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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Wednesday,May 21, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 44 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Desperate for a hit, Sonia refers to Pakistan beat Ricky Martin sings Rajiv, Indira to woo Kiwis to reach in Spanish again Chhattisgarh tribals tri-series final Page 14 Page 12 Page 21 WIN WITH THE TIMES Photographs, Established 1838 fingerprints Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Pay, break the law, build more The mistake a lot of must for all politicians make is in By Pratyush Kanth larisation fee and process their lakh DDA flats have already car- forgetting they’ve been TIMES NEWS NETWORK applications. Developing Delhi? ried out illegal constructions. appointed and thinking The BJP-led government at The scheme will allow them to visitors to US they’ve been anointed. New Delhi: In yet another elec- the Centre hopes to convert the Flat owners The penalty will be 10 per cent regularise the constructions. By Chidanand Rajghatta tion sop for Delhiites, the Delhi TIMES NEWS NETWORK — Claude D Pepper amnesty scheme into electoral who have already of the regularisation fee The scheme has raised a storm Development Authority (DDA) gains in the forthcoming assem- with experts decrying it as being has decided to regularise illegal bly polls in Delhi. carried out illegal The amnesty scheme permits against the principles of Washington: The US will be- NEWS DIGEST constructions in flats at a one- ‘‘The scheme will benefit construction planned development. gin fingerprinting and photo- time payment of Rs 450 per lakhs of flat-owners who are bathrooms and doors in court- However, DDA officials said graphing, without exception, Workers’ strike: Five leading Left square metre. forced to add rooms in existing will have to pay yards and covering of terraces the relaxed norms will not lead all visa-carrying foreign visi- trade unions are organising one of The regularisation rate was fi- flats due to growing families. It to any increase in the number of tors entering the country the biggest countrywide strikes on a penalty with roofs up to nine-foot high nalised by a panel experts, set up will save residents from perenni- dwelling units and, therefore, from January 2004. Wednesday against the govern- by the Union urban development The move will affect some ment’s privatisation and anti-labour al harassment by civic agencies there will be no additional load ministry, soon after it an- 23 million foreigners who vis- policies. P13 which often threaten to demol- the hands of engineers in the the roof. Those who have not car- on existing civic services. ‘‘The nounced the amnesty scheme for ish unauthorised extensions. building department. The ried out such additions yet will proposals of the committee were it the US each year, including Cabinet reshuffle: The Prime flat owners in January. The beneficiaries of this scheme scheme will be people-friendly now get an opportunity to pay a once struck down by the min- nearly a million from India Minister’s desire to include more Flat-owners will need to get will vote for us,’’ said a Union and transparent.’’ The scheme price and do so. Illegal construc- istry as it was seen to be sending who come here to study, non-BJP members of the NDA in his their illegal constructions certi- cabinet minister. will be thrown open to the public tions above the limit of 15 per out a wrong message to those in- work temporarily, do busi- ministry appears to be meeting with fied for structural safety from DDA vice-chairman, Anil Bai- next month, said Baijal. cent of floor area ratio will not volved in illegal construction. A ness, and travel. resistance from the BJP. After two registered architects. The archi- jal said,”The amnesty scheme The scheme is aimed at regu- come under the amnesty second committee retabled the Disclosing the far reaching meetings there has been no tects will also be authorised to has been prepared so that people larising rooms illegally built by scheme’s ambit. report and the ministry gave its changes, the US Undersecre- agreement on the final list for the calculate the flat-owners’ regu- do not face any harassment at flat-owners in courtyards and on Owners of most of the 3.25 consent,’’ said a DDA official. tary for Homeland Security, ministerial reshuffle. P12 Asa Hutchinson, said the Joint patrol: The BSF and the Sanjay Sekhri steps are aimed not only at Bangladesh Rifles have agreed to improving domestic security conduct joint patrols at the Indo- and detecting terrorist con- Bangladesh border from July to pre- nections, but also visa viola- vent illegal migration and all trans- C’wealth says tions. The information re- border criminal activities. quested will include immi- gration and citizenship sta- Is there 9-8-3 in your life? tus, nationality, the