Pakistan's powerful ISI provides funding, training and sanctuary to Taliban in Afghanistan on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report claims and suggests that the spy agency may be backing the insurgents to undermine Indian influence in the war-torn country.
The report by the London School of Economics (LSE), based on interviews with nine Taliban commanders in Afghanistan between February and May this year, says the support for the Afghan Taliban was "official ISI policy".
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Killed in NZ arrested in China
Don't get upset you will get justice
A 23-year-old man, wanted for the brutal murder of an Indian taxi driver in New Zealand, has been arrested by Chinese authorities, over four months after the crime, police said Monday.
Hiren Mohini, a 39-year-old father of two, was stabbed after taking a fare from downtown Auckland to suburban Mt Eden on January 31 this year.
The accused man, who was arrested in China's Shanghai city on June 10, has been granted interim name suppression, the New Zealand Herald reported. However, another New Zealand Website stuff.co.nz said the man has been identified as Zhen Xiao in the Auckland District Court files.
Detective Senior Sergeant Hywel Jones, who headed the murder investigation, is now in China helping authorities with "evidential matters".
"Discussions are underway between our officers in China and Chinese authorities regarding the next steps in the investigation," Auckland City CIB head Detective Inspector Bruce Shadbolt said.
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A 23-year-old man, wanted for the brutal murder of an Indian taxi driver in New Zealand, has been arrested by Chinese authorities, over four months after the crime, police said Monday.
Hiren Mohini, a 39-year-old father of two, was stabbed after taking a fare from downtown Auckland to suburban Mt Eden on January 31 this year.
The accused man, who was arrested in China's Shanghai city on June 10, has been granted interim name suppression, the New Zealand Herald reported. However, another New Zealand Website stuff.co.nz said the man has been identified as Zhen Xiao in the Auckland District Court files.
Detective Senior Sergeant Hywel Jones, who headed the murder investigation, is now in China helping authorities with "evidential matters".
"Discussions are underway between our officers in China and Chinese authorities regarding the next steps in the investigation," Auckland City CIB head Detective Inspector Bruce Shadbolt said.
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Chaina-Pak bad news for India
China on verge of signing N-deal with Pak: expert
China is on the verge of unveiling a nuclear deal with Pakistan that will, in effect, be "cocking a snook" at the world as it will be outside the purview of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a noted security expert said Monday.
After the exception the NSG accorded to India in 2008 to enable the implementation of its civilian nuclear pact with the US, Pakistan had sought a similar deal from Washington and after having been turned down, "it now appears that China will soon announce its deal with Pakistan to export two nuclear reactors", Commodore (retd) C. Uday Bhaskar, director of think tank National Maritime Foundation (NMF), said.
"This will be without NSG concurrence and despite the many misgivings about Pakistan's track record, its linkages to terror and radical ideologies," he said, while addressing a seminar here on "Nuclear Arsenals post-2010", organised by the Indian Navy-funded NMF.
"One can infer that this is the equivalent of China announcing its own autonomy in the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) domain and that the US is no longer the determining factor in nuclear matters," Bhaskar contended.
"In effect, this would mean that China is cocking a snook at the NSG, the US and the rest of the world," he added.
Tracing Pakistan's missile and nuclear acquisitions and the upcoming deal with China, he said these had "many grave implications" for the region - and particularly India.
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China is on the verge of unveiling a nuclear deal with Pakistan that will, in effect, be "cocking a snook" at the world as it will be outside the purview of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a noted security expert said Monday.
After the exception the NSG accorded to India in 2008 to enable the implementation of its civilian nuclear pact with the US, Pakistan had sought a similar deal from Washington and after having been turned down, "it now appears that China will soon announce its deal with Pakistan to export two nuclear reactors", Commodore (retd) C. Uday Bhaskar, director of think tank National Maritime Foundation (NMF), said.
"This will be without NSG concurrence and despite the many misgivings about Pakistan's track record, its linkages to terror and radical ideologies," he said, while addressing a seminar here on "Nuclear Arsenals post-2010", organised by the Indian Navy-funded NMF.
"One can infer that this is the equivalent of China announcing its own autonomy in the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) domain and that the US is no longer the determining factor in nuclear matters," Bhaskar contended.
"In effect, this would mean that China is cocking a snook at the NSG, the US and the rest of the world," he added.
Tracing Pakistan's missile and nuclear acquisitions and the upcoming deal with China, he said these had "many grave implications" for the region - and particularly India.
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Japan's gift to the solar world
Japanese scientists are celebrating the successful deployment of their solar sail, Ikaros.
The 200-sq-m (2,100-sq-ft) membrane is attached to a small disc-shaped spacecraft that was put in orbit last month by an H-IIA rocket.
