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Tuesday,
December 25, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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India not against Pak
but terrorism: BJP chief Staffer’s arrest: Advani warns of consequences
Historical facts on Gen Zorawar ‘distorted’ SP terms expelled MPs ‘BJP agents’ Shatabdi extended
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George in Siachen for Christmas Laloo denied bail in another case Water crisis feared
in Nohar-Bhadra
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India not against Pak
but terrorism: BJP chief New Delhi, December 24 Almost giving a surprise as different party leaders have been issuing bellicose statements since terrorist attack on Parliament on December 13, BJP President K. Jana Krishnamurthy said: “I don’t think we will be going for war...If war is thrust on us we will have to meet it”. “We are not against Pakistan or its people or wage a war against them. But we are against terrorism and Pakistan must desist from abetting terrorism,” Mr Krishnamurthy told a select group of newspersons. To a specific question whether he anticipated a war against Pakistan, the BJP Chief merely said “who can predict a war.” Asked what actions he would suggest against Pakistan under the circumstances, Mr Krishnamurthy said “people might suggest many things which might have severe consequences. Only the Government is in a position to decide on what kind of action it could take keeping well in mind its consequences.” “We should not hustle the government (to take action). It will be against the interest of the country,” he added. The statement of the BJP President assumes great significance, especially when Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader L.K. Advani has asked the nation to be fully prepared for “a decisive victory over Pakistan-sponsored terrorism” and several BJP members in their personal capacity strongly demanding an attack on terrorist training camps in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. |
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Staffer’s arrest: Advani warns of consequences New Delhi, December 24 “Consequences will follow because it is a serious matter and both in respect of the Parliament official as well in respect of the Pakistani (High Commission) official,” he said. He said this while speaking to journalists after a meeting with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe here. The Delhi police arrested on Saturday Ajay Kumar, a senior Executive Assistant of Parliament Secretariat’s Question Cell for allegedly supplying confidential documents to a Pakistan High Commission staffer. |
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Historical facts on Gen Zorawar ‘distorted’ New Delhi, December 24 In a letter to Communication Minister, Pramod Mahajan, party president Simranjit Singh Mann has stated that a brochure distributed on the occasion of the release of a commemorative stamp on Gen Zorawar Singh in May-end this year made “no mention of Lahore Darbar (court) of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s government known as
Sarkar-e-Khalsa, of which Gen Zorawar Singh was an important dignitary.” Terming this as a “blatant distortion of history,” Mr Mann said: “It is painful how historical facts regarding the history of Sikhs have been and withheld from the people in this document.” The Akali leader has requested the minister to direct the department concerned to analyse the historical facts completely and convey the correct position to the people. The party has prepared a resume of Gen Zorawar Singh based on two books on Sikh history authored by K.K. Khullar and J.D. Cuningham. The party has sent a copy of the resume along with one of the brochure to the minister. According to the resume, Gen Zorawar Singh joined as a messenger boy in the Dogra Corps of the Khalsa Army of Lahore Darbar. He was stationed in Jammu under the command of Raja Gulab Singh, Governor of Jammu and a favourite of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. It further says that Gen Zorawar Singh was given the command of the best soldiers to bring Leh under the control of the Maharaja of Punjab. He captured Sanku, Ladakh, Purag, Kartee and fort of Suru and Sod. In violation of the Treaty of 1809 with the Lahore
Darbar, the English pressured Maharaja Sher Singh to direct his feudal lords to withdraw from Lama’s territory. Gen Zorawar Singh was recalled but before the order could reach him, he was surrounded by a numerically superior Chinese force. He was hit by a bullet and the enemy took away his body. About 20 km from the present Indo-Chinese border, the Tibetans raised a memorial in his honour — the only memorial in the world in the honour of a defeated commander at the place of his death at
Tpyo, duly sanctified by a samadhi called “Singha-ka-chorten”. During the Indo-Chinese war in 1962, the samadhi is said to have been demolished by the Chinese forces. |
