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September 19, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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Imam against attack on Afghanistan Suspects innocent, say kin UK denies anti-Sikh attacks Punjabi body
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Terrorism blamed on USA CPI condemns offer to USA TN to move
S. Court on Cauvery issue PM convenes meeting on
Cauvery Pay order is negotiable instrument: SC MLAs, police officials booked in liquor case Tehelka expose: govt submits report
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Imam against attack on Afghanistan New Delhi, September 18 He told newspersons that he spoke to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee yesterday and conveyed “the feelings” of the Muslim community in the country on the issue. “I told the Prime Minister that India should not allow its soil to be used by the USA for strikes against Afghanistan,” he said criticising the government for its “unconditional” support for the planned strikes against Afghanistan. Accusing the USA of applying different standards to atrocities carried out by Israel in Palestine, he said the USA itself was a “terrorist state”. He said Washington would be “perpetrating terrorism” if it decided to go after Bin Laden “without any proof”. “Terrorism begets terrorism. Whatever happened in New York and Washington last Tuesday was just a reaction to the actions of the USA”, he claimed. The Imam claimed that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had assured him that India would neither allow its airspace to be used by the USA and its allies to attack Afghanistan nor provide fuelling facility to their fighter planes. Talking to reporters here, he said he got this assurance from the Prime Minister during a telephonic conversation yesterday wherein he expressed his concern over India’s unsolicited offer of support to the USA. US Ambassador in India Robert
Blackwill will meet the Imam in the premises of the historic mosque on September 20. The Imam said the proposal for the meeting came from the American envoy which he accepted so as to express his views and concern over the impending US attack on Afghanistan.
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Suspects innocent, say kin Hyderabad, September 18 The shocked family members of Mohammed Jaweed Azmat and Ayub Ali Khan, who were recently picked up by the American police at Fort Worth, today strongly denied that their dear ones were linked to terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and asserted that they were innocent. “My son is innocent. He went to the USA to earn money to support the family,” 65 year old Gul Begum, mother of Ayub Ali Khan, said. She said her son had called her up a couple of days before the terrorist attacks to inform her that he was leaving for Texas to set up a shop as he had lost the job in New Jersey where he had been staying for the past nine years along with another suspect Mohammed
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UK denies anti-Sikh attacks New Delhi, September 18 “We have spoken to the Foreign Office and the Home Office in the UK. Both have denied news reports that Sikhs have been made targets of race attacks after the events of last week in the USA,’’ a British High Commission official. The British Authorities, he said, had instead questioned the source of such news reports that appeared in sections of the Indian media today. Asked if the British authorities had tightened security for Sikhs in the wake of violence against the community members in the USA, he said “Britain provides security to all its
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Punjabi body
seeks safety of Sikhs New Delhi, September 18 In a letter to the US Ambassador to India, Mr Robert Blackwill, the WPO urged the US government to educate the people about the distinctive identity of Sikhs. “There is a need to clarify the situation in the US print and electronic media”, the WPO said adding that Sikhs all over North America were concerned about the development. |
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Terrorism blamed on USA New Delhi, September 18 He said India had been maintaining from the beginning that the menace of terrorism plaguing it today, could spread to other countries in the future. But the world, including the USA, ignored the warning. “Now that the USA has realised the sufferings from terrorism, it should start taking steps to uproot the menace once and for all. The USA should warn Pakistan against carrying out terrorist actions in India, especially in Jammu and Kashmir,” the President of the Akali Dal (Master Tara Singh) told reporters. He said though Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had condemned the attacks on the USA, the public opinion in that country favoured the terrorist actions against Washington. “In the past whenever incidents of terrorism took place, the USA never intervened and nor did it ask the countries supporting terrorism to desist from indulging in the acts.” Instead, the USA supported Pakistan and Taliban and its approach towards terrorism had resulted in the present situation,” the Akali leader said. Mr Rachpal Singh also warned the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, from entering into any dialogue with Pakistan in future. “We have seen their attitude and no talks should be held with them in future as all these steps would only prove counter-productive,” he said. Commenting on the Sehajdharis issue, he said they should be allowed to participate in the SGPC elections and demands for their exclusion were not in the interest of the Sikhs. He added that Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal should prevail upon the SGPC to take back its resolution which said that Sehajdharis should not have the right to take part in the gurdwara polls. Recalling the contribution of Sehajdharis, he said they had been close associates of the Sikh Gurus. Mr Rachpal Singh said Sehajdharis had been taking part in the SGPC elections since 1925 and there was no reason why they should not be allowed to participate now. Regretting violence against Sikhs in certain cities of Europe and the USA following the terrorist attacks in the USA, he said every effort should be made to protect innocent people from being targeted. |
