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Prabhakaran’s son hurt: Lankan military
Why NATO is not winning in Afghanistan
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Pakistan ex-minister’s house blown up
‘Influential capitals’ back Sharif’s return to power: Report
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Prabhakaran’s son hurt: Lankan military
The Sri Lanka military said on Wednesday that it could confirm that Charles Anthony, the son of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had been injured two weeks ago in a confrontation with government forces at Puthukudyirripu in the northern Mullaithivu district.
Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara said Charles Anthony got injured in a clash that took place after troops moved into an area where LTTE cadres were present upon receiving intelligence reports that several of the groups leaders were operating in the area. However even though it was suspected that the LTTE leader’s son was among the injured in that confrontation, military intelligence could confirm this fact only on Wednesday, he said. Meanwhile, Brigadier Nanayakara said the LTTE’s technical wing chief S Kirupakaran alias Madivalahan was killed following a confrontation with troops in Mullaithivu on Tuesday. According to available information, LTTE has conferred ‘Lt Colonel’ rank to their slain comrade on Tuesday. He was reportedly the mastermind and chief coordinator of the LTTE’s satellite cum radio communication network. Meanwhile, defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told journalists the LTTE had been militarily defeated by 99 per cent. Government sources say that within the next three weeks, troops should oust the LTTE from the last remaining areas under their control. PTI adds: ‘The Bottom Line’ newspaper reported that Charles, “seriously wounded in artillery fire”, was taken by the LTTE cadres to the no fire zone (NFZ). Presently, Prabhakaran’s doctor is said to be treating Charles.
“An LTTE leader, S Ramachandran (code name within the LTTE and Tamil diaspora loyal to the LTTE), living in Toronto, Canada, received this information via e-mail,” the report said. “Ramachandran is believed to be collecting funds from the Tamil diaspora in Canada. He is a relative of Prabhakaran’s wife, Madhivadani. The e-mail further stated that Prabhakaran is very concerned about his son’s injuries,” the paper said.
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Why NATO is not winning in Afghanistan
Kabul, April 1 It did not take him long to realise that the catastrophe was not caused by thunder or an earthquake, but by a bomb dropped from a NATO military airplane. Jan's brother, his mother, his young daughter and his three nephews were killed in a NATO airstrike that hit their home in Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province in the late spring of 2008. He and some members of his family survived the attack because the bomb destroyed only one part of his house. "Eight or nine hours before the bombardment, there was a clash between the Taliban and foreigners, but when my house was bombed there was no fighting or Taliban in the area," Jan said. Like hundreds of families, who left their homes for safer places, because of mounting NATO airstrikes, today Jan and his family live in a makeshift camp in the western outskirts of Kabul. "I could not wait and see the rest of my family die in aerial bombardments," Jan said, adding: "Thousands of people were killed after we left the area, so if I had stayed, God knows, if any of us would have lived by now." "I would be more than happy to see the Taliban are back to power, at least I can go back to my home and live a peaceful life, the way I did in Taliban's time," Jan said. "The foreign forces have lost the war here, it is just a matter of when the Taliban throw them out of this country," Jan said. "I am the only breadwinner for this big family, otherwise I would have already joined the Taliban and would have taken my revenge." More than 2,000 civilians were killed last year, nearly 40 percent of them at the hands of NATO-led troops and their newly trained Afghan army comrades, according to a UN report. — DPA
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Pakistan ex-minister’s house blown up
Islamabad, April 1 Ameer Muqam and his family members were not present in the house at the time of the incident, the report cited unnamed sources as saying. The gunmen had asked two of the minister’s aides to leave the house. The former minister later said that the restoration of peace in the Swat valley has been difficult as Taliban militants have continued their illegal activities. — IANS
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‘Influential capitals’ back Sharif’s return to power: Report
Islamabad, April 1 “Some leading world capitals, evincing a keen interest in reshaping Pakistan’s political scene, want the PML-N to rejoin the federal cabinet and take over key economic ministries,” The News said in a report headlined “Key capitals want PML-N to rejoin federal cabinet”. Quoting sources, The News said the interior ministry could be “offered” to the PML-N “as the country’s establishment is not comfortable with the present arrangement, as far as this particular portfolio is concerned”. Pakistan witnessed three major terror attacks last month. On March 3, militants ambushed a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team to the Gaddafi Stadium, injuring seven players and the team’s assistant coach. Six security personnel and two civilians were also killed. On March 27, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the restive Khyber agency along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, killing 50 people. On March 30, a group of heavily armed militants stormed into the Manawan police training school on the outskirts of Lahore and held over 400 trainees hostage for more than eight hours before Pakistani security forces recaptured the complex. Eighteen people died in the incident. — IANS
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