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India frees top Kashmiri separati
leader in attempt to ease tension
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Kashmir’s
new provincial government freed a promi
nent separatist leader from prison Monday
as Islamic militants who also seek inde
pendence for Kashmir killed 13 parliamen
tary police in a bomb attack.
Separatist leader Yasin Malik, an icon to
thousands of Kashmiri youths, was released
eight months after his arrest for allegedly
laundering money to finance terrorism.
His release was an attempt by the new
Kashmir state government to ease tensions in
the region disputed by India and Pakistan and
to stem a tide of violence in the province.
The bomb exploded along the main
Kashmir highway as police traveled in a
truck near the town of Ramsoo, about 130
miles south of Srinagar, said Neeraj Kumar
of the Border Security Force. In addition to
the 13 dead, five police were injured.
The Pakistan-based Hezb-ul Mujahedeen,
the largest guerrilla group in Kashmir,
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Malik, a former militant leader whose
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front is
now a separatist political party, was flown to
Srinagar on Monday from the high security
Kot Bhalwal prison outside Jammu, the win
ter capital of Jammu-Kashmir state. Malik
confirmed his release in a brief phone call to
The Associated Press.
The decision to release Malik came soon
after the installation of a new government in
Jammu-Kashmir, the heartland of a 12-year
Islamic insurgency.
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed, the new state administrator, has
promised to improve the government’s
image and to provide a “healing touch” to
the region, where more than 61,(XX) people
have been killed since 1989.
Malik is one of the seven key decision
makers of the All Parties Hurriyat
Conference, the main Kashmiri separatist
alliance.
He was arrested in March on charges of
smuggling $100,000 to finance anti-Indian
militants in the Kashmir Valley. Police offi
cers stormed a press conference he was giv
ing in Srinagar and dragged him away.
His arrest came after police detained a
woman traveling from Nepal carrying cash
allegedly intended for him. Malik denied the
allegation.
Malik, who suffers from a heart ailment,
was granted bail in July after a court was
told that his health had deteriorated. But
within moments, he was arrested again and
booked under the Public Safety Act, under
which he could be detained for two years
without trial.
On Monday, police revoked the Public
Safety charges.
Malik’s release was intended as a good
will gesture by the state government, which
is hoping to persuade the separatists to give
up their campaign and end the violence.
Malik is among the most popular young
leaders in Kashmir. His group led the first
wave of young Kashmiris that took up arms
in the disputed Himalayan region in the late
1980s, sneaking across the border to
Pakistan where former members say they
received weapons training to return to fight
Indian security forces.
India has said it would not resume peace
talks with Pakistan until it stops providing
arms and money to separatist guerillas — a
charge Pakistan denies.
On Monday, Pakistani officials said they
were waiting for a positive signal from India
to resume peace talks on the divided province,
a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
“The ball is in India's court ... we have
not shied away or hesitated in entering talks
with India,” said Aziz Ahmad Khan. “We
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Media restricted at China’s Communist
Party congress despite ‘warm welcome
BEIJING (AP) — China
invited international news organ
izations, set up a Web site and
modern press center, solicited
interview requests, even wel
comed journalists with a lavish
cocktail party. At first blush, it
looked like a political media
event anywhere else in the world.
But the surface openness at
China’s Communist Party con
gress this week in Beijing has, in
many ways, proven to be an illu
sion.
Al least one foreign reporter
has been detained by police.
Overseas television broadcasters
have had outgoing stories cut by
censors. And the world has been
denied any real glimpse into the
inner workings of the weeklong
meeting, expected to produce the
next leaders of the world’s most
populous country.
While China has adopted
some of the glossy trappings of
modern public relations, its polit
ical system remains as opaque
and unwelcoming as ever. It’s a
contradiction common in today’s
China, where one of the world’s
last communist regimes presides
over a robust, increasingly free-
market economy.
The clumsy mix of friendly
talk and intimidation reflects the
party’s sensitivity to the portray
al of this congress and particular-
It’s clear that
what Jiang is
concerned about is
image. He ivants to
be celebrated as a
great contributor to
China's
modernization.
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University of Colorado
ly President Jiang Zemin, 76,
expected to retire as party chief
this week and be replaced by 59-
year-old Vice President Hu
Jintao.
“It’s clear that what Jiang is
concerned about is image. He
wants to be celebrated as a great
contributor to China’s modern
ization,” said Tim Weston, an
assistant professor of history at
the University of Colorado at
Boulder who is writing a book on
journalism in China.
Coverage of the congress in
China’s state-run press has con
sisted of ceaseless praise for
Jiang’s accomplishments — even
to the point of doctoring quotes
from Western journalists to make
them sound rosier. The dozens of
newspapers in the capital carry
the same centrally generated sto
ries, and often the same photos
and front-page layouts.
Press restrictions are nothing
new during Communist Party
congresses, held every five years.
But the number of non-mainland
journalists has grown as China’s
economy has opened. There are
759 this year — some 1(X) more
than 1997, according to organiz
ers.
Failure of foreign journalists
to toe the government’s line has
provoked some harsh responses.
At least one photographer
was detained and forced to delete
digital-camera images after tak
ing photos of police leading off a
protester. The photographer was
told his pictures were “unautho
rized” and his press credentials
applied only to official events.
Several protesters, most act
ing alone, have appeared outside
the Great Hall of the People, the
huge building facing Tiananmen
Square where the congress is
being held. They are quickly
bundled away, and any pam
phlets they try to hurl toward
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to fight AIDS in India
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — The richest man
in the world met with some of its poorest
Monday, and pledged $100 million to fight
the spread of AIDS in India.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates opened his
four-day, controversy-laced visit to the
South Asian nation by visiting HIV-positive
patients in a private hospice.
"It's a very brave thing to speak out
and it's a problem that needs a lot of
brave people," Gates told Naveen
Kumar, an HIV-positive man who told
him how he was rejected by public-
health facilities in India.
NEWS IN BRIEF
"The problem needs all the great talent
that exists in this country," said Gates, who
was wearing the "tika," or red Hindu mark,
on his forehead.
The $100 million contribution from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the
largest grant given by the foundation to a
country to fight the deadly virus.
Gates said the foundation was funded by
his personal wealth, which stood at $43
billion in September.
Palestinian gunman kills 5
in Israeli farming community
KIBBUTZ METZER, Israel (AP) - A
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security fence at this
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