While exports to these facilities will still need end-user certification, the US has essentially lifted restrictions on exports to these organisations.
These entities are: "Tarapur (TAPS 1 & 2)," "Rajasthan (RAPS 1& 2)," and "Koodankulam (1 & 2) nuclear reactors. All of these are already under IAEA safeguards. The other three entities are Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) subordinate entities, specifically, "ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC)," "ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Thiruvananthapuram," and "Space Applications Center (SAC), Ahmedabad."
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AK-47, ammo netted Alen Chakma
RANGAMATI, Aug 29: A woman and her two sons were rounded up with one AK-47 assault rifle with forty five rounds of live ammunitions by military personnel from remote hill village of Baghaihat area under the inaccessible Baghai Chhari Upazila of the district this morning today (Monday).
Local sources said, acting on a tip off, a team of army men raided a hill village of Baghaihat area of Sajek Union under the frontier Baghai Chhari Upazila and arrested the woman Laxmi Rani Chakma (42), wife of Targen Chakma and her two sons -Ripon Chakma and Milon Chakma - from her house. The security members arrested the woman and her two sons. The army men also recovered 45 rounds of live ammunitions of AK-47 rifle.
"Hey, leave that alone. It's a family heirloom!"
Later, security personnel handed them over to Baghai Chhari Thana police. A case was filed with Baghai Chhari police station in this connection.
PBCP cadre killed in Rajbari gunfight
RAJBARI, Aug 29:âA cadre of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was killed during a gunfight between his accomplices and the police in Goalando upazila of the district in the early hours of Monday, reports BSS.
Most dangerous place in Bangladesh, between your cadre and the cops
According to Goalondo Thana police, Lokman, 27, son of Lokkhi Sadu of village Mohendrapur in Pangsha upazila of Rajbari district was an accused in nine murder cases, including that of sub-inspector Kabir and UP chairman Jinnah Khan murder cases. He was arrested from Daulatdia Ferry Ghat No. 2 on Sunday night at about 10.30.
"Evening, Lok. Beautiful night, ain't it? Enjoy it, could be your last"
Lokman was taken to Goalondo Thana and during interrogation he admitted of possessing firearms and hiding those at different places in Rajbari.
"Ok, ok, I"ll talk. Just get that away from me!"
Acting upon his information, when a team of Goalando police reached Ander Manik village under Chottobakla union of the upazila to recover the firearms at about 3.15 am, the PBCP cadres opened fire.
"We're the Dread Cadre of Purbo Banglar! Open wildly inaccurate fire!"
The police returned the fire resulting in an hour-long gunfight. Lokman was hit by bullets as he tried to escape after jumping off from the police van.
"Feet, don't.....OUCHOUCH...rosebud..."
He died on the spot.
"He's dead, Jim"
The police seized one pistol, a shutter gun and eight bullets from the spot.
Mystery shrouds death of US citizen in Gazipur
Aug 29: The mysterious death and quick burial of a US citizen at Demorpara village in Gazipur raised suspicion among the villagers about his death.
"One day he was here, the next....gone. Something fishy going on here"
US citizen Adrian Riyot Mithi alias Ehsanullah, 50, who converted to Islam a few years ago and worked as a consultant of Inten Group in Dhanmondi with a huge monthly salary, died recently in Dhaka and buried in Gazipur.
Rich ex-pat American muslim convert in Bangladesh, hummmmm?
Sources said Adrian married Afroza Begum Safa, 31, a widow, and had been staying at Dhabmondi for three years.
Ah, a femme fatale 20 years his junior. I've seen this movie
His wife Safa claimed that Adrian died in Dhaka Monday (Aug 22) morning of a disease in his leg and was buried in Gazipur later at night.
"It was so sudden! One day he slipped getting out of his boat and hurt his leg, and the next morning he was dead! He was beginning to smell, so we had to bury him right away."
However, two local imams said Adrian was buried Wednesday night and there was no namaj-e-janaza for him in Gazipur before his burial.
The plot thickens!
Finding dissimilarities about the burial date of Adrian, police recovered a blood-soaked paper and a candle from the burial site. But none was arrested in this connection. Two people, who attended the funeral, said they saw some blood marks in the coffin.
Perhaps he didn't realize he was dead and need help staying in the coffin?
Housewife found dead in city
A young housewife was found dead in her apartment in the cityâs Pallabi area early on Monday, reports UNB. On information, police recovered the body of Tania Akhter, 22, wife of Mizanur Rahman, from the apartment of House No 11, Road 3, Block-A of Section-12 of Mirpur at about 4:30 am.
