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Saund’s portrait to be unveiled in US Cong
Khan labs gave N-components to
Libya: Book
Imran: Oust Fazl from oppn alliance
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12 ultras held in B’desh
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Saund’s portrait to be unveiled in US Cong
Silicon Valley, October 29 The unveiling ceremony honouring Saund, who was also the first Asian in Congress when he won a seat in 1956 by representing California, will be held on November 7. Born on September 20, 1899, to a Sikh family in Chhajulwadi, Punjab, he came to the US in 1920 to attend the University of California at Berkeley. In 1924 he graduated having earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics. He, thereafter, remained in the US, becoming a successful farmer. However, life was not easy for an Indian in the US in 1920s. Anti-immigrant sentiment was running rampant across the country, as reflected in the passage of laws such as the Quota Immigration Act of 1921, the Cable Act of 1922, and the National Origins Act of 1924. In 1923 the Supreme Court had issued an opinion that Indians while designated as Caucasians were ineligible for citizenship because they were not ‘white’. Subject to prejudice and discrimination, prohibited for owning land he farmed, his American wife having been stripped of her citizenship for marrying an ‘alien’ man, Saund, however, did not waiver in his pursuit of the American dream. He became a founding member and the first president of the India Association of America. The primary task of the Association was to secure citizenship rights for Indians. Building a national organisation, establishing an effective lobby on Capitol Hill, the Association was able to convince Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce of Connecticut and Congressman Emanual Cellar of New York to introduce legislation granting naturalisation rights to the Indians and the Filipinos. The act was signed into law by President Truman in 1946. In 1956 Saund was elected to the US House of Representatives. He served for three Congresses. In May 1962, he suffered a severe stroke which left him unable to speak at all, or walk without assistance, thus ending his congressional career. He returned to California and died on April 22, 1973, in Hollywood. The portrait unveiling is part of the programme to enhance the fine arts collection of the House and to include historically important members of the House. — PTI
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Khan labs gave N-components to
Libya: Book
London, October 29 While the centrifuge components were first sent from Kahuta in Pakistan to Vanderbijlpark in South Africa before forwarding them to Tripoli, "the Libyans showed their visitors canisters at the Al Fallah storage facility in Tripoli that contained 1.7tonne of UF6 gas from Pakistan, a gift to get the Libyan enrichment factory up and running," the book "Deception": Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy" stated. The 586-page book is authored by investigative journalists, Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, who worked as staff writers and foreign correspondents for The Sunday Times before joining The Guardian. An Anglo-American investigating team also discovered worrying evidence that some of what Pakistan had exported had gone missing en route from Dubai to Tripoli. Two shipping containers, one filled with centrifuge components and a ton of high-strength aluminium, the other containing precision tools and parts for two specialised lathes, had last been seen in Turkey and Malaysia shortly before the BBC China container seizure. According to the book, in the early hours of December 12, 2003, as a Mi6-CIA team (British and American intelligence team) walked out to their unmarked plane at Tripoli airport, Libyan officials rushed on to the tarmac.They handed over half a dozen brown envelopes. Inside one were blueprints for a nuclear bomb. Another contained instructions on how to manufacture and assemble a device.They were written in a mixture of English and Chinese.
— PTI
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Imran: Oust Fazl from oppn alliance
Islamabad, October 29 Khan said he would seek expulsion of Maulana Fazl from the APDM for playing a double game on occasion of presidential election. He said the credibility of the alliance would remain suspected if Fazl stays in it. “I am totally at a loss to understand the kind of politics Fazl played before and after the presidential poll,” he said, adding that the wily Maulana played smart strokes keeping everybody guessing about his real designs. The APDM should establish itself as a group comprising genuine opposition parties, he said, while criticising Fazl’s reluctance to tender resignations from assemblies and dissolve the NWFP legislature. Fazl’s close aide Maulana Ghafoor Haidry reacted sharply to Imran’s campaign against Fazl and accused him of acting with the blessing of Gen Musharraf to sow discord in the opposition. He said the JUI would demand Imran’s expulsion from the APDM failing which it would review its own association with the opposition alliance.
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Indian attempts suicide over salary prank
Dubai, October 29 One of the victim’s friends said their company usually paid salaries to the employees on the third of each month, Gulf News reported. However, the boy was obvious of the fact and his colleagues enjoyed the game by teasing him. The boy panicked and even tried to meet the manager to check if he would be paid or not. One of his colleagues said he disappeared in the afternoon. They searched for him everywhere and later found him in a room of the office bleeding and unconscious.
— UNI
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12 ultras held in B’desh
Bangladesh’s security forces arrested 12 militants, with suspected ties with the Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami (HuJI), in connection with an assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2004. The arrests follow confessions by three detained HuJI militants, including its leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, of the group’s involvement in the grenade attacks on Hasina on August 21, 2004, that killed at least 25 persons. Bangladesh’s elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) made the arrests during a countrywide operation late Sunday night, said A.K. Azad, head of the RAB’s media wing.
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