No WHERE to RUN as Barack Obama has a problem of romance deficit!Trained in India, to fight in Iraq!PM hosts lunch for Bush, thanks him for nuclear deal!Planning Commission approves Rs.1,011 crore for Mission Mode Project on IVFRT.First unique ID number to be issued within a year: Nilekani,Population data collection for coastal states in progress: Chidambaram
Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 414
Palash Biswas
Nowhere to Run (1993 film)
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| Nowhere to Run | |
|---|---|
 Original Poster | |
| Directed by | Robert Harmon |
| Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme Rosanna Arquette Kieran Culkin |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 15, 1993 (U.S.) |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15,000,000 (estimated) |
Nowhere to Run is a 1993 action film, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Kieran Culkin, Ted Levine and Joss Ackland.
[edit] Plot
Sam Gillen (Van Damme) is a convict who gets sprung from Federal custody somewhere in the Midwest by his bank-robbing partner. In their last heist, Sam's partner killed a bank guard, and Sam took the rap for it. Sam's partner gets killed in the break, forcing Sam to go it alone in search of the loot, which is buried on the property of a farm inhabited by Clydie Anderson (Arquette), the widowed mother of two kids named Mike "Mookie" Anderson and Bree Anderson.
Attempting to sneak into Clydie's house and "borrow" some salt for a campfire-broiled steak, Sam catches sight of Clydie taking a shower. The next morning, Sam is spotted bathing outdoors by Mookie. After saving Clydie, Mookie, and Bree from a trio of intruding thugs, Sam discovers that Clydie is holding out from selling her place to property developer Franklin Hale, who fears that he will be put out of business if he doesn't get Clydie's land so he can develop on it.
Sam decides to hang around, sleeping first in Clydie's barn and then in her bed while repairing her late husband's Triumph motorcycle. And Hale hires an intimidation expert named Dunston, to force Clydie into selling her land. Secretly on Hale's payroll is corrupt sheriff Lonnie Cole, a sometime lover of Clydie.
A jealous Lonnie discovers Sam's true identity and threatens to expose him if he doesn't leave. Not wanting to place Clydie in additional danger for helping a fugitive, Sam decides to leave, only to find that Hale has already blown the whistle on him in an attempt to get him out of the way. After evading police chasing him in cars, land rovers, helicopters, and on motorcycles and horseback, Sam returns to save Clydie from Dunston and Hale, who are planning to burn down her house.
After fighting off the bad guys and getting Hale caught holding a gun to Clydie's head, he decides to turn himself in, rather than run away. He promises to be back to live with them.
[edit] Cast
- Jean-Claude Van Damme as Sam Gillen
- Rosanna Arquette as Clydie Anderson
- Kieran Culkin as Mike "Mookie" Anderson
- Ted Levine as Mr. Dunston
- Tiffany Taubman as Bree Anderson
- Edward Blatchford as Sheriff Lonnie Cole
- Anthony Starke as Billy
- Joss Ackland as Franklin Hale
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This is probably Jean-Claude van Damme at his sexiest. The best thing is that he's a prisoner, and there's no suggestion that he was wrongfully imprisoned. He starts off as a bad boy, but of course his tough exterior melts away to reveal his inner sentimentality when he meets a widow and her two children, one of which is played by one of those hideous Culkins.
Plot Summary for
Nowhere to Run (1993)
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is. Written by Rob Hartill
Sam Gillen is a convict who gets sprung from Federal custody somewhere in the Midwest by his bank-robbing partner. In their last heist, Sam's partner killed a bank guard, and Sam took the rap for it. Sam's partner gets killed in the break, forcing Sam to go it alone in search of the loot, which is buried on the property of a farm inhabited by Clydie Anderson, the widowed mother of two kids named Mike "Mookie" Anderson and Bree Anderson. Attempting to sneak into Clydie's house and "borrow" some salt for a campfire-broiled steak, Sam catches sight of Clydie taking a shower. Sam is spotted by Mookie. After saving Clydie, Mookie, and Bree from a trio of intruding thugs, Sam discovers that Clydie is holding out from selling her place to property developer Franklin Hale, who fears that he will be put out of business if he doesn't get Clydie's land so he can develop on it. Sam decides to hang around, sleeping first in Clydie's barn and then in her bed, while repairing her late husband's Triumph motorcycle. And Hale hires an intimidation expert named Dunston, to force Clydie into selling her land. Secretly on Hale's payroll is corrupt sheriff Lonnie Cole, a sometime lover of Clydie. A jealous Lonnie discovers Sam's true identity and threatens to expose him if he doesn't leave. Not wanting to place Clydie in additional danger for helping a fugitive, Sam decides to leave, only to find that Hale has already blown the whistle on him in an attempt to get him out of the way. After evading police chasing him in cars, land rovers, helicopters, and on motorcycles and horseback, Sam returns to save Clydie from Dunston and Hale, who are planning to burn down her house. Written by Todd Baldridge
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I chanced to see the Hollywood film NO Where to RUN this afternoon as Planning Commission approves Rs.1,011 crore for Mission Mode Project on IVFRT to BOOST REALTY Massacre in india!he government is believed to have decided to import 30,000 tonnes of rice as public sector trading companies MMTC, PEC and STC today floated tenders to buy 10,000 tonnes of rice each from the overseas markets.A key Indian equity index Friday closed 0.97 percent down for the fifth consecutive day to end below 16,000 points. India's consumer price index rose 11.64 percent in September from a year earlier, slightly lower than August's annual rise of 11.72 percent, government data showed on Friday.Whereas, European Union leaders resolved a funding dispute on Friday to agree a negotiating position for talks on a global deal to combat climate change.
The winter session of Lok Sabha will commence Nov 19 and will go on till Dec 21.We may now seek NIRMAL ANAND, Innocent Entertainment from the LIVE Telecast of the Subverting Parliamentary Soap Opera as Governance and Legislation OUTSOURCED since the NEO Liberal LPG mafia tkane over the Country and Policy making is an INDIA INC affair well doen by MONTEK NILEKANI RANGRAJAN PITRODA Extra Constitutional Brigade guided and remote controlled from Washington DC! Since we have to sustain Manusmriti Apartheid Rule in Free market democracy dominated by Minority Brhmin Zionist Hegemony in a GALAXY Village!
