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P A K I S T A N N E W S S E R V I C E
Vol: 3 No:A015 1413 Hijri - Tue 02 November 1992
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Editor : Syed Asim Ali STUALI @ EKU.BITNET
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1) TRAIN CRASH IN PAKISTAN KILLS AT LEAST 14, INJURES 200............Asim Mughal
2) TURKEY, PAKISTAN SIGN COOPERATION MEMORANDUM.....................Bilal Bhutta
3) SIX CHINESE ENGINEERS KIDNAPPED IN PAK ARE FREED IN AFGHANISTAN..Bilal Bhutta
4) UPDATE: DEATH TOLL RISES TO 75 IN PAKISTAN TRAIN ACCIDENT......Mir Assadullah
5) OPPSITION PLANS TO MEET INDIAN LEADERS TO SOLVE KASHMIR ISSUE....Bilal Bhutta
6) GALLERY OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS ( THE AGA KHAN III ).................Mansoor Khan
7) COMMUNITY MESSAGES
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1) TRAIN CRASH IN PAKISTAN KILLS AT LEAST 14, INJURES 200............Asim Mughal
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A passenger train crashed into a standing
freight train in southern Pakistan Sunday morning, killing at least 14
people and injuring more than 200 others, officials and news reports
said.
Officials said the Chenab Express collided with the freight train at
the railway station at Reti, a village about 460 miles south of
Islamabad, at 5:30 a.m.
``So far the rescue workers have recovered 14 bodies from the debris,
'' said an official at the railway minister's office.
Independent reports from the area said at least 20 people had died.
``The death toll may increase a little more, but it is nowhere near
what was reported earlier in the day,'' the ministry official said,
referring to initial reports that indicated as many as 150 people may
have been killed.
Meanwhile, officials said the more than 200 people hurt in the crash
have been admitted to the hospitals in the nearby towns of Sadiqabad and
Sukkur.
The state-run Pakistan Television said two cars from the passenger
train and two from the freight train were derailed. Two cars were
destroyed and most of those who died were trapped in them, according to
radio Pakistan.
Officials said the number of deaths was ``low'' because the freight
train was not moving.
A police official speaking by telephone from the area said the
passenger train, which was going to the northern city of Peshawar from
Karachi, shifted onto the track which was already occupied by the
freight train.
The official said it was still ``too early to say who is responsible
but we have ordered an enquiry.''
Although computerized, the faulty signal system has caused several
serious railway accidents in the past resulting in hundreds of deaths.
Rescue workers from the Edhi Welfare Trust, a non-profit
organization, were the first to arrive at the scene, with doctors and
medical facilities brought in air-ambulances and vehicles.
About 1,000 troops from the nearby Pano Aqil cantonment also
participated in the rescue operation.
In another development, 27 people died in a bus crash in northern
Pakistan Sunday when the vehicle crashed into a 300-feet ravine while
traveling toward the border town of Chakothi in Kashmir.
The bus crashed when the driver lost control while taking a difficult
turn in a hilly area, officials said.
2) TURKEY, PAKISTAN SIGN COOPERATION MEMORANDUM.....................Bilal Bhutta
(OCT. 28) - The official Turkish-Pakistani talks, which
were held in Islamabad today, were headed by the prime
ministers of the two countries. At the end of the talks,
which lasted approximately two hours, Prime Minister
Suleyman Demirel and Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz
Sharif signed a memorandum of understanding.
The document stipulates that Turkey and Pakistan exert
more efforts to develop bilateral relations. Accordingly,
the two countries can cooperate more closely in many fields,
especially highways, irrigation canals, electricity
production, and communications. The memorandum cites that
Pakistan can benefit from Turkey's experience in industry,
mining, market economy, and privatization and stresses that
there is great potential for bilateral cooperation in the
fields of agriculture, irrigation, and forestry.
Demirel also attended a dinner hosted in his honor by
Sharif in Islamshad tonight. Demirel will continue his visit
to Pakistan tomorrow and proceed for an official visit to
Iran on 26 October.
State Ministers Cavit Caglar and Omer Barutcu and
Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin are accompanying Demirel on
his tour.
3) SIX CHINESE ENGINEERS KIDNAPPED IN PAK ARE FREED IN AFGHANISTAN..Bilal Bhutta
ISLAMABAD (OCT. 30) - Six Chinese engineers,
including two women, kidnapped in the southwestern Pakistan
province of Balochistan 11 days ago and taken to bordering
Afghanistan, "have been got freed unconditionally", Pakistan
television reported Friday.
Without saying who kidnapped the Chinese or how their freedom
was secured, the state-run television said the six were
expected to arrive in the provincial capital of Quetta some
time Friday night.
