Pakistan Moves Troops Amid Tension With India
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By RICHARD A. OPPEL JR. and SALMAN MASOOD
Published: December 26, 2008
"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has begun moving some troops away from its western border with Afghanistan and has stopped soldiers from going on leave amid rising tensions with India, Pakistani officials said Friday.
Two of the officials said the troops were headed to the country’s border with India in the east.
The move is likely to frustrate the United States, which has been pressing Pakistan to battle militants in its lawless northwest territories and working hard to cool tempers in the two nuclear-armed countries, following terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, last month. Indian officials have blamed a Pakistani militant group for the attacks."
More Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men: (from BBC News)
"Zimbabwe child malnutrition rises
Zimbabwe's children and their parents pick up single corn kernels spilled on the road side by trucks ferrying maize corn. Photo: 14 December 2008
Some five million Zimbabwean rely on food aid, the aid agency says
Acute child malnutrition in parts of Zimbabwe has increased by almost two-thirds compared with last year, aid agency Save the Children says.
In a new report, the UK-based agency said "some children are wasting away from lack of food".
It said there was a shortage of 18,000 tonnes of food needed for January, and urged world donors to increase aid.
The agency said innocent Zimbabweans should not suffer because of a political crisis out of their control."
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