News from Asia

Aug.2, 2007: Two domesticated elephants went on a rampage in India's remote northeast, killing eight people and wounding five others before being shot dead by police. Police were searching for the owners of the elephants and trying to establish what caused the violent behavior, rare among tamed elephants. The attacks occurred in an area bordering India's Assam and Mizoram states. The two elephants, a male and a female, ran through at least five villages, trampling anyone who got in their way before crossing into the neighboring state of Mizoram, where police were called in. The police finally gunned the elephants and killed them.
Jan.27, 2006: Interpol has issued international notices following a request by Pakistan for the arrest of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband on corruption charges.
April 1, 2005: The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China , has received a 34-million-dollar loan from the Kuwaiti Government for a project designed to protect Bosten Lake, the largest freshwater lake in the region, a spokesman with the regional government said. The project, which aims to preserve the lake's ecosystem, may cost 603 million yuan (US$72 million) in total. Domestic funds will pay for the rest of the project after the Kuwaiti loan has been given.
March 27, 2005: India shut down yesterday to celebrate its boisterous festival of colors, Holi, but thousands chose to splash around in naturally colored pastes and powders instead of risky synthetic products. Millions of revelers dabbed themselves in colors, tossed around colored powder and sprayed colored water at each other in towns and cities during the day-long festival that heralds the end of winter
March 22, 2005: Right wing activists attacked a warehouse of US-based PepsiCo and protested outside the American consulate in Mumbai. The attack in Surat city came despite tight security to prevent any retaliation by groups to the US decision to revoke a visa for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Aug.15, 2004: The wife of a rapist and murderer on death row in India said she wanted to be hanged with her husband on Saturday. Dhananjay Chatterjee, 40, was to be hanged in Calcutta city, capital of eastern West Bengal state, at 4.30 a.m. on August 14, his birthday. He was found guilty of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in December 1989.

Jan.12, 2004: India resumed commercial flights to Pakistan after a two-year halt yesterday, while India's foreign minister said relations between the rivals show 'new signs of promise' ahead of planned talks next month aimed at resolving a decades-old dispute over Kashmir.
Nov.9, 2003: THE FIRST AFGHAN entrant in an international beauty contest for 30 years, and the first since the fall of the hard-line Islamic Taleban government in 2001, joined more than 50 other women at a posh hotel in the Philippine capital this week to fight it out for the Miss Earth title.
The dark-haired Samadzai, 25, was born and raised in Afghanistan, but left for the United States in 1996 to escape the turmoil of civil war and the rise of the Taleban religious movement

