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Pakistan Rauf - Pakistan optimistic it will nab escaped Briton suspected in trans-Atlantic jet plot
NAME: PAK RAUF 20071218Ix TAPE: EF07/1505 IN_TIME: 11:20:58:11 DURATION: 00:02:25:04 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Rawalpindi/Islamabad, 18 Dec 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Rawalpindi 1. Wide of traffic leading towards Adiala jail 2. Local residents walking on side of road 3. Wide of traffic on street 4. Various of mosque in area from where Rauf is alleged to have escaped ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE MOSQUE FROM WHICH RAUF ALLEGEDLY ESCAPED FROM++ 5. Policeman directing traffic Islamabad 6. Wide of Interior Ministry meeting 7. Mid shot of Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz talking to Interior Secretary Kamal Shah 8. Officials seated 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Nawaz, Interior Minister in Pakistan's caretaker cabinet: "Yes, this is a very unfortunate incident. It should not have happened. So there is a serious security lapse somewhere." Rawalpindi 10. Wide of street 12. Wide exterior of McDonald's fast food restaurant, where it is alleged that Rauf dined with police before making his escape from a mosque 13. McDonald's logo 14. Mid of customers inside restaurant shot through the window 15. Police patrolling nearby Islamabad 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Nawaz, Interior Minister in Pakistan's caretaker cabinet: "We have one or two very good leads which we are working on and people who are closely involved in his escape have also been apprehended. We are working on those very leads and we are very sure that this incident which unfortunately has occurred would be remedied in the shortest possible time." 18. Mid of Nawaz seated at his desk Rawalpindi ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 19. Various of police checking vehicles at a checkpoint on main road leading to Islamabad STORYLINE: Pakistani officials expressed optimism on Tuesday that they will recapture a British suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, saying they have arrested five people, including two police officers, on suspicion they helped him escape. Rashid Rauf was arrested in Pakistan in August 2006 before the plot was foiled. Britain has sought his extradition, both as a suspect in the 2002 killing of his uncle there, and to question him as a "key person" in the airplane plot. He has denied involvement in both cases. He was presented before a judge in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday in connection with the extradition proceedings, but on his way back to jail, he tricked police into stopping to let him pray at a mosque, then slipped out the back door. One of Pakistan's leading newspapers, The News, also reported on Tuesday that Rauf allegedly dined with police officers at a local McDonald's in Rawalpindi. Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz called Rauf's escape "unfortunate" and a serious security lapse. "We have one or two very good leads which we are working on, and the people who were closely involved in his escape have also been apprehended," he told AP Television. He said Rauf's possible escape routes have been blocked but he had a eight or nine hour head start on police. Nawaz said the five people who were arrested include two police officers and one of Rauf's uncles. He said he did not know if al-Qaida was behind the escape, pending completion of an investigation. A judge in Rawalpindi on Tuesday granted a police request for permission to question the two detained officers for six days, said a local police official. The escape is an embarrassment for the government of President Pervez Musharraf, who made Pakistan a key ally of the United States in its war on terror following the September 11, 2001, attacks in America.
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Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world
Pakistan UN - UN WFP head says will keep full operations in Pakistan after attack
NAME: PAK UN 20091007I TAPE: EF09/0950 IN_TIME: 11:21:49:00 DURATION: 00:01:14:16 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Islamabad, 7 Oct 2009 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Josete Sheeran holding poster, UPSOUND: (English) "It says, share a bite, share a smile" 2. Wide of news briefing 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Josete Sheeran, UN World Food Programme Executive Director: "My deputy, Amir Abdullah, will be arriving next week to follow up on the review of the security measures, and everything we can do to both balance the security needs of our staff and the needs to reach those vulnerable people in Pakistan who rely on our partnership with them." 4. Cutaway of journalists 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Josete Sheeran, UN World Food Programme Executive Director: "We will also continue to put out our appeals, not only in Pakistan, but worldwide, for the world to stand by humanitarian workers. WFP's motto, and I think it's testimony throughout the world, and the support it receives throughout the world as a neutral humanitarian actor, who serves those trapped without food and access to vital supplies without fear or favour. And that is true of our history here in Pakistan." 