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to return to the regular issue please click here. Benazir on nuclear proliferation: ISLAMABAD, Mar, 04: Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said she finds it very hard to believe that Dr. A.Q Khan would have indulged in nuclear smuggling to other countries. In an interview broadcast by the VOA Benazir said "I find it very hard to believe it". She said it was a vast network involving weapons of mass destruction. There were so many trips that he had made. How a man who could not leave the country without government permission can do such an act . She said that the government was aware about Khan's activities. Benazir said her government was capable to make atom bomb in 1988. She said Pakistan had all components of nuclear bomb at the time. But these components were not assembled till 1988 until India conducted several nuclear explosions. Benazir said that she had acquired missile technology from North Korea, but she said that Pakistan had paid for it. We had obtained the blueprints for us and we would have not developed them until India did.    (PPI) (Posted @ 23:45 PST) Musharraf says why A Q Khan alone: ISLAMABAD, March 04: President Pervez Musharraf has said Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has not passed complete information, he passed some parts, he may have passed some centrifuges to Iran but that this is not all. The Iranians developed their programme through assistance from the west not from Dr. A.Q. Khan. The president said let us see the entire issue in a very wholesome prospective. Why blame Pakistan alone? The President said this in an interview with an English Daily of Islamabad.    (PPI) (Posted @ 16:40 PST) Musharraf on Israel recognition: ISLAMABAD, March, 04: President Pervez Musharraf said Islamabad's intends to review its policy towards Tel Aviv if Israel moved towards peace with Palestine. In an interview published in an English Daily of Islamabad today, the President said I am a strong believer of trying to see the future, assessing the future realistically and acting before events occur than reaching after the event has occurred.    (PPI) (Posted @ 16:40 PST) Government offers to pay tribesmen to disarm: WANA, Mar 04: Government wants to buy heavy weapons from tribesmen, an official said today. The offer to purchase missiles, rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns is aimed at defusing tension in South Waziristan. The government had offered market prices for heavy arms, including machine guns and mortars, officials said.    (Reuters) (Posted @ 23:35 PST) Afghanistan set for parliamentary vote in September: KABUL, March 4: Afghanistan's long-delayed first post-Taliban parliamentary polls are likely to be held in mid-September, a source close to the electoral commission told AFP today. The vote has been put off repeatedly during the past eight months and hopes that it would take place in April or May have been dashed due to problems with politics, logistics and security. "We are really on a September timetable now," the source said, adding that the electoral commission had put forward its latest proposal to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's cabinet session on Monday.    (AFP) (Posted @ 23:35 PST) Ariel Sharon is 'war criminal', says London mayor: LONDON, March 04: London's outspoken mayor Ken Livingstone denounced Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a war criminal, in a searing critique of Israeli policies published today in The Guardian newspaper. Sharon "is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office", he wrote, saying that even an Israeli commission had blamed the prime minister for deadly massacres at Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.   (AFP) (Posted @ 09:40 PST) China's ex-president Jiang resigns from state military body: BEIJING, March 04: China's former supreme leader Jiang Zemin today formally handed in his resignation from the largely ceremonial position as chairman of the state Central Military Commission (CMC), official media said.    (AFP) (Posted @ 12:15 PST) Arroyo orders continued military operations on Philippine island: Manila, Mar 04: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today ordered the military to continue its assault against Moslem militants on a southern island, rejecting calls for a ceasefire after almost one month of fighting there. Troops have been battling a combined force of Abu Sayyaf rebels and armed followers of a jailed Moslem rebel leader on Jolo island, since February 7, displacing more than 40,000 civilians."As a result of the sustained operations, the terrorists have broken up into smaller groups and are on the run," Arroyo said. "The terrorists shall not be given any chance to re-group and to launch further terrorist attacks against our communities." "I have directed our forces to continue operations, focus on apprehending or neutralising the remaining leaders and members of the Abu Sayyaf as well as other groups that have forged alliances with them," she added.    (DPA) (Posted @ 23:35 PST) Ukraine deputies demand Kuchma arrest after minister's death: KIEV, Mar 4: Ukraine's communist lawmakers Friday demanded the arrest of former president Leonid Kuchma, after a former minister implicated in a notorious journalist murder was found dead of apparent suicide, Interfax reported.    (AFP) (Posted @ 23:32 PST) Ukraine ex-minister linked to murder found dead: KIEV, March 04: Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko, linked to the murder of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze, has been found dead, the SBU security service agency said today. Kravchenko, who was interior minister at the time of Gongadze's murder in 2000, had been due to give evidence today to prosecutors in connection with the case.    (Reuters) (Posted @ 14:10 PST) Nepal extends house arrest of ex-PMs, four top political leaders: KATHMANDU, March 04: Nepal has extended for two months the house arrest of two former prime ministers and four other top political leaders held since King Gyanendra grabbed power February 1, an official said today.    (AFP) (Posted @ 12:15 PST) Parcel bomb kills judge in central China: SHANGHAI, March 04: A Chinese judge was killed and two other court officials injured when a bomb disguised as a present exploded near a court in southern Hunan province, state media and police said today.    (AFP) (Posted @ 14:45 PST) Ten killed, 31 injured as bus overturns in southern Thailand: BANGKOK, March 04: At least 10 Thais were killed and 31 others injured when a Bangkok-bound tour bus from Phuket crashed and overturned on a bridge in a tsunami-hit area, police and hospital workers said today.    (AFP) (Posted @ 14:45 PST) Cricket: Board President's XI 91-1 v Pakistan (273) - close DHARAMSALA, March 04: Indian Board President's XI were 91 for one in reply to Pakistan's first innings total of 273 all out at the close of a truncated second day of the three-day tour game today.    (Reuters) (Posted @ 16:15 PST) Karachi Stocks up 295.97 points: KARACHI, March 04: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 8792.70, up 295.97 points from Thursday's close. The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 59.55 to the US Dollar in the open market.    (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 16:05 PST) Founder: Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Editor: Tahir Mirza The DAWN Group of Newspapers Haroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Karachi 74200, Pakistan. Phone:+92 (21) 111-444-777   Fax: +92 (21) 568-3188 webmaster@dawn.com Note: Make sure to reload these pages so you're viewing the current version.

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