June 5, 2003: Weather officials warned Wednesday there would be no immediate relief from soaring temperatures in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh where people are bearing the brunt of a heat wave that has claimed more than 1,200 lives across India. This summer is going to be very hot and many people will die because of heat wave around the world.
May 13, 2003: India tested its new locally developed air-to-air missile on Monday for the third time in four days, a defense ministry spokesman said.
The test-firing of the Astra, with a range of about 40 km (25 miles), from a launch site in the Bay of Bengal was routine. Such development will escalate the arm race between India and Pakistan.
May 5,2003:At least 31 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in tropical storms in Bangladesh, officials and reports said on Monday. Heavy rain caused a landslide before dawn Monday sweeping away mud homes in the remote southeastern village of Noabadi, killing at least 22 people, local official Matiur Rahman said.
April 12, 2003: Defense Minister George Fernandes reiterated Indian warnings that Pakistan was a prime case for pre-emptive strikes. "There are enough reasons to launch such strikes against Pakistan, but I cannot make public statements on whatever action that may be taken," Fernandes told a meeting of ex-soldiers. That is a big talk and such statements might lead to a nuclear War between the tow countries.
April 10, 2003: Air-India (AI) pilots have refused to fly to Hong Kong and neighboring areas due to the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Indian Airlines (IA) pilots do not want to fly to Kuwait since the ongoing war poses safety concerns.
Nov. 21,2002: Pakistan’s parliament elected Mir Zafarullah Jamali of a pro-military party as its first civilian prime minister on Thursday since a 1999 coup, but he will rule in the shadow of military President Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf has promised to hand over the running of the country to the prime minister, but he will remain as president for a further five years with considerable influence and the power to dismiss parliament.
Nov.18,2002: Schoolgirls showered Muhammad Ali with flower petals Monday during the former heavyweight champ’s visit to a U.N.-sponsored school in Afghanistan’s capital. Ali, who made the trip to Kabul as a “U.N. Messenger of Peace,” signed autographs and handed out volleyballs and jumping ropes. Just how many rich Arabs did visit Afghanistan and made any contribution to rebuild this devastated country and help the poor people.
Nov.17,2002: Bill Gates, owner of the Microsoft empire and the richest man in the world, has donated $100 million to support AIDS treatment programs in India. This is one part of a project to combat the killer disease. What the rich people in India and Asia do to their countries?
Nov.14,2002:U.S. intelligence officials say they feel confident that the voice on an audiotape broadcast on an Arabic television network is that of Osama bin Laden. So Ben Laden is alive?!! where is he hiding? Probably he has changed his appearance and shaved his beard!!
Oct.11,2002: Pakistan’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said he would hand over executive power by around Nov. 1 to the new prime minister as Pakistanis voted yesterday in the first general elections since the 1999 coup.
Sept.5,2002: A powerful car bomb rocked a busy market area in the center of Kabul on Thursday, killing and wounding scores in the bloodiest attack in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taleban. A U.N. security official said 22 were dead.
Sept.5, 2002: Afghan President Hamid Karzai was safe after shots were fired at his car in the eastern Afghan city of Kandahar.
Sept.4, 2002: Financial officers of al Qaeda and the Taliban have quietly shipped large quantities of gold out of Pakistan to Sudan in recent weeks, transiting through the United Arab Emirates and Iran, according to European, Pakistani and U.S. investigators. This suggest that Al Qaeda is still exist and operate.
Aug.31,2002: In Pakistan A judge sentenced six men to death by hanging Sunday for their roles in the gang rape of a woman whose brother was accused of having relations with a higher-caste woman.After a man was accused of having relations with a higher-caste woman, members of her family called a tribal council to determine proper punishment. That punishment was for the four men to gang rape the man's sister. What kind of a cruel rule for a society?
August 25, 2002: Police in Kabul have seized chemicals from a suspected terrorist laboratory at a house in the city's diplomatic area. The officers found 16 different kinds of chemicals in Saturday's raid, along with some explosives and a pile of documents. Police are now carrying out tests on the chemicals to identify them. The house in Kabul's Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood had previously been used by the Saudi Arabian charity Wafa. It was involved in pre-September 11th construction and food distribution projects in Afghanistan, but U.S. authorities suspect the charity may have links with al-Qaida.

August 18, 2002: The Afghan foreign minister said on Saturday he was certain Saudi-born guerrilla chief Osama bin Laden and ousted Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar survived last year's U.S. bombing and were living in the region.

