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| Revival of NC-BJP ties has clearly demarcated J&K's political battlelines: PDP | | | |
Srinagar , May 4
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the announcement of the National Conference (NC) Patron, Dr Farooq Abdullah on reviving his party's alliance with the BJP has clearly demarcated the political battlelines in the State.
In a statement issued here today, a PDP spokesman said that Dr Abdullah at a function in Jammu on Tuesday, where BJP state President, Mr Ashok Khajuria was also present, talked of reviving his party's alliance with the BJP, if the party (BJP) leadership cooperated with him. "Dr Abdullah's statement of realigning with the BJP assumes significance in view of his latest proclamation to lead the wilting NC himself in the upcoming important state assembly elections," the spokesman said.
The PDP spokesman pointed out that although NC had always kept its options of realigning with the BJP open by actively campaigning for the NDA allies in Punjab and Haryana assembly elections, but in an effort to grab power in Jammu & Kashmir, the party, during the past five years, utilized all the apparent and concealed resources to destabilize the Coalitio... | |
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| Dossier on Pak scientist exposes Benazir Bhutto too | | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, May 4:
Former President of Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani, had sought the consent of Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, to execute a 6 billion dollar deal for the purchase of nuclear weapons technology that Gen. Aslam Beg had negotiated with Tehran in 1989. This revelation is contained in the much-debated dossier on the AQ Khan network released in London on May 2.
It also revealed that after departure of Gen Beg, a new deal was also concluded between the then Army chief Gen Asif Nawaz, Rafsanjani and Gen Mohsen Rezai, Head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, in exchange for Iranian oil. According to the dossier on “Nuc... | |
| | | | World's 100 most influential people of 2007 | | Sonia Gandhi, Osama bin Laden in Time's list | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, May 4
World's 100 most influentiail people of 2007 have just been identified by the prestigious, popular Time magazine. Congress supremo, Sonia Gandhi, and the UK-based steel tycoon, Lakshmi Mittal, have made it to the magazine's list. And the list also includes "terror merchant" Osama bin Laden and Pope Benedict XVI among others.
This year's list of Time 100 most influential people is an eclectic mix of entertainers, journalists, scientists, politicians and world leaders. The list also includes Queen Elizabeth II, presidential hopefuls senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley and model Kate Moss. However, US President... | |
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