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Haq is caretaker foreign minister
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militants killed
Aaj, Dawn news channels back
Jemima starts movement
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Kanishka Probe
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Haq is caretaker foreign minister
Former foreign secretary Inamul Haq was sworn in as caretaker foreign minister while ex-adviser Salman Shah took over finance minister in the 24-member caretaker cabinet installed by President Musharraf to oversee general elections due to be held in the first week of January. Inam had served as ambassadors in China, Turkey and United Nations and was also as foreign office spokesman. Senator Nisar A. Memon is the new information minister, a position he also had in the interim government in 1993 and Musharraf’s first cabinet after the 1999 coup. Here is the list of cabinet members and their portfolios: Shahzada Alam Mannu - commerce and textile industry, Dr Abdullah Reyar - information technology, Inamul Huque - foreign affairs, Dr Salman Shah -finance, economic affairs, revenue and statistics, Barrister Habibur Rahman - communication, Nisar A. Memon - information and broadcasting, Salim Abbas Jilani - defence and defence production, Sikandar Jogezai - culture and sports, Dr Shams K Lakha -education, science and technology, Prince Essa Jan - food, agriculture and livestock, Nisar Ghaman - labour, manpower and overseas Pakistanis, Raja Tridev Roy - minority affairs, Ehsanullah Khan - petroleum and natural resources, Salman Taseer - industry and production, Ansar Burny - human rights, Lala Nisar Muhammad Khan - housing and works, Syed Wajid H. Bukhari - environment, local government, Dr Faheem Ansari - ports and shipping, Hamid Nawaz Khan - interior affairs and anti-narcotics, Dr Ataullah Taunsa Sharif - religious affairs, zakat and ushr, Abbas Sarfaraz Khan - frontier and northern areas, Barrister Shahida Jamil - women development, Syed Afzal Haider - law, justice and parliamentary affairs, and Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif - tourism and youth affairs.
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Mush ‘order’ to Mush
Islamabad, November 16 “The change in the PCO is meant to leave it to the President to alter the PCO, and decide its fate as well as that of the Emergency,” Attorney General Malik Qayyum told mediapersons here. But a prominent leader of the lawyers’ movement, Athar Minullah, termed it as a preventive step by Gen. Musharraf as he quits the Army post under intense domestic and foreign pressure. “He has attempted to deny the incoming Army chief the powers Musharraf had illegally arrogated to himself for imposing martial law and suspending the Constitution to replace it with his own PCO,” he said. Previously the powers were with the Army chief but since Musharraf is thinking of giving up the post, the first Amendment to the PCO was made on Thursday, Malik said.
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Islamabad, November 16 Militant commander Matiullah was killed in the shelling and his second-in-command, Muhammad Ali, was missing and feared dead, military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said. Over 130 persons, most of them militants, have died since the army launched an operation four days ago to evict armed followers of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who have over-run most towns and villages in Swat before beginning a push into nearby Shangla district. Troops closed several roads today to prevent the movement of rebels as Cobra helicopter gunships hit militants concentrated near Kuza Banda, Najia Top and its foot hills.
— PTI
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Islamabad, November 16 Aaj TV, which returned to cable networks along with Dawn News yesterday, has not been allowed to broadcast two of its popular talk shows --- "Live with Talat" and "Bolta Pakistan". "Live with Talat" was hosted daily by senior journalist Talat Hussain and showed the "facts behind the news". "Live everyday from the seat of power comes a show that avoids the clutter and focuses only on what's important. The show brings in-depth analysis of the day's biggest event conducted by Pakistan's most trusted social and political intellectuals," is how Aaj describes the show. But both "Live with Talat" and "Bolta Pakistan" have been very critical of the government. "Bolta Pakistan", also a daily show, was a "live forum where the people of Pakistan can call in to share their views or voice their concerns". — PTI
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Jemima starts movement
Islamabad, November 16 Jemima, who spent 10 years in Pakistan, is being backed by Pakistani-origin journalists, students, lawyers and doctors in Britain. The organisation will hold protests on a daily basis in London and other parts of the UK against what she calls "Gen Pervez Musharraf's second martial law".
— PTI
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Kanishka Probe
Toronto, November 16 “If someone implicates me or gets me arrested for planting the bomb, that person would have been an insider,” Talwinder Singh Parmar reportedly said in the intelligence tape recording. He said, "How any other person can do it who doesn't know anything?" The gathering at Parmar's Burnaby house was surreptitiously recorded by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which passed on the information to the RCMP and revealed it publicly for the first time yesterday at the Ottawa inquiry. The apparent admission of responsibility came three weeks after Inderjit Singh Reyat was charged in February 1988 in the Narita bombing on June 23, 1985, which occurred less than an hour before the AI Flight 182 was blown out of the sky. Both bombs were traced back to a group of Sikh separatists headed by Parmar. Former CSIS officer Mervin Grierson said all those who listened to the statement said Parmar was basically warning those in his inner circle. “We thought it was fairly significant that at a meeting like that he would make a statement like that,” Grierson testified. “In our interpretation he was basically saying, 'If I am arrested for planting that bomb....that quite clearly suggested that somebody in this room would have told someone,” he added. — PTI
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Bipasha sexiest Asian woman
London, November 16 Legendary Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, 42, was the runner-up while last year's winner Priyanka Chopra, 25, was placed third by Eastern Eye newspaper. The top 10 women are - Bipasha Basu, Madhuri Dixit, Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai, Laila Rouass, Shilpa Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Lara Dutta and Iman Ali. Brit babes on the 2007 list include Laila Rouass (5), Amrita Hunjan (20), Sophie (33), Pooja Shah (36), Konnie Huq (40) M I A (42) Parminder Nagra (43), Bat for Lashes (46), Selina Soopramanien (47) and Anjlee Desai (48).
— PTI
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