Friday, November 22, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

POTA on hold in J&K
Jammu, November 21
The Jammu and Kashmir Governor, Mr G. C. Saxena, today announced that POTA would not be implemented in the state and the government would review cases of detentions made without trial or on non-specific charges.

• Tara Chand elected J&K Speaker

• J&K page: Kashmir Committee coming today

Pro-Pervez Jamali new Pak PM
Islamabad, November 21
As expected, Mr Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a loyalist of President Pervez Musharraf, was today elected Prime Minister in a Parliamentary vote, paving the way for an elected government for the first time in three years after the military ruler grabbed power in a coup in 1999.
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Mir Zafarullah Jamali (left), newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, accepts greetings from Fazal-ur-Rehman (right), prime ministerial candidate for the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), and Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, prime ministerial candidate of Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party, after the election in the National Assembly in Islamabad on Thursday. — Reuters photo

     Quake kills 20 in Pakistan

Thackeray takes on Advani
Mumbai, November 21
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray today launched an unusually sharp attack on Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani for his reported remarks that India can never be a “Hindu rashtra” despite the BJP having clarified that they were misinterpreted.

Journalist Chattarpati dead
Chandigarh, November 21
Ram Chander Chattarpati, a journalist from Sirsa, died at Apollo Hospital, Delhi, at 8.00 p.m. tonight. He was attacked on October 24 by two persons engaged by the manager of Dera Sachha Sauda near Sirsa, Mr Krishan Lal.

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DSP gheraoed ‘for helping pimp’
Jalandhar, November 21
A Deputy Superintendent of Police was gheraoed for three hours by residents of Rattan Nagar here for allegedly patronising a pimp, his flesh trade and an attempt to take a prostitute from the house of the pimp in his car. This is said to be his “routine”.

Jhajjar: panchayat called today
Villagers ‘reluctant’ to court arrest
Jhajjar, November 21
Apparently unhappy over the agreement between the district administration and the Dulina Goraksha Sangharsh Samiti, residents of Suhra and adjoining villages have called yet another panchayat tomorrow at Suhra village, which would be held before a scheduled meeting with Mr Nafe Singh Rathee, MLA from Bahadurgarh, chief broker in the agreement.

Punjab page: Home Guards’ kin up in arms against govt BJP leader Lakshmi Kanta Chawla listens to the problems of the families of Punjab Home Guards who have not been paid their salaries for the past five months. — Photo Rajiv Sharma

Communal clash in UP village
Moradabad, November 21
A clash between BJP and Congress workers sparked off arson and violence by members of two communities in a village of this district prompting the authorities to deploy the Provincial Armed Constabulary to maintain law and order, the police said today.

WITH THE JATHA IN PAK No President invite for Pakhoke Islamabad, November 21 In a significant development, President Pervez Musharraf today held a closed-door meeting with representatives of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and US and UK-based radical Sikh leaders.     16 pilgrims hurt