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Musharraf aide booked for possessing liquor

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 12:22 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani actress Atiqa Odho, a close aide of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, has been served a showcause notice to appear before customs authorities within 30 days and clarify her position regarding two bottles of liquor found in her luggage during a search at the Rawalpindi airport. The notice had been served at Odho's home address, customs spokesman Rana Shakeel told the media. Police too have booked Odho on charges of possessing two bottles of liquor. They acted after the Supreme Court took suo-motu notice of an incident in which Odho was let off after being briefly detained by authorities at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Rawalpindi on June 4 for possession of liquor. Reports said police had sought permission from the Home Department of Punjab province to obtain arrest warrants for Odho, who lives in Karachi. Odho was Vice President of Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League but resigned from the party after the incident was reported by the media. The Airport Security Force found the liquor in her baggage during a security check before she was to board a flight to Karachi. The All Pakistan Muslim League has said a three-member committee is looking into the issue. Though Odho tendered her resignation, her fate will be decided after the committee's findings, the party said. The consumption of alcohol is banned in Muslim-majority Pakistan but the country has a thriving bootlegging industry. Alcohol is available at a premium in most Pakistani cities.

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Gaddafi forces using sex drugs for rape?

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:30 AM PDT

UNITED NATIONS: The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said on Wednesday he is investigating whether Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi provided Viagra-type drugs to Libyan soldiers to promote the rape of women during the current conflict. Luis Moreno Ocampo said his office is collecting evidence on rapes and has become "more convinced" that Gadhafi decided to punish women by using rape as a weapon, which would be a new method in Libya civil war of instilling fear and trying to control the population. He told a news conference after briefing the UN Security Council on Darfur that some witnesses confirmed the Libyan government was buying containers of Viagra-type drugs to carry out the policy, and "to enhance the possibility to rape.'' " We are trying to see who was involved," Moreno Ocampo said. He said it was difficult to know how widespread the use of rape is in Libya. "We' re getting important information," Moreno Ocampo said. "In some areas we had a number of a hundred people raped. The issue for us was, can we attribute these rapes to Gadhafi himself, or is it something that happened in the barracks.'' The UN Security Council voted unanimously on February 26 to refer the Libyan crisis to the International Criminal Court, the world' s permanent war crimes tribunal. On May 16, Moreno Ocampo asked judges to issue arrest warrants for Gadhafi, his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi and intelligence chief Abdullah al- Sanoussi, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity by targeting civilians in a crackdown against rebels who are trying to end his more than 40 year rule. Judges are now evaluating the evidence and must decide whether to confirm the charges and issue international arrest warrants. If the arrest warrants are issued, Moreno Ocampo said he may add the charge of rape to the case. Moreno Ocampo said the two cases against the three top Libyans involve the shooting of civilians in demonstrations in different cities at the beginning of the conflict and the arrest, torture and forced disappearance of people, particularly in areas under Gadhafi' s control. But he told reporters that witnesses interviewed by investigators asked why the court was focusing on arrests, tortures and disappearances over the last three months because "it happened for 20 years – so we' d like you also to review all of them.''

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Earliest anti-Semitic letter by Hitler displayed
Téa Obreht wins for The Tiger's Wife
China confirms first aircraft carrier

Earliest anti-Semitic letter by Hitler displayed

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:17 PM PDT

THE signature under the typewritten words on yellowing sheets of nearly century-old paper is unmistakable: Adolf Hitler, with the last few scribbled letters drooping downward. The date is 1919 and, decades before the Holocaust, the 30- year-old German soldier - born in Austria - penned what are believed to be Hitler's first written comments calling for the annihilation of Jews. Written on a German army typewriter, Hitler's letter has long been known to scholars. It is considered significant because it demonstrates how early he was forming his anti-Semitic views. The document was displayed on Tuesday in New York by the founder of a Jewish human rights organization that purchased the letter last month. Hitler "set the gold standard about man's inhumanity to man," said Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Three weeks ago, the Los Angeles-based organization purchased the original for US $150,000 from Profiles in History, a dealer in Calabasas Hills, California, which acquired the document from a dealer in Kansas, who in turn purchased it from a US Army soldier named William F. Ziegler, according to the rabbi. Ziegler is said to have found the four typed pages in a Nazi archive near Nuremberg, Germany, in the final months of World War II. "The danger posed by Jewry for our people today finds expression in the undeniable aversion of wide sections of our people," Hitler wrote in German. "The cause of this aversion ... arises mostly from personal contact and from the personal impression that the individual Jew leaves - almost always an unfavorable one." Hitler said that a powerful government could curtail the so- called "Jewish threat" by denying their rights. But "its final aim, however, must be the uncompromising removal of the Jews altogether."