Ikaros will demonstrate the principle of using sunlight as a simple and efficient means of propulsion.
The technique has long been touted as a way of moving spacecraft around the Solar System using no chemical fuels.
The mission team will be watching to see if Ikaros produces a measurable acceleration, and how well its systems are able to steer the craft through space.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) said in a statement that its scientists and engineers had begun to deploy the solar sail on 3 June (JST).
On 10 June, Jaxa said, confirmation was received that the sail had expanded successfully. Some thin-film solar cells embedded in the membrane were even generating power, it added.
The deployment took place 7.7 million km from Earth.
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The 200-sq-m (2,100-sq-ft) membrane is attached to a small disc-shaped spacecraft that was put in orbit last month by an H-IIA rocket.
Ikaros will demonstrate the principle of using sunlight as a simple and efficient means of propulsion.
The technique has long been touted as a way of moving spacecraft around the Solar System using no chemical fuels.
The mission team will be watching to see if Ikaros produces a measurable acceleration, and how well its systems are able to steer the craft through space.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) said in a statement that its scientists and engineers had begun to deploy the solar sail on 3 June (JST).
On 10 June, Jaxa said, confirmation was received that the sail had expanded successfully. Some thin-film solar cells embedded in the membrane were even generating power, it added.
The deployment took place 7.7 million km from Earth.
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Wet Wet Wet Pop Star punched his girl friend
Neil Mitchell, 44, from Glasgow, pushed and punched his partner Olivia Warren during a drunken row at her home in Fulham, south-west London, last July.
Kingston Crown Court heard she suffered a black eye and a bruised shoulder in the "shameful" attack.
The court heard the couple still hope to hope to have a future together. The pair argued after consuming three bottles of wine, said Jill Evans, representing Mitchell.
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Kingston Crown Court heard she suffered a black eye and a bruised shoulder in the "shameful" attack.
The court heard the couple still hope to hope to have a future together. The pair argued after consuming three bottles of wine, said Jill Evans, representing Mitchell.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Public Kissing in Saudi Arabia?
Do you like to kiss in public area?
Are you really thinking to do so? Pl be alert. Why? The next few lines will give you answer.
They know it is banned, yet they still don't let that fact cut any ice with their love life, or passions!
A Saudi court has convicted a man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for kissing a woman in a mall.
The government-owned daily Al-Yom reported on Thursday that Saudi religious police arrested the man and two women after they were seen on mall cameras "engaging in immoral movements in front of other shoppers."
The report says the man, who is in his 20s, was seen with a woman "sitting on one of the chairs, exchanging kisses and hugs." It's unclear what the other woman was doing.
The kingdom enforces a strict interpretation of Islam, which bans unrelated men and women from mingling.
The paper says the man is to receive three batches of lashes and is banned from malls for two years. The women will be tried in another court. Source
Are you really thinking to do so? Pl be alert. Why? The next few lines will give you answer.
They know it is banned, yet they still don't let that fact cut any ice with their love life, or passions!
A Saudi court has convicted a man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for kissing a woman in a mall.
The government-owned daily Al-Yom reported on Thursday that Saudi religious police arrested the man and two women after they were seen on mall cameras "engaging in immoral movements in front of other shoppers."
The report says the man, who is in his 20s, was seen with a woman "sitting on one of the chairs, exchanging kisses and hugs." It's unclear what the other woman was doing.
The kingdom enforces a strict interpretation of Islam, which bans unrelated men and women from mingling.
The paper says the man is to receive three batches of lashes and is banned from malls for two years. The women will be tried in another court. Source
Bad News For Pakistan
World Bank cancels 750,000 million dollar aid for Pak
The World Bank (WB) has cancelled an aid of 750,000 million dollar to Pakistan after the government failed to initiate necessary measures to utilise the money.
The aid, which was provided by Japan on behalf of the World Bank, was to be used for the development of mineral resource sector, The Daily Times reports.
A World Bank team visited Pakistan in April 2008 to gauge the progress made over the project, following which Pakistani authorities demanded the deadline of the project to be extended till March 2009.
However, even after the extension, authorities failed to initiate the project, forcing the World Bank to cancel the aid. Source
The World Bank (WB) has cancelled an aid of 750,000 million dollar to Pakistan after the government failed to initiate necessary measures to utilise the money.
The aid, which was provided by Japan on behalf of the World Bank, was to be used for the development of mineral resource sector, The Daily Times reports.
A World Bank team visited Pakistan in April 2008 to gauge the progress made over the project, following which Pakistani authorities demanded the deadline of the project to be extended till March 2009.
However, even after the extension, authorities failed to initiate the project, forcing the World Bank to cancel the aid. Source
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