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Nation
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Jehadi
groups must leave Pakistan if Kashmir row is resolved: Musharaff
What is India News
Service, August 11, 2004, 1800 hrs IST
Pakistan President Pervez
Musharraf has said all jehadi organisations operating in his country
in the name of Kashmir will
have to "pack up" if Pakistan and India resolve
the Kashmir dispute.
In candid comments
in an interview he gave to the Jang group of newspapers, Musharraf
said though there were "confusing signals" from India, he
was hopeful of a resolution to the Kashmir dispute. His remarks are
an indirect admission that militant groups are at work on Pakistani
soil.
Atmosphere
positive on first day of talks: Officials of Pakistan and
India presented their points of view on cross-border terrorism and
drug smuggling on the first day of the two-day talks which began in
Islamabad on Tuesday.
Flood
thread gets more worrying: With the dam formed in Tibet due to
blockage of Parchu, tributary of Sutlej, showing signs of breaching
and the Chinese authorities not allowing Indian team to inspect the
site, people living along the banks of the river may have to live in
fear of a flood for an indefinite period.
Cabinet
nod for repeal of POTA: The Union Cabinet today gave its nod for
the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) before it
lapses on October 23, three years after the legislation was first
brought into force.
Rapist to hang on birthday: After spending 14 years in prison, at 4.30 am on August 14, rape and murder convict Dhananjoy Chatterjee will be hanged to
death in Calcutta. Incidentally August 14 happens to be
his birthday.
Fire
at dynamite factory: A
major fire broke out in the factory of the Indian Detonators Limited
(IDL) in Balanagar on Wednesday afternoon. Thick plumes of smoke
could be seen billowing out of the factory premises as fire tenders
blaring sirens tried to put out the flames.
KGL
makes contact with captors:
Employers of the three Indian hostages in Iraq KGL on Tuesday established
indirect contact with the kidnappers and also roped in some new
mediators.
Laloo
locks out 500 latecomers:
The railway minister had 500 employees marked absent for the day. He also ordered that a day\92s salary be cut.
CBI
arrests Telgi; files chargesheet in another case:
Abdul Karim Telgi,
prime accused in the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam, was today
arrested by the CBI in a fresh case of stamp seizure and produced
before a court.
Assam
Rifles men fail to turn up: The Manmohan Singh Government may
insist that the Army is "fully cooperating" with
investigations into last month's custodial killing of Manorama Devi,
but the Assam Rifles men involved are refusing to testify.
Bank
predicts mid-term poll: "India is heading for a mid
term poll." This
prophecy comes from Deutsche Bank. "The
coalition (UPA) Government remains worryingly unsettled and its
policy priorities are not clear," it said.
Abu
Baker opposes Muslim quota: Leading academic and chairman
of the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) Abu Baker has opposed
religion-based job reservation for Muslims. "Religion-based
reservations would go against the spirit of affirmative action aimed
at uplifting the backwards in any religious group," Prof Baker
told The Pioneer in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
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States
Dramatic heist, Rs 69 lakh stolen:
Burglars cut through the 14-inch concrete roof of Canara Bank in
Hyderabad and looted Rs 69 lakh.
Karnataka reassures IT sector:
The Congress-JD(S) coalition government applied a soothing balm to the \93neglected and bruised\94 IT industry. In a show of commitment,
Chief Minister N Dharam Singh and some of his JD(S) cabinet colleagues promised that they would speed up
Bangalore's infrastructure projects and accord priority to IT.
Jammat
to help Hindu pilgrims: A total of 600 Jamaat-E-Islami-Hind volunteers drawn from various parts of the South Coastal Andhra region would extend their services to the pilgrims at the Krishna Pushkaram-2004, scheduled between August 28 and September 8. This is the third Pushkaram in a row that the organisation is extending its voluntary services such as supply of drinking water, first aid centres, child rescue and information centres.
Prosecution
seeks to withdraw case against Vaiko: The prosecution has filed
a petition in the trial court seeking withdrawal of the POTA case
against Vaiko, leader of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
Uttarakhand
leader dies:
The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal-sponsored bandh to protest the death of Mohan
Baba evoked mixed response here today. Mohan Baba died after being on a fast for more than a month, demanding the shifting of the
state capital from Dehradun to Gairsen.
