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Fourth round of border talks with
Hizbul for tripartite talks on Kashmir
Jamaat-i-Islami lashes out at army's role in politics
Ackerman elected India Caucus
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Fourth round of border talks with China
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Beijing, November 18 The fourth round of talks, at the level of Special Representatives, is being held between National Security Adviser J.N. Dixit and the Chinese Executive Vice-Foreign Minister and designated Special Representative, Dai Bingguo. The in-camera parleys, will last for two days, official sources said while being tight-lipped about the prospects of a breakthrough. Ahead of the meeting, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the two sides would discuss the guiding principles to resolve the issue. “We hope that the two representatives will, proceeding from the common understanding reached by the two leaders (Prime Ministers) and also from the overall relations between our two countries, further explore the guiding principles regarding the solution to the border issue,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said. This is the second time that both countries are meeting after the Congress-led UPA government assumed power in May. Mr Dai earlier had two meetings with Mr Dixit’s predecessor, Mr Brajesh Mishra. Tomorrow, Mr Dixit will call on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who is likely to visit India early next year. Without hinting at the specifics, the two sides had noted, at the end of the third round in New Delhi in July, that the negotiations took place in a “friendly, constructive and cooperative atmosphere.” India claims China is illegally occupying 43,180 sq km of Jammu and Kashmir including 5,180 sq km illegally ceded to Beijing by Islamabad under the Sino-Pakistan boundary agreement in 1963. On the other hand, China accuses India of possessing some 90,000 sq km of Chinese territory, mostly in Arunachal Pradesh.
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Hizbul for tripartite talks on Kashmir
Islamabad, November 18 “It is an issue of right to self-determination. Bilateral talks either between India and Pakistan or between India and Kashmiris cannot resolve it. Those must be tripartite with all the three parties at the negotiating table,” Hizbul leader Sayed Salahuddin said in a statement. Referring to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remarks in Srinagar yesterday that his government was ready to hold unconditional talks with anyone or everyone who abjure violence, Salahuddin said Kashmir was neither internal matter of India nor a border dispute with any other country. Instead of offering economic package, he said, India should grant right to self-determination. Salahuddin, who also heads the United Jehad Council (UJC), a conglomerate of militant groups, said two years back then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had offered a $ 1.3 billion development package but that had also “failed” to change the minds of the Kashmiris. —
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Jamaat-i-Islami lashes out at army's role in politics
Karachi: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) deputy chief, Senator Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, has said the uniform issue had gained importance because the army did not like to part with power and the civil and military bureaucracy were working to fail Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
He said although Pakistan and India had attained independence at the same time, the Indian Army had never come into power, not even for a single day. While half of our national life had passed under the army rule, he said. "The army rule had brought miseries to people and the public meeting on November 28 at Nishtar Park would turn out to be a vote of no confidence against the army's intervention in politics," he said. Professor Ghafoor, who was speaking at an Id Milan Party of the JI Liaquatabad on Wednesday, recalled that the 1977 PNA movement was launched from Karachi and Liaquatabad had played the central role in it. He said Karachiites had suffered the most during past regimes. The MQM, which had emerged with enthusiasm and fervour to eliminate injustices, had today become an instrument of the establishment, he remarked. The senator said since its (MQM) formation, some 25,000 youth had been killed in Karachi so far and not a single day had passed when someone was not killed by being declared as a traitor of the organisation. He said MQM was in power in Sindh, but there as no check on dacoities, theft and extortion, except for a ban on recruitment. The JI leader said people of Karachi had always faced dictators and they were alive to the situation. As such, their presence could not allow strengthening the dictatorship. Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui said the uniform was not the necessity of the nation, but of the US, as she wanted to see only one man powerful, who could be used through pressure to obtaining its objectives. Meanwhile, JI secretary-general Syed Munawwar Hasan, talking to the bereaved family members of the May 12 byelection incidents, said the killers of Ulema and MMA activists were present in the rank and file of the government and despite being pointed out by the MMA, the killers had not been arrested. But he hoped a day would come when the killers would be taken to task. Meanwhile, the party leaders have vowed to hold public meeting on November 28 in Karachi "at any cost", saying any hurdle by the government in this regard would be "strongly resisted". Mr Hasan opined that Karachiites had always played a key role in movements against dictators and expected that they would continue supporting opposition parties in their scheduled protest campaign against autocratic rule. JI Karachi Amir Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui, on the occasion presented tributes to the mujahideen fighting in the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Mosul, the Indian-held Kashmir, Afghanistan and Palestine, saying they had not given up their struggle against the US, Israeli and Indian forces despite the military might of the latter three. According to him, the President's uniform was the main reason of the price hike, unemployment and increasing suicide rate in the country while the educational system was being secularised on US directives. — By arrangement with the
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Ackerman elected India Caucus
Co-Chairman
Washington, November 18 Ackerman, whose election witnessed an unprecedented turnout, is the first member from the House Caucus on India and Indian Americans to return to that position since the caucus adopted a rotating chairmanship. He was also instrumental in removing nuclear-related sanctions on India.
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4 Iraqis killed in blast
Baiji (Iraq), November 18 Lieutenant-Colonel Kifah Mohammed told Reuters two women, a man and a child were killed. He had no further details. The city, in the restive Sunni Muslim region, north of Baghdad, has seen a sharp increase in violence over the past week.
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13 nations agree to control emission of methane
Washington, November 18 US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Mike Leavitt joined representatives from India, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Columbia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom in the signing ceremony that launched the global Methane-to-Markets Partnership.
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