Former French president Jacques Chirac will be tried for abuse of public funds in an affair dating from 1983 to 1995, when he was mayor of Paris, French media reported Friday.But we allow , Big FISH Swimming in BLOOD Pools available everywhere in Institutionalise Crime and corruption and depend on CIA and MOSSAD to defend nationality, sovereignity and Integrity, Internal security. We have to TRAIN US ARMY to Fight in IRAQ and worship in Communal flare up that there won`t be any Terror Strike further. We would create Ethnic Cleansing Envirinment in Holocaust Situation and USE INSURGENCY and Maoism for CORPORATE interst and put everything on SELL OFF, hike DEFENCE Budget and ensure Cash Inflow in Swiss Bank account and do wvereything to invite Foreign Capital Inflow to boost Growth Rate. NO TRIAL! Media dares not to oppose Economic Reforms and any RESISTING activity or community may well be branded as TERRORIST and EXTREMIST for Capital Punishment!
It is a HOLLYWOOD Action Thriller which showcases the MONOPLOISTC Aggression aginst the Masses. It is quite relevant in Nilekani`s World today in which WE Have NOWHERE to RUN as we find ourselves subjected to IMMINENT DESTRUCTION and the Environment of ETHNIC Cleansing overlaps the Global warming and limate Change. Realty Boom has turned this world into a DEVELOPER`s World and UNIQUE Identity number has to decide our fate as there would not be any SLUM in India as half of the Urban and Semi Urban areas live as SLUMDOGS in the Sensex shining India, United States of america has RECOVERED from RECESSION, it is said and the slide of Indian DICES continue DOWNTURN as BEARS control the Market just because we allowed FIIs to divert Capital Flow from RECESSION Inflicted Americas and Europe and they withdraw at OPPORTUNE time. Free Market Democracy and Galaxy War Economy do EVERY Thing to CREATE war and CIVIL war Situation in this Divided geopolitics which is BLEEDING and Bleeding .. Blood SPILLS everywhere whereever we look around. Remeber the SCENES in THE TALE OF TWO CITIES by CHARLES DICKENS. Minority Dominating communities worldwide have CREATED Shocking Waelth causing UNPRECEDENTED Violence, Hatred and Bloodbath ! We are DESTINED to race SUPERFAST towards the DOOM`s day in an INFINITE War Zone!
NO Where to RUN, in fact!
PM hosts lunch for Bush, thanks him for nuclear deal!
It was nostalgia time Friday when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday hosted a lunch for former US president George W. Bush and lauded him for bringing the landmark India-US nuclear deal to fruition.
Manmohan Singh held wide-ranging talks with Bush on an entire spectrum of India-US relations at the prime minister's 7 Race Course residence. He thanked Bush for his crucial role in ending India's decades-long nuclear isolation through a landmark nuclear deal last year, sources said.
The two leaders recalled their last meeting fondly at the White House in September last year when the fate of the nuclear deal was still uncertain.
The prime minister told Bush he was looking forward to his meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington Nov 24, the first bilateral summit since the change of guard at White House, sources said.
During his first visit to India after leaving office last year, Bush will be speaking on India-US relations at the annual leadership conclave Saturday. He has been invited by Hindustan Times, a privately-owned Indian media house.
Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, ruling Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna were among those invited for the exclusive lunch in honour of Bush. Shyam Saran, the prime minister's special envoy on climate change who played a key role in the progress of the deal, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her predecessor Shivshankar Menon were also present.
Bush underlined his optimism about the course of India-US relations in the days to come amid anxiety in some quarters here about an apparent cooling off of ties under the Obama dispensation.
'Absolutely, President (Barack) Obama will continue working with Indian governments. He's made that clear in his statements. I believe future presidents will recognise the importance of India as a global partner and India's influence on the global scene,' Bush said in an interview to the Hindustan Times.
Earlier in the day, Manmohan Singh described Bush as 'a great friend of India' and lauded him for his 'important role' in bringing the civil nuclear deal to fruition and underlined that India was working with other countries to promote civil nuclear cooperation.
'We in India recognise the important role he played in the fruition of the civil nuclear cooperation initiative,' said Manmohan Singh, who has enjoyed warm relations with the two-time US president.
'We are working with our international partners to give a boost to our nuclear programme,' he said.
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The project aims to develop a secure and integrated service delivery framework to enhance security and facilitate immigration, issue of visas and registration.
Meanwhile, ndia will push forward with financial reforms and needs to increase investment in rural education, health and infrastructure to lift its economic growth rate to 10 percent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.
The unexpectedly strong re-election of a coalition led by Singh's Congress party in May raised hopes of sweeping reforms in areas such as banking and fuel subsidies, but no major moves have been made apart from stake sales in some government firms.
"We need to push forward the reform process... and we will do so," Singh told a conference in New Delhi.
"We have to create an environment conducive to growth of entrepreneurship in our urban economy. At the same time we must ensure government's greater involvement in rural development," Singh said.
Asked about financial reforms, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said changes in labour laws and in insurance needed political consensus, not only nationally but within the ruling coalition as well.
"We shall have to converge the views within the coalition as also outside the coalition, and I am trying to arrive at that," Mukherjee said at the same conference.
Shares of banks with insurance ventures such as SBI, ICICI Bank , Kotak Mahindra and Canara Bank outperformed the Bombay stock market, which fell close to 1 percent.
Congress and its allies won three state polls held earlier this month, which should give it more leverage to push reforms.
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Prime Minister Singh, seen as pro-industry, said India's primary challenge in the next decade was not only to sustain high growth but also ensure it was equitable.
"We should aim to sustain annual growth rate of 9-10 percent per annum," Singh said.
Growth in Asia's third-largest economy slowed to a six-year low of 6.7 percent in 2008/09 (April-March) from rates 9 percent or more in the previous three years.
Earlier this week, the central bank forecast growth for 2009/10 at 6 percent with an upward bias.
Mukherjee said growth was likely to pick up from the October-December quarter and hit 9 percent in the next two years.
"I would say recovery is there, but recovery is halting and slow," he said, with any decision on removing fiscal stimulus dependent on how the economy performed towards the end of 2009.
Mukherjee said there were also inflationary worries, with annual consumer price inflation in double-digits.
The finance minister said there could be a delay of a few months in the planned introduction of a goods and services tax from next April, the start of the 2010/11 fiscal year.
Chidambaram informed that the project will be completed in September 2014 and would cover 169 Indian missions in foreign countries, 78 ICPs (Immigration Check Posts), 5 FRROs (Foreigners Regional Registration Offices) and all FROs (Foreigners Registration Offices) in the State/District headquarters.
