Newspaper reports have it that the MQM has joined issue with the government against certain conditions fixed for recruitment to the police. They are being punished for their support to the MQM, not trusted by the military government because of its controversial past. Karachiites-which means the Mohajirin-are being discriminated against as far as police recruitment is concerned. The latest worry of the organisation is that Governments in the past have used security forces, including the army, to terrorise its rank and file. Organisation-the Muttahida Qaumi Movement or the MQM-fighting for safeguarding their interests is known for its political ambitions, at times it has been charged with indulging in violence bordering on terrorism. The raids - in an area about 100 km north of Kandahar - comprised one of the largest known US ground operations of the US military campaign in Afghanistan. A US commando was lightly wounded in the ankle.Īir Force General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the raid was launched on January 23 in the mountains north of Kandahar, triggering an intense firefight. WASHINGTON: US special forces raided two compounds in Afghanistan believed to hold Taliban and Al-Qaida leaders, killing more than a dozen people and capturing 27 others, US defence officials said yesterday. He said the situation in the south of the country was still “unclear” and it could take up to 30,000 international troops to secure the main towns and cities. “There are hundreds of thousands of people with weapon,” said Vendrell, Deputy to the UN Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi. Meanwhile, just 10 weeks after the Taliban fled the city, Afghans are already starting to say they felt safer under the now-defeated hardline militia than under the power-sharing interim administration that has replaced it. “It wasn’t easy to put the list together,” Mr Annan said, adding that the U.N. The commission’s task will be to form a Loya Jirga that will decide the government that will rule Afghanistan for 18 months when the term of the six-month interim administration expires. “This shows this is a real impartial commission,” he said. Mr Karzai said he recognised a few of the names but not the majority. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and took pains to stress that the list was a result of impartial decisions by the UN. Mr Karzai read out a list of 21 names at a joint news conference with U.N. India today launched its diplomatic offensive abroad to highlight Pakistan’s role in cross-border terrorism, with an Indian delegation urging the European Union to delink this from the Kashmir issue.Ī Pakistani Mirage fighter jet crashed into the Indian Ocean overnight, about 20 miles from Karachi, and an official inquiry has been ordered into the incident, official sources said. Bush will meet with Pakistan President Pervez Musharaff here on February 13, the White House has announced today. Organisation - the Muttahida Qaumi Movement or the MQM - fighting for safeguarding their interests is known for its political ambitions, at times it has been charged with indulging in violence bordering on terrorism. T he campaign launched against terrorist organisations has scared the Mohajir community in Sindh, particularly in Karachi. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a joint Press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul Interim Afghan Prime Minister Hamid Karzai today said that the United Nations had completed a list of 21 people whose task will be to organise a tribal grand council to decide Afghanistan’s next government.Īfghanistan's Interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with