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15 Pak troops, 35 Al-Qaida men killed Islamabad, June 11 The early-morning strike, as part of a continued offensive by Pakistan army to flush out militants from the tribal region, triggered a fierce gun battle between the government forces and Qaida-backed fighters. “Today we responded appropriately to the latest unprovoked attacks by the terrorists,” Pakistan army spokesman General Shaukat Sultan said. “As a result of the fight that ensued, the miscreants lost over 35 men, whereas the security forces lost 15. The government was left with no choice but to respond to establish its writ and eliminate these foreign elements,” the Pakistan military said in a separate statement. Reports about the operation, which is in its third day, said the army was targeting the hideouts with artillery and mortars and helicopters were seen carrying out regular sorties in the area. “The foreign elements, along with their accomplices, had not only taken the local population hostage but were also a nuisance for the entire area. They forcibly occupied a civilian compound and used women and children as human shield and the security forces had to respond in self-defence,” the statement said. The army, however, would not give more details about the attack and said “following the provocation and terrorist activities of foreign elements, the Pakistan security forces are appropriately responding against the known and confirmed hideouts of miscreants.” The government had recently offered amnesty to the “local facilitators” in return for their surrender and asked the foreign elements to register and live peacefully in the country. But the militants had rejected the offer. “These local facilitators started taking undue advantages from this amnesty in order to draw personal benefits at the cost of their fellow tribesmen,” the statement said, adding “the foreign elements, betrayed the trust, abused the government’s sincere effort to arrange for their registration and targeted the position of security forces with unprovoked firing on June 9.
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Blair loses support in first test post Iraq London, June 11 Blair and his ministers acknowledged that the deeply divisive war cast a shadow over campaigning for the local council elections in England and Wales, as well as for EU lawmakers. “There is clearly a strong protest vote, and we have to take account of what people are telling us,’’ Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell said as results came in early today. “Iraq is certainly a factor.’’ Iraq, as well as domestic issues, concerned voters as the 25 nations of the recently expanded European Union began electing legislators, a four-day process that started yesterday in Britain and the Netherlands and continued today in Ireland and the Czech Republic. While Britain’s results in the EU vote will not be clear until Sunday, the local vote showed a stinging backlash to Blair, whose popularity has slumped amid lingering doubts about his judgment and truthfulness.
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Washington, June 11 Mr Pradeep K. Khosla, who did his B.Tech (Hons) from IIT Kharagpur, is presently the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics and head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the university. He will take charge of his new post on July 1, a university press note said. He succeeds John L. Anderson, who left in April to become provost of Case Western Reserve University. A member of the College of Engineering faculty since 1986, Mr Khosla did his MS and Ph.D from the university. He was a founding director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems in 1997, the Center for Computer and Communications Security in 2001, and CyLab in 2003, a university-level multidisciplinary research centre that focuses on technology, policy and management issues in measurable, available, secure, sustainable and trustworthy computing communication systems. “Pradeep Khosla’s wide-ranging experience in research, teaching and creating meaningful partnerships with business and industry makes him an excellent choice to lead our College of Engineering. Based on our past experience with his work, we expect great things of Pradeep,” university President Jared L. Cohon said in his remarks. Pradeep’s research covers a broad spectrum, including a focus on cutting-edge technologies related to collaborating and distributed autonomous robotics systems, software composition and reconfigurable software for real-time embedded systems, and secure embedded software and information systems. Mr Khosla has received numerous awards, including the Inlaks Foundation Fellowship; the Carnegie Institute of Technology Ladd award for excellence in research; two NASA Tech Brief awards; the ASEE George Westinghouse Award for Education; the SiliconIndia Leadership award for Excellence in Academics and Technology; and the W Wallace McDowell award from the IEEE Computer Society.
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Americans pay tributes to Reagan Washington, June 11 At least 2,000 people an hour filed slowly past the flag-draped coffin in the Capitol Rotunda, some of them waiting seven hours. After the pomp and circumstance of Wednesday’s stately procession, when Mr Reagan’s body slowly made its way through Washington on a horse-drawn military carriage, it was a day for ordinary Americans to show their respects.
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Dog terror unleashed on Iraqi prisoners: report
Washington, June 11 A military intelligence interrogator also told investigators that two dog handlers at the prison were ‘’having a contest’’ to see how many detainees they could make involuntarily urinate out of fear of the dogs, the Post said, citing statements obtained by newspaper. Six US soldiers face possible courts martial and one has already been jailed for a year because of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, where photographs have shown detainees being sexually humiliated, physically tormented and threatened with dogs. Two army dog handlers assigned to Abu Ghraib, Sgt. Michael Smith and Sgt. Santos Cardona, told investigators that military intelligence personnel asked them to bring their dogs to prison interrogation sites numerous times to help question detainees in December and January, to Post reported.
According to the report, Mr Smith and Mr Cardona said they complied with the requests because they believed the tactics had been approved by Col. Thomas Pappas, the military intelligence officer in charge of the prison.— Reuters |
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