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		<title>Pak warns US against border violations</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/pak-warns-us-against-border-violations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistani Government sources were quoted by the Dawn News channel on Monday as saying that Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had told British officials on the same day that violations of Pakistan&#8217;s frontiers would not be tolerated...
Islamabad says the strikes are an infringement of its sovereignty and are counterproductive in the battle against militants.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8633&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exodus of Christians as killers step up religious cleansing in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister, has ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the problem. Yesterday the UN expressed concern at the recent violence against Mosul’s Christian community.
Some Christians blame al-Qaeda for the attacks while others speculate that Kurdish elements might be involved as part of a political ploy to coerce minority sects into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8611&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Palestinians off Against Each Other</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/playing-palestinians-off-against-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, however, and judging by its behavior, Israel seems comfortable with Hamas&#8217; control over Gaza. In addition to undermining Palestinian aspirations for independence and statehood, the split between Hamas in Gaza and Fateh in the West Bank is causing each to compete with the other over who can better prevent Palestinian violence against Israel. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8287&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somalia: UN delegation visits Jowhar&#8217;s Islamist rulers</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/somalia-un-delegation-visits-jowhars-islamist-rulers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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The delegation met privately with Islamic Courts rulers in Jowhar, the capital of Middle Shabelle region which is located 90km north of Mogadishu.
The media was excluded from the meeting, but the Islamists&#8217; top leader in Jowhar, Sheikh Dahir Addow Alasow, told reporters afterwards that the meeting was intended to inform UN officials about the security [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8281&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Mounting Effort To Counter Limits on Speech Critical of Islam</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/us-mounting-effort-to-counter-limits-on-speech-critical-of-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate focuses on a United Nations resolution called &#8220;Combating Defamation of Religion,&#8221; sponsored by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference. The resolution was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2005 and is up for renewal in the next couple of months. While the resolution stresses the need to fight defamation against all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8082&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN dependents to leave Islamabad</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/un-dependents-to-leave-islamabad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decision to move dependents of UN international staff out of the country &#8220;has been approved&#8221; by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, UN information officer Ishrat Rizvi told the Reuters news agency.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of only evacuating the children of international staff members which doesn&#8217;t make any difference to the work of the United Nations,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7930&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flirting with Palin earns Pakistani president a fatwa</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/flirting-with-palin-earns-pakistani-president-a-fatwa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the fatwa, issued days after the Sept. 24 exchange, carries little weight among most Pakistanis, it&#8217;s indicative of the anger felt by Pakistan&#8217;s increasingly assertive conservatives who consider physical contact and flattery between a man and woman who aren&#8217;t married to each other distasteful. Though fatwas, or religious edicts, can range from advice on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7901&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IAEA &#8216;puts Israeli nukes on agenda&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/iaea-puts-israeli-nukes-on-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After requests by the Non-Aligned Movement and the Arab League, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed to put the issue of Israel&#8217;s nuclear capabilities on the agenda of the 52nd annual meeting of the UN body.
The move was initially met with protests by the US and Canada but the two countries had to back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7792&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan first</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is public that Bush signed a special order authorising attacks in  		sovereign Pakistan. It is a gross violation of international law, UN  		laws, EU laws and understandings between US, Pakistan, Afghanistan and  		NATO member states backed by EU. It is therefore time that Islamabad  		registers a case against Bush in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7651&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;US, EU symbol of religious intolerance&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/us-eu-symbol-of-religious-intolerance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The US and Europe have turned into symbols of religious intolerance and the violation of minorities&#8217; rights,” said Manouchehr Mottaki during a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Friday. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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