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	Jacobabad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacobabad (Urdu: جیکب آباد) is a city in the Jacobabad District, Sindh, Pakistan.
		Jacobabad is said to be the hottest city in Pakistan.
		Jacobabad was one of three Pakistani bases used by U.S. and allied forces to support the Operation Enduring Freedom campaign in Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacobabad (407 words)

	Jacobabad
		The commercial airport at Jacobabad, about 300 miles north of Karachi and 300 miles southeast of Kandahar, is located on the border between Sindh and Baluchistan provinces.
		Jacobabad was the scene of several protests by opponents of the US airstrikes on Afghanistan.
		Jacobabad is the third largest airport in the country in terms of area.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/jacobabad.htm (636 words)

	Jacobabad Travel Hotels & Historical Information
		Jacobabad is famous for scrorching heat during the summer season, when temprature reaches upto 52 degrees centigrades.
		Jacobabad is also famous for it very little explored Cattle Show and Worlds oldes camel fighting competition both held during the Month of February every year.
		Jacobabad is crossed by the Pakistan Western Railway and many main roads of the province.
	www.travel-culture.com /pakistan/jacobabad.shtml (1016 words)

	Jacobabad News
		JACOBABAD: Sindh Minister for Tourism and Culture Abdul Rauf Siddiqi has said the coastal areas of Karachi would be developed by foreign companies and the local population would be shifted to alternative...
		JACOBABAD: As the government continued to justify its action in Bajaur Agency, protests at the killing of civilians in the bombing of a Madrassa grew stronger across the country on Friday.
		JACOBABAD: Five people were killed and 10 others injured in an exchange of fire between two groups of the Jatoi tribe in the Chaman Wahi village in the Shikarpur district on Thursday.
	www.topix.net /pk/jacobabad (703 words)

	Guardian \| Anti-US protests engulf Pakistani town
		Jacobabad, a city of about 200,000, was sealed off to outsiders.
		They identified one of the two airbases as Jacobabad, which is located in a largely desolate tribal belt near the Indus river where support for the extremist Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (JUI) party is strong.
		The crowd in Jacobabad, which JUI leaders said numbered in the thousands, had gathered outside a hotel in the central part of the city and begun moving toward the airbase.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4277036-108952,00.html (532 words)

	Worldandnation: Pakistanis target bases U.S. may use
		Jacobabad, a city of about 200,000, was sealed off.
		In a related demonstration several miles outside Jacobabad, one demonstrator was killed and 10 were injured, authorities and protest leaders said.
		The trouble in downtown Jacobabad started when a crowd that protest leaders said numbered in the thousands gathered outside a hotel and began marching toward the air base.
	www.sptimes.com /News/101501/Worldandnation/Pakistanis_target_bas.shtml (769 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jacobabad, Sukkur --- TV reporter Mukesh Rupeta and his cameraman Sanjay Kumar were produced in the court of a civil judge here on Thursday, three months after they had been detained for filming the Jacobabad airbase, designated as a sensitive area.
		The two had been handed over on Wednesday to the Jacobabad Airport police station and a case was registered against them under sections 471, 465 and 419 of the PPC and section 3-A of the Official Secrets Act.
		Mr Rupeta was moved by police to the jail ward of the civil hospital in Jacobabad.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=47972 (344 words)

	JI Media News: JI holds sit-in despite tight security in Jacobabad
		Jacobabad city was almost besieged from all sides, to stop the entry of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) workers from other parts of the country.
		Entire Jacobabad city was deserted as the people and the traders had shut their trade and businesses fearing unrest.
		At least one dozen-check posts were setup around Jacobabad where armed police and rangers were present with heavy machineguns to block the entry of the JI workers.
	www.jamaat.org /news/news01/pr102301.html (805 words)