country of residence, and the per- Starting tomorrow, bite into the no to Pakistan son’s address while in the US hottest radio contest EVER! Now, and “incomplete information Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM brings you By Rashmee Z Ahmed will no longer be good prizes worth lakhs. All you need TIMES NEWS NETWORK are the numbers 9-8-3. Where? Flip-flop on Hizb enough,” he added. Watch this space. London: Pakistan remained Assuring that the measure shut out of the Common- Islamabad: In a sharp re- will take only a “matter of wealth for yet another indefi- versal of his earlier state- seconds,” Hutchinson said nite spell as India’s Yashwant ment, Pakistan’s Interior “in 99.9 percent of the cases, Sinha and seven other foreign Minister Faisal Saleh the visitor will simply be ministers decided that Gener- Hayat on Tuesday denied wished a good day and sent al Musharraf had gone banning Hizbul Mu- on their way.” halfway, but not far enough jahideen. He, however, “With that small percent- down the path towards full added that restrictions age of hits our country will parliamentary democracy. had been imposed on its be made much safer, and our After two days of delibera- activities. immigration system will be tion, the Commonwealth Min- More on page 15 given a foundation of integri- isterial Action Group ty that has been far too lack- (CMAG) pinpointed the con- to dismiss parliament. ing,” Hutchinson told foreign troversial Legal Framework ‘‘We have indicated our journalists at a briefing on Order introduced by General concern about the current Monday. The US will also Musharraf as a cause of status of these executive or- record visitor departure in- ‘‘concern’’. ders,’’ Commonwealth secre- formation to verify if the per- CMAG’s decision effective- tary-general Don McKinnon son entered legally, stayed il- ly keeps Pakistan out of the told mediapersons. But in an legally or overstayed. by Laxman YOU SAID IT councils of the Common- admission that yet again, Pak- The new steps are only wealth for nearly four years istan’s re-admission had been slightly different from the since the coup that led to its a fractious issue, he said the controversial move some The legendary Edmund Hillary lights a lamp, as PM Vajpayee applauds, to inaugurate in New Delhi on Tuesday the CMAG had to ‘‘debate long celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the conquest of Everest. On the same day, two sherpas reached the suspension. Pakistan’s for- months back that required and hard’’ before arriving at a top of Everest, becoming the first to ascend the world’s tallest peak this season. Related report on page 2 eign minister Khurshid visitors from mostly Muslim Mehmood Kasuri had report- language acceptable to all the countries to compulsorily edly been lobbying intensive- foreign ministers. ‘‘There register with the immigra- ly in London till Sunday for a were a wide range of views on tion authorities. Hutchinson lifting of the ban. the issue,’’ he said. said the new steps would cov- US e-thanks Pak, backtracks The LFO, whose legality A deliberately restrained er 50 of the busiest points of has been challenged by Pak- Sinha refused to ‘‘add’’ any- entry across the US before By Rajat Pandit tally, is slated to visit US President ‘‘the largest amphibious operations istan’s opposition parties, thing to the ‘‘language of the the end of 2004. TIMES NEWS NETWORK George W Bush’s Camp David re- in size, duration and depth that the gives the president supreme statement’’. For more go to treat for talks next month. Marine Corps has conducted since authority, including the right Joshi to skip Saarc meet: P11 www.timesofindia.com New Delhi: Within days of releas- Cached in Internet search en- the Korean war’’. ing statistics about the enormous gines before it could be removed, the Between September 11, 2001 and extent of Pakistani assistance to its ‘‘missing’’ Centcom page reveals October 2002, Pakistan’s law enforc- Afghanistan campaign, the US Cen- that Pakistan’s economy suffered an ing agencies also apprehended 420 tral Command has now scrubbed its estimated loss of over $10 billion be- foreign nationals, handing 332 of website of all embarrassing refer- cause of the help provided to the US- them over to the US. He was a humble, poor man. Since ences to Islamabad’s generosity. led coalition forces. Pakistan is said to have fulfilled he started the campaign against The staggering official data on It discloses that as many as 57,800 2,008 of the 2,160 ‘‘requests’’ of dif- corruption, he has become very Pakistan’s support to Operation En- US military sorties were ‘‘generated ferent nature made by the US during rich and powerful! during Freedom against the Taliban from Pakistan’s airspace or soil’’ for the period, while the remaining 152 regime and Al-Qaida was promptly air strikes in Afghanistan.

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