Bahrains security agency accused 23 Shia activists of forming a terrorist network aiming to topple the countrys Sunni-dominated government, a senior lawmaker said.
Bahrain state TV had earlier broadcast pictures of the alleged leaders of the networks and official media said the activists had been charged. But lawyer Mohammed Al Tajir said prosecutors are still interrogating the men and have not yet pressed formal charges. Al Tajir added that he has not been allowed to meet with any of his clients since they were arrested, some of them as early as Aug. 13.
Most of the activists were among some 250 Shias who have been arrested in the past month over allegations of disrupting public security. The crackdown follows a series of violent Shia-led protests accusing the government of discrimination.
State TV said Saturday that the two of the alleged leaders are not in custody because they live abroad.
Deputy Parliament Speaker Adel Al Moawdah said the government has been trying to negotiate with the Shia activists, but that they have insisted on vandalism and terrorism.
[Bangla Daily Star] A BDR jawan stomped in combat gear during the February 25-26 mutiny at the Pilkhana BDR headquarters. The man, wearing a blue headband, kept his fingers close to the trigger of his rifle.
The scene was captured in a video footage and photographs that were screened before the BDR special court-5 at the Darbar Hall of the BDR headquarters yesterday.
The person in the footage and photographs had been identified as Sepoy Al Mamun Jewel, who outright rejected the identification.
"The person in the photograph and the video is not me," Mamun claimed before the three-member court headed by BDR Director General Maj Gen Md Rafiqul Islam. Ahah. The old "wudn't me" defense. That oughta work.
Sepoy Fakir Ali Mir, another accused in the BDR mutiny case, also claimed that the person in a photograph taken during the mutiny was not him.
The BDR director general asked him whether he has a twin brother in the BDR as the person in the photograph looked like Fakir. He said "no". "It might have been my other twin, though."
Like the two, several other accused claimed that the people in the video footages and photographs were not them. But a few accused, who were not in combat gear during the mutiny, admitted that they were in the photographs displayed before the special court.
The court took deposition of witnesses against 667 jawans of 24 Rifles Battalion charged with mutiny.
Dhaka BDR Sector Commander Col Aziz Ahmed said the accused jawans were lying. Their denial would not have any impact as other jawans from their units had already identified them, he said.
Aziz said 77 accused claimed that they hid in toilets at the Darbar Hall on the first day of the mutiny and did not see each other. In order to find the truth behind their claim, a video footage was prepared for the court putting 77 people in the toilets at the same time. Sorta like trying to flush a Koran ...
The place proved too small for them as they struggled to even stand on their feet.
Plaintiff Subedar Matiur Rahman brought specific charges against 33 BDR jawans at the court on the first day of the deposition. He presented as evidence call lists of the mobile phones of the accused, footages and photographs captured during the mutiny that claimed the lives of 74 people including 57 army officers.
The video footages of the recovery of bodies of the slain BDR officers were also screened at the court.
Prosecutor Lt Col Shamsur Rahman requested the court to allow the plaintiff and number one witness to give deposition. All the accused were produced before the court.
Twenty-nine of the 667 accused had confessed before the court to their involvement in the mutiny but the prime accused, Subedar Major Gofran Mallick, denied the charges against him.
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The BDR director general asked him whether he has a twin brother in the BDR as the person in the photograph looked like Fakir. He said "no".
Apparently the narco blog Sinful Mx was behind Blog del Narco's shutdown claiming that the people who ran it embedded a malicious script that attacked the Sinful Mx site.
BTW, El Blog del Terror is a far more prolific site then Blog del Narcpo and better run because they use actual eyewitness accounts. I have myself used them in the past as a source for news, especially in Reynosa, where accurate timely information from private sources is at a premium.
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This is old news. I think NK as 3 main political prison, one which holds thousands. They essentially use concentration camps and forced labor camps (though there's not much difference). You guys might joke a bit about NK, but in some respects they are worse than Iran or Syria. Did you know that Kim Jong-Il actually believes he's a divine being? The guy is complete crackers.
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Your right Misc. We here tend to make jokes about North Korea (Bark tea, Sea of Fire, and all that) but I think we are fully aware of the flat-out evil which is the North Korean Regime.
There's been a number of posts about testimonials , some from escaped prisoners and some by guards, about the abuses of the prisoners, using prisoners for chemical and biological warfare tests, forcing children watch the execution of their parents, murdering newborn mixed-race babies in front of their mothers, etc...
