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Thursday, November 05, 2009
LONDON: The overseas Sikh organisations have demanded international intervention to deliver justice for the members of their community who lost their lives in riots in the wake of the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on November 4, 1984 in New Delhi.
“Not one of the politicians or security officials, who organised and actively led the mobs, have been brought to justice, despite eyewitness testimony evidencing their involvement. Respected human rights organisations the world over have repeatedly castigated over the years India’s establishment for the huge cover up,” said Amrik Singh Sahota, President of the UK-based Council of Khalistan, in a statement on Wednesday on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the tragic events.
He claimed that pogroms in Delhi and elsewhere in India in November 1984, led to the deaths of up to 20,000 Sikhs who were allegedly killed by Congress Party-led mobs in full view of security forces.
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Balochistan package tabled in parliament
Judicial inquiry into Bugti, other Baloch leaders’ killings; no new cantonments; FC to replace Army; missing persons to be traced; Rs 120 bn as gas royalty; end to all operations except anti-terror actions
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Baloch nationalists reject package
By Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: Exiled Baloch leaders on Tuesday rejected the Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan package on the grounds that it doesn’t go far enough to meet their main problems.
Hyrbyair Marri, the London-based leade more |
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PM asks rebels to join mainstream politics
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday extended an invitation to the angry political leadership of Balochistan, from within and from abroad, to join the national mainstream and initiate a more |
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From Dogar to Iftikhar Chaudhry — what a difference!
By Sohail Khan
ISLAMABAD: Sheikh Afzal, the main accused in the Rs9 billion financial scam at the Bank of Punjab (BoP), on Tuesday revealed before the bench of the Supreme Court that he paid Rs35 million to Parliamentary Affa more |
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How money spoke in Dogar’s court
By Umar Cheema
ISLAMABAD: The sensational disclosure by the owner of Haris Steel Mills (HSM) about how money changed hands in the heyday of Justice Dogar, has finally resolved the riddle: why were two senior NAB officials jai more |
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US wants to reduce Indo-Pak tensions: Obama
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday took note of the historic animosity between Pakistan and India and signaled the United States wanted to find ways to reduce tensions between the two countries. < more |
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Loot sale of sugar mills continues unhindered
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: After an unsigned note led to the unhindered “loot sale” of Dadu Sugar Mills for just Rs90 million as against the previous offer of Rs400 million, efforts are now under way to dispose of Thatta Sugar more |
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A Bhutto walks away with lucrative $20m deal
By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: A first cousin of late Benazir Bhutto - Mehfooz Mustafa Bhutto - has emerged as a central figure in a brewing controversy surrounding the highly questionable contract of $20 million by the Oil & Gas more |
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39 militants killed in Orakzai, Hangu, SWA
By our correspondents
KALAYA/HANGU/TANK: Thirty-nine militants were killed by security forces in different areas of South Waziristan and Orakzai tribal regions and the adjacent Hangu district on Tuesday.
Tribal and official s more |
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SCBA to challenge ban on ‘Meray Mutabiq’
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Qazi Muhammad Anwar would file a petition in the Supreme Court today (Wednesday) against the ban on popular Geo TV programme ‘Meray Mutabiq’.
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Wrong scanners bought for the right job
By Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry is buying scanners to be installed at roads to check explosives being brought into cities by terrorists but ironically, the selected models lack the vital capability of detectin more |
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23 killed in Bara offensive
By Nasrullah Afridi & Daud Khattak
BARA/PESHAWAR: Security forces have launched another operation in the Bara sub-division of Khyber Agency in less than three months as the previous one, started on September 1, was still under way.
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Four militants among seven dead in Bajaur
By our correspondent
KHAR: Four militants were killed and several others sustained injuries in clashes with security forces in KharTehsil of Bajaur Agency on Tuesday.
Also, three members of a family, including two children, more |
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Govt committee to examine oil pricing formula, SC told
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The government informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday that a committee has been constituted to examine and review the oil refineries pricing formula in the light of recommendations of the judicial com more |
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NAB asserts it released bona fide NRO list
By Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), being pummeled by a number of NRO-hit dignitaries, says all these people are lying and its list released by Minister of State for Law Afzal Sindhu is absolut more |
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Haqqani approaches LHC
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani has approached the LHC, Rawalpindi Bench, against inclusion of his name in the NRO beneficiaries list.
A petition filed on Tuesday, through his l more |
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Blackwater’s secret war in Pakistan?
News Desk
KARACHI: At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the centre of a secret programme in which they pla more |
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India getting ready for limited war, says FO
ISLAMABAD: Terming the Indian Army chief’s remarks about a nuclear war reflection of India’s offensive nuclear doctrine, Pakistan on Tuesday said it was fully capab more |
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