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Nation
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Pakistan
restarting terror
camps, says India
What is India News
Service, August 18, 2004, 1700 hrs IST
The Pakistani regime has not taken any credible steps to dismantle
its terrorist infrastructure and recent reports indicate efforts to revive some training camps, Minister of State for External Affairs
E Ahamed said
on Wednesday.
Cross-border infiltration from Pakistan increased during June and July,
he told the Lower House during the question hour.
Maintaining there was "some decline" in infiltration till May after the November 23, 2003 ceasefire, he said the levels increased in June and July.
India sincere on Kashmir,
says Pervez: The Pakistani president has said both India and his country were pursuing the ongoing dialogue process with all sincerity and reiterated his call for fast
progress on Kashmir which he described as a nuclear flashpoint.
Allies take
govt apart: Left parliamentarians didn't pull punches on issues dear to them.
They accused the government of being pro-broker, anti-worker.
Manipur begins crackdown on protesters:
The call for a general strike evoked a near-total response from the people of the state. Educational and business establishments remained closed.
Taslimuddin not to quit: Union Minister of State for Civil
Supplies Taslimuddin said there was no question of his resigning. He is in the eye of a storm after the Bihar
government withdrew a criminal case against him.
Militants kill four members of family: Suspected Lashker-e-Toiba militants today killed four members of a family in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said here.
'Aiyar must apologise for Savarkar remarks':
The issue could tilt the electoral balance in the Maharashtra election. The BJP
is charging the UPA government with insulting Maratha freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar by removing a plaque bearing his quote
at the Cellular Jail in Port Blair.
HP
government wants lake inspected: The Himachal Pradesh government has urged the Indian
government to inspect the Tibet lake, about to burst any moment, with the
help of the Chinese authorities. Latest satellite images indicate that the
river is gradually stabilising and the threat of a flash flood receding.
Major
wins Olympics silver for India: \93I just can\92t describe this moment. I have no words. It is a fantastic feeling,\94 Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said after winning India\92s first-ever individual silver medal at the Olympics.
States
Court
tells Modi to set up panel: The Supreme Court today directed the Narendra Modi Government in Gujarat to set up a high-level police team headed by the Director-General of Police to examine which of the 2,000 or so post-Godhra riot cases, closed earlier on the ground that the accused could not be traced, required fresh investigation.
Flesh
trade charge leads to attack: A mob shouting slogans against Avtar Singh, husband of CPM member of Parliament Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, descended on the couple\92s house in Salt Lake and pelted
stones.
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Syed Geelani gets no hearing at JNU:
Protests by a section of students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) had Parliament attack case prime accused Syed A R Geelani beating a hasty retreat from the varsity campus on Tuesday night.
Telugu Ganga in two years, says YSR:
The much-awaited Telugu Ganga project, designed to supply water to Chennai and meet the irrigational needs of Rayalaseema, will go
be completed in two years, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara
Reddy said at a press conference.
Arkavathi allotments from Jan 15: Bangalore Development
Authority is planning the nation\92s biggest layout with 50,000 sites. These allotments are likely to be made
by July 2005.
Telgi
remanded: A court here today remanded Abdul Karim Telgi, prime accused in the multi-crore fake stamp papers racket, to judicial custody till August 31 in a similar
stamp scam case registered against him at the Mira Road Police Station here. .
Neighbours
100,000
Pakistani troops deployed along Afghan border: For the first time,
Pakistan officially stated that it has deployed \93over 100,000\94 Pakistani troops on the country\92s border with Afghanistan.
The surprise admission from Mohammad Sadiq, acting Pakistani ambassador to the Untied States, was made during a panel discussion on Fox television regarding an earlier report by the right-wing cable channel that a \93terrorist summit\94 had taken place in the area.
Pakistan soldier killed in attack: An army soldier was killed and five others suffered injuries when suspected militants attacked a military outpost in the Shakai valley of South Waziristan, officials said on Tuesday.
Police
raid mosque: Police raided Lal Mosque on Monday night and
searched the residences of its clergy, which the government says is
sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
Pakistan frees two Indian boys: Security forces freed two Indian children on Tuesday, five months after they mistakenly crossed
the border.
Karzai
promises Afghans security for election: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai promised Afghans greater security when they go to vote in the country's first ever democratic election during an independence day speech on Wednesday.
Karzai's U.S.-backed transitional government is battling Taliban militia fighting to disrupt the presidential election on October 9 and parliamentary polls six months later. Close to 1,000 people have been killed in the past year.
Tit-for-tat missile tests raise tensions:
China has successfully tested a new guided missile which it says is highly accurate, state media said yesterday amid rising tensions with Taiwan.
Maoists impose
'blockade' on Kathmandu: All modes of transport came to a halt in Kathmandu following
an indefinite blockade called by Maoist organisations beginning Wednesday.
Another report said the Maoists had issued
an order to execute ten journalists.
View from
abroad
Jaguars in US exploits:
Indian Air Force bombers returned to base today after war games hosted by America in Alaska. Air force sources said the bombers had penetrated US air defence twice.
Warning
on terror
politics in US and Pakistan: \93The mixing of anti-terrorism policy
with the 2004 presidential campaign is becoming destructive, creating a vicious cycle of hype, scepticism and mistrust that puts the country\92s security at risk,\94
a writer in the Washington Post said on Tuesday.
Gulf job seekers end up in Iraq:
Soumitra Gomes says that when he applied for a job as a cook in Kuwait, he never expected to earn double what he was promised. But he also says he didn't expect to end up in Iraq.
Saudi
advisory on British varsities: The Saudi Arabian embassy in London will advise its nationals to boycott British universities in protest over financial irregularities, exorbitant fees and poor teaching, the Observer reported.
Amelia Hill, the British weekly newspaper\92s education correspondent, writes that other foreign embassies also have complaints about the way their students are treated by British universities, but do not wish to speak out for fear the universities will retaliate.
Overall:
Minister accused Pakistan of
restarting terror camps: E
Ahamed said Pakistan had done little to dismantle its terrorist
infrastructure.
Pakistan admitted it had beefed up border security:
For the first time, Pakistan officially stated that
it has deployed \93over 100,000\94 troops on the border with Afghanistan.
Saudi students were advised to avoid Britain: The Saudi
Arabian embassy in London will warn its citizens about "bad
treatment" at British universities.
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