Guess being a gangster/terrorist's moll isn't the fun it once was
HYDERABAD: Monica Bedi, film actress and companion of underworld don Abu Salem, was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment by the Special Court of CBI here on the charges of cheating, criminal conspiracy and impersonation while securing a fake passport from Kurnool.
The magistrate also handed out a three-year prison term to Mandal Revenue Inspector Mohd. Younus, Assistant SI Abdul Sattar, and postman Gokhari Saheb all hailing from Kurnool and acquitted two others. They were accused of assisting her in obtaining the fake passport.
Abu Salem, the main accused who is now in judicial custody in Mumbai in connection with the serial bomb blasts, is yet to appear in the case. His wife Sameera Zumani, who is second accused, and two passport agents are at large.
After several hours of formalities following pronouncement of the judgment, Monica Bedi was shifted to Chanchalguda women's prison here where she has been lodged since her extradition from Portugal along with Abu Salem in November last year.
However, the three others were released after the judge admitted their petition for suspension of sentence to move the High Court within a month.
The magistrate examined 38 out of 63 witnesses and perused 79 documents presented by the prosecution before delivering the verdict.
The prosecution sought a maximum sentence of seven years for Monica Bedi as the charge against her had been proved but she was awarded five years for cheating and three years each for conspiracy and impersonation. The terms would run concurrently. The judge rejected a memo filed by the CBI to consider the 10-month jail term in Portugal as part of the sentence.
Monica Bedi's counsel had also made a similar plea.
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Don't worry Monica, I'm sure there are a lot of girls at Chanchalguda women's prison will be real happy to have a bollywood starlet in residence..
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Abu Salem now that's a name. Soon the forces of good will drag in Abu Pall Moll.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday asked the central government to explain why some Chinese construction companies had been 'blacklisted' in the country on security grounds.
'We would like to know why the Chinese construction companies are not allowed to take over projects in the country when other foreign companies are allowed,' CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat said.
He was referring to the central government's refusal to give the security clearance to Kerala's Vizhinjam port project, for which a consortium of two Chinese and a Mumbai-based firm had been selected through tenders.
'The party central committee decided to take up the matter with the prime minister,' Karat said.
The central committee, the party's apex decision-making body, Tuesday concluded its three-day meeting for a mid-term review of the party congress decisions.
V.S. Achuthanandan, chief minister of the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, recently led an all-party delegation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to review the central government's decision to deny clearance to the Rs.43.60 billion ($950 million) port project.
Karat said: 'The tenders had been cleared, the prime minister was expected to lay the foundation stone and the work was about to begin. But, suddenly they found Chinese companies could not given the security clearance.'
'Are the US companies, which have projects in Pakistan, disallowed to take up port projects in India?' Karat asked referring to reports that the security clearance was denied as the Chinese firms, Kaidi Electric Power Company and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), had projects in Pakistan too.
Karat pointed out that the Chinese firms had been denied permission to take up projects in India earlier too.
'We do not agree with the decision not to give security clearance to the companies because they are from China,' Karat later told IANS.
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MD Nalapat has claimed that in addition to activating their CPI-M drones to lobby for them, the chicons have funded several NGOs in India.
The recent campaigns against Coke and Pepsi by "environmental" NGOs were apparently chinese ordered.
The CPI-M bosses returned from Beijing last year with instructions to punish Japanese companies and derail their investments in India.
Like clockwork, labor protests sprung up.
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Pakistans President Pervez Musharraf defended his decision to publish memoirs and said on Thursday everything in his book In the Line of Fire was true.
Yes, there are controversies over some parts of the book. Thats normal, he told reporters at Londons Heathrow airport after arriving in England for a two-day visit. But I know one thing and that whatever I have said in the book is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and I stand by it.
His book sparked controversy even before its launch. He told an American television interviewer that former US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage had warned that Pakistan would be bombed back to the Stone Age if it failed to help Washington avenge Al Qaedas Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The United States denied the claim and analysts said such remarks were unhelpful for Pakistans relations with Washington.
