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CBI sleuths raid 74 places,chargesheet 30 
government officials

What is India News Service, June 26, 2004, 1200 hrs


The Central Bureau of Investigation carried out nationwide raids at 74 places and registered cases against 50 people, 30 of them government employees.

The raids came a day after prime minister Manmohan Singh said in a national telecast that he would cleanse the system. Among those chargesheeted are customs, income tax and health officials.

More CBMs: India is likely to announce at least eight to 12 fresh confidence-building measures relating to military, non-military and general cooperation during foreign secretary-level talks June 27 and 28.

Hurriyat talks: Pakistani officials are planning to meet key leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference on the sidelines of the Indo-Pakistan foreign secretary-level talks in New Delhi this weekend. The APHC, now divided, is a moderate Kashmiri organisation.

"The foreign secretary and members of his delegation are planning to meet all top APHC leaders, including Shabbir Shah, Ali Shah Gilani, Mir Waiz and Yasin Malik," sources told a Pakistani newspaper on Friday.

Whenever high-profile delegations from Pakistan go to India, for diplomatic or political reasons, they meet APHC leaders. President Gen Pervez Musharraf met most of its leaders during the Agra Summit in mid-2001. The fact that the foreign secretary is planning to meet all Kashmiri leaders signals an attempt at APHC unification. Pakistan has tried to use its influence to get the two groups together.

EU reversal: The Pakistani position received a shot in the arm when the head of a visiting delegation of the European Union described all of Kashmir as disputed, marking a partial rollback of another senior EDU official\92s statement that Jammu and Kashmir was part of India.The 'correction' came just two days ahead of the talks on precisely that subject between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan, a process that the United States was quoted on Friday as saying it was watching closely.

Bodies traced: A two-day kidnap drama ended with the discovery of the bodies of an Indian Railways construction engineer and his brother in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Rebel violence: Law-enforcement agencies foiled separate attempts to attack important spots in Bannu and Peshawar cantonments in Pakistan on Friday. Police blamed rebels keen on creating panic among the people.

In the southern city of Bannu, police recovered 10 missiles set with timers and aimed at the cantonment. The Russian-made missiles along with batteries and fuses were planted in the Surani locality near the Kurram river, and had only 15 minutes to go for explosion when they were defused by a squad.The missiles, with a 10 to 12 km range, were capable of causing a major disaster, officials said.

More loans: The World Bank will double loan sanctions to India to about $3 billion a year from 2005 to 2008, as the scope for funding has widened with the government making promises to the poor in its Common Minimum Programme.

Ordinance to fix seat ratio: The Karnataka cabinet on Friday decided to promulgate an ordinance to fix a 75:25 seat-sharing ratio between the government and managements of private professional colleges.

Governor resignations: The Congress-led UPA government could face a delicate situation if the state governors appointed by the previous NDA government refuse to resign of their own volition.

Yatra extension: Jammu and Kashmir governor Lt-Gen S K Sinha will discuss the Amartnath yatra programme with chief minister Mufti Mohammd Sayeed and
deputy chief minister Mangat Ram Sharma on Sunday. The chief minister has said he will curtail the pilgrimage to one month, but pilgrims and senior Congress
leaders want it to be longer. The state administration is worried about terror threats to the Hindu pilgrims.

Four ministers belonging to the Congress yesterday resigned in protest against the Mufti\92s insistence on curtailing the pilgrimage.

Overall:

Sleuths swooped down: They raided government establishments all over the country and chargesheeted 30 officials.

India, Pakistan got ready for talks: This weekend is going to be crucial, with foreign secretaries of the two countries meeting in Delhi.

Bank offered more money: It saw more scope for funding, now that the Congress-led government has made commitments to the poor.

Karnataka talked of ordinance: The state is trying to rein in private college managements who don\92t want to share their seats with the government.