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Sunday,
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Chandigarh, India
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Hand over 20 terrorists, Advani Dawood in Pak tribal areas
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Daler’s farmhouses raided 16 detained in
diplomat rape case
Antony
meets Shahi panel on Ernakulam defeat 3 get 10-year term for plotting to kill Kalam
Amarinder meets Ahmed Patel SC sets aside Bihar ex-minister’s election
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Hand over 20 terrorists, Advani tells Pak New Delhi, October 18 “A new chapter can be opened in Indo-Pak relations if Islamabad hands over Dawood Ibrahim and other 19 terrorists whose list was given to Pakistan last year,” Mr Advani said while inaugurating the silver jubilee celebrations of the Antar-Rashtriya Sahyog Parishad here. Mr Advani said the terrorist attacks like that on the residence of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in Srinagar yesterday would not weaken the government’s resolve to achieve victory over terrorism. Pointing out that the US Government has declared Dawood as a “global terrorist”, he said the External Affairs Ministry had again asked Pakistan to comply with India’s demand of handing over the 20 terrorists. Besides Dawood, his brothers, members of family, Abu Salem, Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar and hijackers of IC-814 Kathmandu-New Delhi flight are among the 20 fugitives sought by India. “Pakistan should think. It should either shun the path (of sponsoring terrorism) or the way the world is reacting, it would be treated as a pariah,” he said. “We have to achieve victory over terrorism on our own strength but we want to make the world understand that no country is immune to the threat,” he said. Mr Advani said representatives of all countries at the just-held Interpol conference had backed India’s demand in this regard and Interpol Secretary-General had personally told him that he would take up the matter with Pakistan when he visited the country in January next year. He recalled that during the Agra Summit, he had proposed to Gen Pervez Musharraf that India and Pakistan should sign an extradition treaty, as there were huge possibilities of fugitives taking shelter in one of the two countries after committing crimes. After initially accepting the idea, General Musharraf backed out later saying that Dawood was not in Pakistan, Mr Advani said. Apparently peeved at the lack of response from the USA to India’s warnings about threat from terrorism, he said September 11, attacks had made Washington realise that distance was no immunity from the threat. Meanwhile, the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) today welcomed the US move to declare Dawood Ibrahim a “global terrorist’’ and urged other countries to follow suit. Front Chairman M.S. Bitta said here that the USA should now declare Pakistan a terrorist state and also initiate proceedings for the deportation of Dawood and others included in the list of 20 fugitives.
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Dawood in Pak tribal areas New Delhi, October 18 Dawood is believed to be shuffling places in Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-controlled safe houses in FATA, top sources told The Tribune today with a degree of reasonable certainty. The sources pooh-poohed reports of Dawood being in countries like Saudi Arabia, Somalia or the UAE. "The UAE is too hot for him nowadays and he dare not go there. An orthodox country like Saudi Arabia cannot hold any charm for a man like Dawood, who daily indulges in sex and wine parties," they said. He had to operate with the blessings of the ISI as he was carrying out strategic tasks of the ISI, they said. The porous Pakistan-Afghanistan border was the ideal territory for the ISI to keep their most potent weapon, they added. The most wanted man on earth, Osama bin Laden, with whom Dawood has been linked by the George W. Bush administration, is also believed to be in FATA, a lawless Pakistani territory comprising tribal areas of two provinces — North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan. Islamabad's writ does not prevail in FATA and it is tribal warlords sympathetic to the Al-Qaida who rule the roost in these areas.