Now with the controversies of whether I should have written or not written -- well, why shouldnt I have written? It is more than for myself, Musharraf said. I thought that because of the world looking at me inquisitively, personally, I thought through me I could project the reality of Pakistan and what Pakistan stands for and clear all the misconceptions.
Musharraf will hold talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday and give a speech in Oxford on Friday. Musharraf said he would be discussing bilateral issues including trade, counter-terrorism and reinforcing intelligence. He said the international issues he hoped to discuss included the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan.
British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett played down fears that an intelligence report published by the BBC on Wednesday, which criticised Pakistans ability to fight terrorism, would overshadow the visit. I hope not. I dont see that it necessarily should because it is not an official government document in any way, Beckett told the BBC. The author of the report heaped blame for a failure to win the war on terrorism on Pakistan, alleging that its intelligence agency, ISI, indirectly supported the hardline Taleban.
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Co authors Tommy Flanagan and Joe Iszuzu concur...
Political parties in Indian held Kashmir have called for clemency for Kashmiri national Mohammad Afzal Guru, who is facing hanging on October 20 for his role in the December 13, 2001, Indian parliament attack.
Both anti and pro-India parties have opposed the death penalty to Afzal. Various anti-India political parties held demonstrations in Srinagar on Wednesday, while pro-India parties like the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the local unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) have also opposed the sentence. The political parties in Srinagar believe that Afzal's death would raise tensions in Kashmir and thereby affect the peace process. Mehbooba Mufti, president of the PDP, said that she had asked the Indian prime minister to pardon Afzal. CPI-M leader Mohammad Yusuf Tarigama has sought an appointment with President APJ Abdul Kalam to seek a presidential pardon for Afzal. "All I am going to tell the president is that his (Afzal's) hanging will vitiate the peace process and will cause more bloodshed," he said.
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"Kashmiri national"?! Since when is Kashmir a nation?
If hanging might vitiate the peace process, then shoot or behead Mohammed, makes no difference to the rest of us.
The Hizbul Mujahideen said on Thursday that "there was no sense" in the Ramzan ceasefire, and offered to "stop its operations" in Jammu and Kashmir if army troops in the state moved to the position they were in before the outbreak of militancy.
"There is no sense in a Ramzan ceasefire. It means that there will be no violence for only a month, but for the rest of the 11 months, forces will continue with their killings and so will militants," Hiz chief Syed Salauddin told a Muzaffarabad news channel. "So if the government is sincere, they should withdraw their forces to the pre-1989 position as a good gesture and we will stop operations ... I assure you," he said, and backed a long-term ceasefire in the state.
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In other words, he wants a return to the days when minibuses roamed Srinagar, their conductors shouting 'Pindi!, 'Pindi!, picking up local boys and carrying them to terrorist training camps across the border in Rawalpindi. Srinagar was a no go area for Indian forces, with the insurgent groups running the show.
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...and we will stop operations ... I assure you,"
Yeah, if ya can't trust this guy, who can you trust...
QUETTA: Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani and Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousaf on Thursday dispelled the impression that Quetta had transformed into a Taliban headquarter. Dismissing what they called "baseless allegations" levelled by Afghan authorities and the coalition forces in Afghanistan, both Ghani and Yousaf committed to fighting Taliban and Al Qaeda till their complete elimination from the world.
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Well I'm sold.
Be sure to make a nice grid pattern. Take pix from the shuttle for the history books.
Indian defence minister Pranab Mukherjee told a group of reporters in New York on Wednesday that it was wrong of President Pervez Musharraf to claim in his book that India had been outclassed and outgunned in the Kargil conflict.
Commenting on the Pakistani leader's assertion of Pakistani military superiority in the conflict that nearly brought the two countries to all-out war, Mukherjee said, "It is absolutely incorrect, factually it is not correct. There is no question of being defeated in Kargil. Yes, initially there were some setbacks because of the intrusions. But we got it back and established our posts there. There is no question of the Indian Army being defeated."
