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Sunday, 25 January 2009 14:54 |
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan formally took control Sunday of the main operational facility of a charity allegedly linked to the Mumbai attacks, underscoring its ongoing effort to ease international pressure over militancy on its soil.
The mostly Muslim nation had already closed or taken over several offices, schools and other properties of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity and detained much of its central leadership. On Sunday, a newly appointed government administrator took over the 75-acre compound in the eastern city of Muridke in Punjab province, where the group has conducted and coordinated much of its business.
India says the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba staged the November attacks that killed 164 people in Mumbai. Soon after, the U.N. declared that Jamaat-ud-Dawa -- popular with many Pakistanis for its relief work -- was a front for Lashkar, prompting Pakistan's crackdown.
Salman Ejaz, a senior official in Punjab province, said all assets and properties of the charity in the province were now under the regional government's control. Most of the assets, offices and operations of the group are in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province.
'The government has appointed an officer as administrator for all the assets,' Ejaz said. 'The schools and the hospitals will keep on working as they are.'
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:42 |
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 By George Friedman
December 8, 2008
In an interview published this Sunday in The New York Times, we laid out a potential scenario for the current Indo-Pakistani crisis. We began with an Indian strike on Pakistan, precipitating a withdrawal of Pakistani troops from the Afghan border, resulting in intensified Taliban activity along the border and a deterioration in the U.S. position in Afghanistan, all culminating in an emboldened Iran. The scenario is not unlikely, assuming India chooses to strike.
Our argument that India is likely to strike focused, among other points, on the weakness of the current Indian government and how it is likely to fall under pressure from the opposition and the public if it does not act decisively. An unnamed Turkish diplomat involved in trying to mediate the dispute has argued that saving a government is not a good reason to go to war. That is a good argument, except that in this case, not saving the government is unlikely to prevent a war, either.
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 15:35 |
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Rescuers on Sunday were still looking for hundreds of people feared trapped in the rubble of homes crushed in a massive rockslide in a northern Cairo, as the toll rose to at least 31 killed and 47 injured.
Witnesses said workers and residents shifted mounds of rubble and rocks during the night in a desperate race to find survivors of Saturday's tragedy, with some estimates putting the number of people still missing at 500.
Huge boulders each weighing "hundreds of tonnes" according to one official, broke off Moqattam hill early Saturday, destroying at least 35 homes in the impoverished and densely populated Manshiyet Nasser neighbourhood.
The section of cliff that broke away was estimated at 60 metres wide and 15 metres long.
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 12:14 |
Pakistan has reportedly blocked a major fuel supply route for Western forces in Afghanistan in response to a raid by US forces in northwest Pakistan earlier this week.
Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, Pakistan's defence minister, said on Saturday: "We have told them that we will take action and we have already taken action today.
"We have stopped the supply of oil and this will tell how serious we are," he told Pakistan's Dawn Television.
Nato has not confirmed the reports.
The fuel supplies have reportedly been blocked from crossing through the main crossing at Torkham on the Pakistani-Afghan border near Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 13:02 |
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The world's tallest building just got taller -- the Burj Dubai tower in the booming Gulf emirate of Dubai has now reached a height of 688 metres (2,257 feet) and is still growing, developers Emaar said on Tuesday.
It now boasts 160 storeys, the highest skyscraper in the world, Emaar said in a statement.
The skyscraper, set for completion in September 2009, is one of several mega projects taking shape in Dubai, which is a member of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE) federation.
Burj Dubai, which was started in 2004, overtook Taiwan's Taipei 101 tower as the world's tallest building when it reached 512 metres (1,533 feet) in April 2007.
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