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26/11 Dossier
JuD back under new garb
LTTE has lost control of sea power: Lanka
Hundreds more flee war zone
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Myanmar not to shelter NE rebels
Recession could lead to role-reversal in US society: Report
Pak army kills 52 militants in Khyber region
Eminent Pak scribe Khalid Hasan dead
Give women rights, Saudi Arabia told
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26/11 Dossier
Lahore, February 6 The Prime Minister said the report will be made public on Monday or Tuesday. He did not give further details. Turning to the Kashmir problem, Gilani said Pakistan is not silent on issue and wants it to be resolved in accordance with the “wishes” of the Kashmiris. Gilani had earlier said in Islamabad that Pakistan was conducting a “proper” inquiry into the Mumbai attacks, of which “transparency” would be “a focal point.” “We are conducting the inquiry and very soon we will inform India (about our findings),” he said yesterday. “We have assured the world that we are conducting a full investigation into the Indian dossier on the Mumbai attacks. As soon as we receive the final point of view of the Law Ministry, we will take the whole nation, the world and India into confidence,” Gilani had said. He had said his government had taken steps to ensure the transparency of the investigation into the Indian dossier.
— PTI
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JuD back under new garb
Islamabad, February 6 Thousands of JuD supporters, waving the group’s black and white flag and shouting slogans, joined a conference held yesterday to mark ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ at the Mall, one of Lahore’s main thoroughfares. The supporters, who came from various districts of Punjab province, gathered under the banner of ‘Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmir’, a “temporary” new organisation floated by JuD, Daily Times reported today. The JuD activists chose the new name during a meeting of leaders from across the country, which was held at Markazul Qadsia at Chauburji in Lahore on Sunday, sources privy to the meeting told the newspaper. A “permanent new name” for the JuD is yet to be finalised as the group continues its activism on various issues under different names, an operative said. A JuD movement to protest recent Israeli attacks on Gaza was carried out in the name of ‘Tehrik-e-Qibla-e-Awwal’. JuD operatives holding the group’s flag stood at various spots in Lahore yesterday to welcome supporters arriving from other districts to join the rally and to collect donations. Donors were given receipts issued in the name of JuD’s Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF). The receipts bore the address “Department of Revenue, Markazul Qadsia, Chauburji, Lahore”. Telephone numbers were also printed on the receipts. “The FIF is a Jamaat-ud-Dawa trust but it has not been banned,” a JuD member said. Another FIF activist, who identified himself as Hamza, claimed the foundation was not linked to the JuD and had been working for the “independence” of Kashmir for a long time. But he did not respond when he was asked why he was carrying a JuD flag. A spokesman for the JuD, who did not want to be named, said most of the participants in the rally carried his group’s flag but the ‘Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmir’ was a “joint forum of various political and religious parties”. A statement e-mailed to the Daily Times by the JuD said speakers in yesterday’s rally included acting JuD chief Hafiz Abdulssalam Bin Muhammad and political affairs head Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki. Other speakers at the rally were Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmir Chairman Hafiz Saifullah Mansoor, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader Amjad Khan, Terhrik-e-Khaksar’s Hamidudin Mashraki and Muttahida Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadis leader Naeem Badshal. Police official Taimoor Malik said 10 reserve forces were deployed to ensure law and order in Lahore during the four-hour protest.
— PTI
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LTTE has lost control of sea power: Lanka
The Sri Lanka government claimed on Friday that with the military taking control of the last sea Tiger base at Chalai in the northern Mullaithivu district, the rebels had lost total control of their sea power.
Troops seized control of the Chalai base after five days of intense fighting on Friday, dealing a severe blow to LTTE’s sea unit, which for years had carried out suicide attacks on the Sri Lanka Navy and other vessels causing intense damage, a military spokesman said. As the final phases of the fighting continues with troops pushing to gain control of the last remaining areas under the Tigers, there is growing pressure on the government and the LTTE to ensure that civilians caught up in the fighting are unharmed. President Mahinda Rajapakse himself spoke to the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon on Thursday night over the telephone and assured him that military operations against the Tigers would be carried out without harassment to the civilian population in the north. However, the government maintained that it would not stop the military action against the LTTE despite whatever pressure was put up on it by the international community. “There is a conspiracy by certain persons to stop the war against the LTTE, but that will not succeed,” the defence spokesman added.