6. Wide of news briefing STORYLINE The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that the agency would be reviewing its security measures after a suicide bomb blast at its office in Islamabad on Monday killed five people. The WFP is determined to keep up full operations in the country, said Josete Sheeran, the WFP's executive director, during a visit to Pakistan. Sheeran told a news conference in Islamabad that security officials were conducting a full review of the agency's operations in Pakistan and doubling its security management team there. She said the WFP would aim to "both balance the security needs of our staff and the needs to reach those vulnerable people in Pakistan who rely on our partnership with them." Sheeran also met with President Asif Ali Zardari and some Cabinet officials during her visit. Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday blamed the attack on Taliban militants. He said the Taliban carried out the attack to avenge the slaying of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a US missile strike on 5 August. The Taliban also claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in "the interest of Muslims." According to officials, the suicide bomber was dressed as a security officer and allowed to enter the heavily guarded WFP building after he asked to use the bathroom. On Tuesday the WFP's resident coordinator in Pakistan, Fikret Acura, admitted there had been a failure in the organisation's security system. The United Nations temporarily closed all its offices in Pakistan after the attack, which blew out windows and left victims lying in pools of blood in the lobby of the three-story compound. Despite the closures, the UN said its Pakistani partner organisations would continue distributing food, medicine and other humanitarian assistance. The world body said it would reassess the situation over the next few days. Pakistani authorities launched an investigation into the major security lapse, saying they would question guards who failed to stop the bomber from carrying out the first suicide attack in Islamabad in four months. The attack also exposed the vulnerability of international relief agencies helping (m) millions of Pakistanis ahead of an anticipated military offensive against the Taliban in their South Waziristan stronghold. The United Nations had already considered itself a target in Pakistan. Its offices are surrounded by blast walls, while staffers are driven in bullet-proof cars and not allowed to bring their families with them on assignment. Medical officials at two hospitals said five staff members were killed in Monday's blast, including two Pakistani women, two Pakistani men and an Iraqi. Several others were wounded, two of them critically, the WFP said in a statement.
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Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world
Pakistan UK Police - Scotland Yard detectives arrive to investigate Bhutto assassination
NAME: PAK UK POLICE 20080104I TAPE: EF08/0022 IN_TIME: 11:22:14:06 DURATION: 00:01:04:12 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Islamabad - 4 Jan 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Wide of arrivals terminal at Islamabad International airport 2. Wide of security at airport 3. Close of arrivals board at airport 4. Close of member of British Scotland Yard anti-terror team walking through airport terminal surrounded by media 5. Various of British officers getting onto minibus - surrounded by media 6. Pan of minibus driving away STORYLINE A team of British anti-terror officers from Scotland Yard arrived in Pakistan on Friday, to join the investigation into opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, a day after President Pervez Musharraf dismissed allegations his government may have had a hand in the killing. The officers made no comment to reporters as they made their way through the arrivals terminal at Islamabad International Airport. The Scotland Yard team will provide forensic and technical expertise into the killing of the opposition leader, but will not be allowed to go on a "wild goose chase and create a political disturbance," Musharraf told a news conference late on Thursday. Bhutto's killing on December 27 plunged an already volatile Pakistan deeper into crisis as it battled a surge in violence by militant extremists. It also forced a six-week delay in parliamentary elections, now set for February 18, which were seen as crucial to restoring stability and democracy to this key US ally. Musharraf, a former army chief who seized power in a 1999 coup, rejected accusations that a security lapse led to Bhutto's killing and suggested she was partly at fault because she poked her head out of her bombproof vehicle's sunroof after an election rally despite threats by Islamic extremists. He acknowledged his decision to seek outside help to investigate the killing was partly to allay suspicions of government complicity. Bhutto had accused elements in the ruling party of plotting to kill her. Rioting following Bhutto's death killed nearly 60 people and caused about 80 (b) billion rupees (1.3 (b) billion US dollars) worth of damage in the worst-hit province of Sindh, authorities said. The government quickly accused an Islamic militants of orchestrating the shooting and bombing attack on Bhutto and said she died from the force of the blast and not a gunshot wound. But many, questioned that account, and Bhutto's party has demanded a United Nations probe into her murder.
