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By Kamran Haider MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Kashmiris shunned hard-line Islamist parties in legislative assembly elections despite their prominent role in reconstruction after last October's earthquake, results on Wednesday showed . Out of 37 declared results in the 41-member assembly, a government backed party won 19, while the rest went to other political parties and independents. Despite problems of joblessness, high property prices, slow construction and water and...
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean ship has left port to conduct a maritime survey near islands at the center of a long-simmering territorial dispute with Japan, a South Korean official said on Monday. South Korea and Japan came close to a high-seas showdown in April when Tokyo said it planned a survey in waters near the desolate outcrop of islands, called Tokto in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, before the two cooled tension through diplomacy. The islands sit in rich fishing grounds,...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 struck the southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, the semi-official Fars news agency said on Thursday.The quake hit the Gulf island of Qeshm off Hormuzgan's south coast at 11:32 p.m. (2002 GMT) on Wednesday. The full extent of the damage was not immediately known."Rescue teams had been sent to the area," a spokesman for Hormuzgan's Red Crescent aid network told Reuters, adding that...
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and 20 wounded in Indian Kashmir on Monday when suspected Islamist militants threw a grenade at a crowded bus station, police said. The bus station in Jammu city, winter capital of the state, is located close to a camp where hundreds of pilgrims stay before a long journey to Amarnath, a Hindu shrine deep in the Himalayas. "I was about to board a bus when something exploded between some buses," said Manoj Kumar, who sustained...
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian Kashmir's chief Islamic priest and leading separatist on Friday dismissed talks between New Delhi and local political leaders as a useless "seminar" that failed to achieve anything. After two days of talks with mainly pro-Indian politicians -- separatists boycotted the round table -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday he had asked them to set up five panels to look at Kashmir's future, including one on "special status." But Mirwaiz Umar...
By Lindsay Beck BEIJING (Reuters) - Envoys of the Dalai Lama have raised demands on Tibetan autonomy and on the region's borders which China cannot accept, a Chinese government official said on Friday in comments that shed light on secretive talks. "During the process of making contacts, the Dalai Lama raised two big questions. One is Greater Tibet. One is high-level or real autonomy," Laba Pingcuo, secretary-general of the China Tibetology Research Center, told reporters. "The two...
By Lindsay Beck YICHANG, China (Reuters) - China's Three Gorges dam draws a step nearer to completion with the pouring of the last concrete on Saturday, but debate rages over the environmental and social consequences of the world's largest hydropower project. The dam, where workers are still toiling on the 2,309-meter (7,400-ft) long expanse of concrete spanning the Yangtze River, will generate 18 gigawatts of hydropower when it is complete and, it is hoped, tame floods on the...
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian soldiers shot dead a senior Kashmiri militant on Sunday who the army said was a bomb-making expert responsible for a series of explosions across the strife-torn Himalayan region. Mushtaq Bhat, a district commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, Kashmir's frontline militant group, was killed in an ambush by troops in Tral town, an army spokesman said. Tral is to the south of Srinagar, the summer capital of the disputed region which is claimed by both India and...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Kashmiri separatists will try to revive a faltering peace process on Wednesday in talks overshadowed by this week's massacre of Hindus and rising violence in the disputed region. Singh's meeting with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella alliance of two dozen political separatist groups, is the second since he took power in 2004. But Hurriyat comes to New Delhi this time with more than a little skepticism: they...
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic militants shot dead at least 22 Hindus in a village in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said. "We have a report of a massacre in which 22 people have been killed. The details are awaited," Vijay Bakaya, Kashmir's top bureaucrat, told Reuters. Police said all the dead were Hindus. Five people, among an unspecified number of wounded, were in critical condition, they said. The militants struck the remote village in Hindu-majority...
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The Persian Gulf is located in the western part of Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. It’s an addition to the Indian Ocean. The Gulf was the focal point of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, which each side assaulted the other’s oil tankers. In the year 1991, the Persian Gulf again was the background for what was known as the “Persian Gulf War” or otherwise known as the “Gulf War”, despite the fact that this disagreement was mainly a land conflict, when Iraq raided Kuwait...
Yunnanosaurus, meaning "Yunnan lizard," is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early to Mid Jurassic Period. This was perhaps one of the last living prosauropods of the time. It was discovered by Yang Zhongjian in the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China. The find consisted of twenty incomplete skeletons, including two skulls, and were excavated by Tsun Yi Wang. The type species, Y huangi, was named by C.C. Young in 1942, and created the family Yunnanosauridae based on the findings as a...
Lufengosaurus, meaning "Lufeng lizard", is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early and Middle Jurassic Period of what is now southwestern China. It was named by C. C. Young in 1941. The type species, L. huenei, was discovered in the Lower Lufeng Formation of the Yunnan Province in China. Young described and named a second species a few years later. This is one of the few prosauropod dinosaurs to survive from the Early Jurassic into the Middle Jurassic eras. Lufengosaurus was about 20...
The Marco Polo Sheep (Ovis ammon polii), is a subspecies of sheep, specifically the Argali. These sheep are found only in the Pamir Mountains in the border region of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Some of the protected areas where the species occurs include the Khunjerab National Park and Central Karakoram National Park in northern Pakistan and the Taxkongau Nature Reserve in southwestern China. The Marco Polo sheep is particularly known for its long horns. The longest horn...
The Himalayan Tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), is a large ungulate and a close relative to the wild goat. Its native habitat is in the rugged wooded hills and mountain slopes of the Himalaya from northern India to Tibet. They spend the summers grazing in high pastures, then come down the mountains and form mixed-sex herds in the winter. Feral Himalayan Tahrs are an introduced species in the South Island of New Zealand, with herds forming in the Southern Alps. The rarity of this mammal in its...
