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Pervez for resolving Kashmir issue in 3 years Islamabad, August 5 The President also clarified that he had not asked for any timeframe from India but only called for a fast pace to settle the dispute. ‘’I have not asked India to give any timeframe for a solution of the Kashmir dispute but had only called for a fast pace,’’ General Musharraf said in an interview with the daily Dawn. He was replying to a question referring to a statement by Indian External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh that there was no hurry to resolve the issue. The President described Mr Singh’s statement as very comparative term. ‘’But what I would like to say is that we should move as fast as possible because if we don’t, then we cannot have confidence building measures (CBMs),’’ he added. ‘’We need to move CBMs and the dialogue process in tandem with each other”, he said. The President’s statement comes in the backdrop of talks between Defence Secretaries of the two countries on the Siachen Glacier issue. Pakistan Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz Khan arrived in New Delhi yesterday as the head of an eight-member team for the two-day talks, beginning today. A second delegation led by Rear Admiral Ahsan Ul Haq Chaudhry, Additional Secretary in the Defence Ministry, also arrived in the Indian capital yesterday for talks on the Sir Creek dispute, scheduled for Friday. On former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s resignation, General Musharraf denied that Mr Jamali had been forced to quit and said it was a decision by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League. The President expressed the hope that Prime Minister-in waiting Shaukat Aziz would be able to continue a political momentum for harmony in politics and governance. — UNI Musharraf says he is against army takeover Islamabad, August 5 The 13-member military-civilian National Security Council had been constituted to avert such occasions in future, he said in an interview to Dawn. The interview was published today. “I have full conviction that this is the only way of ensuring that the army never comes in,” he said. Musharraf declined to say whether he would give up his office of the Chief of the Army Staff by December 31, the deadline set by a Parliamentary Act. He promised to talk about the matter at the end of December. His decision would be guided by national interests, he added. “You will see how it happens. We have to take certain decisions at a certain time. We will talk about these at that time,” he said. He justified the army interventions in country’s politics.
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Indonesia executes Indian drug smuggler Jakarta, August 5 The execution of Ayodhay Prasad Chaubey in Medan city on the Sumatra island was the first death sentence carried out in Indonesia since 2001. It came despite pleas for clemency by the Indian Embassy and Amnesty International. A senior police officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the execution was carried out at 0200 a.m. local time today. “Ayodhay was shot in the heart from a distance of 10 metres,’’ state news agency Antara quoted. He was given an Islamic burial in the city shortly after the execution, the report said. Ayodhay was arrested along with two Thai nationals in Medan in 1994 after airport officials confiscated 12 kg of heroin. All three were sentenced to death in 1996. The two Thai nationals remain on death row.
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13 killed in Pak army copter crash Peshawar, August 5 ‘’The helicopter pilot gave a distress signal before it crashed,’’ the senior military official said. The Russian-designed Mi-17 helicopter came down near
Karak, in a district neighbouring north Waziristan, a tribal area where security forces come under regular fire from militants.
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5 killed, 21 injured in blast near Baghdad Baghdad, August 5 The blast occurred yesterday at a town called Mahawil, 85 km south of the capital, said Dr Ali al-Soudani, from the Iraqi Health Ministry. The Iraqi police has been constantly targeted by insurgents determined to undermine the country’s progress and efforts to establish a democratic regime in the wake of last year’s war. On Tuesday, a car bomb exploded at an Iraqi National Guard checkpoint outside the city of Baqouba, killing six guardsmen and wounding six others. A week earlier, a car bombing outside a police station in the same city, 57 km north-east of Baghdad, killed at least 70 persons and injured several others.
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Pak to make Manmohan Singh’s birthplace a Islamabad, August 5 Dr Manmohan Singh, 71, was born in a poor Sikh family in Gah, a rural backwater about 80 km southwest of Islamabad in Punjab province and completed primary school education there in the 1930s. Dr Manmohan Singh’s father moved his family from Gah some years before Partition when India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain in 1947. Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has directed the provincial government to declare Gah a model village and to name the school as ‘’Manmohan Singh Government Boys Primary School’’, a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said. Both steps had been taken to ‘’strengthen’’ the peace process between Pakistan and India, it added. Providing a further link between the neighbours, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was born in Delhi before Partition. Turning Gah into a model village means its unpaved, dusty roads will be improved, its residents will have natural gas and telephones and sewerage pipes will be laid. And soon, women will no longer have to draw water by hand from wells.
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Vice-President of Fiji guilty of coup Suva, August 5 Fiji’s High Court found Seniloli and three others guilty of administering unlawful oaths during the May 2000 coup which toppled the government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry. The ageing Seniloli was driven away to jail in the same prison truck used to escort coup leader George Speight after he was
convicted of treason. — Reuters |
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