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Husband of NRI woman vows to catch her killer

Indo-Asian News service, Friday November 20, 2009, London

The estranged husband of an Indian-origin woman who was murdered this week with her hand chopped off has vowed to catch her killer. Geeta Aulakh, a 28-year-old mother of two, died on Monday after she was found with severe head wounds and her right hand severed from her arm, lying on the pavement in the west London neighbourhood of Greenford.

200 sites spread Qaida's message in English

Associated Press, Friday November 20, 2009, Riyadh

Increasing number of English-language websites are spreading Al-Qaida's message to Muslims in West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the US Army psychiatrist accused of the shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Texas.

Pentagon to review Fort Hood shootings

New York Times News Service, Friday November 20, 2009, Washington

Defence Secretary Robert M Gates on Thursday announced a Pentagon review of the shootings at Ford Hood, Texas, to help ensure that “nothing like this ever happens again.” A former Army secretary, Togo West, and Admiral Vern Clark, the former chief of naval operations, are to lead the 45-day review.

Pakistani politics: Anti-Americanism peaks

Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times News Service, Friday November 20, 2009, Islamabad

These days, politics here look more and more like a movie Pakistanis have seen before. Anti-Americanism is peaking. Enemies of the state lurk around every corner, if the nationalist media is to be believed. President Asif Ali Zardari could hardly be more unpopular. Political insiders make a sport of handicapping how long it will be before he falls. It is a familiar plot line. The question on Pakistani minds now is whether the movie will end differently this time. It is an increasingly urgent concern in a country where no elected civilian government – undone by its own vices and undercut by a powerful military and intelligence establishment – has ever survived a full term.

Air France A380 set for first transatlantic flight

Agency France Presse, Friday November 20, 2009, Paris

An Air France A380 superjumbo, the world's largest civilian airliner, is to set off on the first Air France flight across the Atlantic bound for New York with 538 passengers aboard.

ISI helped Taliban leader escape to safety

Press Trust of India, Friday November 20, 2009, Washington

Fearing that Taliban supremo Mullah Omar might be targetted by US drones, Pakistan's ISI has helped him to flee from the border town of Quetta to the mega port city of Karachi, where he has established a new Shura council.

Oprah to end talk show, focus on own channel

Brian Stelter and Bill Carter, New York Times News Service, Friday November 20, 2009,

Oprah Winfrey is giving network television one of her trademark aha moments. infrey, the billionaire queen of daytime television, is planning to announce Friday that she will step down from her daily pulpit, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," in two years in order to concentrate on the forthcoming cable channel that will bear her name. "The sun will set on the Oprah show as its 25th season draws to a close on Sept. 9, 2011," Tim Bennett, the president of Winfrey's production company, Harpo, said in a letter to her 214 local TV stations Thursday evening. She will appear on her cable channel, called OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network, in some form. But "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will no longer be.

Headley attended Pak military school

NDTV Correspondent, Friday November 20, 2009, Philadelphia

While his links to the 26/11 attacks are being investigated, more information is emerging on the background of Lashkar man and American national David Headley, who till his 16th year was known as Daood Gilani and studied in a military school in Pakistan, attended by the country's elite.

US wants India, Pak to resume talks: Clinton

Press Trust of India, Friday November 20, 2009, Washington

The Obama administration encourages India and Pakistan to get back into dialogue process which was halted by the Mumbai terrorist attack, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. "We are encouraging them (India and Pakistan) to get back into dialogue. We think that (dialogue) is important. But with respect to any resolution, that's up to them," Clinton told the BBC in an interview, the transcripts of which was released by the State Department in Washington. Clinton was responding to a question if the administration is looking at tackling the issue of Kashmir between the two countries.

Pak army Links to Headley-Rana?

David Johnston and Eric Schmitt, New York Times News Service, Thursday November 19, 2009, Washington

The arrests last month of two Chicago men accused of planning an attack on a Danish newspaper have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan and implicated a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator, government officials said Wednesday.