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| Pranab Mukherjee calls a spade a spade | | China's claim over Arunachal Pradesh is baseless | | |
NEW DELHI, NOV 14
India has, once again, turned down China's claim over Arunachal Pradesh. Minister for External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee, on Tuesday declared that the northeastern State of Arunachal Pradesh "is an integral part" of the Indian Union.
"The whole of Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India", Mukherjee told mediapersons after the ground-breaking ceremony of Jawaharlal Nehru Bhavan, the proposed new headquarters of the External Affairs Ministry. Mukherjee was replying to a question about Chinese Ambassador Sun Yuxi's remarks in an interview to CNN-IBN claiming the whole of Arunachal Pradesh as part of Chinese territory.
The Chinese envoy had said in the interview: "In our position, the whole of the State of Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory. And Tawang is only one of the places in it. We are claiming all of that. That is our position". Noises over Arunachal Pradesh have become louder prior to the upcoming visit to India by China's President.
The reiteration of an old Chinese claim over Arunachal is likely to throw a cloud over his visit and his disc... | |
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| Angry Farooq Abdullah takes up Dar's case | | Spotlights on captured Kashmiri model | | |
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NEW DELHI, NOV 14
At a time when the Jammu and Kashmir government has washed its hands off the arrested Kashmiri model, Tariq Ahmed Dar, the National Conference patron and former Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah, has strongly defended him, saying that "there is nothing against him and he is not a terrorist". Dar's career came to an abrupt end on September 16 in Bangladesh, when he was arrested on the suspicion that he was an agent of India's intelligence agency, RAW.
Deported to India after languishing in a Dhaka jail, Tariq Ahmed Dar did not really win his freedom. He landed in Delhi only to be arrated again, this time by the special cell of Delhi Police for his allege... | |
| | | | India, Pakistan resume peace talks | | Delhi makes terrorism dominant theme | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV. 14
India has pressed Pakistan to rein in militants. As the peace talks resumed on Tuesday in New Delhi between India and Pakistan, terrorism became the dominant theme of discussions. The two-day meeting between Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan commenced after Pakistan Foreign Secretary, Riaz Mohamed Khan, reiterated that he was looking forward to "very constructive discussions" with his Indian counterpart.
The peace process between the South Asian rivals has been on hold since train bombings in Mumbai in July, which India blamed on Pakistan, a charge Islamabad denied. New Delhi suspended the talks scheduled for July, blaming the Mumbai attacks on ... | |
| | | | Kasuri's Delhi visit for talks with separatists, too | | PoK's JKNLF embarrasses Pak Foreign Minister | | |
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NEW DELHI, NOV. 14
Islamabad has just dashed off a message to Muzaffarabad, divulging the Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri's plan to hold talks later this month with the 'Kashmiri leadership' to discuss possible mechanisms for resolving the Kashmir issue with India.
Signifcantly, by the time it was officially anounced in Islamabad that a high-level meeting to be led by Kasuri will be held on November 21, the All Parties National Alliance (APNA) threatened to boycott the Kashmir conference. The APNA is an umbrella of 'nationalist' parties in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). Invitation letters have already been sent to the PoK President Raja Zulqarnain, Prime Mi... | |
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