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US worried over ISI leaking information on Osama PTI[ FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2003 08:20:55 PM ] WASHINGTON: As the hunt for Osama bin Laden expanded to include the rugged northern region near Peshawar, US officials are 'concerned' that Pakistan's ISI is leaking information to the al-Qaeda terror network about pending raids on his suspected hideouts, media reported on Friday. Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and its ranking Democrat Senator Joseph Biden, expresed concerns about ISI's renewed help to Taliban and al Qaeda activists seeking to infiltrate Afghanistan to destabilise the regime of Pesident Hamid Karzai,...

How significant is Khalid Sheikh's arrest? March 03, 2003 Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, described by Major General Rashid Qureshi, General Pervez Musharraf's spokesman, as 'the kingpin of Al Qaeda,' was arrested by Pakistani intelligence officials from the home of a local Jamaat-e-Islami lady leader's son in Rawalpindi on March 1. He was handed over to US intelligence officials based in Pakistan. The latter immediately airlifted him to the US naval base in Diego Garcia for interrogation. It is understood an Arab and the Jamaat-e-Islami leader's Pakistani son were also arrested by Pakistani authorities during the raid. While the arrested Pakistani has...

The curious case of Khalid Sheikh March 04, 2003 Khalid Sheikh Mohammad is being projected by US officials and the army of so-called non-governmental counter-terrorism experts, who have sprung up since 9/11, as if he is the Field Marshal Montgomery or General Patton or General Rommel of Al Qaeda, but his case is getting curiouser and curiouser. Just like the earlier case about the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Remember the Pearl case? Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence claimed to have solved the case without recovering the dead body and prosecuted Sheikh Omar and his accomplices. The court was...

B Raman Al Qaeda's new home Though US officials may not admit it openly lest they embarrass General Pervez Musharraf, an analysis of reports emanating from Pakistani sources clearly indicates that the focus of the US-led war against pan-Islamic terrorism spearheaded by Al Qaeda has shifted to Karachi. From the tribal areas of the North-West Frontier Province and the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas -- FATA -- of Pakistan, the focus now lies this port city of in Sindh province. When the dregs of Al Qaeda, Taliban and various components of the bin Laden-led International Islamic Front shifted from Afghanistan to Pakistan,...

A K Verma About the Author: A former Indian Police Service officer, A K Verma served as director, Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency, in 1987. Is the US reading Pakistan correctly? With elections almost successfully over in Jammu and Kashmir, a renewed pressure from the United States on India to enter into a dialogue with Pakistan may be expected. Such pressures from the US have become a feature of Indo-US relations and are applied regularly on almost every facet of Indian policies -- economic, social, political or foreign affairs. Their thrust always is more to serve American...

Where is the outrage? Daniel Pearl is dead. The day before Bakri Eid, we were informed that Pakistani jihadis cut his throat with a knife, then laid him on the ground and chopped off his head with a blunt weapon. It was all videotaped, and just in case the Americans missed the action or the import, the scene of the beheading was spliced together several times to form a loop. After the decapitation, the kidnappers acknowledged the gruesome murder on video, saying it was intended to avenge the killings of Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir and "other places", while a separate ...

Rajeev Srinivasan What happened in Kunduz? Are the Americans all singing from the same hymn book? Something mysterious has just taken place in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The bare facts seem to be as follows: A large number of Taleban were surrounded by Northern Alliance forces. This included both Afghan Taleban and several thousand "Arab, Pakistani and Chechen" fighters. Several Pakistani planes (and helicopters) were observed by eyewitnesses landing at night and ferrying away several hundred of the 10,000 or so besieged Taleban. After a long siege, the remaining Taleban surrendered. Some of the Taleban prisoners (mostly Pakistani) were taken to a ...

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Why India embraced NMD Ramananda Sengupta in New Delhi We are against US NMD deployment because it begins the militarisation of the outer space and undermines the global strategic stability built over last 20 years by Russia and the United States -- Jaswant Singh,(India's Foreign Minister) Moscow, June 24, 2000 What then, led India to embrace the National Missile Defense within six hours of United States President George Bush's announcement last week that Washington intended to press ahead with the programme? "China, " says Bharat Karnad, a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. "It's an advantage for India, ...

