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Thackeray's comments not communal, says BJP
NEW DELHI, OCT. 17. The Bharatiya Janata Party does not share or approve of the call given by the Shiv Sena chief, Bal Thackeray, asking Hindus to form "suicide squads'' to counter the `jehadi' squads of terrorists, but feels that his remarks ...

Mahathir calls on Kalam, Vajpayee
NEW DELHI, OCT. 17.The Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, today called on the President, Abdul Kalam, and held talks with the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee. The External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, called on Dr. Mahathir ...

Army grappling with logistics of pullback
NEW DELHI, OCT. 17.Even as an Air Force squadron from the east becomes the first armed force element to return to its original location, the Army has started grappling with the logistical nightmare of moving back about four lakh soldiers, along ...

U.K. Minister hopes pullback will help
NEW DELHI, OCT. 17. The visiting British Foreign Office Minister, Mike O'Brien, has expressed the hope that the redeployment of troops by India on Wednesday and Pakistan's response today would lead to a process that can "resolve the issues which ...

J&K deadlock continues
SRINAGAR, OCT. 17.The People's Democratic Forum today created ripples in the political circles here by claiming that six more Independents had joined it and that the Forum was ready to form a government even with the support of the National ...

Dates not finalised for SAARC meet
NEW DELHI, OCT. 17. India today clarified that no dates had as yet been finalised for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in Islamabad in January 2003. The matter would be considered after the dates are ...