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| Guru Nanak's birth anniversary function in Pakistan | | India unlikely to allow agreed number of Sikh pilgrimsvv | | |
NEW DELHI, OCT. 22
Official agencies in Pakistan have, significantly, given currency to reports that India may not allow the agreed number of Sikh pilgrims to travel to Pakistan to attend a festival in connection with the 537th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak scheduled for November 5 at Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib, the birth place of the founder of Sikh religion.
Reports quoting official sources in Lahore said that the Indian government's mood after the July 11 Mumbai blasts indicates that it may not permit around 5,000 Sikhs to visit Pakistan. Last year some 4,500 or so Indian pilgrims were allowed to visit their holy places and participate in Baba Guru Nanak's birth anniversary.
Pakistan Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, had last year endorsed issuance of up to 10,000 visas annually to Indian Sikhs on this occasion. However, official sources in Lahore were reported to have said that in the light of new developments, New Delhi was in no mood to allow such a large number of Sikhs to visit their holy places in Pakistan. "Actually the Indian government is also worri... | |
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| Terror threat from Pak, Bangladesh continues | | PM isn't for slanging match with Musharaf:NSA | | |
NEW DELHI, OCT. 22
India's National Security Advisor, MK Narayanan, has disclosed his Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh's plan against indulging in a "huge slanging match" with President of Pakistan, Gen. Parvez Musharaf, over terrorism. Narayanan, who is widely known for his close proximity to the Prime Minister, as, at the same time, made it clear that Manmohan Singh has not dropped his guard in relation to Pakistan.
Acording to MK Narayanan, Manmohan Singh is aware of the terror threat from Pakistan and also from Pakistani elements in Bangladesh. In an interview with Karan Thapar on the Devil's Advocate programme, Narayanan said that the Prime Minister had made "no bones about t... | |
| | | | Anti-India Hafiz Saeed in news again | | | | NEW DELHI, OCT. 22
Even as Hafiz Mohamed Saeed, currently heading Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa, has reiterated in Lahore that he is "a charity worker, not a terorist", Islamabad has kept his group on a watch list. Signifcantly, however, the Pakistan government is not compelled to ban the Jamaat-ud-Dawa until the United Nations designates it a terrorist organisation.
And even as Hafiz Saeed, after his release from the 71-day detention in Lahore last week, also reiterated in the course of an interview to a British news agency that his organisation is all about relief and social work, Jamaat-ud-Dawa has been accused of raising funds and recruits for the dreaded terrorist group, Lashk... | |
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