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Indian Police Beat Back Protesters of Alleged Rape TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Supreme court orders new PCB chairman election ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan supreme court directed im PCB chairman within seven days. The temporary Khan said the supreme court also set aside an ing all the decisions taken by Sethi. Najam Sethi yesterday to continue as the country’s chief will also act as election commissioner.”The Islamabad High Court order to reinstate Zaka Ashraf But Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is cricket board chief for one week before an acting government will now follow the directions of the as PCB chairman. The power tussle at the top of the also patron of the PCB, dissolved the governing Pakistan Cricket Board chairman can be appointed supreme court and will also implement the new PCB started in May 2013 soon after Ashraf became board and appointed a five-member management to oversee new elections. Pakistani cricket has been constitution of the PCB,” Irfanullah Khan, a govern- the first elected chairman of the PCB. committee that later elected Sethi as PCB chairman. embroiled in administrative turmoil for more than a ment legal adviser said. Sethi told the court that he Ashraf was suspended by the Islamabad High But Ashraf continued to resist and he was twice year with three chairmen taking the helm in the would not be contesting the elections but said he Court after a petition was filed by a former official of reinstated by the IHC this year before being past seven months. could be part of the new governing board, which the Rawalpindi Cricket Association. The court replaced by Sethi within days. Earlier this month, A two-member bench of the supreme court will be announced later. described his election process as “polluted.” the government appointed a retired judge of the heard the case for five hours in Lahore on Monday The supreme court has also asked the govern- The government appointed Sethi as interim PCB supreme court as interim PCB chairman, who will after which judges Saqib Nisar and Anwar Zaheer ment to implement a new cricket board constitu- chairman before the IHC asked the country’s elec- also act as election commissioner, but a day later Jamali directed the government to appoint an inter- tion. tion commission to conduct elections while overrul- the supreme court reinstated Sethi. — AP Armed bandits demand water in dry north India LUCKNOW: Armed bandits are threatening villagers with death unless they deliver 35 buckets of water each day in northern India, where water is scarce thanks to an ongoing drought and a poor supply. So far, 28 villages have been obeying the order, tak- ing turns to deliver what the bandits are calling a daily “water tax,” police said. “Water itself is very scarce in this region. Villagers can hardly meet their demand,” officer Suresh Kumar Singh said by telephone from Banda, a city on the southern border of central Uttar Pradesh state and caught within what is known in India as bandit coun- try. Though the number of bandits has declined drasti- cally in recent decades, India’s bandit tradition, which began more than 800 years ago when emperors still ruled, has continued in the hard-toreach forests and mountains of the Bundelkhand region. The area is cut off from supply lines, leaving the bandits, reliant on surrounding villages. Since 2007, it has been starved for rain, with the yearly monsoon bringing only half the usual number of 52 rainy days a year. “A few bandits are still active in the ravines,” Singh said. “They ask for water, food and shelter from the vil- lages.” But while the bandits were once admired as caste warlords with a touch of Robin Hood about them, as they fought to protest feudal orders or to avenge personal wrongs, today’s bandits are consid- ered mostly opportunistic thugs seeking personal wealth and power. Small lakes and streams have dried up, and the bandits are reluctant to risk running into police by leaving the area to fetch water supplies. India has set a $4,200 reward for information leading to the gang leader’s arrest on charges of murder, looting and kid- KABUL: Afghan girls hold their certificates during their graduation ceremony at the Pir Massoudia Islamic madrassa in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, yes- napping. — AP terday. About 50 boys and girls have graduated yesterday from the Pir Massoudia madrassa which took them two and a half years to finish up their Islamic studies at the madrassa. — AP Indian police beat back protesters of alleged rape Roller-skating instructor to appear in court BANGALORE: Indian police beat back angry tion over levels of sexual violence in the a student on a moving bus in New Delhi, protesters who attempted to storm the prem- country. which led to a public outcry and new tougher ises of a top Bangalore school where a six- Police on Sunday arrested a 