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Clinton honored for WASHINGTON,
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honoured for his work in helping. ....more LONDON,
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Princess Diana’s former lover James Hewitt has
issued the law firm handling her estate in an ...more ISLAMABAD,
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Pakistan has given to the United States the deadline of
December 30 to resolve the nine-year-old f-16 issue....more ISLAMABAD,
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Clinton’s lawyers contrast WASHINGTON, Dec 9: In an exhaustive, 182-page document, US President Bill Clinton’s....more Pak - US talks ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto....more US Govt helps put WASHINGTON, Dec 9: More of William Shakespeare’s world will go on the internet......more Condition of Noor ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The condition of legendary melody queen of the sub-continent Noor Jehan was described as stable .....more |
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Clinton honored for Northern Ireland peace efforts WASHINGTON, Dec 9: US President Bill Clinton has been honoured for his work in helping negotiate the Northern Ireland peace agreement. Mr Clinton received the 1998 W. Averill Harriman Democracy Award yesterday at the annual dinner of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Mr Clinton was among nine political leaders being honoured for their work on the Northern Ireland Accord. The Harriman Award, named for the late diplomat and politician, was established in 1986 to recognise individuals who exemplify a commitment to human rights and democracy. Previous winners include Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, Burmese democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and former President Carter. The honour also has been bestowed on Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s secretary of state. Besides Clinton, this year’s honorees are ulster unionist party leader David Trimble social democratic and Labor Party leader John Hume Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams alliance party leader John Alderdice progressive unionist party leader David Ervine Monica McWilliams of the Northern Ireland women’s coalition Gary McMichael of the Ulster Democratic Party and Malachi Curran of the Northern Ireland Labor Party. (AP) |
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Diana’s former lover sues to get letters back LONDON, Dec 9: Princess Diana’s former lover James Hewitt has issued the law firm handling her estate in an attempt to recover love letters she wrote to him, which he says were stolen. The former army officer claims 64 letters written to him by the Princess between 1989 and 1991 were taken from his home by a subsequent girlfriend and have emerged in the possession of the law firm handling her estate. Hewitt claims in legal documents that the letters, signed either in Diana’s own name or with a pseudonym, were taken from a safe in his home, then were passed to a staff member at Kensington Palace, then to a police detective, and finally to the law firm of Lawrence Graham. The firm has not responded to his requests for return of the letters, the lawsuit says. His former fiance, model Anna Staiano Ferretti, was arrested in April amid allegations that she tried to sell the letters to the tabloid newspaper the mirror for 150,000 pounds (dlrs 247,500). The mirror handed the letters over to the late Princess’ private office at Kensington palace, without publishing them. Police later announced Ferretti would not be prosecuted. Had the case gone to trial, the letters could have become court exhibits. The Princess’s mother, Frances Shand Kydd, said she and the other executors of her daughter’s will would be happy to hand the letters back provided Hewitt guaranteed their "safe keeping." After Hewitt co-operated in a 1994 book about their affair, called "Princess in love," Diana acknowledged the relationship and said he had let her down. The affair began when he gave her riding lessons and the two are believed to have exchanged many letters, handwritten on blue airmail paper, when he served as a tank commander in the Persian Gulf War. (AP) |
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gives Dec 30 deadline to U.S on F-16 issue ISLAMABAD, Dec 9 : Pakistan has given to the United States the deadline of December 30 to resolve the nine-year-old f-16 issue failing which Islamabad would decide about going to the court against the U.S administration. We will wait till December 30, Information Minister and a close aide of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Mushahid Hussian told BBC when he was asked whether Sharif administration would move a U.S or an International Court on the issue. Hussian’s disclosure made it clear that Sharif, during his much-hyped meeting with U.S President Bill Clinton, could not muster support for the F-16 fighter crafts for which Pakistan has already paid around 650 million dollar. The United States stopped the supply of fighter planes to Pakistan due to a ban on arms sale under Pressler Amendment and the money was also not returned to the country. Media quoted sources in the Sharif Government saying that the case against the US administration has already been prepared by an American lawyer and Pakistan hopes for a full refund. |
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Condition of Noor Jehan stable ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The condition of legendary melody queen of the sub-continent Noor Jehan was described as stable after her successful heart operation and kidney treatment in the United States. On her return from America she preferred Karachi for convalescing than going to Lahore where she had been residing, her daughter said. She was admitted to Agha Khan hospital for necessary treatment and check up. (UNI) |
