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PPP denies AG-Zardari meeting

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Monday contradicted reports that PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had met Attorney General (AG) Malik Muhammad Qayyum in Dubai. PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar said no such meeting had taken place and that it was not on Zardari’s agenda. Babar said these baseless reports were fabricated by secret agencies to create confusion. Earlier, Geo News reported that Qayyum had warned Zardari to reconcile with the government otherwise cases pending against him would be reopened. According to the channel, Qayyum met Zardari in Dubai and told Zardari that the National Reconciliation Ordinance would expire on February 5. The channel said that the AG told Zardari that the government could issue the ordinance anew if Zardari believed in reconciliation with President Pervez Musharraf and cooperation with the government. The AG warned the PPP co-chairman that in case of non-cooperation from the PPP, cases against him and other party leaders would be reopened for hearing after February 5, the channel reported. Meanwhile, talking to ARY television, Babar and Qayyum denied any such meeting. staff report
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Thunder Jet JF-17 production begins in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The co-production of Pak China Thunder jet JF-17 has officially begun at the Kamra Aeronautical Complex.

The project was inaugurated by Air Chief Marshal Tanveer Mehmood at Kamra on Tuesday.

The JF-17 thunder jets can also be upgraded to carry conventional and non-conventional weapons.

The Joint Fighter-17 (JF-17) Thunder, also known as the Fighter China-1 (FC-1) Fierce Dragon in China, is a single-seat multirole fighter aircraft.

The first two aircraft were delivered to the Pakistan Air Force in December 2007.

The JF-17/FC-1 is designed to be a cost-effective plane which can meet the tactical and strategic needs of the Pakistani Air Force.

Till now, it has been manufactured by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation.

Its maiden flight took place on August 25, 2003. Its primary users are the Pakistan Air Force and the PLA Air Force. Four prototypes plu four have been delivered to Pakistan. Each aircraft costs an estimated 15-20 million American dollars.

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Musharraf: Pakistan isn't hunting Osama

PARIS (AP) — Pervez Musharraf says he still gets the question a lot: When will Osama bin Laden and his top deputy be caught? The Pakistani president insists it's more important for his 100,000 troops on the Afghan border to root out the Taliban than search for al-Qaeda leaders.

That bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri are still at large "doesn't mean much," the former general said Tuesday on the second day of a swing through Europe. He suggested they are far less a threat to his regime than Taliban-linked militants entrenched in Pakistan's west.

Bin Laden and al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding somewhere in the lawless tribal areas along Afghanistan's frontier with Pakistan.

"The 100,000 troops that we are using ... are not going around trying to locate Osama bin Laden and Zawahri, frankly," Musharraf told a conference at the French Institute for International Relations. "They are operating against terrorists, and in the process, if we get them, we will deal with them certainly."

A U.S. ally in its war on extremist groups, Musharraf has come under increasing pressure following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last month and for his brief declaration of emergency rule in early November.

Musharraf, who as commander of Pakistan's military seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, said the remnants of Afghanistan's former Taliban regime and its Pakistani sympathizers are the "more serious issue" for both countries.

But he said there was "zero% chance" that al-Qaeda, the Taliban and their Pakistani allies could defeat his 500,000-strong army or that Islamic militants could win control of the government in Feb. 18 parliamentary elections.

As part of the "multi-pronged strategy" against terrorists, Pakistan has erected fences "selectively" and set up 1,000 checkpoints along the Afghan border in an effort to stop militants from using the areas to launch attacks inside the neighboring nation, he said.

Musharraf credited cooperation between Pakistani intelligence services and the CIA, both of whom believe that Pakistani militant leader Baitullah Mehsud was the mastermind of the Dec. 27 gun and suicide bomb attack that killed Bhutto.

But in Washington, the State Department's counterterrorism chief, Dell Dailey, said the Bush administration was displeased with "gaps in intelligence" received from Pakistan about the activities of extremist groups in the tribal regions.

"We don't have enough information about what's going on there. Not on al-Qaeda. Not on foreign fighters. Not on the Taliban," he said.

Dailey, a retired Army lieutenant general with extensive background in special operations, said Pakistan needs to fix the problem. He said the U.S. wasn't likely to conduct military strikes inside Pakistan on its own, saying that would anger many Pakistanis.

Musharraf played down the impact of recent attacks by extremists in the border region of South Waziristan, calling them "pinpricks" that his government must manage — not a sign of a resurgent Taliban.

Attacks on forts in that district over the last month — including a battle Tuesday — have fanned concerns that militants with links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban may be gaining control in the region.

Pakistan's army said fighting at the fort and another clash killed at least seven paramilitary border guards and 37 militants Tuesday.

The border region emerged as a front line in the war on extremist groups after Musharraf allied Pakistan with the U.S. following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Washington has given Pakistan billions of dollars in aid to help government forces battle militants.

Rising violence in the border region and a series of suicide attacks across Pakistan that killed hundreds in recent months have added to uncertainty before next month's elections, which many people predict will further weaken Musharraf's grip on power.

Despite turmoil at home, Musharraf defended his visit to four European countries, saying he wasn't concerned about the stability of his regime while he was away.

"I can assure you that nothing will happen in Pakistan," he said. "We are not a banana republic."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who met privately with Musharraf on Tuesday, expressed support for Pakistan's fight with extremists and promised to press for increased European Union aid when France takes over the bloc's rotating presidency in July, Sarkozy's office said.

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Police Find Bomb Meant for Sharif


ISLAMABAD, 25 January 2008 — Police yesterday defused a roadside bomb minutes before opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was due to pass the spot in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Former Prime Minister Sharif was traveling in a convoy to address a lawyers’ convention and a political rally in the city near the Afghan border ahead of elections on Feb. 18.
The discovery comes four weeks after fellow opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack at an election meeting in Rawalpindi.
“We recovered a 400 gram bomb fitted with a timer beneath a main bridge near the high court on the route that Sharif was to take. We have defused it,” bomb disposal squad official Hukam Khan said.
Ijaz Khan, a senior police officer, said the bomb was found wrapped in a plastic shopping bag. “It was planted on the road that Nawaz Sharif was to pass. When policemen were searching the area they found it and immediately called in bomb disposal staff who defused it,” Khan said.
A spokesman for Sharif said their convoy had been halted about a kilometer before it reached the area.
Officials have said in the past that Sharif and other politicians are targets of militants trying to destabilize the country. Four of Sharif’s supporters were killed in a gun attack on his convoy in Rawalpindi the day Benazir was killed.
Later addressing a workers’ convention in Peshawar, Sharif said Pakistanis would have to take very difficult and tough decisions to salvage the country from the present crisis. But he was confident the Pakistani nation was up to it and did not need outside help to do that.
He said the restoration of an independent judiciary and the reinstatement of sacked judges was on his party’s agenda. “If my party (Pakistan Muslim League) returns to power, we will not work with President Musharraf.”
Addressing the Peshawar High Court Bar Association, Sharif thanked lawyers for opposing the president. “Politicians could not do what lawyers did for the country,” he said.
Meanwhile, the military said yesterday that security forces have cleared militant strongholds from three areas in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border and 40 militants and eight soldiers have been killed in the fighting.
The army is sending in reinforcements and tanks after a week of fighting with militants loyal to a Taleban commander the government said was behind the assassination of Benazir.
The clashes, in which nearly 150 militants and more than 20 government soldiers have been killed, has raised fresh concern about Pakistan in the run-up to the Feb. 18 election.
Security forces had carried out operations in three parts of South Waziristan, the military said. “These areas have been cleared of militant strongholds and hide-outs,” the military said in a statement.
“Forty miscreants have been killed in the last 24 hours and 30 miscreants have been apprehended while many have been injured,” the military said. Eight soldiers were killed and 32 wounded.
The fighting is in strongholds of militant chief Baitullah Mehsud, who the United States has also said was behind Benazir assassination. Mehsud has been blamed for a string of attacks in a suicide bomb campaign that intensified after commandos stormed a mosque complex in Islamabad last July. Last week his men attacked and captured another fort in Waziristan.
Security forces have been battling Al-Qaeda-linked militants in South Waziristan for several years. The mountainous region, occupied by conservative, independent-minded Pashtun tribesmen, has never come under the full authority of any government.
Militants in South and North Waziristan also attack US- and NATO-led foreign forces and Afghan government troops across the border in Afghanistan.
Separately, three activists from a Pashtun party opposed to militants were gunned down in the Swat valley in North West Frontier Province, where the military launched an offensive against armed followers of a radical cleric in November.
The United States and other allies hope next month’s election will restore political stability after months of turmoil.
Adm. William Fallon, the head of the US military’s Central Command, visited Pakistan for talks with army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani on Tuesday. Fallon told reporters in Florida last week that Pakistan was increasingly willing to fight militants and accept US help, without saying what kind of support.