North Korea, and Cuba, are Socialism in full flower.
China has been spared [so far] by her capitalistic economy. Russia is turning back to it. Obama and the democrats are trying their best to steer us too toward the socialism toilet (thinking they will be the ones on top). And if we go that way, we too will eventually end up like North Korea and Cuba.
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Obama and the democrats are trying their best to steer us too toward the socialism toilet (thinking they will be the ones on top).
Even the floaters usually go down on the second flush. And once you revert from socialism toilet to outhouse even the ones on top have it mighty stinky.
The Sydney-born Islamic cleric who called for the beheading of a Dutch anti-Muslim MP has been back in Australia for several months and preaching at an Islamic centre in Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west.
In a speech on his website, Sheikh Feiz Mohammad described Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, as ''this Satan, this devil, this politician in Holland'' and said his head should be chopped off for denigrating Islam. Sheikh Feiz Mohammad gained notoriety for a speech in Bankstown in 2005 when he said a rape victim had no one to blame but herself for wearing ''satanic skirts''.
An Islamic news website, MuslimVillage.com, reported yesterday the cleric gave the Friday Prayer sermon at the Campbelltown centre last week.
Mr Wilders has called Islamic culture ''retarded and violent''.
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Mr Wilders has called Islamic culture ''retarded and violent''.
a way with words, Geert has
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I'm surprised they don't charge any cleric that gives these decrees with some form of premeditated homicide. I mean they are advocating, publicly, with religious support the murder of some one. It is a decree that gives license to kill. If any one gives these decrees and the target is harmed or killed, they should at least be held as an accessory.
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"Political logic" can be very weird. In this case, they are probably holding off prosecuting for any one of the (stupid) reasons below, or no reason at all.
1) Prosecuting him will incite his followers to violence.
2) Prosecuting him will make them look anti-Muslim or "anti-immigrant."
3) They think he doesn't really mean it.
4) Prosecuting him will cost them votes.
5) Prosecuting him will play into the opposition's hands.
6) Sniveling cowardice.
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Calling for the death of anyone who stands in the way of Islam's mission to convert the world is not only allowed, but is positively encouraged in "multicultural" Australia.
On the other hand, laughing at anyone while they are making these death demands, will get you into big trouble.
[Iran Press] The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) says the world's reliance on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for crude oil will increase in the future.
"Global dependence on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for crude oil will rise in the next five to 10 years as output by non-OPEC nations falls," IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka told AFP on the sidelines of a conference on the launch of the organization's Energy Technology Perspectives 2010 report in New Delhi on Friday.
"We have seen an increase in non-OPEC supplies. But in the mid-term, non-OPEC production will decline," he said adding, "so dependency on OPEC oil will increase."
Tanaka noted that the global oil market is currently well supplied.
"Stock level in OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries is still high and the OPEC has a very good spare capacity at this moment," he said.
He went on to say that it is not easy to project what action OPEC is going to take during its October 14 meeting in Vienna.
However, it is anticipated that there will be no change to OPEC production quotas in the meeting.
Iran is one of the founding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and is its second-largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia.
In 2009, Iran's crude production stood at approximately at 3.8 million barrels per day.
OPEC's 12 members -- Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Angola, Ecuador, and Venezuela -- produce about 40 percent of the world's crude oil.
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If we could just harness the power of bovine flatulence...for good and not global worming!
Chancellor Angela Merkel has weighed in on Germany's fierce immigration debate, acknowledging in an interview released Saturday that fervently religious Muslim youths tended to be more violent than others.
'This is a big problem and we can talk about it openly, without arousing suspicions of xenophobia,' Merkel said in the interview Bild am Sonntag newspaper, which is to be published Sunday.
Her comments came after central banker Thilo Sarrazin sparked outrage and debate with claims in his new book that Muslim immigrants are lowering German intelligence and harming society more than they contributed.
Merkel said it was important not to associate violence with a particular religion.
'This is misleading. Violence amongst young people is often a sign that they see no perspective for themselves. All that helps is education, education, education.'
'Our state is making many offers, but the main responsibility lies with the parents, and cannot be taken on by schools or the state,' Merkel added.