Téa Obreht wins for The Tiger's Wife

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:30 PM PDT

Not only is the newly announced winner of this year's Orange prize for fiction a first time novelist, she's also strikingly, surprisingly young – only 25 – making Téa Obreht the youngest ever author to be given the award in its 16-year history. The Belgrade-born and New York-based Obreht was given what is the most prestigious prize for women's writing at a ceremony in London's Royal Festival Hall. Something of an unexpected winner, judges praised her debut novel The Tiger's Wife as evidence of a "truly exciting" new literary talent. The historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes, who chaired the judging panel, said the novel more than fulfilled the Orange prize criteria of being original, accessible and excellent. "It is a very brave book," she said. "We were looking for a book that had some kind of alchemy, that changed us as readers and changed the way we thought about the world and The Tiger's Wife certainly does that. It is a very special book." To have that effect is all the more remarkable, given Obreht's age. She is 25 now, but the publishers have had the manuscript, written while she was on Cornell University's creative writing course, since 2008. Last year her literary wunderkind status was cemented when she was the youngest member of New Yorker magazine's top 20 writers under 40. Obreht's victory meant defeat for better established writers Emma Donoghue – the bookies' favourite for the best selling Room – and Nicole Krauss for Great House. Many had also fancied the chances of Aminatta Forna for her rich and engrossing The Memory of Love. Hughes said it had been a difficult decision – the final Tuesday-night judging panel session lasted more than four hours – and it was not unanimous. "It was an incredibly exhilarating and very positive meeting and although judges were arguing very passionately for particular books, without exception everyone was delighted that The Tiger's Wife won." Obreht's book is set amid the horrors and aftermath of Balkan civil war, mixing magic, myth and folklore with intense, tough realism. There are encounters with a deathless vampirish man, the autobiographical story of a young woman's love for her dying grandfather and an almost surreal tale about a tiger that terrorises a village. Its subject matter might be heavy – the ravaging effects of the Balkan wars – but Hughes said it was written with "such a lightness of touch that it makes the novel very charismatic and readable". Hughes said the novel had been enlightening. "It opened the doors and allowed us to step into the houses and homes of people who have lived in the Balkans for generations and suffered generations of chronic conflict and it asked what do you do, as a society, to deal with that? One of the things you do, to deal with that level of suffering, is that you tell stories. For a prize which is a celebration of fiction and literature, it seems good to be honouring a book that puts storytelling right at its heart." Obreht was born in what was Yugoslavia in 1985 and grew up in the capital Belgrade until her family moved to Cyprus then Egypt after war broke out. When Obreht was 12, they emigrated to the US. If this year's Orange prize shortlist has been striking for anything, it is the dark and difficult themes that have been mined by the six writers on the shortlist. Donoghue's Man Booker shortlisted Room grippingly tells the Josef Fritzl style story of an imprisoned child and mother while Forna tackles the horrors of Sierra Leone's civil war and Krauss weaves together terribly sad stories of loss and suffering. The other two nominated novels, both debuts, were Kathleen W

