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ISLAMABAD: Asif Ali Zardari was sworn in as the 12th president of Pakistan yesterday and immediately pledged to work with all neighbors, particularly Afghanistan. Zardari, the widower of assassi- nated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, swept the presi- dential elections on Saturday. Zardari’s three children and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai attended the swearing-in at the President House here. Zardari later told a news conference with Karzai that the government was following a comprehensive plan on militancy. Both stressed their intention to work together. US President George W. Bush telephoned Zardari, who is seen as close to the United States, to con- gratulate him soon after the latter was sworn in as president. “We shall stand with our neigh- bors ... and look the problems in the eye and tell the world that we are bigger than the problems,” said Zardari, with a portrait of his assassinated wife on a wall behind him. Zardari said Pakistan would follow a pragmatic foreign policy. “Pakistan would face all the chal- lenges coura- geously. The government has chalked out a strategy to combat terrorism, and contacts are under way on the Kashmir issue,” he said. “The people would soon hear good news (on Kashmir) before the Indian polls.” Zardari said that he was aware of the back-door diplomacy on the Kashmir issue and announced the setting up of a Kashmir commit- tee soon with par- liamentary con- sensus. Highlighting Pakistan’s close ties with China, Zardari said that he would first visit China and also attend the United Nations General Assembly session in New York. Zardari said Parliament would decide on whether former President Pervez Musharraf should get an indemnity from any prosecution, adding that he held no ill will against anyone. Karzai also told the joint press conference that combating terror- ism was an issue of importance to both countries. “It is about fighting this menace in the right manner,” he said, adding that he and Zardari were agreed on how the problem should be tackled. Karzai’s repeated assertion that “it’s unfortunate that Pashtuns from Afghanistan and Pakistan are being killed in these terrorist activities” was met with disbelief by the attend- ing journalists. They queried Karzai’s motives in taking an ethnic line instead of say- ing Muslims were being killed on both sides of the border. — With input from agencies Bush keeping Iraq US troop levels steady WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush announced yesterday that he will keep the US force strength in Iraq largely intact until the next president takes over, drawing rebukes from Democrats who want the war ended and a bigger boost of troops in troubled Afghanistan. Democratic presidential nomi- nee Barack Obama, who has advo- cated pulling all US combat forces out of Iraq within 16 months of taking office, said Bush’s plan to bring 8,000 combat and support troops home by February “comes up short.” “It is not enough troops, and not enough resources, with not enough urgency,” Obama told reporters while campaigning in the state of Ohio. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he is “stunned that President Bush has decided to bring so few troops home from Iraq and send so few resources to Afghanistan.” The House Armed Services chairman called Bush’s decision a deferral until the next administration. “More significant troop reductions in Iraq are need- ed,” said Rep. Ike Skelton, a Democrat. Republican presidential nomi- nee John McCain has also said more troops are needed in Afghanistan, where there has been a resurgence of the Taleban and a growth in violence. But he has said he would rely on the advice of US military commanders to determine the timing and pace of troop reduc- tions in Iraq and he used Bush’s announcement to criticize Obama as wrong on the war. McCain, also campaigning in Ohio, said the Democrat “lacks the judgment to lead this country.” The president’s pullout is not as strong or swift as long anticipated by many. No more army combat brigades will with- draw in 2008, the final year of a Bush presidency that has come to be dominated by the war. Bush’s announcement, in a speech at the National Defense University, is perhaps his last major move on troop strategy in Iraq. Though most US forces are staying, Bush chose to emphasize that he was moving forward with “addi- tional force reductions.” And he said more US forces could be with- drawn in the first half of 2009 if conditions improve in Iraq. “Here is the bottom line: While the enemy in Iraq is still danger- ous, we have seized the offensive, Iraqi forces are becoming increas- ingly capable of leading and win- ning the fight,” Bush said. JEDDAH: Three sisters who have repeatedly fled their father’s home after 10 years of physical and psy- chological abuse and sexual moles- tation reached a dead end. The girls’ last escape was five months ago. Mona, Nadin and Lina took refuge in the home of their mother, who had been divorced from their father nine years ago. According to a court verdict issued in 1999, the mother can only see the girls on