PATNA: A Bihar jail is ready to provide the right rope to hang Mohammed Afzal, who has been sentenced to death for the 2001 terror attack on Parliament.
The Buxar Central Jail, 100 km from Patna, has a history of providing the special Manila ropes spun in the jail premises to hang convicts. The rope costs Rs 180 a kilo. We are ready to send the rope if a demand is made, a jail official said.
Afzal, a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist, has been sentenced to hang on October 20 at the Tihar Jail in New Delhi. But protests are gathering momentum in Jammu and Kashmir against his hanging and he can seek clemency from President APJ Abdul Kalam.
When Dhananjay Chatterjee, accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old, was hanged at the Alipore jail in Kolkata in 2004, the rope was supplied by Buxar Jail.
There are varieties of ropes made by Buxar inmates - tent rope, handcuff rope and hanging rope. The count of the yarn indicates its finesse.
A lot of hard work goes into the making of the Manila rope. First the yarn is spun into a thick thread from J-34 variety of cotton. Then the thread is smoothened by soft wax. While making the rope it is important to ensure there are no knots in the thread, the official added.
According to the jail records, the rope was supplied to the Andhra Pradesh government in 2003. A consignment was also sent in 1995 to the Bhagalpur Central Jail where a dozen convicts who are sentenced to death are lodged. The demand for the hanging rope has decreased over the years as the number of cases of hanging has reduced, jail superintendent I H Ansari said.
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Acting on behalf of the International Islamic Front (IIF) for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People, which is headed by Osama bin Laden, the Markaz-ud-Dawa (MUD) of Pakistan, which is the political wing of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), is reported to have issued a Fatwa calling upon the Muslims to kill Pope Benedict XVI for a recent speech of his delivered on September 12,2006, which has been projected as anti-Islam by Al Qaeda and other jihadi terrorist organisations of the world.
2. The issue of the MUD fatwa came a few days before the latest video message of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's No.2, in which he has made a severe attack on the Pope.
3. A report on the the MUD Fatwa to kill the Pope has been carried by the Pakistani journal "Ausaf" in its issue dated September 18,2006. It has reported as follows:
"Pakistan's Jamaat-ud-Dawa has issued a Fatwa asking the Muslim community to kill Pope Benedict for his blasphemous statement about Prophet Mohammad. The Jamaat-ud-Dawa has declared death to Pope Benedict and said that in today's world blasphemy of the Holy Koran and the Prophet has become a fashion. The leaders of the Jamaat were speaking at a Martyrs' Islamic Conference in Karachi. Prominent Jamaat leader Hafiz Saifullah Khalid said that in the present circumstances, jehad has become obligatory for each Muslim. Muslims are being declared terrorists and our battle for survival has already started. The Muslim world has rejected the Pope's apology and decided to continue protests and demonstrations in big cities. The Pope's apology is just a drama and no political leader has any power to pardon him. It is part of a crusade initiated by the US in the name of terrorism. Instead of accepting fake apologies, Muslims should realise Europe's enemity towards Islam and Muslim Ummah should prepare itself to defend its faith. Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Abdur Rahman Makki said the West and Europe have started a campaign against the Holy Koran and the Prophet and have abused jehad. We should take appropriate steps to deal with the champions of crusade. It is time for Muslim leaders to open their eyes and understand that the West had never been a friend of the Muslims and will never be so."
4. In his video message disseminated through the Internet on September 29,2006, Zawahiri called Pope Benedict XVI a "charlatan" and stated that the Pope "accused Islam of being incompatible with rationality while forgetting that his own Christianity is unacceptable to a sensible mind."
5.The LET has secret cells in the UK and France, but there is no confirmed information of any LET activity in Italy so far. It is likely that the task of executing this Fatwa might be entrusted to one of its cells in the UK or France.
6. The US State Department categorises the JUD as well as the LET as terrorist organisations. President General Pervez Musharraf has rejected the US categorisation of the JUD as a terrorist organisation. He treats it as an Islamic charity organisation, which, according to him, has been doing humanitarian relief work in Pakistan and he asserts that it has nothing to do with the LET. The media had recently reported that a move in the UN Security Council to order the freezing of the accounts of the JUD under the Security Council Resolution No.1373 failed because of Chinese opposition. According to the media, China supported Pakistan's contention that the JUD is not a terrorist organisation. The Security Council acts as the Monitoring Committee for monitoring the implementation of the UNSC Resolution No.1373. The JUD issue has come up before it in its capacity as the Monitoring Committee.
