Sunday, September 22, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Efforts on for Abu’s extradition
CBI team to leave for Lisbon soon
New Delhi, September 21
The CBI today said that the underworld don Abdul Salem Qayyum Ansari alias Abu Salem, and his companion Monica Bedi, who were arrested by the Portuguese authorities, were residing in Lisbon on fake residence permits and were holding Pakistani passports. In video (28k, 56k)

    No death penalty, India to assure Portugal
    Nation page: Salem was ‘running’ extortion racket

The Portuguese connection
Channel for infiltrating militants
Jammu, September 21
Security agencies in Kashmir feel intrigued over the possibility of Portugal serving as a channel for infiltrating dreaded militants and separatists into Kashmir. These doubts have surfaced following the arrest in Lisbon of Abu Salem, an underworld don charged with involvement in a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai.

Al-Qaida, ISI cell in Portugal?
New Delhi, September 21
The crucial question investigated by Indian security agencies in conjunction with their international counterparts is whether Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaida, Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence and the underworld have a full-fledged cell in Portugal?

Minister escapes bid on life
Blast kills 2, injures 15
Kulgam (Pulwama), September 21
Minister of State for Tourism Sakina Itoo today escaped the fourth bid on her life by militants active in Pulwama, Anantnag belt. Today’s attack was the second attack on Itoo within 24 hours.

   Are Al-Qaida men in J&K?

TRIBUNE SPECIAL
Musharraf orders inquiry
Nasir, Niazi embezzled funds for Pak gurdwaras
Chandigarh, September 21
In an endeavour to assuage hurt feelings of overseas Sikhs, the Chief Executive of Pakistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf, has ordered a high-level inquiry into the working of the Evacuee Trust Property Board after sacking its present Chairman, Major-Gen Inayatullah Khan Niazi (retd).

Badal flays CM for ‘misgovernance’
Chhapar, September 21
President of the SAD Mr Parkash Singh Badal today accused the Punjab Chief Minister of gross lack of concern and not making strong representation to the Centre in respect of MSP and compensation for the drought hit farmers.

Ex-DGP cleared indicted cops
Got jobs on fake degrees
Amritsar, September 21
The Punjab Government is contemplating high-level inquiry to probe authenticity of the degrees acquired from the university outside the state on the basis of which a number of beneficiaries got jobs, especially in the Police Department.

Talks on MSP tomorrow; CM stays away from Chhapar mela Chhapar, September 21 Even as Chief Minister Amarinder Singh could not take part in the historic Chhapar mela, his detractors seized this opportunity to raise questions about his “ ability to lead the state out of the present crisis.”