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SSP/LW/NP-34/2016-18 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 Published From WORLD 11 SPORT 16 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL OF JOBS AND INDIA, CHINA TO HOLD JOINT PSG BEAT LIVERPOOL BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR EMPLOYMENT MILITARY DRILLS IN DEC IN UCL CLASH CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 154 Issue 320 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LUCKNOW, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2018; PAGES 16 `3 HUGH REVIVES ONE-MAN STAGE} SHOW } 14 VIVACITY www.dailypioneer.com Won’t let terror use Pak soil: Khan Revised GDP data Imran invites Modi for talk, says there is already clampdown on Hafiz Saeed stirs credibility fight PTI n ISLAMABAD attack mastermind and Jamat- ud Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Jaitley mocks Cong akistan Prime Minister Talking sense Saeed, who is carrying a $10 PImran Khan on Thursday million US bounty, Khan said, for doubting CSO, Niti UNVARNISHED TRUTH! said he is ready to hold talks *People in Pakistan want peace “There are UN sanctions 2 with his Indian counterpart with India. The mindset of against Hafiz Saeed. There is Aayog Vice-Chairman I don’t think any service is being Narendra Modi while conced- people here has changed, says already a clampdown on him.” accepts Chidambaram rendered by people who choose ing that it is not in the interest Pakistan PM Imran Khan The JuD was declared as a to discredit a highly credible organisation like the CSO, said of his country to allow terror * foreign terrorist organisation by challenge for debate Nothing is impossible, says Jaitley activities on its territory. Khan’s Khan on whether it is possible the US in June 2014. The group 2 remarks came a day after to resolve Kashmir issue is a front for the Lashkar-e- The FM said the Congress had External Affairs Minister Tayyeba terror outfit. PNS n NEW DELHI welcomed the upwards revision * Sushma Swaraj categorically It is not in our interest to allow Saeed is the co-founder of in growth numbers of the last ruled out the possibility of use of Pakistan’s territory for the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, which s a massive controversy two years of the UPA regime by holding talks with Pakistan terror outside, says Khan was responsible for the Ahas erupted over the the same CSO * unless it stops cross-border ter- Gesture for peace can’t be one- Mumbai attacks in which 166 release of the revised GDP 2 The new numbers show India’s economic growth rate averaged ror activities. sided, says Imran Khan people were killed in data of the UPA era, Finance 6.7 per cent during the Congress-led UPA regime as compared to “It is not in our interest to *We are willing to wait for November 2008. He was put Minister Arun Jaitley defend- 7.3 per cent under the present Government. Previous numbers allow use of Pakistan’s territo- (general) elections to get over in under house arrest after the ed the decision saying it was had put the average growth rate during the 10-year UPA rule at ry for terror outside,” Khan, India for a gesture from New 26/11 attack, but was freed by done by a “highly credible” 7.75 per cent who was celebrating 100 days Delhi, says Imran a court in 2009. organisation, the Central of his Government on On other accused in the Statistics Office, which main- viving argument “my GDP it a highly credible organisation Thursday, said during an inter- *Let us talk. I am ready for talks 26/11 case, Khan said their case tains an arm’s length from the growth was higher than yours”. like the CSO because its data is action with a group of Indian on any issue. There can’t be a is sub judice. Finance Ministry. Eyebrows A day after Chief based on facts and the revised journalists. Khan said that peo- military solution for Kashmir, The 26/11 attack case has are being raised over the Statistician Pravin Srivastava, in formulations, (and it is) a con- ple in Pakistan want peace says Pakistan PM entered into the 10th year but involvement of the Niti Aayog an unusual move, announced tinuous exercise because every with India and he will be happy none of its seven suspects in in releasing the revised GDP the revised data based along- time you try and improve upon to meet Modi and talk to him here has changed,” the and facilitate visa-free move- ceremony of the corridor. Pakistan has been punished yet, data and the Congress has side Niti Aayog Vice Chairman, the formulations to make them on any issue. Pakisatan PM said, a day after ment of Indian Sikh pilgrims to He, however, said the ges- showing that the case had called the revision as a “farce”. Jaitley said, “I don’t think any more representative of the real “I am ready for talks on any he laid