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LeT terrorist stayed at RAW officer’s flat
New Delhi, October 18 Mr Nayan Singh, a RAW officer, identified Mohammed Arif, alias Ashfaq, before Additional Sessions Judge O.P. Saini and testified that the alleged terrorist had stayed at the first floor of his flat in South Delhi’s Okhla area for two-and-a-half months from June, 2000. However, he deposed before the court that he asked Ashfaq — a Pakistani — to vacate the residence when the latter told him that he belonged to Jammu and Kashmir. Another witness Gyan Chand Goel also identified Ashfaq in court and said on December 6, 2000, a person came and gave him Rs 1,500 as rent and from the next day Ashfaq and another person started staying at his apartment in Okhla. —
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Russia may cut Gorshkov price New Delhi, October 18 While speculation is ripe in the defence circles that the deal might be finalised during the visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Russia in November, sources in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the representatives of the two sides were working to solve the issue of the price of refurbishment. Reports here suggested that the Russians might come down from $ 800 million which had been quoted originally and which was not acceptable to India. On the other hand India had offered to pay $ 600 million which was also not acceptable to the Russians. India wants all armament, including the Cruise missiles and the four Antey Kinzal surface-to-air missiles fitted on the front of the carrier, removed lift capacity to the vessel added. It also wants adequate space for sufficient number of fighter aircraft to be on board. According to reports, India is ready to hike its offer a little to about $ 670 million, which apparently would be acceptable to the Russians. Defence Minister of Russia Sergei Ivanov is expected to visit India in the coming days to further smoothen any remaining wrinkles in the inking of the deal. Prime Minister Vajpayee is scheduled to visit Russia from November 11 and there is a possibility that Defence Minister George Fernandes may accompany him. Mr Fernandes is at present on a visit to Ukraine. Incidentally, the Russians have tied India’s request for the lease of two nuclear submarines and TU-22 long range bombers, which are also nuclear capable, with the signing of the Admiral Gorshkov deal. Along with the Admiral Gorshkov, India will also acquire at least 30 naval versions of the MiG-29 fighter aircraft from Russia to be placed on the aircraft carrier. India would be spending an additional $ 1.5 billion for acquiring the naval version of the Mig-29Ks. Not only would the Russian nuclear submarines provide the scientists here with a technology demonstrator for the ATVs but also help train the entire generation of naval officers and men for the future of the Indian Navy. |
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Daler’s farmhouses raided New Delhi, October 18 The team, however, returned empty-handed as it could not trace the pop singer, his wife and sister-in-law besides failing to recover any documents during its raid at his farmhouse at Malodhi village in west Delhi and at Sona in Gurgaon, Haryana. Meanwhile, police sources said that the singer had sent feelers to the police that he was willing to surrender before the police provided he was given good treatment. The singer’s bail plea was scheduled for hearing in the High Court on Monday. The police team, led by the DCP (Intelligence) Patiala, Mr Rajender Pal Singh Anand, returned to Punjab after the raid. It would now go to Mumbai for further investigations. A Patiala court, on Wednesday, had issued non- bailable warrants for the arrest of Daler, his wife Daljit Kaur and his sister-in-law Balwinder Kaur in connection with an alleged immigration racket. PATIALA: A police team which raided various properties of Daler Mehndi in Delhi and Gurgaon, returned here on Saturday. Patiala Senior Superintendent of Police Paramraj Singh Umranangal said the singer was shifting places in Delhi to evade arrest. He said the state’s Inspector-General of Police (Intelligence) had spoken to the Delhi Police in this regard and help would be sought from the Delhi Police also if needed. Mr Umranangal said help of the Delhi Police had been taken to raid all three properties of the singer and the Patiala Police would coordinate with their Delhi counterparts in the case for information on the singer. The SSP said nothing incriminating had been found following the raids. He disclosed that the police was yet to make a breakthrough following the seizure of a computer from the flat of Rakesh Kaushal alias Rocky in Mumbai. He said the computer was being scrutinised for information. Meanwhile a court here deferred today the hearing of the anticipatory bail applications of Daljit Kaur and Balwinder Kaur, wives of Daler Mehndi and Shamsher Mehndi, after their advocates said they needed to consult their clients regarding some issue and also wanted certain documents related to the case. Shamsher also could not be present in court nor before the Duty Magistrate till late in the evening as he was being bought from Delhi. The SSP said Shamsher would be presented before the Duty Magistrate when he reaches Patiala. Shamsher has already been kept in police custody for the maximum period of 14 days and was to be produced in a court today in this regard. Meanwhile sources said State Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh is expected to review the progress of the human trafficking case involving the Mehndi brothers tomorrow. He arrived in the city today evening. |
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16 detained in
diplomat rape case New Delhi, October 18 “Today the police sent four more photographs through e-mail to the Swiss diplomat and the response to the first e-mail sent to the victim on Thursday was not yet received by us,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Vivek Gogia. The 16 suspects were being put through intensive interrogation. Cross-examination of the suspects and matching of their fingerprints were also being made to ascertain their involvement. The door-to-door questioning of persons in the nearby locality where the crime took place was also in the process and the Hauz Khas and Shahpur Jat areas were being combed regularly, said Mr Gogia. Meanwhile, a fresh eyewitness has surfaced in the second case, where a Gujarati film maker was attacked on the same night in Sirifort Auditorium. The police is in the process of verifying the statements of the eyewitness. |
