Ruling party ready to elect Musharraf for another term
PAKISTAN’S ruling party assured President Gen.
Pervez Musharraf that he would be elected to a new five-year term in
a vote likely to take place in the first week of October, party
officials said.
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Shipping channel project creates religious furor in India
IN INDIA, where religion is all-pervasive, it
was a comment destined to misfire. At issue was a US$577 million
project to dredge a shipping channel in between India and Sri Lanka
- right through a chain of limestone shoals and sand that Hindus
believe was built by the God King Rama.
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Bangladesh flood death toll crosses 1,000
THE death toll from flooding this year in
impoverished Bangladesh crossed 1,000 with a further 2.5 million
people displaced or marooned by rising river waters, officials said.
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