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Arab League, Riyadh
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2 in US immigrants Silicon Valley, September 15 India replaced China as the second-largest source of legal immigrants to the USA in the fiscal year 2001, according to data released by the US’ Immigration and Naturalisation Service.
PML
appeals to EC on Kulsoom’s nomination 50 Maoists die from
booby traps 20 die
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Arab League, Riyadh press Iraq to allow UN inspectors United Nations, September 15 With Washington threatening action against Iraq unless it obeys Security Council resolutions, 22 Arab foreign ministers met yesterday on the sidelines of the General Assembly with an urgent message for Baghdad. “We said loudly and clearly that we are for the integrity of Iraq, for its stability as well as for the full implementation of all the resolutions regarding Iraq,” Lebanese Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud said. “We would like to see observers going back to Iraq and with them will come peace for the Iraqi people and stability for Iraq.” Iraqis Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told the group that his country was ready to allow the inspectors to return but not before certain conditions, Hammoud and other ministers said. Sabri himself did not speak to reporters. He later met Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa privately. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Arab ministers he wanted them individually to push for the return of inspectors to restore peace and stability to the region and avoid another major conflict. “We meet at a critical time as governments are discussing war and peace,” he said. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said he impressed upon Sabri that the Arab ministers want the inspectors back, and that he should consult with Baghdad and get a decision for Annan. DUBAI:
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on Sunday said Riyadh would cooperate in a US-led attack on Iraq if the UN Security Council gives the green light. The Saudis have said in the past they would not allow their territory to be used in the case of an attack mounted by Washington. Prince Saud was optimistic that the deadlock with Iraq over the return of UN arms inspectors could be resolved, hailing US President George W. Bush’s decision to push for action against Baghdad by the UN first instead of going it alone. “I think we are moving in the right direction,” he said. The Saudi Minister also said Riyadh would work to keep oil prices stable in case of a clash with Iraq. CAIRO:
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has urged the international community to devise a “magical formula” to resolve its dispute with the United Nations and the USA over weapons disarmament and inspections. Mr Aziz’s plea, delivered during a Baghdad press conference on Saturday, appeared aimed at averting a possible US attack against Iraq over claims that it was producing weapons of mass destruction. UNITED
NATIONS: US President George W. Bush has increased pressure on Baghdad to obey UN resolutions as Germany and influential Arab nations voiced misgivings about any assault on Iraq. Malaysia and Cuba made clear their opposition to military action and Japan expressed reservations. Mr Bush, speaking from the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, yesterday urged the United Nations “to show some backbone’’ on Iraq, and made clear he was prepared to confront President Saddam Hussein with or without world support. “Saddam Hussein has defied the United Nations 16 times. Not once, not twice, 16 times he has defied the United Nations,’’ said Mr Bush, who this week challenged the world body to enforce its resolutions on Iraqi disarmament. “Enough is enough,” he added. Germany acknowledged the need to keep pushing Iraq to readmit UN arms inspectors and bow to UN demands, but spoke against any automatic recourse to war that might destabilise the West Asia and compromise the struggle against terrorism.
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US search for Al-Qaida men focuses on Yemen Washington September 15 “Yemen has become an area of increased interest for US and allied forces,” one senior administration official told the daily. The USA has been particularly determined to track down several high-ranking Al-Qaida members who have found safe haven in Yemen’s remote tribal areas, Osama bin Laden’s ancestral home, according to the newspaper. Meanwhile, a US federal judge has arraigned five accused Al-Qaida members on charges of providing support and resources to the terrorist group headed by Bin Laden, justice officials said. The five were
arranged yesterday in Buffalo, New York, near the town of Lackawanna where they lived and were detained on Friday, according to New York attorney Michael Battle. The five have been named as Faysal Galab, Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Shafel Mosed, and Yasein Taher, all US-born citizens. Battle said they were charged with “knowingly providing and attempting to provide material support and resources to the foreign terrorist organisation Al-Qaida and conspiracy to do so.” ISLAMABAD: A firefight in Karachi that led to death of two suspected Al-Qaida members and arrest of four others was supervised by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, says a report. “Sitting in a black sedan, four FBI agents watched intently as a posse of Pakistan military intelligence and police officials” climbed the staircase to a second floor apartment of a building in Karachi’s plush residential district of Defence Society on September 11, said The News. As uniformed and plainclothes intelligence operatives and policemen barged into the apartment, six Arabic-speaking men and a woman offered themselves for arrest, said the paper. This was the beginning of a gunbattle in which six Al-Qaida men armed with a pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle resisted about 200 policemen for three hours and surrendered only after a volley of teargas shells suffocated them to near-death.
