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Mumbai, Mon, May 1, 2006 p15 weather... world Cities in degree centigrade max min max min max min Bangkok 35 28 Hong Kong 29 24 Moscow 10 0 Beijing 20 15 Islamabad 38 23 New York 14 5 Colombo 30 29 Karachi 36 28 Paris 15 6 Chicago 16 4 London 16 5 Singapore 34 26 Dubai 34 24 Los Angeles 24 14 Tokyo 20 8 Blair fights to put scandals behind him — p16 ... short stories... Iran playing games: Rice Washington: US Secre- tary of State Condoleezza ‘They are killers’ Rice on Sunday accused Iran of “playing games” in the dispute over its nu- Manama, Bahrain. “Suryanarayana clear program and called Who are Taliban? Suryanarayana’s was in Bahrain for training and then on Tehran to come clean he also worked in Maldives for us. He Afghanistan was invaded by employers have and halt uranium enrich- was a simple and kindhearted person. the Russians in 1979. Ten ment. Speaking on ABC He was part of our family.It is a freak years later Afghan fighters announced a Rs 20 lakh television, Rice dismissed Iranian offers to tragedy that he was taken by the Tal- allow spot inspections of its nuclear facili- sent them packing with the compensation help of US and the iban as he was very familiar with the ties and to reopen discussions on a Russian local situation and security hazards,” proposal to conduct sensitive fuel cycle Mujahedeen. But the country soon fell into disarray. It was KSR Menon. Dubai Ahmed said. work for Tehran. —AFP then the Taliban came to the As a mark of respect, the Head he was a US spy and pleading Pak releases A Q Khan’s aide fore. It emerged as a move- The Bahrain-based IT and Telecom Office in Bahrain and all inter- for his release saying neither the ment in the seminaries of provider Al Moayed Group on Sunday national offices will remain company nor Suryanarayana had Islamabad: Pakistan has released an official Pakistan. said they did not believe the Taliban closed on Tuesday. The Indian any political affiliation. But that was who had been detained two years ago on version that Suryanarayana, their office will be closed for 3 days, of no avail. “Our company is a politi- What emerged as a student charges of helping disgraced former top sci- project manager in Afghanistan was and all offices will observe a cally neutral technology company movement in 1994 from the entist A Q Khan in transferring nuclear killed as he tried to escape captivity. mourning period of one week. and we do not have any affiliation technology to foreign countries. Mohammed madrassas with active sup- port of Pakistan and ISI, “They are killers. We do not believe “In fact he was not supposed to with any other agency… We can also Farooq’s son Asim confirmed that his father Taliban became a strong what they say,” Wagih Ahmed a have moved about without proper se- vouch for the politically neutral stand had been released and was in good health, force within a few months. spokesman for the company said. curity. I think he was so confident as of our employee, Suryanarayana Ka- but did not provide details. —PTI He also announced an immediate he knew every nook and corner that sula, who far from being a US spy,has Under the leadership of DNA Graphic: Egypt extends emergency laws Mullah Omar it overthrew compensation of Rs 20 lakh. The com- he let his guard down and ignored the Nitin Tuse no affiliation to any political party,or Burhannudin Rabbani’s gov- pany has also promised to take care of security drill. Or perhaps it was just leanings towards any other govern- Cairo: Egypt’s parliament on Sunday ap- ernment and captured Kabul. the complete education of Surya- bad time.” “We hired him from “Negotiations were going on be- ment or political party.” proved a two year extension to emergency By the end of 1996 Taliban narayana’s three children. Afghanistan where he has been work- tween Indian diplomats and the Tal- Suryanarayana an engineer from laws that have been in place since 1981, de- were controlling 27 provinces “We hope that the government of ing for the last three years with a lo- iban representatives. In fact it was for Hyderabad and father of three, was spite a growing chorus of criticism from op- out of 36 in Afghanistan, 85 Afghanistan will also compensate his cal company. There are hundreds of the Indian government to work this abducted on Friday evening when he position groups. The People’s Assembly vot- per cent of the country. family and of course as the company Indians working there and generally out, but we were caught up in the was travelling from Kalat, the capital ed 287 to 91 to extend the laws, which were For the next five years Taliban which employed we will also give all they do not move around without whole thing.” The Almoayed group of southern Zabul province, to due to expire at the end of May.The meas- controlled Afghanistan under support,” Ahmed told DNA from