July 14, 2002: An anti-terrorism court this morning sentenced to death Sheik Omar Saeed for his role in organizing the kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter
June 12, 2002: A U.S. military transport plane crashed on takeoff in Afghanistan on Wednesday, U.S. officials said.
May 30,2002: Pakistan has repeated assurances it will not initiate a conflict with India, but has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons should hostilities escalate.
May 30, 2002: India and Pakistan are going to war, Both countries are preparing for the war. This war could turn Nuclear and hundred of thousands of people could die. This could have a shocking effect on the whole world.
April 19 ,2002: Zaher Shah , the Ex-King of Afghanistan has visited the devastated city of Kabul and was very upset at the level of destruction , of once a beautiful city. He also visited the grave of his father, who was assassinated before his eyes 68 years ago. Mohammad Zaher Shah, was under threat of assassination from killers posing as journalists.
April 2,2002: Pakistani authorities has captured Abu Zubaydah , believed to be one of the top aids to Osama Bin laden. Zubaydah, apparently the highest-ranking al-Qaida leader to fall into U.S. hands since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was captured in a raid Thursday orchestrated by Pakistani officers and agents of the FBI and the CIA. He was transferred to U.S. custody over the weekend. Zubaydah was shot in the stomach, the groin and a thigh by Pakistani officers
April 1,2002: Afghanistan’s ex-king, Mohammad Zaher Shah, will return from exile April 16 and convene a grand council in June to decide the future of Afghanistan — a future that will usher in a new government including at least 160 women among more than 1,500 members, the organizing commission announced Sunday. Only six seats are guaranteed for Islamic scholars.
March 23,2002: In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation. As Afghan schools reopen today, the United States is back in the business of providing schoolbooks. But now it is wrestling with the unintended consequences of its successful strategy of stirring Islamic fervor to fight communism.
March 23,2002: Children will start today to go to schools in Afghanistan. Young girls are more eager to go and learn , since they were prohibited for so many years by Taliban.
March 21, 2002: With kites and balloons flying, prized bulls and ceremonial horses parading, and families picnicking on a hillside beneath an ancient Muslim shrine, Kabul burst into celebration today for Nawruz, the spring New Year's holiday that was banned for the past five years of Taliban rule.
March 5,2002: About 2,000 U.S., allied and Afghan forces were pounding al Qaeda and Taliban fighters hiding in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province. So it seems the war on Al Qaeda is not over yet!!
March 4,2002: Religious clashes claimed more lives in the western state of Gujarat, bringing the death toll to 538 as Hindu mobs attacked Muslim homes in several towns overnight. The situation is getting out of hand as Hindu mobs are seeking destruction of Moslems in India. The Indian authorities have done little to prevent the inferno that has swept the western state of Gujarat - not because of incompetence but because they share the prejudices of the Hindu gangs who have been busy pulping their Muslim neighbors. The reality is that the police made no effort to hold back the mob, and in certain places even joined in.
March3,2002: According to American sources, a Pakistani nuclear scientist attempted to negotiate the sale of an atomic weapon design to Libya.
March 2,2002: Pakistan arrested two former nuclear scientists, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Abdul Majid, on Oct. 23, and interrogated them about contacts with bin Laden and his lieutenants.
Jan21,2002: Afghanistan will need $15 billion over a decade to begin the process of recovering from 23 years of war and build the country infrastructure from the ground up.
Jan.15,2002: Al-Qaida militants practiced carrying out a mass assassination of world leaders, according to a video obtained in Afghanistan and broadcast Sunday on Australian television.

Jan 13,2002: India mass up more troops at the border with Pakistan and lay mine fields all across the border.

Jan 12,2002: president Musharef declares war on all Fanatic Islamic groups and give strict ban on all their activities. Also he announced restriction of Arab Moslem to enter Pakistan.

Jan7,2002: India & Pakistan are at the verge of a war. Military build are reported on the boarders of the 2 countries. Since a terrorist attack on India’s parliament, which India blamed on Pakistani militants, both nations have amassed thousands of troops along their frontier, cut off airspace rights, slashed their embassy staffs and halted all passenger air, train and bus service across the border.

Nov.27,2001:Marjan, injured years ago by a hand grenade, sits in his quarters at the Kabul Zoo. The zookeeper wages a daily fight to keep the facility open. Out of 39 animals , there is only 17 that exist now.
During the vicious factional power fights ( civil war) from 1992 to 1995, a sadistic soldier killed the zoo’s elephant with a rocket-propelled grenade. Other animals were turned into meals for hungry fighters. Faced with evidence that the Prophet ( Mohammad) indeed kept pets, the Taliban allowed Omar to keep the zoo open and the zoo keeper managed to keep the remaining animals alive.

Nov.25,2001: Afghan farmers have returned back to planting opium poppies with the Taliban no longer around to enforce a three-year ban on poppy-growing, hundreds of farmers started to plant opium , so that they could support their poor families. The opium plant can survive the draught , which have stricken Afghanistan for the last years. What will the US & the Alliance forces do to help these people and to make sure that the opium will only be used for medical purposes and not as a drug sold to the drug addicts around the world?
AIDS: Aids is spreading in India at a very high and alarming rate.

Accelerating trade and travel — along with underlying conditions favorable to the disease — are pushing much of Asia, and particularly India, toward "a dramatic increase in infectious disease deaths, largely driven by the spread of HIV/AIDS," the intelligence report said. "By 2010, the region could surpass Africa in the number of HIV [human immunodeficiency virus] infections." The number of infections now is relatively low, but the growth rate is high and governments have been slow to respond.

India & Pakistan might start a large scale war anytime , as tension is still growing between these 2 countries.
Malaysia & Indonesia economical problems are caused by a foreign power....There are definite proof that the Israeli government is behind this crisis in order to undermine the power &wealth % developments of the Islamic countries.. Prime Minister of Malaysia has clearly pointed out this matter.