The report also said that the computerization and networking of 42 ICPs is progressing satisfactorily, and the hardware has been delivered to 25 ICP sites and a local area network have been installed at 11 other ICPs.
It also informed that 139 e-Passport Reading Machines (e-PRMs) have been procured for installation at the Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata nd Chennai Airport ICPs.
'According to the present status of the project, the first UID issuance will take 12 to 18 months from the date of sanction of the project in August (2009). It is likely to cover about 600 million people within five years,' Nilekani told reporters in Shimla.
He was here to attend a two-day workshop organised by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), a premier advanced research institution in the field of humanities and social sciences.
'In our country, inability to establish one's identity is one of the biggest barriers preventing the poor from availing government welfare schemes. This problem can be tackled by issuing a unique number to each Indian that can be verified by any public authority to establish the identity of the individual,' Nilekani said.
'The number given as the unique identity will be linked to the basic information about the individual and his or her biometric information,' he said.
Nilekani said the biometric information will help in preventing duplication as the backup system for issuing UIDs would be capable of checking every entry against millions of other entries to ensure that there is no duplication.
'In the initial stages of the project, the UID will be voluntary and it will ultimately serve as identity proof for all purposes,' he said.
Population data collection for coastal states in progress: Chidambaram
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said that direct data collection for the National Population Register (NPR) is in progress in the coastal villages of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry, where the biographical details of more than 20 lakh residents and biometric details of more than 1 lakh residents have been recorded.
As regards to Census 2011, the report said that field survey work for the preparation of geo-referenced enumeration blocks bas been completed in 1100 wards out of 2018 wards in 33 capital cities.
Chidambaram also informed that Rs 5.61 crore was sanctioned for the procurement of 337 new vehicles for the recently created 29 police stations and 9 sub-divisions of Delhi Police, while Rs 1.73 crore was released to Dadra and Nagar Haveli for 2009-10 under the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) Scheme.
The report also said that East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction (Amendment) Act, 2001 was extended to the Union Territory of Chandigarh by notification dated on October 9.
During the month, the powers and functions of the Central Government under the Delhi Municipal Act, 1957, save a few powers, were delegated to Delhi Government by an order dated October 26, following which a long standing demand of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) has been fulfilled.
The delegation of powers is in accordance with the recommendations of several committees appointed in the past, the report said.
Chidambaram added that the Third Finance Commission for the Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshadweep submitted its report today. He also informed that the report will be processed and appropriate decisions will be taken soon.
The report also said that the Government has accepted the proposal of Orissa Government to change the name of the State from "Orissa" to "Odisha" and the name of the language from "Oriya" to "Odia".
A Bill in this regard would be introduced in Parliament, it added.
Accept Kashmir as `disputed', Geelani tells India!
Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani Friday said he was ready to engage in a dialogue with India, provided the government accepted that Kashmir was a disputed territory.
"India should first accept that Kashmir is a disputed territory and then we shall enter into a dialogue with the Indian government," Geelani, chairman of a breakaway Hurriyat Conference group, said in Baramulla town, 54 km from here.
Geelani also said that the peaceful resistance movement launched by him for vacating of civilian lands in Kashmir by the Indian security forces would continue.
Geelani said he would announce the next phase of his programme in south Kashmir's Kulgam district where he called for a shutdown Nov 6.
Even though authorities did not restrict Geelani's movements and allowed him to address the gathering after the Friday prayers in Baramulla town, elaborate arrangements were made to maintain law and order in the town without disturbing the normal life.
"The day passed off peacefully and there was no untoward incident anywhere in the town. We had not put any restrictions on the movements of separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani who offered prayers in a local mosque and later addressed a post-prayer gathering in the town", a senior police officer said here.
As it is known that Barack Obama has a problem of `romance deficit'
reports from New York say: Barack Obama, the most powerful man in the US, and probably the globe, has a problem -- `romance deficit.' Simply put, the US President does not have a public place to take his wife out on a date.
Obama has ignited a debate in the US over how hard it is to take his wife Michelle Obama on a date without letting tongues wag. And probably that may be a problem with most people occupying high offices and celebrities. However,there are exceptions -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy whose romance with Carla Bruni is sometimes embarrassingly public or Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi whose escapades have gone much beyond gossip columns.
Obama was upset and hurt over all the `fuss and muss' generated when he took his wife to New York on a date recently.
The President said the criticism he received for taking his wife to Manhattan for dinner and a Broadway play was the single most annoying experience since arriving at the White House.
"People made it into a political issue," Obama said.
"If I weren't President, I'd be happy to catch the shuttle with my wife to take her to a Broadway show, as I had promised her during the campaign, and there would be no fuss and no muss and no photographers," he said, adding "That'd please me greatly".
"The notion that I just couldn't take my wife out on a date without it being a political issue was not something I was happy with," Obama told reporters.
Source: India Syndicate
Kakodkar to step down as AEC chief on November 30
Mumbai: Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Chairman Anil Kakodkar, the only one to get three extensions in the post, will demit office on November 30.
Kakodkar will also retire from the post of Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) on the same day, when his term ends.
"This is the last time I am addressing you from this podium and I wish to thank you all for your strong commitment to the programme and your support to the efforts to sail through the fuel supply crisis," Kakodkar said, addressing the staff during a customary speech at the founder's day celebrations at the Baba Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Coincidentally, today is also the birth centenary of BARC founder Homi J Bhabha.
Kamat distances himself from his spokesman's comments
Panaji, Oct 30 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Friday distanced himself from statements of his spokesperson Thursday, accusing right wing Hindu organisation Sanatan Sanstha (SS) of 'breeding terrorism' and 'dividing society'.
Speaking to reporters at his official residence here, Kamat said: 'I have not seen or heard the comments. I don't know if he said this.'
Pressed for a response, Kamat said that he would 'check what had been said'.
The chief minister's official spokesperson Vishnu Wagh, who is also advisor to the department of information and publicity (DIP) had Thursday said that the contents of Sanatan Prabhat, the multilingual daily published by the SS, had the potential to 'breed terrorists'.
'The literature published in the newspaper is socially divisive and acts like poison in society,' he said.
'Dainik Sanatan Prabhat has abused freedom of press for long now. They have consistently derided the system of democracy in the country. Their literature can easily breed terrorists,' Wagh added.
Wagh, who specifically told reporters that he was speaking on behalf of Kamat, also said that the chief minister's office had been monitoring the activities of the SS.
If police enquiries prove that the Sanstha's agenda was indeed creating communal fissures in society, then a ban on it was likely, he said.
