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Reuters by Pakistan-based militants told reporters in his home- Jaish-e-Mohammed militant pleted their jail terms, many KARACHI in Indian-controlled Kash- town of Multan. ‘Reliable intel’ group in northwestern Pa- of them fishermen convicted mir killed at least 40 Indian He did not elaborate on kistan has also been thrown of straying into each other’s Pakistan has “reliable in- paramilitary police on Feb. what evidence Pakistan had Pakistan has “reliable into doubt after satellite im- territory, often languish in telligence” that India will 14 and the risk of conflict or how he could be so specific intelligence” that India will ages showed little sign of jails for months, if not years, attack again this month, For- rose dramatically on Feb. 27, with the timing, but he said attack again this month, damage. afterwards. eign Minister Shah Mahmood when India launched an air Prime Minister Imran Khan FM Shah Mahmood Pakistan closed its air- “These are 100 Indian Qureshi said on Sunday, strike on what it said was a had agreed to share the in- Qureshi said on Sunday, space amid the standoff but fishermen released from as tension over a February militant training base. formation with the country. as tension over a February most commercial air traffic jail as a goodwill gesture by standoff between the two nu- The following day Paki- India’s foreign office standoff between the two has since resumed and major Pakistan,” Saad Edhi, an of- clear-armed neighbours had stan shot down an Indian didn’t immediately respond nuclear-armed neighbours airports have opened. ficial with Pakistan’s largest appeared to ease. fighter jet and captured its to an email seeking com- had appeared to ease As a sign of apparently charity, the Edhi Founda- The attack could take pilot who was later released. ment. Pakistan FM Shah easing tensions, Pakistan tion, said at Karachi’s Can- place between April 16 and “We have reliable intelli- Khan blamed India’s rul- Mehmood Qureshi. said on Friday it would re- tonment Railway Station on 20, he said, adding that Pa- gence that India is planning ing Bharatiya Janata Party lease 360 Indian prisoners Sunday. kistan had told the five per- a new attack on Pakistan. (BJP) for “whipping up war standoff. India said it, too, it said had been fired by a Pa- this month. The first hundred “They are going to Lahore manent members of the UN As per our information this hysteria” over claims that had shot down a Pakistani kistani F-16 before it went were released on Sunday. from where they will be re- Security Council of its con- could take place between India shot down a Pakistani aircraft and the air force dis- down. The success of Indian Due to rocky relations, leased into India across the cerns. A suicide car bombing April 16 and 20,” Qureshi F-16 during the February played pieces of a missile that air strikes on a camp of the prisoners who have com- Wagha border crossing.”

News Workers doing India’s dirtiest in brief Mayawati, Akhilesh and job say Modi has failed them Pakistan frees 100 Indian fishermen as Reuters the workers are reminding goodwill gesture MUMBAI Modi of his promise to eradi- cate by this year the practice ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ajit Singh declare ‘war’ on Five sanitation workers, all of manual scavenging - the authorities on Sunday from the lowest rung of India’s cleaning, carrying or dispos- released 100 Indian caste system, were chosen in ing of human excreta from dry fishermen as a gesture of late February to meet a very latrines and sewers. goodwill despite the ag- important guest: Prime Minis- “(Modi) has done nothing gressive attitude of New BJP, Cong at 1st joint rally ter Narendra Modi. for us in the past five years,” Delhi against Islamabad, As cameras flashed, Modi Wilson said. Pakistani media reported. proceeded to wash the feet of India has laws banning the The fishermen had been the workers, one by one, using hiring of manual scavengers, arrested over trespassing SP, BSP chiefs warn that supporting Congress party will split anti-Modi votes water and his hands, a gesture but they have not been prop- into Pakistani waters by the intended to honour staff who erly enforced, mostly due to Pakistan Maritime Security clean toilets at the Kumbh difficulty collecting evidence Agency (PMSA). The freed Mela, a massive religious gath- and apathy by successive gov- prisoners would be depart- ering in north India. ernments. Workers picking up ed to Lahore from Karachi But sanitation work- human waste with bare hands Cantt railway station at ers, scores of whom die each is a common sight at railway 1:00 pm today after being year from asphyxiation while stations. released from the jail and removing waste from un- While government esti- later they will be handed derground drains, have had mates peg the number of man- over to Indian officials at enough, said Bezwada