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Pak releases list of most wanted ultras Pearl buried in
private ceremony Benazir
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How Bin Laden escaped Koreas end first round of talks
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Pak releases list of most wanted ultras Islamabad, August 12 “The Pakistan Government has handed over a list of 150 alleged ‘religious terrorists’ to the Provincial intelligence and police departments to initiate action to capture them,” local daily The News said in a report here. The list, which included pictures of the wanted extremists, their network, code operations, nick names and more details, also announced awards ranging from Rs 5,00,000 to Rs 1 million for 24 of them, it said. A majority of militants figuring in the list belonged to the banned sectarian religious outfits like the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jahngvi, Sipah-e-Mohammad, Tehrik-e-Jafria Pakistan. Significantly, the newspaper did not mention the name of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, which were named in last week’s attacks on a Christian school in Murree and a Christian hospice in Taxila. Rawalpindi District Mayor Tariq Kiani was quoted by the media as saying that the militant killed in Friday’s attack in Taxila was either from the Jaish-e-Mohammed or Harkat-ul Mujahideen, the outfits banned by President Pervez Musharraf under pressure from India and the international community. Also the three militants who blew themselves up early last week in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) after attacking the Murree school were identified as members of these two groups. Both the Jaish and Harkatul, which belonged to the radical “Deoband” school of Islam, share close ties with the Taliban and Al-Qaida besides carrying out insurgency operations in the Kashmir valley. The list is prepared in Urdu for wider circulation across the country, said the paper, which published the entire list. While compiling the list the Pakistan Government was also in touch with different countries like Iran, Afghanistan and Holland to alert them regarding the presence of Pakistani militants who fled to those countries after carrying out some acts here, the paper said, noting that the country was in the process of signing extradition treaties with these countries to get the militants back for trial.
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Pearl buried in
private ceremony Los Angeles, August 12 “We finally laid to rest our beloved son, husband, brother and father in his home town,” Pearl’s family said yesterday in a statement. Pearl’s body, in an oak casket covered with red flowers, was returned to the USA on August 8. The service was held at an undisclosed location yesterday in Encino, an area of Los Angeles where Pearl’s family lives.
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Benazir wants to return to Pak, contest poll Islamabad, August 12 “I want to go back and contest the elections. It is difficult living in exile. I miss my country and miss my people,” she told the Voice of America radio yesterday. She said it was possible for her to contest the poll even if she was imprisoned on arrival. “My party and I both have experience of it. My father and my party have contested elections with people imprisoned. The question before me has little to do with being in prison, it has more to do with whether the military regime will let me contest these elections”, she said. She claimed that President Pervez Musharraf’s regime was making “trumped-up” corruption charges against her to get her convicted and stop her from contesting the poll. “But all hostile regimes failed in doing that in the past,” she said. Ms Bhutto indicated that she was ready to form poll alliance with other parties saying, “We will certainly discuss with Nawaz group and other parties so that the anti-establishment forces could become in a better election position.”
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How Bin Laden escaped New York, August 12 In an interview with American magazine Newsweek, the former Taliban official, now a professional guide, said he led Bin Laden and an entourage of 28 persons on horseback out of Tora Bora — around the time when a supposed radio message was picked up by US intelligence that sounded like Bin Laden encouraging his forces at the battle site. The group headed for the caves of Shahikot, another Afghan mountain stronghold, via a twisting route that led into Pakistan and back into Afghanistan, the unnamed guide said. “It was the hardest trip in my whole 23 years of Jehad,” he said. “We faced such a zigzag and complicated route and often had to get down from our horses.” Travelling at night, often through heavy snow, the group finally reached Shahikot after four or five days. “Osama rarely got down from his horse, he was such an expert rider,” he said. Another Taliban soldier, with no connection with the guide and interviewed separately by the magazine, also spoke of having seen bin Laden at Shahikot. The soldier, Ali Mohammad, said, in February as his unit was ordered to prepare for an American attack and the fighters took up their positions, he spotted a tall man walking down the rocky mountainside from the Chilam Kass peak, accompanied by 15 security men, whom he recognised as Bin Laden. Ali recounted that the Saudi dissident spoke briefly to the guerrillas and shook hands with them. “Be honest with each other and be true and sincere with your commander and keep your morale and spirits high,” Ali recalled Bin Laden as having said. “Take care of the injured and be confident that God will award you on Judgement Day,” Bin Laden had said. Ali said he later fought US forces for five days at Shahikot before being forced to retreat into Pakistan. He is now living in Karachi with his brother. American officials, Newsweek said, concede that there was a mass escape from Tora Bora - as well as a broader exodus by various routes into Pakistan and Iran. The report also said that in November 2001, a group of roughly 600 Al-Qaida fighters poured into Pakistan. A local guide had led them on a seven-hour trek through the snow from Tora Bora, into Pakistan. Pakistani villagers recognised several senior Taliban officials among the group, including Maulvi Abdul Qabir, Taliban chief Mavllah Omar’s deputy; Maulvi Sadar Azam, governor of Nangahar province; and Maulvi Taj Mir, Nangahar’s intelligence director. Another guide, who uses the alias Sharif Gul, after hearing that a group of Arabs was fleeing from Tora Bora, set across the mountains to see for himself. Sharif said he was surprised to find little evidence of bombing on the way.
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Koreas end first round
of talks Seoul, August 12 The talks lasted just over an hour, and the delegations were expected to dine together later. The negotiations resume tomorrow. Asked what the outcome of the three-day talks would be, North Korean delegation chief Kim Ryung-sung told reporters: “You may expect something positive. I am expecting a large fruit.’’ There was no word from South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se-hyun, who heads Seoul’s delegation, but South Korean officials were briefing reporters. The talks started later than scheduled after a delay over
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