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| Prevailing Indo-Pak visa regime being eased | | Islamabad for deal favouring inadvertent border crossers | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 30
Islamabad has hit upon a new plan in support of inadvertent crossers along the Indo-Pakistan border. As most of these crossers, according to offical agencies, have been--and are likely to be--from Pakistan, Islamabad wants New Delhi to allow signiging of an agreement between the two sides for the speedy return of inadvertent border crossers during Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri's visit to India commencing February 20.
This issue, in fact, was discussed by Kasuri in Islamabad recently with his Indian counterpart, Pranab Mukherjee, during the latter's first official visit to Pakistan. Significantly, with the latest anouncement about the upcoming visit to India by Kasuri, reports were officially circulated in Islamabad about the 'important' development: Pakistan and India will, in all likelihood, sign agreements to ease the visa regime and for the spedy return of inadvertent border crossers next month.
Indeed, these reports added that the two countries would also sign agreements on reducing the risk from accidents relating to nuclear wea... | |
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| Tale of crime and punishment | | Pakistan is among top killers under law | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 30 A startling revelation: Pakistan is among the top killers under law in the world. It has about 7,400 convicts awaiting execution. Worse, in recent years, instead of relenting in terms of lowering the crime rate because of the deterrent efect of the death penalty, the hangings have actually increased. Pakistan's Supreme Court has actually ordered that there ought to be more capital punishments.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) recently made public a detailed report on the instituion of the death penalty in Pakistan. Pakistan has retained the death penalty, with a lot of other countries in the world, because the rulers think that it will deter the k... | |
| | | | Kalam's discreet queries about 'house of horror' | | Nithari killings pose serious challenge to CBI | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 30
A second round of lie-detection test in conection with the two accused in the killings at Nithari village on the outskirts of Delhi has put a big question mark over the narco-analysis conducted in Gujarat. The CBI, now conducting in-depth investigations, has not brushed aside reports that one month after the horror of the macabre Nithari killings began unfolding, the truth is still hidden in the dark dungeons of the minds of the two accused - Moninder Singh Pandher and Surendra Koli.
Nithari village is located in UP's Noida sector. After the glaring lapses in the Noida police probe came to light, the case was handed over to the CBI. But the investigating a... | |
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