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At least ous a threat they posed given tions, and the fighters again one person was killed. that Taliban fighters overran responded violently as they Meanwhile, opposition fig- nearly the entire country in a faced down growing challenges ures gathering in the last area matter of days with little resis- 35+3$$ to their rule. of the country not under tance from Afghan forces. A UN official warned of Taliban rule talked of launch- Continued on Page 2 n a major embarrassment for dire food shortages and experts Ithe Mamata Banerjee said the country was severely in Government, the Calcutta need of cash while noting the High Court on Thursday Taliban are unlikely to enjoy +R ordered Central Bureau of the generous international aid Investigation (CBI) and SIT Mukerji, Harish Tandon, tention that whatever violence that the civilian Government probes into the post-poll vio- Soumen Sen and Subrata that took place was when the they dethroned did. lence in Bengal — a charge the Talukdar, the court also direct- Election Commission was con- In light of these challenges, State Government and the rul- ed the State to immediately trolling the police force, saying the Taliban have moved quick- authorities clamped a 24-hour according to witnesses and #*!# ing Trinamool Congress have compensate the people affect- ECI’s having authority over ly to suppress any dissent, curfew on Thursday after vio- social media videos that lined vehemently denied. ed in the violence. the police did not mean that despite their promises that lently breaking up another up with reporting by The 46 -"6$ 56# “We have a historical rela- While the CBI would An intervention petition the police would stop dis- they have become more mod- protest, according to informa- Associated Press. tionship with the Afghan peo- investigate the graver offences filed on behalf of Bengal charging their normal duties of erate since they last ruled tion obtained by journalists The demonstrations — xternal Affairs Minister S ple and I think that relationship like murder, rape and other Minister Jyoti Priya Mullick controlling law and order sit- Afghanistan with draconian monitoring from abroad. The which come as Afghans cele- EJaishankar on Thursday will continue to guide our human and women’s rights was summarily rejected by the uation. laws. Many fear they will suc- authorities did not immediately brated Independence Day and said that India has a historical thoughts and outlook,” he said. violations, the Special court. Mullick was named The court, however, reject- ceed in erasing two decades of acknowledge the demonstra- some commemorated the Shia relationship with the Afghan On another question, he Investigating Team headed by among 50 “notorious crimi- ed the NHRC recommenda- efforts to expand women’s and tion or the curfew. Ashoura festival — were a people and that will continue to said, “We’re working with inter- Kolkata Police Commissioner nals” by a seven-member team tions for a trial “outside Bengal” human rights and remake the Protesters also took the remarkable show of defiance guide its thoughts and outlook national partners in this regard, Somen Mitra — and compris- of the National Human Rights but directed that trials should country. streets in Kunar province, after the Taliban fighters vio- as he spoke on the volatile sit- especially the US, as it controls ing other IPS officers Suman Commission that was earlier be conducted in fast-track On Thursday, a proces- uation in the war-torn country the airport”. He emphasised Bala Sahoo, and Ranbir Kumar directed by the court to enquire courts, with special public sion of cars and people near at the UN Security Council. that repatriation of Indian — would look into the other into the reports of post-poll prosecutors and with a witness Kabul’s airport carried long Jaishankar, addressing nationals from Afghanistan offences, the court said. The violence. protection scheme in place. black, red and green banners in reporters at the UN Security remained its top priority. SIT probe would be moni- Incidentally the Trinamool While there was no com- honour of the Afghan flag — a Council stakeout after chairing India on Tuesday rushed tored by a retired Supreme Congress, the Left and the ment from Mamata, senior banner that is becoming a a high-level United Nations back home its ambassador Court Judge, the court direct- Congress had alleged that the Trinamool leader Saugato Roy symbol of defiance. At