SUNDAY, HINDUSTAN TIMES, DECEMBER 25, 2011 | nation | 7 short stories NIA files charges Prose flew on Pash’s wings White Christmas Pay R7 lakh to Pravin eludes Shimla again Mahajan's wife: panel CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 that the book was an instant hit killed at the age of 37 by Khalistani MUMBAI: The Maharashtra against Headley, “We finished a chapter at the and would be often gifted on terrorists in his native village, SHIMLA: Dashing all the hopes of Director of local Metrological government has been asked lake itself, while drinking a Peter birthdays. It was translated into Talwandi Salem, in locals and tourists for a white department Manmohan Singh to pay R7 lakh compensa- Scott (whiskey) bottle given by English by eminent writer district on March 23, 1988 Christmas, snowfall yet again confirmed that the weather fore- tion to Pravin Mahajan's LeT chief for 26/11 Milkha,” writes Sandhu. Khushwant Singh. (Incidentally, Shaheed Bhagat failed to keep its date with the cast does not predict any snow- widow by the State Human They also wrote a fictional Milkha could not be contact- Singh attained martyrdom that “Queen of Hills” fall in the next 24 hours. Rights Commission for the HT Correspondent Pakistani-origin citizens of the interview with Milkha, which was ed for comment. day in 1931). Snowfall on Christmas has The notion of white Christmas expenses incurred in his ■ [email protected] US and Canada — the charge- later published in Akali Patrika, The book also reveals that been eluding the town since 1991 was becoming a rarity, it was in treatment following the sheet also named the attack mas- a Punjabi daily from Jalandhar. REBEL WITHOUT PAUSE when Pash was kept in solitary when it experienced 49 cm of 1991 that Shimla experienced negligence of jail authori- NEW DELHI: The National termind, Zaki-ur-Rehman The book eventually took three Ik Pash Eh Vi features stories confinement in the Jalandhar snowfall on the Christmas snow on Christmas, he added. ties. The panel has also Investigation Agency has for- Lakhvi, Headley's accomplice or four months to complete. and anecdotes behind the cre- jail in a false case of murder, he Eve. With the help of Internet He said dry weather would asked the government to mally charge-sheeted Lashkar- Tahawwur Rana and al-Qaeda “Pash’s prose, sentence struc- ation of Pash’s poems. It also has was not allowed to write or read. and Metrological department, prevail during the next four days. conduct an inquiry against e-Taiba (LeT) operative David operative Illyas Kashmiri. ture and imagination are amaz- some unpublished poems, letters, Pen and papers were smuggled travel agents and tourists are Singh said, “This time of the the medical officers. Headley, LeT founder Hafeez Sajid Malik, handler of ing in the book. Milkha’s ghost- notes and articles of the poet, to him in packets carrying keeping a tab on the weather year we witness an increase in Saeed and seven others on Headley, and Abdul Rehman written autobiography is a mile- whose real name was Avtar Singh bananas and oranges. And he pattern in the state to be the number of phone calls from 11 school kids hurt in road Saturday for their roles in the Hashmi, a former Pakistani army stone in Punjabi sports writing,” Sandhu. Known for his views wrote some of his best poems informed prior to preparing their people enquiring about weath- mishap due to fog 26/11 Mumbai attacks that left officer, were also named besides says Sandhu. The lyricist writes against Sikh militancy, Pash was from the jail. vacation to the hill state. er conditions.” HTC BASTI: Eleven children were 164 people dead and at least at two serving officers. injured, six of them serious- least 308 wounded. According to the charge-sheet, ly, when the jeep in which The charge-sheet also covered Headley and Rana, both mem- they were on their way to the larger conspiracy of Pakistani bers of LeT, were placed in a posi- school dashed against a sta- spy agency ISI, and LeT to attack tion where they could provide e-TENDER NOTICE tionary tractor-trolley in Bhabha Atomic Research tactical, material and financial CORRIGENDUM NO. 4 Siddhartnagar district due Centre, offices of national carri- support for carrying out attacks The date of opening of this Office to dense fog on Saturday er Air India, government