Wil- ual scavengers at anywhere be- Wagah border. (ARYNEWS) son, the head of the Safai tween 14,000 and 31,000, the Karmachari Andolan (SKA), SKA says the figure is closer Protests against or Sanitation Workers’ Move- to 770,000, with nearly 1,800 Jammu & Kashmir ment. Ahead of general elec- sewer cleaners asphyxiating to highway ban tions that begin on Thursday, death in the last decade. Srinagar: National Confer- ence and Peoples Demo- cratic Party (PDP) activists Maldives president’s party set for on Sunday protested against the ban on civilian massive win in parliamentary polls traffic on the Jammu-Sri- nagar highway on Sundays Reuters stituencies, according to local and Wednesday, with one MALE media projections. The Indian leader saying it had become Ocean archipelago has been a “humanitarian disaster”. Maldives President Ibra- caught in a battle for influ- The state government has him Mohamed Solih’s party ence between India and China, banned civilian and public is heading for a historic land- which invested millions of dol- transport on the highway slide victory in parliamentary lars during Yameen’s rule as in Jammu and Kashmir on elections, provisional results part of its Belt and Road plan. Sundays and Wednesdays showed, a move that will help Since he unseated pro- to ensure safe passage to him to investigate the scale of China leader Abdulla Yameen convoys of security forces. debts to China. in September, Solih’s MDP, Former Chief Minister and With 85 percent of bal- which has governed in a coa- National Conference leader lot boxes counted, candidates lition with three other par- Omar Abdullah and Peoples from Solih’s Maldivian Demo- ties, has warned that a build- Conference President Sajad Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav and Rashtriya Lok Dal president Ajit Singh wave to the crowd cratic Party (MDP) lead in ing boom has left huge debts Lone demanded a review of during their joint election campaign rally at Deoband in northern Indian state of UP, on Sunday. (REUTERS) more than 60 out of 87 con- to Chinese lenders. the other. (IANS) IANS alone would not do and that Sabha elections he (Narendra Central govt allowed Deoband (Uttar Pradesh) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Modi) was a chaiwala and now Pulwama for Modi’s Yogi Adityanath must also go. he is a chowkidar.” Rashtriya ‘It’s not good, it’s dangerous’: Duterte victory: Farooq Abdullah Addressing their first “Our gathbandhan is win- Our ‘gathbandhan’ is Lok Dal’s Ajit Singh called the joint rally in Uttar Pradesh, ning and the BJP is going, pro- winning and the BJP is BJP “anti-farmer” and alleged seeks to suspend motorcycle law Srinagar: Former Jammu BSP supremo Mayawati, Sa- vided they don’t tamper with going, provided they don’t that it had come to power by and Kashmir Chief Minister majwadi Party leader Akhile- the Electronic Voting Machines tamper with the Electronic creating communal tensions. philstar.com to convince the LTO to maybe and National Conference sh Yadav and RLD chief Ajit (EVMs),” Mayawati said, add- “The BJP has done noth- MANILA hang onto it, I will suspend (NC) President Farooq Singh on Sunday declared ing that the voters would end Voting Machines (EVMs) ing in the last five years. To- it for the meantime because Abdullah on Sunday alleged war on both the BJP and the the “drama of chowkidari”. -Mayawati day even the farmers are say- President Rodrigo Duterte it is not good. It is dangerous that the Central government Congress saying they were Modi had not fulfilled even ing that their crops are being on Saturday said he would to place another gadget, espe- knew about the Pulwama two sides of the same coin. one fourth of the promises he gobbled up by Modi and Yogi. temporarily suspend the imple- cially since a license plate has terror attack, but allowed it Mayawati and Akhilesh made in the 2014 Lok Sabha divided. Both these parties are But the situation is changing mentation of the controversial corners.) The president also to happen so that Narendra Yadav, who shared a common battle that brought him to pow- same. There is not much dif- and the ouster of the BJP is a Motorcycle Crime Prevention suggested increasing the size Modi could win elections. “It public platform for the first er, she said. ference between them.” Speak- certainty now.” Act (Republic Act 11235 ) which of the rear plate by one-fourth is their (Centre’s) mistake. time in years, particularly The Prime Minister had ing on the alliance, which has BSP’s Fazlur Rahman is he signed into law last month, so that the numbers will be They knew that the attack warned Muslims against sup- also failed to protect the bor- emerged as the most potent contesting the election from the citing that it’s “not good and is more visible. was going to happen. Where porting the Congress, alleg- ders, she added, citing increas- challenger to the BJP, he said: Saharanpur Lok Sabha