Wednesday, 20 February 2019

Saudi Arabia: Terrorism common concern, will co-work with India in dealing with it

New Delhi, Feb 20 Saudi Arabia's meeting Crown Prince Mohammed container Salman on Wednesday said that terrorism and fanaticism are a "common concern" and promised to help India in managing it.

The meeting Saudi Arabia pioneer said that his nation will "participate with India and neighbouring states" on the issue.

"The common concern is terrorism and radicalism. We will coordinate with India and neighbouring states to guarantee future ages are sheltered. We praise India's job in this issue," Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed receptacle Salman said.

Saudi Arabia, he stated, will help India on this front through intelligence sharing.

Salman made these comments while tending to a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Talking on his turn, PM Modi stated, ''We have concurred that terrorism ought not be upheld in any structure, and we should put weight on nations who back fear. To end fear framework, finishing backing to dread gatherings and rebuffing them is basic... I'm happy Saudi Arabia concurs with India on this."

"We talked about all parts of our reciprocal ties today and have chosen to take our relations higher than ever," PM Modi said in his announcement.

Before the joint press statement, the two sides confirmed the signing of five Memorandum of Understanding agreements, including infrastructure, housing, cooperation on broadcasting and the upgrading reciprocal venture relations,'' said the joint proclamation issued by the two sides.

The bilateral talks between the two leaders were held in the shadow of heightening strain with Pakistan over a week ago's Pulwama terror assault, in which 40 officers were killed by a suicide plane of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed.

"Relations between India and the Arabian peninsula is in our DNA," Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed canister Salman had told journalists at the beginning of today, in the scenery of analysis in India of his Pakistani visit.

"India welcomes HRH Mohammed Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. This visit will further cement relations between India and Saudi Arabia," PM Modi had tweeted this morning.

PM Modi broke with government convention to by and by welcome the Saudi Prince; he was seen wrapping the 33-year-old in his mark giant squeeze by the means of the Prince's plane.

"A new chapter in bilateral relations," said a tweet from MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar.

According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the Crown Prince will leave New Delhi at around 11:50 PM on Wednesday.

During his high-profile visit to Pakistan, the Crown Prince declared his choice to invest 20 billion dollars in the nation and also praised Islamabad's 'efforts for regional peace and security'. Further, he said that dialogue was the best way to determine the 'outstanding issues' among India and Pakistan.

In a joint proclamation, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia also called for avoiding 'politicization' of the UN listing regime when India was stepping up efforts to mark the JeM terror group’s chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

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Indian envoys to Pakistan, United States meet Rajnath Singh

New Delhi, Feb 20 India's High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria and India's Ambassador to the US, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, on Wednesday met Home Minister Rajnath Singh here.

The meetings come in the aftermath of a week ago's suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district which killed 40 CRPF troopers.

Bisaria was called back to Delhi for consultations after the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) claimed responsibility for the attack.

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PM Modi is my senior sibling, I respect him, says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman

PM Modi is my senior sibling, I respect him, says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman

New Delhi, Feb 20  The meeting Saudi Arabian Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman, on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is like an “elder brother” to him and that he “admires” him a lot.

"We (me and PM Modi) are siblings. PM Modi is my senior sibling. I am his more youthful sibling, I respect him," The Saudi Crown Prince said in the wake of accepting a formal welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, as indicated by Zee Media sources.

After the stately welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Saudi chief was gotten by PM Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed container Salman receptacle Abdulaziz Al-Saud, who is on an official visit to India, has hailed the reciprocal ties between the two nations and commended the job of Indians in building the Saudi Kingdom.

Talking after the ceremonial reception at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhawan, the Saudi Crown Prince stated, "The connection among India and Arabian Peninsula, which Saudi Arabia speak to, about 80%, returns to a huge number of year ever. Indeed, even before the history was composed, the relationship between India and the Arabian Peninsula has been in our DNA."

Standing alongside President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Saudi chief included, "Today, we need to make sure this connection is kept up and enhanced for the two nations. With the initiative of President and PM, I am are certain we can make beneficial things for India and Saudi Arabia."

Highlighting the role of the Indian diaspora in building the nation, the Saudi Crown Prince stated, "Since we remember ourselves, Indian people are companions and part of building Saudi Arabia in the previous 70 years. A great deal of Saudis work and develop a lot of things in India for hundreds of years."

Saudi Crown Prince was earlier accorded a ceremonial reception at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhawan

He will presently be meeting PM Modi at Hyderabad House for bilateral talks.

This will be the second meeting between Prime Minister Modi and the Saudi Crown Prince in the most recent three months. The two leaders last met on the sidelines of G20 Summit in Argentina on 30th November.

The two sides are expected to sign five MoUs/Agreements in areas of investment, tourism, housing and information and broadcasting.

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed container Salman, who is also famously known by his initials MBS, touched base in India on Tuesday evening and was gotten by PM Narendra Modi who broke the protocol to receive him.

