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| Parliament attack: Accused Afzal to hang on October 20 | | | |
September 26,
A Delhi Court Tuesday ordered that Jaish-e-Mohammed militant Mohd Afzal, sentenced to death in the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case, be hanged on October 20.
A warrant in this regard was issued by Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur saying the death sentence of Afzal will be executed at 0600 hours in Tihar Central Jail on October 20.
Afzal's death sentence by the trial court was confirmed by the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court. The apex court had on August 4, 2005, upheld the death penalty imposed on him by the trial court. Out of the four accused in the case, another JeM militant Shaukat Husssain Guru was sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment.
Two other accused S A R Geelani, a Delhi University college lecturer, and lone woman accused Navjot Sandhu alias Afsan Guru, wife of Shaukat, were acquitted.
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| India asks Pakistan to dismantle its terrorism base | | | |
Washington, September 26,
Calling Pakistan a "nursery of global terrorism", India has asked Pakistan once again to stop all cross-border terrorism as promised and dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism still intact on its soil.
While the fragile political fabric of states in India's neighbourhood is a source of continuing anxiety to New Delhi, Pakistan remains a nursery of global terrorism, visiting Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in a talk on Monday at Harvard University in Boston.
A copy of his address was made available here.
"Post 9/11, Pakistan has reportedly helped the US to fight terrorism along its western border with Afghanistan. But it has done pre... | |
| | | | Musharraf responsible for Agra summit failure: Atal | | | |
New Delhi, September 26,
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday attributed the failure of his Agra summit with President Pervez Musharraf to the Pakistan leader's stand that the bloodshed in Kashmir was the "people's battle for freedom".
Vajpayee, who rejected Musharraf's remarks in his book that both felt insulted in Agra, insisted that the then NDA government believed that there could be no normalcy in ties between India and Pakistan until there was an end to cross-border terrorism.
"I am still to see the book (In the Line of Fire), but his reported comments on the failure of our talks at Agra have surprised me. No one insulted the General and certainly no one i... | |
| | | | LONG WAIT OF ASPIRANTS FOR CONSTABLE POST | | LIST OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES NOT PUBLISHED SINCE 2004 | | |
Srinagar, Sept, 26, While the state government hardly misses any opportunity to 'convince' people about its employment generation plans and schemes, the aspirants for the posts of constable in the Auxiliary wing of J&K Police department –who had applied way back in 2003-04, are seeing a chasm between the words and deeds of the government.
After applying for the constable posts advertised in year 2003-04 following which the aspirants passed the required physical tests in the month of July in 2004, but so far they say the list of successful candidates has not been short-listed.
However, Inspector General Auxiliary Wing of J&K Police, Naveen Aggarwal says the list has been prepared an... | |
| | | | Lashkar hiring at Rs 50,000 per militant | | | |
September 26
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba is forcibly taking students in Kashmir away for recruitment, official sources said on Tuesday.
"The Lashkar is short of cadre as a large number of its men and top leaders have been eliminated. Now they are forcibly enrolling students and taking them away to remote areas for arms training," sources informed.
They said a class IX student, Nayaz Ahmed, was kidnapped by a Lashkar area commander, Abu Arif, from Udhampur district's Gool when he had gone to school a fortnight ago.
A first information report has been registered in this regard by his parents and relatives, who have urged police and security forces to rescue the student from the cl... | |
| | | | CM releases Rs 60000 to quake affected | | Says police recruitment drive to start soon for youth of Karnah | | |
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 26 – Amidst thunderous applause by thousands who received Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad with warm welcome and enthusiasm at Tangdar and Teetwal, Chief Minister announced that entire 2nd installment of Rs. 60000 would be released to quake affected in one go.
Highlighting the courage of people of Tangdar, Uri and other quake effected areas for braving the brunt of devastating natural calamity and rebuilding the villages with government assistance, he said government efforts have yielded encouraging results with active public cooperation.
Addressing a largely public gathering at Tangdar today Chief Minister expressed satisfaction saying that a modern... | |
| | | | IED at GMC; Police team returns empty handed from Hyderabad | | | |
Jammu, Sep 26
A special team of Jammu and Kashmri Police which was deputed to Hyderabad to investigate the attempt of suspected militants to blow up Government Medical College Hospital Jammu with an Improvised Explosive Device has returned empty-handed. However, the investigation conducted so far was reportedly pointing fingers about the involvement of some Poonch based militants behind the conspiracy.
Well informed sources in the police department told News Agency of Kashmri that DySP (probationary) Mr Salaria and In-charge Police Post Canal Road ASI Parvez were deputed to Hyderabad following the recovery of the IED. The bag in which the IED was planted was having the tag of shopkeepe... | |
| | | | Did India benefit from black market nuclear activity? | | Several Indians 'involved' in Khan's network:Musharraf | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 26: Yet another sensational disclosure by the Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf: Several Indians were involved in disgraced Pak nuclear scientist, AQ Khan's Dubai-based network. Some of these Indians have vanished. Khan was running his network through two offices, one in Pakistan and the other in Dubai.
The disclosure is contained in Gen. Musharraf's autobiography, titled 'In The Line of Fire', which was launched in the United States on Monday. And Gen. Musharaf wrote: "There is a strong probability that he Indian uranium enrichment programme may also have its roots in the Dubai-based network and could be a copy of the Pakistani centrifuge design".... | |
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