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Musharraf hints at hung parliament

* President says he is ready to facilitate coalition govt
* Ready to quit if unpopular
* Says Pakistan a ‘victim of misconception’

LAHORE: President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday hinted at the possibility of a hung parliament emerging from the February elections, saying there might be a coalition government and the prime minister would run the affairs of the government.

Explaining his government’s plan on transition of power to a civilian set-up at the World Economic Forum, he said: “We have to go for coexistence in running the political affairs for the sake of stability and well-being of people.”

Coalition government: “I do not find any difficulty to work with any political party and if needed I will be prepared to facilitate forming a coalition government for the sake of harmony and success of the democratic process,” APP quoted him as saying.

In an interview with the Financial Times, he said he would be prepared to work with a prime minister who came from the Pakistan People’s Party.

“I have no choice. According to the Constitution, the president has certain powers, [but] the government is run by the prime minister of Pakistan,” he said.

He said the new parliament could throw him out with a two-thirds majority, but insisted his election for president was in line with Pakistan’s Constitution.

Will quit if unpopular: “The day I realise that I can’t contribute [for the country] and people don’t like me to continue, I will quit,” the president said in a brief interview with BBC television. “Obviously, the elections must be fair, free and transparent, and I’ve added a new word – ‘peaceful’,” Musharraf said earlier at the World Economic Forum. “We will make sure they are peaceful.”

He said democracy would strengthen after the elections and energise the fight against extremism and terrorism.

He said illiteracy and deprivation were root causes of terrorism and extremism, and developed states should help Pakistan overcome poverty.

Victim of misconception: He said Pakistan was “a victim of misconception and distortion”, and the world should judge Pakistan on economic progress and its fight against militancy, not on “idealistic, maybe unrealistic, Western perceptions of democracy”.

“Please, look at Pakistan from Pakistan eyes... not with the eyes of your misconceived Western views of human rights and democracy,” he added.

Talking to CNN, he said there was a degree of “intellectual arrogance” in the West, which thought developing countries could not run their affairs. In his interview with the Financial Times, he rejected suggestions from western analysts that Pakistani intelligence services were losing a grip on Al Qaeda supporting militants.

“The intelligence services are doing a good job,” he said, adding that the recent spate of suicide bombings were “an irritant”.

Also in the interview, he hit out at the retired generals who this week said that they no longer had confidence in him.

“They are insignificant personalities,” he said. “Most of them are ones who served under me and I kicked them out,” he added.

He said he knew his popularity had reduced but most Pakistanis still wanted him in office. “I get a feed from all segments of society ... I don’t make such judgements on individual statements,” he told BBC television.

“There is no clout in the army,” he said, and termed the retired officers as mere “paper tigers”.

President Musharraf insisted judges had been sacked for “corruption and nepotism” and said the independence of their replacements was not in question. In his interview with CNN, he said “four or five” people were inciting people of Pakistan to agitation. He said 75 percent of talk shows on television were against him. “I closed them down ... because some of them were inciting agitation,” he added.