Government planning forces' pullout from Kashmir: Chidambaram
A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered peace talks to separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the government was mulling withdrawal of paramilitary forces from the valley as well as the 'vacation of occupied houses and land' by the army.
'We have identified a number of issues on which follow-up action is being taken by the central government and the government of Jammu and Kashmir,' Chidambaram told reporters here.
The issues, he said, included 'withdrawal of some paramilitary battalions and vacation of occupied houses and land by the army and paramilitary'.
Asked if there were any differences of opinion in the cabinet on troops' withdrawal from the state, Chidambaram said: 'There are no differences of opinion. There are different opinions. And they will be reconciled and the decision taken in appropriate cabinet committees. Everybody doesn't need to have the same opinion on issues.'
He said the central government was keen on 'transferring more and more responsibility to the Jammu and Kashmir police and strengthening (its) training'.
His comments come after the prime minister said in Srinagar Thursday that the responsibility of maintaining law and order 'will increasingly fall on the Jammu and Kashmir police'.
Chidambaram said the government 'intends to follow up on the promise of 'quiet talks, quiet diplomacy' with all shades of political opinion in Jammu and Kashmir', echoing what Manmohan Singh said during his two-day visit to the valley. 'We are willing to carry all stakeholders with us. We need to end all the violence to begin a dialogue,' the prime minister had said.
Chidambaram said the new political initiative in Kashmir by the government was 'quiet as opposed to photo op, and quiet as opposed to in the full glare of the media'.
'I think at least in the early stages, the talks should be held one-on-one or one with two people or one with three people so that we discover the contours of the proposal of each group. And, we can then work out the common features where we can perhaps put down on paper what appears to be the outline of the package,' he said.
He said the government was also monitoring the progress of the prime minister's reconstruction programme for the state.
Manmohan unveils vision of India 2020 and new South Asia
New Delhi: Underlining that the challenges lie "primarily at home", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday unveiled his vision of India in 2020 revolving around the three pillars of inclusive growth, composite culture and a peaceful, forward-looking neighbourhood.
Manmohan Singh also made a strong pitch for sustaining 9-10 percent economic growth per annum and said the destinies of India and its neighbours are "intrinsically linked".
"First, that our challenges in nation building are primarily at home. And that these are best addressed by ensuring sustained and inclusive economic growth and development," Manmohan Singh said at an annual leadership conclave organised by the Hindustan Times here.
Putting domestic challenges like poverty and issues of economic and administrative reforms above external challenges, he said: "We do face external and global challenges. The global slowdown is a reality, rise of terrorism is also a reality and we have to face these challenges."
"But I sincerely believe that they are nowhere as daunting as the ones we face at home," he said. "If we get our house in order, if we can liberate each and every citizen of this free nation from the tyranny of poverty, ignorance and disease, there is no external challenge that we cannot overcome," he stressed.
Rejecting the clash of civilisations and sectarianism of all kinds, the prime minister said: "Freedom, democracy, pluralism and secularism go together. You cannot have one without the other."
Manmohan Singh identified the pursuit of a peaceful neighbourhood as the third pillar of his vision of "a new India by 2020 and a new South Asia".
"They will remain the three pillars on which the India of 2020 is built. 2020 is not far away," he said.
"India seeks a neighbourhood of peace and progress. We wish our neighbours well," he said. "I do believe our destiny is intrinsically linked with that of all our neighbours. We would like to see them develop and wipe out poverty and overcome the burden of history and we would like to work with them to achieve these goals."
"India is always happy to extend a helpful and supportive hand to all our neighbours. We wish to see democracy take deep roots in all these countries so that the people of South Asia are truly empowered to take their destiny into their own hands."
Without naming Pakistan, the prime minister said India sincerely wished "to resolve all outstanding issues with our neighbours through dialogue and in the spirit of partnership and friendship that should rightly characterise our relations."
CPM targets Mamata for 'Maoist links'
Fri, Oct 30 04:50 AM
Hinting that the Trinamool Congress may have had an implicit role to play in the Rajdhani train siege, the CPM on Thursday asked the Prime Minister to explain why ministers from the party were allowed to continue in the Cabinet despite the "political patronage and protection" they gave to the Maoists.
The CPM claimed that the link between TMC and the Maoists had come out in the open after the party asked for the withdrawal of the central forces from Lalgarh, and were further exposed by Mamata Banerjee's refusal to condemn the siege of the Rajdhani Express train by Left-wing insurgents.
"Ironically, such blatant support for the Maoists and their terrorist activities comes from a party that is in that very Union Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister who on repeated occasions had stated that Maoist violence constitutes the gravest threat to India's internal security," CPM Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said in an editorial in the latest issue of party mouthpiece People's Democracy.
Adding to this, claimed Yechury, is Trinamool leader and Union Minister Sisir Adhikari's "boast" to the media that he had "prior knowledge that such an attack would take place". The Prime Minister "needs to probe the source of such 'knowledge' by his ministerial colleague and inform the nation," he said.
Yechury said there is a growing unrest amongst Railway employees as they feel that adequate security has not been provided to protect them from growing Maoist attacks on railway stations, tracks and other railway facilities. "The situation will not improve, they feel, as long as the Trinamool chief is the Railway Minister because of the close political collaboration between them," he said. "These are issues that warrant a serious probe."
Express news service
Govt. released Rs.201.06 crore under MPF scheme to States: Chidambaram
Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram on Friday said that under the Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) scheme, Rs.201.06 crore was released to the States in October against the total allocation of Rs.1187.50 crore for 2009-10.
While, Chidambaram informed that the Centre-State Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) Project has been signed by 34 States and Union Territories and only one State is yet to sign the MoU.
The report also said that during the month, the Cabinet also approved the National Policy on Disaster Management. It also approved a proposal to strengthen Fire and Emergency services in the country under a Plan Scheme with an outlay of Rs 200 crore during the Eleventh Plan period.
Chidambaram also informed about the proposal made at the Chief Ministers' Conference, and said that the Ministry has approved a scheme for strengthening of special branches in the State with a total outlay of Rs 150 crore.
The State Governments will implement the scheme with technical and financial support from the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the report said.
The report also said that Raghu Raman was appointed during the month as the Chief Executive Officer to implement the National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid) project.
Raman has agreed to accept this assignment until May 2011, when the project is expected to be fully implemented.
Peaceful State Assembly elections in three States highlight of October, says Chidambaram
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday, while presenting the monthly report of his Ministry, said that the highlight of October was the State Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra, which remained, by and large, peaceful.