Mother in
Kerala prays for daughter's return: Vasantha, mother of Dr
Divya who married a Pakistani, is keen to see her just-born
grandson, and hopes her daughter's family will settle in Kerala.
Neighbours
Bangladesh
flood victims return to new worries:
Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis
made homeless by one month of nationwide floods are slowly returning
from shelters, but many find they are facing a new battle for
survival. Floods and disease have killed about 740 people in
Bangladesh, and about 10 million of the country's 130 million people
have lost their homes.
Tribe
hands over five abettors of
militants to govt: A
tribal squad demolished three houses and handed over five suspected
abettors of militants to the administration in South Waziristan,
Afghanistan, on Tuesday.
Al
Qaeda plotting attacks to influence US polls:
Al Qaeda operatives captured in Pakistan were plotting terrorist
attacks aimed at influencing the US presidential elections in
November.
Nepali
ministry calls rebel students for talks: The Ministry of
Education has called upon the All Nepal National Independent
Students Union (Revolutionary), a sister organization of the CPN-Maoist,
to come to the table for talks.
Petro
smuggling
continues: Smuggling of petroleum products from Nepal to India
continues across the porous, common border.
Tigers
get duty-free cars: The Sri Lankan
government on Monday said it had granted customs duty concessions
for vehicles to be imported by Tamil Tiger guerrillas in a move to
nudge them towards peace and revive stalled talks.
Karzai,
17 others in the run for presidency:
Afghanistan's US-backed President Hamid Karzai will
face 17 challengers, including former ally and education minister
Yunus Qanooni, in historic presidential elections, the electoral
commission announced on Tuesday.
'Al
Qaeda rebuilding its ranks':
Osama bin
Laden's Al Qaeda has named new leaders to replace those who have
been killed or captured, promoting from within and recruiting new
operatives to run the organization.
BD
faces US curbs over human smuggling:
The United States may impose sanctions on non-humanitarian and
non-trade assistance to Bangladesh over the trafficking of women and
children.
View from
abroad
Rabbi looks for Jews in India\92s
North East: One of Israel\92s chief rabbis revealed on Tuesday that he had travelled to India to examine the possibility of allowing thousands of members of a tribe, which claims to be Jewish, to immigrate to the Jewish State. Shlomo Amar, head of the country\92s Sephardic Jews and the leading authority on conversions, said more information was needed about the Bnei Mannasse tribe before a decision
was taken on whether to grant them \93aliyah\94, the right of all Jews to immigrate to Israel.
UN
links Iran uranium particles to Pakistan:
The UN nuclear watchdog has linked highly enriched uranium particles
found in Iran to Pakistan, which fits Tehran\92s explanation they
came from equipment bought on the black market, a Western diplomat
said on Tuesday.
Al Qaeda
captives deny 9/11 suspect knew of plot: Captured al Qaeda leaders have told U.S. interrogators that a Moroccan man on trial in Germany had no knowledge of the attack
plans.
Pakistani
held in US: A Pakistani man arrested in North
Carolina had videotapes of bank buildings in Charlotte and of
buildings in other major cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Dallas and
New Orleans, US justice officials said on Tuesday.
LoC
likely to become border, says US think-tank: The
American think-tank at the Atlantic Council sees the Line of Control
(LoC) "becoming an international border one day" as India
and Pakistan are like "irresistible forces meeting against an
irremovable object".
US
sting draws barbs from Pakistan: Misunderstandings
have arisen between the US and Pakistan in the war on terrorism.
Overall:
Musharaff said jehadi groups
will have to pack up: If
peace comes to Kashmir, militant groups have no place in Pakistan,
that country's president has said.
Date was fixed for execution of rapist: Dhananjoy, convicted
of raping and murdering a minor girl, will walk to the gallows on
August 14.
UN liked Iran uranium find to Pakistan: The
UN nuclear watchdog has linked highly enriched uranium particles
found in Iran to Pakistan.
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