Zitat:EDITORIAL: Jihad and loss of internal sovereignty

According to a Foreign Office spokesman in Islamabad, investigations show that “certain individuals might have been motivated by personal ambition or greed” in facilitating possible nuclear technology transfers from Pakistan to Iran. The government says it will take to task anyone found involved in such activity.
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Zitat:Pakistan Leader Survives Deadly Bombings
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By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Writer

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Suicide attackers detonated two massive bombs as President Pervez Musharraf's convoy passed on a congested road Thursday, killing 14 people and getting close enough to crack the windshield on his limousine in the second attempt on his life in 11 days.
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Zitat:Kashmir-Konflikt: Grenzgespräche neu belebt
Nach zweijähriger Unterbrechung haben Indien und Pakistan ihre Gespräche über Grenzfragen wieder aufgenommen.

Eine achtköpfige Delegation der indischen Grenzarmee ist am pakistanischen Grenzposten Wagah eingetroffen. Bis zur Unterbrechung vor zwei Jahren hatten die verfeindeten Atommächte Indien und Pakistan sich monatlich getroffen, um über Grenzfragen zu beraten. Dabei ging es vorwiegend um Routinefragen wie Grenzüberquerungen, Patrouillen oder der Aufbau von Grenzmarkierungen.
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Zitat:Bomb Along Kashmir Highway Wounds 21
Tue Dec 30, 6:06 AM ET

By MUJTABA ALI AHMAD, Associated Press Writer

SRINAGAR, India - Suspected Islamic rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb as military vehicles passed on a key highway in Kashmir (news - web sites) on Tuesday, wounding 20 soldiers and one civilian, an army officer said.
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Zitat:CRAWFORD, Tex., Jan. 1 -- President Bush said Thursday that he believes Pakistan's nuclear arsenal remains secure despite two assassination attempts last month on President Pervez Musharraf. But Bush repeated his call for Musharraf to hunt terrorists more aggressively along Pakistan's borders.

Zitat:Six die in gunbattle at Indian Kashmir's main train station


JAMMU, India : Two suspected Islamic rebels opened fire at Indian Kashmir's main railway station, killing four security troopers before being shot dead in a gunbattle that sent passengers rushing for cover, police said.
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Zitat:Kashmir, flashpoint for India-Pakistan tension

SRINAGAR, India, Jan 2 (Reuters) - More than 56 years after India and Pakistan won independence from Britain, Kashmir remains a flashpoint between the nuclear-armed rivals.
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Zitat:From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to Pakistan
By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD

Published: January 4, 2004

The Pakistani leaders who denied for years that scientists at the country's secret A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories were peddling advanced nuclear technology must have been averting their eyes from a most conspicuous piece of evidence: the laboratory's own sales brochure, quietly circulated to aspiring nuclear weapons states and a network of nuclear middlemen around the world.
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Zitat:India's grand strategic vision gets grander
By Stephen Blank

India has long considered itself a major global player, or at least a major Asian power, and it has been deeply frustrated until now in not being regarded as as a formidable actor on the international and Asian scene.
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Zitat:A Nuclear Headache: What if the Radicals Oust Musharraf?
By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER

Published: December 30, 2003


RAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 29 — Two recent assassination attempts against Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, have renewed concern in the Bush administration over both the stability of a critical ally and the security of its nuclear weapons if General Musharraf were killed or removed from office
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Zitat:Srinagar - Die indische Regierung hat erstmals eine politische Organisation moslemischer Separatisten in Kaschmir zu gemeinsamen Gesprächen eingeladen. Das Treffen solle am 22. Jänner in Neu-Delhi stattfinden, sagte der Vorsitzende der Kaschmir-Allparteienkonferenz Hurriyat, Molvi Abbas Ansari, am Dienstag. Eingeladen habe der Innenminister und stellvertretende indische Regierungschef Lal Krishna Advani. Die Allparteienkonferenz ist die größte Separatistenvereinigung im indischen Teil von Kaschmir...........

