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Posted: 04 Jun 2011 09:25 AM PDT

Download Habib’s new album Ahoban

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Track List:
01. Habib Wahid – Ahoban
02. Habib Wahid – Tumi Je Amar Thikana
03. Habib Wahid – Ar Nei Bhalobasha
04. Habib Wahid – Ki Je Holo Aj
05. Habib Wahid – Ek Jhak Payra
06. Habib Wahid – Lukochuri
07. Habib Wahid – Bhule Jeo Na
08. Habib Wahid – Chokhe Chokhe
09. Ferdous Wahid – O Mishti Meye
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US to reduce projects in Pak

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:30 PM PDT


Washington—The US will cut the number of projects it funds in Pakistan by two-thirds as it seeks to focus its civilian assistance more tightly in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to US officials. A top US official told the Financial Times that the US would slim its civilian aid programme in Pakistan to target 50 projects, down from 160 projects. Emphasis would be put on achieving maximum visibility to help counter strong anti- American sentiment across Pakistan, inflamed by what many see as an attack on Pakistan' s sovereignty by the covert raid on the al-Qaeda leader. "A slash of assistance is not on the cards, unless there is another big surprise like Bin Laden' s whereabouts," said the US official. "There is a lot of money in a lot of places. Aid is in a diffused state. We can say great things about what we are doing in Baluchistan and Sindh provinces, but you don' t see it." US civilian assistance, boosted in 2009 by the authorisation of $7.5bn over five years, is to be funnelled towards projects in high impact sectors such as energy, education, open democracy, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and job creation. It would be subject to more rigorous monitoring, and streamlined to assure quicker transfer of money to Pakistan. The reshaping of the aid programme coincides with a greater role for Marc Grossman, Washington' s envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He replaced the late Richard Holbrooke, whose expansive style led to a proliferation of aid programmes. "Holbrooke was a floodlight," said the US official explaining the different approaches of the two diplomats. "Grossman is a laser". The recalibration also comes as senior politicians in the US question the scale of assistance to Pakistan amid persistent doubts about its willingness and ability to combat Islamist militants striking targets within Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan' s leaders, however, insist that it has suffered far greater casualties than Nato in a conflict that now threatens civil war in their own country. They claim to have lost 35,000 people to the fight in the past decade. The US is seeking ways to recover from a severe loss of confidence in Pakistan this year. The relationship has suffered what US officials describe as double "crises" of the arrest of Raymond Davis, a Central Intelligence Agency operative, in Lahore and the discovery, and subsequent killing, of Bin Laden in a garrison city, 50km from Islamabad, Pakistan' s capital. The US' s top priority is to rebuild its intelligence sharing with Pakistan. Thereafter, it is concentrating on improved military to military contacts and a more effective aid programme. Some US analysts predict a radical reassessment of US aid flows to Pakistan, including tougher conditionality. Richard Haass, the president of the Washington-based US Council on Foreign Relations, said more "scruple" would be attached to signing off money to Pakistan, as the US was "disappointed" by the level of co-operation it had received.—INP

Worst ever outbreak of HUS kidney disease: expert

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:26 PM PDT


PARIS: The deadly kidney disease reported in a quarter of the recent E coli cases in Germany and 11 other nations is the worst ever outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), a top expert said. "This is the largest epidemic of HUS to have occurred anywhere in the world," said Francois- Xavier Weill, head of France's National Reference Centre for Escherichia coli (E coli). More than 550 cases of the kidney-wrecking condition have been reported since the outbreak in northern Germany of a virulent strain of enterohaemorrhagic E coli (EHEC), according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Twelve of these HUS cases -- eleven in Germany and one in Sweden -- have proven fatal as of midday yesterday, the ECDC said. More than 2,000 people are known to have been infected by the rogue bacteria, whose origins continue to elude German and international health officials. "Until we have discovered exactly what food stuff is responsible and withdrawn it, there will be new cases. Finding it is the absolute priority," Weill told AFP yesterday in an interview. Weill confirmed that the culprit strain of E coli identified independently by several laboratories -- while exceedingly rare -- is not "entirely new" as claimed by a Chinese laboratory that sequenced the genome in cooperation with a German hospital.

