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...This is a time bomb for the country.' AFTAB ALAM, head of a Pakistani lawyers' association, on Taliban militants expanding their territory a week after imposing Islamic law in the Swat Valley as part of a peace deal with the government...
Residents streaming from Buner, home to nearly a million people, told local newspapers that armed militants are patrolling the streets. Pakistani television stations aired footage of Taliban soldiers looting government offices and capturing vehicles belonging to aid organizations and development projects. The police, say residents, are nowhere to be seen. The shrine of a local Muslim saint, venerated across the country, was closed. The Taliban, which adheres to a stricter version of Islam than is practiced in most of Pakistan, hold that worship at such shrines goes against the teachings of Islam...
...American hospital in Germany. Oakley also made some progress getting neighboring African states, notably Ethiopia and Eritrea, to involve themselves in peacemaking. One project he has been assigned by Clinton is to help organize an African commission to investigate who really was responsible for the killing of 24 Pakistani U.N. soldiers in June (though the U.N. and U.S. have no doubt it was Aidid). That would enable the U.S. and U.N. to negotiate with Aidid without officially ignoring a Security Council resolution calling for the arrest, trial and punishment of ''those responsible.'' And if the commission eventually concludes that Aidid...
...done," says Swati Mehta, Coordinator of the Prison Reforms Programme at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi. If a defendant claims to be under 18, she says, the judge is required to order medical tests or investigate school records or other documents that might establish age. (Pakistani officials have acknowledged that Qasab is a Pakistani, but have given no proof of age. It's common in South Asia for births to go unrecorded.) The defense attorney could have also pressed further but instead accepted the decision...
...documented very clearly," says Ajai Sahni, head of the South Asia Terrorism Portal. The only difference in this case is the level of detail. Nikam alleged that LeT chief Zaki Ur Rehman Lakhvi personally oversaw some of the training, along with an as yet unidentified Major General in the Pakistani army. Naming names could put pressure on Pakistan to do more to rein in jihadi activity, but Nikam's rant this morning was a solo show. A spokesman for India's Ministry of External Affairs said he has not yet seen a copy of but the trial proceedings, and declined...