Fridays from the after- noon until early evening. She tried to get custody of her daughters, but all her attempts were unsuccessful. She was hesitant to speak to the press until she realized it was her final recourse. “Five years and I’ve been trying to have my daughters live with me. My ex-husband is an imam and member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. He uses his religious appearance as a green light to get under people’s skin and get what he wants,” said the moth- er in anguish. The girls, whose ages are 21, 16 and 15, said that after the divorce their father told them their mother abandoned them so she could pur- sue her career and that she did not want anything to do with them. But only after they grew up, the girls saw their father and stepmother for who they were. “My stepmother touches my breasts and my sensitive areas. Her words are obscene. I got my men- struation for the first time in the 9 771319 833016 37 Pricing: Bahrain 200 Fils • Egypt LE 3 • Iran 200 R • India 12 R • Indonesia 2,000 R • Japan 250¥ • Jordan 250 Fils • Kuwait 200 Fils • Lebanon 1,000 L • Morocco 2 D • Oman 200 P • Pakistan 15 R • Philippines 25 P • Qatar 2 QR • Singapore $3 • Sudan 100 P • Syria 20 L • Thailand 40 BHT • UAE 2 D • U.K. 50 P • U.S. $1.50 • Republic of Yemen R50 • ISSN 0254-833X Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Ramadan 10, 1429 A.H. • 2 Riyals Vol. XXXIII • No. 284 • 24 Pages • http://www.arabnews.com • [email protected] • Spot Prices: OPEC basket crude: $101.08 Arab News offers a four-page feature section. Every day. Seven days a week. (Turn to Pages 21-24) We shall stand with our neighbors ... and look the problems in the eye and tell the world that we are bigger than the problems.” Asif Ali Zardari AZHAR MASOOD | ARAB NEWS MOHAMMED MAR’I | ARAB NEWS HASSNA’A MOKHTAR | ARAB NEWS BEN FELLER | AP ! ! ! HARROWING TALE OF THREE SISTERS INTERNATIONAL Page 18 New York cheers Federer Open victory Page 6 List of 450 ready for a possible Shalit exchange MIDDLE EAST SOUTH ASIA Page 8 Lanka rebels attack army base in north Page 11 Thai PM forced to step down SPORTS Girls escaping abusive father come to dead end midst of a battering session by my father,” said the oldest sister Mona. In August 2007, Lina, the young- est daughter, ran away from her father’s home heading to her mother. Arab News has a copy of a medical report that diagnosed the state she was in as an acute stress reaction. Lina sat absorbed in her thoughts while her mother and Mona described the incident. “She was suicidal and in a hor- rific psychological state,” said the mother. “When I first opened the door and saw her standing there, I thought their house had burned down and she was the only survi- vor.” Mona and Nadin were still at their father’s home after the young- est ran away. “My dad threatened us. He told us that if he killed us, no one could take legal action against him because he is our father,” said Mona. He then went to the Civil Rights Department and filed a complaint against the mother and her hus- band that they kidnapped his daughter. When the mother received the summons, they wanted her to give back the daughter to her father. “But she wasn’t in a stable psy- chological state. I asked them to wait until she recovered and then I would take her back to her father,” the mother said. (Continued on Page 4) Five months ago, Mona, Nadin and Lina took refuge in the home of their mother, who had been divorced from their father nine years ago. According to a court verdict, the mother can only see the girls on Fridays. She tried to get custody of her daughters, but all her attempts were unsuccessful. “My stepmother touches my breasts ... Her words are obscene. I got my menstruation for the first time in the midst of a battering session by my father,” complained Mona. Mona, Nadin and Lina continue to fight for their rights It’s OK to kidnap Ahmadinejad: Israeli minister RAMALLAH: Israeli Pensioners Minister and former Mossad agent Rafi Eitan said in an inter- view to German magazine Der Spiegel that the same tactics used to capture Nazi Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann could be used to nab Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and haul him before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Calling the era of hunting down and kidnapping Nazi war criminals “over,” Eitan stopped short of dismissing covert opera- tions and kidnapping by one state as an acceptable means to capture the leader of another state for delivery to an interna- tional court. “That era is over. But that’s not to say that such operations are completely a thing of the past,” he said. “It could very well be that a leader such as Ahmadinejad suddenly finds himself before the International Criminal Court in The Hague ... And all options are open in terms of how he should be brought.” In 1960, Eitan commanded the Mossad operation that cap- tured Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Eichman was the SS-Obersturmbannführer who designed the logistics for the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps in Eastern Europe. After his kid- napping and trial, Eichmann was hanged in 1962 