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| Indian prisoner in Pakistan to take a new turn | | Sarabjit Singh' freedom linked to Mohamed Arif | | | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, July 2: Indian prisoner in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh, facing death sentence in Lahore, is quite likely to return to India sooner than later.
But his eventual freedom is linked to the likely freedom from an Indian jail of the alleged Red Fort attack conspirator, Mohammed Arif.
Ministry of Home Affairs, it is said, is secretly working on the possibility to swap Sarabjit Singh with Mohammed Arif. Secret operations, in this regard, despite denials by Foreign Offices of India and Pakistan.
According to a report doing the rounds in Delhi on Sunbday evening, a senior official of the Home Ministry rang up Tihar Jails authorities on Friday to get information on Mohamed Arif’s criminal record, the sentence details and his conduct in the jail.
Arif, an alleged Pakistani member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, was found guilty of 12 heinous crimes and sentenced to death by a Delhi court on October 30. He is currently serving his term in a high-security ward of Jail No 1 in the Tihar Jails.
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| AZAD CONSULTED MANMOHAN ON WORKING GROUP HEADS | | | | Jammu,July 2 :-In consultation with Prime Minister,Dr Manmohan Singh,Chief Minister Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad,has preferred scholars,senior bureaucrats,economists and jurists from outside the state to head the five working groups that were to be constituted for resolving political,administrative and economic problems of Jammu and Kashmir.
Prior to his discussion with Dr Manmohan Singh Mr Azad had interacted with senior political leaders ,including Mufti Mohd.Sayeed,Mr Omar Abdullah,Mr M.Y.Tarigami and Prof. Bhim Singh for evolving a consensus on the issue of the constitution of the working groups. The working groups were being constituted as per the instructions of the Prime Minister who has ... | |
| | | | SWAMI AMRITANAND ACCUSES PDP OF SABOTAGING AMARNATH YATRA, RAISES QUESTION MARKS OVER APPOINTMENT OF JUSTICE (RETD) KK GUPTA | | | | Jammu, July 02 : The raging controversy with regard to allegations of tampering ice lingam inside Amarnath Cave shrine took yet another turn on Sunday when Shakaracharaya Anantshri Swami Amaritanand Dev tirth levelled charges against Congress's alliance partners Peoples democratic party of sabotaging the yatra and accused it of playing in to the hands of the Pakistan by generating controversy over Hindu shrines located in Kashmir valley.
Addressing a press conference here today, Swami Amritanand said PDP is playing in to hands of few vested interest including Pakistan by sabotaging the annual Amarnath pilgrimage.
Swami Amritanand also raised question marks over the appointment of r... | |
| | | | Rahul and Varun Gandhi may face each other | | Rift between Advani and Rajnath Singh divides BJP | | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI, July 2: Differences of opinion have cropped up between LK Advani and his BJP president, Rajnath Singh, over the question of fielding Maneka Gandhi's son, Varun Gandhi, as the BJP campaigner in the upcoming Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh (UP).
If the heavyweight, Advani, has his way, Varun Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi may come face to face during the UP elections. Varun and Sonia Gandhi's son, Rahul Gandhi, represent two different political streams of India and are two grandsons of former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.
Advani, who quit as the BJP president in January this year, has mooted the idea of fielding Varun as the party's star campaigner during Utta... | |
| | | | Don't ignore Muslim anger | | Can Indian forces win Kashmiris' hearts? | | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI, July 2: Quite a difficult situation has, once again, arisen in the troubled Valley of Kashmir. Law enforcing agencies have a right to maintain law and order in the region. But they need not use their authority in a manner as to trigger public wrath, thereby giving readily available ammuniton to the enemy within and beyond the Kashmir frontier--that is, in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
This time the agitated Kashmiri Muslims seem dead set against the very presence in Kashmir of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. Masive protests were sparked in the vicinity of Srinagar by the alleged killing of a bakery shop owner. Indian and fo... | |
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