13 chandigarh | gurugram | jalandhar | bathinda | jammu | srinagar | vol.3 no.278 | 16 pages | ~4.50 | regd.no.chd/0006/2018-2020 established in 1881 TELANGANA SACKS 48,000 DESPITE SLOWDOWN, RELENTLESS DEMAND ENVOYS ASKED TO TESTIFY OVER ROADWAYS STAFFERS NATION FOR NEW CAR MODELS BUSINESS TRUMP-KIEV EFFORTS WORLD /thetribunechd /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com tuesday, october 8,2019 Snow-stuck China’s ex-envoy Pak likely to stay on FATF grey list finetunes agenda Imran meets Xi ahead of Xi visit Fares badly on terror-funding and money-laundering parameters NewDelhi, October 7 Tribune News Service grey list by the Paris-based on K-issue today China has characteristically REPORT INDICTS ISLAMABAD watchdog in June last year NewDelhi, October 7 kept its cards close to the chest NewDelhi, October 7 Despite being listed, till Feb 2018, JuD/FIF openly and was given a plan of action Pakistan PM Imran Khan will over President Xi Jinping’s Pakistan put itself under pres- operated❝ in Pak, holding public rallies and to complete by October 2019 meet Chinese President Xi Jin- arrival here for a second “infor- sure a week before a crucial raising funds. Several Pak media reports or face the risk of being ping in Beijing on Tuesday to mal” summit with Prime Min- meeting of the Financial placed on the blacklist with discuss the security situation in ister Narendra Modi. Action Task Force (FATF) by showed the FIF raising funds ostensibly for Iran and North Korea. Kashmir and the fate of the But a reading of tea leaves falling well short of the bench- humanitarian relief, as well as operating a The cut-off date for Pak- China-Pakistan Economic Cor- suggests that the visit may be mark to make itself counted as large ambulance fleet, which calls into istan to show improvement ridor. “The PM will exchange on despite the simmering dif- a country that is serious about question whether the prohibition on providing was October 2018 and the views... the state of peace and ferences on Kashmir. China’s checking money-laundering funds was being fully implemented. Watchdog Pakistani authorities insisted security in South Asia arising former Ambassador to India and terror-financing. that they had made a lot of from the situation in Jammu and now a senior official in the On 10 parameters for “effec- in just one, according to the plenary meetings from Octo- progress during the past year. and Kashmir. The visit will be Ministry of External Affairs in tiveness”, Pakistan was judged FATF-APG report card. ber 13 to 18 in Paris’’. This Pakistan may well escape instrumental in further Beijing, Luo Zhaohui, made a “low”’ in one and “moderate” The report said the means it might not be put on the ultimate punishment but cementing Pakistan’s eco- quiet visit to Delhi this week- in nine. Among the 40 param- “chances are high that Pak- the blacklist as being active- the report is a serious indict- nomic, investment and strate- end which hinted that he was eters for technical compliance, istan would be retained on ly sought by India. ment of its seriousness in gic ties with China,” a the PM’s here to fine-tune the agenda Pakistan was fully compliant the grey list during the FATF Pakistan was placed on the continued on page 11 Office statement said. — TNS for Xi’s visit expected to be held on October 11-12 in Mamallapuram. The MEA today opened reg- IN BRIEF istration for scribes covering Taliban free 3 Indians, 11ultras ‘swapped’ the summit while reports from Restrictions on tourists Mamallapuram said security visiting Kashmir valley go Islamabad, October 7 Bagh-e-Shamal area of north- had been tightened around Srinagar: The J&K Government Three Indian engineers held ABDUCTED IN 2018 ern Baghlan province where monuments that Xi and Modi has lifted the ban on tourists to by the Taliban in Afghanistan ■ Ex-Governors of Kunar & they were working on an elec- were scheduled to visit. the Valley from October 10. Gov- since May 2018 have been Nimroz Sheikh Abdur Rahim tricity sub-station. There has been speculation ernor Satya Pal Malik on Monday freed by the militant group in and Mawlawi Abdur Rashid The Indians were working about Xi’s visit for what is directed that the Home Depart- exchange for 11 of its top among the freed for KEC, a global infrastruc- being billed as the second ment’s advisory asking tourists to members from Afghan jails, ■ 7 Indian engineers & their ture engineering, procure- attempt to turn around Sino- leave the Valley be revoked forth- according to media reports Afghan driver were abducted ment and construction com- Indian ties under the unusu- with. The decision was taken dur- on Monday. in May last in Bagh-e-Shamal, pany of RPG Enterprises. Vehicles stranded at Rohtang Pass after a