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Home Contact Us Dateline New Delhi, Thursday, July 14, 2005

Nephew poisoned into terrorism: suicide bomber's uncle

London: The uncle of one of the four suspected suicide bombers of Pakistan origin, who rocked London on Thursday afternoon, has said that some radical groups in Pakistan might have brainwashed their ward to take to terror acts. According to the family sources, Shehzad Tanweer, who blew off the underground train at Aldgate, had gone to his home country last year to learn the Quran, and might have been indoctrinated into extremism by different groups. Bashir Ahmed (65), Shehzad's uncle, said that if he had known that his nephew was involved with any fanatical group, he would have put a stop to it. "He went to Pakistan but it was to learn about his religion. It was not a terror camp. But he would have been in an environment where different political views would be discussed and pressure is put on young people to get involved in various groups. He was just a good British boy when he was growing up, a young sports fan from a good family. It is hard to accept what must have happened to him," the Daily Mail quoted the uncle as saying.

Pak railway describes dead bodies as 'beef' (Go To Top)

Lahore: Relatives of the dead in yesterday's railway accidents were furious, when they read Pakistan Railway (PR) ministry's official website describing the dead bodies as "beef". More than 300 people may have died and nearly 1000 injured in the twin accidents, though the official sources put the figure at 120 only. According to the Daily Times, the PR website put up information referring to the dead bodies as appearing "in the shape of beef". This angered anxious people who were looking for information about loved ones on the ill-fated trains. Later, Pakistan Railways Minister Ishaq Khakwani issued an apology saying: "The people working on the rescue and recovery operation are not very educated and have little sense of official language. I apologise for the mistake. I'll direct the Railways authorities to rectify the mistake."

Lakshmi Mittal's two mln pound largesse to Blair (Go To Top)

London: Lakshmi Mittal, the Indian-born steel tycoon, who is worth an estimated 14.8 billion pounds, recently donated two million pounds to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party. Mittal's latest donation is said to be the biggest single contribution by an individual to Labour's coffers after Lord Sainsbury's gift of 2.5 million dollars in March 2003, and was made because he (Mittal) was reportedly impressed with Blair's plans to improve education, health, employment, skills and technology in Britain. According to The Telegraph, Mittal has refuted allegations that his donation was a payback of sorts for Blair having helped him to takeover a Romanian Government-run steel company in 2002. Blair is said to have written to his Romanian counterpart in 2001 supporting Mittal's takeover bid. The letter was written two months after Mittal had gifted 125,000 pounds to the Labour Party. Mittal has maintained that there is no connection between his donation and Blair's letter. He has insisted that it was a personal donation made after his company had entered negotiations with the Romanians.

Expand, reform undemocratic UN Council: Kofi Annan (Go To Top)

New York: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the 15-member Security Council needs to be expanded because it is no longer democratic. Responding to Washington's call that the time was not ripe for a change in the UNSC, Annan said that he would like the UN General Assembly to make a decision before a UN summit in September, as he could see a deadlock emerging, with the foreign ministers of Germany, Brazil, Japan, India, Nigeria and Ghana putting their foot down on tabling the G-4 resolution. ''I think we all have to admit that the council can be more democratic and more representative,'' Annan told reporters after a lunch with the Security Council. ''There is a democracy deficit in the UN governance that has to be corrected.'' ''Of course it is up to the members to determine whether they will let size trump democracy and representativeness,'' Annan said, adding that the United Nations went ''around the world lecturing everybody about democracy.''

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