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WASHINGTON MARCH 22 . The United States has asked Pakistan to hand over to India the 20 terrorists sought by New Delhi or try and convict them in Pakistan. ``We have asked the Pakistanis to hand these terrorists over to India or try them in their own country and convict them. That is very important. That will lead to a reduction in tensions,'' the Director (in-charge) of South Asia at President Bush's National Security Council, Harry Thomas, told the Indian community leaders here. ``We will work hard at it,'' Mr. Thomas told members of the National Federation of Indian-American Associations, the Association of Indians in America, the Indian American Forum for Political Education and the Overseas Friends of Bharatiya Janata Party, during a special briefing at the Executive Office Building of the White House here. Pointing out how the terrorist attacks on the State Legislature in Jammu and Kashmir and the Parliament changed the whole Indo-Pakistan situation, Mr. Thomas said, ``Our highest priority right now is to keep India and Pakistan from going to war. A war is unthinkable. It will be devastating for the global campaign against terrorism.'' ``We see the attacks on the Indian Parliament and its leadership as not only heinous and barbarous, but as something that would undermine the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, who has turned against the `jehadis','' he said.
Omar ordered to stand trial
KARACHI MARCH 22. The British-born militant, Sheikh Omar, was today formally charged with kidnap and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and ordered to stand trial in a Pakistan court. '`The formal trial will commence on March 29,'' the chief prosecutor, Raja Qureshi, told reporters, after submitting to the anti-terrorism court an interim chargesheet listing Omar as the prime accused in the abduction and murder case. The submission of the chargesheet amounts to a formal charging. Another 10 persons are listed as co-accused, including three men, who allegedly sent e-mail containing death threats against Pearl and photos of him in captivity. The seven other co-accused remain at large.
Earlier Omar, was brought to a Pakistani court under heavy police guard, two days before
At least 500 police officers surrounded the court building as others with high-powered weapons surveyed the scene from roof-tops. Paramilitary rangers were also out in force.
Police blocked off the usually busy roads around the court and the gate to the building with some two dozen vans.
``It's a high-profile case and we have stepped up security because of the incidents of terrorism in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad over the past two weeks,'' a senior police officer said.
Omar was whisked into the compound in an armoured police truck and the media was kept well away from the court. — PTI, Reuters
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