œND‰‰†‰KœND‰‰†‰œND‰‰†‰MœND‰‰†‰C OF INDIA ...... ANDAND WHEREWHERE BHOOT IN HERHER DO YOU BHOOT IN KNIGHTSKNIGHTS STAND PAK?PAK? STAND ALL THAT MATTERS MEN & WOMEN SPECIAL REPORT New Delhi July 6, 2003, Capital • 40 pages including Men & Women & Classifieds + 8 pages of Delhi Times Price Rs. 2.75 SNAPSHOTS No compromise on AFP On the high road to Lhasa Ayodhya, Mathura By Nirmalaya Banerjee TIMES NEWS NETWORK athula. 1954. A cold and Kashi: RSS morning. Motilal Lakho- N tia and Dip Chand Agar- By Swati Das wal leave for Yatung, a trade TIMES NEWS NETWORK Twists in the tale post across the border in Tibet with their modest cargo. Their Kanyakumari: The Akhil Advani, Joshi incited mode of travel? Mules — a mule Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal kar sevaks: CBI track is all there is for the 52-km (national executive) of the The CBI told the special journey from Gangtok to RSS resolved here on Satur- ENCORE! Serena Williams of the US court hearing the holds the trophy after defeating Venus Nathula, and onwards to Lhasa. day not to compromise on its Ayodhya demolition Williams of the US in their Ladies Final From Gangtok to Lhasa would demand for Muslims to step charges on Saturday that match at the Wimbledon Tennis Cham- be a march of about 20 days. aside and allow construction L K Advani, M M Joshi, pionships on Saturday in Wimbledon, The dealings would be in the of temples at the disputed Uma Bharati, Ashok south London. Serena Williams won 4- barter system. Sometimes the sites in Ayodhya, Mathura Singhal, Vinay Katiyar, V 6, 6-4, 6-2. Report on page 17 Tibetans pay in silver coins, as and Kashi. H Dalmia, Giriraj Kishore both gold and silver were avail- If Muslims agree to demo- and Rithambhara, had able in Tibet. lition of the mosques on the common objective Bhupathi, Mirnyi lose: Fourth seeded these sites and erection of Gangtok. July 4. 2003. Lakho- of demolishing the pair of Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden) and temples in their stead, the re- tia and Agarwal, old and weath- Babri Masjid. They Todd Woodbridge (Australia) beat top sult will be permanent peace seed duo Mahesh Bhupathi (India) and ered, reminisce about the good made inflammatory and amity between the two Max Mirnyi (Belarus) in four tough speeches and incited old days when the famed Silk communities, it promises. sets 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 in the men’s Route was still a flourishing the kar sevaks to doubles final at the Wimbledon on And if Muslims do not agree, demolish the mosque, trade circuit for the adventur- Tsongo lake near Nathula where a customs post and an immigration cell will be set up when the Saturday. Bhupathi and Mirnyi took the says the ABKM, let’s have a said CBI prosecutor ous. ‘‘In those days, trade flour- Sino-Indian trade route is opened. first 6-3, but failed to keep the momen- law pushing it through. S S Gandhi. P6 ished over the Nathula Pass and This comes a day before tum in the next three. the Jelepla Pass despite the ab- numbers, managing traffic The trade-off on the Silk Route could be a major problem. the All India Muslim Person- No mosque at Lahore bus from July 11: The sus- sence of a trade agreement,’’ al Law Board’s meeting in Ayodhya: Seer Also, there are a few sinking pense over the resumption of the Indo- says Agarwal. Adds Lakhotia: Lucknow to discuss the Who gains zones and landslide prone ar- Kanchi Shankaracharya Pak bus link ended on Saturday with the ‘‘In the days of our forefathers, Kanchi Shankaracharya’s ● China eas, and at stretches, drivers of gave a new twist to the DTC announcing the relaunching of the caravans from Tibet used to ar- compromise formula on Ayo- commercially; vehicles going downhill have to Ayodhya tangle. To a Delhi-Lahore service from July 11. P5 rive in Gangtok and Kalimpong dhya. VHP leaders Ashok India politically depend entirely on their brakes; question whether once a year, and we trusted our Singhal and Pravin Togadia TN strike called off: In a dramatic end ● even a slight error can mean a Muslims had a reason to goods to them.” The volume of China will get are attending the meet. The to the four-day strike, the Tamil Nadu sheer drop of a few hundred build a mosque at the government employees and teachers on trade increased with the arrival access to a BJP is represented by its ex- feet. The fact that within a dis- site, he said: ‘‘No. Saturday decided to withdraw their indef- of the Chinese in the plateau in warm water port chief Kushabhau Thakre and tance of 50 kms, one climbs Muslims already have inite strike with immediate effect. Repre- 1954. The Tibetans wanted food (Kolkata) present general secretary, 9,000 feet gives an idea of the eight places of worship. sentatives of several employees’ unions items, the Chinese soldiers ● Sanjay Joshi. For India, it gradient of the road. For the What will happen with gave an assurance to this effect to Jus- wanted foreign wristwatches The formal resolution ex- means China has last half kilometre before the one more?’’ The tice P D Dinakaran of the Madras High and fountain pens. presses: ‘‘Unqualified sup- indirectly border, there is no road. Intelli- statement has evoked Court, who was hearing a writ petition at “At Yatung, 28 km from port to the just demand of accepted that gence reports say there is no sharp reaction from a special sitting in his house. Nathula, we stayed in rented Hindu society for the restora- Sikkim is a part road for a similar stretch on the Muslim bodies. The SARS contained worldwide: The houses,” recalls Lakhotia. tion of the holy shrines of AIMPLB is slated to “Sometimes, there were 200 of India; will other side of the border as well. World Health Organisation said SARS had stabilise Sikkim Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi meet on Sunday to been contained worldwide after it de- traders from Sikkim and Ben- There are other infrastruc- to them. ...Restoration of the ture requirements which would discuss the seer’s clared Taiwan, the last country on its gal staying.” Agarwal ran a pristine glory of these holy proposal. watch-list, free of new infections. But it shop where he booked orders had gone back to Yatung in 1997 frastructure will be necessary have to be looked into: parking places is the bounden duty of warned the world was not SARS-free and and delivered supplies. “I used to claim money he had deposit- before trade can resume. places for goods vehicles, cus- independent Bharat.’’ continued vigilance was needed. to speak Tibetan fluently and ed in a Chinese bank in 1961. Topping the list would be an toms and immigration stations, If Muslims ‘‘fail to under- are equal inheritors of the learnt Chinese as well.” The Today, the traders are upbeat upgradation of the road from warehouses for goods, cold stor- stand the intensity of the mythical culture of this WTC panels defaced: Six panels that items of trade? Woollen and cot- again and are making inquiries ages for perishables and accom- detailed the World Trade Center’s history Gangtok to Nathula. The pres- sentiments of our country- country.They should identify ton clothes, groceries, medi- about the re-opening of the ent road, maintained by the modation for traders who would men and continue (their) ob- themselves with great per- have been removed from a fence at trade route. “I may be 76-years, have to stay overnight. Ground Zero after being defaced with cines,spice and salt from India. Border Roads Organizaton and durate and obscurantist atti- sons like Lord Ram and not Potato seed, yak tail, raw wool but we are old hands in this catering primarily to the Army, Nevertheless, people in the tude,’’ goes the resolution, with invaders like Babar.’’ graffiti. Replacement panels are expected business, and we should get pri- to be installed by summer end, a and Chinese silk from Tibet. barely allows two vehicles to Nathula area are upbeat about the government should ‘‘ex- He also said he appreciated ority when trading resumes,” spokesman for the Port Authority of New Trade ended in July 1961, fol- pass simultaneously. The last the prospects. “It will be back to plore the possibility of a leg- the BJP’s difficulties in en- York and New Jersey, said. lowing the worsening of rela- says Agarwal. stretch, from Sherathang to business,” enthuses shopowner islative option to resolve this suring early passage of a law tions with China and the depar- athula. July 5. Prime Min- Nathula, a distance of about 10 Ghuma at 17th mile. Bimla at issue in the interest of na- when they’re part of a wider Russia suicide attack: At least 20 ture of Indian envoys from Ti- Nister Atal Behari Vajyapee kms, allows only one-way traf- Tsongo pointed out that trading tional unity and communal coalition. people were killed and 30 seriously in- bet. Things reached a standstill may have signed an MoU on fic, controlled by the military would mean more jobs for locals harmony’’. Singhal reiterated his de- jured on Saturday when two female sui- after the escape of the Dalai border trade with China here, police. With trade growing, and as porters and hotel owners. Issuing the resolution to mand for Prime Minister Va- cide bombers blew themselves up at a heavy vehicles like diesel reporters on Saturday, RSS jpayee’s resignation, while rock concert in Moscow.