PM Modi had in the past broken protocol for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2018), Jordan's King Abdullah II canister Al-Hussein(2018), United Arab Emirates' Crown Prince Mohammed receptacle Zayed Al Nahyan (2017) and Bangladesh PM Sheik Hasina (2015).

The long shadow of the Pulwama terror assault - the deadliest in India in more than two decades - will be dominating the talks with a focus on making sure that Pakistan acts on terror infrastructure it has been supporting on its territory.

New Delhi will approach Riyadh to mount weight on its traditional ally Pakistan. Pakistan based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed has guaranteed responsibility for the attack.

Saudi Arabia has strongly censured the suicide attack on the CRPF convoy in J&K's Pulwama on February 14.

MBS had come to India, an after a long time after his two-day visit to Pakistan.

It is intriguing to take note of that the Saudi Crown Prince returned to Riyadh after his Pakistan visit closed, and returned again to New Delhi, a development which many will see as a de-hyphenation by Saudi Arabia among Pakistan and India and something which New Delhi will favor in the fallout of Pulwama terror attack.

Amid Saudi Crown Prince's Pakistan visit, he reported a USD 20 billion venture. Responding to the improvement, sources in Delhi stated, "When they put resources into India, they put resources into a robust economy, in Pakistan they bailout"

India is one of the eight strategic partners of Saudi Arabia with which the West Asian country intends to deepen partnership in areas of political, security, trade and investment and culture.

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Curfew relaxed in whole Jammu city

Jammu, Feb 20 Authorities Wednesday relaxed curfew in the whole Jammu city for the first time since its imposition on Friday last as the situation improved.

Be that as it may, prohibitory orders will stay in force to maintain law and order.

District Magistrate, Jammu, Ramesh Kumar, initially ordered relaxation in the curfew in the whole city from 8 AM to 11 AM and later stretched out till 3 PM as no untoward incident was reported from anywhere.

Policemen were seen making rounds of the city early toward the beginning of today to report unwinding of the curfew and asked people to resume their normal activities.

Albeit a large portion of the shops and business foundations stayed shut and just private vehicles were mostly seen on the road, the facilitating of limitations enabled the people to leave their homes and buy essential commodities.

People in a few areas complained of lack of vegetables, milk and ration and requested that ATMs be made operational quickly as they are running out of cash.

Kumar said prohibitory requests under section 144 CrPC would stay in force in the whole city as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order.

All wine shops and bars will also stayed shut, he said.

Every single instructive establishment stayed shut in Jammu area on the requests of the administration for the 6th back to back day.

In any case, authorities said the examination of eighth and ninth classes would be held as per schedule Thursday in all districts of jammu province.

"In case of restrictions in any area, the admit cards of students and identity cards of teachers will be treated as time limitation passes," the authorities said.

They said excepting Jammu district, mobile internet services (2G only) was restored.

Curfew was relaxed in a staged way in the city on Tuesday and five police station areas falling in city's south a day earlier.

Curfew was imposed in the whole Jammu city on Friday last after huge enemy of Pakistan protests and sporadic incidents of violence over the terror assault in Pulwama area of south Kashmir which left 40 CRPF personnel dead.

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Prime Minister Modi's cancelled Amethi visit

Amethi (UP), Feb 20 The proposed visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Congress bastion of Amethi on February 27 has been dropped, officials said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, a BJP leader said the Prime Minister was likely to visit the ordnance factory in Munshiganj here and later address a public meeting on February 27.

However, according to District Magistrate RM Mishra, the proposed visit has now been dropped.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Amethi which was proposed on February 27 has been dropped," the DM said.

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Pakistan Army asks Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed to lay low post Pulwama assault: Sources

New Delhi, Feb 20 Following gigantic international pressure over a week ago's Pulwama assault that killed 40 jawans, the Pakistan Army has asked Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar and 26/11 Mumbai attack plan Hafiz Saeed to hide out.

The nation's military has asked the two internationally designated terrorists to keep up a position of safety and stay away from open appearances, sources disclosed to Zee Media.

On February 14, more than 2000 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) staff going in a caravan of 78 vehicles on Jammu-Srimagar parkway was attacked by vehicle-borne suicide plane at Lethpora (close Awantipora) in the Pulwama area. The attack brought about the demise of no less than 40 CRPF work force and harmed many others.

Dread outfit JeM asserted duty regarding the assault and Kashmiri neighborhood Adil Ahmad Dar was recognized as the suicide aircraft.

According to Indian intelligence agencies, the RDX used to attack the transport was acquired by Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi and gave over to JeM agents. The way toward gathering RDX allegedly started in March 2018 and the explosives were smuggled using backpacks, cylinders and coal bags to Tral village of Pulwama.

According to sources, around 80 kg of RDX was used by the terrorists in the attack, which included Ammonium Nitrate and different synthetic compounds.