constit- dangerous.” “The rear is more impor- did the explosives come ing that the grand old party ing instances of terrorism in “This coalition is to pro- uency, which will go to the polls “I will try to convince the tant” Duterte said. Duterte from? Modi had to win the would only end up splitting Jammu and Kashmir. vide a new Prime Minister.” in the first phase on April 11. LTO to maybe hang onto it. It signed into law the Motor- elections, so he did this anti-BJP votes in the Lok Mayawati did not spare the Yadav slammed the Congress, The BJP swept the 2014 is dangerous to place another cycle Crime Prevention Act ‘karnama’ (misadventure),” Sabha elections. Congress either, calling its elec- saying the party does not want Lok Sabha polls in Uttar gadget, lalo na may kanto ang last March 8 in a bid to curb said Abdullah, who on Sun- Speaking first at the Jami- tion manifesto ‘hawa-hawai’. change. The SP chief raised Pradesh, winning a stagger- plate number eh,” Duterte was crimes. The law requires rid- day led an NC sit-in against ya Tobbiya Medical College Akhilesh Yadav said that questions about the promises ing 71 of the 80 seats. An ally quoted in a speech at the 25th ers to have bigger and read- the ban on civilian traffic on ground, former Chief Minister both the Bharatiya Janata Par- made by the Modi government won another two. The Con- annual convention of the Na- able license plates from the Jammu-Srinagar national Mayawati was at her aggressive ty and the Congress pursued in the last Lok Sabha battle and gress won two seats and the tional Federation of the Mo- front, back and side of a mo- highway. (IANS) best as she said that removing the same policies. accused the Prime Minister of Samajwadi Party five. The torcycle Clubs of the Philip- torcycle, to easily identify the Prime Minister Narendra Modi “Not a single vote should be speaking lies. “In the last Lok BSP won no seat. pines in Iloilo City. (I will try registration of riders. Did Indian Prime Minister Modi deliver on his economic promises? AFP however, have been left disap- omy has failed to expand at the India has risen three places suffering to millions of poor ernment hopes it can register Mumbai pointed–and jobless. A news- rate required to employ the one to 78th in Transparency Inter- who operate outside of India’s $100 billion annually within paper recently published what million Indians who enter the national’s Corruption Percep- formal economy. two years. Indian Prime Minister Nar- it called an official report buried workforce every month. tion Index under his watch, five Modi promised to boost One of the most high-pro- endra Modi swept to power by Modi’s government showing In 2014, Modi projected places behind South Africa but foreign investment by making file investments was US retail five years ago on a business- unemployment at its highest himself as an anti-corrup- nine ahead of China. it easier for companies abroad giant Walmart’s purchase of a friendly manifesto that prom- since the 1970s. tion crusader who would However, Modi’s first term to do business in India. 77-percent stake in Indian e- ised to shake up Asia’s third- Last year a staggering 19 eradicate graft and so-called will perhaps most be remem- To a large extent he has suc- commerce behemoth Flipkart largest economy and boost million people applied for “black money”. While Modi bered for a shock cash ban that ceeded. The government has last year for $16 billion. employment. 63,000 positions at Indian has been widely credited with rendered 86 percent of the relaxed stringent foreign direct Investors have expressed As Modi, 68, seeks a second Railways. The opposition has ending a culture of crony high-currency bank notes void investment rules in many sec- concern about recent protec- term in India’s almost six-week used unemployment as one of capitalism throughout gov- overnight and hit growth. tors including in infrastructure, tionist measures in e-commerce mega-election beginning on its main lines of attack in the ernment his overall record on Indian PM Narendra Modi. Modi said “demonetisa- aviation and single-brand retail. though. The government an- Thursday Young people voted campaign, with Congress chief corruption is mixed. tion” would root out illegal Foreign capital inflows into nounced surprise restrictions for Modi in droves in 2014 af- Rahul Gandhi attacking Modi He has been lauded for “benami” property, where own- money but almost all notes re- India have increased as a result. in December that would limit ter he said he would create for creating a “national disas- toughening anti-corruption ers purchase real estate through turned to the banking system, FDI in India rose to nearly $62 how companies like Amazon 10 million jobs a year. Many, ter”. Analysts say that the econ- laws, including one outlawing third parties to hide money. while the move caused untold billion for 2017-18 and the gov- and Walmart could operate.