for crimes against humanity. Asked specifically if kidnap- UNDER THE SHADOW OF HIS WIFE: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, widower of Benazir Bhutto, in front of her portrait at a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday. (AP) Zardari sworn in as Pakistan president ping was an acceptable means of delivery to The Hague, Eitan replied: “Yes. Anyway to bring (Ahmadinejad) for trial in The Hague is a possibility.” Eitan, a member of Israel’s inner Cabinet of ministers with security responsibilities, said he was expressing his own opinion and nothing more. In Israel’s rough-and-tumble parliamentary system, ministers often speak out without the blessings of the country’s top leadership. Ahmadinejad is feared and reviled in Israel because of his repeated calls to wipe the Jewish state off the map, his promotion of historical revisionism regard- ing the Holocaust and his pur- suit of nuclear technology. It is not clear exactly what Ahmadinejad would be charged with at The Hague if he were ever to wind up there. Critics of the Iranian leader — led by those in Israel and the United States — claim that Ahmadinejad’s comments that Israel should be wiped off the map is tantamount to conspiring to commit genocide, and that his nuclear program is designed specifically for creating the nuclear capabilities to do so. However, Iran says its nuclear program is for power-genera- tion, and Russia in particular supports Iran’s rights to nuclear power. President George W. Bush will cut US force levels in Iraq only modestly over the rest of his term, pulling 8,000 troops out by February, when his successor will have taken over as commander in chief US TROOP STRENGTH 200 150 100 50 0 Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2003 TROOPS IN IRAQ March 2003 to August 2008, in thousands Mar. 20 US begins combat operations May 1 US declares end to major combat operations June 28 US transfers sovereignty to Iraqi interim government Dec. 15 Iraqis elect permanent Parliament Jan. 30 Iraqis elect transitional Parliament 150 115 132 146 142 155 138 160 171 157 146 138 Jan. 10 President Bush announces deployment of 21,500 extra troops to Iraq Mar. 11 Bush approves 4,400 more troops for force buildup Apr. 2 Pentagon says it will send another 9,000 troops Sept. 9 Bush will pull 8,000 troops out by February Pledges to work with neighbors, follow pragmatic foreign policy
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ISLAMABAD: Asif Ali Zardari was sworn in as the 12th president of Pakistan yesterday and immediately pledged to work with all neighbors, particularly Afghanistan.
Zardari, the widower of assassi-nated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, swept the presi-dential elections on Saturday.
Zardari’s three children and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai attended the swearing-in at the President House here. Zardari later told a news conference with Karzai that the government was following a comprehensive plan on militancy. Both stressed their intention to work together.
US President George W. Bush telephoned Zardari, who is seen as close to the United States, to con-
gratulate him soon after the latter was sworn in as president.
“We shall stand with our neigh-bors ... and look the problems in the eye and tell the world that we are bigger than the problems,” said Zardari, with a portrait of his assassinated wife on a wall behind him.
Zardari said Pakistan would follow a pragmatic foreign policy. “Pakistan would face all the chal-lenges coura-geously. The government has chalked out a strategy to combat terrorism, and contacts are under way on the Kashmir issue,” he said.
“The people would soon hear good news (on Kashmir) before the Indian polls.”
Zardari said that he was aware of the back-door diplomacy on the
Kashmir issue and announced the setting up of a Kashmir commit-tee soon with par-liamentary con-sensus.
H i g h l i g h t i n g Pakistan’s close ties with China, Zardari said that he would first visit China and also attend the United
Nations General Assembly session in New York.
Zardari said Parliament would decide on whether former President
Pervez Musharraf should get an indemnity from any prosecution, adding that he held no ill will against anyone.
Karzai also told the joint press conference that combating terror-ism was an issue of importance to both countries. “It is about fighting this menace in the right manner,” he said, adding that he and Zardari were agreed on how the problem should be tackled.
Karzai’s repeated assertion that “it’s unfortunate that Pashtuns from Afghanistan and Pakistan are being killed in these terrorist activities” was met with disbelief by the attend-ing journalists.
They queried Karzai’s motives in taking an ethnic line instead of say-ing Muslims were being killed on both sides of the border.
— With input from agencies
Bush keeping Iraq US troop levels steadyWASHINGTON: President George W. Bush announced yesterday that he will keep the US force strength in Iraq largely intact until the next president takes over, drawing rebukes from Democrats who want the war ended and a bigger boost of troops in troubled Afghanistan.
