SRINAGAR: Acting Pakistan high commissioner to India, Babar Amin, has invited various Kashmiri separatist leaders for a meeting in New Delhi on July 3, 2012.
The meeting of Pakistan High Commission officials with the separatist leaders has gained significance in the wake of secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan scheduled to be held early next month. India's foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai will hold talks with his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani in New Delhi on July 4, 5 to discuss peace and security, including CBMs, Kashmir and promotion of friendly exchanges.
Chairman of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq confirmed that he had received an invitation from the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi. "I have been invited for consultations on July 3 at 5pm by the Pakistan foreign office," Mirwaiz said.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and prominent separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah have also received the invitation, sources said. However, chairman of another faction of Hurriyat conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani will seek the advice of the advisory committee to take a call on the invitation.
Geelani's spokesman, Aiyaz Akbar told the TOI that Geelani had also received an invitation from the Pakistan High Commission but he chose to seek the advice of the advisory council of the Hurriyat on whether to meet the high commission officials or not.
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Amid a show of strength, UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday filed his nomination papers for the July 19 Presidential elections in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and a host of leaders.Mr. Mukherjee handed over his nomination papers to Vivek Kumar Agnihotri, Rajya Sabha Secretary General and Returning Officer for the Presidential elections.Soon after completing the process, Mr. Mukherjee thanked parties like SP, BSP, JD(U), CPI(M) and Shiv Sena for reposing faith in him.I am grateful to them as they have reposed faith in me to occupy the office which was occupied in the past by great stalwarts of this countr“I only wish at this time that let me have the blessings of God and cooperation of all at this juncture,” he told reporters at the Parliament House.Four sets of nomination papers, signed by as many as 480 MPs and MLAs, including Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, Congress Legislature Party leaders and PCC chiefs were submitted by Mukherjee.Convenor of the opposition NDA and JD(U) President Sharad Yadav was the first signatory on one set of nomination papers followed by Defence Minister A.K. Antony. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and BSP supremo Mayawati have also signed the nomination papers.As a matter of abundant precaution, each set of nomination papers have 60 proposers and 60 seconders against 50 proposers and 50 seconders as required under election rules.SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, RJD chief Lalu Prasad, RLD chief Ram Vilas Paswan, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and union ministers such as P Chidambaram, Farooq Abdullah, Ajit Singh, E. Ahamed, A.K. Antony, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Ashwini Kumar were present at the time of Mr. Mukherjee filing his nomination papers.As expected, UPA ally Trinamool Congress, which has decided not to back Mr. Mukherjee, was not present.SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav, BSP leader Satish Chandra Mishra, NCP leader D.P. Tripathi were among others who witnessed the filing of nomination papers.Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has been appointed as Mr. Mukherjee’s authorised representative.
Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns and other weapons alongside its border with Syria, state television reported on Thursday, days after the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syrian forces heightened the tensions between the two countries.A small convoy of military trucks, towing anti-aircraft guns, entered into a military outpost in the border village of Guvecci, which faces a Syrian military outpost across the border and where Syrian forces and rebels clashed in recent months, TRT television footage showed.Several anti-aircraft guns have also been deployed elsewhere alongside the border. Some trucks were seen carrying self-propelled multiple rocket launchers, TRT footage showed.
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After spending 31 years in Pakistani jail, Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh on Thursday walked free and crossed over to his home country to an emotional renunion with his family.69-year-old Singh, who was released from Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail this morning, crossed to the Indian side at Wagah border where he was welcomed with garlands and red shawls by his family and villagers, after completing official procedures on the Pakistan side of the border.“After 30 years, I am meeting my children. I am very happy,” he told reporters here.He said he did not have any hardship in the Pakistani jail and he got daily necessities such as food and clothes.Mr. Singh served a life term following his arrest on charges of spying in the 1980s in Pakistan. He was given the death sentence under the Pakistan Army Act in 1985. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1989 by then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.Pakistani security personnel had escorted Mr. Singh to the Wagah land border crossing, where he was handed over to Indian authorities.His release from prison came after reports emerged on Tuesday that Pakistan was to free Sarabjit Singh. But later, Pakistan clarified that authorities had actually ordered the release of Surjeet and not Sarabjit.
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SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah who had gone to London last week to visit his family, flew back to Srinagar on Tuesday in the wake of tense situation that followed the fire at Sufi shrine Dastgeer Sahib, Khanyar in the old city yesterday.
New Delhi:India-Pakistan foreign secretary-level dialogue that was expected to be held on June 29 in New Delhi has been finally scheduled for July 4 and 5.The changes have been made at the insistence of Pakistan which felt the two sides needed more time to discuss mutual issues.
New DelhiI: The Indo-Pak foreign ministers' meeting, which was scheduled in July, has been postponed since the dates were clashing with the presidential poll here.