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Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world
Pakistan UN - UN official says security failed when 5 killed in bombing of WFP offices
NAME: PAK UN 20091006I TAPE: EF09/0948 IN_TIME: 10:04:09:15 DURATION: 00:01:28:20 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Islamabad, 6 Oct 2009 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST QUALITY AS INCOMING 1. Wide of news conference with United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator for Pakistan, Fikret Acura 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Fikret Acura, UN resident Coordinator for Pakistan: "The very fact that five of our staff members lost their lives, and there are numbers still fighting for their lives in hospital, is a clear indication that our security system has failed in the case of our World Food Programme office. Now, the security system consists of the cross nation security support plus that which the UN also put in place. It is clearly that the combination of these two factors has not worked and we are looking together with the government to find out where this particular failure is." 3. Camera cutaway 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Fikret Acura, UN resident Coordinator for Pakistan: "There are offices that are not closed. In the offices there are parts of the staff who are working on these daily requirements of life saving activities, both in Islamabad, in Peshawar, in other parts of the country. They have been continuing their work. We did not close down entire operations. Those which are critical have continued and we hope that we will expend to those others in the coming weeks." 5. Mid shot of news conference 6. Wide exterior of news conference venue STORYLINE: A United Nations official on Tuesday addressed the alleged failures of the organisation's security system at the UN food agency offices in Islamabad, a day after the heavily fortified compound was penetrated by a suicide bomber. "The very fact that five of our staff members lost their lives, and there are numbers still fighting for their lives in hospital, is a clear indication that our security system has failed," the UN's resident coordinator for Pakistan, Fikret Acura, said. Acura said the UN was collaborating with Pakistan's government to "find out where this particular failure is". The suicide bomber was dressed as a security officer and was allowed to enter the World Food Programme offices, apparently bypassing the normal security procedures, after asking guards outside if he could use the bathroom, officials said. Taliban militants on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in "the interest of Muslims". The attack pushed the UN to temporarily close its offices in the country. Acura emphasised that "critical" work in the country was ongoing, with members of staff continuing their "life saving activities" in many areas. "We did not close down entire operations. Those which are critical have continued and we hope that we will expend to those others in the coming weeks," he said. The attack also exposed the vulnerability of international relief agencies helping (m) millions of Pakistanis ahead of an anticipated military offensive against the Taliban in their South Waziristan stronghold. Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the Taliban carried out the bombing to avenge the 5 August 5 2009 slaying of their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, in a US drone attack. Malik said the government had taken several of the guards outside the UN offices into custody for questioning as part of the investigation into the security lapse. The United Nations had already considered itself a likely target in Pakistan. Its offices are surrounded by blast walls, while staffers are driven in bullet-proof cars and not allowed to bring their families with them on assignment. Medical officials at two hospitals said five staff members were killed in Monday's blast, including two Pakistani women, two Pakistani men and an Iraqi. Several others were wounded, two of them critically, the WFP said in a statement.
Pakistan Scientist - Father of Pakistan's N-bomb admits leaking secrets to Libya, Iran, NK
TAPE: EF04/0099 IN_TIME: 01:23:28 DURATION: 3:22 SOURCES: APTN/PTV RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various, File SHOTLIST: APTN File Islamabad - 31 May 1998 (PLEASE NOTE VIDEO QUALITY AS INCOMING FROM SHOTS 1 TO 3) 1. Various Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear technology outside his house 2. Khan's residence 3. Khan waving at his house entrance PTV - No Access to Pakistan File Chaghi - 28 May 1998 4. Pakistan's first nuclear test at Chaghi (nuclear blast site ) APTN File Islamabad, 31 May 1998 5. Nuclear scientists arrival after nuclear test at Rawalpindi PAF Chaklala Airbase 6. Crowds cheering nuclear scientist at PAF Chaklala Air base. 7. Nuclear scientists wearing garlands 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Mirza Aslam Baig, Pakistan's Army Chief 1988-1991: "Everybody is violating the law. How did India acquire their capability? How did Israel acquire the capability? And that's what Pakistan did. And any country which is threatened because of the nuclear capability of their neighbour, they have their right to acquire it. Because India threatened our security, we acquired it. Israel threatened its security. The neighbouring countries have a right to acquire it. So what is the question of international law, when the international law does not stop the countries Israel and India who have acquired it and no fingers are being pointed at them." 9. Cutaway of General Mirza Aslam Baig 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Mirza Baig, Army Chief between 1988-1991: "And what the scientists have given to Pakistan, that's why the Pakistan nation is grateful to them and they will not allow any harm to these scientists whether it is Abdul Qadeer Khan or all those who were associated with the programme." 