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Bid to gherao Pak airport, 1 dead Islamabad, October 14 Reports from Jacobabad said hundreds of demonstrators mobilised by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and Jamiat-e-Islami religious parties attempted to reach the airport which was cordoned off by security personnel. The protesters fired at the police who retaliated. The security personnel fired in the air and lobbed teargas shells to disperse the demonstrators. One person was killed and over 10 others, including a police official, were injured. More than 2,000 activists have been arrested, officials said. Meanwhile, the two Islamist parties have called for a nationwide strike tomorrow in protest against the US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit to Islamabad. Mr Powell, the first top US official to visit Pakistan after the Bush administration took over power is scheduled to discuss a host of issues, including the ongoing US military operations in Afghanistan. Fifteen police officials were injured in Karachi last night when protesters threw hand grenades at police patrols. A police official told the local media that the grenade attack “is the job of the people who seem to be fully trained in such operations.” Eleven persons have been killed and many injured in clashes between protesters and the police in different parts of Pakistan in the past two weeks. Today’s protests near the Jacobabad airbase took place despite repeated clarifications from the Pakistan Government that the airports have been given to the USA not to conduct any military operations against Afghanistan, but only to provide emergency search and rescue facilities for US planes.
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London, October 14 “American use of Pakistani military bases and airspace is in jeopardy after President Pervez Musharraf objected to any decisive US military support for the Northern Alliance, the rebel group preparing the strike at Kabul,” media reports said here today. US Secretary of State Colin Powell is to visit Islamabad this week to address Pakistan’s concerns, which threaten to limit the Pentagon’s options in taking the war against the Taliban as far as possible before the onset of winter. The setback emerged as Pentagon officials admitted that a precision-guided American “smart bomb” aimed at Kabul airport had gone astray and exploded in a poor residential area in which up to four persons were killed, The Sunday Times reported. “The battle of Kabul is on hold,” the report quoted a diplomatic source in Islamabad as saying.
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New Delhi, October 14 Mr Klebanov will call on President K.R. Narayanan and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, besides having extensive discussions with External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh and National Security adviser Brajesh Mishra. The Russian leader was received by Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyer and Russian Ambassador Alexander M Kadakin and officials. The parleys would cover preparations for the visit of Mr Vajpayee to Russia in the first week of November, official sources said. Mr Klebanov, who is the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation and the co-Chairman of the Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission for Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC) is undertaking the visit at the invitation of Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha who is the Chairman of the joint commission from the Indian side. He will be attending an inter-session review meeting of the IRIGC. The Russian leader is also the co-Chairman of the Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission for Military-Technical Cooperation along with Mr Jaswant Singh.
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