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CPI (M) warns Centre of serious repercussions over BHEL

     Kolkata/New Delhi: The CPI (M) today warned the Centre of serious consequences of it carries on the disinvestment programme. "We shall meet the government representatives and warn them that there will be serious repercussions if it went ahead with the disinvestment," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said. He told reporters here after the three-day Central Committee meeting of the party that its decision to sell off 10 per cent shares of BHEL was a serious breach of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP). The Left is fundamentally against any attempt to disinvest Government's stake in Navratna PSUs. Making a strong case for review of the decision, the Left party questioned the Government's rationale and pointed out that BHEL was making significant profits in a competitive environment. "The NCMP, on whose basis this UPA Government is meant to function, clearly states that the government will encourage and strengthen the 'navratnas' to become a global players,'' party politburo had said in a statement. The CPI also today voiced its opposition against Government's decision to carry on disinvestment in BHEL and NALCO. Over the past ten days, there has been strident opposition from the Left parties to a slew of policy decisions considered or taken by the UPA Government. From the outcry over the Cabinet's clearance of the proposed disinvestment of 10 per cent equity stake in Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) to the possible oil price hike, the Left has been pointing out that the Government has made "departures" from the Common Minimum Programme.

Zardari suffers heart attack, admitted in ICU (Go To Top)

      Islamabad: Benazir Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari has been reportedly admitted in a Dubai hospital after he suffered a heart attack Friday. The doctors attending to him said that he would be kept in the ICU for at least 48 hours. "Asif Ali Zardari who was admitted to a private hospital in Dubai Friday morning for treatment of spinal pain was diagnosed early Saturday morning to have undergone a heart attack," The News quoted PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar as saying Saturday. Babar, a Senator, said that a cardiac surgeon examined Zardari and angiography tests were carried out. "The tests revealed that main artery LAD was almost completely blocked, with 99.9 percent blockade and because of long blockage two stenps were inserted in the main artery," he added. Zardari suffers from several ailments, which developed during his eight-year long incarceration. These include hypertension, spondolytis, muscle atrophy, diabetes and a growth. The paper further reported that PPP chairperson and former premier Benazir Bhutto, who lives in exile in London, has appealed to the people and party workers to offer special prayers for the early and speedy recovery of her husband.

Advani's statements are a change of heart, say Pakistan media (Go To Top)

      Islamabad: Opposition Leader LK Advani's visit to Pakistan was prominently noticed in all Pakistani papers who characterised his statements during the visit as a change of heart in a hardline Hindu leader, whose party the BJP and its associates were reluctant to accept the very existence of Pakistan All the national dailies in Pakistan today carried news reports, pictures, editorial and columns on Indian Opposition's leader LK Advani's ongoing weeklong visit to Pakistan. His visits to the Mazar of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, a Mandir at Katas, Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan at the Governor's House and his alma mater St Patricks School were widely covered by the Pakistani print media this morning. A few of the headlines in the leading papers were: "Welcome home, Mr Advani", "Advani visits his alma mater", and "From Katas to Kashmir". One thing which was more or less common in all the papers was that they described Advani as a anti-Pakistan Hindu hardliner and his party - the BJP - responsible for the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 and Gujarat riots a couple of years ago. Connecting Advani's visit to Jinnah's Mazar to former Indian premier AB Vajpayee's historic trip to Lahore and visit to the Minar-e-Pakistan in 1999, The News in an editorial "Welcome home, Mr Advani" said that both the visits were aimed to address the widespread apprehension in Pakistan that India has never accepted this country's very existence. The paper said that Advani acknowledged the geo-political realities and relations between India and Pakistan have drastically changed over a quarter century since his last visit here in 1979 by paying a significant first visit to the Mazar of Quaid-e-Azam About the FIR allegedly lodged against Advani in Karachi in 1947 regarding an attempt to kill Jinnah, the editorial said that the news of the FIR was leaked to the media when Advani in 2002 presented Musharraf with India's most-wanted list of criminals that Pakistan was harbouring according to New Delhi. Indicating a changed scenario, the paper said that now Pakistan is not pressing forward with the FIR, even as the government says it is unaware of any criminal case against Advani. A report in the paper talked about Advani's daughter Pratibha and wife Kamala, who remembered how Advani used to recall the picnic every year at the spot where the river fell into sea and about the struggle during partition and the family's subsequent migration. She reportedly said that Sindh was the birthplace of both her mother and father. Kamla Advani told newsmen that she migrated from here when she was 16 years old, and that she studied at the Young Girls School but could not determine the present location of the school.

     Advani expressed happiness to visit his birthplace after 27 years while recalled that the last he had come to Karachi was in 1979. The Dawn carried a report titled "Advani visits his alma mater". It quoted Advani telling the faculty and alumni of St Patrick's that when he met Musharraf in New Delhi recently both spent 20 minutes of the total 45 minutes while talking about the school at which both studied. According to the report, Advani paid homage at Jinnah's Mazar and said that Jinnah was one such rare personality who had a determined objective and he achieved that objective by becoming the architect of a new state. "Therefore, when I came here I felt that I am doing a duty by paying homage to this great, outstanding leader", the report quoted Advani as saying.

Media blew Quran desecration out of proportion: White House (Go To Top)

     New York: The US administration has blamed a "few individuals" at the Guantanamo Bay prison for the incidents of desecration of Quran. A White House spokesman said that the media had blown out such "isolated" incidents out of proportion. He claimed that there were three times more incidents of desecration of the holy book by detainees themselves, and that the individuals who desecrated the holy Islamic book violated US military's policies and practices. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in a statement issued in Texas said: "The military expects its high standards to be met, and does not tolerate or condone it when individuals do not -- as this report makes clear." Referring to some media coverage and some commentary, he said: "It is unfortunate that some have chosen to take out of context a few isolated incidents by a few individuals without making clear the policies and practices of the overwhelming vast majority, the 99.9 percent, of our military personnel." "There were three times as many confirmed incidents of (Quran) abuse by detainees, a number which were far worse than the few isolated incidents of mishandling by a few individuals that violated military policies and practices," The Nation quoted him as saying. According to the paper, this was the US administration's latest broadside against the press over abuses at Guantanamo. Last month, the White House attacked Newsweek and went so far as to ask the magazine to help repair damage to America's image with a report that interrogators had flushed at least one copy of the holy book down a toilet to try to make detainees talk.

Wife of ex-Prez held in Bangladesh  (Go To Top)
by Nazrul Islam

     Dhaka: Bangladesh police have arrested Bidisha Ershad, the second wife of former military dictator and President HM Ershad, on the charges of cheating, theft and ransacking their home. Political opponents have also leveled allegations of treason by maintaining links with Indian leaders. The police said they had arrested Bidisha late in the afternoon following a case filed by her husband, now the chief of the Jatiya Party, the second largest opposition group in the parliament. She was placed before the court on Sunday. But the court was yet to hear the case. Two days back, Bidisha (38) was expelled from the party. She was under police surveillance at a city hospital, where she had been undergoing treatment of her ailment, for allegedly maintaining links with a few Indian politicians, media reports say. She was elevated to political prominence by the former military ruler after it appears that the former president got married with the London graduate lady who was a choreographer by profession only three years ago.

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