India has for some time been requesting activity against Masood Azhar, the organizer supremo of UN-assigned dread outfit JeM, who purportedly works out of Pakistan-involved Kashmir. New Delhi as of now has Azhar as a standout amongst its most needed psychological militants following the 2016 assault on Pathankot Air Force Station by JeM.

In a major boost to India's efforts to get Azhar on the list of worldwide terrorists, France will move a proposition at the UN in "two or three days" to boycott the leader of the UN-prohibited gathering, French sources said on Tuesday.

China, then again, has refused to back India's request to list Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN.

Hafiz Saeed, the organizer of banned terrorist outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), has also driven a few psychological militant assaults focusing on guiltless lives crosswise over India.

Despite international pressure, Pakistan has time and again sheltered these international terrorists under its belt.

Inside 100 hours of the occurrence, the Armed powers killed three JeM terrorists, including top agents Kamran and Abdul Rasheed nom de plume Ghazi, accepted to be the geniuses of Pulwama suicide shelling.

Ghazi is also said to have battled in Afghanistan and was handpicked by Azhar to retaliate for the killing of his nephews. An IED expert, he is accepted to have been sent to training locals.

A few countries over the world have denounced the Pulwama attack.

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Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Supreme Court holds Anil Ambani, others guilty of contempt of court for wilfully not paying dues to Ericsson

New Delhi, Feb 20 The Supreme Court of India Wednesday held RCom administrator Anil Ambani liable of hatred of court for wilfully abusing its request by not paying Rs 550-crore levy to Telecom equipment maker Ericsson

The apex court held that the RCom chiarman and Reliance Telecom chairman Satish Seth and Reliance Infratel chairperson Chhaya Virani breached the undertaking given to the apex court and the related requests

The apex court said the RCom chairman and others should cleanse the contempt by paying Rs 453 crore to Ericsson in four weeks

A seat comprising of Justices RF Nariman and Vineet Saran said if the contemnor failed to make the payments within the specified period, they will undergo a jail term of three months

The apex court also directed Reliance Communication, Reliance Telecommunication and Reliance Infratel to deposit Rs 1 crore each to the apex court's registry in about a month or the chairman of these companies should go an additional jail term of one month

It directed that Rs 118 crore already deposited by Reliance Group in the apex court's registry be disbursed to Ericsson inside seven days

"From undertakings given by Reliance Group's top brass, it shows up they have wilfully not paid the amount to Ericsson despite orders and undertakings given," it said

The apex court specified that any unconditional apology given by Reliance should be dismissed as they have breached the undertaking and order

The seat said the three Reliance companies did not adhere to the 120-day due date and the extra 60 days given by the apex court to pay Rs 550 crore to Ericsson

It said the undertakings given in the court was false to the knowledge of the court and affected the administration of justice

Ambani, Seth and Virani were available in the courtroom.

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China urges restraint by India, Pakistan on Pulwama terror attack

Beijing, Feb 19 China on Tuesday urged restraint by India and Pakistan amid escalating tensions over the Pulwama terror attack and called on the nations to gently resolve their issues through dialogue as soon as possible.

On February 14, somewhere around 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were murdered in Kashmir's Pulwama area in a suicide attack claimed by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror group.

The attack has heightened bilateral tensions with both New Delhi and Islamabad calling back to back their envoys for "consultations". India on Friday declared the withdrawal of the Most Favored

Country status for Pakistan and climbed the traditions obligation by 200 percent on merchandise beginning from the neighbouring country.

"Pakistan and India are both important nations in South Asia. A stable bilateral relationship between the two is essential to the peace and stability in the region," Geng Shuang, representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry told a media briefing when asked about the tensions between the two countries following the Pulwama attack.

"South Asia has maintained an overall stability which ought to be valued and maintained by all sides. China hopes that Pakistan and India will exercise restraint, engage in dialogue and realise the soft landing of the relevant issues as soon as possible," he said.

To another question about Saudi Arabia and Pakistan consenting to USD 20 billion arrangement for Saudi interests in Pakistan amid the simply finished up visit of Saudi crown ruler Muhammad Bin Salman, Geng stated, "China is happy to see Pakistan having amicable trades and participation with different nations including Saudi Arabia".

On the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Geng stated, "It will help with connectivity and shared development. China is prepared to based on meeting and accord with Pakistan have a third party cooperation."

"The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a pilot project under the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative). It is focused on counsel and joint effort for shared advantages and when foreign minister Wang Yi visited Pakistan the two sides agreed to third party cooperation under this framework.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi urges people to identify those who use caste segregation for political gains

Varanasi, Feb 19 Invoking poet-saint Guru Ravidas on his birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked people to end caste discrimination and identify those leaders who advance standing separation for their political gains.

Modi was in Varanasi on Tuesday and he tended to two gatherings in the city. The Prime Minister also launched development projects worth Rs 3,000 crore amid his visit to Varanasi, which is additionally his Lok Sabha voting demographic.