20 injured in grenade attack at Karachi hotel

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:25 PM PDT


KARACHI: At least 20 people were injured today after unidentified miscreants lobbed hand grenades at a hotel in this southern port city, police said. At least four men came to the hotel on the busy Napier road and threw grenades causing explosions and damage to the building, leaving around 20 people injured who were rushed to different hospitals for treatment, they said. "The condition of three of the injured is precarious," a police official said. The explosion in the hotel also damaged a gas pipeline and panic spread in the area when gas and smoke started leaking out profusely. "The incident took place around midnight at the hotel on Thakkar road which is frequented by people till late in the night. Police and rangers personnel reached the spot and were cordoning off the affected area," he said. According to some media reports, the hotel also doubles as a gambling den. In the last two months, there have been two attacks on illegal gambling dens in the old areas of the city with the last one occurring on May 7 when two men lobbed grenades in Chakiwari area killing three people and injuring 21. Earlier in April in another attack on a Rummy club in the Ghas Mandi area of Lyari, 18 people were killed and 35 injured. "We suspect these attacks to be part of an ongoing gang warfare in the old areas," the police official said.

UN Security Council calls on Sudan to withdraw troops from Abyei

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:24 PM PDT


UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council demanded that Sudan withdraw its troops from Abyei and that it halt looting and attacks in the region that it disputes with rival southern Sudan. A Security Council statement yesterday said the Khartoum government's military operations in Abyei are a "serious violation" of a peace accord with southern Sudan. "The council demands that the government of Sudan withdraw immediately from the Abyei area," said the statement. "The council calls on the Sudanese armed forces to ensure an immediate halt to all looting, burning and illegal resettlement," it said. Khartoum government troops seized Abyei last month, escalating tensions with southern Sudan, which is due to formally declare its own independence from the north on July 9.

With China in mind, Agni-V test scheduled for December

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:23 PM PDT


NEW DELHI: India finally plans to test its most ambitious strategic missile Agni-V, with near ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) capabilities, this December after some delay. With high road mobility, fast- reaction ability and a strike range over 5,000 km, Agni-V would even bring China's northernmost regions within its nuclear strike envelope if it is ever required. The armed forces are already inducting the two-stage 3,500- km Agni-III after completion of its developmental and pre-induction trials last year, having earlier operationalised the Pakistan- specific Agni-I (700-km) and Agni- II (over 2,000-km) missiles. The Agni-V, in turn, is meant to add some much-needed credible deterrence muscle against China, which has a massive nuclear arsenal with missiles like the 11,200-km Dong Feng-31A capable of hitting any Indian city. For one, it will be quite easy to store and swiftly transport the 17.5-metre tall Agni-V by road since it's a canister-launch missile system, unlike the earlier Agni missiles. If fired from the North- East, for instance, it would be able to hit China's northernmost city of Habin. For another, Agni-V would also carry MIRV (multiple independently targetable re- entry vehicles) payloads being concurrently developed. A single MIRVed missile can deliver multiple warheads at different targets even if they are separated by long distances. "We have tested the three (solid-propellant composite rocket motor) stages of Agni-V independently...all ground tests are now over. The integration process is now in progress. We want to test the missile in December, not let it spill over to 2012," DRDO chief V K Saraswat told TOI on Friday. This came after defence minister A K Antony, addressing the annual DRDO awards ceremony, asked defence scientists to "demonstrate" the 5,000-km missile's capability "at the earliest". With a "launch mass" of around 50 tonne and a development cost of over Rs 2,500 crore, Agni-V will incorporate advanced technologies involving ring laser gyroscope and accelerator for navigation and guidance. It takes its first stage from Agni-III, with a modified second stage and a miniaturized third stage to ensure it can fly to distances beyond 5,000 km. An ICBM, incidentally, usually denotes a missile capable of hitting targets over 5,500 km away, and has largely been the preserve of the Big-5 countries till now. DRDO is also gearing up for another test of its two-tier BMD (ballistic missile defence) system, designed to track and destroy hostile missiles both inside (endo) and outside (exo) the earth's atmosphere, around this August with a new interceptor missile called PDV to add to the existing ones. Antony, on his part, said, "The interceptor missile development programme has taken India into an elite club of nations that possess the capability to demonstrate and deploy missile defence. DRDO should now also work towards developing a credible BMD for our country."
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Osama's trusted confidante identified

