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Marking day of their fall, Taliban let loose terror
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Violence in B’desh as ex-PM evicted from house
Pak judge changed for third time in 26/11 trial
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Marking day of their fall, Taliban let loose terror
Jalalabad (Afghanistan), November 13 The attacks seem to send a clear message to NATO leaders who will gather for a summit in Lisbon next week that the security question in Afghanistan is still far from resolved, and that the Taliban remain a formidable enemy. The spike in violence could not come at a worse time for European NATO leaders, who are feeling increasing pressure at home amid the sagging support for the drawn-out war. Today’s attacks in Jalalabad, Kunduz and Kunar also came on the day that marked the ninth anniversary of the Taliban being overthrown in Kabul by the US-backed Afghan forces for harbouring Al-Qaida before the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The spike in violence also comes as US President Barack Obama is due to review his Afghanistan war strategy next month. Analysts say that the Taliban have proved in the past that they can time attacks to coincide with important events elsewhere in the world and that a sudden jump in such attacks would not be surprising given the high stakes. They could at the same time be looking to position themselves as a legitimate ruling force again after holding off the West's military strategy for the past nine years. In Jalalabad, at least eight insurgents, including two suicide bombers, attacked a forward operating base run by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which shares the main airport in the key eastern city near Pakistan. Afghan and ISAF troops responded after coming under small-arms fire, the coalition said. It said no Afghan or ISAF troops were killed during the attack. In Kunduz, a bomb hidden on a motorcycle killed at least 10 civilians, including three children, and wounded 18, a district official and the Interior Ministry said. — Reuters
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Violence in B’desh as ex-PM evicted from house Army says action prompted by HC order; Oppn protests ‘undemocratic move’
Violence erupted in more than 20 other towns and dozens of people were injured in clashes with the police. Around 50 persons were injured in Serajganj, about 150 km northwest of Dhaka, local television channels reported. At least three persons were killed and five injured in the suicide bomb attack near Khustia, 300 km west of Dhaka, the police stated. The bomb was detonated at the residence of Afaz Uddin, an Awami League MP. The police would not say whether they thought the attack was related to the widespread violence over Khaleda's eviction from her home. According to the police and witnesses, about 4,000 armed protesters set fire to vehicles and attacked officers near the headquarters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party of Khaleda. Several thousand protesters skirmished with the police close to Khaleda’s residence in the garrison area, and the clashes intensified as security forces cordoned off the building shortly before a high court deadline for her to vacate the house.Khaleda later told a news conference she had been forcibly evicted from the house where she had lived for 40 years. “They entered my bedroom and ransacked the furniture. They even beat my personal staff,” Khaleda said. Khaleda's residence in a sprawling compound was leased to her by the government in 1982, after her husband, former president General Ziaur Rahman, was killed in an abortive coup.The BNP later called for a one-day strike.“To protest the (eviction) order we have called for a countrywide dawn to dusk general strike on Sunday,” BNP secretary-general Khondaker Delwar Hossain told journalists. The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry asked the BNP to call off the strike. — Reuters
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Pak judge changed for third time in 26/11 trial
Islamabad, November 13 Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed, who took over the case from Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan, was briefed on developments in the trial. Following this, he reserved his verdict on the government's petition to send a commission to India to interview 24 witnesses, including the lone surviving attacker Ajmal Kasab. The prosecution informed the court that it could not serve or enforce arrest warrants issued for Kasab and Fahim Ansari, who are currently in the custody of Indian authorities. The prosecution also told the judge that Indian authorities had refused to hand over the two key witnesses and they could not be tried in Pakistan along with the seven suspects.
— PTI
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