In Varanasi, the PM also laid the foundation stone for the Ravidas Janmasthali area development project.

"Guruji had said that there ought to be no separation based on position. Till rank separation is there, people can't connect with one another, social harmony is not possible and equality cannot be ensured," Modi said.

"Identify those who to their self-interest, create caste discrimination and promote it," he urged, without taking any names.

Guru Ravidas was a prominent saint from the Bhakti movement of the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Born in Varanasi, the revered saint's hymns often addressed caste issues.

"He dreamt of a society where all are taken care of. We have tried to follow this tenet during the past four and a half years with 'Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas' (comprehensive advancement)," the prime minister said.

"My government focused on 'panchdharma' - income, medicine, irrigation and addressing public grievances -- irrespective of caste, creed and other factors. Unfortunately, caste discrimination has not been removed till now. The New India will witness this change with the help of the youth," he added.

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Rajnath Singh audits Jammu and Kashmir circumstance; NSA, Home Secy attend the meeting

New Delhi, Feb 19 Home Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday reviewed the security situation in the nation, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, where 40 CRPF Jawans were killed in an audacious terror attack last week, officials said.

Five security personnel, including a major, were martyred in the state on Monday in an encounter in which three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) psychological oppressors, including two best leaders accepted to be behind the February 14 Pulwama dread assault, were additionally wiped out.

During the meeting, the home minister was briefed about the common security circumstance in Jammu and Kashmir, including along the Indo-Pak border, a home ministry official said.

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval too took an interest in the gathering which was gone to by Union home secretary Rajiv Gauba, chief of the intelligence bureau Rajiv Jain besides others.

The meeting also took stock of the steps being taken to hunt down the terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir and how to check attempts of infiltrations from across the border.

The home minister directed the officials to ensure that all possible steps should to be taken against the terrorists presently working in Kashmir valley and insurance of guiltless Kashmiris living in various parts of the nation, the authority said.

Forty CRPF work force were killed and five harmed on Thursday in one of the deadliest fear assaults in Jammu and Kashmir when a JeM suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district.

The bus was part of a guard of 78 vehicles conveying CRPF personnel from Jammu to Srinagar.

Lt. Gen KJS Dhillon, administrator of Army's Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, said on Tuesday that anyone who picks up the gun will be eliminated.

He also requested mothers of Kashmiri militants to persuade their sons to surrender.

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Masood Azhar is in Pakistan's Bahawalpur, arrest him or India will do it, Amarinder Singh tells Pakistan PM Imran Khan

New Delhi, Feb 19 Barely hours after an unrepentant Imran Khan ended his quietness on the obnoxious assault on a CRPF guard in Jammu and Kashmir saying his nation had no inclusion in it, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday reiterated his demand seeking an 'eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'.

Sending a strong message to the Pakistan Prime Minister soon after he defended his nation from blame over involvement in the deadly attack, Singh advised him that Pak-based Jaish-e-Mohammad had assumed the liability in the assault and that it plots the error attacks using ISI's help.

He stated, "If Pakistan couldn't act against JeM, India will do it for them."

Amarinder, a former Army Captain, took to Twitter to state, "Dear @ImranKhanPTI you have Jaish chief Masood Azhar sitting in Bahawalpur and planning the assaults with ISI help. Go lift him up from that point. In the event that you can't tell us, we'll do it for you. BTW what has been done about the proofs of Mumbai’s 26/11 attack. Time to walk the talk."

Something like 40 CRPF soldiers were killed a week ago in a suicide attack did on their caravan in Kashmir's Pulwama by Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists. The driving force of the assault and two different terrorists were killed by security forces in an encounter on Monday.

Prior in the day, Pakistan PM Imran Khan issued an announcement on the recent terror attack in Pulwama and said Pakistan had anything to do with the assault including that India's forceful posing would be responded whenever required.

"I didn't talk before on the (Pulwama) attack on the grounds that the crown ruler of Saudi Arabia was here. I am now responding. We were busy planning this really important visit and won't want to sabotage it by helping such an attack take place. Even if this visit was not happening, we have nothing to gain from such an attack," he said.

"I also want to ask the Indian government that in the event that you need to censure Pakistan in vain that occurs in Kashmir, you are just making Pakistan the whipping kid. If you (Indian government) think you will attack us, we will not think of retaliating. We will retaliate."

Imran added that he guarantees of action if India can give valid proof of Pakistan's contribution in the recent attack.

40 CRPF personnel were martyred last Thursday when a suicide bomber rammed his touchy loaded vehicle into a transport brimming with CRPF personnel on Jammu-Srinagar Highway. The responsibility of the attack was guaranteed by Pakistan-based JeM. In a retaliation in under 100 hours, the Indian Army eliminated the JeM leadership in J&K.

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KCR recommends 'amnesty scheme' to disclose black money

Hyderabad, Feb 19 Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Tuesday said the Centre needs to turn out with an 'absolution conspire' for tax evaders in order to encourage them to disclose black money.

