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Everyone, says someone important in this searing document of our times, is playing politics in the Kashmir Valley. In a milieu of all-pervasive politics, thank the Lord for a creative voice that can look into the burning Valley with dispassionate compassion.

Lamhaa is one of those docu-dramas that could have easily toppled into the territory of over-statement and over-simplified politics. And boy, haven't we seen that happen in very successful political cinema in recent times?!

Government ministers joined in Sunday's nationwide day of public service in honor of Nelson Mandela's 92nd birthday, the South African government has said.

It was reported that Sunday was the first Mandela Day in South African, which is highlighted by everyone in the country putting in 67 minutes of community service.

Ministers worked in hospitals, distributed identification cards to rural residents and fixed up school buildings, said BuaNews, the South African government news service.

Hear this. A small-time Pakistani reporter dreams of a bite from Big Apple. So what does he do? He sends George Bush a tape with an Osama lookalike threatening mayhem in the US.

Pledging to strengthen strained relations between the two countries, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan on Sunday.

The New York Times has reported that in meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Clinton stressed the importance of Pakistan's support in defeating the Taliban in the 9-year-old Afghanistan war.

Authorities have said that emergency workers on Sunday were trying to rescue more than 300 people trapped by floodwaters that inundated southwest China.

There were no injuries reports.

Xinhua has reported that about 250 people who had been trapped were rescued by Sunday morning from the fast-rising waters that forced the evacuation of 12,300 others, destroyed 128 houses and caused $2 million in property damage in Chongqing Municipality's Tongnan County.