Addressing media persons in the capital, Home Minister Chidambaram said: "The highlight of the month of October, 2009 was the Assembly elections held in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra, which he described as, by and large, peaceful. 298 Coys of CPMFs/SAPs/Border Wing Home Guards were deployed for the elections. The sole incident that marred the peace occurred in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, in which 17 personnel of the Maharashtra police were killed. The CPI (Maoist) was responsible for the attack on the police party."hidambaram informed how on October 5, he delivered the sixth Nani Palkivala Memorial Lecture at Mumbai where he appealed to the naxalites to abjure violence and pave the way for the State Governments concerned to talk to them on their demands and include them in the process of development and inclusive growth. "I also appealed to the leaders of civil society to prevail upon the naxalites to abjure violence and take the road of democracy and dialogue," he said.
Talking about his Jammu and Kashmir visit on October 13-14, which was primarily to attend the All India Editor's Conference, Chidambaram informed that he also met the Governor and the Chief Minister of the State. "Following my visit, we have identified a number of issues on which follow up action is being taken by the Central Government and the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. We intend to follow up on the promise of "quiet talks, quiet diplomacy" with all shades of political opinion in Jammu and Kashmir."
"A sum of Rs.30 crore was released to Jammu and Kashmir as advance for payment of one-time cash compensation in lieu of appointment in Government service to the next of kin of persons killed by militants. Sanction was issued for release of balance of Rs.5.3 lakh to J AND KAcademy of Art, Culture and Languages, Srinagar," said Chidambaram.
About his Jharkhand visit on Oct. 22, Chidambaram said that he reviewed the development and social welfare schemes of the Government and was briefed on the security situation and the readiness of the State Government to hold elections to the Legislative Assembly and the requirement of police personnel for elections was also discussed. "On my return, the Government recommended the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand with effect from November 1, 2009. The President of India issued a Presidential order to that effect on October 23, 2009. The Election Commission of India has since announced that elections will be held between November 25 and December 18, 2009."
On the issue of Disaster Relief, Chidambaram mentioned that on Oct. 5, he accompanied the UPA Chairperson, and the Andhra radesh Chief Minister and the Karnataka Chief Minister, respectively on an aerial survey of the flood affected areas of ndhra Pradesh and Karnataka. "The Prime Minister also visited Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Following the Prime Minister's isit, the Government announced an advance of Rs.1000 crore each to the two States from the NCCF. Central teams have been ispatched to the two States to make an assessment of the damage due to the floods and submit their reports," Chidambaram nformed.
30/10/2009
Deora sets up Committee to probe Indian Oil fire
Jaipur/New Delhi: While the fire raged on some 20 hours after it broke out at an Indian Oil depot at Jaipur, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora Friday announced a five-member inquiry committee and compensation for the victims.
The blaze broke out in the depot in the Sitapura industrial area, about 20 km from the Jaipur city centre, at 7.15 p.m. Thursday evening. Officials said nine people could have been killed and nearly 150 injured.
As a precautionary measure, the Indian railways has diverted a couple of trains running on the Jaipur-Sawai Madhopur sector.
According to trade estimates, over Rs.500 crore worth of damage has been incurred because of the fire.
While a team led by Indian Oil marketing head D.C. Dagga reached the spot Thursday night, the minister accompanied by Indian Oil chairman Sarthak Behuria rushed early Friday morning to inspect the firefighting and rescue efforts. The IOC chairman has been instructed to personally oversee the operations.
The minister was informed that while the fire has been contained to the installation area, it will only burn out after the fuel stocks finishes.
Indian Oil has rushed firefighting teams from Delhi, Panipat and Mathura, with ONGC sending a support team from Hazira.
According to the ministry, while three persons are confirmed dead, six employees of Indian Oil are still missing. Forty persons were injured and are being treated at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur.
Indian Oil will give an ex-gratia payment of Rs.10 lakh to the next of kin of each employee killed in the blaze, Rs.2 lakh for each of those seriously injured and Rs.1 lakh for those with minor injuries. In addition, the state government has already announced Rs.2 lakh for the families of those who died and Rs.1 lakh for the seriously injured.
Deora also announced that the a high-level enquiry committee has been set up, to be headed by the former chairman and managing director of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd M.B. Lal. It will also include the executive director of Oil Industry Safety Directorate as member secretary, Rajasthan government's principal secretary for mining and petroleum Govind Sharma and two experts from the oil industry.
The committee has been given six weeks to submit a report to the petroleum ministry.
The minister also met Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and assured him that supply of petroleum products will not be affected by the accident.
"This will be done by working additional shifts and also working on Sundays," a ministry statement said, quoting the minister.
Hindustan Petroleum, which has recently commissioned a petroleum product terminal at Bagru, near Jaipur on its Mudra-Delhi product pipeline, will take care of the requirements of the products in the area along with other nearby oil depots.
Source: Indo-Asian News Service
Pakistani diplomat knew US LeT planners of India attack: FBI
Washington: A top Pakistani diplomat personally knew David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, accused of carrying out a major terror attack in India for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), according to the US investigation agency FBI.
Pakistan's Consul General in Chicago, Aman Rashid, knew both Rana and Headley alias 'Daood Gilani', as all the three went to the same high school, the FBI said in a revised affidavit filed in a Chicago court.
However, the FBI's revised charge sheet does not say anything about the consul general having any knowledge of or connection to Headley and Rana's terror conspiracy.
"On or about September 25, 2009, Rana spoke by telephone with the consul general at the Pakistani Consulate in Chicago in an effort to obtain a five-year visa for Headley to travel to Pakistan," the FBI said.
"It is clear from the email traffic unrelated to terrorist plotting that the consul general knows Rana and Headley personally as all three attended the same high school," the FBI claimed.
Rana, 48, and Headley, 49, are not only residents of Chicago, but were the products of the same military school.
American national Headley, whose assistance was sought by LeT in planning a major terror attack in India, was helped by his Pakistani-Canadian friend Rana to obtain a visa for Pakistan so that he could travel to the North West Frontier Province for training and meeting the LeT leaders, federal prosecutors have charged.
The charge sheet also indicates that LeT was planning to use Headley for a major terrorist attack in India.
The transcripts of the taped conversations, both email and telephone, reveal that LeT was planning to use Headley for attack on a mysterious Indian actor 'Rahul' - which Indian intelligence agencies say could be a code message.