Sharing his worries to the NK Singh-headed fifteenth Finance Commission which is as of now on a voyage through the state, KCR stated, "We also need to bring out an attractive and practical tax amnesty scheme for bringing black money to the country and to invest it in infrastructure."

The amnesty scheme brought out in Indonesia in 2016-17 brought about a revelation of US $ 366 billion (Rs 24 lakh crore).

In another amnesty scheme in Italy in 2009, people proclaimed US $ 137 billion (Rs 9.79 lakh crore).

Every Indian should be a proud tax payer and partner in nation building, the chief minister said in a official press release.

The tax payer may voluntarily pay regardless of whether it is simply Re 1, the discharge cited KCR as saying.

Referring to water shortage, he said,"We should focus to supply water to each town in the nation inside 5-6 years, which may cost between Rs 8-10 lakh crore."

On the current foundation in the nation, he said its status was a long way from palatable and proposed spending no less than three-four percent of the GDP in the area.

Referring to the agricultural sector, KCR said that following efficient irrigation systems such as drip, sprinkler and piped irrigation, the task of universal irrigation could be achieved with lesser quantity of water.

He said India needs another monetary model that has states at the front line. At present, the development of the nation is constrained to only 8 to 10 states, while others are a long ways behind.

If the nation needs to develop and tap its potential, each state needs to duly leveraging its resources and potential, adding that the states should be given more space to prioritise issues at their level.

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Pakistan PM looks for actionable intelligence over Pulwama attack, warns against retaliatory action

Islamabad, Feb 19 Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday guaranteed India that he would act against the perpetrators of the Pulwama dread assault if New Delhi shares actionable intelligence", but warned against any "revenge" retaliatory action.

In a video message to the country, Khan reacted to the Indian claims on Pakistan's involvement in the attack in Kashmir last Thursday

The suicide attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror group left 40 CRPF personnel dead.

Pakistan needs "stability in the region", Khan said

Khan said that he understood it was India's election year and the narrative of blaming Pakistan would make it simpler to get votes from the masses but he trusted that better sense will prevail and that India would be open to dialogue

He said that Delhi holds Pakistan capable each time an incident happens in Kashmir and makes Pakistan its "whipping boy" again and again

"The Kashmir issue like the Afghan issue will be settled through talks," he said

"If you have any actionable intelligence that a Pakistani is included. Offer it to us. I promise you we will make a move - not on the grounds that we are experiencing strain, but since they are acting as enemies of Pakistan," he said

"I have been hearing and seeing on the Indian media that politicians there are calling for revenge from Pakistan. If India thinks it will attack Pakistan, then we will not just think but retaliate."

"Starting a war is in our hands, it is simple. However, finishing a war, that isn't in our hands and no one knows what will happen.? Khan said.

"Its not to our interests that someone from here goes out to do terrorism, nor that someone comes here and does terrorism," he included.

Khan said Pakistan was prepared for converses with India on terrorism

"I state it clearly this is a Naya (new) Pakistan and new mindset," he said

"India discusses incorporating fear based oppression in discourse with Pakistan. Fear based oppression is a major issue confronting this area and we need to kill it," Khan said

"If somebody is using Pakistan's soil to carry out terror attacks elsewhere, it is enmity with us. It is against our interests."

He said he didn't react to India's charges as he was busy with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to the nation

"India denounced Pakistan with no proof and without deduction how this attack would profit us," he included. "Would even a trick attempt to harm such a critical visit as, that of the Saudi crown prince?" the PM inquired

"We have been fighting against terrorism for as far back as 15 years. In what manner will Pakistan profit by such episodes?"

On the Kashmir issue, Khan said "Kashmiris are not scared of death any longer. There must be a purpose behind that. Ought to there not be a dialog in India on this?" he inquired. "Which law on the planet enables everybody to wind up a judge and jury?"

Questioning whether India "needs to determine the issue through military", Khan stated, "This has never been a successful measure."

The already sour relations among India and Pakistan have worsened over the past week as New Delhi reprimanded Islamabad for the Pulwama assault. The Pakistani initiative has strongly refuted the allegations.

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Saturday, 16 February 2019

Pulwama attack: US, India consent to designate JeM chief Masood Azhar as 'global terrorist'

New Delhi, Feb 16 In a major boost to India, the United States has consented to back New Delhi's bid to designate JeM chief Masood Azhar as 'global terrorist'.

The assurance to India came from US National Security Advisor John Bolton when he called his Indian partner Ajit Doval and communicated sympathies and shock over the Pulwama terror attack arranged by Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM).

The two NSAs agreed to hold Pakistan accountable for its obligations under the United Nations resolutions and to remove all obstacles to designating JeM chief Masood Azhar as a 'global terrorist' under the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 Committee process.

