www.WeeklyVoice.com SOUTH ASIA Friday, March 8, 2019 | A-9 Yasin Malik Held Under Sonia, Rahul To Contest From Their PSA, Moved To Jammu Rae Bareli & Amethi Seats NEW DELHI: Congress Presi- elections. The party has ielded With both Rahul Gandhi and dent Rahul Gandhi will contest former MP Annu Tandon from his mother Sonia Gandhi contest- the 2019 elections Unnao, Nirmal Khatri from Faiz- ing, there is still speculation if from his traditional Amethi seat abad, Imran Masood from Saha- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is and UPA chairperson Sonia Gan- ranpur, Saleem Iqbal Shervani general secretary of eastern Uttar dhi from Rae Bareli, according to from Badaun, Rajaram Pal from Pradesh, will enter the poll fray. Congress’s irst list of candidates Abkarpur and Brij Lal Khabri The Congress, which is not released on Thursday. from Jalaun. part of -Bahu- The list of 15 candidates in- In Gujarat, the party has ielded jan Samaj Party alliance in Uttar cludes four candidates from Gu- Raju Parmar from Ahmedabad Pradesh, is ighting the elections jarat and 11 from . West, Bharatsinh M Solanki from on its own though it has not ruled In Uttar Pradesh, the party Anand, Prashant Patel from Va- out possibility of alliance with has again ielded former Uniondodara and Ranjit Mohansinh smaller parties during and after SRINAGAR: Jammu and under the PSA can be held for a ministers Salman Khurshid from Rathwa from Chhota Udaipur. the elections are declared. Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) maximum of two years without Farrukhabad, Jitin Prasad from The irst Congress list has Party leaders said the list chairman Muhammad Yasin Ma- any judicial intervention. Dhaurahra and R.P.N. Singh from come even as the schedule of Lok shows that the party will contest lik was detained under the harsh Over 800 warrants under the Kushi Nagar. Salman Khurshid Sabha elections has not been de- the elections “on the front foot” Public Safety Act (PSA) on PSA were issued during the 2016 lost badly in the last Lok Sabha clared. and strongly. Thursday and shifted to a jail out- unrest that followed the killing of side the Valley. Hizbul poster boy Burhan Wani Police sources said Malik was in a gunight with the security Grand Goa Carnival Begins shifted to Kot Balwal Jail in Jam- forces in South Kashmir’s Anant- mu district. Anybody detained nag district. Haiz Saeed’s Assets Seized ISLAMABAD: At least two Tuesday arrested the brother and seminaries and assets belong- son of JeM chief Masood Azhar ing to Haiz Saeed’s proscribedalong with 42 others afiliated Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and its with the banned terror groups. charity arm Falah-e-Insaniyat Reports say that in Pakistan’s (FIF) have been taken over by the National Counter Terrorism Au- Pakistan government as it inten- thority list, which was updated on siied its crackdown on Wednes- Tuesday, the JuD and FIF were day against Islamist groups in among 70 organisations pro- the wake of the Kashmir suicide scribed by the Ministry of Interi- bombing that killed 40 CRPF or under the Anti-Terrorism Act, troopers. 1997. According to Dawn, ma- The operation, launched by the jor action was taken in Punjab’s law enforcement agencies under Chakwal and Attock districts af- the National Action Plan, came ter the additional Chief Secretary a day after Pakistan formally of the region told commissioners placed the proscribed organisa- and divisional police heads to Panaji: King Momo announcing the start of Carnival Festival in Goa during the Carnival Pa- tions in the list of banned organ- seize the assets. rade held in Mirmar, Panaji on March 2, 2019. (Photo: IANS) isations, Dawn News reported. Later, the seminaries of JuD sit- PANAJI: The carnival festivi- -- eat, drink, be merry. Today, the parades of colourful loats, with The crackdown began amid uated in Chakwal - Madrasa Kha- ties kicked off in Goa with a co- country is also moving ahead. masqueraded dancers, is led by tensions between India and Paki- lid bin Waleed in the Talagang lourfully-decorated loat parade Our bravehearts have returned King Momo, the king of carnival. stan after the Jaish-e-Mohammed area and Madrasa Darus Salam passing through the state capital after demolishing Pakistan,” he King Momo is usually a locally- (JeM) claimed responsibility for on Chakwal’s Railway Road - last Saturday evening. said. Carnival processions, sym- chosen dignitary who is given a the February 14 bombing. The along with their staff were placed Speaking to reporters after bolic of Goa’s colonial Portu- symbolic key to the city and for- incident resulted in mounting at the disposal of the Punjab gov- lagging off the parade, Tourismguese legacy, are held every year mally announces the festivities pressure from the international ernment’s Auqaf Department. In Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar before the holy season of Lent, open. community on Islamabad to act Attock district, the management gave the celebrations a dash of which began on March 6. Similar carnival loat parades on terror groups based on its soil. and operational control of three patriotic lavour: “Viva Carnival! The festival, which involves will be organised in other towns The Pakistan government on properties were taken over. King Momo has given message public celebration in form of long in the state in the coming days.