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...payer, who claimed to represent an unnamed foreign mining company, has yet to be identified.) Instead of banishing Judeo, the BJP bigwigs said he would still lead the party's campaign for Dec. 1 polls in the state of Chhattisgarh in central India. Defending Judeo, BJP Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani took defiance to daring new levels, declaring he once campaigned while facing charges of receiving $140,000 from the hawala system, an informal and illegal paperless banking network, and it hadn't done him any harm. He won the elections. "We stand on a high moral pedestal," proclaimed...
Inspector Bishwa Lal Shrestha was 32 years old when he tried to arrest Asia's most notorious murder suspect for the killing of two backpackers in Kathmandu. Shrestha examined their corpses, interviewed eyewitnesses, called in handwriting experts, grilled his "restless" suspect, and was soon sure he had the right man. But in December 1975, Nepal was incredibly polite to foreign visitors so Shrestha's superiors told him to respect the do not disturb sign on the door of Charles Sobhraj's room at Kathmandu's smartest hotel. The inspector's men waited in the lobby for two days for Sobhraj...
...people have now died in a frenzy of battles and assassinations. The toll includes several high-profile figures: in addition to Gazi Baba, Jaish-e-Muhammad lost two other senior leaders, while India mourned Kuka Parray, a former rebel leader who switched sides. Hawks such as Indian Deputy PM Lal Krishna Advani are again vowing revenge. "We have to fight it out," he said last week. As a Srinagar civil servant lamented: "We're back to square one." - By Alex Perry. With reporting by Yusuf Jameel/Srinagar...
...surprisingly, India's more hard-line Hindu politicians have been quick to seize upon the possibility that Pakistan?not Gujarat?might be to blame for the Bombay attack. Visiting the scene of the blasts, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani declared, "Pakistan's nefarious designs are not limited to Kashmir or Punjab but to the whole of India." He specifically cited his suspicion that "SIMI has been acting in conjunction with the Lashkar-e-Toiba." Similarly, Gujarat's BJP chief minister, Narendra Modi, who returned to office last November on a wave of Hindu self-assertion, blames what he calls...
...Instead, both sides have displayed remarkable self-restraint. Indian Deputy Prime Minister and Hindu hard-liner, Lal Krishna Advani, cautioned the country's Parliament: "These attacks are specifically aimed at ending the normalcy we have achieved in the Valley." Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a Taliban supporter and chief of Pakistan's fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was on a goodwill visit to India at the time of the attacks?and lost no time in condemning them. He added that he would encourage both governments to hold peace talks, and called all Kashmiri militants to "cease their operations." Even Zafar Akbar...