Friday, August 21, 2009 BHOPAL: Senior BJP leader Kailash Sarang on Friday demanded that the book on Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah by expelled party leader Jaswant Singh should be banned in the whole country. Talking to Indian news agency, Sarang said the book has already been banned by the Gujarat Government and hoped that a similar step would be taken soon by other BJP ruled states also. When asked if the Madhya Pradesh Government should also ban this book, Sarang hoped that it would be banned here also. Asked how he viewed Jaswant Singh's expulsion from the BJP, he said in his view this was "most appropriate step".
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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