"National Security Advisor Ajit Doval had a phone call with his US partner Ambassador John Bolton on the night of 15 February. The call was started by the US side to express sympathies and shock over the Pulwama assault by Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM)," read an official statement.

Bolton likewise stretched out help on India's right side to self-protection against cross-fringe fear based oppression.

He further offered all help to India to bring the culprits and supporters of the assault expeditiously to equity.

The two NSAs also vowed to cooperate to guarantee that Pakistan stops to be a place of refuge for JeM and other terrorist groups that target India, the US and others in the region.

Prior, the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requested that Pakistan end its help to terrorist safe havens inside the country.

"We remain with India as it confronts terrorism. Pakistan must not give a place of refuge to terrorists to threaten international security," Pompeo said on Twitter.

In a stern message to Pakistan, the White House had asked Islamabad to "quickly end" its "support" to all terror groups and not to give "place of refuge" to them, as the US denounced the ruthless Pulwama fear assault killed no less than 40 CRPF officers.

Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama region on Thursday that left somewhere around 40 CRPF warriors dead and five others critically injured.

"The United States calls on Pakistan to end promptly the help and place of refuge gave to all terrorist groups operating on its soil, whose only goal is to sow chaos, violence, and terror in the region," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a late night statement on Thursday.

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Friday, 15 February 2019

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India's High Commissioner to Pakistan called back

New Delhi, Feb 15 The Government of India (GoI) on Friday got back to its High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria for interviews in the wake of the dastardly terror assault on CRPF convoy which left no less than 40 troopers dead and several critically injured.

News agency ANI quoted sources as saying that Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria has been called to Delhi for counsels in the wake of Thursday's assault.

Bisaria will leave today around evening time for Delhi for the conferences with the administration ob Saturday, ANI revealed.

In any case, there has been no official seeing equivalent to yet.

Preceding that, the government summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood and lodged a strong protest over the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF troopers in Jammu and Kashmir.

Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale called Mahmood to the MEA at 2 PM and issued a "very strong demarche" in connection with the terror attack on Thursday that also left 38 troopers injured.

Gokhale conveyed that Pakistan must take immediate and verifiable action against the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), which asserted obligation following the assault, and that it should quickly stop any gatherings or people related with terrorism and operating from A pakistani area.

He also dismissed the announcement made by the Pakistan Foreign Ministry denying any association in the suicide assault, that has been known as the most exceedingly bad ever fear assault in Jammu and Kashmir since terrorism started there in 1989.

Prior, sending out a tough message to Pakistan, the government on Friday pulled back the 'most-favored country' status to Pakistan, a move which would empower India to build traditions obligation on merchandise originating from the neighbouring nation.

In a media briefing after the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the most-favored-country (MFN) status to Pakistan stands denied.

India allowed the MFN status to Pakistan path back in 1996, yet the neighbouring nation has not yet responded.

The MFN status was concurred under WTO's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Both India and Pakistan are signatories to this; and are members from the World Trade Organization (WTO), which implies they need to treat one another and the other WTO member nations as favored trading partners in terms of imposing customs duties on goods.

Meanwhile, coming down heavily on Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that those behind the Pulwama fear assault have submitted a "grave mix-up" and they will "rebuffed".

"If our neighbour, which is completely isolated in the world, supposes it can destabilize India through its strategies and schemes, at that point it is committing a major error," the Prime Minister said.

"I need to tell terrorist associations and their watchmen that they have completed a grave error. Those behind the assault will be rebuffed for their activities," PM Modi said here while hailing off the Delhi-Varanasi rapid Vande Bharat Express train.

Paying tributes to the CRPF work force who lost their lives in the Pulwama assault, he stated, "Our security forces have been given full opportunity (to carry out anti-terror operations). We have full faith in their bravery."

PM Modi also thanked the nations which have bolstered India and denounced this incident in the strongest of terms.

After the dastardly act, India demanded that the UN ban JeM and its chief Masood Azhar who wanders unreservedly in Pakistan.

In an announcement, India's External Affairs Ministry said all UN part nations should bolster a proposition for forbidding Azhar as an international terrorist.

The JeM, a Pakistan-based outfit, guaranteed obligation regarding the assault in which a suicide plane on Thursday slammed his SUV pressed with explosives into a Central Reserve Police Force transport that was a piece of an expansive caravan on the Jammu-Srinagar expressway around 3.15 PM, killing a few troopers and leaving the security establishment stunned.

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Sensex closes 67 pts lower; pharma, metal stocks crack

Mumbai, Feb 15 Benchmark indices reeled under selling pressure for the seventh straight session Friday as pharma, metal, auto and keeping money stocks drove misfortunes in the midst of continued outside reserve surges and muted earnings season.

In any case, rise of buying in power, energy and PSU stocks over the most recent one hour of the session and concealing of short positions by speculators wiped off most losses.

The 30-share Sensex in the wake of drooping 365 to hit a low of 35,510.97 intra-day, recovered a large portion of the lost ground on fag-end purchasing, lastly settled with an unobtrusive fall of 67.27 points, or 0.19 percent down at 35,808.95.