tight security,”he said. had also sent out an appeal denying Ghazni. ures, instituted after the assassination of strict Islamic laws even Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, give secu- demolishing the 1500 years rity forces broad powers to arrest and de- old Bamiyan Buddha statues. The death tain suspects. —AP But soon after the 9/11 of the Indian Australia short of medical experts attacks, Taliban who refused engineer“ who Gloom descends over Kabul to extradite Al Qaeda chief was working for Sydney: In spite of influx of general practi- Osama bin Laden, were tioners from countries like Britain, India attacked by the US-led troops the construction Offices have boosted iban announced the deadline for with the Border Roads Organisa- and Pakistan, shortage of medical profes- and by the end of the year and reconstruc- Suryanarayana’s killing. tion. “We were trying to get over sionals in Australia is not showing any signs 2001, Taliban rule was over. security, barred “I tried to convince my family Kutty’s death, and now we have to of improving in the near future, sources tion of Afghanistan without a that Kabul is safe, and that the ab- deal with this,” said Umesh. said. According to a research by Monash Even though the Taliban is doubt is the work of enemies employees from going duction took place in the Meanwhile, security has been in- now limited in numbers, it University academics five new medical of Afghanistan.” provinces,” said Kulkarni, a hotel tensified across offices in Kabul. schools since year 2000 have failed to address has returned to the south and out unescorted worker in Kabul. Most organisations have asked em- east of Afghanistan. It is —Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan the crisis which has even resulted in emer- “None of us slept properly. Our ployees to remain in their guest- beleived that Taliban are now gency departments of few government hospi- Taran Khan. Kabul thoughts were with the abducted houses. active in 15 per cent of the tals shutting down. —UNI Let me express condo- man and his family,” said Umesh, “We are not being allowed to go country. lences on behalf of the Indians in Afghanistan spent a his colleague. out of the compound except in offi- Paul Spiegel dies aged 68 They have been waging a Pakistan government to India sleepless night on Saturday.Most of But Sunday morning brought cial transport,” says Shahnawaz, a guerrilla war, both against “ them were on the phone throughout news of Suryanarayana’s death. For travel agent. Berlin: Paul Spiegel, who fled the Nazis as a child during World War II and returned to Karzai-led Afghan govern- on the killing of an innocent the evening reassuring family and most, it meant reliving last Novem- His friends say it is the end of Germany to eventually become the influen- ment and US-led forces and civilian in Afghanistan.” friends back home, after the Tal- ber’s killing of MR Kutty, a driver leisurely walks to work. other foreigners as well. tial head of its main Jewish organisation, —Tanseem Aslam, Pak spokesperson has died. He was 68. Spiegel died overnight of cancer in a hospital in Duesseldorf where he had been seriously ill for weeks, Nathan Kalmanowicz, a senior official in Bhutto wanted F16s Germany’s Central Council of Jews, said Sunday.Spiegel had suffered a heart attack in February.Chancellor Angela Merkel Koirala calls Maoists for talks ready to attack India mourned a passionate supporter of Jewish Girija Prasad Koirala life in Germany,where it was all but wiped Paras mars Agencies. Islamabad out under the Nazis, and an “exemplary was sworn in as democrat.” —AP wedding party Former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto had ordered in 1990 that F-16 fighter jets be kept Nepal’s new Prime Dozens of guests headed Pak travel ban on 11 leaders ready to launch attacks on Indian nuclear facil- for a wedding bash here Minister on Sunday ities amid reports of a similar strike being Islamabad: Pakistan has banned 11 senior Saturday landed up at a nationalist leaders and members of their police station instead after planned by US, India and Israel on it, a former Lalita Panicker. Kathmandu families from visiting foreign countries, re- a brush with Nepal’s contro- Army Chief has claimed. ports said on Sunday.The names of the versial Crown Prince Paras. She had also dispatched her Foreign Minis- eleven, including Two top Baloch national- Girija Prasad Koirala, who was About 60 people, including ter Yaqoob Khan to New Delhi with a message ist leaders Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and sworn in as Nepal’s prime minis- relatives of the groom, had that Islamabad would launch a counter-atttack Sardar Attaaullah Mengal, have been put in ter Sunday, renewed his call to a fright Saturday evening on Indian nuclear facilities if New Delhi target- the Exit Control List.