Democratic presidential nomi-nee Barack Obama, who has advo-cated pulling all US combat forces out of Iraq within 16 months of taking office, said Bush’s plan to bring 8,000 combat and support troops home by February “comes up short.” “It is not enough troops, and not enough resources, with not enough urgency,” Obama told reporters while campaigning in the state of Ohio.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he is “stunned that
President Bush has decided to bring so few troops home from Iraq and send so few resources to Afghanistan.” The House Armed Services chairman called Bush’s decision a deferral until the next administration. “More significant troop reductions in Iraq are need-ed,” said Rep. Ike Skelton, a Democrat.
Republican presidential nomi-nee John McCain has also said more troops are needed in Afghanistan, where there has been a resurgence of the Taleban and a growth in violence. But he has said he would rely on the advice of US military commanders to determine the timing and pace of troop reduc-tions in Iraq and he used Bush’s announcement to criticize Obama as wrong on the war. McCain, also campaigning in Ohio, said the Democrat “lacks the judgment to
lead this country.” The president’s pullout is not as strong or swift as long anticipated by many. No more army combat brigades will with-draw in 2008, the final year of a Bush presidency that has come to be dominated by the war.
Bush’s announcement, in a speech at the National Defense University, is perhaps his last major move on troop strategy in Iraq. Though most US forces are staying, Bush chose to emphasize that he was moving forward with “addi-tional force reductions.” And he said more US forces could be with-drawn in the first half of 2009 if conditions improve in Iraq.
“Here is the bottom line: While the enemy in Iraq is still danger-ous, we have seized the offensive, Iraqi forces are becoming increas-ingly capable of leading and win-ning the fight,” Bush said.
JEDDAH: Three sisters who have repeatedly fled their father’s home after 10 years of physical and psy-chological abuse and sexual moles-tation reached a dead end.
The girls’ last escape was five months ago. Mona, Nadin and Lina took refuge in the home of their mother, who had been divorced from their father nine years ago. According to a court verdict issued in 1999, the mother can only see the girls on Fridays from the after-noon until early evening. She tried to get custody of her daughters, but all her attempts were unsuccessful. She was hesitant to speak to the press until she realized it was her final recourse.
“Five years and I’ve been trying
to have my daughters live with me. My ex-husband is an imam and member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. He uses his religious appearance as a green light to get under people’s skin and get what he wants,” said the moth-er in anguish.
The girls, whose ages are 21, 16 and 15, said that after the divorce their father told them their mother abandoned them so she could pur-sue her career and that she did not want anything to do with them. But only after they grew up, the girls saw their father and stepmother for who they were.
“My stepmother touches my breasts and my sensitive areas. Her words are obscene. I got my men-struation for the first time in the 9 771319 833016
37
Pricing: Bahrain 200 Fils • Egypt LE 3 • Iran 200 R • India 12 R • Indonesia 2,000 R • Japan 250¥ • Jordan 250 Fils • Kuwait 200 Fils • Lebanon 1,000 L • Morocco 2 D • Oman 200 P • Pakistan 15 R • Philippines 25 P • Qatar 2 QR • Singapore $3 • Sudan 100 P • Syria 20 L • Thailand 40 BHT • UAE 2 D • U.K. 50 P • U.S. $1.50 • Republic of Yemen R50 • ISSN 0254-833X
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Ramadan 10, 1429 A.H. • 2 Riyals Vol. XXXIII • No. 284 • 24 Pages • http://www.arabnews.com • [email protected] • Spot Prices: OPEC basket crude: $101.08
Arab News offers a four-page feature section. Every day. Seven days a week. (Turn to Pages 21-24)
We shall stand with our neighbors ... and look the problems in the eye and tell the world that we are bigger thanthe problems.” Asif Ali Zardari
AZHAR MASOOD | ARAB NEWS
MOHAMMED MAR’I | ARAB NEWS
HASSNA’A MOKHTAR | ARAB NEWS
BEN FELLER | AP
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HARROWING TALE OF THREE SISTERS
INTERNATIONAL
Page 18
New York cheers Federer Open victory
Page 6
List of 450 ready for a possible Shalit exchange
MIDDLE EAST SOUTH ASIA
Page 8
Lanka rebels attack army base in north
Page 11
Thai PM forced to step down
SPORTS
Girls escaping abusive father come to dead end
midst of a battering session by my father,” said the oldest sister Mona.
