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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46316)	5/26/2004 11:41:49 AM
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Two Karachi car bombs wound at least 20 Wed 26 May, 2004 15:05 By Aamir Ashraf KARACHI (Reuters) - At least 20 people have been wounded after two car bombs exploded outside the Pakistan-American Cultural Centre in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a Reuters witness said. The explosions, less than 15 minutes apart, took place on Wednesday about 100 metres (yards) from the residence of the U.S. consul and about 200 metres from the U.S. consulate, which was the scene of a bloody car bomb attack by Islamic militants in 2002. Reuters correspondent Aamir Ashraf arrived at the scene shortly after the first blast and just before the second. The second blast was far stronger than the first and caused the most casualties. "There was a loud explosion and we were all stunned," Ashraf said of the second explosion. "The car was engulfed in flames and the first car then also caught fire. "Debris from the car hit people, and I saw people with head cuts and blood coming from their arms and legs. A man standing next to me was hit in the arm and was bleeding. "We couldn't hear anything afterwards, the blast had deafened us." Ashraf said he saw no fatalities at the scene. Another Reuters reporter saw 20 people admitted to hospital. They included eight policemen and six journalists. One policeman and a civilian were seriously hurt. Pakistan's biggest city has been the scene of frequent acts of Islamic militant violence since President Pervez Musharraf joined the U.S.-led war on terror in 2001. BOMBS FOLLOW MILITANT ARRESTS Militants have been known to detonate a small bomb to draw police and others to the scene, followed by a much larger one to maximise the number of casualties. The blasts came two days after police in Karachi arrested six members of Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami, an al-Qaeda-linked group that tried to assassinate Musharraf in 2002. "It is sheer terrorism, it looks like they have used locally made bombs," said Manzoor Mughal, a senior police official told Reuters at the scene. Asked if they could be related to the arrest of the militants, he said: "Yes it could be a reaction, we have arrested so many of them." Karachi police chief Tariq Jamil said the blasts did not appear to have been caused by suicide bombers, unlike an attack earlier this month that killed 15 minority Shi'ite Muslims and wounded 125 in a sectarian attack on a Karachi mosque. Musharraf has stepped up a battle against Islamic militancy since joining the "war on terror" after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. Militants enraged by the crackdown and Musharraf's backing of the U.S.-led war in neighbouring Afghanistan have responded with repeated attacks aimed at undermining his government. Musharraf survived two more assassination attempts in the city of Rawalpindi near Islamabad in December. Western concerns, government officials and religious minorities have also been militant targets in the past three years. In a speech broadcast on national television on Monday, Musharraf appealed to Pakistan's youth to shun forces of conservative Islam, warning that the country's future was threatened by extremism.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46316)	5/27/2004 3:05:49 AM
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A daughter of frontier province Shirin R Tahir-Kheli could be the next US ambassador to the United Nations, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. <There was among the Pakhtuns something that called to the Englishmen or the Scotsmen, “partly the people looked you straight in the eye. There was no equivocation and you couldn’t browbeat them even if you wanted to. And we crossed the bridge at Attock and we felt we came home.”-Sir Olaf Caroe> According to Al Kamen who writes an “insider” column for the newspaper containing informed Beltway gossip, one of the persons whose name is under consideration to replace John D Negraponte, who has been named ambassador to Iraq, is that of the Pakistani-American academic, currently senior director for democracy, human rights and international operations a the National Security Council. During the senior Bush administration, Mrs Tahir-Kheli served as UN representative of the United States with the rank of ambassador. She “knows the Bush family quite well. That she’s Pakistani-American and a Muslim would give some flair to her selection,” the Post reports. Mrs Tahir-Kheli, author of several books, is married to a Pakistani academic. She is the daughter of eminent educationist Dr Raziuddin Siddiqi, who was vice chancellor of the University of Peshawar in the 1950s. Mrs Tahir-Kheli’s name was considered as assistant secretary of state for South Asia by the present the administration

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46316)	5/27/2004 7:39:48 PM
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The tall order;;;;;;;;;;;;<The romance continues and today, as yesterday, the politicals of the Frontier trade daily on the brink of eternity. These warriors of centuries whom even the Brits could not conquer, to be pacified by Pakistan is a very tall order.> Helicopters today dropp-ed leaflets asking the tribesmen not to panic when aircraft land at Wana airfield on an experimental basis on Friday. The people felt the planes would be used for bombing against the suspected hideouts. The preparation of big actions in frontier and unheard of step for centuries..