the foundation stone for Kartarpur. ture for peace cannot be one- never been in its priority list. At the same time, Niti service is being rendered by state of economy.” issue. There can’t be a military the Kartarpur Corridor that Pakistan is projecting the sided. “We are willing to wait India, which is observing Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv people who choose to discred- Continued on Page 6 solution for Kashmir,” he said, will connect Darbar Sahib in corridor as a goodwill gesture. for (general) elections to get the 10th anniversary of one of Kumar on Thursday accepted adding “nothing is impossible” Pakistan’s Kartarpur — the “The India I know, major- over in India for a gesture from the worst terrorist attacks in the the challenge of former Finance when asked whether it is pos- final resting place of Sikh faith’s ity must be appreciating it,” New Delhi,” Khan said, refer- country, has been pushing Minister P Chidambaram for a sible to resolve the Kashmir founder Guru Nanak Dev — Khan told the Indian journal- ring to the Lok Sabha elections Pakistan to bring to justice the debate on the revised GDP issue. with Dera Baba Nanak shrine ists who had arrived in Pakistan scheduled for next year. planners of the 2008 Mumbai data, which showed economic DeMo retarded growth: “The mindset of people in India’s Gurdaspur district to cover the groundbreaking On punishing Mumbai attacks. growth during the current NDA regime was better than that in the UPA rule. Defending the decision, Arvind Subramanian Jaitley said the revised num- RBI’s regulatory sible for the crisis at one of the Govt can’t alter 2-yr term for EC likely to club LS, bers, based on a new formula largest entities it has been with 2011-12 as the base year, failure led to IL&FS regulating. are globally more comparable Breaking his silence on J&K polls: Sources as they take into account a far mess, says ex-Chief demonetisation, he said he CBI chief, Verma tells SC greater representation of the Economic Adviser does not have a strongly- PTI n NEW DELHI Its term was to end on Indian economy and are more backed empirical view apart PNS n NEW DELHI The Vineet Narain deci- March 16, 2021. reflective of its real condition. AGENCIES n NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI from the fact that the welfare sion, delivered by the apex he Election Commission, The sources in the Taking on the Congress for costs, especially on the infor- BI Director Alok Verma, court in 1997, relates to the Twhich has to hold fresh Government, meanwhile, criticising the revision, he said emonetisation was a mas- mal sector, are substantial. Cwho has been divested of investigation of allegations of Assembly polls in Jammu & pointed out that when securi- the Congress had welcomed Dsive, draconian, mone- Though Subramanian — all duties by the Centre and corruption against high-rank- Kashmir before May 21 next, is ty forces are deployed for the the upwards revision in growth tary shock that accelerated who quit the post earlier this sent on leave, told the Supreme ing public officials in India. likely to club it with the Lok Lok Sabha polls in the state, it numbers of the last two years economic slide to 6.8 per cent year after a four-year tenure, Court on Thursday that he was Before 1997, the tenure of Sabha elections due next year, would be convenient for elec- of the UPA regime by the same in the seven quarters against and has devoted a chapter in appointed for a fixed tenure of the CBI directors was not fixed highly-placed sources in the tion authorities to hold the CSO and had gone to the the 8 per cent recorded prior the upcoming book Of two years and cannot be trans- and they could be removed by poll panel said Thursday. assembly polls simultaneously. extent of saying that the “the to the note ban, former Chief Counsel: The Challenges of the ferred. the Government in any man- The State Assembly was Malik dissolved the assem- new GDP series has conclu- Economic Adviser Arvind Modi-Jaitley Economy — has Verma, who has a feud ner. But the apex court in the dissolved by Governor Satya bly shortly after People’s sively established that we did Subramanian has claimed. continued to keep a studied with his deputy Special Vineet Narain judgment fixed Pal Malik on November 21 cit- Democratic Party leader not mismanage the economy”. Terming the IL&FS crisis silence on whether he was con- Director Rakesh Asthana, had a tenure of a minimum of two ing the “impossibility of form- Mehbooba Mufti staked claim Later in a blog post, Jaitley as a regulatory failure, sulted in the decision-making approached the apex court years for the CBI Director to ing a stable government by the to form a government with the said the revised growth data has Subramanian said the Reserve process of demonetisation.