The file has now lost a lost more than 1,165 of every seven sessions.

The more extensive NSE Nifty, subsequent to carrying somewhere in the range of 10,620.40 and 10,785.75, settled at 10,724.40 points, somewhere near 21.65 points, or 0.20 percent.

On a week by week premise, the BSE file dropped 737.53 points, or more than 2 percent; while NSE Nifty fell 219.20 points, or 2 percent.

Top failures incorporate Sun Pharma, Tata Steel, Vedanta, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Finance, SBI, Axis Bank, HDFC and Maruti, falling up to 3.94 percent.

Then again, NTPC, PowerGrid, ONGC, RIL, L&T, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors and Coal India were among the gainers, ascending to 4.13 percent.

A frail pattern at other Asian bourses, following medium-term misfortunes at the US showcases after US retail deals recorded its greatest drop since 2009, raising crisp questions about the quality of the US economy, also weighed on market sentiment, brokers said.

Besides, investors remained cautious ahead of the outcome of the ongoing trade talks between the US and China.

Meanwhile, on a net premise, outside portfolio speculators (FPIs) sold offers worth Rs 250.23 crore, while residential institutional financial specialists (DIIs) purchased offers worth Rs 1,225.24 crore on Thursday, temporary information appeared.

Rising worldwide rough costs scratched the rupee, which deteriorated by another 28 paise to 71.44 against the dollar intra-day.

The Brent rough prospects, the worldwide benchmark, progressed to USD 65.10 per barrel, their most abnormal amount in almost three months.

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Tripura CM condemns terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir

Agartala, Feb 15 Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb has condemned the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, which left 40 CRPF personnel dead on Thursday.

The CRPF personnel were killed when a Jaish suicide bomber rammed a vehicle persisting 100 kg of explosives into a transport at Awantipora in Pulwama locale.

"The attack on CRPF personnel in Pulwama is a shameful act of cowardice. I pray for the quick recovery of the injured. Our nation stands shoulder to shoulder with the families of our martyrs," Deb tweeted.

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PM Modi Warns Pakistan, says terrorists will pay heavy cost for Pulwama attack

New Delhi, Feb 15 Warning Pakistan that it can't debilitate India by organizing assaults, for example, the one on CRPF jawans in Pulwama, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said those dependable will pay "a substantial cost" and security powers will be given a free hand to manage terrorists .

In a hard-hitting discourse, Modi said the "blood of the general population is bubbling" and powers behind the demonstration of psychological oppression will be unquestionably be rebuffed.

"Security powers have been given finished opportunity, the blood of the general population is boiling...Our neighbouring nation, which has been separated globally, thinks such terror attacks can destabilize us, however their arrangements won't appear," Modi said at a capacity to signal off the Vande Bharat Express, India's fastest train from Delhi to Varanasi.

On Thursday, an explosives loaded truck smashed into a CRPF escort in Pulwama outside Srinagar, killing 37 officers in one of the biggest terror attacks in recent years.

"My condolences to families of those martyred in Pulwama attack, those behind the terror strike will pay a very heavy price," Modi said.

"I am thankful to all countries which condemned Pulwama assault and urge them to meet up to crush terrorism. The forces behind this demonstration of fear mongering and those in charge of it, will be certainly be punished," he said.

Speaking to his pundits to not politicize the disaster, Modi said the assaults have left the nation emotional.

"I comprehend the conclusions of those censuring us however I encourage them that it is a passionate time, so avoid political one-upmanship," he said.

Prior in the morning, after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said India had pulled back Pakistan's most supported country status and was taking a shot at an arrangement to isolate the country internationally in the wake of the attacks.

"The most favoured country status to Pakistan stands revoked," Jaitley said.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Srinagar on Friday and would assemble an all-party meeting in all likelihood on Saturday to brief political parties on the incident so the country talks in a single voice on the issue.

The CCCS meet was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to talk about the security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the Pulwama fear assault.

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Students unions to start campaign against Modi government

Chennai, Feb 15 A pan-India students and youths associations' collective-Young India National Coordination Committee (YINCC) has said it will begin campaigns next month across the country to vote BJP out of power for "ditching" the student community.

The body, comprising of 42 students and youth associations, includes students' unions of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Aligarh Muslim University, Allahabad University and Rajasthan University.

JNU Students Union President (JNUSU) Sai Balaji said the group would start campaigns the nation over from next from now (March), in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections.

"The present government has clearly ditched us in several ways and we have been bearing the brunt of it. This campaign is also to vote the BJP out of power," Balaji told.

A week ago, a huge number of students and youths of the collective took out a march in the national capital from Red Fort to Parliament Street requesting occupations and better educational opportunities.

"To any new government, our demands would be to fill all vacant post in the administration, offer an instruction advance waiver," Balaji said, referring to a charter released by YINCC.