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 04:22 AM PDT


ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN: The courier who led US intelligence to Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan hailed from the Swat Valley, a one-time stronghold of militant Taliban fighters, according to Pakistani officials. The officials on Wednesday identified the courier as Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed. He and his brother Abrar were shot dead in the daring US Navy SEAL raid May 2 that also killed bin Laden and two other people. The brothers apparently linked up with bin Laden after they returned to Swat Valley from Kuwait, where their parents had immigrated. Swat is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of the city of Abbottabad, where bin Laden had been hiding for about five years. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the real names of the two brothers, said they were from the Swat village of Martung. The US commando attack, conducted without notification of Pakistani officials, was a huge embarrassment for the country given that bin Laden's compound was in a military garrison city and only about 35 miles (60 kilometers) from the capital Islamabad. Pakistan has denied suspicions of involvement in sheltering bin Laden and set up an independent commission to probe possible links and intelligence failures. Among the challenges is trying to determine whether bin Laden's support network spread beyond the brothers. ``I am sure he could not have lived without a local network. He had to get messages out. The kind of help that he needed to be there meant he had help from somewhere, some groups maybe,'' a senior Pakistani intelligence official said on Wednesday on the usual condition that his name not be used. ``Every possible link is being looked into,'' he said. He flatly denied involvement of the Pakistani intelligence agency known by its acronym ISI. While the U.S. administration has publicly said there is no evidence that anyone in a position of leadership harbored bin Laden, they have not ruled out lower level assistance. The CIA first learned Ahmed's nom de guerre in 2002 from a detainee being held by another country and wouldn't learn his real name until years later. Ahmed, who is said to be in his early 30s, was a protege of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Sept. 11 mastermind, and a close associate of Faraj al-Libi, a top al-Qaida operative captured in 2005 about 12 miles (20 kilometres) from Abbottabad. Both Mohammed and al-Libi lied about their association with Ahmed while being held in CIA secret prisons. But a top al- Qaida operative named Hassan Ghul also in CIA custody helped the agency connect the dots: Finding Ahmed, who had been identified as someone important, could lead to bin Laden. The captives said the courier was known by the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, which he adopted because their parents lived in Kuwait. But US intelligence only found the courier last August, through a chance interception of Ahmed's phone call. That set in motion the secret CIA search of the Abbottabad region, culminating with the May 2 raid and bin Laden's killing. US President Barack Obama's decision to keep Pakistan in the dark about the raid infuriated the military and its intelligence agency. Relations sank to new lows. The US, however, has warned it will do the same again if it has solid intelligence on the whereabouts of any of five most-wanted figures. Topping that list is Ayman al- Zawahri, al-Qaida's No. 2. Others are: Libyan Attiya Abdul Rahman, believed to be an operational chief; Pakistani Illyas Kashmiri, on whom the U.S. place a $5 million bounty last month; Sirajuddin Haqqani, the military chief of the Taliban-allied Haqqani network and son of its leader Jalaluddin Haqqani; and the Taliban's reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. The list was handed to Pakistani authorities during a hurried visit last Friday by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen. They warned then that they would again go it alone if they discovered the location of any of the five. Pakistan's ISI made a slight overture to the CIA by allowing access to bin Laden's compound last week. ``It was a gesture to say let's start to patch things up,'' he said. ``We don't want this relationship to end,'' he said, but another raid like the one on May 2 ``may be the straw that breaks the camel's back.''
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Al-Qaida plot to kill Lockheed Martin chief: David Headley

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:03 PM PDT


A Pakistani- based branch of al-Qaida was hatching a plot to kill the head of US defense group Lockheed Martin, David Headley testified in a US court on Tuesday.

CHICAGO: A Pakistani-based branch of al-Qaida was hatching a plot to kill the head of US defense group Lockheed Martin, self-confessed terrorist David Coleman Headley testified in a US court on Tuesday. "There was a plan to kill him because he was making drones," Headley testified during the Chicago trial of his childhood friend, Tahawwur Hussain Rana. Headley pleaded guilty to 12 terrorism charges related to the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and other unrealized plots in the wake of his 2009 arrest in Chicago. He is testifying against alleged co-conspirator Rana in exchange for avoiding the death penalty and extradition to India, Pakistan or Denmark. Headley testified that he secretly used Rana's office computer for research on the plot to assassinate the Lockheed Martin executive but dismissed his brief online search there as insignificant. "My research is more in-depth than Googling someone a couple of times," he testified during cross-examination by Rana's defense attorney. Headley said he was working on the plot with Ilyas Kashmiri, the commander of the Pakistani- based terrorist organization Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI), and a senior member of al-Qaida. Headley pleaded guilty to working with Kashmiri on a plot to attack the Danish newspaper Jyllen Posten, which published controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, after Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) got distracted with the Mumbai plot. Rana is accused of providing Headley with a cover and acting as a messenger, with prosecutors alleging he played a behind-the-scenes logistical role in both the Mumbai attacks and another abortive plan to strike Copenhagen. Rana, a Canadian-Pakistani and Chicago businessman, has denied all charges, and his defense attorneys argue that he was duped by his friend, whom he had met in military school.

