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Jammu, Aug 6
The recent arrest of three army personnel and six policemen in Jammu region for their alleged links with Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba has prompted authorities to keep under surveillance lower ranks of the forces suspected to having nexus with militant outfits.
The nine were arrested for their links with LeT outfit in Jammu region last month. The J and K Light Infantry jawans were arrested on July 26 for helping militants get SIM cards to be used for mobile bombs.
This followed the nabbing of three policemen on July 31 for supplying seized weapons to LeT militants in Kishtwar area of Doda district. The chief warden of high security Kotbhalwal jail was taken into cust... | |
| | | | Tit-for-tit expulsions are ominous | | Indo-Pak relations plummet to a new low | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI: August 6
It was simply a phenomenon of equal and opposite reaction, when on Saturday, August 5, Islamabad's action triggered quite an opposite reaction from New Delhi. Islamabad expelled an Indian diplomat, Deepak Kaul. And a few hours later, New Delhi ordered expulsion of Mohamed Rafiq Ahmed, a counsellor in the Delhi-based Pakistan High Commission.
Pakistan carried out its plan in a harsh manner, while India demonstrated utmost decency in conveying its decision expelling the Pakistani counsellor. Deepak Kaul was treated harshly by Pakistani agents. Kaul, hooded and handcufed, was taken to an unidentified location where he was interrogated intermittently for five... | |
| | | | India's Deepak Kaul a hit in Pakistan | | Did he reveal his parent deptt. to Pak interrogators? | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 6: Pakistan establishment and Pakistani media have maintained a studied silence over the parent organisation of Mohamed Rafiq Ahmed, First Secretary in the New Delhi-based Pakistan High Commission. The Pak print media simply chose to berate New Delhi for ordering the expulsion of 'innocent' Rafiq Ahmed, hours after Deepak Kaul, an Indian diplomat, was on Saturday ordered to leave Pakistan within 48 hours.
Pakistan's English daily, The News, reported on Sunday, August 6, that Deepak Kaul, a consular at the Indian High Commission, has confessed that he is an official of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and not a diplomat. If Indians were in... | |
| | | | Cong. distancing itself from Natwar Singh | | | | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, AUG. 6: Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, is the first Congress leader to directly target Natwar Singh as the party slowly begins to distance itself from the former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh. "Natwarji has been a senior leader of our party and if he wants to leave the Congress, he would not be stopped. Anybody's quitting would in no way weaken the party, but only strenghthens it," Jaiswal said.
This reaction comes less than 24 hours after Natwar Singh told a private television channel, CNN-IBN, that the party should have done more to defend him . "Of course I am disappointed with the Congress," he said.
Natwar ... | |
| | | | The tale of son-in-law and seer | | How controversial 'father' of Islamic bomb was fleeced | | | EARLY TIMES DELHI BUREAU
NEW DELHI, AUG. 5: Pakistan's 'national hero', Dr AQ Khan, is supersititious. And his son-in-law exploited his supersititious nature to get the nuclear scientist to finance "a lot of business" for him.
Peter Griffin, a businessman who supplied various components to Pakistan for its nuclear needs and now lives in Bordeaux, told the New Yorker that Dr Khan's son-in-law found a fortune-teller called 'The Professor', on whom Dr Khan relied, and "put him on his payroll".
He told the "seer" to advise Dr Khan that if he did not give his son-in-law "a lot of business with high profit margins", he would "fall under a bus or something like that". He said that Dr AQ... | |
| | | | LeT has 'sky strikers', too | | Govt. alerts States against plane hijack plans | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 6 Deadset to intensify terror campaings in as many regions as possible, the dreaded Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) is reported to have built a new class of 'sky strikers'--aircraft hijackers, in plain language. According to a report, which needs due confirmation and verification, Al Qaeda planners have equipped the LeT with an unspecified number of young persons, trained in the art and trechnique of carying out strikes in air--that is, hijacking planes.
Since the LeT, as admitted by official agencies, has sucessfully managed to set up bases or launching pads in several areas of India, in addition to Jammu and Kashmir, the government of India has deemed it necessary to ... | |
| | | | Heat and dust of everyday politcs | | Natwar, Jaswant in a practical dilemma | | | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, AUG. 5: Natwar Singh and Jaswant Singh find themselves in an unenviable position, with their respective party bosses seemingly trying to distance themselves from the controversies the two have triggered. The two leaders belong to two diferent political parties. And Jaswant Singh and Natwar Singh, the two leaders from Rajsthan, share more then just their last names.
Within their own parties they have nestled comfortably away from the heat and dust of everyday politics, playing to the higher galleries both at the national and the international levels. However, in the end of their political careers both have found they might have been living in a time... | |
| | | | Azad is based in J&K as CM | | But he remains important in Cong. high command | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 6
'Out of sight is out of mind". Thus goes the old saying. Quite surprisingly--and significantly,too--this does not apply to the present Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Ghulam Nabi Azad. Even as two to three senior Congress 'players', all based in Delhi, were widely held responsible for ensuring Azad's transfer to his home State as the Chief Minister at the end of the three-year term of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as the head of the PDP-led coaliton government in J&K, the influence and prestige of the transferred leader in the Congress high command could not be belittled.
Both Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and Congress supremo, Sonia Gandhi, seem satisfied ... | |
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