China confirms first aircraft carrier

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:25 PM PDT

HONG KONG: A top Chinese military official has confirmed that Beijing is building an aircraft carrier, marking the first acknowledgement of the ship's existence from China's secretive armed forces. In an exclusive interview published on Tuesday, the Hong Kong Commercial Daily quoted Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, as saying the 300 metre (990-foot) refurbished Soviet carrier "is being built, but it has not been completed". He declined to elaborate although there has been wide speculation that the vessel was nearly finished after the ship, then called the Varyag, was reportedly purchased in 1998. It is currently based in the northeast port city of Dalian. The ship, which an expert on China's military has said would be used for training and as a model for a future indigenously-built ship, was originally built for the Soviet navy. Construction was interrupted by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Hong Kong paper quoted anonymous sources as saying the carrier will be launched by the end of June at the earliest. Qi Jianguo, assistant to the chief of the PLA's general staff, told the newspaper that the carrier would not enter other nations' territories, in accordance with Beijing's defensive military strategy. "All of the great nations in the world own aircraft carriers -- they are symbols of a great nation," he was quoted as saying. But China is involved in a number of simmering marine territorial disputes. China has claimed mineral rights around the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and argued that foreign navies cannot sail through the area without Beijing's permission. In September, Japan and China clashed over the disputed Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China, located in the East China Sea. In April, Admiral Robert Willard, head of US Pacific Command, said China's navy had adopted a less aggressive stance in the Pacific after protests from Washington and other nations in the region. The PLA -- the largest army in the world -- is hugely secretive about its defence programmes, which benefit from a big military budget boosted by the nation's runaway economic growth.

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'US plans to sabotage Pak N- facilities'
Pak prosecutors to ask court to begin impounding Musharraf assets
E coli outbreaks in Germany 2325 fall sick
US plans to sabotage Pakistan nuke facilities: Ahmadinejad

'US plans to sabotage Pak N- facilities'

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:30 AM PDT

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday accused Washington, Tehran's arch-foe, of planning to sabotage Pakistan's nuclear facilities, during a media conference in Tehran. "We have precise information that America wants to sabotage the Pakistani nuclear facilities in order to control Pakistan and to weaken the government and people of Pakistan," the hardline president said. The US would then use the UNSC "and some other international bodies as levers to prepare the ground for a massive presence (in Pakistan) and weaken the national sovereignty of Pakistan," he added.

Pak prosecutors to ask court to begin impounding Musharraf assets

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:29 AM PDT

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani prosecutors are expected to ask an anti- terrorism court to start proceedings to impound former President Pervez Musharraf's assets following his failure to respond to his designation as a "proclaimed offender" for failing to cooperate in the investigation of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed of the Rawalpindi-based court had given Musharraf a week to respond to the charges against him after declaring him a proclaimed offender or fugitive on May 30. Musharraf, currently living in self-exile outside Pakistan, has not submitted his response to the court and no lawyer appeared on his behalf before the judge. The court had directed the Federal Investigation Agency to print advertisements in national newspapers giving details about the designation of Musharraf as a proclaimed offender and this was done on June 1, officials said. The advertisements clearly mentioned that the court had set a seven-day deadline for Musharraf to respond to the charges levelled against him. The deadline had expired today, officials said. The advertisements further said that if Musharraf did not appear in court or appoint a lawyer to appear on his behalf, the procedure to impound his moveable and immovable assets will be started. Prosecutors from the FIA are expected to ask the court to begin the procedure for impounding Musharraf's assets at the next hearing of the case on June 11.

E coli outbreaks in Germany 2325 fall sick

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:27 AM PDT

BERLIN: Germany' s national disease control centre says a further 94 people have been sickened by the deadliest E coli outbreak in modern history. The Robert Koch Institute said the number of registered infections in Germany rose to 2,325 Tuesday, with those in other European countries still standing at about 100. The institute adds the latest figures indicate that the number of new cases is declining — a sign that the epidemic that might have reached its peak. But it cautions that it is not certain whether the latest decrease will continue in the coming days. It said the number of people suffering from a serious complication that may lead to kidney failure among those sickened rose by 12 to 642. The outbreak has killed a total of 22 people across Europe within a month. Meanwhile, the European Union health chief on Tuesday warned Germany against premature — and inaccurate — conclusions on the source of contaminated food.

US plans to sabotage Pakistan nuke facilities: Ahmadinejad

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:30 AM PDT

TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday accused Washington, Tehran's arch-foe, of planning to sabotage Pakistan's nuclear facilities, during a media conference in Tehran. "We have precise information that America wants to sabotage the Pakistani nuclear facilities in order to control Pakistan and to weaken the government and people of Pakistan," the hardline president said. The United States would then use the UN Security Council "and some other international bodies as levers to prepare the ground for a massive presence (in Pakistan) and weaken the national sovereignty of Pakistan," he added, without elaborating. Pakistan is the only Islamic nation with nuclear weapons, and has close relations with Iran. In order to fight al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents in Pakistan, Washington has intensified its aerial operations in Iran's southeastern neighbour. Pakistani Islamist groups have at the same time multiplied their assaults on Pakistani military convoys and also on transport and fuel convoys through Pakistani territory intended for NATO troops in Afghanistan.

