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Declaring women s rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded stanley cup its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression -- a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country s president.Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa s first freely elected female head of state, shared the $1.5 million with compatriot Leymah Gbowee, who led a sex strike among her efforts against Liberia s civil war, and Arab activist Tawakul Karman, who hailed the award as a victory for democracy in Yemen. We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society, Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told reporters. Johnson-Sirleaf, 72 and once dubbed the Iron Lady by opponents, is running for a second term in an election on Tuesday where she faces criticism for not having done enough to heal the divisions of years of civil war. Jagland dismissed suggestions the award might seem to be meddling in the vote.But the former Norwegian prime minister said that honouring Yemen s protesters, who unlike those in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya are still battling to get rid of their ruler, sent a signal from Oslo th stanley cup at President Ali Abdullah Saleh, long a US ally, and other Arab autocrats should now step down. It is a message that the era of Arab dictators was over, Karman told Reuters in Sanaa, declaring her prize a victory for Y stanley cup emen and for all of the upri Wpro Maoists vandalise monarch s statue
Pakistan on Friday said the fresh dossier on the Mumbai attacks which it had received from India will be handed over to the interior ministry for examination. HT Image A statement from the Foreign Office spokesman said some material pertaining to the terrorist attack in Mumbai was handed over to Pakistan s High Commissioner Shahid Malik by Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao during a meeting in New Delhi on stanley cup Friday. Arrangements are being made for the receipt of the material here. Once received, the material will be forwardedto the interior ministry for examination, the statement said. Meanwhile af1 , Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told reporters in his hometown of Multan this afternoon thatPakistan will examine the fresh Indian dossier as and when it reaches the country. Our legal experts will examine the new Indian dossier to see whether it is legally tenable, he said when he askedto comment on the fr stanley cup esh dossier handed over to Pakistan s High Commissioner. Dossiers received earlier from India had no significant evidence against outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, but any evidence in the fresh dossier will be examined by Pakistan, he said. Diplomatic sources told PTI that the fresh dossier contained answers to several questions raised by the Pakistani side with regard to the Mumbai attacks and evidence linking Saeed to the assault. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakist