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August 10, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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CRE’s
Wales head quits Blast
kills over 20 near Jalalabad Indian
Navy protects US war cargo Pak army
officer hurt in attack Return
of Shahbaz ruled out ‘Citizen
Kane’ voted best-ever film Nepal’s
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CRE’s Wales head quits
London, August 9 Mashuq Ally’s resignation as head of the commission in Wales has come a day after the departure of Gurbux Singh, NRI, Chairman of the CRE who was fined £ 500 after a drunken incident at Lord’s cricket ground. Ally, who was appointed in 2000, was suspended in April pending an inquiry by the Cardiff-based commission into allegations of abuse of power over staff. The commission confirmed today that Ally, a former academic and a consultant on Islam to Channel 4, tendered his resignation days before the hearing was due to begin. “The CRE can confirm Mashuq Ally has resigned from his post as director of CRE Wales,” it said in a statement. “The CRE has accepted his resignation,” it said. Ally was at the centre of a controversy four years ago when he resigned as Dean of Arts at the University of Lampeter after an investigation into allegations that a Saudi prince in his care had a PhD thesis written for him.
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Blast kills over 20 near Jalalabad
Islamabad, August 9 The Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said the explosion happened at the offices of the Afghan Construction and Logistics Unit some 10 km west of the eastern city. It said the NGO was involved in road construction. In a report from Jalalabad, it said more than 50 persons were killed or wounded and more than 20 bodies had been retrieved. It said the wounded were being taken to hospitals in Jalalabad. The AIP said the explosion could have been caused by the detonation of explosives stored at the unit for use in road construction.
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Indian Navy protects
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Singapore, August 9 INS Sharda and INS Sukanya have been providing protection against terrorist and pirate attacks to ships carrying fuel, ammunition, food and other supplies to support US military operations in the high-tension Gulf region, the Straits Times reported. “India’s role in ensuring the safety of such vessels is an important part of the war against terrorism”, the report, quoting an unnamed Western military analyst, said. “The deployment of Indian naval ships also frees a US Navy vessel from escort duties, allowing it to be used in an operational mission elsewhere,” said the report. “The US military is in a high operating tempo, with the consequent strong demand on material and manpower. So its request for volunteers in escorting valuable war cargo is a valid request,” the analyst said. First naval vessel INS Sharda served from the Southern Naval Command base in Cochin and now INS Sukanya had been serving from the Eastern Naval Command at Vishakhapatnam. It said the Indian naval vessel sailed out of Singapore or a Malaysian port like Port Klang and escorted an American cargo ship carrying stores for the US military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for operations in the Gulf and Afghanistan. It then escorted the cargo vessel out of the Straits of Malacca, one of the busiest sea lanes in the world, to a location in the Andaman Sea, and returned to the base for the next escort duty two days later.
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Pak army officer hurt in attack Quetta (Pakistan), August 9 Two unidentified assailants opened fire on the car of Brig Bartar Hussain Naqvi, a Shiite Muslim and an official of the National Database and Registration Authority, while he was on his way to his office. “He received bullet injuries in the shoulder and is being operated upon,” an official at the city’s military hospital said. The attackers fled the scene after the incident. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the police suspects a sectarian motive. Hundreds of people have been killed in sectarian violence involving militant organisations from the majority Sunni or minority Shi’ite sects of
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Return of Shahbaz
ruled out Islamabad, August 9 “He has gone to Saudi Arabia along with about 25 other members of the Sharif family under an arrangement made on their request for a period of 10 years. Therefore, the question of his return does not arise,” Mr Memon was quoted by The Dawn as saying. If he chose to return in violation of the arrangement, he would not be allowed to enter the country, he said. His wife had earlier come to Pakistan but was immediately sent back, he added. On the other hand, Pakistan Peoples’ Party President Benazir Bhutto, the minister pointed out, had gone abroad in self-exile and thus could return home any time.
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‘Citizen
Kane’ voted best-ever film
London, August 9 The Orson Welles classic was chosen by 144 film critics and directors polled separately by the British Film Institute. The critics put Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” in second place, followed by Jean Renoir’s “La Regle du Jeu”. The directors’ second choice was “The Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II”, followed by Federico Fellini’s “8-1/2”. Nick James, Editor of Sight and Sound, the BFI’s magazine, said the twin polls confirmed Welles as the “Shakespeare of modern cinema”. “The critics’ poll is a touchstone for worldwide film opinion,” he said. “For the past 40 years ‘Citizen Kane’ has topped the critics’ poll.” “Citizen Kane”, the story of an American newspaper baron, made in 1941, pushed the boundaries of cinema and changed the way films were made. James said it owed its continuing critical acclaim to those advances. “Pushing all resources of a Hollywood studio to its limits, the film is a dazzling formal experiment and compelling portrait of a great man’s life,” he said. The twin polls have been carried out every 10 years by the BFI since 1952 and are considered prestigious in the film industry. The critics questioned include Britain’s Barry Norman and Jonathan Ross and USA’s Roger Ebert.
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Nepal’s new army chief appointed Kathmandu, August 9 General Thapa immediately took over as the acting chief with incumbent General Prajwalla Shumsher Rana proceeding on one month’s leave. General Rana is to retire on September 9, according to the National News Agency. General Thapa will be confirmed as the army chief after one month when the term of his predecessor expires.
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