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Fighting racism, Indians rally in Australia again
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Blast outside police centre kills 2
Dawood aide nabbed in Dhaka
Kashmir Crisis
Official admits to leading Dhaka mutiny
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Fighting racism, Indians rally in Australia again
Melbourne, June 7 The rally, which saw the participation of nearly 1,000 students, was organised by the Federation of Indian Students Association, Sydney Chapter, along with the National Union of Students. The protesters, shouting anti-racism slogans, marched from Townhall to High Park in Sydney. The chants of 'Vande Matram' and 'Baharat Mata Ki Jai' also reverberated the air during the rally. Apart from Indians, there were students from other countries at the rally, who voiced their concerns about the racial violence and demanded police to be alert to prevent such incidents from happening again, witnesses said. The rally, which demanded justice for the victims of racial attacks, came hours after yet another incident targeting Indian students in Australia came to light here in which a car belonging to a 22-year-old youth from the community was torched. Vikrant Rajesh Ratan, who had used all his savings to buy the car, said the vehicle was burnt last night outside his home. Ratan, who hails from Ludhiana, said that two other cars, also belonging to Indians, that were parked next to his vehicle, were also damaged during the incident. "We were sleeping when it all happened. We heard the fire alarm of the car. When we went out to see what happened we saw the car on fire," he told PTI. He suspected that it could have been done by a group of drug addicts who used to sit near the premises. "I believe they (addicts) probably first tried to open the car. Then they may have used a petrol can to set it ablaze." Ratan, who came here a month ago to pursue a certificate course in Automotive Engineering, said that there was no chance of a short circuit that could have burnt the car in this cold weather. He said he had bought the vehicle a few days ago for 2500 dollars and the car was not even insured. Meanwhile, the students, angry over such attacks, also proposed to organise another rally in Brisbane, according to sources. However, prominent Indian community leaders in Sydney had earlier said the students were engaging in "entirely futile" exercise as their concerns had already been raised with the Australian authorities. On Sunday last as well, thousands of Indian students had rallied here demanding justice for victims of recent attacks.
— PTI
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26/11
Lahore, June 7 “The Attorney General contended that the petitioners are being blamed to be involved in Mumbai attacks, we have observed that not a single document has been brought on record that the petitioners are involved in it,” the court ruled. A three-member full bench of court yesterday in its detailed verdict maintained that “no documentary or any other evidence” was produced against the detention of Saeed and others. The court, in its 29-page verdict, observed the detainees were not informed regarding reasons of their detention within the period of three months which was a legal requirement. Saeed, linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was set free on Tuesday by the Lahore High Court, triggering an angry response from India which accused Pakistan of not being serious about fighting terror. The 59-year-old Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Saeed, who has been under house arrest since December 11, was ordered to be released by the High Court which held his detention as illegal. A close aide of Saeed, Col (retd) Nazir Mohammad, also held in connection with the November 26 attacks in Mumbai, was freed alongwith the JuD chief by the High Court. According to the judgment, Pakistan’s Attorney General and Advocate General made verbal request for in-camera proceedings as they wanted to produce some “secret” material to be in possession of the government against the petitioners. “The said documents are mostly reports of intelligence agencies. The first report is dated 6-4-2009, and the document shows that in order to cover up lacuna, the report has been obtained after four months of the detention of the petitioners and it is found incorrect as nothing happened which was apprehended in the report,” the court said. According to the judgment, “The second report is dated 21.4.2009.” “If this report is correct, why was any action not taken against the persons responsible? Even otherwise, this report was prepared during the period when the petitioners had already been detained, who cannot be held responsible for any apprehension about any action on the part of the JuD,” it said. — PTI
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Blast outside police centre kills 2
Two policemen were killed and four injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the emergency police centre in the G-8 area in the heart of the capital on Saturday.
The bomber, believed to be a young man, initially tried to enter the main building but finding it heavily guarded, he scaled it rear wall and jumped into the building. “The guard on duty opened fire at him at which he blew himself
up causing a big explosion,” city police chief Bin Yameen said. Two policemen were killed, while four
were injured. Bin Yameen said limbs of the bomber were recovered from the scene. “The police guards were alert and checked the attacker in time that averted a major
disaster,” he said. Security arrangements in the capital have been tightened in Islamabad following the huge blast in Lahore on May 16 in which the provincial headquarter of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was targeted. As manya s 29 persons were killed
in the attack.
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Dawood aide nabbed in Dhaka
Another close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, Arif Hossain, was arrested by Bangladesh police on Sunday. Hossain was nabbed this morning from Bosila area. An Indian national, he told police that he had received 1.5 lakh takas from Chhota Shakil, second-in-command of Daud Ibrahim’s gang,
to clear legal expenses of one Mohammad Zahid’s case.
Police told reporters that Arif is accused in several murder cases in India. He was freed on bail in 2000. He fled to Bangladesh the following year and later married a Bangladeshi national. A week ago, the policer had arrested a key associate of D-gang Ibrahim Merchant and his
two associates — Zahid Sheikh and Mohammad Kamal. Their interrogation led to Arif’s arrest. Ibrahim is said to have told cops that Daud Ibrahim has around 150 operatives in Bangladesh, including 20 women, who are setting up his crime network in the country. Meanwhile, all four accued have been remanded in police custody forn seven days.
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Kashmir Crisis
Washington, June 7 Allaying apprehensions in some quarters in India that US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke’s mandate may also include Kashmir, Bruce Riedel, who co-chaired the inter-agency committee which formulated the Af-Pak policy, said: “I do not think, the Obama administration intends to meddle in Kashmir”. Riedel, a former CIA official, said it was in the interest of the US to see tension between India and Pakistan be reduced and diminished and see a resumption of the bilateral composite dialogue and a back channel between India and Pakistan that produced some significant result between 2006 and May 2007.
— PTI
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Official admits to leading Dhaka mutiny
Dhaka, June 7 Deputy Assistant Director Touhidul Alam yesterday confessed before a Dhaka magistrate to have planned and led the mutiny, and all the operations during the carnage, The Daily Star said. Alam had also led a team of mutineers that met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on February 25 evening.
— IANS
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