From: imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar)
Subject: PakistaNews Text Files Until New Year - #0101
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:57:21 GMT
Organization: IMRAN: Information & Media Resources, Affiliations, Networks



India refuses Pakistan order to reduce consular staff

   

NEW DELHI, India, signaling a tough posture, declined to

accept Thursday a Pakistan government order to send

home more than two-thirds of its consulate staff in Karachi.

   The order was "not acceptable, being unilateral and not in

consonance with the spirit of the code of conduct regarding

the functioning of the diplomatic establishments of the two

countries," Indian Foreign Secretary Nyotindra N. Dixit was

quoted as telling Pakistan Ambassador Riaz Khokhar.



Pakistan ordered India to reduce its consular staff in the

southern Pakistani port city from 64 to 20 by the end of

January in apparent retaliation for India's expulsion of two of

its embassy officials in New Delhi on espionage charges,

ordered three Indian officials to leave the country. 



The Indian consulate was issuing 700 visas daily to

Pakistanis to visit relatives in India, an official spokesman

said, adding that in contrast the Pakistan consular offices in

India were barely issuing a total of 50 visas to Indians every

day.



Police use batons against Muslims

   

LUCKNOW, Hindustan: State authorities reimposed daytime

curfews in two Indian towns after rock-hurling Muslims

clashed with police in an attempt to reach a disputed holy

site.



Faizabad and the adjacent town of Ayodhya, where the holy

site is located, were placed under round-the-clock curfews

following the violence. Police said scores of people were

wounded in the rioting and arson.



Indian authorities, meanwhile, reported renewed sectarian

violence Thursday in three Indian towns far from Ayodhya.

At least 10 people were reported slain in rioting since

Wednesday in the remote provincial town of Bainsa, in

southern Andhra Pradesh state, and in the western Indian

cities of Ahmedabad and Baroda.



KUWAIT - Kuwait will supply Pakistan with three million

tonnes a year of oil products for three years beginning

1993, oil sources in Kuwait said.





STRANDED PAKISTANIS PROTEST DELAY IN REPATRIATION



DHAKA - More than 2,000 Bihari Moslems took to the

streets of Dhaka on Thursday and threatened to kill

themselves after authorities said their repatriation to

Pakistan had been delayed by a month.



About 380,000 of the Biharis were left in Bengali-speaking

Bangladesh when Pakistani troops surrendered in 1971

after a nine-month war of independence. Pakistan has

resettled some 120,000 over the past years under a 1973

agreement. The rest live in squalid camps.



THOUSANDS OF BOSNIAN ORPHANS SEEK ASYLUM

By Stephen Hughes

    RABAT, Dec 30, Reuter - Libya is taking care of 2,000

Moslem orphans from war-torn Bosnia and up to 100,000

more are in desperate need of care, Dr Izet Aganovic,

President of the Bosnian Red Crescent, said on Wednesday.

    He told a news conference Libya was the first Arab state

to take in some of the orphans. Among Moslem countries he

said several hundred had been adopted by Pakistan and

Malaysia.



ROCKETS HIT KABUL AS PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED

KABUL - Interim Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was

elected as head of state for the next two years in a ballot

on Wednesday in which he was the sole candidate.

    As 1,335 delegates from across Afghanistan were

voting in a crowded hall in the Interior Ministry, rockets fired

from hills to the east of the capital slammed into the capital,

damaging houses and injuring several people.



[Opinion: I believe it is time Pakistan concentrated on its

own problems and sent back ALL Afghan "refugees".  Let

them solve (wuith rockets probably) their own

disagreements.  It is not Pakistan's responsibility to give

shelter to these people who have brought nothing but

drugs, a Kalashnikove culture, and indiscipline. - Imran

Anwar]





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