Headley stated that he intended to travel to Pakistan in early October to meet with an unidentified LeT Individual 'B' and (Ilyas) Kashmiri, the FBI told the court. It said Headley had already travelled to Pakistan from late January to early March of 2009, during which he visited Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
While it does not identify the high school where the three were students, the FBI told the court that postings to a Yahoo group of graduates of a military school located in the Pakistani town of Hasan Abdal reflected that both Headley and Rana have participated in the group and referred to their attendance at that school.
The group refers to itself as 'abdalians', or almuni of Cadet College Hasan Abdal, located in the historic city of Hasan Abdal, some 40 km northwest of Rawalpindi. It is well known for Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib, one of the most sacred places of Sikhism.
0/10/2009
I am ready to take the next flight home: MF Husain
With Indian government contemplating approaching the Supreme Court for fast disposal of cases against him, veteran Indian artist M F Husain, who is on self-imposed exile, on Friday termed it as the "greatest news" and said he was ready to take the next flight home if his safety is assured.
His remarks came days after Home Ministry sources in New Delhi said cases filed against Husain across the country over his controversial paintings should be brought to a logical end and that the Centre was contemplating moving the Supreme Court for their expeditious disposal to ensure his early return.
'I think this is a greatest news which I was dreaming about for four years. I was expecting this for a long time, after all I love my country, and people love me, except a very few who do not understand the language of modern paintings,' said the 94-year-old painter.
Asked if he could return in December, Husain told NDTV: 'Why December, if today (Home Minister P) Chidambaram gives me a call I will immediately take a plane and go to greet him first".
Husain, whose some paintings depicting Hindu deities in the nude led to protests and threats by saffron outfits, has been living in Dubai and London for the past few years.
He said the fresh indications from authorities were a "positive sign" and expressed trust in the government's ability to protect him.
'If they decide to do it they can, because its a huge big country and a great country,' he said.
'Of course it (India) is a democracy, so many views have to be respected within the framework of the law of the land,' Husain said.
Asked if he stood by his recent comment wherein he questioned the government's ability to protect him given that they had failed to safeguard his works from being vandalised by mobs, he indicated his opinion had changed.
'Till then there was nothing from the government and I was really disappointed by what was happening to me in the last 8-10 years... And now I think it is a very positive sign,' he said.
The Delhi High Court in May last year quashed some of the criminal proceedings against the nonogenarian painter, saying his paintings were an expression of creativity.
India's best-known painter said he was not the first artist to face protests from a section of people, and hoped his detractors would also develop an understanding for his work.
He said people have on several occasions in history protested against new forms of expression and "this is part of history".
'... They are little bit misguided, and so I think may be tomorrow they will understand because anything which is something new... when the impressionists came after the renaissance, there was a huge protest in Paris. They said this is like throwing colour on our faces, they walked out.'
Source: PTI
30/10/2009
No bail for NASA scientist charged with spying
Washington: A leading NASA scientist, credited with helping discover water on the Moon on India's Chandrayaan mission, who has been arrested on charges of spying for Israel was denied bail after prosecutors said he was a "walking safe deposit box" of government secrets.
Judge Deborah Robinson Thursday rejected a bail request from Stewart David Nozette, who was arrested in an October 18 sting operation, saying he was considered too much of a flight risk and should remain in jail pending trial.
Nozette, 52, pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to sell US defence secrets to an undercover FBI agent who was posing as an Israeli intelligence officer for $2 million. The Justice Department could seek the death penalty.
Nozette, who had high-level security clearances worked at the US space agency NASA, the Energy Department, and even served on the White House's National Space Council in 1989 and 1990, under then president George H W Bush.
He was one of the main investigators of an American scientific instrument that flew aboard India's lunar craft Chandrayaan-1. His biography described him as the instrument's principal investigator on the American Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Co-investigator on Mini-SAR on Chandrayaan-1.
The Mini-RF (Radio Frequency) project flew two radar instruments - the first one on ISRO's Chandrayaan called Mini-Sar (synthetic aperture radar), which mapped lunar poles, and the second one on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The American space agency had put another instrument on the Indian lunar probe, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which effectively proved the presence of water molecules on the moon's surface.
Nozette was known primarily as a defence technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era Star Wars missile shield effort formally named the Strategic Defence Initiative.
Because he knows so many secrets, including about the nation's nuclear missile programme, Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered special communications restrictions placed on him while he's in jail, authorities said.
"The defendant is himself a walking safe deposit box of classified information," said prosecutor Anthony Asuncion. "He is now a treasure trove of some of our most sensitive matters."
The dance of death in in Kanpur (25 years after Indira Gandhi's assassination)
Fri, Oct 30 03:22 PM
Kanpur, Oct 30 (IANS) All hell broke loose in this cramped and crowded city, over 400 km away from the Indian capital, when news of then prime minister Indira Gandhi being assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on Oct 31, 1984, filtered down. What began as sporadic protests on the streets quickly turned into organised violence by evening.
As many as 127 Sikhs and eight non-Sikhs lost their lives in the violence that gripped this city, a major industrial hub in Uttar Pradesh. And unlike Delhi where the violence played out for three days, all the killings were carried out over a span of 24 hours - between the night of Oct 31 and Nov 1, 1984.
Armed groups prowling the streets began targeting Sikhs who had to literally run for cover. Their shops were attacked and set ablaze. As evening gave way to night, the mobs, better organised by then, turned wild, raiding predominantly Sikh localities and lynching every Sikh they could lay their hands on.
It began when hoodlums, moving around in groups numbering 40 to 50 people, started pressuring Sikh shop owners and office keepers to pull down their shutters.
Within hours, the marauding mobs fanned out. They began burning vehicles, assaulting Sikh employees returning from their offices and factories after their shifts. Even gurdwaras in certain localities were not spared. Soon they began targeting houses. The attacks became more violent and lethal.
With a population of about three million then, Kanpur was the state's biggest city.
A large chunk of those who spearheaded the violence lived in slums mushrooming in various parts of the city that was until then known as the 'Manchester of the East' on account of its huge textile industry, which is now virtually dead.
Sikh-populated localities like Govind Nagar, Kidwai Nagar, Gumti No.5, Ranjit Nagar, Pandu Nagar, Rajinder Nagar and Daboli bore the brunt of violence. Incidentally, the mobs cutting across party lines knew their victims.
And like in Delhi, the authorities looked the other way as rioters had a field day. The alleged support extended to the mobs by then district magistrate Brijendra Yadav, whose role came in for sharp scrutiny by the Ranganath Misra Commission that was subsequently appointed to investigate the cause of the riots, emboldened the rioters.
