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2002 Gujarat riots: Despite request to CM Modi, Army lost a crucial day waiting for vehicles, says retired Lt. General

New Delhi, 06 Oct 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: On the intervening night of February 28 and March 1, 2002 when Gujarat was engulfed in flames, Lt. Gen Zameer Uddin Shah, met the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in the presence of the then Defence Minister George Fernandes, at 2 am in Ahmedabad and gave him a list of immediate requirements to enable the Army columns to fan out to restore law and order. But the 3,000 troops that had landed at the Ahmedabad airfield at 7 am on March 1, had to wait for a day before the Gujarat administration provided the transport — during which period hundreds of people were killed. “These were crucial hours lost,” Shah, who retired as the Deputy Chief of Army Staff, has revealed in his upcoming memoir titled “The Sarkari Mussalman” (Konark Publishers) to be launched by

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Omar Abdullah questions Indian government for sharing stage with Taliban

Srinagar, 11 Nov 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: Questioning the Indian government’s move of sharing the stage with the Taliban at a “non-official level” in Moscow, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah asked why cannot then the Union government led by Narendra Modi have a similar “non-official” discussion with non-mainstream leaders in India’s Jammu and Kashmir. The former chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir questioned the parameter with which government opted to accept this invitation while keeping a distance from Kashmir’s secessionist leaders. Claiming that India is “not in talks with the Taliban in any form and simply invited as part of a reconciliation team for peace measures in Afghanistan”, BJP said that Abdullah is misleading

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After falsely implicating Maqsood over cow slaughter, police drop case

Azamgarh, 18 Nov 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: After realizing that they had wrongly booked an innocent Muslim five days ago on charges of cow slaughtering, Azamgarh police on Friday expunged the case. 40-year-old Mohammad Maqsood, a native of Shahpur Bazaar in Azamgarh is presently lodged at Azamgarh jail. “We have expunged the case after completing the investigation. Maqsood is likely to be released soon,” said Additional Superintendent of Police, Rural (Azamgarh), Narendra Pratap Singh, reported The Indian Express. According to reports, the police on Sunday got information that a man was carrying a bull for slaughtering. A police team rushed to the spot and arrested Maqsood and also seized the vehicle. On police interrogation, Maqsood told that he was taking the animal to a cow shelter, but failed to convinced. The

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