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So they are going to kill the Pope because he suggested Islam is inherently a violent religion. In Arabic, the word for 'irony' must be a synonym for metallic.
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I posted on this subject a few weeks back when I first started reading about muzzie death threats against the Pope. I'm going to post again.
In 1981 a turkish muzzie attempted to murder JPII. That muzzie (and all his muzzie brethern) got a pass because the attempted murder was traced to the behest of the Bulgarian Commie Party with orders from Moscow.
That was 1981. This is post 2001. If a satellite fell out of the sky and killed the Pope; if the Pope tripped on the root of a tree while walking in the park and injured himself; if a train on the other side of town derailed and the Pope heard the news of same causing him a heart attack; if the Pope so much as catches a severe cold: all bets are off. Muzzies around the world will reap the whirwind, including here in the USA. CAIR is always claiming muzzies are the victims of unprovoked hate crimes. CAIR has seen nothing yet. By way of reminder, Catholics invented medevil.
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if the Pope so much as catches a severe cold: all bets are off. Muzzies around the world will reap the whirwind, including here in the USA
BS.
Absolutely nothing would happen except for calls for "understanding" and "tolerance" -- of the Muslim rage.
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Acting on behalf of the International Islamic Front (IIF) for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People
Don't bet on it. You don't know who they've pissed off now, but you shoudl know that there are a lot of people that you would not want pissed at you or your country or your religion.
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This war on terrorism has been always a religious war. The MSM and the secular govmints have chosen to downplay this at all times. This is an open declaration of war. No less. If Islam even tries to follow thru with this Christians will remove the gloves.
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Count this Fundamentalist Baptist in for defending the Pope. Jeebus, this is beyond the pale and the irony of it all fails to show itself to the muzzies, doesn't it?
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Salman Rushdie is still alive and kicking. Fatwas aren't a big deal -- the Muzzies already hate everybody anyway. Even each other. It's the way of the Death Cult.
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If they did actually kill the Pope it would be beyond ugly. If they think the Crusades sucked just wait until they see the bulk of the Christian faith decide to defend themselves.
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The daughter of disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has criticised claims made by President Pervez Musharraf in his autobiography.
Daddy's little girl speaks..
In her first statement since her father's arrest in 2004, Dina Khan said she wanted to set the record straight. She said suggestions that her father asked her to go public on Pakistan's nuclear secrets were "ludicrous".
"He told me to threaten Pervez with their release. It's called "extortion". Get your facts straight."
Dr Khan was put under house arrest after admitting passing nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya. His arrest followed a tense period in which US pressure on Pakistan to act against Dr Khan was building.
But moving against Dr Khan was tricky, not least because he remained intensely popular in parts of Pakistan thanks to his role in building Pakistan's own nuclear bomb. He also knew a lot of secrets about the country, including who at the top might have known about his illicit activities passing on technology. It has long been assumed that one of the reasons he has never been put on trial - or interrogated by the CIA - was because of who he might be able to implicate.
Yup, that's what we think.
In his book, President Musharraf said that Dr Khan sent a letter to his daughter, Dina, asking her to "go public on Pakistan's nuclear secrets" through British journalists. Now, Dina Khan has hit back. In a statement provided to the BBC, she says that Gen Musharraf's claims are "ludicrous".
Instead, she claims that the letter was for her mother, Dr Khan's wife, and gave details of what had really happened. These details were intended to be released in the event of something happening to Dr Khan. "The letter gave his version of what actually transpired and requested my mother release those details in the event of my father being killed or made to disappear." She says the letter mentioned "people and places" but contained no nuclear blueprints or information.
Dina Khan also says she was questioned by the British security service MI5 about the document but they were satisfied she had not committed any crimes and was not in possession of any important information. "The mistake my father made was in being far too vocal in his opinion about those in power, and as a result he is now paying the price," she writes. She says that her sister was forbidden from seeing her parents for a period of months, and that she was not allowed to travel to Pakistan for a year. "Our mail is opened, our mobiles are tapped and the house is bugged."
