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A Pakistani man reads an Urdu-language evening newspaper reporting the capture of a top Taliban commander at a news stand in Karachi, 16 Feb 2010
Pakistan Confirms Capture of Top Taliban Commander
Statement from Pakistan's military says 'detailed identification procedure' shows Baradar is among several people recently arrested
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| QUOTE OF THE DAY | |
 |  Even if I lost the sight in both of my eyes, I would continue in politics until Burma gained democracy.  — Tin Oo, NLD vice-chairman. |
UN Rights Envoy Meets Judges Who Jailed Activists |
| By BA KAUNG |
| In a sign of how seriously the Burmese junta is taking the UN envoy's calls for judicial reform, it arranged for him to meet with two of the country's most hardline judges on Monday. |
The Key to Decide |
| By KYAW ZWA MOE |
| Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds the key to whether her party decides to take part in the upcoming election. |
Another Strike in Rangoon, as Labor Unrest Continues |
| By BA KAUNG |
| Riot police have been deployed around a garment factory in Insein Township as workers demand a salary increase in line with pay hikes for public employees last month. |
Abbot's Opposition Stalls BGF Plan in Karen State |
| By WAI MOE |
| Approval by the Karen ceasefire group Democratic Karen Buddhist Army of the regime's plan for a border guard force has been stalled because of opposition from the DKBA's spiritual leader. |
Junta Woos Rohingyas |
| By LAWI WENG |
| A Junta-backed organization and a pro-junta political party are issuing temporary IDs to Rohingya to get their support in the 2010 election |
Malaysia Cracks Down on Migrants |
| By ALEX ELLGEE |
| Thirteen Burmese are among 116 foreigners arrested in western Malaysia in a police crackdown on illegal immigrants. |
Rights Group Takes Nyi Nyi Aung Case to UN |
| By LALIT K. JHA |
| The Washington-based organization Freedom Now has asked the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to investigate the case of the Burmese-American Nyi Nyi Aung, who was sentenced by a Rangoon court last week to three years imprisonment. |
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ခ်ိဳကုပ္ဒူးႀကီးကို စိတၱဇေဆးရံု ပို႔ေပးလိုက္ရ ေသာေၾကာင့္ ကိုယ္တုိင္ ရူးခ်င္ခ်င္ ျဖစ္သြားေသာ ဦးရုကၡစိုးႀကီးမွာ ခ်င္းမိုင္ ျပန္လာၿပီး ဒြိဳင္ဆူေထ့ ေတာင္ေပၚတြင္ ၅ ရက္တိတိ တရားထုိင္၍ စိတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းမႈကို ရွာေဖြလိုက္ရ ေလသည္။ 
“စစ္အစိုးရက ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ လူ႔ အခြင့္အေရးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ကိုေရာ၊ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ...” 
ယခုႏွစ္ တ႐ုတ္ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးပြဲေတာ္ ‘၀’ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ပန္ဆန္း၌က်င္းေသာ္လည္း ယခင္ႏွစ္မ်ားကဲ့သို႕ စည္ကားျခင္းသိပ္မ႐ွိ ေၾကာင္း တ႐ုတ္နယ္စပ္သတင္းရပ္ကြက္က ေျပာပါသည္။
တနလၤာေန႕မနက္ပိုင္း ကိုးကန္႕ေဒသ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေလာက္ကိုင္း၌ ဗံုးေပါက္ကြဲမႈျဖစ္ပြားရာ လူတေယာက္ေသဆံုးၿပီး ၁၀ ေယာက္ေက်ာ္ ဒဏ္ရာရသည္ဟု စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ ၁၄ ရက္ ႀတိဂံစစ္တိုင္း႐ုံး တပ္တြင္းအရာ႐ွိအစည္းအေ၀း၌ ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မင္းေအာင္လိႈင္ က‘အေမရိကန္ ကူလွ်င္ အပစ္ရပ္မ်ားအား ခ်က္ခ်င္း႐ွင္းပစ္ႏိုင္သည္’ - ဟု ေျပာေၾကာင္း စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