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Hundreds more flee war zone
Colombo, February 6 “Today, 600 people have come up until now,” military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said. On Thursday, 1,637 escaped the fighting, he said.
— Reuters
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Myanmar not to shelter NE rebels
Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar), February 6 The junta’s assurance came after visiting Vice-President Hamid Ansari raised the security issue stemming from reports of insurgents taking shelter in Myanmar which shares border with the north-eastern states of Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland during a meeting with Gen Maung Aye, the number two in ruling military regime yesterday. On the second day of his four-day visit to Myanmar, Ansari held “extremely comprehensive” talks with the head of military junta Gen Than Shwe here today after which the two countries took “concrete decisions” to enhance cooperation in security, hydrocarbon and power sectors and agreed to widen its ambit to agriculture and railways. At the delegation-level talks between the two sides, which followed a brief one-to-one meeting between Ansari and Gen Aye yesterday, the Myanmarese side acknowledged India’s security concerns but conveyed that north-east insurgents would not be permitted to use its territory to target India, sources said. Since India began engaging Myanmarese military junta, there has been cooperation between security forces of the two countries in flushing out north-eastern insurgents. — PTI
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Recession could lead to role-reversal in US society: Report
New York, February 6 According to a report in “New York Times”, 82 pc of the total job losses have befallen on men, leading to a slight rise in the percentage of families supported by women. The proportion of working women has changed very little since the recession. But with maximum layoffs of men, the fairer sex is poised to surpass them in the nation’s payrolls, taking them to a majority for the first time in American history, the report said. “Given how stark and concentrated the job losses are among men, and that women represented a high proportion of the labour force in the beginning of the recession, women are now bearing the burden or the opportunity, one could say of being breadwinners,” Heather Boushey, a senior economist at the Centre for American Progress, is quoted as saying. The men, the NYT says, are heavily represented in distressed industries like manufacturing and construction. Women tend to be employed in the areas like education and healthcare, which are less sensitive to economic ups and down and in jobs that allow more time for childcare and other domestic work. — PTI
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Pak army kills 52 militants in Khyber region Islamabad, February 6 “Frontier Corp troops killed 52 militants, targeted five hideouts and destroyed an ammunition dump and eight vehicles in Chapri Feroze Khel in Khyber,” a senior security official involved in the operation said. Another security official said the death toll was “at least 52 and could be more”. The tolls were impossible to verify independently in the remote and dangerous region, where Pakistani troops are battling Taliban militants to secure the Khyber for trucks to carry supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan. — AFP
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Eminent Pak scribe Khalid Hasan dead
Eminent Pakistani journalist and writer Khalid Hasan died of cancer in Washington on Friday. Hasan (76) was author of 35 books. He will be best remembered for his English translation of the short stories of Saadat Hasan Manto and lyrics of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. He worked for country’s top newspapers and also served in different diplomatic positions.
Hasan was the first press secretary of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1972-73. He also featured in an interview in the famous documentary “Islamic Bomb” in which he gave details of Bhutto’s efforts to launch Pakistan’s nuclear programme. Currently, Hasan was filing from Washington for Daily Times and weekly news magazine Friday Times.
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Give women rights, Saudi Arabia told
Geneva, February 6 Britain, Canada, Switzerland and Israel challenged Riyadh on issues, including its high number of executions. Saudi Arabia executes murderers, rapists and drug traffickers, usually by public beheading, and judges sometimes give the death sentence to armed robbers and those convicted of ‘sorcery’ or desecrating the Koran. A Saudi delegation defended its record at the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying the country was cracking down on domestic violence by men who abused their roles as guardians and beat their wives and children.
— Reuters
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