Zitat:Pak to ban more jihadi groups

ANI[ MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2004 12:50:34 PM ]

LAHORE : Keen to stymie the negative impact of the two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistan government is likely to ban more jihadi groups.
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Zitat:Saint-Lo - Nach dem Attentat von Karachi am 8. Mai 2002 ist die französische Staatswerft DCN zur Zahlung von insgesamt 705.000 Euro Schadensersatz an die Hinterbliebenen ihrer getöteten Mitarbeiter verurteilt worden. Das Attentat sei "nur durch ein unentschuldbares Fehlverhalten des Arbeitgebers möglich gewesen", urteilte das Sozialgericht im bretonischen Saint-Lo am Donnerstag. Die Firma habe die Risiken unterschätzt und ihre Sorgfaltspflicht verletzt. Bei dem Attentat waren elf Mitarbeiter der Direction des constructions navales (DCN) getötet und zwölf ihrer Kollegen verletzt worden. DCN-Anwalt Bruno Labey-Guimard will in Berufung gehen..........

Zitat:Islamabad/Kabul - Der pakistanische Staatschef General Pervez Musharraf hat seine Landsleute zum "Heiligen Krieg" gegen den Extremismus aufgerufen. Seine erste Rede vor dem im Vorjahr gewählten Parlament in Islamabad wurde am Samstag von lautstarken Protesten begleitet. Islamisten kritisieren besonders seine Unterstützung für den Anti-Terror-Krieg der USA. Im Dezember war Musharraf nur knapp zwei Attentaten entgangen.........

Zitat:Failed Musharraf assassination linked to Pearl murder

Authorities in Pakistan hope to question an Islamic militant over his group's possible involvement in an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf.
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Zitat:Unfulfilled Promises: Pakistan's Failure to Tackle Extremism


Islamabad/Brussels, 16 January 2004: President Pervez Musharraf’s promise to drive extremism from Pakistan’s madrasas, or Islamic schools, remains unfulfilled. Today, two years after he promised his sweeping reforms, the jihadi madrasa remains the key breeding ground for radical Islamist ideology and the recruitment centre for terrorist jihadi networks.
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Zitat:Neu-Delhi - Indien hat sich mit Führern der Separatisten in Kaschmir auf ein Ende des Blutvergießens in der Himalaya-Region verständigt. "Wir sind überein gekommen, dass der einzige Weg nach vorn darin besteht, ein Ende aller Formen von Gewalt auf allen Ebenen zu gewährleisten", hieß es am Donnerstag in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung. Zuvor waren beide Seiten erstmals auf ranghoher Ebene zu Verhandlungen zusammengetroffen........

Zitat:The Monster Within
Once nurtured by Musharraf, the violent group Jaish-e-Muhammad now seems bent on killing him
BY TIM MCGIRK | ISLAMABAD
In the half-hour before Mohammed Jamil ended his life, he was a busy man. As he sat in a pickup truck loaded with C4 plastic explosives, he made and received no fewer than 109 calls on his cell phone, talking, at least in some cases, to accomplices in his effort to incinerate the President of Pakistan. Jamil, 23, might have assumed that the evidence he was creating would disintegrate in the blast he planned for Pervez Musharraf. If he did, he was wrong. Not only did he and a second car bomber fail to kill Musharraf in their Dec. 25 attempt, but the memory card of Jamil's cell phone, which investigators found intact amid the detritus of the blasts, has led authorities to dozens of suspected collaborators. Many belong to a violent Pakistani extremist group, Jaish-e-Muhammad. Once allied with Musharraf's government, the group is now linked to al-Qaeda, whose leader, Osama bin Laden, called for Musharraf's overthrow in a recent audiotape.
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Zitat:Musharraf: It Appears Scientists Sold Secrets
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday it appeared Pakistani scientists had sold nuclear secrets abroad, but reiterated Islamabad's position that there had been no official involvement.
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