anoth- Security Council briefing on Rudrendra Tandon and staff ed. Both the agencies were NHRC had selectively visited said he is “not impressed” by er protest in Nangarhar '" ‘Threats to international peace from the embassy in Kabul in asked to submit their reports the violence torn areas alleging the order as “law and order is province, video posted online and security caused by terror- a military transport aircraft fol- within six weeks. the commission had acted in a the responsibility of the State showed a bleeding demonstra- ist acts’ held under India’s cur- lowing escalating tension, fear In the damaging verdict partisan manner by not exam- Government and the CBI’s tor with a gunshot wound. rent presidency of the UNSC, and uncertainty gripping the delivered by a five-judge bench ining the victims of their intervention will tantamount to Onlookers tried to carry him said that the focus is on the safe Afghan capital after the Taliban presided over by acting Chief parties. interfering within the State’s away. return of Indian nationals who insurgents seized the Afghan Justice Rajesh Bindal and com- The court also threw out jurisdiction.” In Khost province, Taliban are there in the country. capital on Sunday. prising justices Indra Prasanna the State Government’s con- Continued on Page 2 !" # O !" $ & 9$!!4 ! " ! " "# $ # Junior Commissioned $ !4+$6;&$3 #$6< Shafqat said the explosion AOfficer (JCO) of the Indian went off while the procession 6-7"-+8 Army on Thursday sacrificed % powerful roadside bomb was passing through a con- his life in the line of duty, while & ! Aexploded among a pro- gested neighborhood known as etting the stage for another a joint team of the security '())* cession of Shia Muslims in Muhajir Colony. He con- Sround of confrontation forces gunned down an $# ! central Pakistan on Thursday, demned the attack and urged between the Delhi Government “unidentified” terrorist during # killing at least three and the Government to further and the Centre, the Ministry of a fierce gunfight in ! + , wounding over 50 people, local step up security at such pro- Home Affairs on Thursday Thanamandi area of Rajouri. - $ police said. cessions, which are ongoing in recommended a preliminary Defence spokesman in Videos circulating on social other parts of the country as enquiry by the CBI into pro- A three-member commit- 1,000 low-floor buses by the Jammu Lt-Col Devender place in the frontier district in media showed police and well. curement of 1,000 low-floor tee formed by Lieutenant Delhi Government and the Anand said during an the last one month. & ambulances rushing toward Communications in the buses by the Arvind Kejriwal Governor Anil Baijal in June report submitted by the three- encounter with terrorists in In Kashmir valley, anoth- ! O the site of the explosion. Several area were difficult, as authori- Government. had found procedural “flaws” member committee constitut- Thanamandi area of Rajouri, er political activist currently wounded people were seen ties had suspended mobile Responding to the devel- in the AMC and recommend- ed by the Government of NCT one JCO of Rashtriya Rifles suf- working with Jammu and # waiting for help along a road in phone service across the coun- opment, the Delhi Government ed scrapping it. The L-G had Delhi for a detailed enquiry fered bullet injuries. Kashmir Apni party was shot $% the deeply conservative city of try a day ago ahead of the Shiite refuted allegations “of corrup- referred the matter to the MHA into the matter. The JCO was immediately dead from a close range by " . Bahawalnagar in the eastern Ashoura festival. The annual tion in bus procurement and in July for its consideration, the “The matter has been evacuated to a nearest medical “unidentified” terrorists in *'( Punjab province, where the commemoration mourns the accused the BJP-led Central officials said. examined in this Ministry and facility but he succumbed to his Devsar area of South Kashmir’s $ ' attack took place. 7th century death of Prophet Government of harassing it by The Delhi Government with the approval of competent injuries. The JCO has been Kulgam district. City police officer Muhammad’s grandson using the CBI. was informed about the CBI authority, the DoPT has been identified as Subedar Ram He has been identified as Mohammad Asad and Shiite Hussein, one of Shiite Islam’s The matter of “corruption” probe in a letter written to requested to take necessary Singh of Pauri Garhwal in Ghulam Hassan Lone.