OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Tuesday,June 3, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 72 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Economic values keep G-8 Venkaiah Naidu wants Hinds smashes together, but Iraq is job reservation for ton in 9-wicket still an irritant poor among Muslims win for WI Page 13 Page 9 Page 19 WIN WITH THE TIMES Gingee could Established 1838 be involved, Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Jehadis heed own diktats: Kasuri Peace is always beautiful. says CBI By Rashmee Z Ahmed Arafat, chairman of the Pales- Out of the closet those who are fighting are not — Walt Whitman TIMES NEWS NETWORK tinian Authority. our slaves. Yes, we have influ- TIMES NEWS NETWORK But repeatedly urging talks ence, as we have been giving London: Pakistan has finally ac- • ‘‘Those who go to fight don’t tell President NEWS DIGEST for ‘‘hope and peace in the re- moral, diplomatic support New Delhi: The Central Bu- knowledged its ‘‘influence’’ over gion’’, Kasuri said Islamabad Musharraf they are going to die or for that for 50 years.’’ reau of Investigation (CBI) terrorists who go across its bor- has banned violent, anti-Indian matter they don’t tell Yasser Arafat that they ‘‘If some people go endanger- on Monday told the court Jadeja free to play: By refusing der into India and compared are going for martyrdom.’’ that the involvement of for- to stay a Delhi High organisations in Pakistan. ing their own lives and if the them to desperate Palestinian His comments to the BBC are Indian Army, which is present mer Union Minister of State, Court interim order suicide bombers. But, it pleaded • ‘‘Begin an unremitting, all-weather dialogue, Gingee Ramachandran, in which allowed Jade- being described by observers in lakhs along the LoC Kasuri irrespective of clear or cloudy weather.’’ the ‘‘cash-for-transfer’’ scam ja to take part in do- complete inability to stop cross- here, including Kashmiri ac- cannot stop them... then which mestic cricket, the border ‘‘martyrdom’’. tivists, as possibly the first overt Alladin’s lamp do we have could not be ruled out. The Supreme Court has For this, Delhi must be pre- attempt by a high-ranking mem- Instead, ‘‘some have been der terrorism to end before talks that we rub it and all this agency’s advocate A S ruled that the crick- pared for eventual tripartite ber of the Pakistani establish- wanting, as had Hurriyat recent- with Pakistan. stops? We are trying, come let us Cheema said the CBI also had eter can play at talks that include the ‘‘Kashmiri ment to make a direct and emo- ly,a political comparison’’. But Kasuri, who called for a try together.’’ information which suggested home. The court al- people’’, Pakistan’s foreign min- tive link with the Israeli-Pales- The Pakistani foreign minis- constant and continuous process Observers said Kasuri’s re- the role of two senior finance lowed the BCCI to approach the ister warned. tinian impasse. ter’s remarks came even as of ‘‘all-weather dialogue’’ be- marks may be read in many ministry officials. high court to seek modifications or Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri’s Senior Kashmiri activists Prime Minister Vajpayee an- tween India and Pakistan, ways but possibly not as the ex- This submission was made changes in its May 28 order. P22 frank remarks compare Pak- here said that Kasuri’s remarks nounced in Lausanne, Switzer- scotched all hopes of that. act answer to external affairs before special CBI court judge V K Jain, while the India turns aid giver: The fi- istani president Musharraf ’s explicitly stated a now, danger- land on Monday that he was There is little Islamabad can minister Yashwant Sinha’s re- agency produced Ramachan- nance ministry announced that India predicament vis-a-vis suicide ously ‘‘violent link’’ between heartened by the global support do to stop the violence, he said, cent offer of ‘‘joint, anti-terror- would not accept any tied aid in fu- bombers to that of Yasser Kashmir and Palestine. for India’s demand for cross-bor- because ‘‘the Kashmiri people ism operations’’. dran’s personal secretary, A ture. It also declared that outstand- Perumalswamy. The agency ing debt due to all bilateral donors, sought an extension of Peru- except just four — Japan, Germany, malswamy’s remand. After the US and France — would be paid hearing their submission back ahead of time. P9 Jain extended Perumal- The effluent society: Yamuna still chokes on plastic swamy’s custody in CBI TOI Maya’s rivals Just Jammin’: Indian vice-captain till June 5. Rahul Dravid begins an exclusive Cheema told Jain that ‘‘it fortnightly column for The Times cannot be ruled out that of India. P19 the minister himself may be ready for rally involved.’’ However, he did not give a By Bhaskar Roy the Congress was indeed definite reply when the court TIMES NEWS NETWORK reassuring. asked him whether the The SP has, in fact, pro- agency had questioned the New Delhi: Top leaders of posed a poll tie-up with the minister. Cheema said ‘‘we the Congress, Samajwadi Congress in next year’s Lok are in the process of investi- Party (SP), former Union Sabha elections and hinted gating the case.’’ minister Ajit Singh’s that it could be extended be- Cheema said they have Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and yond the borders of UP. ‘‘We come across some names of other allies will be on the want the alliance elsewhere senior Finance Ministry offi- same platform shortly. as well but the Congress has cials from whom the accused The aim is to project an al- to be reasonable,’’ Amar had received donations. ternative to the BJP-BSP Singh said with a note of cau- ‘‘While some have been ques- coalition in Uttar Pradesh tion. ‘‘Our effort shall be tioned, there are some who and demonstrate their to stop the BJP unitedly,’’ he still need to be interrogated,’’ new unity. remarked. Cheema said. The venue of the public by Laxman Though the SP leadership The agency has also col- YOU SAID IT meeting is yet to be decided. at the moment sounds ecstat- lected information suggest- TOI Archives Responding to Congress ic about the ‘bonhomie’ with ing the role of two senior Fi- president Sonia Gandhi’s an- the Congress, such a tie-up is nance Ministry officials in nouncement of joining hands almost certain to spell trou- the scam. with the other opposition ble for it in the long run. The CBI advocate did not forces in UP, the SP on Mon- In UP’s complex structure name the officials and said day said the smaller parties, of caste-politics, the growth that Perumalswamy needed independents and unattached of the SP has been linked to to be interrogated about MLAs may ‘‘see future’’ in the the decline of the Congress as their role. He, however, said new alliance. a political force. In the late they have already questioned ‘‘The united opposition is 1980s, the SP gained new po- some senior officials. actually a political response litical ground following a sig- ‘‘Investigation has re- to Mayawati’s repressive nificant shift of the Muslims vealed some kind of racket rule,’’ SP general secretary from the Congress. operating in the matter of Amar Singh said. The Congress revival in UP transfer of income tax offi- Out of power despite being is likely to see the return of cials,’’ Cheema said, adding the single largest party in the Muslims to its fold from the searches carried out on the state and at the receiving end SP. For the time being, how- accused’s premises led to re- of a large number of police ever, the united opposition covery of lists containing He is very busy — he comes here Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit kicks off the Rs 500 crore later, Shiela Dikshit finds the cases registered by the banner will provide an effec- names of many officers who in his spare time to relax! 2001 Yamuna clean-up programme. 2003 same mess. Mayawati government, for tive platform to counter the allegedly bribed him for the SP the alliance offer from Mayawati regime. their transfers. indiatimes.com POLL Does cybersex amount to adultery? Rains miss date, wait some more Yes 52% No 48% TIMES NEWS NETWORK 46.2 degrees Celsius. VOTE NOW: If Indo-Pak peace talks Too little, too late In the south, ‘heat wave condi- New Delhi: Fingers are being succeed, is reconciliation possible be- tions’ — defined as temperatures be- tween the citizens of the two countries? crossed that the monsoon will hit • Pre-monsoon (March-May) ing above 45 degrees Celsius — are the country by the weekend. Going Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 rainfall this year is about expected to continue for another by the latest indications, meteoro- 13% below normal couple of days. Subramanian said logical officials do not expect it to hit Kerala before June 5. Its usual date • The worst hit states are that heat wave conditions began in of arrival is June 1. Maharashtra, Gujarat and Telangana in mid-May and Andhra ‘‘We hope it will set in by June 5 or Rajasthan Pradesh has since then been 6,’’ India Meteorological Depart- • The onset of the monsoon over suffering hot, dry and strong north- ment (IMD) deputy director-general Kerala has been delayed. It is westerly winds. WEATHER S K Subramanian said on Monday. not expected in the next three Andhra Pradesh isn’t the only So far, the IMD has had no to five days state. Parts of Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Max.