Protests, strike persist in held Kashmir on 6th day

Sunday, June 07, 2009 SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has appealed to the international community to play its role in resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiris’ aspirations, KMS reported on Saturday.Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement issued in Srinagar, today, strongly denounced the illegal detention of Hurriyet leaders and use of brute force by Indian troops against the peaceful demonstrators in the occupied territory. He urged India to repeal draconian laws, withdraw its troops and take steps towards resolving the dispute, once and for all.APHC leader, Nayeem Ahmed Khan talking to media men in Srinagar took strong exception to subjecting of women and photojournalists to severe torture by Indian troops.Indian police personnel re-arrested Hurriyet leaders Shabbir Ahmed Shah and Muhammad Saleem Nunnaji from outside Srinagar Central Jail immediately after their release from illegal detention. They were shifted to an undisclosed destinations. The APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Mian Abdul Qayoom and Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi remained under house arrest.Meanwhile, forceful demonstrations, marked with complete shutdown, continued for the sixth consecutive day, today, all across the Kashmir Valley against the molestation and subsequent murder of two women by the troops in Shopian. The activists of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement took to the streets in Thanamandi, Rajouri, Surankot, Mandher, Doda, Bhaderwah and Kishtwar areas to protests against the incident.In Geneva, the Executive Director of Kashmir Institute of International Relations, Sardar Amjad Yousuf, apprised the participants of a seminar, held on the sidelines of the 11th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, about the gross human rights violations being perpetrated by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir.

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India's swine flu death rate is increasing

Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...

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US drones to target Taliban in Afghan war

Friday, July 31, 2009 WASHINGTON: The US military plans to use more drone aircraft to target Taliban militants in Afghanistan while focusing less on hunting down Al-Qaeda figures, report said on Thursday.Although defeating the Al-Qaeda terror network remains an overriding goal for Washington, officials now believe the best way to pursue that objective is to ensure stability in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan instead of Al-Qaeda manhunts, the paper said, citing US government and Defense Department officials.It was more important to prevent a slide towards violence and anarchy that could be exploited by Al-Qaeda, which used Afghanistan to stage its attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the officials said."We might still be too focused on Bin Laden," an official said. "We should probably reassess our priorities."The shift in priorities for the drone fleet comes despite President Barack Obama's declaration that defeating and dismantling Al-Qaeda ...

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