Mizan said his wife hanged herself with a ceiling fan of their bedroom and her body was found at about 4 am.
Uh huh
Victimâs father Motahar Hossain alleged that Mizan used to torture his daughter for dowry. Her brother Badal alleged that Tania was killed for dowry and her husband was now trying to prove that she had committed suicide.
Hospital sources said several injury marks were found on Taniaâs body, which was sent to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
CSI Dhaka is on the case
A UD case was filed with Pallabi thana in this connection.
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Beautiful blonde wife, a sudden slip by the docks, yeah I've seen this movie before too. Pass me the hankies, willya?
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday demanded police identify two suspected rebel cadres arrested in connection with the assassination of Sri Lanka's foreign minister, again denying any involvement. Police have arrested two Tamil youths they suspect are members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on suspicion of helping plan the assassination of Lakshman Kadirgamar on August 12. The sniper -- or snipers -- responsible for the killing are still at large, and the assassination has raised the specter of a return to the Tigers' two-decade war for self-rule.
"As a nation we have already denied it," Tigers spokesman Daya Master said by telephone from the northern rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi. "We want to know their identity. Normally they (the government) say Tigers have been arrested, that's the usual wording. We have to find out." The Tigers have rejected government accusations that they killed Kadirgamar, but few in Colombo believe them. Dozens of their opponents have been gunned down since a 2002 ceasefire and analysts say their denial is a stock disclaimer. However, the rebels have wound down their fiery rhetoric in the wake of the killing, and have vowed not to initiate a return to a conflict that has already killed over 64,000 people.
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This guy looks like he may be part of the Newman brigade.
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LOL, tu. Whaddya say we all pitch in and buy that poor man some camo with vertical stripes. It should take at least 20 lbs off and it will provide a nice counterpoint to his moussetache.
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All right, lissen up: I am officially designating all three of you as Rantburg Assistant Fashion Commentators. This places you in rank directly below me, and above all Fashion Commentator Assistants, when I get around to finding some. Congratulations, gentlemen, and welcome aboard! ;-)
Raids and search operations will be carried out on madrasas propagating extremism and terrorism and have become safe haven for militants, said President Pervez Musharraf yesterday. He threatened madrasas with closure unless they register with authorities by the yearâs end. He also emphasized the need to stop funds flowing from outside the country to extremist elements.
At the same time Musharraf praised madrasas for helping about one million of the poorest children in Pakistan, and said the government would encourage the schools to teach modern subjects like science and technology. âHowever, we will not let any madrasa to harbor terrorists or teach extremism and militancy,â Musharraf said at a conference on terrorism in Islamabad. There are estimated to be more than 10,000 madrasas in Pakistan, long considered festering sores a breeding grounds for militants.
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The amount of land used for opium cultivation in world's largest producer country Afghanistan dropped by an estimated 21 percent this year because of a major clampdown on poppy farmers, the United Nations' anti-drug chief said yesterday. But good rains after years of drought led to bumper harvests from the poppy crops that were grown, so the overall yield of opium dropped by just 2 percent to 4,519 tons, said Antonio Maria Costa, the director for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Last year's yield was 4,630 tons. Costa said Afghanistan is still estimated to produce 87 percent of the world's supply of both opium and its derivative, heroin. He predicted it would take 20 years to eradicate the cultivation of drugs â a mainstay of many of Afghanistan's impoverished farmers, despite government warnings against growing poppies and authorities' destruction of some crops.
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Furthermore I doubt that anyone knows the real figures. This might be interesting
But I don't believe this report! The figure look very dubious.
In the begining of this year, the Afghanistan goverment stated that there would be a 30-50 percent reduction in cultivation this year. They may be covering up their failure with talk of a good harvest.
The problem has grown dramatically in the past few years eg according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), opium cultivation in 2004 increased by 64%.
It appears now that the price of raw opium is falling dramatically suggesting that production is exceeding demand.
Anyway the CIA estimates that opium trade now accounts for one-third of GDP.
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Hmmm.... looks suspicious alright. Just what are the opium poppy cultivation growth seasons in Afghanistan? Have the opium bulbs already been harvested? Maybe thats why cultivation is suddenly down? Does anybody out there know? This report is suspicious I agree.
US forces have killed a senior Taleban commander responsible for a spate of attacks in southern Afghanistan, the US military said on Monday. The man, identified as Payenda Mohammed, was in command of more than 150 Taleban fighters in Uruzgan province. He was killed along with three of his men in a battle last week, a US military spokesman said. âHe was known for conducting rocket attacks, ambushes, guerrilla-style attacks and setting up illegal checkpoints,â Colonel Jim Yonts told a briefing.
