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foils bid to kill Pak PM Two
arrested for murder of Indian American student N. Korea
threatens to strengthen N-deterrent force
India’s
plea to extradite Quattrocchi rejected Maoists
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Police foils bid to kill Pak PM
Karachi, April 1 “The big target was the Prime Minister,” Inspector Amjad Kayani told Reuters. The man, found with about 6 kg of explosives, a hand grenade, several detonators and bomb-making material, had planned to plant a bomb under a bridge, he said. Jamali had arrived in Karachi on Wednesday for a two-day visit. He was due to leave later on Thursday. President Pervez Musharraf survived two bomb assassination attempts in December. The police arrested Naeem Baloch of outlawed Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi early today, said Muneer Sheikh, a police bomb disposal official. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is linked to high-profile terror attacks in Pakistan on Western targets, government officials and religious minorities, including Shi’ite Muslims and Christians. In February, the police said it had foiled an assault planned by two key Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants in Karachi.
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Two arrested for murder of Indian American student New York, April 1 According to reports reaching here, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s fugitive task force arrested Frankie Sylvestri, 22, in the early hours of March 29 after lying in wait outside an Orlando apartment
complex. Sylvestri was arrested on a tip-off from an informant. Dagly, 21, was beaten up and repeatedly stabbed in his car by two men with whom he had been at a party on March 24. Sgt. Keith Kameg of Gainesville Police Department said on telephone that with the arrest of Sylvestri and Daniel Pistorino, 20, who was nabbed a day-and-a-half after the murder, the police are satisfied that they have in custody the only two suspects they were looking for. No further arrest was expected, Kameg said. Kameg said Pistorino and Sylvestri were at a party with Dagly at a Gainesville apartment at about 2 a.m. on March 24. Later, the three got into Dagly’s car, where they might have gotten into an argument about money that Sylvestri owed to Dagly. While the police was reconstructing the details, Kameg said both physical evidence and Pistorino’s disclosures had tied the duo to the murder. Lot of blood was found in Dagly’s car, which was driven to a remote area near railroad tracks. Pistorino has talked to the police, Kameg said, noting that he was a witness to the stabbing and that he helped Sylvestri to drive the car and dump Dagly’s body near the tracks. They bought an accelerant with which they set fire to the car, hoping to destroy evidence. Dagly’s family in Davie could not be reached. A family friend, Lata Joshi, was quoted in the local press as saying that the Dagly’s parents were too disconsolate to talk to anyone.
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N. Korea threatens to strengthen N-deterrent force Seoul, April 1 The North’s official KCNA news agency, citing unnamed military sources, accused the USA of conducting over 220 spy flights against the communist state in March. “Such aerial espionage frantically committed by the US imperialists with the whole area of South Korea as an operation theatre clearly proves how urgent our strengthening of self-defensive nuclear deterrent force is,” KCNA said. The US military does not comment on the claims on spy flights, although it acknowledges monitoring North Korean military activity. The allegation came a day after a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman condemned a US plan to deploy a destroyer, fitted with sophisticated surveillance equipment, in Japanese waters off the Korean Peninsula in September as part of a ballistic missile defense system. The spokesman, quoted by KCNA, slammed the move as “the most outright hostile act” against the North. North Korea “will increase its nuclear deterrent force in every way and take a decisive countermeasure for self-defense when necessary in order to avert a war and defend peace in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia,” he said.
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USA to stick to June 30 deadline in Iraq Washington, April 1 The four, yesterday ambushed by guerrillas as they drove through the Iraqi town of Falluja, worked for a private company called Blackwater USA that uses former U.S. elite special operations forces to provide security services around the world. A crowd of Iraqis set their vehicles ablaze, hurled stones into the burning wreckage and dragged the charred and mutilated bodies through the streets of the town, a center of resistance to the US-led occupation 50 km west of Baghdad. Television footage of a similar incident in Somalia sickened Americans over the U.S. mission there and was a factor in the decision to pull U.S. forces out of the African state. U.S. networks showed edited film of yesterday’s killings but did not include scenes of the bodies being dragged through the streets. The White House said the attack, and a separate incident in which five U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb near their convoy west of Baghdad, would not deter the USA from seeking to establish democracy in Iraq following the U.S. invasion that toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. “These are horrific attacks by people who are trying to prevent democracy from moving forward, but democracy is taking root,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan, vowing that the USA would stick to a June 30 deadline to hand over power to an undefined transitional Iraqi government.
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India’s plea to extradite Quattrocchi rejected Kuala Lumpur, April 1 A three-man Bench rejected India’s appeal made through Malaysian prosecutors yesterday. “With all things considered, we can only conclude that we are in agreement with the Court of Appeal on its findings. We will, therefore, hold that no appeal lies in this court,” the Federal Court said. Quattrocchi had been informed of the decision, said Muhammad Shafee.
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Maoists kidnap over 1,000 Kathmandu, April 1 More than 500 persons were abducted from the Kailashmandu area alone and more than 150 from the Kuldevmandu area, the paper quoted local people as saying. This is the largest mass abduction in the country since the insurgency began in 1996. More than 9,000 persons have been killed in the nine-year-long insurgency.
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