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...Pakistani government has tried to clamp down on the trafficking. In 2000, authorities stopped 74 children en route to Dubai. But families willingly go along. The going rate - $500-$1,000 a child plus $120 a month for the two to three years a boy usually races - can propel a family out of poverty in a country where the average annual income...
...Yousuf and Suleman were rescued after 16 months. When their father abandoned the family, their mother was free to protest their sale to Pakistani officials. Although joyous at the boys' return, the family, which had received a total of $240 for their labors, remains too poor to give the children an education, their one hope for a better future. Says their grandfather: "They will become laborers like me and their father...
...promised 5,000 troops. PAKISTAN Shadowy World Police arrested two former Taliban ministers and a Muslim cleric, Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, who was thought to be linked to the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. A little-known group called the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty demanded $2 million and the release of Pakistan?s former Taliban ambassador in exchange for Pearl. In Quetta, police said they detained the Taliban?s former Chief Justice and Deputy Foreign Minister but that their subsequent whereabouts were unknown. THE PHILIPPINES New Front The jungle island of Basilan became...
...journalist, lured by the promise of an exclusive interview, is taken hostage by a militant group calling itself The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. The group, using the free email account kidnapperguy@hotmail.com, claims the reporter is a CIA agent - no, wait, a Mossad agent - and gives the U.S. 24 hours - no, make that 48 hours - to meet its demands, which range from freeing all Pakistani terror detainees to releasing a halted U.S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government...
...very little information. One unconfirmed report currently circulating is that one of the key suspects being pursued by the authorities has died, although we don't know under what circumstances. But as far as we have been told, they're no closer to ascertaining the whereabouts of Danny Pearl. Pakistani law enforcement agencies are being assisted by FBI personnel in the search - FBI director Robert Mueller was here last week when Pearl was abducted...