"Life in Srinagar and other major towns of Kashmir valley remained crippled on Wednesday due to a spontaneous strike against alleged use of force by police against those protesting transfer of forest land to Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) for the third straight day.
One person was killed and nearly 100 others, including 22 policemen, have been injured in police firing and clashes between stone pelting demonstrators and law enforcing agencies during the past three days in the city.
Although no organisation has given a call for strike, shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed while public transport remained off the road in Srinagar and Ganderbal districts paralysing life, official sources said."
WashPost: US aid given to Pakistan largely unaccounted for
"The Bush administration has paid Pakistan more than $2 billion without adequate proof that the Pakistani government used the funds for their intended purpose of supporting U.S. counterterrorism efforts, congressional auditors reported yesterday. Their report concluded that more than a third of U.S. funds provided Pakistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were subject to accounting problems, including duplication and possible fraud."
NYTimes: Pakistani intelligence possibly linked to attempted assassination of Karzai
"In a news conference in Kabul, Sayeed Ansari, the spokesman for the Afghan intelligence service, said the Afghan authorities had evidence of the direct involvement of Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, in the assassination attempt.
Guardian: Morgan Tsvangirai calls for peacekeepers to sent into Zimbabwe
"we need a force to protect the people. We do not want armed conflict, but the people of Zimbabwe need the words of indignation from global leaders to be backed by the moral rectitude of military force. Such a force would be in the role of peacekeepers, not trouble-makers. They would separate the people from their oppressors and cast the protective shield around the democratic process for which Zimbabwe yearns."
Independent: The mercenary world of Mark Thatcher
"The Independent has established that his new-found reticence has not stopped Sir Mark from staying in the oil business, a venture, he declares, he finds hugely lucrative. Like most enterprises he has taken part in the exact details of what he does are rather hazy: "Oil futures", he would say airily when someone asks. " I make judgement calls on prices between when a tanker leaves a port and gets to its destination." The business does, however, take him to Russia, China and Japan; give him bank accounts in Cyprus and London and an extremely comfortable lifestyle in Spain and Britain. While in the UK he often stays at his mother's London house in Chester Square, Belgravia, and has been spotted huddled in "deal-making" meetings.
But then nothing is quite what is seems in Mark Thatcher's shadowy world."
BBC: 1. man murdered, allegedly by a faction or related subgroup of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), in Derry/Londonderry2. "new high" for dissident republican activity in N Ireland
MSNBC: Saudis arrest hundreds of alleged Al Qaeda members
"Saudi Arabia is holding 520 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in custody after a series of operations this year, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said Wednesday. . .
Some of the alleged militants are suspected of plotting attacks against the kingdom's oil and economic installations and planned to revive "criminal activities," the ministry said."
CNN: militants kill rival tribal elders in northwestern Pakistan
"The bodies of at least 12 to 15 members of a local 'jirga' -- or gathering of tribal elders -- were recovered near the town of Jandola, which adjoins the South Waziristan tribal district, police said."
BBC: Jackie Chan brings his message of non-violence to East Timor
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