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Posts published in “Day: January 7, 2010

Tamils throw weight behind general who crushed them

By Andrew Buncombe in The Independent, UK, Jan 7 Seven months after Sri Lanka’s long and bitter civil war was brought to an end by a withering government assault, the political coalition that supported the Tamil Tigers has thrown its support behind the former army chief who crushed them. In an ironic twist to the presidential election campaign being fought on the island, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) announced yesterday that it was supporting General…

Four soldiers die in AJK suicide blast: The Dawn, Jan 7

MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 6: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military installation in a southern district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday morning, killing four soldiers and injuring 11 others. According to officials, the attack took place at 6.58am outside a military barrack, also called army’s human resource development centre, in Tararkhel town of Sudhnoti district. The area is home to a basic healthcare centre for soldiers and civilians. The barrack has not…

AJK premier urges Pak to revisit Kashmir policy

MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Raja Farooq Haider on Tuesday called for a joint session of Pakistan’s parliament to “revisit the national Kashmir policy” which he said had seen deviation under Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf. “Pakistan needs to reaffirm its decision of 1949 from its most supreme forum of parliament,” Mr Haider said in his welcome address to President Asif Ali Zardari during a special joint sitting of the AJK assembly and…

Shortage of food, fuel, medicines hit people in Gojal

By Zulfiqar Ali Khan in The Dawn, Jan 7 HUNZA: After the devastating landslide, scarcity of food, medicines and fuel is becoming a real threat for the lives of the 22,000 inhabitants of Gojal, the largest tehsil of Hunza-Nagar district in Gilgit-Baltistan. According to reports, shops, civil supply depots and utility stores in the valley have finished their stocks and cannot bring in fresh supplies due to blockade of the Karakoram Highway (KKH). People of…