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Samajwadi Party leader shot dead in UP
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. on 23 July, 2010 03:40:00
 
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party leader Anil Yadav, who was also the manager of a
college, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur
district, police said on Friday.
Yadav, 34, was shot dead late Thursday while he was returning home after meeting
some of his friends on the outskirts of the district.
"Though we are yet to ascertain the motive behind the crime, it appears the
incident could be the fallout of political rivalry," police inspector Ranjeet
Rai told reporters in Ghazipur, some 250 km from Lucknow.
"Teams have been constituted to nab the assailants at the earliest," he added.
According to police, two-three motorcycle-borne assailants shot dead Yadav, the
manager of the Sudershan Inter College in Ghazipur, in the Nandganj area.
On the complaint made by Yadav's family, police have registered a case against
four people, who could be involved in getting Yadav killed.
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2.Suspected Maoists abduct four villagers in Bihar
Patna: Suspected Maoists have abducted four people in Bihar's Rohtas district
over a land dispute, police said on Friday.
Over 40 armed guerrillas raided Tendua village in Rohtas, about 120 km from
Patna, and abducted four villagers at gunpoint over a land dispute late on
Thursday.
They freed one man later, police said.
A case has been lodged and an operation launched to recover the abducted
villagers.
Early this month, Maoist guerrillas abducted 11 villagers in Kaimur district but
freed them later.
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3.Pakistan must act against Mumbai attackers: US
The United States has listed investigation and bringing to justice those
responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack among the must do things
for Pakistan in the fight against terror.
"There are things, clearly, that Pakistan must do," State Department spokesman
Phillip Crowley told reporters on Thursday when asked if recent statements by US
officials that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is as dangerous as Al Qaeda reflected a new
get tough with Pakistan policy.
"And certainly, continuing to investigate and bring to justice those who are
responsible for the Mumbai attack is an important element," he said. "It's
important to Pakistan. It's also important to India."
"And we will continue our conversations with Pakistan on the things that it
needs to do not only for the benefit of Pakistan but the region as a whole,"
Crowley said.
But he suggested that statements equating the threats from LeT, blamed for the
26/11 attacks, and Al Qaeda and another Mumbai attack could provoke a war in the
region, did not reflect a change in US policy to make Pakistan act against these
terror groups.
"We have a US policy," he said. "It is to fully cooperate with Pakistan on
terrorism and to continue to work closely to help Pakistan battle the insurgency
that now is a threat to Pakistan itself."
"We've seen significant progress by Pakistan over the past year," Crowley said
noting, "It's an area that was a part of the Strategic Dialogue that our
governments just had in Islamabad."
"We'll continue to work on this," Crowley said.
He said the sanctions imposed on Friday by the Treasury Department against three
key leaders and financiers of the Haqqani network were not in lieu of State
Department action against the Pakistan-based group.
"No, it's not in lieu of that," Crowley said. The US, he said, was looking at
whether to designate the group as a foreign terrorist organisation as mentioned
by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her trip to Pakistan this week.
"And that is a lengthy process and we're looking to see if it meets the legal
criteria that's outlined in US law."  The new top US commander in Afghanistan,
General David Petraeus, and the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl
Levin have both urged putting the Haqqani network on US State Department's the
Foreign Terrorist Organisation list.
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