11. Various of nuclear scientists families protesting in front of Supreme court holding banners Rawalpindi, Date unknown 12. Various shots of Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), (Qazi Hussein Ahmed) protest in Rawalpindi over detention of nuclear scientists, banners reading "Don't degrade our heroes!" and "Send our fathers home!" Islamabad, Date unknown 13. Various shots of family of nuclear scientist Dr. Nazeer Ahmed (Chief Engineer of Metallurgy Department, Kahuta Research Laborotary, Islamabad) 14. SOUNDBITE: (English), Saima Adil, daughter of Dr. Nazeer Ahmed: "I am proud of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan and his team and my father and his colleagues who have done so much by making Pakistan a nuclear state and making Pakistan so invincible but at the same time I am shocked by the way they treated my father, the way they manhandled him, the way they treated him with disrespect. He is a national hero, along with the rest of his colleagues and instead of giving national heroes the due respect and reverence which they deserve, they completely treated them worse then criminals." 15. STILL of Ahmed receiving an award from ex-President of Pakistan Rafiq Tarrar 16. STILL of Ahmed with ex-prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif PTV File Location unknown, 14 April 1999 16. Shaheen missile test STORYLINE: The founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, has admitted he transferred nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea, a Pakistani government official said Monday. Khan made the confession in a written statement submitted "a couple of days ago" to investigators probing allegations of nuclear proliferation by Pakistan. The transfers were made during the late 1980s and in the early and mid 1990s, and were motivated by "personal greed and ambition," the official said told the Associated Press. A meeting of the National Command Authority that controls Pakistan's nuclear assets was briefed on the statement at a meeting on Saturday, when Khan - long regarded as a national hero in Pakistan - was sacked from his position as a scientific adviser to the prime minister. Two senior military officials briefed a number of Pakistani journalists late on Sunday, and said Khan admitted to selling outdated "drawings and machinery" to the three countries to earn money for Pakistan. However, Khan claimed the transfers to Libya and Iran were also motivated by wanting to help other Muslim countries become nuclear powers. Khan had previously been reported as denying any wrongdoing. The transfer to North Korea "was to divert attention of the international community from Pakistan," a journalist quoted one of the military officials as saying. Khan denied he made the transfers for personal gain. Khan reportedly met with Iranian nuclear scientists in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi but it wasn't clear when, said the journalists, who did not want to be identified. The government official said the two-month probe into the proliferation allegations had reached its conclusion, but said it was up to the authority to decide whether to prosecute Khan and six other suspects in the case. Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, who heads the authority, was due to make an address to the nation about the progress of the investigation after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, which ends on Thursday in Pakistan. Pakistan began its investigation in November after revelations by Tehran to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog. The government official said that "questions have been put" to two former army chiefs, General Mirza Aslam Beg and General Jehangir Karamat, to check information provided by Khan and other suspects during the "debriefings" - as the government has referred to the questioning of scientists. The official stressed that the two generals were not the focus of the investigation, and added that they told investigators they never authorised nuclear transfers. However, the official said the probe had concluded there had been a lapse in security that allowed the transfers to take place, although no blame had been apportioned. Analysts say that many unanswered questions remain over how powerful generals who oversaw the Pakistan's nuclear program that began in the 1970s - with the aim of creating a military deterrent against rival India - could have been so in the dark about any nuclear transfers by its scientists. The mission to create the bomb was conducted in secret, using black market suppliers to circumvent international restrictions on trade in nuclear-related technology. Pakistan conducted its first nuclear test in 1998.
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Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world
Pakistan Violence Wrap - WRAP AP of blast, tear gas, arrests, int min spokesman, Pakistan provincial official killed GRAPHIC PIX
NAME: PAK VIO WRAP 20070727Ix TAPE: EF07/0898 IN_TIME: 11:21:32:18 DURATION: 00:03:36:09 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/GEO TV DATELINE: Islamabad, Quetta, 27 July 2007 RESTRICTIONS: Pt No Access Pakistan SHOTLIST AP TELEVISION Islamabad 1. Tilt down of people outside damaged Muzaffar Hotel in Aabpara market 2. Policeman's helmet on ground 3. People at scene of blast ++ GRAPHIC PIX++ 4. Wide of injured man being carried out from blast site, zoom-in to injured man 5. Mid of ambulance pulling away 6. Zoom in to black boots lying on the roadside near blast site 7. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Imtiaz Ahmed, witness: "I heard the blast and I came running. A policeman got blown into the air and landed away from the blast site." 8. Blood and debris on ground 9. Various of debris and clothing on ground 10. Various of injured being brought into government run Poly Clinic hospital 11. Various of injured inside hospital ward 12. Wide of injured being brought into Poly Clinic hospital, Islamabad AP TELEVISION Islamabad 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javed Iqbal Cheema, Pakistan Interior Ministry spokesperson: "Unfortunately in this suicide bombing today, there are 13 people who have been martyred and in these 13 there are seven policemen, who gave their lives in the line of duty. In all, 61 who have been taken to hospital in injured condition, in which again fourteen are policemen". AP TELEVISION Islamabad 14. Police armoured personnel carrier moving towards Red Mosque firing rounds of tear gas 15. Protesters running from tear gas 16. Protesters throwing stones at armoured personnel vehicle 17. Protesters throwing stones 18. People in road, tear gas spraying 19. Protester spray painting on the walls of the mosque reading (Urdu): "Red Mosque" 20. Close up of man crying inside mosque, zoom out to prayer hall with people shouting AP TELEVISION Islamabad 21. Policemen arresting student 22. Various of police arresting students and taking them away GEO TV - NO ACCESS PAKISTAN Quetta ++ GRAPHIC PIX++ 23. Onlookers surrounding car which Raziq Bugti was driving when he was killed 24. Policeman looking through window of car at body of Raziq Bugti 25. Bullet holes in car window STORYLINE: Pakistan Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said the government had received intelligence about a possible suicide bombing in Islamabad's Aabpara market prior to the blast that killed at least 13 people and wounded 61 on Friday. The bomber struck after hundreds of protesters clashed with police as the city's Red Mosque reopened for the first time since the army ousted Islamic militants in a bloody raid. One witness said the blast went off inside the Muzaffar Hotel, located in the market area about a half-kilometre (quarter mile) from the mosque. "I heard the blast and I came running. A policeman got blown into the air and landed away from the blast site," another witness said. Cheema said that there would be an official inquiry into the security lapse, but he also blamed the mosque unrest for creating the conditions in which an attacker could strike. He added that the mosque was now indefinitely closed. After the bombing, police retook control of the mosque, said Zafar Iqbal, the city police chief. Pakistani police arrested around 50 protesters after dispersing religious students and other supporters of the mosque's pro-Taliban former clerics with tear gas outside the mosque. The government had reopened the mosque for the first time to the public on Friday since a bloody army siege two weeks ago dislodged militants. Later a cleric from a seminary associated with the mosque led the prayers. Friday's reopening was meant to help cool anger over the siege, which triggered a flare-up in militant attacks on security forces across Pakistan. Public scepticism still runs high over the government's accounting of how many people died in the weeklong siege that ended July 11. Also on Friday but near the border with Afghanistan gunmen killed the official spokesman for a provincial government when they opened fire on his vehicle, police said. Raziq Bugti, spokesman and special adviser to the chief minister of Baluchistan province, died at the scene after unknown assailants fired a barrage of shots as he drove past a school in Quetta, a local police officer said. The officer added that the attackers fled the scene. Baluchistan has experienced scores of attacks on military and government targets, most blamed on ethnic Baluch tribesmen and nationalist groups who are demanding the central government grant more royalties and control over resources, such as natural gas, extracted from the province. The region has also been used by Taliban militants to launch attacks across the borer on Afghan and foreign troops.
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Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world
Pakistan UK Police 2 - WRAP British detectives arrive to investigate Bhutto assassination, hotel
NAME: PAK UK POLICE2 20080104I TAPE: EF08/0023 IN_TIME: 10:25:43:08 DURATION: 00:01:41:08 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Islamabad - 4 Jan 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Wide of arrivals terminal at Islamabad International airport 2. Wide of security at airport 3. Arrivals board at airport 4. Close of member of British Scotland Yard anti-terror team walking through airport terminal surrounded by media 5. Various of British officers getting onto minibus - surrounded by media 6. Pan of minibus driving away 7. Various of British policemen taking tea in hotel garden STORYLINE: A team of British anti-terror officers from Scotland Yard arrived in Pakistan on Friday, to join the investigation into opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, a day after President Pervez Musharraf dismissed allegations his government may have had a hand in the killing. The officers made no comment to reporters as they made their way through the arrivals terminal at Islamabad International Airport. Later in the day the policemen were seen taking tea in the garden of their hotel in Islamabad. The Scotland Yard team will provide forensic and technical expertise into the killing of the opposition leader, but will not be allowed to go on a "wild goose chase and create a political disturbance," Musharraf told a news conference late on Thursday. Bhutto's killing on December 27 plunged an already volatile Pakistan deeper into crisis as it battled a surge in violence by militant extremists. It also forced a six-week delay in parliamentary elections, now set for February 18, which were seen as crucial to restoring stability and democracy to this key US ally. Musharraf, a former army chief who seized power in a 1999 coup, rejected accusations that a security lapse led to Bhutto's killing and suggested she was partly at fault because she poked her head out of her bombproof vehicle's sunroof after an election rally despite threats by Islamic extremists. He acknowledged his decision to seek outside help to investigate the killing was partly to allay suspicions of government complicity. Bhutto had accused elements in the ruling party of plotting to kill her. Rioting following Bhutto's death killed nearly 60 people and caused about 80 (b) billion rupees (1.3 (b) billion US dollars) worth of damage in the worst-hit province of Sindh, authorities said. The government quickly accused an Islamic militants of orchestrating the shooting and bombing attack on Bhutto and said she died from the force of the blast and not a gunshot wound. But many, questioned that account, and Bhutto's party has demanded a United Nations probe into her murder.