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Clinton’s lawyers contrast with Lewinsky’s affair WASHINGTON, Dec 9: In an exhaustive, 182-page document, US President Bill Clinton’s lawyers have contrasted the Monica Lewinsky affair with the watergate scandal and concluded that Clinton’s "denial of a private indiscretion" does not warrant impeachment. "Whereas President (Richard) Nixon used Governmental agencies including the CIA and FBI to thwart the investigation into his lies, President Clinton did nothing of the sort," Clinton’s lawyers said in a submission to the House Judiciary Committee. The Clinton legal team gave its most complete assessment of the evidence against the president to date, declaring that Mr Clinton made no agreement with the former White House intern to lie under oath and that he did not attempt to influence the testimony of Presidential secretary Betty Currie. Noting conflicts between the testimony of Mr Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky, the President’s lawyers yesterday said that "contradictory testimony from two witnesses does not indicate that one has committed perjury ... A perjury case must not be based solely upon the testimony of a single witness." The report also strongly criticized prosecutor Kenneth Starr, stating that "instead of transmitting to the Committee the information gathered" during the investigation, "Mr. Starr chose to give it his own spin." The decision "to proceed in this way was a sharp departure from special prosecutor Leon Jaworski’s submission to congress" in the watergate scandal, the report added. Mr Jaworski provided a compilation of information gathered by the grand jury, but reported no conclusions. Mr Starr found 11 grounds for possible impeachment and spelled them out. They ranged from allegations that Mr Clinton lied to the grand jury and to the court in the Paula Jones case to obstruction of his secretary’s testimony and abuse of power. Finally, the White House report argued that Mr Starr excluded evidence favourable to the President. Mr Starr alleged that Mr Clinton obstructed justice by procuring a job for Ms. Lewinsky in exchange for false testimony about her relationship with the President. Mr Clinton’s friend Vernon Jordan helped Ms. Lewinsky find a job and lined up a lawyer for her in the Jones case. "Both Ms. Lewinsky and Mr. Jordan flatly denied that the job assistance had anything at all to do with Ms. Lewinsky’s testimony," the White House report said. "As the watergate precedent indicates, this Committee should not approve an article of impeachment for which the record evidence, taken as a whole, is anything less than clear and convincing," the report said. It concluded: "while the pervasive and persistent lies of President Nixon to the American public about the nature and extent of official law enforcement activities could reasonably have been viewed as affecting the nature of our constitutional Government and thus warranting impeachment, President Clinton’s denial of a private indiscretion cannot." (AP) |
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Pak - US talks ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and a number of senior defence officials, have demanded immediate resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after his unsuccessful and humiliating visit to the United States. Among the former services chiefs who demanded the removal of Mr Sharif included general Mirza Aslam Beg, Admiral Iftekhar Ahmad Sarohi, Air Chief Marshal Anwar Shamim and former Corps Commander Lt Gen Faiz Ali Chistie. Ms Bhutto alleged that the Prime Minister has destroyed the country and there was no reason for him to remain in the office. She said that Mr Sharif was pursuing a policy of creating confrontation among the people. "Provinces against provinces and sects against sects." The former premier said it was yet not known as what plans and policies Mr Sharif actually wanted to execute in the country. She alleged that Mr Sharif had not gone to the United States for the country but to visit Disney Land and Niagra falls. She said that the people have been fed up with the fraudulent policies of the rulers and Mr Sharif was the greatest defaulter of banks and he always provided protection to the defaulters. For being the greatest defaulter of banks Mr Sharif has brought the country to a position of defaulting the foreign banks and hence he has no right to remain in power, she said. Former services chiefs charged that Mr Sharif had played havoc with the respect and dignity of the nation as such his removal has now become essential. They said if the Nawaz Sharif group was not thrown out of power the situation in the country might aggravate further. (UNI) US Govt helps put more Shakespeare on internet WASHINGTON, Dec 9: More of William Shakespeare’s world will go on the internet with the help of a grant announced by the U.S. Government. The hushed reading room of the Folger Shakespeare library restricts admission to one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare collections. Internet searches point to a wealth of Shakespearean material already on the internet, including several sites which include his complete works. Next summer, said librarian Michael Kuhta, the library plans to put online the pages of a big manuscript, "commonplace book" by Thomas Trevelyon, who lived in London in Shakespeare’s time. Although he doesn’t mention Shakespeare, trevelyon apparently an educated man of independent means, possibly a lace merchant shared many of the playwright’s interests. " There’s poetry, geography, lists of English kings," Kuhta said. "It’s almost 600 pages." Project co-director Jane Kolson said the website also will include the library’s complete card catalogue and possibly some pages from the earliest editions of Shakespeare. The Folger will get 625,000 dollars from the national endowment for the humanities, and another dollars 2.5 million from other sources, including private donors. (AP) Condition of Noor Jehan stable ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The condition of legendary melody queen of the sub-continent Noor Jehan was described as stable after her successful heart operation and kidney treatment in the United States. On her return from America she preferred Karachi for convalescing than going to Lahore where she had been residing, her daughter said. She was admitted to Agha Khan hospital for necessary treatment and check up. (UNI) |
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