Sarrazin, a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) received partial backing from party leader Sigmar Gabriel, who said there was an element of truth in his book, entitled Germany Abolishes Itself.
'I think we are experiencing much of what he is describing in (the book). There is no question,' Gabriel said. However he did not share Sarrazin's thesis that Muslim integration problems resulted from genetic predispositions.
The SPD has initiated procedures to evict Sarrazin from the party, while the central bank has asked President Christian Wulff to approve his dismissal from the bank's board.
Merkel said it was crucial to maintain law and order in violent city districts with high migrant populations. She said one solution would be to hire more civil servants with a foreign background.
'It would surely help if we had more migrants in the police, youth welfare offices and other authorities,' Merkel told Bild.
A Manhattan D.A.'s inquiry merged with a US DOJ inquiry ultimately widened to some of Europe's vaunted banks, helping spark a global inquiry that found they actively evaded U.S. law in aiding sanctioned countries, banks or other enterprises move some $2 billion undetected.
The investigators discovered that the banks ran dedicated units to systematically aid the undetected transfer of money through the U.S. banking system. They did that by removing identifying coding on fund transfers so they could evade automated U.S. bank computer systems designed to spot money flowing from a sanctioned state. Karl Denninger said it best, "These are serious criminal acts folks. This money gets people killed. Literally. It buys guns, it buys missiles, it buys bombs. Bombs, guns and missiles that are then used to shoot at our troops and those of our friends."
Nine banks have been caught up in the probe, and some are in discussions to settle, three already have. Note that the perps have or are about to 'settle' as opposed to 'being banned from doing business in and with the USA. plus 'indictment, arrest and trial' for criminal acts directly endangering the US.
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Seeing that the USD Dept. of InJustice is involved, can we assume that at least some of the "settlement" will go to Bambi's and the Dems' campaign funds?
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... move some $2 billion undetected.
That is the $2b of undetected money that we have detected.
Note that the perps have or are about to 'settle' as opposed to 'being banned from doing business in and with the USA.
Don't their own countries have criminal laws against "removing identifying coding on fund transfers"? What say their governments?
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[Pak Daily Times] The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff on Saturday said the United States does not plan to use Turkish territory in withdrawing its weapons from Iraq.
Adm. Mike Mullen, the highest-ranking military official in the US armed forces, spoke at a news conference in Ankara.
News reports suggesting his visit was about the transfer of heavy combat equipment from Iraq via Turkey were 'simply false and completely without merit,' he said. 'We do not transport weapons through Turkey, nor do we plan to in the future,' Mullen said.
The admiral held meetings with the new Turkish chief of general staff, Gen. Isik Kosaner, and Defence Minister Vecdi Gonul in Ankara on Friday. He planned to meet Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan later Saturday.
Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said Friday that the United States has not made any request with regard to weaponry withdrawal through Turkey during the pullout of combat forces from Iraq. 'We look favourably on the transfer of non-military elements and technical material via Turkey,' Unal said.
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We look favourably on the transfer of non-military elements and technical material via Turkey,' Unal said.
Whereas we, on the other hand, don't look on Turkey favorably at all.
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The irony here is amazing. Arizona is a bigoted hate filled state according to CNN and the rest of the loony left. And to the simple minded and hate filled left, to include CNN, they post this picture? It shows a tattooed skinhead cop looking like he is about to strike. A perfect picture of the great hate in Arizona, all he needs is a Nazi or clan symbol to make the shot complete. But if you have more than one brain cell in your head, clearly CNN has tingly legs but no brains, you will notice what the tatooed thug cop is doing. He is there protecting the rights of the people to assemble, he is protecting their right to free speech. He is protecting their right to spit and desecrate the American flag! This should not be an article on Arizonas hate, it should be on how tolerant we are to outsiders, some here illegally, to assemble and speak their mind. In any other country these idiots would be shot or in prison.
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Okay. Two ACLU boobs. We'll be skipping this one.
Interesting question. Aren't only Arabs allowed to be caliphs, non-Arabs are supposed to be Sultans.
A Pakistani minister wants US President Barack Obama to offer Eid prayers at Ground Zero in New York and become the "Amir-ul-Momineen" or Caliph of Muslims.
Minister of State for Industries Ayatullah Durrani, who belongs to the ruling Pakistan People''s Party, said the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr festival, expected to be observed on September 11, would be a "golden opportunity" for Obama to offer Eid prayers and declare himself the leader of all Muslims.
