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Drumbeat: Ad Buzzaar
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Monday, May 25, 1998
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Christians rally to protest Pak laws
Thousands of Christians from all over Punjab converged at the Wagha check post yesterday shouting anti-Pakistan slogans and demanding the withdrawal of all blasphemy laws. The priests and nuns called upon the US, Canada, the UK and other European countries to ask Pakistan to lift the black laws under which the minorities are being denied a just trial.
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Sushma rules out support to LTTE
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj reiterated yesterday that her government would offer no support to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which is waging a separatist war in Sri Lanka. It fully supports the efforts of President Chandrika Kumaratunga to end the conflict, she said.
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EU won't go with US on curbs against India
United States-led calls for sanctions on India over its nuclear tests will be snubbed by the European Union today, despite growing concern about the threat they pose to the security and stability of the sub-continent. In a statement to be adopted by foreign ministers from the EU's 15 member states at their monthly meeting, the bloc will condemn the tests as a "grave threat to international peace and security," call for their immediate cessation and urge India to sign the CTBT, diplomats said.
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Pak launches isolate-India campaign
Pakistan has launched a major diplomatic campaign despatching envoys to selected Western capitals in a bid to whip up stiffer economic response from these nations to India's nuclear tests as well as to project any retaliation as a defensive reaction. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has despatched special envoys to United States, Japan, Britain, Germany and France.
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