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18 nations to push for ban on N-tests United Nations, September 15 The statement, sponsored by Australia, Japan and the Netherlands and signed yesterday by Foreign Ministers of 18 countries, seeks renewed efforts to get more countries to sign and ratify and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). In the statement, the 18 nations promised they “will make representations as appropriate, individually or together, including at regional and multilateral meetings, in order to make the treaty a focus of the highest political levels.” The 18 nations are Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Hungary, Japan, Jordan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey and the UK. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he hoped “the Iraq debate will be a true incentive for more countries to sign and ratify” the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The treaty must be signed and ratified by all 44 nations that possess nuclear weapons or have nuclear power programmes in order to take effect. While 31 nations, including Britain, France and Russia, have ratified the treaty, there are important holdouts, including the USA, as well as India and Pakistan.
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Indians
No 2 in US immigrants Silicon Valley, September 15 The data says 70,290 Indians received
Pakistani officials have said the raid on Defence Society was actually one of the three conducted with an active “American technical and intelligence support” between September 9 and 11. India accounted for 6.6 per cent of the green cards, up from 4.9 per cent in 2000, while China’s contribution dropped slightly from 5.4 to 5.3 per cent.
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PML appeals to EC on Kulsoom’s nomination Islamabad, September 15 Mr Hamza Shahbaz, son of Mr Sharif’s brother Shahbaz, urged Chief Election Commissioner Irshad Ahmed Khan in a fax message to dismiss the verdict of the Special Tribunal which rejected the nomination papers of Ms Kulsoom Nawaz and Mr Shahbaz Sharif, media reports here said. The nomination papers of Mr Shahbaz, who was recently appointed PML-N president, and Ms Kulsoom to contest for both national assembly and Punjab provincial assembly from Lahore were accepted by returning officers but later rejected by a tribunal comprising two High Court Judges upholding the objections raised by their opponents. In his letter, Mr Hamza Shahbaz said the tribunal did not announce the judgement in the open court on Thursday. Rather, an intimation of acceptance of the appeals against the candidates was conveyed through the court’s reader to the press and other persons in the evening, he said. According to the appellant, the copies of the detailed judgement were not delivered till September 13 evening, which was the last date for the tribunals to decide appeals. |
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50 Maoists die from booby traps Kathmandu, September 15 The Nepali language daily ‘Space Time Dainik’ said the Maoists who were fleeing after the devastating attack on Sandhikharka in Argakhanchi district, about 250 km west of the capital, on Sunday were trapped by the army in a jungle in Pyuthan district. The Maoists ambushed armymen on Friday night to prevent them from penetrating into the jungle. The newspaper said the Maoists laid the ambush in different points around the jungle to prevent the security personnel from reaching the entrapped Maoists. The army, according to reports in all Nepalese newspapers and radio stations, have surrounded at least 1,000 Maoists, including top leader Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, in the jungle at Syauliwang in Pyuthan district, about 285 km west of the capital. “The Space Time Dainik” said at least 50 Maoists, apparently not those who laid the ambush, were killed last night when they unknowingly stepped on them. Meanwhile Maoists bombed Radio Nepal’s FM and telecommunication stations at Parawanipur in Bara district in Southern Terai late last night, the state-run broadcaster has said. The insurgents attacked both FM and the telecommunication stations causing a loss of Rs 3 million to Radio Nepal.
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20 die as bus, tanker collide Quetta, September 15 The drivers and attendants of both vehicles and 16 bus passengers died after the collision at the town of Angira, 35 km from Quetta, they said. Khuzdar District Administrator Noor Bungalzai said 18 persons died on the spot and another two in hospital later.
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