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| 'Advani paid Mufti 15 Cr to float PDP’ | | BJP leadership wanted to stall NC’s popularity: Bhim Singh | | | Jammu, Nov 4:
Leveling serious allegations on BJP leadership that during NDA regime, it had manipulated money for creation of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) supremo Bhim Singh today demanded a judicial inquiry on the then Union Home Minister, L K Advani for flowing of funds to Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for the purpose.
Addressing a press conference, here today, Bhim Singh said, an inquiry needs to be ordered over manipulating of the money by the BJP leaders for creation of PDP in Jammu and Kashmir.
He alleged that Advani was instrumental in creating PDP with an objective to float a front as an alternative to National Conference in the state. He said that Advani managed to fund Mufti with an amount of Rs.15 crore for the purpose and added that that he has enough evidence to prove the veracity of the facts.
Meanwhile, Panthers party also distanced itself from November 6 strike call and said that Refugees United Front should leave path of agitation and instead discuss their problems.
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| Mobile inside central jail | | Top HM ultra arrested from Kot Bhalwal jail | | |
Jammu | Nov 4
In search of vital clues, sleuths of Counter Intelligence today arrested another top ultra of Hizbul Mujahideen from inside high security Kot Bhalwal jail in connection with recovery of two mobile telephones along with SIM cards.
Abdul Hai Malik alias Omer Farooq alias Almer Azmeel, a pakistani national, holed up in Kot Bhalwal jail for last 16 years was today taken into custody by the CID (CI) personnel from inside the jail.Sources said, the HM militant was arrested after Gurmeet Singh revealed his name during sustained interrogation.
The arrested militant was later escorted to Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC) for questioning in connection with smuggling of mobil... | |
| | | | Fate of J&K can't be decided at UN: Nayar | | Mufti, Farooq essentially pro-establishment men | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV. 4: "The fate of Kashmir cannot be decided at the UN". This is the message from India's former High Commissioner to the UK, Kuldip Nayar, to former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. Commenting on the Mufti's visit to the United Nations to present a case for Kashmir's self-rule, Nayar says that the Kashmir leader should know by this time that "the fate of Kashmir cannot be decided at the UN".
"Even Pakistan realises this", Nayar said, adding: "It is India's Parliament which has to vote on whatever the settlement". Kuldip Nayar, who is a well-known political commentator and former Rajya Sabha member, maintained in his latest write-up: Muft... | |
| | | | Alarming signals from domestic 'devils' | | Hyderabad a safe haven for Islamic militants | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV. 4: A sensational report under an in-depth study by the Union Home Ministry: Hyderabad, capital city of Andhra Pradesh, has turned out to be one of the major centres in India for recruitment by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Terrorists based in Hyderabad have been involved in jihad in faraway battlefields, like Jammu and Kashmir, Bosania and Chechnya, for the past few years.
There is sufficient evidence with the government in relation to what official sources termed as "yet another fact"--that is, Hyderabad has already emerged as a safe haven for activities of various Islamic militant outfits. Hyderabad Task Force (HTF) is reported to have informe... | |
| | | | Case registered against Sabina | | Kashmir sex racket | | | Chandigarh, Nov 4 Sabina, an alleged kingpin in the Kashmir sex racket case, was today booked by police for allegedly trying to snatch a video-camera of a journalist and using abusive language against mediapersons outside the District Court premises here.
A case has been registered under various section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against Sabina, Station House Officer of the Sector 17 police station Jagbir Singh said.
When Sabina was brought to the District Court for hearing in the case along with some other accused, she allegedly tried to pounce on a cameraman of an electronic media and used abusive language immediately after alighting from the jail bus.
Sabina had also reacted in a... | |
| | | | Pak would have been like Iraq but for war on terror: Kasuri | | | |
Islamabad, Nov 4 Describing America as the "sole superpower", Pakistan has said if it had not joined the US-led war on terror the situation in the country would have been like that of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pakistan had decided to join the US-led war on terror "in the best national interest" failing which it could otherwise have faced a fate like that of Iraq and Afghanistan, the country's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said at a the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee here yesterday.
Reacting to criticism from a leader of the Jamat Ulema Islami (JUI) on the raids on a madrasa on the Afghan border reportedly training al Qaeda militants, Kasuri said, "we should learn lessons fro... | |
| | | | Kasuri to visit New Delhi on Nov 26 | | | |
Islamabad, Nov 4 Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri would travel to India on November 26 to attend the wedding of the daughter of Minister for Panchayati Raj Manishankar Ayer.
Both Ayer and Kasuri studied together in the Cambridge University.
The Foreign Minister's scheduled trip to New Delhi would augur well for the anticipated visit to Pakistan by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chairman of the Pakistan Senate Foreign Relations Committee Mushahid Hussain told reporters here yesterday after a briefing by Kasuri on Islamabad's foreign policy.
Hussain, who would accompany Kasuri to India, said "this visit will also help improve relations between the two South Asian n... | |
| | | | 200 kg RDX, 60 detonators seized; one ultra killed | | | |
Jammu, Nov 4 Nearly 200 kg RDX, 60 detonators and 25 kg of wire fuse were seized from a militants' hideout in Doda district today.
A Special Task Force (STF) of police seized the explosives and detonators from a hideout near a school in Ramban area early this morning, police said, adding that no militants were present at the time of the operation.
The seized material was probably to be used to cause explosions in Jammu after the opening of civil secretariat and other offices in the winter capital of the state, they said.
In a separate incident, security forces gunned down one Lashkar-e-Toiba militant in Mendhar area of Poonch district, police said, adding one AK-56 rifle and so... | |
| | | | Pak foreign secy to meet Kashmiri separatists | | | | Jammu | Nov 4
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan will have a series of sessions with Kashmiri separatists in New Delhi on November 14 in what appears to be a clear bid to seek their viewpoint ahead of his talks with his Indian counterpart Shiv Shankar Menon.
The Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level talks are scheduled for November 15-16, as part of the decision taken at a meeting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in Havana on September 16.
Riaz Khan will be meeting leaders of the two factions of the Hurriyat Conference, and JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik on November 14. These separatist leaders have received a communication and invite f... | |
| | | | Brand India beginning to make its mark: PM | | | |
Lauding the progress of Indian automative sector, PM Manmohan Singh has said that the country's automative sector has entered a new phase of globalisation.
Singh said this after laying the foundation stone of the National Automotive Testing, Research and Development Infrastructure project at Oragadam in Tamil Nadu.
Speaking on the occasion Singh said the Indian automative sector has enterened the phase of globalistaion and Brand India has begin to make its mark in World.
The Prime Minister said the Automative testing project will push the autombile industry to new frontiers of achievement.
Meanwhile speaking on the occasion Congress President Sonia Gandhi said , Ind... | |
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