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We killed our own people - Admits prominent Kashmiri separatist
Monday, 3 January 2011 - 6:08 PM SL Time
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SRINAGAR: A senior Hurriyat leader has created a flutter by saying that two separatist leaders and his brother were killed by `our own people` and not security agencies, prompting J&K government to term it as a `late admission` and a call for a probe to fix responsibility.
`No police was involved (in the killings).... It was our own people who killed them,` former Hurriyat Conference chairman Abdul Gani Bhat said.
He said time had come to speak the truth about the killers of Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone, who were shot dead in 2002, and his own brother Mohammad Sultan Bhat, who was murdered in 1995.
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World Braces For A Failed State With Nuclear Weapons
Wednesday, 5 January 2011 - 8:31 PM SL Time
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ISLAMABAD: Salman Taseer, the flamboyant and high-profile Governor of Punjab, was gunned down here on Tuesday by one of his security guards.
The guard, Mumtaz Qadri of the Punjab Elite Force, yelled out `Allah-o-Akbar` and emptied two magazines of an SMG on the governor in the Kohsar Market before surrendering himself.
He later explained that he had killed Mr Taseer because of his recent criticism of the blasphemy law.
The governor had arrived here in the morning. After visiting the Presidency and Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, late in the afternoon, Mr Taseer, who was staying with a relative in Sector F-6/3, went to Kohsar Market which is home to some of the city`s popular cafes.
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Can Pakistan rid itself of religious fanaticism - Asks Fareed Zakariya
Monday, 10 January 2011 - 12:36 PM SL Time
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This week, Joe Biden will make his most important foreign trip since he became vice president. He will visit Pakistan, a country that is in crisis at every level - military, political, economic and societal.
Pakistan has long been troubled, but last week`s assassination of Salman Taseer, the country`s most courageous liberal politician, has shone a new and harsh light on those troubles. I had always believed that ultimately, Pakistan`s governing elite was in charge, its military would not allow the country to crumble, and its nuclear arsenal was safe. After last week, I am not so sure.
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India Summons Sri Lankan High Commissioner Over Killing In The Sea
Thursday, 13 January 2011 - 4:20 PM SL Time
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PUDUKOTTAI: The Sri Lankan navy opened fire on a group of Tamil Nadu fishermen and killed a youth in mid-sea firing off Jegadapatnam coast in Pudukkottai in central Tamil Nadu on Wednesday night, said a senior fisheries department official.
The Lankan navy personnel opened indiscriminate fire and R Pandian, aged about 25, suffered a bullet injury in his chest and was killed on the spot, an assistant director in the state fisheries department, Jambunathan, told TOI. Pandian, a native of Chinnakudi village near Tarangampadi in Nagapattinam district put out to sea with three other fishermen -- C Baskaran (52), M Meyyappan (26) and M Manikandan (25) -- in a mechanized boat on Wednesday morning. They were preparing for the return trip when they encountered a Sri Lankan navy vessel late in the evening. The Navy personnel ordered the fishermen to jump into the sea.
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Indian Army set for its most radical organizational re-structuring
Friday, 14 January 2011 - 2:02 AM SL Time
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NEW DELHI: The Indian Army is set for the biggest transformation in its recent history, according to authoritative sources and plan details accessed by TOI. The restructuring could begin as early as March-April.
The proposals include setting up of a Strategic Command, comprising of Army`s offensive capabilities, abandoning many existing administrative structures and thinning down of headquarters at all levels. Taken together, this is said to be the most radical organization change that the Indian Army has seen.
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Sri Lanka economic freedoms improve - US think tank
Saturday, 15 January 2011 - 12:23 PM SL Time
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Jan 14, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has improved its score in an economic freedom index for 2011 compiled by US based heritage foundation and the Wall Street Journal, but the increasing non-tarrif barriers and state expansion has dragged the score down.
Sri Lanka improved its score by 2.5 points to 57.1 making it the 107 freest economy out of 179 countries in the index, but the score remains below 60 in the `mostly unfree` category. A decade ago Sri Lanka has had a much higher score.
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Is Somebody Trying To Undermine Current SL Administration From Inside?
Monday, 24 January 2011 - 11:28 AM SL Time
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Killing of yet another Indian fisherman allegedly by the Sri Lankan Navy at Palk Strait has re-kindled the diplomatic row between New Delhi and Colombo over the sensitive issue of territorial waters.
NewDelhi reacted tersely to the killing of Jayakumar, a fisherman from Tamil Nadu`s coastal hamlet of Pushpavanam when he had gone fishing with two others on Saturday about 20 kilometers (11 nautical miles) south-east of Kodiakarai on Tamil Nadu`s coastline reportedly within the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL).
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US lifts restrictions on Indian defence and space companies
Tuesday, 25 January 2011 - 12:03 PM SL Time
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday removed several Indian government defense-related companies, including subsidiaries of DRDO (Defense Research and Development ORganisation) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization), from the so-called Entity List, in an effort to drive hi-tech trade and forge closer strategic ties with India.
The move, which was described as the `first steps` to implement the export control policy initiatives announced by President Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on November 8, 2010, precedes a visit to New Delhi on February 6 of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who is leading 24 U.S. businesses on a high-tech trade mission to India.
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