Former Gitmo detainees held at Pakistani prison without charge News
Former Gitmo detainees held at Pakistani prison without charge

[JURIST] A leading Pakistan daily reported Friday that 40 detainees released from US detention at Guantanamo Bay have been held without charges at Rawalpindi's Adiala prison for the past eight months. Pakistani law currently allows the detention of "Indian agents" in the country for a full year before bringing them to trial. The Pakistani government has become increasingly suspicious of former Taliban fighters or jihadists that may be opposed to the rule of President Pervez Musharraf [official profile], who has already survived two al-Qaeda assassination attempts. Islamists view Musharraf's alliance with President Bush on the war on terror and the dropped support for the Taliban as a betrayal. The ex-Guantanamo prisoners have protested their imprisonment with hunger strikes and continuous shouting at prison guards [JURIST report]. Reuters has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

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