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Post-Saleh, worst is yet to come

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:42 PM PDT

CAIRO: Even at the best of times, Yemen looks like a nation about to unravel. Now that the US-allied president has left the country for medical treatment and may not return, citizens of the poorest Arab country are contemplating a future that could be even worse than the last 33 years under authoritarian rule. The question of who would ultimately replace Saleh could unleash new and unpredictable power struggles among the country' s powerful tribes, the youth movement that has led the anti-Saleh protests and remnants of the leader' s regime, including his son. In the meantime, the numerous conflicts and economic and social problems that were already leading Yemen to ever greater disorder and hardship before this year' s unrest broke out look certain to remain unaddressed as the political crisis deepens. All that is of great concern far beyond Yemen' s borders, especially by the US government, which had relied on Saleh in battling one of the most active branches of al-Qaida. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has an estimated 300 hard-core members taking sanctuary in Yemen' s forbidding mountains, plotting attacks on targets in Europe and the United States while enjoying the protection of tribal chiefs at odds with Saleh' s regime.

'Terrorists may be spreading killer E.Coli

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:41 PM PDT

LONDON: The deadly E. Coli outbreak could have been spread by terrorists, say doctors, who add that rogue groups may have deliberately implanted the killer germ into fresh produce. Though Germany has been the centre of the outbreak, Britain could also be hit as our fruit and vegetable supply is also vulnerable to attack, reports the Daily Star. The chilling warning comes as German health officials said a toxic batch of bean sprouts are probably behind the latest deadly outbreak. Scientists have warned people to avoid vegetables which are a popular ingredient in Chinese stir fry dishes. Klaus-Dieter Zastrow, chief doctor for hygiene at Germany' s Vivantes Hospital in Berlin, was quoted, as saying: "It is quite possible there' s a crazy person out there who thinks: ' I' ll kill a few people or make 10,000 ill.' " It is a mistake not to investigate in that direction," he added.

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US missile strike kills 18 militants in Pakistan
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US missile strike kills 18 militants in Pakistan

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:38 AM PDT

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN: US missiles killed 18 militants in Pakistan's tribal district of South Waziristan on Monday, destroying compounds and a vehicle in the deadliest drone strikes for months, officials said. Three strikes were reported just days after Pakistani officials said they believed senior Al- Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri had died in a similar attack late Friday, also in South Waziristan which borders Afghanistan. Washington has called Pakistan's semi-autonomous northwest tribal region the most dangerous place on Earth and the global headquarters of al-Qaida. Taliban and other al-Qaida-linked networks have carved out strongholds there. The first strike killed seven militants in the early hours in Shalam Raghzai, 10 kilometres (six miles) northwest of Wana, the district's main town. A second slammed two missiles into a compound in Wacha Dana, 12 kilometres northwest of Wana, killing eight militants, Pakistani officials said. The third struck the Bray Nishtar area, which lies on the border with North Waziristan at 10:45am (0545 GMT), about 30 kilometres from the site of the other two raids and about eight hours later. "A US drone fired two missiles on a militant vehicle killing three rebels," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP of the third attack. Another official warned the death toll could rise further. The combined toll of 18 made Monday's drone strikes the deadliest reported in Pakistan since a salvo of US missiles killed at least 35 people on March 17. Initial reports suggested that some foreign militants may have been killed and that Pakistani Taliban were also targeted on Monday. One of the demolished compounds was near a madrassa and just south of the Ghwakhwa area, where Kashmiri, one of al- Qaida's most feared operational leaders, was reportedly killed days earlier. Kashmiri has a US bounty of $5 million on his head. Pakistani officials said he was the target of a Friday drone strike in which nine members of his outlawed Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islam (HuJI) group died. The 47-year-old has been blamed for high-profile attacks on Western targets, accused over the November 2008 attacks on India's financial capital Mumbai and for masterminding devastating attacks on Pakistan's military. Although the United States does not confirm Predator drone attacks, its military and the CIA operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy the armed, unmanned aircraft in the region. Monday's attacks bring to 12 the number of strikes reported in Pakistan's tribal areas since US commandos killed al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden in a raid in the garrison city of Abbottabad on May 2. Pakistan's parliament has called for an end to the US missile attacks and demanded no repeat of the operation that killed bin Laden, despite President Barack Obama saying he reserves the right to act again. Pakistan is on the frontline of the US-led war on the Taliban and al-Qaida, and bomb attacks across the country have killed more than 4,400 people in the last four years -- blamed on militants opposed to the government's US alliance. On Sunday, at least 24 people were killed in two separate bombings in the northwest -- the first at a bus terminal near the city of Peshawar killing six people and the second killing 18 at a bakery in the garrison town of Nowshera. The bin Laden raid profoundly jolted Pakistan's security establishment, with its intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or complicity over the presence of bin Laden close to a military academy. The drone strikes are hugely unpopular among the general public, who are deeply opposed to the government's alliance with Washington, and inflame anti-US feeling, which has surged further after the bin Laden raid. But US officials say the missile strikes have severely weakened al-Qaida's leadership and killed high-value targets including the former Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. Most of the attacks have been concentrated in North Waziristan, the most notorious Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda bastion in Pakistan, where the United States wants Pakistan to launch a ground offensive as soon as possible.