Yadav was indicted by the one-man Commission but managed to get away with just a rap on the knuckles.
In his report, Misra, who eventually gave the Congress a clean chit for the riots, went to the extent of condemning Yadav's role. The testimony of Captain Bareth, an officer of the 16 Maratha Light Infantry, who was deployed there after the state government handed over administration to the army, is proof.
Bareth's statement depicts how Yadav refused to sign the handing over papers and how he reportedly abetted in the killing of innocent Sikhs of Kidwai Nagar locality where at least 14 Sikhs were burnt alive and hundreds injured by a mob Nov 1.
Misra said the non-enforcement of prohibitory orders banning the assembly more than five people delayed the imposition of curfew and calling in the army to stand by the civil administration.
While sporadic incidents of attacks on Sikhs were reported also from other parts of the state, including the capital Lucknow, it was incomparable to the systematic carnage carried out in Kanpur.
Sardar Kuldip Singh, a former president of the Akali Dal (Tara Singh group) who single-handedly fought for the victims, is still struggling to get them their compensation.
'Even 25 years after, I am still fighting to get thousands of victims a compensation package that was formally announced by the then government,' laments Singh, who later rose to become a Congress legislator.
Former state governor Moti Lal Vora had in 1995 agreed to compensate victims for the loss of property and life. But his transfer from Uttar Pradesh only complicated matters and those who suffered that fateful night are still running from pillar to post.
'Though the central government ordered a 10-time hike in compensation in 2005, those in Kanpur got nothing as they had not been paid in the earlier package,' observed Singh.
Worse, the hundreds of families who migrated from Kanpur to Punjab following the riots got nothing as a rehabilitation package.
DMK 'diluting' its stand on Mullaiperiyar: Jayalalithaa
Fri, Oct 30 02:42 PM
Chennai, Oct 30 (IANS) AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa Friday charged Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK government with diluting its stand on the Mullaiperiyar dam issue, indicating a total lack of concern about the rights or needs of the people of the state.
'The minority DMK government's stand on the Mullaiperiyar issue is reminiscent of the story of the donkey progressively getting transformed into an ant,' she said about the alleged 'changing stance' of DMK leader and Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi.
Recalling the DMK's announcement of holding a protest meeting in Madurai Nov 1 against Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, she said in a statement: 'In a show of false bravado, Karunanidhi had announced that, fighting age and infirmity, he would personally address the gathering. Overnight Karunanidhi changed tack. The meeting in Madurai would not condemn Jairam Ramesh or the central government but to voice his protest against the Kerala government.'
She attributed the sudden change in DMK's stand to the raids on the offices of the telecom department by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the spectrum scam.
The DMK's A.Raja is the telecommunications minister.
On DMK's decision to call off the Madurai meeting citing the ongoing case on the dam issue in the Supreme Court, she recalled: 'Karunanidhi conveniently forgot that, a little over a year ago, he had organised a bandh and a protest meeting in Chennai on the Sethusamudram issue even though the Supreme Court was hearing a case on it.'
Kerala and Tamil Nadu have been at loggerheads over the Mullaperiyar dam built under an agreement signed in 1886 between the then maharaja of Travancore and the British administration.
The dam, located in Kerala's Idukki district, serves Tamil Nadu. In recent years, Tamil Nadu has demanded that the storage capacity of the dam be raised from 136 feet (41.5 m) to 142 feet (43 m) to meet the increasing demand of water for irrigation. However, Kerala is seeking the construction of a new dam, contending the existing structure had outlived its life.
Indo Asian News Service
PM asks for states' support to enforce law and order
Fri, Oct 30 12:10 PM
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said the central government needs 'active cooperation' of the state governments to enforce law and order in various parts of the country.
Manmohan Singh's remarks came two days after a Delhi-bound train was hijacked by Maoist guerrillas in West Bengal, demanding release of their leader Chhattradhar Mahato.
'We are a democracy. Also there are occasions when there are differences of opinion among leaders in our own coalition. Law and order is primary responsibility of every civilised state and whatever comes in the way of maintenance and enforcement of law and order will be dealt as it is ought to be dealt with,' Manmohan Singh said at the HT Leadership Summit here.
The prime minister was replying to a question on Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's 'support' to Maoists following the hijacking of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express complicated the central government's approach in dealing with the Maoist menace.
'India of tomorrow cannot be built from New Delhi alone. We need active cooperation of state governments and that applies not only to developmental process but also enforcement of law and order. We will work with all state governments regardless of their political complexion to strengthen process of law and order,' Manmohan Singh said.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) had Thursday asked Manmohan Singh to probe the 'support' given by Trinamool Congress ministers to Maoist rebels in West Bengal.
The CPI-M had alleged a conspiracy behind the train hold-up in West Midnapore, referring to the hours-long blockade of the Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express.
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Clinton faces Pakistani ire over drone attacks
Strikes aimed at militants amount to 'executions without trial,' she is told
 Irfan Mahmood / AP U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with Pakistani tribal people in Islamabad on Friday. Pakistanis challenged U.S. policies in the region, especially attacks by unmanned drones, which are used to target militants along the border with Afghanistan. |
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ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face Friday with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terrorist leaders.
In a series of public appearances on the final day of a three-day visit marked by blunt talk, Clinton refused to discuss the subject, which involves highly classified CIA operations. She would say only that "there is a war going on," and the Obama administration is committed to helping Pakistan defeat the insurgents and terrorists who threaten the stability of a nuclear-armed nation.
Clinton said she could not comment on "any particular tactic or technology" used in the war against extremist groups in the area.
The use of Predator drone aircraft, armed with guided missiles, is credited by U.S. officials with eliminating a growing number of senior terrorist group leaders this year who had used the tribal lands of Pakistan as a haven beyond the reach of U.S. ground forces in Afghanistan.
'Executions without trial'
During an interview broadcast live in Pakistan with several prominent female TV anchors, before a predominantly female audience of several hundred, one member of the audience said the Predator attacks amount to "executions without trial" for those killed.
Another asked Clinton how she would define terrorism.
"Is it the killing of people in drone attacks?" she asked. That woman then asked if Clinton considers drone attacks and bombings like the one that killed more than 100 civilians in the city of Peshawar earlier this week to both be acts of terrorism.
"No, I do not," Clinton replied.
