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Churches burnt in Pakistan
No demilitarisation unless Pak stops terrorism: PM
Two held for threat mail to Manmohan
SAARC visa-free regime for scribes
First SAARC Award for
Zia-ur Rahman
Senators flay army’s
control of relief effort
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Management theorist Peter Drucker dead
Los Angeles, November 12 Peter Drucker, one of the world’s foremost management theorists, died on Friday morning of natural causes at Claremont, California, a Claremont Graduate University spokesman said. He was 95. 
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Churches burnt in Pakistan
Lahore (Pakistan), November 12 A school, student hostel and the home of a priest were also torched in the incident near the town of Sangla Hill, about 130 km north-east of the major eastern city of Lahore, said area police official Ali Asghar Dogar. The attacks came a day after a local Muslim resident accused Yousaf Masih, a Christian, of burning a one-room Islamic school along with copies of the Koran. Mr Dogar said no one was injured in the attacks, which were being investigated. About two dozen persons had been arrested over the incident, he said. Protesters also burnt tyres on village roads and blocked traffic for several hours. Shahbaz Bhatti, head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance — which promotes the rights of minorities in mainly Sunni Muslim Pakistan — denied the charges and condemned the attacks. “No Christian burnt copies of the Koran,” he told The Associated Press. “No Christian even can think of doing it,” he said. “We have maximum regard and respect for the Koran and Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.” Local Muslim leaders used public address systems to urge Muslims to attack the churches, Bhatti said. Mr Dogar said police were also investigating the burning last night of the Koranschool. —
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No demilitarisation unless Pak stops terrorism: PM
Dhaka, November 12 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit here, also asserted that in moving the peace process forward and correcting the “trust deficit” it was important that “we are not deflected by the incidents of terrorism and infiltration attempts that continue.” These have an impact on the public and the government, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told reporters after the meeting. “There is no question of demilitarisation unless there is a stop to cross border terrorism and continued attempts to infiltration,” Mr Saran said. Responding to questions, Mr Saran, however, said India could be ready to “take away” its forces not only on the Line of Control (LoC) but the entire border with Pakistan if cross-border terrorism and infiltration ended and the two countries reached that level of “trust.” “We are looking for trust,” the Foreign Secretary said. Responding to Dr Singh’s assertion, Mr Aziz said Pakistan was opposed to any form of terrorism and would not allow its territory to be used for terrorism, Mr Saran said, adding the Pakistani leader said his country was ready to cooperate with India in this regard. On the issue of India’s assistance to Pakistan for quake victims, Dr Singh told Mr Aziz that India was ready to provide more aid if required. He also told Mr Aziz that India would be represented at a conference convened by Pakistan for further quake relief. Mr Aziz conveyed thanks of his government and people for the way India helped and sent relief material, Mr Saran said. The two leaders also talked about opening of five crossing points on the LoC where the exchange could start soon as the processing of accepting application forms has begun. To a question, Mr Saran said India would “look positively” at any proposal for sending international relief material through the Wagah border as it also wanted the relief to reach the victims expeditiously. He said an ad hoc arrangement was already in place there.
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Two held for threat mail to Manmohan
Dhaka, November 12 The e-mail also threatened to blow up the venue of the SAARC summit — the China-Bangladesh Friendship Centre. Senior police officials said the e-mail was sent to some national dailies by one Kamal under the banner of the banned Jamaitul Mujahideen Bangladesh involved in the serial bomb blasts in August this year which killed four persons and injured over 150. A squad of the elite commandos that raided a house near Mahmudpur area yesterday morning arrested Suman Sarkar and Mahdul Islam and seized a computer from which the e-mail was believed to have been sent. The Bangladesh authorities have made strict security arrangements for Dr Singh and other SAARC leaders.
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SAARC visa-free regime for scribes
Dhaka, November 12 Disclosing this at a press conference, Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said several categories, including journalists, do not require visas for travelling to any country for journalistic work. They now come under SAARC shield, he further stated. Ministers, Members of Parliament and High Court judges were already provided free travel access to the member nations. More categories have been included this time with an aim to further liberalise the visa regime.