'Strauss-Kahn's defence team to target maid'

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:02 PM PDT


NEW YORK: The defence team of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is likely to question the credibility of a hotel maid, who has accused him of sexual assault. Strauss-Kahn has already indicated that he plans a consensual-sex defence, the Wall Street Journal said. This tactic requires undermining the credibility of the maid, a 32- year-old immigrant from Guinea, according to experts. "There's not a lot of rocket science to this. They're going to be looking to discredit her," John Cutter, vice-president of the investigative firm Beau Dietl & Associates and a retired New York Police told WSJ. Strauss-Kahn, 62, allegedly forced the maid at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan to perform oral sex. He was taken into custody a few minutes before his Air France flight departed for Paris on May 15. Defence attorneys for Dominique Strauss-Kahn asserted in a letter last week to the Manhattan District Attorney's office that "were we intent on improperly feeding the media frenzy, we could release substantial information that in our view would seriously undermine the quality of the prosecution and also gravely undermine the credibility of the complainant in this case." The New York Post reported that Strauss-Kahn's defence team employed Guidepost Solutions, a private investigations firm run by ex- federal prosecutors, to cross- check every statement in his accuser's allegation. "When you have money you can put up a good defence for what should be indefensible," Anne Seymour, who works at Justice Solutions in Washington, DC, and has worked as a victim's advocate for the past 29 years told WSJ. "It means you can hire high- profile attorneys and in many cases they will rip the poor victims to shreds and go into her background and completely question her lifestyle and go deep in her personal life and find things that have absolutely nothing to do with the case." The former IMF chief is spending his house arrest at a posh pad in Tribeca in Manhattan. He has posted $1 million in bail and $5 million bond to stay out of jail. His next court appearance is on June 6.

Saudi denies plan to limit work permits

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:01 PM PDT


RIYADH: Saudi Arabian officials said there is no blanket plan to revoke work permits for foreigners who have held jobs in the kingdom for six or more years, clarifying a statement by the labour minister. Adel Fekyeh, the minister, was quoted Monday as decreeing that such long-term foreign workers would not be given renewed work permits — a measure aimed at boosting job opportunities for Saudis. Unemployment in the oil-rich country stands at 10.5 per cent. Fekyeh had not made clear precisely who would be affected or when. A ministry statement issued late Monday night, however, clarified that Fekyeh was referring to private sector companies that are not complying with regulations requiring that at least five to 10 per cent of their labour force be of Saudi nationality. The ministry said those companies would have a chance to correct work force demographics. Saudi Arabia has been working to improve the lives of its young people — a majority of the population. The kingdom, which sits atop the world's largest proven reserves of crude oil, has for years relied on foreign labour in a host of sectors, ranging from domestic workers to professionals. Fekyeh had said that 90 per cent of the private sector work force was made up of foreign workers and that remittances to their home countries totalled $26.7 billion a year. Saudi Arabia King Abdullah has committed the government to spending more than $90 billion on improving opportunities for the country's citizens, with the efforts focused on job creation, affordable housing and better government services. The money is being spent as part of the country's push to prevent the kind of mass protests that are roiling the Arab world. So far citizens have ousted the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt. The long-time leaders of Yemen, Syria and Libya are fighting to maintain power. The demonstrations have been fuelled by rampant unemployment and poverty in the Arab nations, along with big income disparities and other social and economic ills.
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Use in pregnancy & lactation

Posted: 28 May 2011 11:00 AM PDT


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Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing

Posted: 28 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT


Egypt lifted a four-year-old blockade on the Gaza Strip's main link to the outside world Saturday, bringing relief to the crowded territory's 1.5 million Palestinians but deepening a rift with Israel since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year.