When he was placed under house arrest, pressure had been building on Dr Khan for a number of months. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors who visited the Iranian enrichment plant of Natanz in February 2003 had realised that the machines used by Iran were of the same design that Dr Khan had worked on when he was a young scientist in Europe and which he had used to build Pakistan's own programme. At the same time, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya had opened up a secret channel with MI6 to give up his nuclear programme which had been almost entirely provided by Dr Khan and his network.
The US tried to put pressure on President Musharraf to put Dr Khan out of business in September 2003, when CIA director George Tenet confronted him in a New York hotel room with evidence of Dr Khan's activities, but Gen Musharraf still did not act and frustrations grew in Washington. In the end it took a phone call from then US Secretary of State Colin Powell in late January to seal Dr Khan's fate. Mr Powell warned Gen Musharraf that President Bush was about to give a speech and publicly name and shame Dr Khan. As a result, the scientist was brought before President Musharraf and forced to publicly confess.
The CIA have never been allowed to interrogate Dr Khan directly, something they would very much like to do since it is still unclear how much nuclear technology he actually passed on to Iran. In the case of Libya, Dr Khan provided an actual nuclear weapons design. Some in Washington believe similar information may have been provided to Iran, proving Iran was after the bomb and not just peaceful nuclear power as Tehran claims, but they have never been able to prove it. However, all questions for Dr Khan have to be filtered through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, and no-one is sure they are getting the real truth.
Allowing the US access to Dr Khan would be very sensitive within Pakistan, where he still has many supporters, as well as potentially embarrassing for Gen Musharraf, who simply wants to move on from the issue. US officials say, though, that one of the reasons Pakistan will not be offered a civilian nuclear co-operation deal of the type negotiated with India is precisely because of Dr Khan. The scientist remains under house arrest in Islamabad. He was recently allowed out briefly for surgery for prostate cancer.
Dina Khan ends her statement with a warning. "The investigation into the nuclear scandal was officially closed months ago, yet my father's situation remains unchanged. Perhaps the hope is to have him rot quietly at home, forgotten by all. "That will never happen. The truth will come out eventually, it always does."
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From: Halliburton, Director of Special Projects
To: Halliburton, Wetworks Division
Heart attacks are so passe'. They lost popularity about the same time as that Brit who was stabbed with the ricin-tipped umbrella (natural causes) or the guy who was found hanging from some bridge in London (suicide). Couldn't you guys work up something a little more original? You know, like a nice mid-air explosion onboard a C-130 transport or something like that?
A letter found when al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq was killed said the group's leadership was based in Waziristan, Pakistan, the Washington Post reports.
The December 2005 missive is said to be the first to emerge from what the US military calls a "treasure trove" after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death in June.
It was reportedly sent by a member of Osama Bin Laden's high command, who said he wrote from Waziristan.
That's about where we thought they were.
Bin Laden is suspected of hiding along the Afghan-Pakistani border. If accurate, the letter would confirm the location of the al-Qaeda leadership at the time it was written, the newspaper said.
The missive was uncovered from Iraqi safe houses at the time of Zarqawi's death in a US air strike, according to the Washington Post. A 15-page English translation of the Arabic document was released last week by a US military counter-terrorism centre, the paper reported.
The author said he was writing from al-Qaeda headquarters in the restive border region, where Taleban and al-Qaeda fugitives have been active. The paper said the letter was signed by "Atiyah," whom counter-terrorism officials believe is Atiyah Abd al Rahman, a 37-year-old Libyan who joined Bin Laden during the 1980s. "I am with them," the letter says. "And they have some comments about some of your circumstances."
The letter described the difficulty of direct communications between Waziristan and Iraq, and suggested it was easier for Zarqawi to send a representative to Pakistan than the other way around, the Washington Post reported. It also warned Zarqawi that he risked removal as the leader in Iraq if he continued to alienate Sunni leaders and rival insurgent groups, the paper said.
He did and he was. "Removed" from the living, that is.
The "brothers wish that they had a way to talk to you and advise you, and to guide and instruct you; however, they too are occupied with vicious enemies here," Atiyah reportedly wrote. "They are also weak. And we ask God that He strengthen them and mend their fractures."
Counter-terrorism officials reportedly deemed the document authentic.
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Master of obvious sign should be used for this article.
Everybody knows Taliban and Al Qaeda are operating with the protection of the dreaded ISI
#3
Binny's latest videos show Taliban garbed soldiers guarding an al-Qaeda compound. Taliban/al-Qaeda have been integrated since 1996. When Mushy recognized Taliban/al-Qaeda governance in Waziristan, he reconstituted the Afghan terror base on Pakistan soil. He should not have received the kiss-butt media coverage on his recent US trip.
Pakistan-America websites claim 600,000 Pakis live in the US. Most of them are Punjabi oppressors, as in Mushy. By indulging creation of a new al-Qaeda base, another 9-11 catastrophe is probable.
Check out your local Paki run Muslim Students Association. Media infiltrations - government agents leave them alone - of the MSA reveal terror advocacy.
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600,000 Pakis live in the US. Most of them are Punjabi oppressors, as in Mushy.
An interesting perspective. May I ask your connection, Snease Shaiting3550? I quite agree with your assessment of the MSAs -- not necessarily all the members, but certainly the noisy ones and the leadership.
QUETTA: A jirga of Baloch tribal chiefs the second in two weeks — will be held in Quetta today (Monday). Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Dawood has called the jirga, which will be attended by tribal chiefs from Balochistan, Sindh and the Punjab. The jirga will be held at the Awan-e-Kalat on Sariab Road at 4pm. The jirga will discuss the decisions made in a jirga held on September 21 in Kalat and other issues faced by the Baloch in the aftermath of Nawab Akbar Bugti's killing.
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Mental image #1: Pipelines and power pylons tremble in fear of the outcome.
Mental image #2: Eric Idle (in Python drag and falsetto) - "Did you tell them they could sleep over? Well did you? I'm not cooking for all those nasty old men."
CHAMAN: A bomb blast set an oil tanker ablaze at a Pakistani border crossing, slightly injuring the driver as he attempted to deliver fuel for US forces in Afghanistan, a security official said on Sunday. The official said the explosion ripped through the truck while it was parked at the Pakistani border town of Chaman. Driver Mohammed Rasul received slight injuries to his head and one hand. The truck was heading to a US military base in the main southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold.
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QUETTA: Police arrested nine Taliban suspects in a raid on a private hospital here on Sunday. Sources said that the raid was conducted on Al-Khidmat Hospital on a tip off. Six of the arrested Taliban were injured in a fight in Afghanistan and were under treatment at the hospital, while three others were there to look after the injured. They were taken to an undisclosed location for investigation.
The militants arrested on Sunday will be brought before a court to decide whether to repatriate them or jail them in Pakistan, Balochistan Police chief Chaudhry Muhammad Yaqoob said. Last month, more than 40 other Taliban fighters, including two senior commanders, were arrested from hospitals in Quetta where they were undergoing treatment for their wounds, police said. Yaqoob said on Sunday that 21 of those who were captured last month have returned home after they were handed over to Afghan authorities.
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Just goes to show that there is NO Taliban in Quetta!!!
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And what about the doctors who treated these terrorists, were they ignored?
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Excuse me, I'm a bit dull this afternoon, of course they were ignored, they're left as bait for the next batch of wounded.
And probably can't even sneeze without a three page report sent in on how, which direction the snot went, and did he wipe with his hand, a towel, tissue, or just his sleeve.
Bait, this can work both ways, either we capture more wounded, or they avoid these particular doctors, have to recruit more, or just suffer and die (Hopefuly in great pain)
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected Islamic militants fired rockets at a military base in South Waziristan early on Sunday, but nobody was injured, said officials. Three rockets, launched in a pre-dawn attack, slammed into a field inside the base in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, said a government official and an intelligence agent in the area. Troops retaliated with small weapons fire in the direction from which the rockets were launched. It was unknown if the assailants had suffered any casualties, said the intelligence official. The sprawling base in Wana is home to thousands of army and paramilitary troops, and also houses offices of civilian government security officials in the area. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meanwhile on Sunday, an Uzbek national's body was found in South Waziristan. The man had been strangled to death, and it is believed that he was Uzbek commander Jaffar Asad's son, who has been missing since Saturday. Asad is thought to be hiding in Wana.
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Suspected Islamic militants
They were suspected of being Islamic? In Waziristan? I suppose the local Presbyterians could be acting up.
Or were they suspected of being militants? The rocket firing might provide a clue. Hmmm.
