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26/11: Pak may not re-challenge
bail to attack mastermind Lakhvi
Lahore, August 3
Pakistan may not re-challenge the bail to Mumbai attack mastermind
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior official said today citing the government’s
“own weakness” for not seeking bail revocation, even as the deadline to
conclude the 26/11 case ended over a month ago.
The Islamabad High Court had set a two-month deadline last April
for conclusion of the Mumbai attack case while disposing of the government’s
plea to cancel Lakhvi’s bail. The High Court had also declared that it would
cancel Lakhvi’s bail if the trial court failed to conclude the case within two
months around mid-June.
However, one-and-a-half month has passed from the period of the
High Court’s deadline but there is no official word about the government’s plan
to re-challenge Lakhvi’s bail.
“The
government is unlikely to re-challenge the bail to Lakhvi. Basically, the HC
had also observed while disposing of the government’s plea that if the defence
lawyers of Lakhvi were found responsible for delay in the case then the court
will cancel his bail but the situation on ground is altogether different,” a
senior official said. He said the delay in the case was on the part of some
members of the prosecution team who were being paid by the government. — PTI
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Chinese military wants more
teeth
Bracketing India along with the US, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam as
“threats” to China’s airspace, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in a study
has sought the broadening of its air surveillance and attack capabilities with
high-speed cruise missiles and a new generation of bombers.
China’s Air Force Command Academy in its report last year
identified the United States, Japan, Taiwan, India and Vietnam as “threats” to
its military airspace until the year 2030, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported.
While the massive expansion of Chinese navy with a second aircraft
carrier and a new bomber to operate from its decks attracted worldwide
attention, the new study showed that the air force has started developing a
similar expansion strategy, the report said.
The Beijing-based academy, a think-tank of an air force leadership
training organisation, prepared the report in November last year.
Studies by the academy have previously served as policy
guidelines, the report said.
The academy report proposes broadening the scope of surveillance
from a “first island chain” linking Okinawa, Taiwan and the Philippines and one
of China’s defence lines in the open ocean to a “second island chain” linking
the Izu Island chain, Guam and New Guinea.
The study affords a glimpse into the Chinese military’s confidence
in thwarting the US military, which is critical of China’s controversial
land-reclamation in the South China Sea.
It mentions enhancing the ability to attack US bases on Chinese side
of the second archipelago line with strategic bombers and “deter US military
intervention” in the event of a defence operation involving Chinese islands.
The academy report proposed cooperation between air force and navy
to enhance air-defence capability in the Air Defence Identification Zone China
established over the East China Sea two years ago, and stresses the need to
boost joint training. — PTI
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7 Indians in IS ranks; 6 others
dead
New Delhi, August 3
Only seven Indians are currently with the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria, just one in a combat role, while six from the country who had joined
the dreaded terror network have gone down fighting.
Official sources said of the seven Indians with IS — two are from
Mumbai’s outskirts Kalyan, and an Australia-based Kashmiri. Four others joined
the Jihadist group from Telangana, Karnataka capital Bengaluru, Oman and
Singapore.
Among the six Indians, who fought alongside the IS and got killed
were three Indian Mujahideen terrorists, including Sultan Ajmer Shah and Bada
Sajid, who had joined its ranks after being in Pakistan, two from Maharashtra
and one from Telangana.
Quoting intelligence inputs, sources said, except for one, none of
the six other Indians currently with IS are allowed to go for combat duty and
mostly assist the fighters, serving as cooks, drivers and helpers. The only
Indian, who has been given an assault rifle and is deployed for combat, hails
from Mumbai outskirts Kalyan, they said. So far, 17 young men, mostly from
Telangana, have been prevented from travelling to Syria, ostensibly to join
ISIS. — PTI
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AFT orders: SC takes up plea on
HC’s jurisdiction
Vijay Mohan
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 3
The Supreme Court today agreed to take up a petition seeking
reconsideration of its order on the jurisdiction for appeals against orders
passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT).
In March, an Apex court Bench had ordered that all appeals against
orders passed by the AFT would lie with it and not with the High Courts.
Consequently, the High Courts had found their hands tied by the SC order and
petitions filed by serving and retired armed forces personnel to them were
accordingly disposed off. It had affected a large number of ex-servicemen,
disabled soldiers and widows since obtaining legal remedy in the SC is
monetarily and physically difficult.
Section 31 of the AFT Act provides that appeals before the SC
cannot be filed unless the case involves a “point of law of general public
importance” and the SC has also held that issues such as pension, promotions,
pay scales, etc., do not fall in this category.
Taking up two special leave petitions filed by Dakshina Devi, the
widow of an Army jawan, and Krishan Nanda Mishra, a disabled soldier whose
appeals against AFT orders were disposed off by the Punjab and Haryana High
Court in May, a Division Bench of the SC comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and
NV Ramana today issued notices to the Centre. Petitioners’ advocates Aishwarya
Bhati and Arvind P Datar today contended in the court that the current state
left litigants without any remedy against orders of the AFT.
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Pak targets Indian posts in
Poonch, Jammu sectors
Machine gun fire hits houses in Saujian, villagers flee to safety
Tribune News Service
Jammu/Poonch, August 3
Pakistani soldiers opened automatic weapon fire on several Indian
posts along the Line of Control in four sectors of Poonch and Jammu districts
through Sunday night, prompting the Indian side to retaliate in equal measure.
In Poonch, Pakistani soldiers targeted forward villages as well.
“Pakistani
soldiers violated the ceasefire agreement again last night and targeted Indian
posts and villages in Krishna Ghati and Saujian sectors. The Pakistani army
opened unprovoked firing at Kranti, Kirpan and Chaku posts from their Roza,
Rashid and adjoining posts in Krishna Ghati sector,” said an Intelligence
source.
The
Krishna Ghati sector is being manned by the 22 Sikh Regiment on the Indian
side. The 655 mujahid regiment of the Pakistani army guards the other side of
the border in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
“In the
Saujian sector of Mandi tehsil, Pakistani soldiers opened fire on Abad and
other adjoining posts. They opened fire on forward villages as well,” he added.
Pakistani
soldiers started unprovoked firing in the Krishna Ghati sector around 9:30 pm
on Sunday and continued it till 3 am on Monday.
In the
Saujian sector, the Pakistani side used heavy machine gun fire, triggering
panic among villagers, who took refuge at safer places.
Mir
Gulam Mohammed, a resident of Saujian village, said, “We heard some rounds of
firing around 10:15 pm. In no time, the Pakistani army started targeting our
village. We rushed to our bunkers in the basement to save ourselves. The firing
continued till 3 am. Pakisani bullets hit our doors and iron sheets on
rooftops.”
Defence
spokesperson Lt Col Manish Mehta said the Pakistani side opened unprovoked
small arms and automatic weapon fire on Indian posts in Krishna Ghati, Saujian,
Balakote and Pallanwala sectors of Poonch and Jammu districts.
“The
firing began in all sectors between 9 pm and 9:30 pm and lasted till 3 am,” he
said. He added that there was Pakistani firing in Balakote and Pallanwala
sectors in Poonch and Jammu districts as well.
He said
the Indian side responded in equal measure. He said there was no loss of life
or injury on the Indian side in the latest round of skirmishes.
In
their continued attempts to push terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir, the
Pakistani army and Rangers had been regularly opening unprovoked fire and
mortar shelling along the Line of Control in Poonch and Pallanwalla, Pargwal
and RS Pura sectors along the international border since July 15.
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