"In this way, all the problems of the Muslim world would be solved," Durrani told The Nation newspaper.
Durrani, a former member of the Pakistan Ideological Council, contended that the Muslim world is in "dire need" of a Caliph and occupying this distinguished slot would provide Obama "exemplary titles" like "Mullah Barack Hussain Obama" or "Allama Obama".
He said: "The time is approaching fast. Barack Hussain Obama must act now. This is a golden opportunity, Muslims badly need it."
Obama''s elevation to the Islamic Caliphate would be the "key to success, he claimed but did not offer any explanation for his remarks.
''Ground Zero'' is the former site of the fallen twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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An American dead Eagle would be appropriate with the Gangster Government in charge now, however, I take that back. Just replace the American Eagle with a Vulture to represent the Obama Regime.
However, with all the Cartel murders taking place in Mexico, the Mexican Eagle may indeed have already been shot dead.
Islamabad: India's spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel's Mossad, through their "strong network in Afghanistan", were behind the suicide attack on a Shia procession in Quetta that killed 73, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said Sunday.
[Dawn] Islamabad on Saturday urged India to help find a way to progress the trial in Pakistain of seven suspects linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The suspects include the alleged criminal mastermind of the attack on India's financial capital, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Zarar Shah.
The trial has almost stalled as New Delhi has refused to give the court access to lone surviving attacker Mohammad Ajmal Kasab --who is on death row in India --and Indian national Fahim Ansari, a conspirator.
An anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi indicted the seven men on the eve of the first anniversary of the attack, which ended a fragile peace processor session with Pakistain.
But Pak officials have since implied that the trials cannot proceed unless Kasab, who was sentenced to death in Mumbai in May, is handed over as a witness.
Kasab was convicted on March 31 on charges including murder and waging war on India.
Pakistain interior minister Rehman Malik told reporters after meeting the Indian high commissioner and speaking to Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram on the telephone: "The trial is stuck and actually we do not want to give an impression to the international community that perhaps it has been delayed.
"We proposed to India while talking to Mr Chidambaram that how about that we move our case to our trial court and request them to appoint a commission of relevant officials to record the statements of the witnesses," he said.
"And this has been happening in the past and so using that facility we request to the court and if they give permission, will they (India) be able to accept," Malik said. Chidambaram replied that "they will be considering it", Malik said.
Malik said he underlined the importance to the trial of Kasab and Ansari appearing in court in Pakistain.
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(Ma'an) -- During talks in Washington, Paleostinian negotiators rejected an Israeli proposal to form 12 joint committees, PLO chief Saeb Erekat said Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the proposal during the opening round of direct negotiations, re-launched after a 20-month hiatus, Erekat said in an interview with the Jordanian daily Ad-Dustur.
The PLO official said Netanyahu proposed the committees in order to waste time and postpone negotiations.
Concerning the absence of the Middle East Quartet from negotiations, Erekat told the Jordanian daily the US administration said it represented the Quartet.
Quartet representative Tony Blair attended a dinner on the eve of talks but did not participate in meetings, while envoys from the EU, Russia and the UN were absent from negotiations.
The US would head a meeting with the Quartet and the vaporous Arab League follow-up committee at the end of the month in New York, Erekat told the Jordanian newspaper.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would participate in the next round of negotiations, scheduled to be held in the region on 14-15 September, Erekat added.
The agenda for the summit had been set, the negotiations chief said, and included all final status issues.
President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas would meet Netanyahu every two weeks, and the role of the PLO negotiations team was to prepare for these meetings, Erekat said, adding that agreements reached would be implemented within 12 months.
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(Ma'an) -- Hamas-affiliated police are prepared to crack down on clan clashes in the coastal enclave, the chief of Gazoo police said Saturday.
Jamal Aj-Jarrah said the Gazoo Interior Ministry's decision to clamp down on family-related disputes, particularly when weapons have been involved, was undertaken during Ramadan "for social reasons, because it is becoming a growing problem."
The increase in family clashes across the Strip has resulted in "security chaos and the police is ready to suppress any attempt to return lawlessness to Gazoo after years of control," the police chief said.
"We will not allow anyone to steal Gaza citizens' right to comfort and security," said Aj-Jarrah.