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CPI condemns offer to USA Hyderabad, September 18 Addressing a press conference here, the party National Council Secretary, Mr D. Raja, said India should not be a part of the US initiative in tackling global terrorism, a menace to the civilised and democratic society, as it was the responsibility of the UN Security Council. Referring to Uttar Pradesh, he said the Rajnath Singh government should quit office following the mass resignation of Samajwadi Party legislators, continued attacks on Dalits and the Ayodhya issue. Lashing out at the Vajpayee government for its failure on all fronts, Mr Raja said it had no right to continue in power. It had failed to protect the economic and food security of the country and had become a pawn in the hands of the
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TN to move
S. Court on Cauvery issue Chennai, September 18 The state had no other alternative but to move the apex court as no reply had been received to her
September 14 letter to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to convene an urgent meeting of the Cauvery River Water Authority, Ms Jayalalitha told reporters after the Cabinet took the decision. Even if the meeting was convened immediately, the dead storage level would have been reached in the Mettur dam by the time and no water would be available to the farmers of the Cauvery delta region, she said. The level at the dam had already reached almost the dead storage mark, she added.
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PM convenes meeting on Cauvery New Delhi, September 18 Tamil Nadu, which is demanding the release of at least one tmcft of water by Karnataka to save the withering kuruvai crops in the delta, took the decision at a Cabinet meeting in Chennai today. While she said she had received no reply for her September 14 letter to the Prime Minister to convene a meeting of the authority, a PMO spokesman here rejected the charge as “factually incorrect’’ and pointed out that the meeting had been convened on September 22.
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Minister dropped Lucknow, September 18 |
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Pay order is negotiable instrument: SC New Delhi, September 18 Reversing a Bombay High Court order holding that pay order was not a cheque, a Bench comprising Mr Justice K.T. Thomas and Mr Justice S.N. Variava in a judgement yesterday said a pay order could not be a promissory note as that latter contained an unconditional undertaking to pay a certain sum by the drawer. Such an undertaking could not be read out from a pay order, the Bench said adding pay order was closer to a bill of exchange because of the unconditional order of its maker to the person concerned “to pay a certain sum”. This order came in a case where the Punjab and Sind Bank filed a complaint under Section 138 of NI Act against Vinkar Sahakari Bank Ltd and its officials for dishonour of a pay order. However, a single judge of the high court had quashed the complaint mainly on the premise that the pay order was not a cheque. Setting aside the high court order, the Bench said: “We dissent from the view adopted by the single
judge in the impugned judgement that the pay order is not a cheque.”
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MLAs, police officials booked in liquor case Bhopal, September 18 According to sources, cases have also been registered against more than 100 police and excise officers, including an Additional Director General of Police and a Deputy Commissioner, Excise under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The Special Police Establishment (SPE), after receiving orders from the Lokayukta Mr Justice Faizanuddin following the completion of the first stage of inquiry into the case yesterday, registered the FIR against such public servants against whom prima facie evidence had been found in the cashbooks. The cashbooks were reportedly seized by the income tax sleuths from the local MP Nagar office of the liquor baron who allegedly made pay-offs of crores of rupees to several top brass of the ruling and the opposition party and government bigwigs, the sources said. The list of police officials included several city Superintendents, Town Inspectors and a number of policemen who are said to be on a “monthly payroll” of Som Distilleries in the area of its operation in Bhopal and Raisen districts.
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Tehelka expose: govt submits report New Delhi, September 18 During a hearing, Attorney-General Soli Sorabjee, representing the government, said it was not going to withdraw the charges, and instead was submitting the documents along with an additional affidavit in support of them.
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