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NEARBY Masood Azhar & family missing, Pak. tells financial watchdog FATF

were frozen but added that that Masood Azhar and his JeM chief was listed as a designated “these individuals were al­ family were missing”, the terrorist by UNSC1267 Committee lowed to work for wages,” source said. unless arrested in criminal Further, Islamabad could Four children killed as Vijaita Singh Of the nine who are alive, cases. Pakistan has claimed not explain why terror­fi­ school van catches fire NEW DELHI seven had applied to the UN that it had achieved 222 con­ nancing investigations were CHANDIGARH Pakistan has informed the for exemption from financial victions of terrorist finan­ not launched against Azhar, Four children died while eight global terror financing and travel restrictions. They ciers but most were impri­ 26/11 Mumbai attack master­ were rescued from a mini­van watchdog Financial Action are Lashkar­e­Taiba (LeT) soned for only a few days, a mind Zaki­ur­Rehman Lakh­ of a private school which Task Force (FATF) that Ma­ chief Hafiz Saeed, LeT finan­ source said. vi or the Haqqani leader­ caught fire at Longowal in sood Azhar, founder of ter­ ciers and members Haji Mu­ ship, the source added. Punjab’s Sangrur on Saturday. ror outfit Jaish­e­Moham­ hammad Ashraf, Zafar Iqbal, Under review The JeM had claimed res­ NORTH Ī PAGE 5 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD mad ( JeM), and his family Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, The FATF is now reviewing ponsibility for the Pulwama are “missing”. Yahya Mohammad Mujahid Pakistan’s case to see if it ful­ terror attack on February 14 Azhar was listed as a de­ and Arif Qasmani, and al­ fils the global standards cri­ last year when 40 CRPF per­ signated terrorist by the Un­ Qaeda financier Abdul Reh­ teria to combat terror­fi­ sonnel were killed in a car ited Nations Security Coun­ man. The restrictions in­ nancing. The FATF is bombing. Following this, a cil 1267 Committee on May 1, volve freezing of bank chaired by China. training camp run by the 2019. accounts. When Pakistan’s response outfit at Balakot in Pakistan Pakistan has claimed that Pakistan has said 5,500 to action initiated against UN was hit by the Indian Air there were only 16 UN desig­ bank accounts of individuals designated terrorists was Force on February 26. nated terrorists in Pakistan, and members of groups list­ sought at a meeting last Oc­ MAGAZINE Ī 12 PAGES of whom “seven are dead”. ed by the UN committees tober, it “continued to state CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 CLASSIFIEDS Ī PAGES 6 & 7

