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...heavy monsoon rains. Nearly 100 people died and more than 1 million were left homeless in the worst monsoon floods to hit the state for 50 years. At least 160 people died in flash floods and mudslides in northern Pakistan, caused by record rains - 60 cm fell in Islamabad in one day. Iran, too, suffered death and destruction, with some 30 people perishing as torrential rain and hailstorms struck Ardebil province in the northwest. INDONESIA The Long Goodbye Defiant to the end, ousted leader Abdurrahman Wahid finally quit the presidential palace on Thursday, four days after the National Assembly voted...
...Unger opposite Walter Matthau in the film version of The Odd Couple, and his Oscar-winning portrayal of Harry Stoner, a corrupt businessman in Save the Tiger. SENTENCED. REHMAT SHAH AFRIDI, 55, editor and owner of the English-language Pakistani newspaper Frontier Post, to death for drug trafficking; in Islamabad. Reporters Sans Frontieres has denounced the verdict, saying it was "more for his critical coverage of Anti-Narcotics Force activities than for supposed drug trafficking." INVESTIGATION DROPPED, Against JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MITTERRAND, 54, son of the late French President FranCois Mitterrand, for procedural violations; in Paris. Mitterrand was investigated in connection...
...truck while being smuggled into Britain from Belgium; in Maidstone, England. Of the original 60, two surviving immigrants told how Wacker had closed the air vent on one of the hottest days of the year. CONVICTION OVERTURNED. For BENAZIR BHUTTO, 49, the two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan; in Islamabad. The Supreme Court ruled that a 1999 trial convicting Bhutto of corruption was fixed, paving the way for the self-exiled Bhutto to return home. INDICTED. SONG HAK SAM, 55, for visiting North Korea and allegedly distributing a book sympathetic to North Korea in violation of a South Korean security...
Today, however, India's charge rings a lot truer. Despite a decade of denials?Islamabad insists it provides only moral and political support, not training or tangible aid?Pakistan is fueling militant activity in Kashmir. Of the five main militant groups operating in Kashmir, four are based in Pakistan, where open recruiting and fundraising are commonplace. Training of militants is also done on Pakistani soil. The Pakistani military is deeply involved, especially in the smuggling of anti-Indian militants across the Line of Control...
Militant groups have roots all over Pakistan, from their well-equipped training centres in Muzaffarabad?the capital of Pakistan's slice of Kashmir?and the country's North-West Frontier province to the nice, middle-class houses in Lahore and Islamabad. Those houses may look no different from their neighbors at first glance, but what about the strange antennas on the roofs, the international phone lines and the transient occupants with unkempt hair, camouflage jackets and hiking boots? And what of those unmarked four-wheel-drive vehicles pulling up at dawn with clockwork precision? Here is an inside look...