Earlier, in a give-and-take with about a dozen residents of the tribal region, one man alluded obliquely to the drone attacks, saying he had heard that in the United States, aircraft are not allowed to take off after 11 p.m., to avoid irritating the population.
"That is the sort of peace we want for our people," he said through an interpreter.
The same man told Clinton that the Obama administration should rely more on wisdom and less on firepower to achieve its aims in Pakistan.
"Your presence in the region is not good for peace," he said, referring to the U.S. military, "because it gives rise to frustration and irritation among the people of this region." At another point he told Clinton, "Please forgive me, but I would like to say we've been fighting your war."
'It is not our war'
A similar point was made by Sana Bucha of Geo TV during the live broadcast interview.
"It is not our war," she told Clinton. "It is your war." She drew a burst of applause when she added, "You had one 9/11. We are having daily 9/11s in Pakistan."
Capturing a feeling that Clinton heard expressed numerous times during her visit, one woman in the audience said, "The whole world thinks we are terrorists." The woman said she was from the South Waziristan area where the Pakistani army is engaged in pitched battles with Taliban and affiliated extremist elements — and where U.S. drones have struck with deadly effect many times.
The Pakistani army said Friday its forces had killed two dozen militants in 24 hours and were closing in on a prominent insurgent stronghold as its offensive in the remote region continued.
Clinton's main message on Friday was that the U.S. wants to be a partner with Pakistan, not just on the military front but also on trade, education, energy and other sectors. She stressed, however, that Pakistan needs to do its part in demonstrating a real commitment to democracy.
Clinton also was asked about her remark on Thursday that she found it hard to believe that Pakistani officials don't know where leaders of terrorist groups are hiding in Pakistan.
On Friday she took a bit of the edge off that comment, saying, "I don't know if anyone knows, but we in the United States would very much like to see the end of the al-Qaida leadership, and our best information is that they are somewhere in Pakistan."
'Trust deficit'
In an interviews broadcast Friday, Clinton defended her blunt talk on Pakistan, saying it was important to have an open relationship between the countries even if it meant some tough words. was asked about the bluntness of her remarks.
"I wanted to get that out on the table, because the Pakistanis have talked about a trust deficit and it's a two-way street," Clinton said in an interview shown on NBC's "Today Show." "We have questions, they have questions."
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In an interview aired on ABC's "Good Morning America," Clinton said the two countries needed to be more open with each other.
"I want to have the kind of relationship where we really are talking honestly about everything between us -- because there's just too much at stake," she said.
"It will not be sufficient to achieve the level of security that Pakistanis deserve if we don't go after those who are still threatening not only Pakistan but Afghanistan and the rest of the world."
In an interview with CNN, Clinton noted that she had been asking a question of Pakistan but did prejudge the answer. She also said the United States applauded Pakistan's resolve for going after Taliban extremists.
Later Clinton was to fly to Abu Dhabi in the Persian Gulf for a meeting Saturday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chided Pakistani officials Thursday for failing to press the hunt for al-Qaida inside their borders, suggesting they know where the terrorist leaders are hiding.
American officials have long said that al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden and senior lieutenants of the network accused in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks operate out of the rugged terrain along the border with Afghanistan.
But Clinton's unusually blunt comments went further in asserting that Pakistan's government has done too little about it.
"I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to," Clinton said in an interview with Pakistani journalists in Lahore. "Maybe that's the case. Maybe they're not gettable. I don't know."
There was no immediate reaction from Pakistani officials, but the thrust of Clinton's comments were startling, coming after months of lavish public comments from her and other American officials portraying Pakistan's leaders as finally receptive to the war against militants inside their own country.
As a political spouse, career public official and recently as a diplomat, Clinton has long showed a tendency toward bluntness, sometimes followed by a softening of her comments. But her remarks about Pakistan's lack of action against al-Qaida comes at a particularly sensitive moment — amid a major Pakistani offensive against militants and a deadly spate of insurgent violence.
With Pakistan reeling from Wednesday's devastating bombing that killed more than 100 people in Peshawar, Clinton also engaged in an intense give-and-take with students at the Government College of Lahore. She insisted that inaction by the government would have ceded ground to terrorists.
"If you want to see your territory shrink, that's your choice," she said, adding that she believed it would be a bad choice.
Terrorist 'masterminds'
Richard Holbrooke, the special U.S. representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan, told reporters that Clinton planned to meet late Thursday with the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, to get an update on the offensive that began Oct. 17 against Taliban forces in a portion of the tribal areas near the Afghan border.
"We want to encourage them," Holbrooke said of the Pakistanis. "She wants to get a firsthand account of the military situation."
During her exchange with the Pakistani journalists, one reporter asked Clinton why the fight against terrorism seemed to put Pakistan at the center and why other countries couldn't do more. Clinton noted that al-Qaida has launched attacks on Indonesia, the Philippines and many other countries over the years.
"So the world has an interest in seeing the capture and killing of the people who are the masterminds of this terrorist syndicate. As far as we know, they are in Pakistan."
On Clinton's flight to Islamabad after the interview with Pakistani journalists, U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson said Clinton's remarks approximate what the Obama administration has told Pakistani officials in private.
"We often say, `Yes, there needs to be more focus on finding these leaders,'" Patterson said. "The other thing is, they lost control of much of this territory in recent years, and that's why they're in South Waziristan right now."
No guarantee
In Lahore, dozens of students rushed to line up for the microphone when the session with Clinton began. Their questions were not hostile, but showed a strong sense of doubt that the U.S. could be a reliable and trusted partner for Pakistan.
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"What guarantee," the woman asked, "can Americans give Pakistan that we can now trust you — not you but, like, the Americans this time — of your sincerity and that you guys are not going to betray us like the Americans did in the past when they wanted to destabilize the Russians?"
Clinton responded that the question was a "fair criticism" and that the U.S. did not follow through in the way it should have. "It's difficult to go forward if we're always looking in the rearview mirror," said Clinton, on the second of a three-day visit, her first to Pakistan as secretary of state.
The Peshawar bombing in a market crowded with women and children appeared timed to overshadow her arrival. It was the deadliest attack in Pakistan since 2007.
She likened Pakistan's situation — with Taliban forces taking over substantial swaths of land in the Swat valley and in areas along the Afghan border — to a theoretical advance of terrorists into the United States from across the Canadian border.
It would be unthinkable, she said, for the U.S. government to decide, "Let them have Washington (state)" first, then Montana, then the sparsely populated Dakotas, because those states are far from the major centers of population and power on the East Coast.
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