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Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world
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Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world
Pakistan Wrap - Musharraf escapes assasination
TAPE: EF03/1151 IN_TIME: 01:07:47 DURATION: 3:58 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Rawalpindi, Islamabad - 25 Dec 2003 SHOTLIST: APTN Rawalpini 1. Wide of petrol station, scene of assassination attempt on Pakistani president, General Pervez Musharraf, policeman approaching camera to move it away 2. Various of ambulances at the scene 3. Wide of Pakistani soldiers at petrol station 4. Forklift truck moving a smashed car from Musharraf's convoy away from petrol station 5. Various of Pakistani soldiers walking through petrol station 6. Fire truck approaching petrol station PTV Rawalpini 7. Various of damaged petrol station 8. Damage to road 9. Bundle of rags, possibly body part, at scene - pan to damaged police car 10. Damaged cars APTN Rawalpini 11. Large crowd of people watching 12. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Voxpop, Injured Policeman (refused to give name): "We had blocked off the road (for Musharraf's motorcade to pass) and a Suzuki van came up. He tried to enter the convoy. Then, all of a sudden, there was a blast." 13. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Vox Pop, Witness (no name given): "When we arrived at this junction we saw the dead bodies of the men who were working at the petrol pumps. Some of the dead were civilians and one was an SHO (Station House Officer, policeman) from Rawat (30 kilometres (20 miles) from Islamabad). He died on the spot. His car was completely wrecked. I personally put the dead bodies into a car to be taken away. It was a very serious situation. All of a sudden the blast just happened, then eleven people died in front of me." 14. Policeman with leg injured from blast walking towards camera through crowd 15. Exterior of Rawalpindi District Headquarters hospital APTN Rawalpini 16. Injured person being wheeled through hospital corridor on stretcher 17. Various of injured being tended to in hospital PTV Islamabad 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan: "The incident occurred when we were returning from the conference, and when we reached the bridge where there was a bomb explosion a few days back, there was a vehicle that approached me, my car. A policeman stopped it, it exploded. I saw it. The only thing happened was we went faster, but in the process in front of us there was another bomb that blasted, again nothing happened to us and we went through the debris, we stopped safe and secure." 19. Mid shot of Musharraf speaking 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan: "I think suicide bombers, total security against suicide bombers cannot be guaranteed by any force. If you see events around the world you'll see events taking place with impunity. So while we need to tighten our security and take to task who has shown lapse, one should not make any jittery judgements considering anyone who has lapsed on security. We will take action when we find any lapses which we detect." 21. Mid shot of Musharraf speaking, zooms in STORYLINE: Two massive suicide bombs exploded on Thursday moments after Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf's motorcade passed, the second assassination attempt against him in 11 days, according to officials. The president's car was slightly damaged but he was unhurt. At least 14 people were killed, including the two attackers, and 46 were wounded. The blasts came just a day after Musharraf agreed to step down as army chief by the end of 2004. Musharraf appeared calm and unharmed in an interview on state-run television about seven hours after the attack, saying the attempt was the work of misguided "extremists." He said security would be tightened in the country and promised action if there had been any lapses, but the president warned that: "Total security against suicide bombers cannot be guaranteed by any force." Officials said two suicide attackers driving pickup trucks, each loaded with 20-30 kilograms (44-66 pounds) of explosives tried to ram the president's motorcade as it passed two petrol stations on a main road in Rawalpindi, a bustling city near the capital, Islamabad. The explosives on the trucks blew up during the attempt, with eyewitnesses reporting seeing body parts, shattered cars and broken glass at the scene. The attack prompted serious new concerns over Musharraf's security. The road where the attack occurred is one used nearly every day by Musharraf as he travels from his residence to his presidential offices and Rawalpindi was regarded, until recently, as one of the most secure cities in the country. Thursday's explosions happened just a few hundred meters (yards) from where would-be assassins detonated a huge bomb on December 14 that also missed the president narrowly - and just 10 days ahead of a summit of South Asian leaders to be held in Islamabad. In the December attack Musharraf was apparently saved by high-tech jamming devices in his motorcade that delayed the detonation long enough for him to pass by safely. Militant Islamic groups, angry at the president's decision to turn against the Taliban two years ago and join the US-led war on terror, were suspected, though no major arrests have been made. Officials have speculated that al-Qaida might have had a hand in the attack, which used a sophisticated bomb hidden in five places on a bridge. Shortly after the attack, frantic family members of those killed and injured gathered outside nearby Rawalpindi Central Hospital, many in tears. "I saw three people very badly injured," said Sajid Bashir, 25, an employee at one of the petrol stations where the attack occurred. "It was chaos."
