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Apr 02 2008 1:28 AM
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The Taliban has said two attacks on Dutch forces in Afghanistan were in retaliation for an anti-Islamic film by a Dutch politician, the SITE Intelligence Group said on Tuesday. In a communique posted on Web sites used by militants dated April 1, the Taliban said its Shura Council Leadership announced reprisal operations against Dutch forces because "one of the members of the Dutch parliament produced a film that hurts Islam, and he published it with bad intentions". Read the rest of this entry »
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Mar 20 2008 1:36 AM
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Osama bin Laden, in a new audio message posted Wednesday, condemned the publication of drawings that he said insulted the Prophet Muhammad and warned Europeans of a "severe" reaction to come. The message, which appeared on a militant Web site that has carried al-Qaida statements in the past and bore the logo of the extremist group's media wing al-Sahab, showed a still image of bin Laden aiming with an assault rifle. "The response will be what you see and not what you hear and let our mothers bereave us if we do not make victorious our messenger of God," said a voice believed to be bin Laden's, without specifying what action would be taken.
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Mar 11 2008 4:34 AM
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A group of Southern Baptist leaders said Monday that the denomination has been "too timid" on environmental issues and has a biblical duty to stop global warming.
The declaration was signed by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, two former presidents and others. The denomination is the largest Protestant group in the United States, with 16.3 million members.
The signers of "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change" said that current evidence of global warming is "substantial," and that the threat is too grave to wait for perfect knowledge about whether, or how much, people contribute to the problem.
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Mar 10 2008 2:48 AM
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More than 100 Tibetan exiles have begun a march from India to Tibet to protest against Chinese rule in the region. The marchers left Dharamsala on the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape from Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, has called for greater pressure on China over its human rights record.
Tibet activists are hoping to use China's hosting of the Olympics to publicise their cause.
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Dec 19 2007 3:03 AM
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Mufti-e-Azam Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah has said that Ummah is facing serious challenges. During his sermon (Khutba) from Masjid-e-Nimra at Arafat to hujjaj, the Mufti-e-Azam emphasised on forging unity in the ranks of the Ummah, a private TV news channel reported. Read the rest of this entry »
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ISLAMABAD: Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Chaudhry Muhammad Ali said that 102 people were killed during the operation against the administration of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa. The evidences of the presence of some foreigners among them have been found. Addressing a news conference in Islamabad, he said that 11 officials of the security forces were also included in the number of persons killed in the operation. He told that the corpse of Maulana Abdul Aziz’s son Hassan Ghazi has been identified and he was laid to rest as amanat in the H-11 graveyard. Chaudhry Muhammad Ali said that 590 surrendered females have been handed over to their parents while the search for the families of three girls is going on. Read the rest of this entry »
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MUZAFFARABAD, April 18 (Online): AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed has stressed for highlighting Islamic teaching around the world to eradicate scourge of terrorism Addressing a Seerat Conference in Fatima Jinnah Post Read the rest of this entry »
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Powerful earthquake rocks Pakistan and India and Afghanistan early this morrning rattled electric and telephone poles and triggered panic accross Indian held Kashmir. The earthquake measuring 6.4 on the recter scale was felt in Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawer and surrounding areas of NWFP and Azad Kashmir. However, no loss of life or property was reported. Read the rest of this entry »
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PIR MEHAL at the hand of District Nazim Jamaat-e-Al-e-Sunat Moulana Abdullah Chisti here in the suburban village the other day.
The names of these newly converted Muslims will be Muhammad Abdul Hameed, Muhammad Hanif, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Raffi, Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Asif, and Muhammad Qasim.
The female include Shazia wife of Abdul Hameed, Hameedain Bibi, two daughters of Nazir, Rukhsana daughter of Barkat, Sana and Sadia daughters of Muhammad Saeed and a child.
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Consultations among six major nations on the new Security Council draft resolution against Iran seemed making "substantial progress," UN diplomats said on Monday. Ambassadors from the six nations -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, met again on Monday afternoon at the UN Headquarters in New York on the disputed elements of the draft resolution imposing sanctions on Iran against its unyielding nuclear program. French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere told reporters after the two-hour meeting that "this is the best meeting we have had since the beginning of these negotiations ... and we have many progress." Read the rest of this entry »
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The attack near the well-known Mutanabi book market in central Baghdad was the first major blast in the city in several days - sending a huge pillar of black smoke as flames spread to shops, cars and book stalls.
The death toll from police was preliminary and could rise. At least 54 people were injured. The commercial zone is mixed between Sunni- and Shiite-owned businesses and shoppers.
``Papers from the book market were floating through the air like leaflets dropped from a plane,'' said Naeem al-Daraji, a Health Ministry worker who was driving about 200 yards from the blast and was slightly injured by broken glass from his car window.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bombing aimed at a US military convoy triggered a chaotic round of gunfire on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, leaving at least eight Afghan civilians dead and about three dozen others wounded, officials said.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bombing aimed at a US military convoy triggered a chaotic round of gunfire on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, leaving at least eight Afghan civilians dead and about three dozen others wounded, officials said.
The attack and resulting gunfire, which occurred outside the city of Jalalabad, set off a stone-throwing riot in which hundreds of protesters, alleging that US troops fired indiscriminately on civilians, shouted slogans denouncing the United States and the government of President Hamid Karzai.
It was the highest civilian death toll this year in a matter involving US or other foreign troops. Such casualties erode public support for Karzai's government, and the Afghan president has made repeated public appeals to allied forces to exercise greater care to avoid killing or wounding civilians.
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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Oxford researchers say aerial attack will not only fail to hinder nuclear development but also spur Iran's drive for achieving nuclear power.
An Oxford University study claims a US attack of Iran's nuclear facilities will backfire - both failing to destroy the centrifuges being used to enrich uranium and lead Iran to step up its push for nuclear power, a report published Monday by British daily the Guardian said.
In a report for the Oxford Research Group (ORG) arms and nuclear expert Dr. Frank Barnaby, a British nuclear weapons scientist, also claims that an attack on the Bushehr nuclear facility will likely result in large-scale damage to the surrounding area. According to Barnaby the number of civilian casualties risked in such an attack will be very high since there will be no warning in advance and most will be caught unprepared.
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The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to work together to end
Saudi King Abdulla bin Abdul Aziz, stands right, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, greets Saudi officials in Riyadh, 3 March 2007
sectarian violence in the region. Leslie Boctor reports from VOA's regional bureau in Cairo on the meeting Saturday between the two leaders.
The talks took place in Riyadh in what was the Iranian president's first official visit to Saudi Arabia.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he and Saudi King Abdullah agreed to fight what he described as "enemy" plans to divide the Muslim world.
Saudi Arabia's official news agency reported that the leaders agreed that they must work to counter attempts to fan sectarian strife between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim.
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One of the Taliban's three most senior leaders has been captured by Pakistani security forces, a security official and Taliban sources have said.
Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, the third most senior member of the Taliban's 10-member leadership council, was arrested late on Monday in the southwest city of Quetta.
If confirmed, Akhund's capture would mark the first Pakistan arrest of a senior Taliban leader since it was driven from power in Afghanistan in 2001.
Akhund's capture came just hours after Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, paid an unannounced visit to Pakistan earlier during the week.
Aside from being on the leadership council headed by Mullah Mohammad Omar, Akhund was also defence minister in the Taliban government before it fell.
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