Pak SC pulls up govt in Sethi arrest case
The Pakistan supreme court today pulled up the Nawaz Sharif government for keeping Friday Times editor Najam Sethi in detention without filing any official complaint against him even as the authorities produced him before the special anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi which remanded him to seven-day police custody.

Suharto to be wiped off Indonesian banknotes
Indonesia will issue new 50,000 rupiah ($6.33) banknotes today without the face of reviled former president Suharto.

Top Russian reformer to liaise with IMF
Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed a top reformer as his special envoy for negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other credit organisations

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