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Special correspondent Addressing a joint session NEW DELHI of Pakistan’s Parliament, India on Saturday urged Tur­ “Today, the issue of Kashmir key to not interfere in its in­ is as close to us as it is to you ternal affairs and reminded [Pakistanis]... Such a solu­ Ankara of the threat of terro­ tion (on the basis of justice rism emanating from Pakis­ and fairness) will serve the tan. interests of all parties con­ “India rejects all referenc­ cerned. Turkey will continue es to Jammu and Kashmir, to stand by justice, peace which is an integral and in­ and dialogue in the resolu­ alienable part of India,” Mi­ tion of the Kashmir issue. nistry of External Affairs spo­ Apart from Pakistan, Tur­ kesperson Raveesh Kumar key and Malaysia have been said. vocal critics of India’s deci­ sion to end the special status Proper understanding of Kashmir last year. Last “We call upon the Turkish September, Mr. Erdogan leadership to not interfere in Pakistan to India and the re­ situation with the Gallipoli raised the Kashmir issue dur­ India’s internal affairs and gion,” he said. campaign of Second World ing his address to the UNGA. develop a proper under­ The official’s remarks War and extended support (With inputs from PTI) Reduced to cinders: A blaze broke out at a firecracker shop in the busy Indira Market in Jaipur on Saturday and spread to seven standing of the facts, includ­ came a day after Turkish Pre­ to Pakistan. He termed In­ ing the grave threat posed by sident Recep Tayyip Erdo­ dia’s recent actions in Kash­ ABROAD, GOOGLE MAPS SHOWS other shops, destroying goods worth lakhs of rupees, an official said. The fire was put out after four hours.* PTI PAGE 10 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC terrorism emanating from gan compared the Kashmir mir “unilateral”. J&K AS DISPUTED Ī Vodafone says it will pay AGR Shah Faesal booked under Public Safety Act J&K panchayat bypolls notified J&K People’s Movement chief was detained last year after he criticised the Centre dues, but its survival is at stake PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Peerzada Ashiq shades of grey,” was his last ed up to two years. Jammu Cash­strapped telco hopes for reprieve from the top court SRINAGAR tweet before he was Mr. Faesal’s family was as­ Jammu and Kashmir Chief J&K People’s Movement chief detained. sured that he would not face Electoral Officer Shailendra Shah Faesal was booked un­ Mr. Faesal was shifted to a the stringent law if he with­ Kumar on Saturday issued Special Correspondent penny” to the government der the Public Safety Act detention centre in Srinagar drew his petition, a close the first notification for the NEW DELHI despite an October 2019 (PSA) on Saturday, becoming on August 14. friend said. eight­phase by­election for Beleaguered telecom firm judgment. the eighth prominent main­ Since then, he has been in Mr. Faesal came first in the the panchayat polls to elect Vodafone Idea on Saturday Following the court or­ stream politician to face the preventive custody under IAS examination in 2009 and 12,650 sarpanches and said it proposed to clear its der, after U.P. (West) and Ra­ stringent law. Section 107 of the Code of emerged as a poster boy for panches, an official spokes­ Adjusted Gross Revenue jasthan, the Department of Mr. Faesal, who had quit Criminal Procedure (CrPC). Kashmir students to prepare man said here. (AGR) dues in the next few Telecomunication’s (DoT) the IAS to join politics, was At present, he is detained for such competitive exami­ According to the notifi­ days. But it warned that its field offices in Gujarat, U.P. detained at the Delhi airport inside the MLA hostel in nations. cation, the last date for fil­ ability to continue as a going Vodafone is looking for a (East), West Bengal and oth­ in the second week of last Au­ Srinagar. He launched his party last ing of nominations is Fe­ concern would depend on a favourable outcome to its er zones have directed tel­ gust following his interviews Shah Faesal Sources said Mr. Faesal’s year after quitting the go­ bruary 22 followed by favourable outcome of its plea in the Supreme Court. cos to pay outstanding dues to several media channels, wife withdrew a habeas cor- vernment job. scrutiny of nominations on modification plea in the Su­ “immediately”, failing expressing strong views cal mass movement for resto­ pus petition before the Su­ Other mainstream leaders February 24 and withdra­ preme Court. firms, including Vodafone which action would be in­ against the Centre’s move to ration of the political rights. preme Court to avoid the ad­ booked under the PSA are wal of candidature on Fe­ Idea and Bharti Airtel, to itiated based on the licence revoke J&K’s special status. Abolition of Article 370 has ministration’s step to book Farooq Abdulla, Omar Ab­ bruary 26. The spokesman Show cause show cause why contempt agreement. finished the mainstream. him under the PSA, which dullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Ali said polling would be held The statement comes a day proceedings should not be Last tweet Constitutionalists are gone. can detain a person without Mohammad Sagar, Sartaj Ma­ from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on after the court asked the ma­ initiated against them for CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 “Kashmir will need a long, So you can either be a stooge trial for up to three months. dani, Hilal Lone and Naeem March 5 and counting wou­ naging directors of telecom failing to pay even a “single CONGRESS’S CHARGE Ī PAGE 11 sustained, non­violent politi­ or a separatist now. No The detention can be extend­ Akhtar. ld be held the same day.

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