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ABloodyolidaYnPakistanI AS TWEEK, SUNNI AN D SHIA

I Muslims raveled oElslamabad's Bari Imamshrine o commemorate lrelife of Shah Abdul LatifKazmi, a 17th century Sufisaint-and rebuke he deadlYsectarianism edevilingPakistan. nstead, FridaY'sgathering became a bloodbath*her't a terrorist blew himselfuo in a tent fuIl of Shiacelebrants, illing at east 20.

President PewezMusharraf esPonded with acall to oppose anYone ryingto incite hatredl' But sectarianviolence has worsened underhis reign. Musharraf has beenreluctant o act againstmilitant groups, argelY oavoid alienating hefundamentalist Partieskeeping his secular Political

opposition at baY. Thegovernment does notrecognize he threathomegrown errorists Poseto Pakistans tabilitYj'saYsSaminaAhmed ftheBrussels-based coInternational Crisis GrouP'

A week earlier, 8 clerics nLahore ad signed a fatwacondemning suicide bombingsasainst Muslims. But manyhard-line Sunni militants,whom authorities suspect are

behind he bombing, do notconsider Shiites, Sufisandmoderate Sunnis real"Muslims at all. "There s noplace n Islam or such actsj'insists Mufti Munibur Rehman,who signed he fatwa. SadlY,there seems o be a Place orthem in Pakistan. BY Philhhriskie and Ghulam Hasnain

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tast monttr, Uzbek President unknown ocationsand

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arrested human-rights other activists havebeen ha-

campaigners cross he rassed or arrestedn the

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alerted nternationalhuman-rights onitorsthat the government mightno t be telling he whole

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o"ttno"o an nternational Wiinquiry, he governmentun.*"r"d with slander charges Kashkadaryinsk

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that could mean up to five re$ons' Karimov'sovern-

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favorites performed by he Bonxies, erhaps he only rock band

powered by a hydrogen uel cell.The electricity hat amplified helr

guitars and keyboard ame rom a hybridwind-into-hydrogen ystem hat is part of

the world's irst community-ownedhydrogen roduction lant, built on thisisland of 700 inhabitants. Despite all thehype around he hydrogen conomy, here

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family see him, or even send gve"'says OlegPanftlov

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.n"ri l"O clean electrici{ to the island's ndustrial estate' Surplus

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hydrogen's pplications eyond powering nd heattng nesmall

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