Events in Pictures (Sub Continent)

**sheem** · 01-11-2009, 10:32 PM

Men busy preparing quilts ahead of winter season, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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An Indian Construction worker lays building material at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Swimming Pool Complex Stadium in New Delhi , ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The four-yearly Commonwealth Games, featuring 71 teams from Commonwealth countries, are due to be held in the Indian capital

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A former Sri Lankan child soldier leans against a wall with a poster showing a child soldier in a classroom at a government rehabilitation center in the village of Ambepussa, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of capital Colombo, Sri Lanka. About 570 children are among an estimated 10,000 former rebels sent to rehabilitation centers after the 25-year war for a separate Tamil state ended in May. Tamils are an ethnic minority in Sri Lanka, an island country of 21 million people off the coast of India.

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People appreciating Hassan Saleem's photography exhibition at Al Hamra Art Gallery, Lahore.

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University students participate in a protest against the arrest and alleged torture of a journalist F.M.Masum by the Rapid Action Battalion, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Masum, who works for an English newspaper the New Age, was arrested by the RAB on Oct. 22, according to news reports. Banners read ‘protest against torture on journalist,’ ‘demand proper punishment for those responsible for the incident’.

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A monkey eating corn at Lahore Zoo.

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An Italian soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (IASF) asks an Afghan woman to stay on her turn at a local hospital, where U.S. medic soldiers give medicine for Afghan female patients at a local hospital in Gozara district of Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Kashmiri boats known as shikaras form the number 350, representing what scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as they float in formation on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Indian–Administered Kashmir to kick off the International Day of Climate Action about global warming. Similar stunts actions are planned in some 4,000 locations in more than 170 countries across the globe to mark 50 days until world leaders meet in Copenhagen to thrash out a new climate change treaty.

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Dancers from the eastern Indian state of Orissa perform during India Fashion Week in New Delhi

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A Pakistani man rides on his bicycle towards a market. The government has been urged to ensure supplies reach civilians who can not escape intensified fighting in South Waziristan

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Pakistani soldiers fire mortars towards Taliban militant positions at the Sherwangi Tor village in South Waziristan

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The camel festival held annually in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India attracts thousands of livestock dealers and tens of thousands of camels, horses, and cattle.