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Nation
& States
Don't
compromise on terror,
Natwar tells Saarc meet
What is India News Service, July 21, 2004, 2200 hrs IST
India-Pakistan disputes indirectly took
centre stage at the two-day ministerial council meeting of
the Saarc in Islamabad.
Foreign ministers of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka are attending the meeting.
Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf advocated the need for a
mechanism within the Saarc forum for the resolution of political
conflicts among member-states, even as India's external affairs
minister Natwar Singh talked about dangers posed by the scourge of
terrorism in the region.
Musharraf expanded on his thesis of links between economic
integration and peace and security, when the Saarc foreign ministers
called on him at the presidential palace. Earlier, in his brief
inaugural address to the Saarc ministerial conference, Pakistan
prime minister Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain referred to Pakistan's
efforts for the resolution of all differences with India, including
Jammu and Kashmir.
In his opening remarks, Natwar Singh acknowledged that Saarc was
perhaps the "weakest" among various regional cooperation
organisations, but refused to join issue with Pakistan on the need
to expand its charter to include bilateral issues related to peace
and security.
'Saarc
should work to build trust':
President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday emphasized that
Saarc should institute a confidence-building process among the
member states.
'Muslim
quota illegal': Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today
termed the five per cent reservation for Muslims in Andhra Pradesh
"illegal and unconstitutional" and cautioned that
religion-based reservation would only encourage conversions.
Soren's whereabouts
'not known':
Officials said they knew nothing about union coal minister Sibu
Soren's whereabouts. A court in Jharkhand has issued a non-bailable
arrest warrant against him in a 30-year-old murder case.
Neighbours
Pak troops for Iraq if 'in national interest':
Pakistan will send troops to Iraq if it is
in its national interests and not because a Pakistani is heading the
UN mission in Baghdad, ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi said in
Washington.
Jets,
gunships pound militants' positions: Pakistan
Air Force jets and army helicopter gunships bombed militants'
positions in Santoi and Mantoi mountain regions in the South
Waziristan tribal area on Tuesday.
15
Taliban killed: The
Afghan National Army killed 15 Taliban in the central province of
Urzgan, state-run television reported late on Tuesday night. Troops
also arrested 10 Taliban in an operation in Deh Rawood district, a
military spokesman said.
N-inspectors
to return to Iraq:
International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors will return to Iraq in the
coming days, the head of the UN nuclear
watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, said here on Tuesday.
China
keen on sorting out border issue: China's assistant foreign
minister Shen Guofang has said his country attaches great importance
to the forthcoming third round of border talks between special
representatives of India and China in Delhi, although it knows that
settling the border question won\92t be smooth.
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States
Three cops killed in Kashmir: Three police personnel were
killed, one seriously injured and another went missing after an
ambush by militants at Bhingra village, about 6 km from Doda late
Tuesday evening.
Five
of family murdered: Five members of a retired BSF Havildar\92s
family were gunned down and another seriously injured by the
militants in their house at Gurdanbala, about six km from here, late
last night.
Cop's
outburst embarasses government: The outbursts of suspended
former Assistant Commissioner of Police T G Sangram Singh, arrested
by the CBI in connection with the scam, rocked both Houses of the
legislature on Tuesday with the Opposition led by the BJP
successfully stalling official business to take up a discussion on
the issue.
Chief minister Dharam Singh rejected the BJP\92s demand for water
resources minister Mallikarjuna Kharge\92s resignation in connection
with the multi-crore stamp paper scam. BJP members walked out in
protest.
Fine
for 'deficient service': Bangloreans are yet to recover from the
tragedy of seven-year-old Anish\92s needless death, when another
incident of a child suffering grievous injury due to Bescom\92s
negligence came to light.
The IV Additional District Consumers Disputes Redressal Forum has
found the Chairman, the Managing Director and the Assistant
Executive Engineer, Bescom, guilty of deficient service and ordered
them on July 16, to pay up Rs 10 lakh as compensation to 13-year-old
Sabina Khatoon, who suffered from 71 per cent burns last year and
will need plastic surgery which will cost Rs 4 lakh. This is the
first time that a consumer court in Karnataka has awarded a sum of
Rs 10 lakh to a consumer.
'Reliance
encroached on govt land': Reliance Infocomm has encroached on
110.74 sq metre (132.44 sq yard) of government land in Marredpally
in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh revenue minister D. Prasada Rao said
Reliance had constructed a base transmission station tower on
government land.
Betting
racket busted:
Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a big racket of betting
on Asia Cup cricket matches by arresting five persons.
The group was reportedly running the betting racket from Jaipur and
its connections were spread in different parts of Rajasthan.
Overall:
Singh tells Saarc not to tolerate
terror: His Islamabad meeting
with his counterparts is going well.
China
said it was keen on resolving dispute: It said it was looking
forward to talks with India, but would come prepared for a tough
time.
Ex-cop embarassed government: Sangram Singh, arrested in the
stamp paper scandal, has been saying senior Karnataka politicians
framed him.
Militants killed eight: Kashmiri militants killed three
policemen, and five members of a former head constable's family.
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