In August 2007, Lina, the young-est daughter, ran away from her father’s home heading to her mother. Arab News has a copy of a medical report that diagnosed the state she was in as an acute stress reaction.
Lina sat absorbed in her thoughts while her mother and Mona described the incident.
“She was suicidal and in a hor-
rific psychological state,” said the mother. “When I first opened the door and saw her standing there, I thought their house had burned down and she was the only survi-vor.”
Mona and Nadin were still at their father’s home after the young-est ran away.
“My dad threatened us. He told us that if he killed us, no one could take legal action against him because he is our father,” said Mona.
He then went to the Civil Rights Department and filed a complaint against the mother and her hus-band that they kidnapped his daughter. When the mother received the summons, they wanted her to give back the daughter to her father.
“But she wasn’t in a stable psy-chological state. I asked them to wait until she recovered and then I would take her back to her father,” the mother said.
(Continued on Page 4)
Five months ago, Mona, Nadin and Lina took refuge in the home of their mother, who had been divorced from their father nine years ago.
According to a court verdict, the mother can only see the girls on Fridays. She tried to get custody of her daughters, but all her attempts were unsuccessful.
“My stepmother touches my breasts ... Her words are obscene. I got my menstruation for the first time in the midst of a battering session by my father,” complained Mona.
Mona, Nadin and Lina continue to fight for their rights
It’s OK to kidnap Ahmadinejad: Israeli ministerRAMALLAH: Israeli Pensioners Minister and former Mossad agent Rafi Eitan said in an inter-view to German magazine Der Spiegel that the same tactics used to capture Nazi Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann could be used to nab Iranian Pres iden t Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and haul him before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Calling the era of hunting down and kidnapping Nazi war criminals “over,” Eitan stopped short of dismissing covert opera-tions and kidnapping by one state as an acceptable means to capture the leader of another state for delivery to an interna-tional court.
“That era is over. But that’s not to say that such operations are completely a thing of the past,” he said.
“It could very well be that a leader such as Ahmadinejad suddenly finds himself before the International Criminal Court in The Hague ... And all options are open in terms of how he should be brought.”
In 1960, Eitan commanded the Mossad operation that cap-tured Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
Eichman was the SS-Obersturmbannführer who designed the logistics for the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps in Eastern Europe. After his kid-napping and trial, Eichmann was hanged in 1962 for crimes against humanity.
Asked specifically if kidnap-
UNDER THE SHADOW OF HIS WIFE: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, widower of Benazir Bhutto, in front of her portrait at a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday. (AP)
Zardari sworn in as Pakistan president
ping was an acceptable means of delivery to The Hague, Eitan replied: “Yes. Anyway to bring (Ahmadinejad) for trial in The Hague is a possibility.”
Eitan, a member of Israel’s inner Cabinet of ministers with security responsibilities, said he was expressing his own opinion and nothing more. In Israel’s rough-and-tumble parliamentary system, ministers often speak out without the blessings of the country’s top leadership.
Ahmadinejad is feared and reviled in Israel because of his repeated calls to wipe the Jewish state off the map, his promotion of historical revisionism regard-ing the Holocaust and his pur-suit of nuclear technology.
It is not clear exactly what Ahmadinejad would be charged with at The Hague if he were ever to wind up there.
Critics of the Iranian leader — led by those in Israel and the United States — claim that Ahmadinejad’s comments that Israel should be wiped off the map is tantamount to conspiring to commit genocide, and that his nuclear program is designed specifically for creating the nuclear capabilities to do so.
However, Iran says its nuclear program is for power-genera-tion, and Russia in particular supports Iran’s rights to nuclear power.
President George W. Bush will cut US force levelsin Iraq only modestly over the rest of his term, pulling 8,000 troops out by February, when his successorwill have taken over as commander in chief
US TROOP STRENGTH
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2004 2005 2006 2007 20082003
TROOPS IN IRAQMarch 2003 to August 2008, in thousands
Mar. 20US beginscombatoperations
May 1US declares endto major combat operations
June 28US transfers sovereignty to Iraqiinterim government
Dec. 15Iraqis electpermanentParliament
Jan. 30Iraqis electtransitionalParliament
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Jan. 10President Bush announcesdeployment of 21,500extra troops to Iraq
Mar. 11Bush approves4,400 more troopsfor force buildup
Apr. 2Pentagon says itwill send another9,000 troops
Sept. 9Bush will pull
8,000 troops outby February
Pledges to work with neighbors, follow pragmatic foreign policy