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First SAARC Award for
Zia-ur Rahman
Dhaka, November 12 Rehman’s eldest son Tariq Rahman received the award from Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, the outgoing Chairman of the SAARC. Rahman, husband of Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, had played a key role in formation of SAARC in 1985 and conferment of the award coincides with the 20th anniversary of the organisation.
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Senators flay army’s
control of relief effort
Islamabad, November 12 They said the task of rehabilitation of some 2.3 million people afflicted by the calamity was gigantic which could not be undertaken without involvement of people’s representatives. The upper house started its 24th session with fateha for over 85,000 persons killed in the quake and decided to start a full debate on the tragedy and its aftermath in light of the ongoing relief activities and the future plans of reconstruction. Leader of the opposition Mian Raza Rabbani regretted that instead of involving the people through their representatives in parliament, individualistic decisions and centralized approach had proved total institutional redundancy. He said the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority under a serving general had been given unbridled powers and made independent of parliament’s or any other high office’s check which “gives credence to fears that army wants to keep everything under its own control”. This authority, he added, was empowered to hire services of serving and retired army personnel as experts and engineers, thereby ignoring the civil engineers and experts and then providing almost all its employees indemnity from court action. Mr Rabbani said that the cabinet committee on earthquake failed to meet even once to perform its duty of overseeing relief and reconstruction work. |
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France bans gatherings to curb unrest France enforced a ban on gatherings that could cause trouble in Paris today and thousands of policemen patrolled the capital after the 16th night of urban unrest across the country. Police said they took the precautions because of Internet and SMS text messages calling for violence in the capital, which has largely escaped the violence by youths in poor suburbs angered by unemployment, racism and a lack of opportunities. The unrest has fallen in intensity since President Jacques Chirac’s government announced emergency measures on Tuesday, including curfews, but rose again slightly overnight. Some 502 vehicles were set ablaze across France, compared to 463 the previous night, although there were fewer incidents of violence in the Paris suburbs, the police said. Youngsters attacked a primary school during the night in Savigny-Le-Temple southeast of Paris and destroyed its creche. About 30 persons attacked a power transformer in Amiens, plunging the north of the town into darkness, police said. Two shops in Rambouillet, a town southwest of Paris, were destroyed and police detained 206 people. In the town of Carpentras in the south of France a person on a scooter threw two fire bombs at a mosque before fleeing, police said. People inside the mosque witnessed the attack, though there was little damage and no one was hurt. Mr Chirac and his Prime Minister, Mr Dominique De Villepin, condemned the attack. The Paris ban went into force at 10 am local time and was due to run until 8 am local time tomorrow. Three thousand extra police were deployed across the capital yesterday, the Armistice Holiday marking the end of World War One. “This is not about preventing people from walking around Paris ... or visiting the city ... It is to allow ordinary people to go about their business that police need the power to arrest troublemakers,” Paris police chief Pierre Mutz said. The unrest was triggered by the accidental deaths of two youths who were electrocuted as they hid in a power substation while apparently fleeing police just north of Paris. Mr Chirac and the government have been heavily criticised over their handling of the rioting, involving white youths as well as French citizens of Arab and African origin. The violence has shocked French people and Mr Chirac has told the government to address the problems in the impoverished suburbs quickly, acknowledging mistakes have been made. An opinion poll by the BVA research group on November 4-5 showed 56 percent of French people approved of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy’s tough actions, and another poll showed French people widely back the government’s emergency measures. But the left-leaning newspaper Liberations questioned today whether the Paris ban was justified. It asked: “Is the threat to Paris a pure fantasy or not? Is the decision ... simply the application of the principle of precaution or a useless and nasty dramatisation?” — Reuters
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Management theorist Peter Drucker dead
Los Angeles, November 12 An Austrian-born journalist and intellectual, Drucker is considered the inventor of management as a field of study. His career spanned nearly 75 years, during which time he authored 39 books, from 1939’s ‘’The End of the Economic Man’’ to his last book, “The Effective Executive in Action.” That volume, co-authored with Joseph Maciariello, will be published in early 2006. Management, he once said, “deals with people, their values, their growth and development, social structure, the community and even with spiritual concerns.” A central component of his philosophy was the view that people were an organisation’s most valuable resource, a revolutionary idea when he first began proposing it in the 1950s. He foresaw the onset of what he called the “age of the knowledge worker,” according to the university.
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