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HAFIZ SAEED GETS 10 YEARS IN JAIL IN TWO MORE CASES
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Saeed was arrested in July last year in connection with terror-financing cases New Delhi: Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, has been sentenced to 10 years in two terror cases by an antiterror court in Pakistan, news agency PTI reported. This was not the first time that Hafiz Saeed, chief of the Jamaat-udDawa, a front organisation for the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was sentenced in a terror case by a Pakistani court. In February, Hafiz Saeed and some of his aides were convicted and sentenced to 11 years in a terror-financing case. “The anti-terrorism court of Lahore on Thursday sentenced four leaders of Jamatud-Dawa, including its chief Hafiz Saeed, in two more cases,” PTI
PAK ACTS UNDER GLOBAL PRESSURE With pressure from the international community building up, Pakistan has been trying to probe operations and functioning of the LeT, its charitable wing JuD, and its other branches, in order to convince the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) that it is taking steps to check terror financing. Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed
quoted a court official as saying. Hafiz Saeed and his two aides - Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid have been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years each, while his brotherin-law Abdul Rehman
Makki has been sentenced to six-month imprisonment. Hafiz Saeed is wanted in India for planning the attack in Mumbai in 2008, when 10 terrorists killed 166 people and injured hundreds more.
Ram temple needs special stone, Raj to free wildlife sanctuary land A preliminary survey is being done by team of revenue, forest and mining department officials Jaipur/Ayodhya: The district administration in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur is seeking the denotification of part of a wildlife sanctuary to allow the mining of a special sandstone, much sought after by builders including those constructing the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Thousands of tonnes of the pink sandstone mined in Bharatpur’s Bansi Paharpur have been sourced for the temple over the years,
Over one lakh cubic feet of Bansi Paharpur sandstone, coveted for its unique pink shade, has already been sourced.
but much more is needed. There were concerns in Ayodhya that supplies of this stone with a unique pink hue would dry up. Since blocks of this sandstone had already been carved – ready to
BIHAR MIN, FACING PROBE, QUITS HOURS AFTER TAKING CHARGE Patna: Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary Thursday resigned three days after taking oath amid allegations of corruption. He submitted his resignation after meeting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Bihar’s main Opposition RJD has been attacking the Chief Minister for appointing Choudhary as the Education Minister. The case pertains to Choudhary’s tenure as vice-chancellor of Bihar Agriculture University at Sabaur in Bhagalpur. He and about 50 others had been first booked in 2017 under IPC
be put in place as the temple comes up – switching over to a lesser grade of stone would have caused problems. The Dholpur variant is said to be no match to the Bansi Paharpur stone. Turn to P6
He is also known as a “global terrorist” both by the United Nations and the US, which put a $10 million bounty on his head. Hafiz Saeed was arrested in Pakistan in July last year in connec-
Haryana Home Min Anil Vij to take trial dose of Covaxin today
Ambala: Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Thursday said he has volunteered to take the trial dose of Covaxin, India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine candidate. The minister will take the trial dose on Friday at 11 am at Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantt under the supervision of doctors. Among all the vaccine candidates, Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin is the only one which is undergoing Phase III trials.
A camel-herder along with his camels returns after authorities cancelled the annual Pushkar Fair due to the coronavirus pandemic, at Pushkar on Thursday.
Report claims India conducted “pinpoint strikes’’ inside PoK, Army denies it later New Delhi: The Army had carried out “pinpointed strikes” on terror launch pads inside Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to Pakistani military’s unrelenting efforts to push maximum number of terrorists into India before the onset of harsh winters, defence sources said on Thursday. Later, the Army said there was no firing or ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday. Referring to recent attempts of cross-border terrorism, the sources said the “deep state” in Pakistan tried to manage Turn to P6
4 TERRORISTS KILLED, 11 AK RIFLES SEIZED
Arms and ammunitions recovered from four militants killed in an encounter at Nagrota Ban toll plaza in Jammu.
DDC POLLS WERE TARGET, SAYS IG JAMMU Inspector General of Police, Jammu Zone said that it was possible they were planning a big attack and targeting the upcoming District Development Council (DDC) elections in the Union territory. The DDC elections will be conducted in Jammu and Kashmir in eight phases between November 28 and December 19, and counting will take place on December 22.
An encounter between terrorists and security forces, which broke out in the early hours of Thursday near Ban Toll Plaza in the Nagrota area of Jammu district, has ended, the police said. Four terrorists were neutralised by the security forces, while one Police constable sustained injuries during the operation. According to sources, the four terrorists are likely from the UNdesignated terror group JeM. Mukesh Singh, IG, Jammu Zone also informed that the kind of seizure from the encounter site is “unprecedented”.
CHIEF MINISTER WRITES LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER
GEHLOT SEEKS JAPANESE LOAN TO COUNTER WATER SCARCITY IN STATE Naresh Sharma
sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B. He was suspended from the party for a while after jibes from the BJP, which was in the opposition at the time. “An accusation is proven only when a chargesheet is filed or a court gives an order and neither of the two is there to prove the allegations against me,” said Choudhary.
tion with terror-financing cases after international pressure built up on Pakistan to come clean. He is being kept at Lahore’s high-security Kot Lakhpat jail. The global terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is instrumental in pushing Pakistan to take measures against terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and using its territory to carry out attacks in India. Pakistan’s counterterrorism department had filed 41 cases against Jamaat-udDawa leaders and four cases against Hafiz Saeed have been decided so far. The rest are pending in several antiterrorism courts across Pakistan.
Jaipur: The state government has started special efforts to get loan for the long pending Rajiv Gandhi Lift Canal III Phase Plan for supply of drinking water to 5 cities and 2104 villages in the western region of the state including Jodhpur. For this, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the Japanese institution JICA for early approval of
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot
loan of Rs 1163.2 crore. In his letter to PM Modi, Gehlot has said that the Rajiv Gandhi Lift Canal Phase III plan needs to be executed quickly for the supply of clean drinking water in Jodhpur, Phalodi, Bilara, Pipar City and Samdari towns and 2104 villages in the desert region. For this, the state government had submitted an online application to the Economic Affairs Department of the Union Finance Ministry on March 6, 2020, which has also been approved by
the screening committee of the department on June 11, 2020. The Chief Minister informed that the State Government has also submitted a detailed action plan report (DPR) of this drinking water scheme to the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry while officials of the state government are in constant contact with the officials of the concerned ministries of the central government in this matter. In this regard, Turn to P6
Congress leader AK Antony, wife test positive for coronavirus
New Delhi: Former Union Defence Minister and senior Congress leader AK Antony and his wife Elizabeth Antony have tested COVID-19 positive. AK Antony’s son Anil K Antony shared the news through social media on Thursday and said his parents’ condition is stable. The duo is undergoing treatment at the AIIMS in the national capital.