fresh spell of al format of an “informal ing a security review meeting. In The release of three of the Baghlan province One of the seven Indian snowfall in Kullu district of Himachal on Monday. PTI INSIDE summit”. — TNS the run-up to the decision on five Indian hostages follows ■ Hired by KEC, a global ■ One of them was released hostages was released in abrogation of Article 370, the key meetings between US construction company, they in March; No word on the March. The identities of the state government had on August Special Representative for were working on an electricity place where the hostage released hostages were not dis- 2 asked tourists and Amarnath Afghanistan Reconciliation sub-station swap took place closed by the militant group. MV Act offender pilgrims to leave the Valley. TNS Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban The officials said the freed Tal- can also be tried SC halts tree felling representatives led by Mullah members were being held by base to the Afghan security iban leaders included Sheikh NRI marriage Bill referred to Abdul Ghani Baradar in Islam- the Afghan authorities or US forces, it still maintains a mili- Abdur Rahim and Mawlawi under IPC: Top court Parliament standing panel abad during the weekend. forces in Afghanistan. tary presence at Bagram. Abdur Rashid, who had served NewDelhi, October 7 for Mumbai Metro New Delhi: The Registration of Two Taliban officials told The Taliban were reportedly Both Afghanistan’s Defence as the insurgent group’s Gov- A person committing Marriage of Non-Resident Indi- Radio Free Europe/Radio released from one of Ministry and the President’s ernors of Kunar and Nimroz offences under the Motor NewDelhi, October 7 an Bill, 2019, which makes it Liberty on Sunday that the Afghanistan’s largest jails at office declined to comment on provinces, respectively, during Vehicles (MV) Act like over- Amid raging controversy over mandatory for NRI men to regis- swap took place earlier in the the Bagram military base, the developments, the report the Taliban administration speeding and rash driving the Bombay High Court’s ter their marriage within 30 day, but did not disclose the north of capital Kabul, the AP said. Seven Indian engineers before it was deposed by the can also be booked under the order permitting local author- days of getting married, has location. They refused to say said. While the US troops years and their Afghan driver were US-led forces in 2001. Indian Penal Code (IPC) as ities to fell hundreds of trees been referred to Parliament's whether the freed Taliban ago handed over the sprawling abducted in May 2018 in continued on page 11 both statutes “operate with for the construction of a car standing committee on external full vigour, in their own inde- shed for Mumbai Metro, the affairs. The Bill empowers pass- pendent spheres”, the Supreme Court today port authorities to impound or Supreme Court has said. restrained authorities from revoke passports of NRIs who “With rapidly increasing going ahead with it. fail to comply with it. PTI Faceless income tax India gets first list motorisation, India is facing “Don’t cut anything now,” a an increasing burden of road Special Bench headed by Three get Nobel for research traffic injuries and fatalities,” Justice Arun Mishra said on oxygen use by cells of Swiss accounts it said. A Bench of Justices while dealing with a PIL on Stockholm:Two US and a British assessment unveiled Indu Malhotra and Sanjiv the issue. Noting that it will scientist have won the Nobel Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Khanna set aside an order of have to examine the entire Orders release of all those Prize for physiology or medicine the Gauhati High Court of issue, the Bench, which also arrested during protest for discovering how the body cells NewDelhi, October 7 NewDelhi, October 7 December 22, 2008, which held included Justice Ashok sense and react to oxygen levels. The government today India is among the 75 coun- that a person booked for over- Bhushan, posted it for hear- tra Government submitted Drs William G Kaelin Jr of Harvard launched the National e- tries that have received the speeding, dangerously driving ing on October 21 before the the arrested activists and University, Gregg L Semenza of Assessment Scheme today KEY BENEFITS first set of 31 lakh Swiss bank and other related offences top court’s Forest Bench. local residents had already Johns Hopkins University and in order to eliminate ■ e-Assessment eliminates accounts. The deal to provide under the MV Act cannot be The top court directed that been released. On behalf of Peter J Ratcliffe at the Francis human interface between human interface between bank account details are part prosecuted under the IPC.