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China ready to help India crush Maoists
Expansion of Security Council must: India
India, Russia to bolster trade
Pak slams India for targeting Dr Khan
Quake-hit asked to leave mountains
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Cops question Indian-origin man linked
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9 cops held for Kosovo murders
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China ready to help India crush Maoists
New Delhi, October 26 Chinese Ambassador Sun Yuxi told IANS at an interaction here that Beijing did not even know why the Maoist guerrillas in India called themselves followers of the man who led the Communists to victory in China in 1949. "If there is any help (you expect) from us to India to get rid of them, we will try to do our best," the top diplomat said candidly. "We are also wondering why they call themselves Maoists. We don't like that. We don't like that at home. We don't have any connection with them at home. "If they call themselves Maoists, we can't stop that way. But definitely it (the Maoist movement in India) does not have any connection with the government of China." While China has been distancing itself from Maoist guerrillas in India for years, it is the first time a top Chinese official has gone to the extent of saying that Beijing would have no hesitation in providing help to crush the Maoist rebels. The ambassador said it was possible some of the Maoist guerrillas might possess Chinese weapons. But even that, he said, did not mean that they had any links with Beijing. He explained that China had supplied a lot of weapons to the anti-Soviet
Mujahideen guerrillas in Afghanistan during the 1980s in cooperation with Pakistan and the US. "A lot of them (were) lost in the black market and they spread everywhere. Even some Chinese terrorists were trained in Afghanistan. They went back with the Chinese weapons and they waged terrorist activities inside China. "So, we were very sorry to see that... If there is anything that we can help to stop them (Indian Maoists), we would do." The Maoist movement in India erupted in May 1967 in a West Bengal village called Naxalbari, giving its adherents the sobriquet Naxalites. China then actively supported the movement, and Indian Maoists vowed to pursue China's revolutionary path. China began distancing itself from the Indian Maoists in the 1980s and now has no institutional linkages with any of the Maoist groups, including the dominant Communist Party of India-Maoist.
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Expansion of Security Council must: India
United Nations, October 26 “India will continue to work with like-minded countries to reach the broadest possible agreement for an expansion of permanent and non permanent categories, to respect deadlines, and to bring the reforms process to an early and successful conclusion,” its representative Mohsina Kidwai said yesterday. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, she stressed the need for early adoption of a comprehensive convention on international terrorism. Speaking on the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals”, which seek to end or substantially reduce several social and economic ills, Ms Kidwai called on the rich countries to increase development assistance to the developing nations to enable them meet the targets. Welcoming the debt cancellation of highly indebted
nations, she stressed on the need for “sharply” increasing the official development assistance (ODA) in keeping with the Monterrey consensus.
— PTI
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India, Russia to bolster trade
Moscow, October 26 India will also go beyond large investment in Sakhalin-1 oil field, visiting External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh announced here after the 11th meeting of the Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission. “India is technically equipped and financially capable and willing to jointly work with Russia to make our energy cooperation an important and mutually beneficial dimension of our strategic partnership,” the minister said, adding that it had decided to invest more in Russia’s oil and gas sectors. He said political decisions had been made and specifics would be worked out by the Indo-Russian summit in early December when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was scheduled to visit Moscow. “Two economies are consistently growing, offering new opportunities on both sides,” he said. The minister, who arrived here yesterday on a four-day visit, said such areas, including information technology, bio-technology, commercialisation of Russian or jointly developed technologies and some frontier areas of science and technology, deserved greater substantive joint action.
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Pak slams India for targeting Dr Khan
Islamabad, October 26 “Everyone knows which country started nuclear proliferation in the region,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ms Tasneem Aslam said in a statement last night while reacting sharply to Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran’s Monday’s statement. She said “It was not Pakistan but India which started arms race in the region.
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Quake-hit asked to leave mountains
Islamabad, October 26 The Prime Minister, during a visit to the area, said the move would enable the people to have access to relief
goods. He was informed that the aftershocks had destroyed thousands of houses and displaced a large number of people. The Prime Minister was told that a number of villagers had descended to lower grounds while others were being asked to leave their mud-houses for the relative safety of the valley. Officials are considering evacuation of the population in view of the alarming situation arising out of emission of blue smoke and reports that mountains in the area have skidded by about two metres. Over 2,000 aftershocks have been felt in Alai over the past two days and a mountain is reported to be spurting dust. Meanwhile, Pakistani army helicopters began transporting tents, supplied by the International Organisation for Migration, to Alai which has been cut off by landslides triggered by the tremors. On complaint of an elderly man that many people in the area had not received tents, Prime Minister Aziz said providing tents in Alai was the top priority of the government, followed by meeting people’s needs for food and medical care. |
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Cops question Indian-origin man linked
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London, October 26 Patel (27), a British-born Muslim of Indian origin, had been held at the West Yorkshire police station, a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said, adding that the Metropolitan police and officers of the anti-terrorist branch were questioning him. Patel was taken in custody on Saturday night after he told “News of the World” tabloid that he was lined up to be the fifth July 7 bomber. He was formally arrested on Monday.
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9 cops held for Kosovo murders
Belgrade, October 26 It was the first arrest linked to the discovery in 2001 of mass graves containing the remains of more than 800 victims of the 1998-99 Kosovo war. The biggest was in Batajnica, near the capital Belgrade, in a police compound. “The policemen are suspected of having killed 48 persons, including four babies and a 100-year-old woman, on March 26, 1999, in Suva Reka,” said a spokesman for Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor. He said six of the nine policemen were still on active duty at the time of their arrest.
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