30-year-old laws to deter rapists. year-old girl was allegedly raped, an officer roller-skating instructor who was expected to Police said the girl had complained of the said yesterday. appear in a local court later over the attack. July 2 attack to a teacher at the school, but Several hundred activists from a student Police seized a laptop containing images of her parents only learned of the incident a group gathered outside the school in the children being raped from the instructor, who week later when she shared details with them. southern city to demand action against man- had worked at the school since 2011, the city’s The child was allegedly assaulted in a class- agement whom they accuse of initially trying police commissioner, Raghavendra Auradkar, room at the top fee-paying institution, to hush up the case. told reporters. favoured by local politicians and business “We resorted to caning the activists to “The videos were downloaded from porn leaders. bring the situation under control, as some of sites through the Internet,” Auradkar said late The instructor apparently supervised roller- them were attempting to pull down barri- on Sunday. skating activities as part of the sports pro- cades and barge into the school premises,” a “He is married and has a three-year-old gramme at the school, which has closed its police official told AFP outside Vibgyor High child too. We will produce him in the local doors since the uproar. COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu devotees smash coconuts on the ground during School. court on Monday and seek his custody for fur- Monday’s protestors chanted slogans and the Vel Hinduism festival in Colombo yesterday. Ethnic Tamils, who are mainly fol- Hundreds of enraged parents have held a ther interrogation and investigation,” submitted a letter demanding improved stu- lowers of Hinduism, are the main minority community in the island which is emerg- series of protests in Bangalore since the Auradkar said. dent safety. A school official, under security ing from nearly four decades of ethnic conflict which had claimed up to 100,000 alleged incident was revealed last week, as India is especially sensitive to cases of sex- escort, assured the crowd that changes were lives. — AFP India struggles to rebuild its battered reputa- ual violence after the 2012 fatal gang-rape of being made. — AFP Taiwanese face firing Afghan suicide China will not fill US squad over massacre bomber kills void in Afghanistan BEIJING: China does not seek to fill a void was essential for stability. “In the long-term, TAIPEI: Taiwanese prosecutors yesterday not in a state of mental disorder when two in south left in Afghanistan by the withdrawal of US an even greater portion of our cooperation said they were seeking the death penal- he committed the crime, and that he is KABUL: A suicide bomber targeted a police convoy in troops but will play a “huge” commercial role and participation in economic rebuilding ty for a man accused of killing four peo- fit to stand trial. Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province yesterday, in helping rebuild the country, a newly will be carried out in a commercial way. This ple and wounding nearly two dozen They described him as “anti-society, killing two people, a policeman and a civilian, a local appointed Chinese special envoy said yes- amount will be huge,” he said. terday. “Preserving Afghanistan’s stability is not a official said. others in a stabbing spree on the Taipei narcissistic, immature and pessimistic”. China, which is connected to Afghanistan matter of adding troops but of helping The attack took place in the Helmand provincial subway that shocked the island. In elementary school, he vowed to “kill by a narrow, almost impassable mountain Afghanistan to quickly rebuild. We hope to Cheng Chieh, a 21-year-old college people in revenge” after having trouble capital of Lashkar Gah, said Omar Zwak, the corridor, has been quietly preparing for see a rapid decrease in weaponry and a rap- student, was charged with four accounts with classmates, they said. Local media spokesman for the provincial governor. He said the more responsibility there after the bulk of id increase in wealth.” explosion also wounded 15 people - eight policemen of murder and 22 accounts of attempted said he had been obsessed with online US-led troops pull out by the end of this and seven civilians. The police convoy was en route to year. ‘Highlights’ murder for the fatal attack on May 21, killing games and had written horror the district of Sangin for an operation there, he added. the first of its kind on the city’s subway stories since high school. Some Western officials have said China is Sun, a veteran diplomat with experience No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but likely to emerge as a strategic player in of Afghanistan since the late 1970s, said US- system since it began operating in 1996.
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