	Pakistani Hindus victims of increasing intolerance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hari Ram Kishorilal, a former MPA said 'I belong to Mirpurkhas and it is difficult for the people of Jacobabad to locate me in case they need the to solve their problems as the entire country is our constituency.
		In 1990, he bacame president of the Jacobabad PPP and in 1994 became its district chief.
		Ashok Kumar told the BBC his daughter was already engaged to a Hindu and denied reports she had run off with the Muslim man, who is said to have a shop in the area where the Hindu family lives.
	www.hvk.org /articles/1103/27.html (4864 words)

	IDSnews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The desert city is the home to one of two Pakistani air bases made available to U.S. forces to support the air campaign against Osama bin Laden and his Afghanistan-based terror network.
		The trouble in downtown Jacobabad started when a crowd that protest leaders from the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party said numbered in the thousands gathered outside a hotel and began marching toward the air base.
		Heavily armed police who had been patrolling Jacobabad's streets for days first warned them to stop, then fired tear gas shells into the crowd and bullets into the air.
	www.idsnews.com /news/story.php?id=6346 (808 words)

	US planes land at Jacobabad: Four airfields cleared for operation -DAWN - Top Stories; October 11, 2001
		Security has also been beefed up in the city, as Jacobabad is an important airport of Sindh which has been allowed to be used by the US planes due to its geographical situation for carrying out strikes against Afghan cities located in the north.
		Jacobabad is predominantly a tribal area and there is a large following of Jamiat Ulema Islam, which is strongly opposed to US policies vis-a-vis Afghanistan.
		Officials at Jacobabad said the Pakistan army had significantly boosted its presence in the city in recent days, with checkpoints set up on the roads leading to the airport.
	www.dawn.com /2001/10/11/top2.htm (793 words)

	Boston.com / War on Terror / Latest News Wire Updates
		Monday's moves were aimed at defusing a rally called for Tuesday at Pakistan's air base at the southern city Jacobabad.
		Police in Sindh province, where Jacobabad is located, have arrested at least 1,100 supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami since Sunday, party spokesman Sarfrez Ahmed said in Karachi.
		Jacobabad saw running street battles between Islamic militants and police on Oct. 14, with at least one protester killed as mobs fought to reach the air base.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/22/attacks_pakistan.htm (504 words)

	JI Media News: JI ameer addresses Jacobabad media men on phone
		The central information department of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan has made special arrangements in collaboration with the Jacobabad press club for this telephonic talk which was attended about 140 representative d foreign media covering the JI sit-in in Jacobabad.
		President Jacobabad Press Club Pervez Akhtar Abro greeted the JI ameer before his talk and expressed over whelming thanks and jubilation on the address of Qazi Sahib to the media men on this important occasion.
		He eulogized the citizen of Jacobabad and JI workers in the city who braved all the odds and managed to stage a peaceful sit-in the city.
	www.jamaat.org /news/news01/pr102301a.html (538 words)

	Guardian \| Police fire at mob moving on Pakistan air base
		One person was shot dead yesterday and at least 12 were injured when Pakistani police opened fire on a crowd of between 4,000 and 5,000 demonstrators trying to storm a heavily protected airbase secretly being used by American forces.
		The police tried to pre-empt a violent demonstration by erecting roadblocks on all entry points to Jacobabad and installing machine gun posts on the tops of houses near by.
		In normal times Jacobabad is little more than a very hot one-donkey town, where tribal traditions are strong and women - when they do appear on the streets, which is not often - cover themselves completely with a burqa.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4277246-108952,00.html (571 words)

	JACOBABAD: Jacobabad bifurcation plan on the cards -DAWN - Local; 19 November, 2004
		JACOBABAD, Nov 18: The Federal Minister for Local Bodies, Justice (rtd) Abdul Razzaq Thaheem, has said that the Sindh chief minister will soon announce the bifurcation of the district.
		Talking to newsmen at the press club here on Thursday, he said that circumstances warranted that President Gen Musharraf should continue to wear army uniform because of war on extremism in the country demanded it.
		The minister presented a cheque of Rs5,000 for the club while the DCO announced a donation of Rs10,000 for the club.
	www.dawn.com /2004/11/19/local40.htm (237 words)