The Ghaibzai tribe straddling the Pakistan-Afghanistan border
in the area was reported earlier to have staged the
kidnapping as part of a blood feud with the Achakzai tribe.
The Ghaibzais were demanding the arrest of two Achakzai
legislators and about 1.4 million dollars for freeing the
Chinese, according to the reports.
The kidnappings caused great embarrassment to the Pakistani
government which has been seeking foreign participation in
the country's economic development.
Last year, three Chinese aid workers and two Japanese
students were kidnapped in the crime-ridden province of Sindh
where the army has been carrying out a so-called clean-up
operation since May.
4) UPDATE: DEATH TOLL RISES TO 75 IN PAKISTAN TRAIN ACCIDENT.....Mir Assadullah
(NOV. 1) - Reports from Pakistan say the death toll in
a train accident there this morning may have risen to 75.
The passengers were reportedly killed when the train they
were riding slammed into a freight train sitting on the
tracks.
5) OPPSITION PLANS TO MEET INDIAN LEADERS TO SOLVE KASHMIR ISSUE...Bilal Bhutta
ISLAMABAD (NOV. 1) - Opposition leaders in
Pakistani Kashmir Sunday said they plan to meet next month
with leaders from Indian Kashmir to find ways of solving the
dispute in the Himalayan territory.
Leaders of the Jammu Kashmir Democratic Alliance (JKDA) and
the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) said the
conference, set for December 15-16 at Mirpur, Pakistani
Kashmir, was being called "to evolve a practical way for
solving the Kashmir issue peacefully and equitably, according
to the wishes of the people of the entire state".
A similar move announced by JKLF after Pakistani security
forces thwarted its two attempts to cross the Kashmir
ceasefire line in February and March 1992 was disallowed by
Pakistan government.
Kashmir was divided by the United Nations-drawn ceasefire
line after the first war between India and Pakistan over the
Himalayan state in 1948.
Another war in 1965 failed to change the status of the
territory and the dispute continues to be a strain on
India-Pakistan relations.
India claims Kashmir to be an "integral part" and has refused
to honour a U.N. resolution which called for a plebiscite in
which the Kashmiri people should decided whether they wanted
to join India or Pakistan.
JKLF however demands a third choice of independent Kashmir,
and has been gaining support for that slogan.
6) Gallery of Freedom fighters
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Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, The Aga Khan III
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He was the hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect.
He was born at Karachi and succeeded to the Imammate in 1885. He was a member
of the imperrial legislative council from 1902 to 1904. In 1903 he became
the president of the reception committee of the All-India Muslim Education
Conference and presided over its Delhi[Dehli] session in 1904. In a
meeting with the Viceroy Lord Rippon in 1906 at Simla he, as the leader
of the Muslim delegation, suggested a seperate electorate for Muslims.
>From 1906 to 1912 he was the President of the All-India Muslim League.
He also convened a Hindu-Muslim unity conference at Allahabad[U.P.].
In 1911 he raised three million rupees for the Aligarh Muslim University.
In 1921 he was appointed the Vice Chancellor of this University[A.M.U.].
He was president of the All Parties Muslim Conference 1928-9.
In 1930-33, he was chairman of the British Indian delegation to
the round table conferences. In 1932 he suggested a pact of
minorities which facilitated the announcement of the communal award.
He became a privy counciller in 1934. He represented India in the
assembly of the League of Nations in 1932 and in 1934-37. He ws the first Asian
to have been elected the president of the League of Nations in 1937.
The Aga Khan died in Switzerland and was burried in Egypt.
P.S.: From 50 years, Golden Jubilee, Pakistan Resolution 1940-90
by Pakistan International Airline (PIA).
P.P.S: The house he was born in still stands on top of a hill in
what is now Defence Housing Society in Karachi.
His grandparents had been pushed out of Iran during
Qhaachaar rule. They ended up in Sindh where later
Britishers knighted them and gave them the title Aga Khan.
Sometimes Ismailis in Subcontinent are refered to as Aghakhaanees
and mostly found in Bombay, Pune, Surat, and Karachi(after 1947).
Mansoor Khan
Cleveland, Ohio
August 1992.
7) COMMUNITY MESSAGES
assalam o alikum
we are organising a pakistani cultural society at the
university of kent , canterbury. england
as this is a new society , we need as much assisstance and
advice as we can get from our fellow pakistanis.
the areas i am looking at are : any information that we can give
to our british based pakistanis about scope of settling down in
pakistan ! or any thing you can think of that will be helpfull
to activate this society
i shall be very grateful to you for your advice
bye
ALI arc3@UKC.AC.UK
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