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August 5, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Jamali seeks greater Indian concessions Blackwill biased, says Pakistan
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Powell to leave State Dept
in 2005, says report Man held in Chohans murder case
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13 killed in Afghan blast Israel to launch 3 military satellites
Sheikh Hasina chargesheeted
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Jamali seeks greater Indian concessions London, August 4 “You would have to see who occupies what part of Kashmir, in whose favour is which part, which is the bigger and the powerful country. It is the bigger country that has to sacrifice,” he said participating in the “Aap Ki baat, BBC Ke saath” programme broadcast last night. “Pakistan will also be flexible, but since the major part of Kashmir is occupied by India, it will have to make more concessions,” he said. He said: “We cannot leave things for future. We have to decide. For this both sides would have to make sacrifices. Without this issues cannot be resolved.” Jamali said he might meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before the SAARC summit next January. “There may be a meeting earlier at some other forum,” he said. Asked whether he meant there might be talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Jamali said the meeting could be held “whenever Vajpayee wishes.” He said: “There is a possibility that we may meet even before SAARC. There are many international forums. I feel that at any of these forums where we come across each other, then we would definitely meet.” Answering a question, he said he felt “more easy with Vajpayee. He is cool-minded, moderate and flexible.” About the chances of another Indo-Pakistan war, Jamali said: “The era of wars is over. Even if the two countries had reservations, they would have to talk to each other. Lets talks openly.” The Prime Minister was confident that air links between the South Asian neighbours would be restored soon. Islamabad: Pakistan is ready for slow track and fast-track dialogues with India and now it is up to the Indian leadership to adopt either of the two processes to resume relations between the two countries, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said. “Both the countries should start talks for peace and settlement of all the disputes, including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir in the backdrop of the past seven rounds of talks. We should start talks from the same level where these were suspended and the things already formulated and agreed between Islamabad and New Delhi should not be renegotiated,” said Mr Kasuri while talking to mediapersons yesterday at the Pakistan Muslim League House, The News reported. —
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Blackwill biased, says Pakistan Islamabad, August 4 “Mr Blackwill seems to be ill-informed, he is prejudiced and I think he is heartless because he is condoning the atrocities being committed by Indian troops on
innocent Kashmiri civilians,” Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told reporters here. “He is suffering from localitis,” he said commenting on Mr Blackwill’s remarks to an Indian TV channel that terrorists were still crossing over the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. “The problems persist, there are still terrorists coming across the LoC,” Mr Blackwill had said four days before he left New Delhi after his two-year stint. The spokesman said there was no terrorist camp on the Pakistani side of the LoC. “There is no substance in the allegations made by Indian Defence Minister and no terrorists are being trained on Pakistani soil,” Mr Khan said while replying to a question about the allegation by Mr George Fernandes that 3,000 terrorists were present in the Pakistani side of Kashmir. —
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No pressure on troops to Iraq Islamabad, August 4 “Although the US authorities now want a huge number of Pakistan army troops in Iraq, yet there is no pressure on us to do so, daily The News quoted Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri as saying.
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Powell to leave State Dept in 2005, says report Washington, August 4 Citing sources familiar with the conversation, the newspaper reported that Armitage recently told National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice that he and Powell would leave on January 21, 2005, the day after the next presidential inauguration. According to the newspaper, Powell has indicated to associates that he would be leaving for personal reasons rather than any differences over the administration’s foreign policy. The report said Powell indicated that a commitment made to his wife was a key factor in his desire to limit his tenure to one presidential term. There are 18 months left in Mr Bush’s current term. The current administration had been characterised by fierce policy debates often between Powell and more hawkish members, the newspaper said. A State Department spokeswoman declined comment on the report. Rice and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz are the leading candidates to replace Powell, The Post reported, citing sources inside and outside the administration. Rice appeared to have an edge because of her closeness to the president, the newspaper said. It cited sources as saying that because Wolfowitz was considered more of a strategic thinker than a manager, he could be tapped as National Security Adviser if Rice became Secretary of State or entered politics. —
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Man held in Chohans murder case London, August 4 54-year-old Kenneth Regan also known as Kenneth Avery, had been apprehended on Saturday and was being held while the authorities seek to extradite him to the UK, a spokesman of the Metropolitan police said. Last week, Peter Rees, 38, of King’s Close, Rowlands Castle, Hampshire, was charged with the murders of 46-year-old Chohan and his 25-year-old wife Nancy. Chohan, the boss of a trucking company with an annual turnover of £ 4 million, vanished in mid-February from his London home with his wife, their sons, Devinder, 19 months, and Ravinder, four months, and Nancy’s mother, Charanjit Kaur, 51. Chohan’s body was discovered washed up near the Bournemouth pier in Dorset by a canoeist on April 22. The body of Nancy was also found in the sea off Dorset. Their two sons and Charanjit Kaur are still missing. —
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13 killed in Afghan blast Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan, August 4 The incident occurred last evening at
Aqcha, a district of Jozjan province not far from the border with Uzbekistan, Mohammad Qoul
Zahri, deputy police chief of Jozjan, said. He said all soldiers were loyal to Abdul Rashid
Dostum, a northern warlord who is also a defence adviser to President Hamid
Karzai. Zahri said they had been loading the weapons during a disarmament drive by Dostum in the province. —
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Israel to launch 3 military satellites Jerusalem, August 4 The head of the Defence Ministry’s space programme, Prof Haim Eshed, said these satellites — OFEK 6-and OFEK 7 and the radar satellite TECHSAR — will be more advanced than OFEK 5, launched by Israel last year and whose performance has been excellent. “Since the Iraq war, there has been a growing understanding that there is no substitute for space and that it is one of the important elements in the conduct of war,’’ Professor Eshed was quoted by Ha’aretz as saying yesterday. The programme will be based on two parallel approaches. First, the development of satellites in a variety of wave lengths enabling photography in the visible field, taking a picture in infra red, hyper spectral photography of colour photographs and three dimensional photographs for mapping and radar photography. Secondly, the development of the next generation of satellite technology for micro (up to 100 kg) and nao (upto 10 kg) sizes. —
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AIDS-infected allowed to marry Beijing, August 3 The bridegroom, Cao Xueling (37), and his 34-year-old bride, Wang Daiying, both from Gongmin town of Zizhong county in the province, took the pioneering step on behalf of thousands of fellow sufferers in the country on Friday. Over 200 guests, including many affected by HIV/AIDS attended the wedding banquet. Sixtyseven residents of Gongmin town have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, including 25 who later died of the disease. All the infections directly or indirectly resulted from the illegal sale of blood in the early 1990s in China’s Henan province. Wang was infected by her former husband, He Yong, who went to Henan with Cao to sell their blood. He died in September, 2002, leaving his wife and an 11-year-old daughter. As the first HIV/AIDS wedding in the community, the ceremony will help reduce discrimination against the victims of the deadly disease, an expert from Sichuan university, Zhang Jianxin said. This kind of marriage had been allowed for the first time since the country’s marriage laws were amended, a daily report said. Under the previous Maternal and Infantile Health Law, introduced in 1995, couples planning to marry had to pass a series of medical tests. Those with sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis and AIDS, were barred from tieing the knot and violators would be punished, the law stated. —
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Sheikh Hasina chargesheeted Dhaka, August 4 The charge sheet was submitted yesterday to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka, after a year-long investigation by the Bureau of Anti-Corruption (BAC). In the charge sheet, the BAC has accused six persons, including the main Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina, of arranging the purchase deal of DW 2000H frigate for the Bangladesh Navy, causing a loss of taka 511.17 crore to the government exchequer. —
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