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India favours joint probes with Pakistan 1/23/2007 11:08:41 PM NEW DELHI, JAN 23 India has forwarded a proposal to Pakistan seeking discussions on formation of a joint investigation team during a meeting of the two countries' Foreign Ministers next month in New Delhi. Pakistan introduced the idea of a joint body to investigate terrorist incidents in both countries last year and the Indian proposal is a follow-up of this idea, according to a Pakistani newspaper, Daily Times. Quoting unidentified sources, the publication said that the proposal came after Indian intelligence agencies arrested three Christians from Sindh allegedly planning a terrorist attack in India for the purpose of fuelling tensions between the two countries. The Pak publication quoted these sources as saying that the three Christians told Indian investigators that they planned to attack various churches, not on the instructions of Pakistan, but "another party" that wanted to derail the peace initiatives taken up by the two countries. The sources did not say who "another party" was. "Pakistan and India will have to decide not to accuse each other's intelligence agencies ...   READ MORE

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Indian-American Christians protest to Sonia Gandhi 1/23/2007 11:08:10 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, JAN 23 Yet another event just reported from Washington has confirmed, if any confirmation was needed, the stepped-up clout and significance of the Indian National Congress (INC) president, Sonia Gandhi. The Washington-based Federation of Indian-American Christian Organisations of North America has asked Sonia Gandhi to help stop legislation aimed at harassing Indian Christian workers in the north Indian State of Himachal Pradesh. In a letter to Sonia Gandhi, the federation strongly protests the Anti-Conversion Legislation passed by the Himachal Pradesh legislature on December 30, 2006. The federation's president, Dr Joseph Nidiry, writes: "We cannot understand the b...   READ MORE   'I never said militancy should end': Umar Hardliners throw APHC into confusion 1/23/2007 11:07:19 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, JAN. 23 Maulvi Umar Farooq, chairman of Kashmir's Hurriyat Conference, has triggered animated whispers by changing his stated position on militancy. If during his meeting in Islamabad last week with President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, he was reported to have opposed militancy, the Maulvi on Monday was left with no choice by to reiterate in Islamabad itself: "I never said militancy should end". The Hurriyat Conference chairman was reported to have told mediapersons at the end of a breakfast meeting with Pakistan's Minister for Kashmir Affairs, Tahir Iqbal, that while he had "never said that militancy should end", he had thought that it was time to support the political ...   READ MORE

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