KARACHI Unidentified armed men yesterday killed the owner and editor of regional language newspaper 'Nijat' in Khora Town, some 500 kilometres from here.
Police said that a group of four or five armed men intercepted Makhdoom Rafiq in the bazar of Khora Town in the morning and opened fire with automatic weapon, killing him on the spot. The assailants ran away fled from the scene.
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Indignant, and prolonged, reports in MSM in 5..4..3
ISLAMABAD President General Pervez Musharraf has said the fomer premiers Nawaz Sharif and Ms Benazir Bhutto would not be allowed to return and take part in elections; there would be no deal with any of them nor would there be any seat adjustments outside the components of the ruling coalition.
"Nope, nope, can't do it, nope."
He said the elections would be held on schedule, these would be fair and transparent and all political parties would be allowed to take part freely.
Except for the people who might be a threat to Perv.
The assemblies would complete their term and the present set-up of the ruling alliance would not be disturbed. "The ruling alliance should chalk out a strategy to contest the next polls as a united force," Musharraf told an unusual meeting of the parliamentary party of Pakistan Muslim League (PML) at a dinner hosted by the prime minister.
The meeting was convened apparently to firm up election strategy and refurbish confidence among PML members that has been severely jolted by consistent reports of covert contacts with Ms. Benazir Bhutto.
Gotta keep the party in line ...
The president emphasised the need for selecting winnable candidates and promised to personally oversee this selection. He said the allied parties would contest the coming elections as coalition partners with clear plan to win.
Winnable but not too winnable; someone who's charismatic, intelligent and efficient could become a threat in the future. They need to win but need to depend on Perv for their margin of victory. That way they always know whom to thank for their offices.
PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, former president Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, Chief Minister Sindh Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim Khan and Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Muhammad Yousuf also attended the meeting.
The president said the government was committed to hold free, fair and impartial elections in which Perv and his hand-picked candidates win. The allied parties would go into the polls with confidence that their performance during past four years has been impressive.
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The NWFP police and federal intelligence agencies have failed to identify the cause behind bomb blasts and suicide attacks in the province, which has seen a number of attacks in recent months that have heightened tensions between the provincial and federal governments.
It is not clear who is behind the bombings in Peshawar the most serious of which killed at least nine people in October 2006. Police have set up checkposts within the city and its suburbs, but they have not made any arrests or managed to control terrorist activities. Police sources said that only one step had been taken to identify the cause of blasts and suicide attacks the formation of investigation committees but we have not seen any reports on the cause of these disturbing events yet. The province witnessed eight blasts and the murder of a senior police officer during the last quarter of 2006.
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A top Taliban leader in Pakistan said in remarks aired on Saturday his group would protect and guard Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri if they turned up in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. I have not met Osama or Zawahri and they did not come to our region. We hope to see them and if they show up in our area we will protect them with our bodies and souls, Mullah Mohammad Nazir told Al Jazeera television in remarks dubbed into Arabic. US intelligence chief John Negroponte said on Thursday Al Qaeda leaders were holed up in a secure hideout in Pakistan, but the Pakistani government says the United States has not given it any information about their presence in Pakistan.
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Imran, the arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, has revealed during narco-analysis that he knows the people who carried out the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in December 2005 and those who triggered the serial explosions in New Delhi earlier the same year. "More giggle juice, Imram?"
"Yersh, shankew!"
The nine-hour test at Bowring Hospital on Saturday has provided the police with vital clues on LeT's targets in Karnataka, Imran's LeT connections, Pakistan visits, and the source of the satellite phone and the AK-47 and AK-56 rifles recovered from him. He will be subjected to further tests shortly for more details on the revelations.
Imran alias Bilal also revealed to the police the LeT's gameplan in Karnataka and the number of operatives in the state. According to him, LeT has deployed over 400 people in Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Chikmagalur and communally sensitive areas. LeT activists are operating under pseudo-identities in Bangalore and Mysore, the police said, adding that Imran had revealed these locations. He also spoke of LeT's plans to attack campuses of software giants Infosys, Wipro and several firms in Electronic City along with the Bangalore airport. Imran told interrogators that LeT headquarters often changed the frequency and bandwidth of satellite phones.
Imran had told the police during interrogation that a certain Rajesh had given him a consignment of arms in Pune. The arms were kept in his Hospet house. Imran was nabbed in Bangalore while bringing the consignment in a bus after a satellite phone conversation with his LeT bosses. During interrogation, Imran had said he was merely a courier, but he contradicted this during the narco-test. Further clarification will be sought during the second narco-test, a police officer said.
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Narco-analysis . . .Now that's a politically correct term if I've ever heard one.
Al
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A gun battle in Kashmir between Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants left two suspected militants and a civilian dead Saturday, the army said. There was no independent confirmation of the incident in Sumlar village, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state. An army soldier was also wounded in the clash.
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KARACHI Unidentified armed men yesterday killed the owner and editor of regional language newspaper 'Nijat' in Khora Town, some 500 kilometres from here.
ISLAMABAD President General 
The NWFP police and federal intelligence agencies have failed to identify the cause behind bomb blasts and suicide attacks in the province, which has seen a number of attacks in recent months that have heightened tensions between the provincial and federal governments. 
A top Taliban leader in Pakistan said in remarks aired on Saturday his group would protect and guard Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri if they turned up in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. I have not met Osama or Zawahri and they did not come to our region. We hope to see them and if they show up in our area we will protect them with our bodies and souls, 
Imran, the arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, has revealed during narco-analysis that he knows the people who carried out the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in December 2005 and those who triggered the serial explosions in New Delhi earlier the same year. 
A gun battle in Kashmir between Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants left two suspected militants and a civilian dead Saturday, the army said. There was no independent confirmation of the incident in Sumlar village, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state. An army soldier was also wounded in the clash.