He found it contradictory that the Pakistani leader had now admitted that the Pakistan Army was involved in Kargil when throughout the war, Islamabad kept insisting that this was an action by the mujahideen. "Now the Chief of Army Staff and President of Pakistan admits it was the handiwork of the Pakistan Army itself. Therefore both things cannot be true. What he is saying now may be true, but what they were saying at that time during the campaign was not true." He compared the Kargil military "intrusion" to similar actions undertaken by Pakistan in 1948 and 1965 in Kashmir.
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The militants/Jihadis are simply an arm of the Pakistan army whether attacks on India,US,UK etc.
Why do the West tolerate Perv when he is behind most of these attacks??????
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This book was funded by a major grant from Kargil.
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I've had it up to here with Perv and Pakistan. But what to do? It's the keystone to this whole mess, take it out and all hell tumbles down. What to do? Is India ready to move when Pakistan implodes? Everyone else is a little tapped out right now.
QUETTA: Four commanders of late Nawab Akbar Bugti on Thursday surrendered their weapons and announced their support to the government. The Bugti commanders submitted their weapons to the Dera Bugti administration and announced their allegiance to the government.
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PESHAWAR: A cinema run by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in NWFP has finally agreed to adhere to directives issued by the local Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government to temporarily shut shop, sources said on Thursday.
The ruling MMA had on Monday issued orders for all cinemas in the province to close down during the holy month of Ramzan. While all private cinemas had adhered to the government directive, the PAF-run cinema had continued screening films until Wednesday. According to sources, the PAF U-turn came about only after the local government had approached a top military commander in Peshawar, urging him to ensure PAF compliance, thereby saving the ruling alliance from the "embarrassment" of having its directives openly flouted by the armed forces.
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So apart from running bakeries, the Pakistan Military runs a public cinema?
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KHAR: A senior official of the political administration of Bajaur Agency escaped a remote-controlled bomb blast unhurt Thursday. Nawagai Tehsildar Yar Muhammad Khan was on his way to Khar when a roadside remote-controlled bomb went off shattering his vehicle's windscreen, a security official told Daily Times. Though the vehicle was slightly damaged, no one was hurt in the attack.
No one claimed responsibility for the bombing about 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of Khar, Bajur's main town, but three tribesmen have been detained for questioning, said security official Abdul Qayyum, describing the blast as a "terrorist attack". The unsuccessful attack came nine days after a similar attack on a National Commission for Human Development vehicle, which killed a woman worker of the commission and injured another.
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MIRANSHAH: Suspected militants in North Waziristan have shot dead an Afghan refugee for allegedly spying for American forces in Afghanistan, security officials said on Thursday. The victim, identified as 45-year-old Malang Rahim Jan, belonged to the Khost area of Afghanistan and had been living in a refugee camp near Kohat. He was abducted on Wednesday from Mir Ali. His bullet-ridden body was found in Khadi village, confirmed local government official Fida Mohammad. Attached to his body was a letter warned that "US spies had infiltrated into North Waziristan", stressing that the same fate would meet anybody else found to be spying for the Americans.
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As long as they don't figure out that the US spies are the ones with more bullets for their AK-47s, they ought to be OK.
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There are still refugees in the NWFP? There are still refugees in Waziristan, where there's been a full-fledged local civil war raging for more than a year?
I think this might be better-translated as "Taliban turn on each other, butcher one of their own in paranoid outburst."
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Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursihd Kasuri defended a truce between the Pakistan Army and pro-Taliban tribesmen aimed at stopping cross-border raids in Afghanistan, saying its goal was to prevent support for the Taliban and should be given a chance to work. He said the government would give the truce a few months. "The government can now ask the tribal elders to honour the agreement," Kasuri said. "What we do not like is finger-pointing," Kasuri said. "Yes, it's a difficult situation. You make it worse by finger-pointing. Let's accept this difficult situation. Let's cooperate. It's in our common interest," he said.
He has to be a diplomat; no one else can say stuff like that without their lips falling off.
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Hasnt attacks risen threefold since this agreement????!!!
NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai said that if the treaty signed with tribal elders of North Waziristan proved successful, similar treaties would be signed with tribes in other agencies.
In an interview with Murtaza Solangi of the Voice of America, Orakzai said the Pakistan Army was present in the Kurram, Khyber and Mehmand agencies and there were no reports of armed men crossing from those areas into Afghanistan. He said that there had been some reports from Bajaur of stray crossings and due notice had been taken of this. "We are using back-channel diplomacy to deal with the situation," he added. He said the current conflict was mainly confined to south and east Afghanistan where Pashtuns were settled, living under age-old tribal traditions that emphasised decision-making through consensus.
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Must have a different definition of "successful". But hey, of course we trust the ISI's word - how could anyone doubt it?
(KUNA) -- At least six people, including two Indian paramilitary personnel, were seriously injured Thursday evening in a bomb explosion at a market in India's Northeastern state of Assam. Guerrillas suspected to be from the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) triggered an improvised explosive device at the main market in the oil township of Digboi in Assam, Thursday, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported.
Four citizens and two soldiers of the Indian Central Reserve Police Force were wounded in the blast. The market was totally crowded with people when the explosion took place, the news agency said. The injured have been shifted to a local hospital. This is the latest attack by the ULFA that forced the Indian government to suspend a six-week old ceasefire against the rebel group and resume military operations against it last weekend. The key demand of ULFA is sovereignty for Assam which the Indian government is unwilling to negotiate.
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Pakistans President Pervez Musharraf defended his decision to publish memoirs and said on Thursday everything in his book In the Line of Fire was true.
Political parties in Indian held Kashmir have called for clemency for Kashmiri national Mohammad Afzal Guru, who is facing hanging on October 20 for his role in the December 13, 2001, Indian parliament attack. 
The Hizbul Mujahideen said on Thursday that "there was no sense" in the Ramzan ceasefire, and offered to "stop its operations" in Jammu and Kashmir if army troops in the state moved to the position they were in before the outbreak of militancy. 
QUETTA: Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani and Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousaf on Thursday dispelled the impression that Quetta had transformed into a Taliban headquarter. Dismissing what they called "baseless allegations" levelled by Afghan authorities and the coalition forces in Afghanistan, both Ghani and Yousaf committed to fighting Taliban and Al Qaeda till their complete elimination from the world.
QUETTA: Four commanders of late Nawab Akbar Bugti on Thursday surrendered their weapons and announced their support to the government. The Bugti commanders submitted their weapons to the Dera Bugti administration and announced their allegiance to the government.
PESHAWAR: A cinema run by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in NWFP has finally agreed to adhere to directives issued by the local Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government to temporarily shut shop, sources said on Thursday. 
KHAR: A senior official of the political administration of Bajaur Agency escaped a remote-controlled bomb blast unhurt Thursday. Nawagai Tehsildar Yar Muhammad Khan was on his way to Khar when a roadside remote-controlled bomb went off shattering his vehicle's windscreen, a security official told Daily Times. Though the vehicle was slightly damaged, no one was hurt in the attack.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursihd Kasuri defended a truce between the Pakistan Army and pro-Taliban tribesmen aimed at stopping cross-border raids in Afghanistan, saying its goal was to prevent support for the Taliban and should be given a chance to work. He said the government would give the truce a few months. "The government can now ask the tribal elders to honour the agreement," Kasuri said. "What we do not like is finger-pointing," Kasuri said. "Yes, it's a difficult situation. You make it worse by finger-pointing. Let's accept this difficult situation. Let's cooperate. It's in our common interest," he said.
NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai said that if the treaty signed with tribal elders of North Waziristan proved successful, similar treaties would be signed with tribes in other agencies. 
(KUNA) -- At least six people, including two Indian paramilitary personnel, were seriously injured Thursday evening in a bomb explosion at a market in India's Northeastern state of Assam. Guerrillas suspected to be from the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) triggered an improvised explosive device at the main market in the oil township of Digboi in Assam, Thursday, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported.