“I don’t give much credence to Gallup polls in Pakistan at all,” he said during the interview.

To a question at the Forum, he said that the Kashmir issue had been put on sidetrack for a short period, but India and Pakistan intended to resolve the issue. He told the Wall Street Journal that there was “confusion” in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination as to how she was killed.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday commended Pakistan’s contribution to the United Nations for peace and stability, during a meeting with President Musharraf.

In a meeting on Thursday, Musharraf and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi agreed that a re-structured Organisation of Islamic Conference could help resolve conflicts involving Muslim states.
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US to step up training of Pak forces

* Five-year plan will involve $150 million from US and $1.25 billion from Pakistan
* US officials say insurgents’ focus has shifted from Afghanistan to Pakistan

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LAHORE: The US military is planning to significantly expand and accelerate its counterinsurgency training and provision of equipment for armed forces this year as part of a five-year, $2 billion US-Pakistani effort to help stabilise the country, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Quoting senior US and Pakistani officials, the newspaper report said the enhanced cooperation would include US military assistance toward counterinsurgency training, technical gear and assistance to improve the Pakistani military’s intelligence gathering and its air and ground mobility. If requested by Pakistan, it could also involve US Special Operations Forces working with the Pakistani military as it launches “more aggressive” actions against insurgents in the northwest Tribal Areas, the Post reported Ambassador Dell L Dailey, the State Department’s counter-terrorism coordinator, as saying.

Contribution: The plan will involve about $150 million from the US each year, Dailey was quoted as telling defence reporters on Tuesday. In turn, Pakistan will contribute $1.25 billion to the plan over five years, the paper said referring to State Department figures.

“The effort comes amid criticism from Congress that the billions of dollars the Bush administration has already spent on Pakistani security efforts have produced poor results...Despite the aid, the insurgency of extremists in Pakistan has grown,” the Post said. “It has not worked,” the paper quoted Rick Barton of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies as saying.

Insurgency coming to Pakistan: US officials, according to the Post, said the new strategy was critical, as insurgents once focused on had turned inward to challenge the Pakistani government.

“The plan to counter insurgents is to work with the Pakistanis to share intelligence, increase cross-border cooperation between ourselves, the Afghans and the Pakistanis, and to work with Pakistan’s military to increase their capability,” Admiral William Fallon, the top US commander for the Middle East, told The Washington Post this week.

“Pakistan’s military recognises the seriousness of the internal insurgent problem,” Fallon, who arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday to meet with military leaders, told the Post.

According to the paper, senior military officials place high hopes on the new Chief of Army Staff, Ashfaq Kayani. The Post said Kayani must also change the army’s traditional emphasis on . “We trained for set piece battles in the plains of Pakistan and India . . . we need more detailed counterinsurgency training,” it reported Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, as saying.

“Much of the increased US military cooperation will be tailored to improve the counterinsurgency operations of the Pakistani military and the Frontier Corps, a large but ill-equipped force that has suffered most of the government’s combat casualties in the Tribal Areas,” according to the Post.

The US military is planning to expand the number of trainers for the FC, possibly including contractors or allied forces, and is also seeking to tap into $37 million in counter-terrorism funds for that effort, the paper reported while quoting US officials. This increased cooperation would both expand a multiyear US counterinsurgency plan that is being implemented, with $157 million in aid planned for 2008 and more US contract and Special Forces trainers expected to arrive in Pakistan this spring, the Post quoted US officials as saying.
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Tanks and choppers kill 40 militants, claims army

* Military spokesman says operation also left 10 soldiers dead

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Troops backed by tanks and gunships cleared militant hideouts near the Afghan border on Thursday in a major offensive that left ten soldiers and 40 rebels dead, the army said.

Thirty insurgents were also arrested during the fighting in South Waziristan. The large-scale operation follows days of gunbattles and rebel advances in the region.

Chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said soldiers had cleared militants from their “hideouts and strongholds” in the Spinkai Raghazai, Nawazkot and Tiarza areas of the tribal zone.