I think he was higher up in the ranks than number 3.
The governor of Uruzgan province, Jan Mohammad Khan, said Payenda Mohammed was one of the main Taleban commanders in the province and he had been responsible for numerous attacks. Fifteen Taleban fighters were wounded in the clash in Kandahar province last Wednesday, Yonts said. US A-10 aircraft and attack helicopters were called in after the insurgents took up positions in some caves. Vehicles and weapons were later found in the caves, he said.
"Yo, Tyrone, what's this goo next to this rock?"
"The stuff that has the consistency of cranberry jam?"
"Yeah, man, what is it?"
"I think that's Payenda. Or his lunch. Can't be sure."
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DHAKA - Bangladesh authorities said on Monday they had arrested a leader of a banned Islamic group which has been blamed for a nationwide wave of blasts this month. Mohammad Nasir, a leader of the Jamayetul Mujahideen, was among the latest of 169 people from towns and cities across Bangladesh arrested since the blasts on August 17, officials said.
âWe arrested Nasir, one of the leading figures (of the Jamayetul Mujahideen) in Khagrachhari (Sunday),â home ministry spokesman Mohammad Mohsin told a news conference. Khagrachhari lies in the countryâs south. âWe hope to get some information from him,â Mohsin said, declining to elaborate.
"Send for the RAB!"
Mohsin said six Jamayetul Mujahideen members had painfully confessed their direct involvement in the blasts âbut they were mainly base-level workers.â
A total of 434 small bombs exploded in all but one of the countryâs main towns and cities, killing three people and injuring over 100. The death toll rose after one of those injured in the blasts, who was detained by police as a suspect, died of his injuries in a Dhaka hospital on Sunday.
The groupâs top leader, Shaikh Abdur Rahman, is still in hiding. Police last week charged him in absentia with masterminding the attacks and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Police are also looking for Siddiqul Islam, also known as Bangla Bhai, the leader of the Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh. Police say it is a sister organisation of Jamayetul Mujahideen.
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Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the Supreme Court's decision on madrassa sanads had no value because its ruling came after the local polls. "I discussed it with the CEC and he assured me that if the SC ruling comes after August 18 or 25, it will have no relevance," he said on Monday. Fazl described rigging in the recent elections as "worse than President Musharraf's referendum". He said the ulema had planned a convention of seminaries' strategy regarding government prejudice against madrasses.
I'll bet the strategy doesn't include compliance, modernization of the curricula, or tossing blood-thirsty foreigners. I wonder why they call that court "supreme" if its opinions are subject to veto by the nearest holy man?
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The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) said on Monday that it would not participate in the next general elections if General Pervez Musharraf continued as president and army chief. MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmed said this after a meeting of the MMA parliamentary party. Qazi was responding to a question about what the MMA's policy would be now that the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) had claimed that it would boycott the general elections if held under Musharraf's rule.
I still haven't seen anything in the Western press about the fact that the MMA got waxed in the local elections. Boycotting the elections is a pretty good indication that they expect to lose next time, too.
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The MMA only received 10% of the last federal vote. Their power bases are in North West Frontier and Balochistan Provinces. Punjabi and Sindhis are much less tolerant of Qazi's Talibanism than were they in 2002.
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President General Pervez Musharraf has said that there is no quick fix or military solution to the problem of extremism in Pakistan. âWhile we have to confront terrorism with force, the malaise of extremism has to be handled with care, as change cannot be imposed and pertains to the hearts and minds of people,â Gen Musharraf said at a seminar on global terrorism here on Monday. âIt will take years before it (extremism) is completely curbed,â he said. The government was changing to the school syllabus âto project the true values of Islamâ as part of long-term efforts to tackle extremism.
He said he would set up a special cell in Pakistan to interpret Islamic laws in the perspective of the needs of the modern era. âOur aim is to carry out a Muslim renaissance. Let Pakistan be a source of light and a centre of understanding of real values of Islam,â he said in quotes reported by APP and Online. He said Muslim societies also needed to address âdistorted understandingâ of Islam as the educated majority had left the teaching of the religion to âclerics and obscurantistsâ. Extremism and terrorism must be differentiated and separate strategies be made to address them, he said. Political disputes affecting the Muslim world had been festering for far too long.
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Sounds like a man on a bungee rope. And, let's not forget Jimmah Carter's "malaise" word.