RAFAH, GAZA STRIP: Egypt lifted a four-year-old blockade on the Gaza Strip's main link to the outside world Saturday, bringing relief to the crowded territory's 1.5 million Palestinians but deepening a rift with Israel since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year. The Egyptian move will allow thousands of Gazans to move freely in and out of the area — heightening Israeli fears that militants and weapons could easily reach its doorstep. Israel and Egypt imposed the blockade after the Islamic militant Hamas seized control of Gaza in June 2007. The closure, which also included tight Israeli restrictions at its cargo crossings with Gaza and a naval blockade, was meant to weaken Hamas, but it also fueled an economic crisis in the densely populated territory. Hundreds of Gazans gathered early Saturday as the first bus load of passengers crossed the border at 9 a.m. Two Egyptian officers stood guard next to a large Egyptian flag atop the border gate as the vehicle rumbled through. Rami Arafat, 52, was among the earliest arrivals. He said he hoped to catch a flight out of Cairo on Sunday to Algeria for his daughter's wedding. "All we need is to travel like humans, be treated with dignity, and feel like any other citizens of the world who can travel in and out freely," Arafat said. He said he believed the relaxing of travel restrictions "will guarantee more support from all Arabs and Palestinians for the new Egyptian regime." Nearby, 28-year-old Khaled Halaweh said he was headed to Egypt to study for a master's degree in engineering at Alexandria University. "The closure did not affect only the travel of passengers or the flowing of goods. Our brains and our thoughts were under blockade," said Halaweh, who said he hadn't been out of Gaza for seven years. Until Saturday, the Rafah border terminal had functioned at a limited capacity. Only certain classes of people, such as students, businessmen or medical patients, were eligible to travel and the crossing was often subject to closures, leading to huge backlogs that forced people to wait for months. Under the new system, most restrictions are being lifted, and a much larger number of Palestinians are expected to be able to cross each day. Inside the border terminal Saturday, the atmosphere was orderly, as Hamas police called up passengers one by one to register their travel documents. After 5 1/2 hours of operation, terminal officials said 340 people had crossed from Gaza into Egypt. None were forced to return, a departure from the past when Egypt had rejected passengers found to be on "blacklists." Another 150 people crossed from Egypt into Gaza. "Today is a cornerstone for a new era that we hope will pave the road to ending the siege and blockade on Gaza," said Hatem Awideh, director general of the Hamas border authority in Gaza. "We hope this facilitation by our Egyptian brothers will improve travel and will allow everyone to leave Gaza." One after another buses crossed Rafah, pulling blue carts behind them with luggage piled high. Inside the terminal, many waited with high hopes. One woman, who gave her name as Aisha, said she was headed for a long overdue medical checkup in Cairo. She underwent surgery for blocked arteries at a Cairo hospital in October, but Egyptian authorities had prevented her from returning for checkups because a distant relative was caught — and killed — operating a smuggling tunnel on the Gaza-Egypt border. During the four-year blockade, a thriving smuggling business has grown along the border. Salama Baraka, head of police at the Rafah terminal on the Gaza side, said travel has been limited to about 300 passengers a day under the old system. He said it was unclear how many people would pass through Saturday, but that officials hoped to get about three days' worth of people, or roughly 900, across. About 100 Hamas supporters marched with Palestinian and Egyptian flags outside the border terminal in a gesture of gratitude to Egypt. "This courageous step by Egypt reflects the deep historic relations between the Palestinian and Egyptian nations," said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zahri. "We hope this will be a step in the long process to end the blockade imposed on Gaza." The new system will not resolve Gazans' travel woes completely. While Egypt has dropped its restrictions on who can travel, bureaucratic obstacles remain. Men between the ages of 18 and 40 will have to apply for Egyptian visas, a process that can take weeks. Women, children and older men need easier-to- obtain travel permits, which can be obtained in several days. Israel, which controls Gaza's cargo crossings, allows most consumer goods into Gaza, but it still restricts exports as well as the entry of much-needed construction materials, saying they could be used by militants. Israel also enforces a naval blockade aimed at weapons smuggling. Israeli and American officials have expressed concerns that Hamas will exploit the opening to bring weapons and fighters into Gaza. In January 2008, masked militants blew open the Rafah border wall, allowing thousands of people to pour in and out of Egypt. Egyptian officials say they have security measures in place to keep weapons from crossing through Rafah. Hamas has long used tunnels to get arms into Gaza. Gaza militants now have military-grade rockets that have hit cities in southern Israel. Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli Defense Ministry official, told Channel 2 TV Friday that Israel's primary concern is that military training personnel could cross to instruct Hamas fighters. "One trainer who tells them how to set up the rockets and how to use them is equal to a large quantity of weapons," Gilad said. Egypt's decision to open the border is also meant to boost an Egyptian-mediated unity deal between the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah. Hamas has governed Gaza since routing Fatah forces in 2007, leaving the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in control only of the West Bank. Last month, the Egyptian regime brokered a reconciliation deal. With details still being worked out, Hamas will be in charge of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, but Egypt coordinated the opening with the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, said Yaser Afnan, Egypt's ambassador in the West Bank
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