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French honour for Gopalakrishnan New Delhi, October 18 This is the culmination of a strong relationship that he has developed with the international community and the French over the past few years. His latest film, “Nizhalkkuthu” (Shadow Kill), which is being shown at the 34th International Film Festival of India, has been co-produced with the French company Artcam and was granted the support of Fonds Sud (French Government’s grant for feature film co-productions). The film is to be distributed in France next month. The Order of Arts and Letters was created in 1975 to honour distinguished personalities in the fields of arts and letters and their contribution to the dissemination of culture in France and worldwide. Multi-faceted Gopalakrishnan has produced nine feature films, many short and documentary films, several stage plays and has written a number of essays. Padmashri Gopalakrishnan won the national award for the best film, best director, best cameraman and best actor for his very first film, “Swayamvaram”, and set a record of sorts. His film, “Kathapurushan”, also won him the national award for the best feature film in all Indian languages. He has won the national award for the best director four times and the best script writer thrice. His third feature, “Elippathayam”, won him the coveted British Film Institute Award for the most original and imaginative film of 1982. The International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) has gone to him five times successively for “Mukhamukham”, “Anantaram”, “Mathilukal”, “Vidheyan” The amazing saga continues with “Nizhalkkuthu”, a powerful tale of a hangman in the southern princely state of Travancore in 1940s. The protagonist lives outside the mainstream society and is governed by complex forces which he cannot fathom, leave alone control. In the narration, Adoor uses all the five elements of Nature in its raw and untamed manifestations —the earth in the shape of the primeval mountains and virginal valleys with tall trees and lush vegetation; the air in the form of the insistent wind; the water that cleanses and sustains life; the fire that lights up the dark; and the sky which makes all the human drama and trials look trivial and inconsequential. As Adoor himself says, he “explores the unknown terrains of the conscious and the unconscious, of the dream (nightmare) and the real, and of the individual and the collective — a search that I think is at once culture specific and universal in relevance”. More strength to his pen, and megaphone! *** The informal group of critics and film buffs headed by Amita Malik, V.K. Cherian and P.K. Nair announced the “Critics Award” today. The award for the best film, quite expectedly went to German film “Goodbye Lenin” while “Radio Favela” from Brazil was declared the second best. The German film directed by Wolfgang Becher is the story of a loving son who tries to move mountains and create a miracle to restore his mother to health. Brazilian “Radio Favela” directed by Helicon Raton and Jorge Duran is inspired by the true story of the community radio station formed in 1980s, which plays slum music but also criticises the government. *** Rolf de Here, who has been writing, producing and directing feature films for the past two decades, is a leading film-maker of Australia. He is known for consistently challenging moral conventions and pushing the boundaries of film-makers’ art. “The Tracker”, his 2002 film, lives up to his reputation. It has wowed audiences in nearly 20 festivals and has picked up a large number of awards for direction, screenplay and music. It is the story of four persons tracking a black fugitive, accused of murder, way back in 1922. Their head is Fanatic, cold, calculating, ruthless and complex. The second of the three whites is the Follower, a greenhorn who is new to the Australian outback. Then there is the Veteran, a thinker rather than a doer. But the real leader, whether others know it or not, is the Tracker himself, a mysterious figure who is not what he seems. Tension rises. The Whites sense a hostile Black behind every tree. They surprise a small group of bush blacks and the subsequent interrogation session turns into a small massacre. From that point, the expedition falls into increasing disarray. Suspicion falls on the Tracker, who is chained. Then the Veteran is speared. His wounds slow the party’s progress, and one night at the camp, the Fanatic, thinking he is unobserved, sends him “to that undiscovered country from whence no traveller returns”. |
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Antony meets Shahi panel on Ernakulam defeat New Delhi, October 18 Mr Antony apprised members of his views on the defeat of the party candidate. He sidestepped questions whether the ‘I’ group, supported by a senior Congress leader Mr Karunakaran, was responsible for the debacle. The meeting was attended by all committee members — Mr L. P. Shahi, Mr R K Dhawan and Mr Janardhan Poojary. The Congress high command had appointed the committee even before the poll results were announced on complaints of anti-party activities by some party leaders against the official candidate Mr M. O. John. Mr Antony had been unable to present his views on the matter earlier because of his “preoccupation.” A report from the Kerala PCC Chief K. Muraleedharan on the poll debacle had been received by the committee. |
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3 get 10-year term for plotting to kill Kalam New Delhi, October 18 Designated Judge S.N. Dhingra also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on Mohd Ashraf, alias Mohd Shakeel, Mohd Amran and Abdul Majid, all Pakistani nationals. The trio had confessed their role in the crime before Mr Dhingra, with Ashraf citing the love Indians showered on Noor, the child who was brought here from Pakistan for a heart surgery, as what motivated him to admit his guilt. The other accused in the case are Tariq Mohammad, Ashhaq Ahmed, Mufti Mohammad Asrar, Arshad Khan, Ghulam Mohammad Dar and Ghulam Qadar Bhatt. —
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Amarinder meets Ahmed Patel New Delhi, October 18 The meeting is a follow-up of Chief Minister’s discussions with the Congress President earlier in the week. Sources said the corruption case faced by Punjab Agriculture Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal also figured in the meeting. They said the Congress leadership was wary of any adverse political impact of the case before the Assembly elections in the five states. This was Chief Minister’s third visit to the Capital in the past week. The sources said the Chief Minister offered services of Punjab ministers, MLAs and party leaders for campaigning. |
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SC sets aside Bihar ex-minister’s election New Delhi, October 18 Allowing an appeal against Patna High Court judgement upholding his election, a Bench comprising Chief Justice V.N. Khare and Mr Justice S.B. Sinha said: “The policy of election law seems to be that for the establishment of purity of elections, investigation into all allegations of malpractices, including corrupt practices, in elections should be thoroughly investigated.” |
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