Yasin Malik suffers stroke

     Islamabad: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Mohammad Yasin Malik suffered a stroke last evening following which the doctors advised him rest. JKLF sources said that Malik (37) suffered the stroke after attending a lunch hosted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Islamabad. Malik is one of the nine moderate Kashmiri leaders currently visiting Pakistan. They added that the doctors have advised Malik to take complete rest and not to meet visitors. According to the Dawn, the doctor who attended Malik blamed the illness on fatigue due to hectic engagements since the Kashmiri leaders arrived in PoK on June 2. Mohammad Rafiq Dar, secretary-general of Malik's JKLF faction in PoK and Pakistan, said his leader had cancelled a trip to Kotli town in PoK and was unsure whether he would be able to go on Wednesday to Muzaffarabad as planned.

Pakistan move to dump Gilani, promote Mirwaiz: Report (Go To Top)

     Islamabad: Pakistan has decided to recognise the moderate face of the APHC (All Party Hurriyat Conference) led by Miwaiz Omar Farooq as the real face of the Conference, and dub the extremist leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani as a "veteran Kashmiri leader". This is being seen as a major change in Pakistan government's attitude towards Gilani as till recently Islamabad recognised Gilani as the real face of APHC. According to the Online News, the federal government has directed its state-run media to dub Gilani as the "veteran Kashmiri leader" and not as the APHC chairman. The move comes after Gilani declined Pakistan government's invitation to visit PoK and Pakistan along with other Kashmiri leaders currently visiting Pakistan. His absence in the Kashmiri leaders' delegation brought quite an embarrassment for the federal government in front of its own population. Following the directions from the federal government, the media has started calling Gilani as a veteran Kashmiri leader rather than the APHC chairman. A report said that this was the beginning of the change in Kashmiri leadership, and that a formal announcement in this regard will be made on the return of visiting Kashmiri leadership to Srinagar. President Pervez Musharraf reportedly expressed dismay over the attitude of Kashmiri leader Gilani. In an interview after his meeting with the visiting Kashmiri leaders, he also gave indication that a change in the leadership of APHC was in the offing. He said that the visiting Kashmiri leaders were the real Kashmiri leadership, and this was a clear indication that Pakistan has decided to recognise Abbas Ansari's group of APHC was the real Conference.

Osama alive, living on Pak-Afghan border: Musharraf (Go To Top)

     Canberra: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has once again admitted that al Qaeda chief and the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden was alive and most probably living in the mountaineous border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan. "I know that he is alive. Most likely he is alive, yes, because of our information and interrogation of various al-Qaeda operatives that we have apprehended. Maybe he is in the border region in hiding wherever he sees a vacuum........it is not easy to get a person there," The News quoted Musharraf as saying. In the past too, Musharraf has on several occasions admitted of Osama's presence in areas bordering Afghanistan where the Pashtuns and al Qaeda activists guard him. There is so much pressure on Musharraf in keeping Osama out of the US' reach that he has so far refused to permit the US forces to comb the area to capture the al Qaeda chief.

Nehru, Gokhale, Tilak blamed (Go To Top)

     Islamabad: The vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League, Syed Kabir Ali Wasti has said that communal anti- Muslim policies of Hindu leaders like Nehru, Gokhale and Tilak was the reason behind Mohammed Ali Jinnah's demand for a separate state of Pakistan. He said that Jinnah, the founder of Paksitan, was a secular, progressive, liberal and democratic statesman, who believed in an United India, initially, and anti-Muslim policies of these leaders had forced him to demand and work for the creation of Pakistan. He said that Jinnah had created Pakistan for giving socio- economic rights to the oppressed people, adding that both the clergy in Pakistan and the extremists in India had wrongly painted Jinnah. He said that Jinnah wanted to make Pakistan into a progressive, liberal and welfare state, which had nothing to with theocracy. Jinnah, he said, was himself against theocracy and had in his historic August 11, 1947 speech, said that he wanted to see Pakistan as a secular state where all the citizens would be free to preach and practice their religions He said that Jinnah had always portrayed himself as a political leader, a nationalist, who was a preacher of peace and Hindu- Muslim unity initially, adding that once when his supporters had referred to him as a Maulana in a public rally in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, Jinnah had said that he was not a religious leader of the Muslims.

Ambanis may settle Reliance ownership dispute by July 6 (Go To Top)

    Mumbai: The bitter seven-month old battle between Mukesh and Anil Ambani over the ownership of the Reliance business empire is likely to be resolved by July 6, informed company sources said on Wednesday. Mukesh and Anil reportedly met last week to hammer out a settlement under which the flagship company Reliance Industries and IPCL would be retained by Mukesh, while Anil would get Reliance Energy Ltd, Reliance Capital and Reliance Infocomm, the sources added. Talks between the brothers and their representatives are still on, and once the details are finalised, a formal announcement is expected on July 6.

New model of CNG-run luxury Ambassador car  (Go To Top)
by Gyanendra Kumar Keshri

     New Delhi: In order to cater for the new market of modern luxurious car, Hindustan Motors Limited today launched the CNG Bharat Stage (BS) III 'Grand' model of Ambassador in New Delhi with several new features. CNG BS III Ambassador Grand priced at 4.80 lakh in New Delhi showrooms have several new features like power window in all four doors, central locking, rear floor light and body coloured bumpers with new styling. "The CNG BS III Ambassador Grand is the ideal choice for the commercial segment which needs a sturdy vehicle capable of taking the rough and tumble of round-the-clock usage on myraid road surfaces," said Ashwani Dubey, Executive Vice President, Hindustan Motors Ltd.

Chappell arrives in Bangalore (Go To Top)

     Bangalore: Former Australian captain Greg Chappell has arrived in Bangalore, from Sydney, to assume charge as the new coach of the Indian cricket team. Chappell replaces New Zealander John Wright, who was the coach of the Indian team for over four years. "Bangalore will be the base for Chappell," BCCI secretary SK Nair said. The first coaching camp of the season for the Indian cricket team after the appointment of Chappell as coach, is expected to start in the first week of July in Bangalore, Nair said. The camp is being held ahead of the tri-series involving Sri Lanka and West Indies to be held in Sri Lanka, Nair said.

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