offices in India and other places. tender against tender Specification No. 260/ morning, police said. The in Mumbai, Chabad houses in But the NIA ruled out the pos- PCM/11-12 is hereby extended as under:- mishap occurred near different cities and the National sibility of them having any local Name of work:- House-keeping and Kahdanu crossing, they Defence College in Delhi after support. “All local contacts of Annual Civil Maintenance of Technical Buildings, Structures Arboriculture, Roads & said. the Mumbai attacks. Pakistani-American national Paths etc. of Stage-I in Zone-II for 2011-12. On November 26, 2008, David Coleman Headley were Last date & time for downloading of Youth beaten to death Pakistan-based terrorists not aware of his real intentions,” tender documents: 16.01.12 in suburban Mumbai launched more than 10 coordi- said an official . Last date & time for uploading of Part-I, MUMBAI: A 22-year-old man nated shooting and bombing During the investigation, more II & III tender documents: 20.01.12 was allegedly beaten to attacks across Mumbai. Ajmal than 300 witnesses were exam- Date & time for opening of tender; Part- death by residents of a Kasab, the lone attacker arrest- ined and evidence was collected I (EMD) & Part-II (Technical Bid): 20.01.12 chawl in Vikhorli, suspect- ed alive, later claimed that their from several sources. Part-III (Price Bid): 27.01.12 ing him to be a thief, police mission had the support of Both Headley and Rana are at The other terms and conditions of the tender notice shall remain the same. said. The incident took Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI. present in the custody of the US Detailed NIT may be down loaded place in the wee hours of Filed in a special court in authorities. The NIA got only a from PSPCL Web site www.pspcl.in Saturday, when a local resi- House here three days limited access to Headley, who & e-tendering website https:// dent Arjun Gorkha had after the Centre gave sanction had entered into a plea bargain pspcl.nprocurc.com tried to enter a chawl in to prosecute all the nine accused to escape harsh sentence and Sd/- Vikhroli in Mumbai. — seven Pakistanis and two extradition to India. Addnl. Superintending Engineer Plant Civil Maintenance, GHTP, Lehra Mohabat. Master stroke 2499/2504/16/12/11

■ Pt Ravi Shankar Upadhyay at the 136th Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan in Jalandhar on Saturday. PARDEEP PANDIT/ HT ARRESTED BKI MEN HAD HIRED CADRES TO KILL LEADERS: COPS

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NEW DELHI: A day after the Delhi Police arrested two Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) militants, the interrogation has revealed that they have recruit- ed some new cadres to execute plot to assassinate three religious leaders in and Haryana, police said. Sarabpreet Singh and Jaswinder Singh were arrested following inputs that BKI was trying to set-up its base in Delhi for executing their plan during the upcoming Punjab elections. A thorough examina- tion of the laptop recovered from the arrested militants has provid- ed the police some clues about the identity of those who have been recruited. “We have got some important clues from the laptop and are examining it further to get more evidences. During interrogation Sarabpreet disclosed that he carried out the recruiting assignment on the instructions of BKI chief Wadhwa Singh,” said a senior police officer, adding that they have sent a team to Punjab to trace the newly recruited BKI militants. The officer, however, refused to share details about the number of recruited persons. “This would hamper our investigation and we don’t want to lose this terror trail, the officer added. Sarabpreet, who was arrested from his rented accommodation in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh was also given the task by his han- dlers to create a base for the BKI in Delhi. J Dey murder: Court rejects Vora’s plea seeking media gag MUMBAI: A special court on Saturday rejected the applica- tion by Jigna Vora, arrested in connection with the murder of Jyotirmoy Dey, seeking to direct media to quote sources of their information while pub- lishing stories regarding the crime. “The judge observed that no order can be passed against the media as it is not a party," said special public prosecutor Dileep Shah. HTC