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End to
infiltration can’t be Pervez
calls House to meet after US visit Pak can
buy planes from France: Jamali Indian
student in USA tortured UN can’t
send force to Iraq, says Annan New Lanka
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NRI kills
wife over food London, June 26 A non-resident Indian has been sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing his magistrate wife to death for serving him stale food even as their son watched in horror. Palestinian
ultras agree on truce
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End to infiltration can’t be guaranteed: Pervez Washington, June 26 “We have ensured that nothing ought to be happening on the LoC... I can’t answer how much infiltration is going on. I don’t know. For me there is no infiltration going on. Pakistan has done all that it can do,” President Musharraf, who is on an official visit to the USA, said in an interview to the Washington Post. He, however said, he could give no guarantee on ensuring that no one was crossing over into Kashmir from the Pakistani side. “If somebody is to ask me to give a guarantee that nothing is happening across the Line of Control, I will not do that. I cannot. It is not possible.” “...Pakistan cannot be held responsible to ensure, to guarantee that not a bird will fly across the LoC. It is not humanly possible,” he said, adding that sealing the border was also “not possible”. On the crackdown on militant outfits by his government, he said groups like the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, “who were creating apprehensions in the minds of India and the world”, had been banned. “There are hundreds of offices out there.... including in Kashmir (PoK), have been sealed and closed. Their accounts have been frozen. Nobody before this could have touched them,” he said. Suggesting that the peace process required altering negative public attitudes on both sides, President Musharraf said the onus or initiative for reconciliation was always shown by the larger country. Pakistan’s steps towards a compromise would be seen as a “sell-out” whereas steps by India would be seen as “a sign of magnanimity and a sign of greatness,” he explained. He said Pakistan remained committed to rooting out terrorism and extremism in all its forms because they constituted a “lethal poison” for the country. In an interactive session after his speech at the institute, the President ruled out accepting the LoC as a permanent border between India and Pakistan. Even though relationship with India could “never be said to be satisfactory,” Mr Musharraf said he did not expect any war between the two countries in near or foreseeable future. “I don’t foresee war at all,” he said, pointing out that the countries had already gone to battle three times in the past and were aware of the hazards of war. “I think no leader in his right mind will go to war,” he said, adding that the military balance between India and Pakistan and his country’s strategy of “minimum (nuclear) deterrence” ruled out the possibility of war.
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Pervez calls House to meet after US visit Islamabad, June 26 The combined opposition has filed the no-confidence motion against the Speaker, Mr Amir Hussain, for his decision to rule that Gen Musharraf’s legal framework order (LFO) incorporating the amendments was part of the constitution. The opposition also planned to hold a demonstration on June 28 in front of Parliament and the adjacent Supreme Court for their alleged support to Gen Musharraf. By June 28, Gen Musharraf would have completed his US tour and be off to Germany. The Pakistan Prime Minister, Mr Mir Zafarullah Jamali, has appealed to the opposition to withdraw the motion and settle for talks.
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Pak can buy planes from France: Jamali Islamabad, June 26 “Pakistan will not depend on one country to fulfil its security and defence needs. If the USA refuses to give F-16 fighter planes, the country would buy compatible planes from other countries, including France,” Mr Jamali was quoted as saying in Multan yesterday by the media. Referring to President Musharraf’s visit to the USA, Mr Jamali said the Pakistani people had pinned high hopes on the President’s visit to America. In response to the opposition’s criticism that the US aid of $ 3 billion was
meagre, he said America wanted a long-standing relationship with Pakistan and getting an aid package of $ 3 billion was no mean achievement. He recalled that the USA had earlier waived $ 1 billion debt of the country. Mr Jamali also dispelled reports that Pakistan was about to accord recognition to Israel saying: “It will not happen, nor will the country’s atomic programme be rolled
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Indian student in USA tortured New York, June 26 Saurabh
Bhalerao, 24, a graduate student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and working for Sarducci’s Subs and Pizza, was listed in fair condition last night after undergoing emergency surgery at the Rhode Island Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. “It’s probably one of the most vicious robberies I have ever seen, but it’s not unheard of,” Fairhaven Police Chief Gary F. Souza was quoted as saying by a Boston daily. According to the police, Bhalerao from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, delivered a pizza at a Weld Street apartment on Sunday night, where he was attacked by the four men. The men originally intended to rob
Bhalerao, but intensified their assault thinking he was Muslim, continuing to beat him even as he tried to explain that he was Hindu, Souza said. “He pleaded with his attackers... They were telling him he should go back to Iraq,” the police officer said. In addition to the beatings, the suspects burned Bhalerao’s face and ears with a lit cigarette. At least three attackers then hog-tied the delivery man and stuffed clothes in his mouth to prevent him from calling for help. The attackers then beat and kicked Bhalerao so badly that they broke the bones in his face, he said. The police has arrested three of the attackers and framed one of them.
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UN can’t send force to Iraq, says Annan London, June 26 “Until the UN Security Council gives us a new mandate, we are not really talking of a UN force and, quite frankly, I doubt that we will have the capacity to take over that responsibility at this stage,” Mr Annan said yesterday. “If we don’t have the capacity, I wouldn’t want to take on the additional role and more responsibility,” he added. Speaking in the wake of the killing of six British troops in southern Iraq on Tuesday, Mr Annan said the “occupying powers” had the responsibility to provide security and effective administration to the people of Iraq. This should continue to be delivered by the multinational coalition led by the USA and the UK, he added. Asked by reporters whether he wanted a greater security role for the UN, he said: “We are guided by the UN Security Council Resolution 1483”, passed unanimously in May, “which leaves the responsibility for security and for creating a secure environment to the coalition forces or the occupying power. “The occupying power does have a responsibility to promote the welfare of the Iraqi people through effective administration of Iraq,” Mr Annan added.
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New Lanka
proposals to LTTE Colombo, June 26 “We are preparing a set of proposals representing the main features of the Prime Minister’s speech at the Tokyo Donors Conference. We are working hard in formulating this proposal, which will be ready within the next two weeks to be forwarded to the LTTE,” chief negotiator and Minister of Constitutional Affairs G.L. Peiris said at a media briefing here today. Professor Peiris, who is also the Cabinet spokesman, said although the new proposals would not comprise all details of the PAS, it could be considered as a “basis for interaction” with the LTTE rebels, who were ready to restart the peace talks. “This is not a final draft. Once we finish formulating this set of proposals, we will send it to the LTTE, asking for inputs from them. The proposals would be finalised only after their inputs,” he said.
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NRI kills wife over food London, June 26 Narinder Kaur Mann, one of the first female Asian magistrates in Leicester, was repeatedly stabbed in the stomach with a kitchen knife on May 20 last year by her husband Gurdev, as their 23-year-old son Jaswinder, a university student, watched in horror. A jury at Leicester Crown Court yesterday found Gurdev Mann, 50, guilty of murder. He had been drinking when he killed his wife, the jury said. Gurdev said he did not like the “stale” food his wife had been cooking.
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Palestinian
ultras agree on truce Jerusalem, June 26 Palestinian Authority officials and Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip insisted the deal is not final, while Israel and the USA were skeptical about the value of such an arrangement, saying Palestinian security forces must quickly disarm the militias. In violence today, Palestinians fired several mortar shells and homemade rockets at a Jewish settlement in Gaza and an Israeli community bordering the strip, damaging a Jewish seminary. In the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli troops razed the family house of a Hamas militant who allegedly recruited suicide bombers. The truce deal was negotiated by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian uprising leader jailed by Israel, and the heads of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups in Damascus. Barghouti, using envoys, acted on behalf of Palestinian leaders, the negotiators said.
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