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Flexible talks wise, says Pervez India, Pak figure in Democrats’ manifesto
2 Indians facing fraud charges turn phone agents
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Flexible talks wise, says Pervez Islamabad, July 26 English daily ‘Dawn’ quoting unnamed insiders reported that during his meeting with External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh last week, General Musharraf pointed out that endless dialogue without any concrete indicators of flexibility and sincerity, which could include, for instance controlling Line of Control infiltration by Pakistan and ending of alleged human rights abuses and “draw-down” of Indian troops in Kashmir, was neither wise nor desirable. The President also stressed that he had repeatedly invited India to respond to the “flexibility, sincerity, and courage” that Pakistan had “shown” on the Kashmir issue with New Delhi. During the meeting he also underscored the point that unless both sides give up their ‘maximalist’ positions on Kashmir, an early and just solution to the dispute “acceptable to all three parties” would not be possible, the report said. According to the report, General Musharraf was responding to Mr Natwar Singh’s contention that a solution to Kashmir could not be sought in a hurry. He maintained that “unilateral” giving up of maximalist position was neither possible nor could contribute to taking forward the process of resolving the Kashmir issue. Stressing that time and bilateral atmosphere now were conducive to an early resolution of the Kashmir issue, General Musharraf said if sincerity and courage could be demonstrated by the political leadership on both sides, an early resolution could become a reality.
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India, Pak figure in Democrats’ manifesto Washington, July 26 The manifesto says under the heading of “Keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists,” that “we must take steps to reduce tension between India and Pakistan and guard against the possibility of their nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands.” The manifesto would be formally adopted by the party convention that would open today in Boston. “We must work with every country to tighten export controls, stiffen penalties, and beef up law enforcement and intelligence-sharing. That way we can make absolutely sure that a disaster like the A Q Khan black market network, which grew out of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, can never happen again,” it says. India and
Pakistan also figure under a separate reference to Asia where it says “we must also work with our friends, India and Pakistan, in their efforts to resolve long-standing
differences”. The 37-page manifesto of the party avoids reference to outsourcing of jobs as such but focuses on offshoring to tax havens and is against “shipping jobs overseas.” The party is led by Mr John Kerry, who is challenging President George W Bush
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John Kennedy
‘was done in by Israel’
Jerusalem, July 26 In defiance of a ban on talking to media and meeting with foreigners, Vanunu is said to have made the accusation in an interview to London-based Al-Hayat newspaper. As per the interview published in newspaper’s Arabic supplement Al-Wassat yesterday, Vanun said according to “near-certain indications”, Kennedy was assassinated due to “pressure he exerted on then head of government, David Ben-Gurion, to shed light on Dimona’s nuclear reactor”. The whistleblower, who was released in April after 18 years of imprisonment on charges of treason for divulging state secrets, also said that the reactor in Dimona, could become a second “Chernobyl”, local media reported.
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2 Indians facing fraud charges turn phone agents London, July 26 The two, Viren Rastogi and Anand Jain, are negotiating deals to market and supply phones to the UK users on behalf of the Hutchinson 3G, T-Mobile and O2. According to The Guardian, senior sales managers from one of the networks have been regularly dealing with Rastogi and Jain at an individual level, without being aware of their background. A court has ordered the two to repay creditors £ 164 million, following the fraud at RBG Resources, a London-based international metals trading firm they controlled until it went bust two years ago. A serious Fraud Office investigation is ongoing. Reseller licences have been given to Tulip (UK) Ltd, by the mobile networks. Mr Rastogi works in Tulip (UK) Ltd, and his wife Sarika Rastogi and mother Shakuntala Gupta are its major shareholders. Tulip uses hundreds of telephone sales staff in and around Delhi in India to cold call potential UK customers. It reportedly sells several thousand phones every month. The company is believed to be one of the fastest growing cold call telecom marketing firms operating in Britain. All kinds of assets controlled by Mr Rastogi and Mr Jain have been frozen at the request of RBG liquidators and the courts have further ordered the two to disclose the assets controlled by their relatives.
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Saddam on American diet London, July 26 The paper said the “intriguing glimpse of the former dictator’s daily routine as he awaits trial on charges of war crimes and genocide was given by Iraq’s human rights minister, Bakhtiar Amin, who visited Saddam in detention on Saturday”. “Like the other high-value detainees, Saddam’s day begins with a substantial breakfast, an MRE (meal ready to eat), which provides 1,300 calories. He also gets hot food twice a day, which could consist of rice or potato and broccoli, along with either fish, beef or chicken. “For dessert, there might be oranges, apples, pears or plums, but the former leader has developed a penchant for American snacks such as muffins and cookies,” he said. Amin said that Saddam “works out in his cell and then uses the daily exercise period to tend a small garden in an outside yard.”
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