I just read a post here that Bush event on Tuesday in San Jose at Wyndham Hotel (1345 First St.) is being cancelled and he will only have a pres event at City Ministry. Does anyone know or confirm this. I was planning to go to Wyndham early morning at 8. HELP

Speculators feel Republicans' man has a 60% chance of being president Special report: the US elections Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Wednesday October 25, 2000 While surveys of public opinion about the presidential campaign may throw up widely conflicting messages from the voters, the hard-nosed futures market is pointing forcefully towards a victory for George W Bush. The University of Iowa has run a "winner-takes-all" futures market for the presidential election since 1988, and its predictions have been right every time. Speculators assess the two candidates as though they were commodities and invest in one of them. Last week the ...

While I was watching the Edge tonight I noticed that Paula was going out of her way to play the role of a partisan Democrat when she interviewed Jonah Goldberg, Editor of NR online. She kept bringign up NYT poll purpotedly showing voters agreeing with Gore on most of the issues by a wide. First of this poll was of Registered voters notoriously unreliable. Secondly I think they are setting up a stage so that when GW is elected they can say that he did not have a mandate on his initiatives and issues such as Tax cuts, partially privatizing ...

I just heard on Drudge show that Zogby's latest poll numbers show George W Bush is leading Gore by 3 points. I can not find this any where. Has anyone seen these numbers and the underlying interals? If so pl. post the link to the site. I know NewsMax offers a premium service but hey, why wait for the email?

Marked for Clinton, Ranthambore tigers run scared AJAY SURI RANTHAMBORE NATIONAL PARK, MARCH 16: It was US Ambassador Richard Celeste's lucky seven sighting that clinched it for Ranthambore. What's a visit to India without an encounter with that big cat, the tiger? So, last month Celeste visited this sanctuary quietly and saw not just a couple but seven tigers! Ranthambore was soon on Clinton's schedule. This set a benchmark that has got the sanctuary officials really worried. Will the tigers be as keen to meet the US President as Clinton is to meet them on the evening of March 23? ...

Clinton's security takes over New Delhi Josy Joseph in New Delhi Unprecedented security and a high level of secrecy mark the preparations for US President Bill Clinton's visit to the Capital next week. The only certainty, as of now, is that the Indian security agencies would be learning several lessons as their American counterparts descend on Delhi with gizmos and a multi-layered protection detail for the world's most powerful man. According to indications so far, Hotel Maurya Sheraton -- a five-star deluxe hotel about 10 km from the technical area of the Indira Gandhi International Airport where Clinton would land, ...

US security taking no risks New Delhi: At the luxury hotel where US President Bill Clinton will probably stay during his visit to the capital, everything, including the floor-mopping cloth, has been locked and sealed because the US security men are leaving nothing to chance.Why lock up the mopping cloth? “So that no one will put cyanide or some other poison and endanger the President’s life,” explains an Indian security official.Paranoia it might well be, but that’s how the world’s most guarded leader’s security works, shrugs the official. Though Clinton’s India visit was officially announced only on February 1, US ...

Clinton's visit runs into French resistance at Jaipur's Oberoi hotel SAURABH SHUKLA NEW DELHI, MARCH 12: The French and the Americans have got embroiled in a fight arising from the visit of President Bill Clinton to India. The President's entourage has set its eyes on the Oberoi group's Raj Vilas Hotel in Jaipur for his stay, but there is a snag. A large group of French tourists which has booked most of the rooms in the hotel for March 23, when Clinton will be in the Pink City, has said `non' to requests for changing the dates. According to sources, ...

Maran holds sway, India sits pretty at WTO CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA SEATTLE, DECEMBER 2: As a writer of 30 Tamil film scripts and a couple of novels, Murasoli Maran sure knows how to grab attention. At the WTO meeting in Seattle, India's Commerce Minister is doing it in a style that isn't often an Indian trademark: blunt and engaging. This is a man who is not inhibited by the limitations of language or the thickness of accent. ``Yevvery'' time he starts to speak, Maran is direct and compelling. Not for him the finessed position or the nuanced statement. Or the irksome ...

Monday September 13, 2:51 pm Eastern Time U.S. says Pakistan has full Chinese missile system By Carol Giacomo WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (Reuters) - A new U.S. intelligence report states publicly for the first time that Pakistan has received M-11 short-range ballistic missiles from China, raising once again the question of whether U.S. law warrants imposing tougher sanctions against Beijing, administration and congressional sources said on Monday. The unqualified conclusion, contained on page five of the declassified intelligence report on missiles issued on Thursday, states: ``Pakistan has Chinese-supplied M-11 short-range ballistic missiles.'' The statement, which reflects the consensus of the U.S. ...