William and Kate to live in Diana palace

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:36 AM PDT

LONDON: Prince William and new bride Catherine will within the coming months move into Kensington Palace, the London residence once shared by the prince and his late mother Diana, St James's Palace said on Sunday. The newly-titled Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry lived in the palace after Diana and Prince Charles divorced in 1996, but the newlywed couple will move into a different property within the grounds. A spokesman from St James's Palace said: "We can confirm that The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's official London residence will temporarily become a property at Kensington Palace. "A number of options for longer term solutions are still being considered. "The couple's main home will continue to be their house on Anglesey, and their Household Office will continue to be based at St James's Palace," he added. The duke and duchess currently live on the north Wales island of Anglesey, where the prince works as an RAF search and rescue helicopter pilot. William, 28, is second in line to the throne for the 16 Commonwealth realms, including Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Injured Saleh leaves Yemen

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 06:03 PM PDT

Govt crackdown unites Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev Hazare's camp announced that they would boycott the joint Lokpal panel meet scheduled for Monday and sit on a one-day hunger strike on June 8.

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Pop Guru Azam Khan Passes Away

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 03:26 AM PDT

The country's Pop Guru Azam Khan has passed away Sunday morning at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) after a prolonged fight with cancer. He was 62.

Khan suffered a massive cardiac arrest around 9:30am and his life support system was taken off at around 10:20am, Brig Gen Mehboobul Haque, commandant of Dhaka CMH, told The Daily Star.

The freedom fighter, who was suffering from oral cancer, was admitted to Square Hospital on May 22. He was given life support later as his condition deteriorated.

With his health condition being unimproved, Azam Khan was moved to Dhaka CMH June 1 night.

Since then, the CMH doctors were continuing the treatment prescribed by Square Hospital physicians.

His condition was a little better on Saturday and he tried to communicate with doctors with gesture, the commandant said.

Azam Khan was undergoing treatment under the supervision of a medical board formed by CMH with consultant physician Maj Gen Rabiul Hossain as its head.

After detecting the cancer, the legendary singer was flown to Singapore on July 14 last year for better treatment. He returned home after treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

Azam Khan left behind his two daughters and one son to mourn at his death.

Fakir Alamgir, his longtime singer friend with whom Azam Khan began Gano Sangeet in the '60, said the Pop Guru received financial assistance from the singers and his fans after he became sick last year but he was not properly evaluated.

During the tumultuous days of 1971 Liberation War, the Pop Guru inspired people to fight against the Pakistani regime with his songs. He participated in the Liberation War as an active guerrilla freedom fighter in sector No-2.

Born on February 28, 1950, Azam Khan was brought up at his Kamalapur ancestral residence, family sources said.

Awami League joint secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif, who went to the CMH after hearing the death news, told media that Azam Khan's body will be taken to Shaheed Minar Monday morning where people will show tribute to him.

He will be buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals graveyard after his namaz-e-Janaza at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Monday afternoon, he added.