The Sunday Times International | Sunday, July 15, 2007

International

Twenty four Pakistan soldiers killed in suicide attack
A suicide bomber Saturday killed 24 troops after this week's deadly army raid on a hardline mosque, as Pakistan's embattled military leader also faced pressure from pro-democracy protesters. The attacker rammed an explosives-packed car into a paramilitary convoy in North Waziristan, a tribal region near the Afghan border, top military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP.

Lankan girl on death row highlights a surge in Saudi ....
Rizana Nafeek, a 19-year housemaid from Sri Lanka, is on death row because the baby in her care died while she was bottle-feeding him. If her appeal is turned down, she will taken to a town square to be publicly beheaded. The Sri Lankan government says it is working for a reprieve......

Musharraf's Operation Silence and its echo
I am shocked over the comparison made between the Operation Bluestar at Amritsar and Pakistan's Operation Silence on the Lal Masjid at Islamabad. The Golden Temple is the Sikhs' Vatican. The entire community considers it sacred and looks up to it for guidance on religious matters. Thousands from other communities also pay obeisance at what is respectfully called the Darbar Sahib.


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