India Pakistan Wrap - WRAP Gilani reax, India wants militants handed over, Pakistan FM
NAME: IND PAKWRAP 20081202I TAPE: EF08/1212 IN_TIME: 11:25:26:14 DURATION: 00:03:32:13 SOURCES: AP/TV Today/PTV DATELINE: Various - 2 Dec 2008/ File RESTRICTIONS: Part India/ Part Pakistan SHOTLIST Mumbai - November 29, 2008 TV Today - No Access India 1. Various of a section of the Taj Mahal hotel on fire; smoke coming out New Delhi - December 2, 2008 TV Today - No Access India 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pranab Mukherjee, Indian Foreign minister: "Now we have, in our demarche, asked the handover, arrest and handover of those persons who are settled in Pakistan, who are guilty of Indian law. Therefore there is a list of about 20 persons, lists are sometimes altered and this exercise is going on as we have renewed it on our demarche and we will await the response from Pakistan." New Delhi - November 26, 2008 AP Television 3. Various of Mukherjee and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi posing for pictures and shaking hands Islamabad - 2 December 2008 PTV - No access Pakistan 4. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistani Foreign Minister: "The government of Pakistan has offered a joint investigating mechanism and joint commission to India so that we are ready to collectively reach the bottom of this issue and are ready to compose such a team which can help you. Pakistan wants good relations with India. Our composite dialogue was progressing well, and we understand that it is in the interest of both of our countries to keep this bilateral engagement constructive and continue it." Islamabad - 2 December 2008 AP Television 5. Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Nawaz Sharif, Chairman of Pakistan Muslim League, and other participants at national security conference 6. Wide pan of meeting 7. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan Prime Minister: "The leadership of Pakistan has united and is today debating this national issue and I believe that it would be a message for the whole world." 8. Wide of meeting Mumbai - November 30, 2008 TV Today - No Access India 9. Various interiors of Taj Mahal hotel after the attacks New Delhi - December 2, 2008 TV Today - No Access India 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Admiral Suresh Mehta, Indian Navy Chief: "The point is that it is a serious issue, a serious matter, the issue of security. There is shall we say a systemic failure and it needs to be taken stock of. So there is no doubt about it - the response from the government is going to be quite adequate." Mumbai - November 30, 2008 TV Today - No Access India 11. Various of damage to glass door in Taj Mahal hotel after the attacks New Delhi - December 2, 2008 AP Television 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sheela Bhat, editor of Rediff.com: "India's response will be very strong, very firm - but I don't see the idea of war popular within the government because there is an elected government in Pakistan." New Delhi - December 2, 2008 AP Television 13. Various of newspaper headlines about relations between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai attacks STORYLINE: Although public pressure has grown for India to take action after suspected Pakistani militants rampaged through Mumbai last week, the two nuclear-armed rivals say they are working to keep tensions in check. Both sides seem to be hoping that US diplomacy - expected to intensify with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's arrival in India on Wednesday - will defuse the burgeoning crisis. India has blamed the attacks, which killed 172 people and paralysed India's financial capital, on the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. It called on Islamabad to take strong action against those responsible and to hand over suspected militants believed living in Pakistan. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi offered on Tuesday to establish a joint investigation with India and said the government wanted to continue a painstaking peace process begun in 2004. Meanwhile a list of about 20 people, including India's most-wanted man, was submitted to Pakistan's high commissioner to India on Monday night, said India's Foreign Minister, Pranab Mukherjee. Among those sought by India is fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, a powerful gangster, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings. Also included is Masood Azhar, a terror suspect freed from an Indian prison in exchange for the release of hostages aboard an Indian Airlines aircraft hijacked on Christmas Day 1999. In the past, Pakistan has denied harbouring these men. However, Pakistan said it would consider India's request and respond after receiving the list. India has already demanded Pakistan take "strong action" against those responsible for the attacks, and the US has pressured Islamabad to co-operate in the investigation. The diplomatic wrangling comes as the government faces widespread accusations of security and intelligence failures in their handling of the attacks. Indian officials continued to interrogate the only surviving attacker, Ajmal Qasab, who reportedly told police that he and the other nine gunmen had trained for months in camps in Pakistan operated by the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. India's foreign intelligence agency received information as recently as September that Pakistan-based militants were plotting attacks against Mumbai targets, according to a government intelligence official familiar with the matter. The information was then relayed to domestic security authorities, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorised to talk publicly about the details. But it's unclear what, if anything, the government did with the intelligence after that. The famous Taj Mahal hotel, scene of much of the bloodshed, had tightened its security with metal detectors and other measures in the weeks before the attacks, after being warned of a possible threat. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has promised to strengthen maritime and air security and look into creating a new federal investigative agency, met on Tuesday with top security aides to review any government lapses. Admiral Suresh Mehta, the Indian Navy Chief admitted on Tuesday that there had been a "systemic failure" but said that the response from the government "is going to be quite adequate." Also on Tuesday a senior US official said that they had warned India before last week's brutal attacks that militants appeared to be plotting a mostly waterborne assault on Mumbai. The official would not elaborate on the timing or details of the US warning to Indian counterparts. The official confirmed, though, that Washington passed on information it had about a possible attacks, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of intelligence information.
