From: imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar)
Subject: PakistaNews Text Files Until New Year - #0102
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:59:07 GMT
Organization: IMRAN: Information & Media Resources, Affiliations, Networks

TWO DIE IN FIRE IN GERMAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS' HOME

Two people were killed and a third was seriously injured in a
fire at a home for foreign asylum-seekers in the southern
west German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg on Friday,
police said.

A spokesman for the Baden-Wuerttemberg interior ministry
said the building had been occupied by around 40 men from
Romania, Pakistan, Turkey, Yugoslavia and African countries.

FIVE NATIONS JOIN SECURITY COUNCIL

UNITED NATIONS
Brazil, Djibouti, New Zealand, Pakistan and Spain on Friday
became non-permanent members of the 15-nation U.N.
Security Council.
    They replace Ecuador, Zimbabwe, India, Austria and
Belgium, who have just finished two-year terms.


Minister says India's top priority is containing rising
fundamentalism
 -- India's top national security priority in the new year is
combating rising religious fundamentalism which has brought
turmoil to several parts of the country, the interior minister
said Friday.
   S.B. Chavan cited the growth of Islamic militancy in the
Himalayan state of Kashmir, Sikh extremism in the Punjab and
Hindu radicalism in northern India.
"We have to take on Pakistan on the diplomatic front. We
have to see that international pressure is put on Pakistan
not to encourage terrorist activities in India," Chavan was
quoted as saying.
   The minister accused the Inter-Services Intelligence
agency of the Pakistan military of instigating secessionist
rebellion in India's remote northeastern state of Assam,
located far away from Pakistan. He said the agency was
actively aiding insurgencies in Indian Kashmir and Punjab,
which border Pakistan.
   India was "very keen" to hold state elections in Kashmir,
but  "whenever we move in that direction, Pakistan calls
upon the local people not to participate in the polls," Chavan
reportedly said.

[What BULLSHIT!!   Hindustan is certain that Kashmir will
most definitely leave it and that will give momentum to the
creation and independence of Khalistan and Assam, and
later others.  Why does not India not allow Kashmiris the
right to self-determination that was guarunteed?] 

Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, has been under
direct federal rule for three years.

FOUR KILLED IN BOMB BLAST IN PAKISTAN

A powerful bomb ripped through a mud house in a village in
eastern Pakistan, killing four members of one family and
injuring six, the official APP news agency said on Friday.

Another bomb found in a shop at the bus terminal in the
nearby town of Sialkot the same night was defused.

High court orders shrine be opened to Hindu worshippers

   LUCKNOW, India  -- A state high court ordered authorities
Friday to permit ***Hindu*** worshippers at a makeshift
temple built on the ruins of a demolished mosque.
 
[The ultimate proof of the secular and fair nature of the
Indian government, courts, and society!!!]


U.N. COUNCIL DROPS IRAQ, ISRAEL STATEMENTS TILL 1993

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday
was unable to agree of statements criticising Iraq for
blocking humanitarian aid to the Kurds and Israel for
deporting 415 Palestinians to Lebanon.
    The United States sought to dilute a draft statement
expressing concern about the "inhuman circumstances"
faced by Palestinians stranded in no-man's land between
Israeli and Lebanese troops and repeating earlier
condemnations of the deportations.

The council may consider the draft statements in the New
Year but will have to begin consultations from scratch as
five new non-permanent members take their seats next
week. This will include Pakistan.
  

DOLLAR EXCHANGE RATES:
y-India (Rupee)           .0346  .0346 28.902  28.902
Pakistan (Rupee)          .0392  .0392  25.50  25.50


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