“Our forces are now consolidating their positions. The militants are using rockets, machine guns and Kalashnikovs,” Abbas told AFP.

Tanks had moved in to protect the movement of army convoys, an army statement said.

Officials said helicopters were also pounding insurgent positions. The statement said 40 “miscreants have been killed in the last 24 hours and 30 miscreants have been apprehended, many of them injured,” while eight soldiers were killed and 32 injured.

Another two troops were killed and seven injured on Thursday, Abbas said, making it one of the heaviest losses suffered by the military in several weeks of fighting. Abbas said he was not aware of the whereabouts of rebel commander Baitullah Mehsud.

“It is not known whether he was taking part in the fighting or present in those areas,” Abbas told AFP. afp
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Taliban claim seizing trucks carrying weapons for army

LAHORE: Unidentified men fled with four weapon-laden army trucks in Dara Adam Khel on Thursday, Aaj TV reported. Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar claimed responsibility while talking to BBC Urdu from an undisclosed location. He said the trucks and the crew had been moved to “a safe location”. Aaj TV said the trucks were seized on their way from Peshawar to Bannu but the drivers had been released. The Dara Adam Khel political administration arrested 32 tribesmen after the incident and seized nine vehicles, the channel said. Umar denied government claims that it had reoccupied Taliban-controlled areas. He said seven Taliban militants and 15 soldiers were killed on Thursday. daily times monitor
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Qaeda threatens suicide attacks on Brown, Blair’

DUBAI: Al Qaeda in Britain has threatened suicide attacks on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor Tony Blair unless London withdraws its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, a US-based monitoring service said on Thursday.

The message was posted in English to an Al Qaeda-affiliated online forum by Umar Rabie Al-Khalaila, the SITE Intelligence Group said. Al Qaeda, blamed for suicide bombings in London in 2005, vowed fresh attacks if Britain fails to withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan by the end of March. afp
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President faces tough time defending judges’ removal

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DAVOS, Jan 24: President Pervez Muhsarraf had a tough time defending removal of senior judges and refuting allegations of pre-poll rigging at the World Economic Forum here, but most of the questions relating to the tricky issues remained by and large unanswered.

At one of the sessions, a questioner asked him who will deliver justice to a complainant if elections turn out to be fraud as being alleged by the opposition parties and given the fact that he has removed all the independent judges and put in place his “hand-picked judges”.

President Musharraf first skipped the question but was reminded that he had missed the main thrust of the question. He had to go into detail about how the election results would be announced at the polling stations, votes will be polled in transparent boxes and results would be put on the internet and said it was his commitment that elections will be free, fair and transparent. “And I have added a new word. The elections will be peaceful as well”.

The president was questioned time and again about his actions like imposition of emergency to remove judges and complaints about “fraud elections”. He said the former chief justice of the Supreme Court had paralysed the executive machinery and described Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry as “inept and corrupt”. What will you do when authority of the executive is undermined, he posed counter question.

Asked as to how he saw his working with the new prime minister after elections and about the anti-terror drive in tribal areas and elsewhere, the president said the majority party will form the government and if it turned out to be a hung parliament, then a coalition government would come into being and elect a prime minister. He said the new prime minister will be the chief executive of the entire country as defined in the constitution but he as president would deal with terrorists in the tribal areas that fell directly under his jurisdiction. “I am not a difficult person for anybody to work with,” he said and added he would work comfortably with any prime minister and said he would play his role for the new coalition in case of a hung parliament.

The president felt relaxed when his co-panellist from Bangladesh Fakhruddin Ahmed, chief adviser (Prime Minister of Bangladesh), said he would soon be allowing “indoor political activities”.

President Musharraf said the West should not see the developing countries “with idealistic and unrealistic” angles of human rights and democracy. Responding to a related question, he said he was working on a multi-pronged policy to deal with terrorism. He said there was no place for Al Qaeda foreigners in Pakistan who would be confronted head on militarily while the Taliban was a local phenomenon who would be brought into mainstream through force and social uplift schemes.
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