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Violence in Waziristan? Didn't they just sign a peace treaty or something? Or was that North Waziristan?
Pakistan's intelligence service has played no role in propping up the renegade Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, President General Pervez Musharraf told US television Sunday, although he is investigating possible support to the rebels from retired Pakistani intelligence officials. Asked whether Islamabad's Inter-Services Intelligence has been helping the ousted Taliban, Musharraf, speaking on NBC television's "Meet the Press" programme, answered with an emphatic "no". "Nobody in the ISI has," the president said.
However he added, "I have some reports that some dissidents, some people, retired people who were in the forefront in ISI during the period of '1979 to '1989, may be assisting with their links somewhere here and there," he said. "We are keeping a very tight watch, and we'll get a hold of them if at all that happens."
He also expressed concern that support for the Taliban may be more widespread than many observers are aware. "They don't know the realities on (the) ground. They're not conscious of the reality I'm seeing the extreme danger of this becoming a people's movement," he said.
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sure, just the EX-ISI's.... not the uh, like, current ISI staff or nothing. Nosirree
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Its getting so we need a 2nd 'Master of the Obvious' graphic - kind of like a a second shift. This one is getting used a lot lately -- needs some time off.
Gentlemen, hear if you please
the song of famous La Palisse,
You may indeed enjoy it
as long as you find it fun.
La Palisse didn't have the means
to pay for his own birth,
But he did not lack anything
once his riches were plenty.
He was quite fond of travel,
going all over the kingdom,
When he was in Poitiers
You would not find him in Vendôme!
He enjoyed a boat ride
and, whether in peace or in war,
He would always go by water
when he didn't go by land.
He drank every morning
some wine from a barrel,
For eating at his neighbors
he would always go in person.
He preferred at good meals
his dishes to be tasty and tender
And always celebrated Shrove Tuesday
on the eve of Ash Wednesday.
He shone like a sun,
his hair was blonde,
He would have had no equals
had he been the only one.
He had diverse talents,
some even claimed this:
Whenever he wrote in verse,
he did not write in prose.
He was, to tell the truth
a rather mediocre dancer,
But he would not have sung so badly
if he had chosen to shut up.
They tell that he would never
have taken the decision
of loading his two pistols
when he had no ammunition.
Monsieur d'la Palisse is dead,
he died before Pavia,
A quarter hour before his death,
he was still quite alive.
He was by sorry fate
wounded by a cruel hand
Since he died of it, we fear
that the wound was a mortal one.
Lamented by his soldiers,
his death is to be envied,
And the day of his passing away
was the last day of his life.
He died on a Friday,
the last day of his age,
Had he died on the Saturday,
he would have lived longer.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), a banned sectarian militant group, has started a recruitment drive and is forming new cells at the district and provincial levels, Daily Times has learnt. Intelligence agencies have reported to the Interior Ministry that notorious terrorist Matiur Rehman had been tasked with reorganising Lashkar cells, sources told Daily Times.
Rehman is believed to have links with Al Qaeda and is one of the prime suspects in the London airline plot. He is also believed to have been involved in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, the multiple assassination plots on President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, and the attack on the US Consulate in Karachi in March 2006. The report added that drug money from the Taliban was being used to fund the recruitment drive and reorganisation.
Abdullah Faryad, the LJ president in Ditta Khel, has been told to help Rehman reorganise the cells, said the intelligence report. Sheikh Ahmed Saleem, an Arab member of Al Qaeda, has given money to Qari Idrees, an LJ activist based in Sahiwal, to recruit militants for the new cells, the report said. Abu Khabaib, an Arab explosives expert who had been spotted several times in the hills of Chitral, is helping Saleem find new recruits, the report said.
Abdul Wahab Rashad, wanted for killing over 10 Shias in Shah Najaf Mosque, Rawalpindi, is also helping reorganise the LJ, said the intelligence report. Rashad was a close associate of Riaz Basra, a founding member of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi who was killed in 2002.
Nasimul Haq and Salahuddin from Quetta, Muavia from Hangu, Shoaib Khan and Usman Ghani from Hyderabad, and Jamil Khan from Karachi are also involved in the recruitment and reorganisation, according to the report. The Interior Ministry has asked the home secretaries and the Islamabad chief commissioner to use all possible resources to foil the LJ attempt to recruit new members, the sources said. They added that the police had been asked to form raiding parties to track down the LJ activists.
