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| Taking the bull by the horns | | Cows, dogs, camels, donkeys, monkeys | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB 8
Rapists and terrorists alone do not make news in the national capital. Animals, too, have for quite some time now been newsworthy. As if stray cows and wandering dogs were not enough on Delhi roads, it is now the turn of musing camels and wistful donkeys to hold up city's traffic.
Delhi that has the highest congestion of vehicles in India had yet another brush with paradox just the other day. Expensive foreign cars and mislaid animals were on roads all at the same time. A fugitive Border Security Force's camel ran on the streets, banged Hondas and Hyundais, even as policemen chased the animal till it was captured at India Gate. Traffic was held up for three hours.
In another case, some donkeys refused to budge from a busy flyover. Police tried to shoo them away, but they could not as vehicles blocked the road. Police said that donkeys were in "philosophical mind" unruffled by the chaos they had created. There gridlock resulted in thousands of relentlessly honking cars caught up in rush hours in this outmoded yet out of the ordinary experience. The ag... | |
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| Suicide-bombing an integral part of jehad | | Muslim bombers' growing threat to Muslim Pakistan | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB 8
Al Qaeda alone is not angry with Pakistan government. Shia sect of Muslims alone is not angry with the Musharraf dispensation. A dispasionate analysis of four or five incidents in Pakistan in a fortnight will make it clear that what happened was not strictly just against the Shia comunity. The pre-Ashura attacks too were against the government, which was supposed to then face the public accusation that it was incapable of controlling violence. The recent Islamabad incident is of a piece with the others in that it was unsuccessful and was prevented by the security personnel from wreaking the planned havoc.
But it was also significantly different. Instead of... | |
| | | | Insurgency in J&K has ended, claims Sahai | | Complete terrorist movement is on | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB 8
Is insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir over? Reported answer from SM Sahai, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) of the Kashmir Valley, runs thus: "We have graduated from an insurgency to a terrorist movement". What you see today is a complete terrorist movement".
In a media interview, SM Sahai has been quoted as saying that "local lumpen elements with no love for any ideology" have taken to the violent movement in a big way, lured by money. At the same time, there are other police officials who say that foreign militants, mainly Pakistanis, still operate in north Kashmir while the Hizbul Mujahideen is the dominant force in south Kashmir.
Sahai said that while his... | |
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