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| Mammu from Meerut to hang Afzal on October 20 | | | |
New Delhi, Oct 1
All arrangements are in place at Tihar Jail here to execute Mohammad Afzal Guroo on October 20 for being the mastermind behind the December 13, 2001 terror attack on Parliament.
Meerut's Mammu, the son of India's most infamous executioner Kalu, will string up Afzal, a highly placed Tihar Jail official told UNI today.
Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur, on September 26, issued a death warrant for Afzal to be executed at Tihar Jail at 0600 hrs on October 20.
He will be hanged under the supervision of Mr B S Jariyal, the Jailer of Tihar Jail No 1. He will soon be shifted to Jail No 3 where the execution is expected to take place. An order to this effect will be issued ''very soon'', the jail official said.
Mr Jariyal has been posted in Tihar Jail since 1981. In his tenure, he has superintended seven executions, which include that of Ranga and Billa in 1982 who were condemned to death in the high-profile Sanjay and Geeta Chopra murder case.
He also witnessed the execution of Maqbul Butt of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front in 1984.
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| The Myth of 1965 Victory' | | | | Pak Army against sale of a new book
event of much significance has occurred in Pakistan. The Pakistan Army has bought all copies of a book written by a former intelligence chief. Why? The book, it is feared, may explode the myth victory of Pakistan in the 1965 war with India.
Latest reports received in Delhi from Pakistan revealed that the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Pakistan Army bought up 22,000 copies of the book by Lt Gen Mahmood Ahmed, fearing that its contents could malign its image. The book titled 'The Myth of 1965 Victory', which was published by the Oxford University Press, was found to be "too sensitive" by none other than the present Army Chief, Gen. Pervez Musharraf... | |
| | | | PM's undisclosed scheme did please | | MusharrafMechanism on terorism won't be productive, warns Satish Chandra | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 1:
Satish Chandra, India's former High Commissioner to Pakistan, Satish Chandra, has warned that in the absence of any "genuine" desire on the part of Pakistan to cooperate on terrorism the proposed India-Pakistan anti-terrorism institutional mechanism is doomed to failure. The Musharraf-Manmohan Singh decision, as encapsulated in their Havana joint press statement to put in plance anti-terorism institutional mechanism, Satish Chandra says, "is amazing given Pakistan's longstanding and continuing involvement in terorist activities directed against India".
That Pakistan intends to continue using the terror card against India is, to quote Satish Chandra, ... | |
| | | | Listen to Hindi translator of Musharraf's book | | Pakistan President charged with giving wrong account | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 1: Pradeep Singh, a Delhi-based journalist, is Gen. Parvez Musharraf's translator of the controversial book, In The Line of Fire. And Singh has put Gen. Musharraf in the line of fire for giving a "wrong accccount" of events in his just published autobiography.
Pradeep Singh is not convinced about accuracy of facts, particularly in chapters dealing with Kargil war and the failed Agra summit of 2001. "Autobiography cannot be factually incorrect," Singh, 51, has let it be known. According to him, Gen. Musharraf has tried to use this book to give a message to people in Pakistan that he is the lone saviour for them and to the international community that the... | |
| | | | Gujarat madrassas to bar Kashmiris | | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 1: The 80-odd madrassas in the BJP-ruled Gujarat State are contemplating ban on admission to Kashmiri students from the next academic session. This, according to intelligence inputs, follows what is termed as "frequent police harassment".
The seminaries have been under the scanner after some ex-students hauled up for terrorist activities since the bloody post-Godhra riots in 2002, were allegedly found to have links with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants. Policemen have time and again raided the madrassas and picked up Kashmiri boys for questioning that has often led to "vital" clues, intelligence reports point out.
Of the 50,000 madrasa students, 700 are Kashmiris.... | |
| | | | HC seeks report on 'irregularities' at Mahatma's samadhi | | | | New Delhi
October 01
Even as the nation gears up to celebrate this year's Gandhi Jayanthi, the Mahatma's samadhi at Rajghat is embroiled in a controversy as the Delhi High Court sought an explanation from the management committee on alleged irregularities at the mausoleum of the man who epitomised truth, honesty and non-violence.
A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Kailash Gambhir asked Rajghat Samithi secretary
Rajnish Kumar to file a personal affidavit on the charges within four weeks and posted the matter for further hearing to
December 8.
The court sought the explanation on a petition filed by a group of Rajghat employees who accused Kumar of ille... | |
| | | | India to confront Pak with evidence | | | | New Delhi
October 01
With probe into July 11 Mumbai serial blasts proving involvement of Inter Services Intelligence and Pakistan-based terror groups, New Delhi on Sunday said it will confront Islamabad with the latest evidence and judge it by actions and not words.
Taking charge as Foreign Secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon rubbished Islamabad's denial of involvement of ISI and Lashker-e-Tayiba in Mumbai train bombings and said India wants Pakistan to "not only talk but act also".
"We will take up the issue (of involvement in Mumbai blasts) with Pakistan in view of the new evidence," he told reporters here, a day after Mumbai Police said its investigations had proved that the serial blasts ... | |
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