On 30 August, Gazoo government police announced that they had been instructed to deploy heavily with clan brawls, particularly when firearms are in use and "use an iron fist" to locate and search homes where weapons used in the often-deadly fights may be hidden.
A week prior to the announcement, the Gazoo government announced that security forces will begin confiscating all unlicensed weapons in the Strip in a bid to maintain public security.
Several Paleostinian rights groups have detailed an increase in shootings, which the Paleostinian Center for Human Rights says results from a "state of security chaos" in Gazoo.
In April, the Gazoo-based Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights called on the Gazoo government to help in the control of small arms, following two documented cases of the misuse of weapons in three days. The feuds "are personal and family-related, but the weapons which were used were faction-owned weapons," a statement from the organization said.
Earlier in August, an elderly woman was rubbed out in her home by unidentified gun men. Rights group later said the woman, who specialized in herbal remedies, was accused of "witchcraft."
On Friday, police in Gazoo said they have launched an investigation into the stabbing of a 50-year-old man during a clan clash in the southern city of Khan Younis. Police said they suspected the victim's nephew of perpetrating the stabbing.
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There you go again; using Hamas and police in the same sentence. It has the same sort of jarring ring as "drug cartel police", or "al-Qaeda police".
On the other hand, Hamas and "family-related disputes" seem right at home together.
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(Ma'an) -- Hezbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad both slammed Israeli-Paleostinian peace talks at rallies in their respective capitals, Israeli media said.
"These negotiations were born dead," Nasrallah said in a televised rally to mark Jerusalem Day in Beirut, the Israeli news site Ynet said. The Hezbullies chief cited polls which he said demonstrated the vast majority of Paleostinians object to the talks, re-launched in Washington after a 20-month hiatus.
Nasrallah criticized President Abbas' decision to resume the talks, saying "No one has the right to cede a grain of Paleostine," Ynet reported.
Meanwhile, in a televised Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said talks were "still born" and "doomed" to fail. Questioning the legitimacy of talks, he asked "What do they want to negotiate about? Who are they representing? What are they going to talk about?"
Both leaders praised the "resistance" of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason. The movement grabbed credit for two shooting attacks in the 48 hours leading up to talks, which left four Israelis dead, including a pregnant woman and a mother of seven, and two injured.
Nasrallah said Hamas, and other resistance groups, "need to hear voices of support from the Arab and Islamic world," the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
"The destiny of Paleostine will be determined in Paleostine through the Paleostinians' resistance - not in Washington, Paris or London," Ynet quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
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"The truth about the Holocaust is not clear, and when the researchers want to examine whether it is true or the Jews have created it to pose as victims, they jail the researchers"
[Pak Daily Times] A senior Iranian cleric, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, dismissed the Nazi Holocaust of Jews during World War II as a new 'superstition' for the West, media reported on Saturday. "The Holocaust is nothing but superstition, but Zionists say that people of the world should be forced to accept this," he was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA. "Americans and Westerners are affected by newly appeared superstitions such as the Holocaust," he said according to ISNA news agency. "The truth about the Holocaust is not clear, and when the researchers want to examine whether it is true or the Jews have created it to pose as victims, they jail the researchers," said Makarem Shirazi, who is a "marja," or among the highest authorities in Shiite Islam. The comments came after Ahmadinejad dismissed on Friday revived Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as 'doomed' to fail and said the people of the Middle East are 'capable of removing the Zionist regime' from the world scene. Iran does not recognise Israel which accuses the Islamic republic of seeking nuclear weapons.
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Hey, Nas! Come see me in Northern Virginia when I get home and I'll take you to a museum in DC where you can smell the shoe leather, not just see it. The smell will stay with you for a long time. And pictures. They got a lot of pictures. Some movies, too, with four-foot high walls, so the little kiddies can't see the movies.
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Bobby, he might go to the museum but all it would do is reinforce his claim that it's made up, the Jews are behind it all, yadda yadda yadda. He's just a complete idiot. What would be worse is if he knew it to be true but kept up the propaganda. Nothing you can do except hope he doesn't see the bus while crossing the street.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A BDR jawan stomped in combat gear during the February 25-26 mutiny at the Pilkhana BDR headquarters. The man, wearing a blue headband, kept his fingers close to the trigger of his rifle.
[Dawn] Islamabad on Saturday urged India to help find a way to progress the trial in Pakistain of seven suspects linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