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SP terms expelled MPs ‘BJP agents’ New Delhi, December 24 Samajwadi Party General Secretaries Ram Gopal Yadav and Amar Singh today alleged that the BJP had become “panicky” over the prospects of losing Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and was using new tactics to tarnish the image of the party by activising such “agents”. Accusing the four, former Union Minister Balram Singh Yadav, Ramakant Yadav, Bhalchandra Yadav and Kunwar Sarvaraj Singh of helping the BJP on several occasions, Mr Ram Gopal Yadav assailed the rebels for targeting Amar Singh and said that the ordinary party worker accepted him as “leader” of the party. He alleged that Balram Singh Yadav was toeing BJP line as he was apprehending a CBI inquiry into certain matters when he was Union Mines Minister. These rebels have also received money from the BJP, he alleged. The SP leaders were also critical of the role allegedly being played by Union Minister and JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav and his party General Secretary K.C. Tyagi for creating problems within the Samajwadi Party. On the demand made by the rebels that there should be thorough probe by the CBI or an MPs’ Committee into the assets of the SP leaders, Amar Singh said that he had already submitted the list of his assets to the Rajya Sabha Chairman and Lok Sabha Speaker. |
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Shatabdi extended
up to Kalka New Delhi, December 24 The 2012 Chandigarh-New Delhi Shatabdi Express will originate from the Kalka station instead of Chandigarh from the same day. The 2011 Shatabdi Express will depart from New Delhi at 7.40 am to reach Kalka at noon. The 2012 Shatabdi will depart from Kalka at 5.30 pm to reach New Delhi at 9.40 pm the same day. It will stop en route at Ambala from 6.58 pm to 7 pm, at Kurukshetra from 7.28 pm to 7.30 pm and at Panipat from 8.16 pm to 8.18 pm. As a result of these changes, the 4096 Kalka- Hazrat Nizamuddin Himalyan Queen Express wil arrive at New Delhi at 10.20 pm instead of 10.10 pm and leave at 10.30 pm instead of 10.20 pm and reach Hazrat Nizamuddin at 10.45 pm instead of 10.35 pm. Sources in Northern Railway said that the IUK, Ambala-Kalka Passenger will depart from Ambala at 6.30 pm and reach Kalka at 8.35 pm. En route, it will stop at Dhoolkoot from 6.40 pm to 6.48 pm, at Lalru from 7 pm to 7.05 pm, at Dhappar and Ghaggar at 7.11 pm and 7.23 pm respectively, at Chandigarh from 7.35 pm to 7.40 pm, at Chandi Mandir from 7.54 pm to 7.56 pm, at Surajpur from 8.10 pm to 8.11 pm. While the 2UC Chandigarh-Ambala passenger will depart from Chandigarh at 6.32 pm and reach Ambala at 7.30 pm, it will stop en route at Ghaggar from 6.43 to 6.44 pm, Dhappar from 6.55 pm to 6.56 pm, at Lalru from 7.02 pm to 7.03 pm and Dhulkot from 7.13 pm to 7.14 pm. |
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George in Siachen for Christmas New Delhi, December 24 Mr Fernandes, who was to leave for the Western Sector yesterday, postponed his visit because of the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS). He left today for the glacier, the world’s highest battlefield. This is the Defence Minister’s 23rd visit to the Siachen glacier. Last year, too, he had celebrated Christmas there. He will go to other areas in the region before coming back to the capital on Wednesday. He is scheduled to spend the new-year eve with the forces stationed at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. |
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Laloo denied bail in another case Patna, December 24 The designated CBI judge, Mr B.N. Sahay, dismissed Yadav’s prayer for bail and remanded him in judicial custody till January 7 in connection with the case relating to fraudulent withdrawals of over Rs 47 lakh by Animal Husbandry Department officials through forged and fake bills from Bhagalpur treasury. Meanwhile, former Bihar Chief Minister Dr Jagannath Mishra was today denied bail and remanded in judicial custody under RC 68 (a) of the multi-crore fodder scam. Dr Mishra, already serving incarceration in RC 47 (a) of the fodder scam case here, was denied bail in the RC 68 (a) in which he had surrendered before the designated court of special CBI judge Prabodh Ranjan Dass.
PTI, UNI Hanumangarh, December 24 The Amar Singh branch of Bhakhra in Bhadra was kept in group ‘B’ of the Kishengarh branch of Haryana. Following this arrangement, water was to be supplied in the tehsil on December 13, but the Haryana Irrigation Department has shifted the Amar Singh branch to group ‘A’ which is at third place on priority. Sources disclosed that against a share of 345 cu, only 245 — 270 cu of water was flown to the area in the first rotation, due to which water could not reach all distributors. The sources in the Waterworks Department say because the water supply has been closed, there will be shortage of drinking water in the area. The Bhadra headwork has a capacity of 1,28,000 kilolitres but the supply at present being given is less than half of this share. The sources disclosed water was not available at the Rajpura headworks from where supply was given to 17 villages. They said arrangements would be made in those villages which had tubewells. Officials of the Waterworks Department have apprised the District Collector about the situation. They said to make alternative arrangements, it was necessary that electricity supply be given for 16 to 17 hours in the tehsils so that tubewells could be run. |
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