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The more the merrier. Happy hunting you deer hunters - No Tags. Go to town. You are big house materiel anyways. :)
NEW DELHI - India sought to put on a brave face on Sunday over an unexpected delay in the approval of a landmark nuclear deal with the United States amid nervousness in New Delhi that the controversial pact could slip away. The deal, which aims to give India access to US civilian nuclear technology for the first time in three decades, had been expected to be approved by the US Senate last week before it adjourned for elections in November.
However, the chamber could not take up the bill due to differences between Republicans and Democrats despite both sides expressing strong support for the deal and pointing fingers at the other for the delay.
The bill actually enjoys bipartisan support and it is our hope that this will find its way through US domestic legal procedures as soon as possible, said Indias new foreign secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon. I think our interest in the agreement, in it passing through Congress and our interest in the terms staying as they are, is quite clear, Menon told reporters after taking office.
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India will give Islamabad evidence that Pakistan's spy agency planned the Mumbai train bombings in July which killed more than 200 people, India's foreign secretary said Sunday. Indian police alleged a day earlier that Pakistan's Directorate of Inter Services Intelligence, or ISI, was behind the bombings, India's economic and entertainment center. Pakistan immediately denied the claims and demanded evidence.
"This (evidence) is something that we will certainly take up with the government of Pakistan," said India's new foreign secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon. "We will judge them (Pakistan) not by their verbal actions, but what they actually do," said Menon, whose previously served as India's ambassador to Pakistan.
India's main Hindu nationalist opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, called on the government to sever ties with Islamabad. Pakistan's ambassador to India "should be immediately summoned and categorically told that India will reconsider continuation of diplomatic relations with Pakistan," BJP president Rajnath Singh told reporters.
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To what end?
It's wasted -- unless they're just checking off the boxes...
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QUETTA: A jirga of Baloch tribal chiefs the second in two weeks — will be held in Quetta today (Monday). Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Dawood has called the jirga, which will be attended by tribal chiefs from Balochistan, Sindh and the Punjab. The jirga will be held at the Awan-e-Kalat on Sariab Road at 4pm. The jirga will discuss the decisions made in a jirga held on September 21 in Kalat and other issues faced by the Baloch in the aftermath of Nawab Akbar Bugti's killing.
QUETTA: Police arrested nine Taliban suspects in a raid on a private hospital here on Sunday. Sources said that the raid was conducted on Al-Khidmat Hospital on a tip off. Six of the arrested Taliban were injured in a fight in Afghanistan and were under treatment at the hospital, while three others were there to look after the injured. They were taken to an undisclosed location for investigation. 
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected Islamic militants fired rockets at a military base in South Waziristan early on Sunday, but nobody was injured, said officials. Three rockets, launched in a pre-dawn attack, slammed into a field inside the base in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, said a government official and an intelligence agent in the area. Troops retaliated with small weapons fire in the direction from which the rockets were launched. It was unknown if the assailants had suffered any casualties, said the intelligence official. The sprawling base in Wana is home to thousands of army and paramilitary troops, and also houses offices of civilian government security officials in the area. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. 
Pakistan's intelligence service has played no role in propping up the renegade Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, President General Pervez Musharraf told US television Sunday, although he is investigating possible support to the rebels from retired Pakistani intelligence officials. Asked whether Islamabad's Inter-Services Intelligence has been helping the ousted Taliban, Musharraf, speaking on NBC television's "Meet the Press" programme, answered with an emphatic "no". "Nobody in the ISI has," the president said.
NEW DELHI - India sought to put on a brave face on Sunday over an unexpected delay in the approval of a landmark nuclear deal with the United States amid nervousness in New Delhi that the controversial pact could slip away. The deal, which aims to give India access to US civilian nuclear technology for the first time in three decades, had been expected to be approved by the US Senate last week before it adjourned for elections in November.
India will give Islamabad evidence that Pakistan's spy agency planned the Mumbai train bombings in July which killed more than 200 people, India's foreign secretary said Sunday. Indian police alleged a day earlier that Pakistan's Directorate of Inter Services Intelligence, or ISI, was behind the bombings, India's economic and entertainment center. Pakistan immediately denied the claims and demanded evidence. 
