapons inspections. Suu Kyi
meets UN envoy
US
charges UK hacker Pak
piqued at Canada’s stance Pakistan
to acquire Chinese battleships US
Treasury Secy to visit India Jiang
sure to retire
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Pak parties near deal to form govt
Islamabad, November 13 The six religious parties, which have formed an alliance called the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), along with the Grand National Alliance (GNA) of pro-regime parties, have finalised a draft on the proposed changes and sent it to President Musharraf yesterday. Meanwhile, President Musharraf today convened the first session of the newly elected Parliament on Saturday. The first session of National Assembly has been convened for Saturday, November 16 at 11 a.m., state-run television said, quoting an official announcement. Mr Shujaat Hussain, leader of one of the main constituents of the GNA — the Pakistan Muslim League-Qaide Azam, after holding talks with MMA leaders, said the President had agreed to make “some concessions” in the Legal Framework Order, which hands powers to the President to dissolve Parliament and also give the military a firm role in politics. “The President is not rigid on the issue. We can compromise on the issue and will take all possible steps to end the present political deadlock in the interest of the people,” a close aide of President Musharraf was quoted as saying. He, however, declined to give details of the deal being negotiated with the MMA. “I cannot specifically tell you everything right now...you will have to wait... but I can certainly inform you that differences over Article 58(2)B have been removed,” he was quoted as saying. The Article grants the President powers to dismiss the Prime Minister and dissolve Parliament. Mr Hussain said he had been holding extensive talks with senior government authorities to arrive at “some mutually acceptable terms” to have a new government in place soon. Meanwhile, four serving ministers in Musharraf’s Cabinet and two provincial ministers have been nominated by the PML-Q to contest the Senate elections. Official media reports here said that Finance Minister Shoukat Aziz, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider, former ISI chief and present Railway Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi and Law Minister Khalid Ranjha had been named by the PML-Q to contest the Senate poll and were sure to get elected. Rana Ijaz Ahmad and Roshan Khurshid, provincial ministers from Punjab and Baluchistan have also been nominated for the Senate poll.
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Israeli
forces enter Nablus
Jerusalem, November 13 Quoting highly-placed military sources, the radio said soldiers had taken over the casbah, or old town, of Nablus and the nearby Askar and Ballata refugee camps with backing from the sappers and tanks. The Israeli army also occupied another West Bank town, Bir Zeit, north of Ramallah. The moves followed an attack late Sunday on Kibbutz Metzer in north Israel in which five persons, including a mother and two children, were killed. “The soldiers received a mandate to operate for as long as necessary to destroy the infrastructures of the Palestinian terrorist organisations following very many alerts of attacks planned from these sectors,” the radio said.
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4 new suspects named for Bali bombings Bali (Indonesia), November 13 The police had earlier named Amrozi as their prime suspect and yesterday named two of his brothers, Ali Imron and Ali Fauzi, also as suspects. “There are many other suspects... Idris, Hudama also known as Imam Samudra, Umar and another Umar,’’ the Indonesian police chief, Gen Da’i Bachtiar, told a news conference on the island.
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Iraq accepts UN resolution
United Nations, November 13 The acceptance letter was being delivered to Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s office by Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, the diplomat said, speaking on a condition of anonymity. “The letter says that Iraq will deal with Security Council resolution 1441 despite its bad contents,” Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri said.
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Suu Kyi meets UN envoy Yangon, November 13 Ms Suu
Kyi, general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), left her Yangon (Rangoon) residence in the morning accompanied by the party’s vice chairman, Mr U. Tin
Oo, and other party leaders in three cars. They were scheduled to meet the local NLD leaders in the Shan state town of Kalaw before proceeding to the southern Shan state capital of Taunggyi tomorrow. Ms Suu Kyi was scheduled to hold a second meeting with UN envoy Razali in Taunggyi on Thursday. The two had their first meeting of Razali’s current visit tomorrow tonight at Ms Suu Kyi’s Yangon residence. Mr
Razali, a veteran Malaysian diplomat, is on his ninth mission to Myanmar aimed at energising stalled reconciliation talks between the NLD and the country’s four-decade-old military dictatorship. He has expressed frustration that his Myanmar missions, which began in October 2000 when he negotiated talks between the junta and the
NLD, that have so far failed to lead to a breakthrough. Western governments, including the USA and the European Union, have also expressed frustration over apparent foot-dragging by the junta in entering into serious reconciliation talks with the
NLD. An EU statement issued on the eve of Mr Razali’s current five-day mission urged the military government to take advantage of the visit by arranging a meeting for the UN special envoy with Senior General Tan
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US charges
UK hacker Washington, November 13 Prosecutors said yesterday Gary McKinnon, an unemployed computer programmer living in London, stole passwords, deleted files, monitored traffic and shut down computer networks on military bases from Pearl Harbor to Connecticut. He also hacked into NASA, the University of Tennessee and a public library in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Pak piqued at Canada’s stance Pakistan has taken exception over the Canadian concern voiced at the United Nations over human rights violations in the country. Speaking at the General Assembly’s third committee on the human rights situation in some countries, the Canadian representative, Mr Gilbert Laurin, said on Tuesday that while his country welcomed Pakistan’s reformatory measures, it remained concerned by ongoing human rights violations, particularly as they affected religious minorities and women. The Pakistani delegate, exercising the right of reply, took exception to the comments by Canada about a few countries. |
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Pakistan to acquire Chinese battleships
Islamabad, November 13 The talks are under way and very soon these “latest state of the art ships” would be flying Pakistani flag, he told a meeting of Naval officials yesterday, APP new agency has reported. He said Pakistan Navy actively pursued the proposal to acquire F-22 Frigates from China as the government here has approved to carry out negotiations. Admiral Karimullah, however, did not disclose the number of ships Pakistan would be acquiring. It was not yet announced here whether the Pakistani Navy proposed to buy them or acquire them on lease. Admiral Karimullah also said the contract for the construction of guided missile boats had also been concluded. The report however did not mention the country to which the contracts have been given.
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US Treasury
Secy to visit India Washington, November 13 O’Neill will attend the G20 session on November 22-23 in New Delhi. He will focus at the G20 session on initiatives to ease debt restructurings by emerging market countries that become insolvent, and measures to cut off financing to terrorists, said Treasury spokesperson Michele Davis in a press briefing yesterday. O’Neill will hold a press conference on Friday prior to his departure, Davis said. The Afghanistan stop will focus on the reconstruction of the war-torn economy, the distribution of international aid money, and anti-terrorist financing efforts, Davis said. En route to the G20, he will also make a stop in Pakistan. He will also stop in Manchester, England, on November 25 before arriving back in Washington.
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Jiang sure
to retire Beijing, November 13 Five other leaders, including parliament chief Li Peng and Premier Zhu Rongji, would also retire from the seven-man Politburo Standing Committee in the first peaceful and orderly succession in the history of Communist China, they said.
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