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JuD has links with Al-Qaida, admits Pakistan
New H1-B rules will choke US of talent: Premji
Pak troops reclaim
Mingora; 25 ultras killed
Nepal Speaker rejects motion against Prez
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US jets deployed in Japan
We will never attack first: Japan
‘India behind conspiracy to restore monarchy’
Gulshan’s killer to be tried in B’desh
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JuD has links with Al-Qaida, admits Pakistan
Lahore, May 30 Submitting his arguments on Saeed - also the founder of Lashkar-e-Toiba 0151 and Col (retd) Nazir Ahmed's petition against their detention, Attorney General Latif Khosa told the Lahore High Court that the government had received "evidence" that showed the JuD "prima facie has links with Al-Qaida." Khosa said the government had "classified information" that would justify the detention of the JuD leaders. On his request, the three-member bench, headed by Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, had a closed-door meeting with him where he apprised them of the classified information in this regard.The court adjourned the hearing till Monday. AK Dogar, counsel for Saeed and Nazir, protested against the in-camera briefing, saying that it was the right of his clients to know about the grounds of their detention. He said if the government had any "legal justification", it must be provided to them as well. Responding to Dogar's statement, Khosa said the judicial review board had extended the detention period of the JuD leaders and also provided legal grounds in this respect. Saeed and his closen aide Nazir were placed under house arrest on December 12 last year, under the Maintenance of Public Order ordinance. The review board of the LHC has set free two other leaders of the JuD - Amir Hamza and Mufti Abdur Rehman - but extended the detention period of Saeed and Nazir for two months (May 9 to July 8) on the same grounds. The United Nations Security Council had imposed a ban on the JuD, the front organisation of Lasker-e-Toiba, after it was blamed for Mumbai attacks of November 26 last year. — PTI
Washington, May 30 The report which is published in two parts, the first dealing with Pakistan’s efforts to develop latest weapons, and second with its survival strategies in a nuclear war, said Islamabad had also developed road-mobile missiles, and strengthened its air defence around strategic nuclear sites. The report also revealed that Pakistan had put up several camouflage measures to safe guard its nuclear assets. —ANI
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New H1-B rules will choke US of talent: Premji
Washington, May 30 “In my opinion it’s a very drastic initiative,” he said in an interview with BusinessWeek, referring to a bill in the US Senate basically preventing firms from hiring H1-Bs in the US or bringing in holders of L1 visas for semi-skilled workers. “It will choke the United States of talent coming in. You will not be able to substitute the absence of this talent with local hires because it’s not easily available,” Premji said.
— IANS
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Pak troops reclaim
Mingora; 25 ultras killed
Islamabad, May 30 Mingora, the administrative and commercial centre of the valley, was occupied by the Taliban earlier this month and the military had vowed to retake the town soon. “The army is in full control of Mingora,” chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said, adding that the militants had resisted when the forces launched operation to secure the city but later they withdrew after realising that they were surrounded from all directions by the army.
—PTI
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Another Blow to Maoists After the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) were forced to step down from the nine-month-old government after losing battle with the Nepal Army, they once again received another blow on Saturday when the Speaker refused to take up their resolution proposal in Parliament for further deliberation. A week after the Maoists registered a resolution proposal against President Dr Ram Baran Yadav’s move to retain the sacked Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal, Speaker Subas Nembang on Saturday rejected the Maoists proposal to take it up in Parliament. At a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the Legislature-Parliament, the Speaker said, “Since there is serious differences among the political parties in Parliament on whether to take up the Maoists proposal in Parliament, I decided not to proceed with the issue in accordance with the past precedents as well.” However, Maoists Deputy Parliament Party leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha said his party would continue its protest in and outside Parliament. “Our party tried to persuade the Speaker and other parties to take up our resolution proposal in Parliament for deliberation and decide its fate there,” he said, adding, “But neither the Speaker nor other parties listened to our genuine concerns. So we are not in condition to let Parliament proceed ahead smoothly in future.” Last Friday, the Maoists had registered the proposal at the Parliament Secretariat requesting the House to issue immediate directive against the President to rollback his move to reinstate the sacked army chief dubbing it as an “unconstitutional move”.
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Kadena, (Japan), May 30
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We will never attack first: Japan
Singapore, May 30 Defence minister Yasukazu Hamada, speaking at a high-level security forum in Singapore, said Tokyo would be transparent with its military hardware purchases in order to prevent any misunderstanding with neighbours. “We have mentioned that North Korea is a threat because of what has happened in the past but unless there are other countries moving to us, we will never start an action as such,” Hamada told delegates at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue on security. “In Japan, we have various and numerous constraints and internationally, we have also made clear that we do not use force in order to resolve conflict situations,” he said. He told the forum Tokyo was looking at a range of weapon procurements, including the F-22 fifth-generation fighter aircraft, but stressed these were “only for the defence of the country as such”. “We would be making clear our intentions so that there is no room for misunderstanding and we will make sure that we explain our intentions very clearly to other countries,” he added. — AFP
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‘India behind conspiracy to restore monarchy’
Kathmandu, May 30 Prachanda said the present CPN-UML-led government is "just a puppet" and efforts are on to "murder the infant republic". "After Madhav Kumar Nepal became the Prime Minister, a conspiracy is being hatched with the help of foreign powers to restore monarchy," Prachanda told a workers' gathering in Lalitpur near here yesterday, the day Nepal observed its first republic day.
— PTI
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Gulshan’s killer to be tried in B’desh
Dhaka, May 30 The police say they want to probe if Merchant was merely hiding from the Mumbai Police or was here on a “mission”. The Detective Branch (DB) of the police yesterday brought Merchant and his two accomplices to Dhaka for interrogation, The Daily Star said today. A professional sharp-shooter, Merchant was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002 for killing music baron Gulshan Kumar. He escaped during a furlough from jail.
— IANS
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