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Fun trivia: Carter never used the word "malaise" in his speech. His press secretary used it the next day at a press conference.
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Need a military solution?
"Storm from the East" by Robert Marshall:
The Mongols' prime objective was the Caliph of Baghdad, but before confronting him they meant to eliminate the other major power in the region, The Ismailis or Assassins. They had emerged because of a schism in the Shia Muslim sect and established themselves in northern and eastern Persia by taking and controlling a series of mountain fortifications. Behind their walls they lived a contemplative life, producing beautifully wrought paintings and metalworks, buy beyond their retreats they terrorized those civilizations they deemed heretical and so earned the enmity not just of the rest of the Islamic world but eventually of Europe. Rather than confronting his enemies in open combat he preferred to sponsor a campaign of political murder, usually executed with a dagger in the back, as the means to his ends.
The Mongols has their own reasons for launching a campaign against the Assassins. First, they had received a plea of help from an Islamic judge in Qaswin, a town near the Assassins' stronghold at Alamut, who had complained that his fellow citizens were forced to wear armour all the time as protection from the Assassins' daggers. According to Rubruck, another reason that determined Mongol attitudes was the discovery of a plot to send no fewer than 400 dagger-wielding Assassins in disguise to Qaraqorum with the instructions to murder the Great Khan. The Assassins had encountered the Mongols once before, during Chormaghun's terror raid through northern Persia 1237-8, which led them to send an envoy to Europe to beg help.
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On 1 January 1256 Hulegu's army crossed the Oxus River and brought into Persia the most formidable war machine ever seen. It possessed the very latest in siege engineering, gunpowder from China, catapults that would send balls of flaming naphtha into their enemy's cities, and divisions of rigorously trained mounted archers led by generals who had learnt their skills at the feet of Genghis Khan and Subedei. As news of Hulegu's army spread he was soon presented with a succession of sultans, emirs, and atabaks from as far apart as Asia Minor and Herat, all come to pay homage. Its sheer presence brought to an end nearly forty years of rebellion and unrest in the old lands of Khwarazmia, but to the inhabitants of Persia and Syria it was the dawn of a new world order.
The Mongols made first for the Elburz Mountains where the Assassins lay in wait behind what they believed to be their impregnable fortresses. With extraordinary ingenuity the Mongol generals and their Chinese engineers manoeuvred their artillery up the mountain slopes and set them up around the walls of the fortress of Alamut. But before the order was given to commence firing the Assassins' Grand Master, Rukn ad_Din signaled that he wanted to negotiate. Hulegu countered that he must immediately order the destruction of his own fortifications; when Rukn ad_Din prevaricated; the bombardment commenced. Under the most devastatingly accurate fire, the walls quickly tumbled and Rukn ad_Din surrendered. Hulegu took him prisoner, transported him to every Assassin castle they confronted, and paraded him before each garrison with the demand for an immediate surrender. Some obliged, as at Alamut; while others, like Gerdkuh, had to be taken by force. Today the spherical stone missiles fired by the artillery teams at the walls still litter the perimeter of the ruins. Whether each 'eagle's nest' surrendered or taken, the Mongols put all the inhabitants to the swords - even the women in their homes and the babies in their cradles.
As the slaughter continued, Rukn ad_Din begged Hulegu to allow him to go to Qaraqorum where he would pay homage to the great Khan and plead for clemency. Hulegu agreed, but when he got to Qaraqorum Mongke Khan refused to see him. It was effectively a sentence of death. On the journey back his Mongol escorts turned on the Grand Master and his attendants, who were 'kicked to a pulp'. The Persian historian Juvaini commented that 'the world had been cleansed'. Five hundred years later Edward Gibbon echoed those sentiments, claiming that the Mongols' campaign 'may be considered as a service to mankind'. It took two years for the Mongols to dislodge over 200 'eagle's nests', but in the process they virtually expunged the Assassins from Persia.
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President General Pervez Musharraf has said that there is no quick fix or military solution to the problem of extremism in Pakistan.
Why not? If enough extremists are killed fast enough and subtle hints dropped as to why, "replacements" will be long in coming, if at all. After all, isn't Musharraf the Big Cheese running the whole show? I mean, it's not like Pakistan is an honest-to-goodness democracy or something...
"When I lead my army against Baghdad in anger, whether you hide in heaven or in earth
I will bring you down from the spinning spheres;
I will toss you in the air like a lion.
I will leave no one alive in your realm;
I will burn your city, your land, your self.