	ISN Security Watch - US troops vacate last Pakistani air base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Jacobabad airbase, which is located about 480 kilometers north of Karachi and about 480 kilometers southeast of the Afghan city of Kandahar, was one of four Pakistani bases used by US and allied forces to support the “Operation Enduring Freedom” campaign in Afghanistan.
		He said a couple of US Marines could stay behind until the final transfers have been made, but that the facility was now under the control of the Pakistani Air Force.
		In early December 2001, Pakistan agreed to a US request for a long-term presence at Jacobabad, and permitted US Marines to renovate the base and build a concrete hangar for 50 large planes and air-conditioned barracks for troops.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=10088 (526 words)

	DNA - World - Why the filming of Jacobabad air base is a crime - Daily News & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shehbaz air base in Jacobabad is the third largest airport in the country in terms of area.
		The Jacobabad airport is one of the few airports in Pakistan that can be used jointly for military as well as commercial flight operations.
		A wall surrounding the air base was raised by four feet, and air-conditioned barracks was built for the Allied troops since Jacobabad is the hottest city of Pakistan.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1037406 (533 words)

	CNN.com - Pakistan arrests dozens of Islamic activists - October 23, 2001
		JACOBABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani police have arrested scores of Islamic activists in a bid to block an anti-U.S. protest in Jacobabad.
		Blockades and sandbag bunkers were erected around the Jacobabad, most shops were closed and many streets were deserted except for heavily armed patrols of police, army and paramilitary troops, the Associated Press reported.
		But police in Jacobabad said they have only arrested 84 members of JI in connection with street battles that broke out on October 14, after protesters were stopped from reaching the air base.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/23/ret.pakistan.protest/index.html (690 words)

	.:: highlights
		The region around Jacobabad in Pakistan is a tough place to be a farmer.
		What they got were seeds for new strains of rice the Institute had bred to be more resilient in places such as Jacobabad.
		Jacobabad is Pakistan’s rice belt, “but our land is not very fertile,’’ Hussain says.
	www.fao.org /world/regional/rap/highlights_detail.asp?event_id=35224 (367 words)

	Central Asia, United States
		Air conditioning and barracks, and 40,000 metric tons of concrete (which means a bigger, stronger runway) suggests that the U.S. is settling in for a considerable period, and that the military personnel will not be restricted to pilots and flight crews.
		Jacobabad is one of the hottest places on earth, with summer temperatures soaring to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, and local says one of the few pleasures is watching the scorpions die of heat.)
		Not that the presence of the American air base at Jacobabad guarantees any kind of U.S. protection or involvement, and it may even help to cool the situation.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5613-1.cfm (884 words)

	Daily Excelsior....News Page
		Earlier a doctor in the civil hospital in Jacobabad where the wounded were brought told Deutsche Presse-Amentur DPA that one had died and two were in critical condition.
		The protestors have taken away body of one of the dead from the hospital by force and according to one report it is being kept at a point in the city centre, creating more tension in the town, which is already under fire.
		In Pakistan’s southern Jacobabad, one person was killed and 12 injured on Sunday when police fired in the air and used teargas against stone-throwing demonstrators protesting against the presence of US forces at the local airport, witnesses said.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01oct15/news.htm (6988 words)

	Jailed Pakistani Christian Evangelists Freed on Bail
		Local Christians said the two men, who were incarcerated in the Jacobabad District Jail, had been beaten severely by police authorities.
		Shortly after the arrests, Muslim leaders reportedly staged a demonstration along local roads, demanding that a Baptist pastor and the principal of a Christian high school also be charged and arrested over the incident.
		The demonstrators claimed that Pastor Yousaf Masih, 32, of Christ Church in Jacobabad had been involved in the distribution effort and that Principal Bruener Newton, 34, of Victor Public Secondary School, supported it.
	worthynews.com /news-features/compass-pakistani-evangelist-freed.html (702 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Police sources said a case had been registered against the two men for filming the Jacobabad airbase and forging identity cards and passports, under sections 464, 465, 471 and 3 of the PPC.
		Rupeta was shifted to the prison ward of the Jacobabad civil hospital.
		Rupeta told reporters after the court hearing that he wanted to film the planes flying from the Jacobabad air base after nearby residents reported hearing “strange sounds”.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/June06/23/07.htm (348 words)

