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		<title>A new twist to Egypt protest as Army holds back</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/02/01/a-new-twist-to-egypt-protest-as-army-holds-back/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIRO: Egyptians plan mass marches on Tuesday in their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak, reassured by the all-powerful army, which has said their demands are legitimate and that it will not fire on them.
As Mubarak announced a new cabinet that saw the demise of a widely feared interior minister, and the newly appointed vice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan floods could have been minimised: US team</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/02/01/pakistan-floods-could-have-been-minimised-us-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: Last year’s disastrous floods in Pakistan could have been minimised if European weather monitors had shared their data and it had been properly processed, US researchers said Monday.
Catastrophic monsoon rains that swept through the country in July and August killed thousands, affected 20 million people, destroyed 1.7 million homes and damaged 5.4 million acres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mubarak’s deputy linked to secret CIA program</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/02/01/mubarak%e2%80%99s-deputy-linked-to-secret-cia-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Omar Suleiman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As spy chief, Suleiman reportedly embraced the CIA’s controversial “extraordinary rendition” program under ex-president George W. Bush, in which terror suspects snatched by the Americans were taken to Egypt and other countries without legal proceedings and subjected to harsh interrogations.
He “was the CIA’s point man in Egypt for rendition,” Jane Mayer, author of “The Dark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US condemns Hezbollah &#8216;intimidation&#8217; in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/us-condemns-hezbollah-intimidation-in-lebanon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AFP) – The United States accused Hezbollah on Tuesday of using intimidation to gain government control in Lebanon and vowed that the work of the UN-backed Hariri tribunal would continue regardless.
&#8220;The make-up of Lebanon?s government is a Lebanese decision, but this decision should not be reached through coercion, intimidation and threats of violence,&#8221; State Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Ulema chief admits hate literature leads to violence</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/pakistan-ulema-chief-admits-hate-literature-leads-to-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/pakistan-ulema-chief-admits-hate-literature-leads-to-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Extremism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: Pakistan Ulema Counsel (PUC) Chairman Allama Tahir Ashrafi has said that easy availability of instigating literature in the market was the core reason behind the rising extremism in the country, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday.
Speaking in a programme aired by the channel, Ashrafi condemned Tuesday’s bomb blast in Lahore, which took more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Situation of Human rights  in Balochistan is worrisome</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/situation-of-human-rights-in-balochistan-is-worrisome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mohammad Zafar
QUETTA: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s Balochistan chapter has expressed deep concern over lawlessness, increasing incidents of kidnappings, recovery of mutilated bodies and death and destruction in the province.
An HRCP press release issued after the annual meeting of Balochistan chapter on Wednesday said, “The situation is going from bad to worse and there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sindh faces acute hunger: UNICEF</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/sindh-faces-acute-hunger-unicef/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The Sindh province, hit hard by the last year’s floods, is suffering levels of malnutrition almost as critical as Chad and Niger, with hundreds of thousands of children at risk, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.
A survey conducted by the Sindh government and the UNICEF revealed malnutrition rates of 23.1 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manipuri people in Bangladesh held protest</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/manipuri-people-in-bangladesh-held-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Manipuri community yesterday demanded immediate action against the gang that tried to grab the land of veteran activist S Rina Devi in the city&#8217;s Shibganj area on Sunday.
Rina is president of the Bangladesh Manipuri Mohila Samity.
The protesters also staged a human chain and held a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt protest enters third day</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/egypt-protest-enters-third-day/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/egypt-protest-enters-third-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIRO: Activists trying to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak played cat-and-mouse with police on the streets into the early hours of Thursday, as unprecedented protests against his 30-year rule entered a third day.
Prominent reform campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei, who lives in Vienna, was expected to return to Egypt on Thursday, an arrival that could galvanise protests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another bomb blast in Russia</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/27/another-bomb-blast-in-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW: Four people were killed and six injured in a car bomb blast in front of a cafe in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, reports said on Wednesday quoting local police.
“Three dead and seven injured were taken to hospital, one injured person died on the operating table,” a medical source told the Ria-Novosti [...]]]></description>
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