The charter demands allocation of something like 10 percent on education in the budget, finishing the act of supposed seat-cuts in universities, fee hike, reservation-cut in higher educational institutions.

"End gender discriminatory rules, ensure academic freedom and freedom of expression on campuses, fulfil constitutionally-mandated reservations," it said.

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Thursday, 14 February 2019

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Celebrations in Assam, Tripura as Citizenship Bill not tabled in Rajya Sabha

Assam/Tripura, Feb 14 After the Citizenship (amendment) Bill, which is set to pass on June 3, was not tabled in the Rajya Sabha celebrations broke out crosswise over upper east which had been vehemently protesting against it.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 provides for according Indian citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan following six years of living arrangement in India rather than 11 years, which is the standard as of now, even if they don't possess any document.

The Budget session was the last Parliament session of the present government as the Lok Sabha polls are due this summer.

In Assam, supporters of different associations disturbing against the bill, which was passed in the Lok Sabha on January 8, were seen turning out to the boulevards, blasting wafers, sharing desserts and moving.

Associations like the All Assam Students Union (AASU), Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS), Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chhatra Parishad (AJYCP) claimed that not passing of the bill in the Rajya Sabha is a "triumph of majority rule government, of the general population of Assam and the upper east area against communal forces".

AGP leader and previous Assam chief minister Prafulla Mahanta, party chief Atul Bora, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, AASU counselor Samujjal Bhattacharya, KMSS chief Akhil Gogoi and best political leaders of the Congress are in Delhi to crusade against the bill.

Congress leader Pradyut Bordoloi said the general population were "spared today from the intrigue of the BJP to wreck the general population in the N-E area". "This just energy of the people has to continue against the communal forces," he added.

Assam PCC president Ripun Bora said the gathering battled against the questionable bill under the direction of UPA administrator Sonia Gandhi and AICC president Rahul Gandhi.

The dubious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was inclined to be postponed in Rajya Sabha on February 13 in the midst of dissents in the upper east against the bill.

Tribal outfits and other organisations in the BJP-ruled Tripura communicated satisfaction on Wednesday over the Center's inability to get the dubious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill go in the Rajya Sabha. Students' associations, political parties and people contradicting the bill said the aggregate development of all against the legislation had won.

The North East Students Organization (NESO) said the bill was not passed in Parliament since the general population of the area and different parts of the nation were joined against it and supported their fight. "We got results in our favour due to a brought together and joint exertion of the people from north-east and different parts of the nation. We are appreciative to everybody who have bolstered us," NESO joint secretary Upendra Debbarma told reporters.

The NESO, an umbrella association of various understudy associations in the district contradicted to the bill, had watched a bandh in the north-eastern states on January 8. "We are enchanted. Because of the aggregate development of different associations and ideological groups, the BJP government had no option however to give the bill a chance to pass," Tribal Students' Federation (TSF) general secretary Sunil Debbarma said.

Sunil Debbarma expressed gratitude toward Congress president Rahul Gandhi, JD(U) boss Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray and different pioneers for their restriction to the bill. State CPI(M) secretary Goutam Das said what occurred in the Rajya Sabha was an impression of the challenges held in the district against the bill. He complimented every one of the MPs for their job in Parliament.

The scion of the past imperial group of Tripura, Pradyot Kishore Manikya, said the country had prevailed upon legislative issues. "Jati jeeta hai, party hara hai (the country has won and the gathering has lost). In any case, we must be wary. If they are elected again, the central government may attempt to bring it back through indirect access," he said in a Facebook post.

The Indigenous Peoples' Front of Tripura (IPFT), a partner of the decision BJP, asserted that the bill was not put in the Rajya Sabha as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had acceded to the party's request not to pass it.

In Mizoram, civil society groups and student associations in Mizoram ended their protest. As indicated by NGO Coordination Committee, an umbrella association of common society gatherings and understudy bodies in the express, the planned encourages against the bill were called off on Wednesday after news of the legislation's lapse reached them.

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Congress has virtually ruled out alliance with AAP, says Kejriwal

New Delhi, Feb 14 The Congress has "more or less" ruled out an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday, multi day after he had taken an interest in a gathering with resistance pioneers, including Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

Responding to a question on an alliance with the Congress, he said it has "more or less ruled out the alliance (with AAP)".

Asked whether the AAP was more eager for an alliance with the Congress, he said the BJP would profit in a three-cornered contest.

Moving forward on a united anti-BJP front for the Lok Sabha elections, top opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee Wednesday agreed to work together to prepare a common minimum programme to oust the Modi government and to consider producing a pre-poll alliance.

The meeting, hosted by NCP president Sharad Pawar at his residence here, also saw Congress chief Gandhi and Kejriwal coming together for the first time

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PM Modi: Congress insulted voters by questioning BJP's huge win

New Delhi, June 26 Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday blamed the Congress for offending voters of the nation by questioning the massive ...