	News
		He cited potable water, drainage, water supply and electricity schemes which had been in progress in Jacobabad district and bulk of Federal Government funds were provided to the district authorities for their completion in time.
		Regarding water supply problem of Jacobabad, the Acting President agreed that it was a very genuine problem of the people and it was being given top priority by the government.
		Later, the Acting President was briefed by DCO Jacobabad Shamsuddin Soomro about the pace of progress of development schemes of Jacobabad.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Jun05/18/01.htm (654 words)

	PAKISTAN: Media personnel continue to be tortured and assaulted
		Kumar, in a severe condition reappeared when the Army handed over the men to the Jacobabad police station. The two men were then produced before a civil court of Jacobabad before being remanded in prison.
		Kumar are now facing charges by the report of the Jacobabad station house officer, under sections 464/465/471 with regards to their filming of the Shehbaz air base and the production of false documents.
		Sarmad, a journalist of Sindh TV was seriously injured after he had issued reports on the illegal “Jirga” judicial system being instituted in Thul, Jacobabad; the office of Sindh TV was also ransacked with all equipment broken. The attack was done by people associated with Mr.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/1801 (1648 words)

	CNN.com - Pakistani police fire tear gas on protesters - October 24, 2001
		In Jacobabad, baton-wielding Pakistani police clashed with anti-U.S. Islamic fundamentalist demonstrators Tuesday.
		Some 200 militant Muslims managed to reach Jacobabad on Tuesday morning despite blockades and sandbag bunkers erected around the area.
		But police in Jacobabad said they only have arrested 84 Jamaat-e-Islami members in connection with a separate rally Sunday.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/24/ret.pakistan.protest.clash (680 words)

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		QUETTA 02.5 15.0 03 SIBBI 08.0 24.4 04 JACOBABAD 10.8 23.5 05.
		QUETTA M1.5 09.5 03 SIBBI 09.2 23.7 04 JACOBABAD 10.3 23.5 05.
		QUETTA M.0 16.5 03 SIBBI 08.6 26.0 04 JACOBABAD 11.2 25.0 05.
	www.met.gov.pk /real_time/CT.txt (384 words)

	Shia News \| Asia \| TJP takes out rally to protest against workers' arrest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rally was taken out under the leadership of TJP Divisional President Riaz Hussain-al-Hussaini from Imambargah Jacobabad.
		The speakers alleged that the deputy commissioner Jacobabad was planning to create law and order situation in the district in order to give air to sectarianism.
		They said in case their demands were not met, they would march to the Commissioner Office Larkana from Jacobabad and bring out protest rallies in the province from Tuesday.
	www.shianews.com /low/asia/news_id/0000466.php (237 words)

	Jacobabad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		JACOBABAD, June 19: Two people were shot dead in the Abdul Rasheed Brohi in the jurisdiction of Mouladad police station on Monday.
		The commercial airport at Jacobabad, about 300 miles north of Karachi and 300 miles southeast of Kandahar, is located on the border between...
		Jacobabad Real Estate - Situating crafts is fair, play this here and secure the art of alluring livelihoods,crafts and more.
	www.jacobabad.info (779 words)

	CBS News \| U.S. Military In Pakistan \| October 11, 2001 22:30:24
		Despite the official denial, Pakistani officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Americans were at the Jacobabad air base, 300 miles northeast of Karachi.
		At least 15 U.S. military aircraft, including C-130 transport planes, have landed at Jacobabad in the past two days, Pakistani officials and witnesses said.
		Security at Jacobabad, a city of about 200,000 people, has been increased in recent days.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/10/08/attack/main313910.shtml (1033 words)

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