Karachi, Pakistan
Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world
Pakistan Video 2 - CCTV images of bomb truck, minister, more comments
NAME: PAK VIDEO 2 20080921I TAPE: EF08/0961 IN_TIME: 11:14:38:03 DURATION: 00:03:32:03 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Islamabad - 21 Sep 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik arriving at news conference 2. Cutaway cameraman 3. All present praying for blast victims 4. Pan from mid of praying reporter to Malik 5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu/English): Rehman Malik, Interior Ministry Chief: "Total 53 of our Pakistani brothers and guests of the hotel, 53 is the death toll at this time. And 266 are wounded." 6. Wide of news conference 7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu): Rehman Malik, Interior Ministry Chief: "This explosion is the biggest in Pakistan's history of attacks, whether whether improvised or suicidal missions. According to the preliminary report by explosives experts, the total quantity or volume of explosives used was 600 kilograms. The diameter of the crater is 59 feet and it's depth is 24 feet." 8. Wide of news conference 9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu): Rehman Malik, Interior Ministry Chief: "This was high quality explosive. Before this, in previous cases, they used potassium chloride which is made from fertiliser, but this was military grade explosive, of a high quality." 10. Wide of reporters ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 11. Closed Circuit TV footage of dump truck approaching metal barrier at hotel driveway 12. CCTV footage of small explosion occurs at truck as security officers run away 13. CCTV footage of truck in flames, what appears to be another small blast, man trying to extinguish flames 14. Wide of onlookers outside Marriot hotel 15. Mid of men looking on 16. Damaged sign on roof of hotel 17. Low angle shot of armed paramilitary troops and razor wire STORYLINE: Pakistan's Interior Ministry on Sunday released CCTV footage of Saturday's attack at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital which killed 53 and injured over 250. At the interior ministry news conference, reporters viewed footage from a hotel surveillance camera showing a heavy truck turning left into the gate at speed, ramming a metal barrier and coming to a halt about 60 feet (18 metres) away from the hotel. Guards nervously came forward to look, then scattered after an initial small explosion. Several guards tried repeatedly to douse flames spreading through the cab of the truck as traffic continued to pass on the road behind. There was no sign of movement in the truck and the footage played didn't show the final blast. Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told a news conference in Islamabad that the death toll stood at 53 and that 266 people had been reported injured. Malik said a second American was confirmed dead as well as one Vietnamese citizen and the Czech ambassador. He said the blast was the biggest of its type in Pakistan's history, in terms of amount of explosives used and the crater that it caused. "According to the preliminary report by explosives experts, the total quantity or volume of explosives used was 600 kilograms (1,300 pounds) The diameter of the crater is 59 feet (18 metres) and it's depth is 24 feet (7.3 metres)," Malik said. He added that the explosives used were of high quality, military-grade material. Officials said at least 21 foreigners were among the wounded, including Britons, Germans, Americans and several people from the Middle East. Malik said it was unclear who was behind the attack. But authorities had received intelligence there might be militant activity linked to President Asif Ali Zardari's address to Parliament and security had been tightened, he said. Meanwhile rescue teams searched the blackened hotel room by room on Sunday. But the temperatures remained high, and fires were still being put out in some parts. Officials said the main building could still collapse. The owner of the hotel accused security forces of a serious lapse in allowing a dump truck to approach the hotel unchallenged and not shooting the driver before he could trigger the explosives. Officials said vehicles carrying construction materials are allowed to move after sunset, meaning the sight of a dump truck near the government quarters might not have aroused suspicion. The bomb went off close to 8 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Saturday, when the restaurants inside would have been packed with Muslim diners breaking their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan. The targeting of the American hotel chain came at a time of growing anger in the Muslim nation over a wave of cross-border strikes on militant bases in Pakistan by US forces in Afghanistan.
Karachi, Pakistan
Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.the most populous city in Pakistan sixth most populous city proper in the world and the 8th most populous metropolitan city in the world