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed."
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Perv, I'm sure that when (not if) India will wipe your "country" of the map---the level of terrorism (not just in Kashmir, but World-wide) will degreasy significantly.
A Kashmiri condemned to death for involvement in an Al Qaeda inspired assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf will seek to appeal his conviction, his lawyer said on Monday. Akhlaq Akhlas Ahmed, 24, was one of five men convicted and sentenced to hang for their role in the second of two attempts on the president's life in December 2003. The military released news of the convictions last Friday after the five - one trooper and four civilians - were found guilty by a military court in Attock Fort. Ahmed, who was born in Russia and holds a Russian passport, was charged with spreading sedition and treason among army personnel, but his lawyer Khalid Mehmood said the prosecution failed to establish its case.
Don't worry about it. It won't bother him when he's dead.
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MULTAN: The mother of a man sentenced to death for a 2003 attempt to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf begged the military leader on Monday to have mercy on her son.
"Mercy, sire! Mercy! He's a good lad!"
âI believe that my son is innocent and I ask President Musharraf to grant him clemency,â Zahoor Mai, mother of 22-year-old Zubair Ahmed, told reporters in Mohallah Islamabad of Kehror Pucca, Lodhran.
"It's only his first offense, effendi!... Well, his fourth, actually, but the first three weren't much..."
She said that Zubair was jobless and had gone to Rawalpindi to earn a livelihood for the family but he had disappeared and now the family had come to know that he had been sentenced to death for a murderous attempt on the president.
"Who knew he was gonna find a job like that?"
âIt was shocking for us,â said the 45-year-old, adding that it was the first she had heard about her son for 18 months. âIt is impossible that he could do such a thing,â she added.
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Mercy? I suspect she has left the building and you're left with Mr. Necktie.
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Death plotterâs mother begs Musharraf for mercy
Mercy?..as I recollect, many people were torn to shreads in both attempts on Musharraf's life in 2003.
He's lucky for a good hanging, instead of being drawn and quartered,
Sad, the mother is just another victim of her own son.
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if they started blaming terrorism on bad child-rearing, wouldn't THAT be an interesting turn of events in the region!?!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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AK-47, ammo netted Alen Chakma
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday demanded police identify two suspected rebel cadres arrested in connection with the assassination of Sri Lanka's foreign minister, again denying any involvement. Police have arrested two Tamil youths they suspect are members of the 
Raids and search operations will be carried out on madrasas propagating extremism and terrorism and have become safe haven for militants, said President Pervez Musharraf yesterday. He threatened madrasas with closure unless they register with authorities by the yearâs end. He also emphasized the need to stop funds flowing from outside the country to extremist elements.
The amount of land used for opium cultivation in world's largest producer country Afghanistan dropped by an estimated 21 percent this year because of a major clampdown on poppy farmers, the United Nations' anti-drug chief said yesterday. But good rains after years of drought led to bumper harvests from the poppy crops that were grown, so the overall yield of opium dropped by just 2 percent to 4,519 tons, said Antonio Maria Costa, the director for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Last year's yield was 4,630 tons. Costa said Afghanistan is still estimated to produce 87 percent of the world's supply of both opium and its derivative, heroin. He predicted it would take 20 years to eradicate the cultivation of drugs â a mainstay of many of Afghanistan's impoverished farmers, despite government warnings against growing poppies and authorities' destruction of some crops.
US forces have killed a senior Taleban commander responsible for a spate of attacks in southern Afghanistan, the US military said on Monday. The man, identified as 
DHAKA - Bangladesh authorities said on Monday they had arrested a leader of a banned Islamic group which has been blamed for a nationwide wave of blasts this month. Mohammad Nasir, a leader of the Jamayetul Mujahideen, was among the latest of 169 people from towns and cities across Bangladesh arrested since the blasts on August 17, officials said.
Opposition Leader in the National Assembly 
The 
President General Pervez Musharraf has said that there is no quick fix or military solution to the problem of extremism in Pakistan. âWhile we have to confront terrorism with force, the malaise of extremism has to be handled with care, as change cannot be imposed and pertains to the hearts and minds of people,â Gen Musharraf said at a seminar on global terrorism here on Monday. âIt will take years before it (extremism) is completely curbed,â he said. The government was changing to the school syllabus âto project the true values of Islamâ as part of long-term efforts to tackle extremism. 
A Kashmiri condemned to death for involvement in an Al Qaeda inspired assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf will seek to appeal his conviction, his lawyer said on Monday. 
