' / =+4 2 ! > > > 3#"637 4&8 +,33+ ( 1+02 #% ,+0. #) BA/;4A5;B $3&+;3&3,5+A 34$93+/;. ! "#$%& ' % ' "'$&( ($# ! (!"( %;;4&+ ;/$A3%$3.2;3 ;$+;&3;23 # $!)( ("$ 5 & 5 6 33/ ': ? " 9 , ))9 )*4: & ) + +, R 3.45 New Delhi. India on Thursday gave green signal to the meet- day after the Modi ing following Pakistan Prime AGovernment confirmed Minister’s September 15 letter External Affairs Minister to Prime Minister Narendra Sushma Swaraj’s talks with her Modi seeking the resumption Pakistani counterpart Shah of dialogue between the two Mehmood Qureshi on the side- countries. lines of the upcoming United On Friday, the MEA said, Nations General Assembly “After Imran Khan’s letter, we (UNGA) in New York next thought Pakistan is moving 3.45 week, India on Friday called off towards positive changes, a the meeting citing Pakistan’s new beginning. But now it n a significant development, complicity in the “brutal” seems behind their proposal Ia French media report quot- killing of three policemen in were evil intentions.” ed former French President Jammu & Kashmir as well as India is also furious over Francois Hollande as purport- the release of postal stamps glo- the release of 20 special stamps edly saying that the Indian Government nor the French partner who was given to us.” rifying Kashmiri terrorist by Islamabad glorifying Burhan Government proposed Government had any say in the The Congress and other Burhan Wani. Wani — the Hizbul Reliance Defence as the part- commercial decision.” Opposition parties latched on Accusing Pakistan and Mujahideen terrorist killed by ner for Dassault Aviation in the Dassault Aviation, the to the report and stepped up Prime Minister Imran Khan of security forces in 2016 — in the 58,000 crore Rafale jet fight- makers of Rafale, had chosen their attack on the Modi “evil designs” after three police- guise of solidarity with er deal and France did not have Reliance Defence as its partner Government over the deal. men were kidnapped and killed Kashmiris. a choice. to fulfill offset obligations of the The Congress alleged that the by terrorists in Shopian in While agreeing to the Reacting to Hollande’s deal. The Government has Government’s “complicity, col- J&K, India said talks with meeting after Imran Khan’s remark that is at variance with been maintaining it did not lusion and conspiracy” to ben- Pakistan in such an environ- request, New Delhi had sought the stand taken by the Indian have any role in selection of the efit Prime Minister Narendra ment would be “meaningless”. to clarify on Thursday that it Government, the Defence offset partner. Modi’s “crony friend” has been “The true face of the would be “just a meeting” and Ministry spokesman said on Hollande’s remark has exposed following Hollande’s Pakistan Prime Minister has “not resumption of dialogue”. Friday, “The report referring to escalated the political slugfest reported comments. been exposed in his first few “Let’s distinguish between former French President over the multi-billion dollar “Cat’s out of the Bag!!! months in office,” said Ministry meeting and dialogue. !"#$ %& Hollande’s statement that deal. The French media report Complicity, Collusion & for External Affairs (MEA) This doesn’t change our Government of India insisted quoted Hollande as saying, Conspiracy of Modi Govt in spokesperson Raveesh Kumar stand on terrorism,” MEA upon a particular firm as off- “We did not have a say in denying the PSU, HAL a here on Friday. spokesman a had said day set partner for the Dassault this...The Indian Government 30,000 crore ‘offset contract’ “The latest brutal killings of before. He said the ' ( Aviation in Rafale is being proposed this service group to benefit PM’s crony friend our security personnel by Government has agreed to the verified.” and Dassault negotiated with exposed!” Congress’ chief Pakistan-based entities and the meeting but no agenda has The spokesperson said, “It (Anil) Ambani group. We did spokesperson Randeep recent release of a series of 20 been set so far. 3% is reiterated that neither the not have a choice, we took the Surjewala tweeted. postage stamps by Pakistan This would have been the +, -. glorifying a terrorist and ter- first high-level talks between errorists shot dead three rorism confirm that Pakistan the two sides since the Tpolicemen shortly after will not mend its ways,” the Pathankot terror strikes from abducting them from their res- & '( )*+ 6 ! #$#%! MEA Spokesperson said. Pakistan in 2016. The idences in two villages of south He noted that “two deeply Pathankot attack on January 2, Kashmir’s Shopian district on ," )*. 7 '189 disturbing developments have 2016, by a heavily armed Friday for refusing to obey their / !" ! &' $ ()* taken place” since Thursday’s Pakistani group in the diktat to resign from their 9" announcement of a meeting Pathankot Air Force Station posts. The killings triggered a ,$,/ )* %/0 )*. : " between the Foreign Ministers had then led to a similar break- spree of resignations of the ;! of India and Pakistan in New down of the dialogue resump- Special Police Officers (SPOs) enchmark indices finished York later this month. “In view tion process between the two even as the officials main- Bwith losses on Friday after of the changed situation, there neighbours. tained that no formal resigna- investors were jolted by a sud- will be no meeting between the On Friday morning, three tions have been received. )1 /2/3# )*4 < den mid-session plunge amid !"#"$ Foreign Ministers of India and policemen were dragged out of Sources said four persons, a massive sell-off in NBFC ! " Pakistan in New York,” he said. their homes in Kashmir’s including three policemen, ) '# )*4 62;! stocks. 36,841.60, down 279.62 points. $%& " Eyebrows were raised on Shopian by terrorists and killed. were abducted from Kapran The BSE Sensex, which The broader NSE Nifty shed '( Thursday as India confirmed On Tuesday, a BSF jawan’s and Batagund villages of opened on a strong footing, 91.25 points to finish at L" ! M++,& the meeting even though inci- body was found mutilated with Shopian district in the wee suddenly tanked 1,127.58 11,143.10. O dents of cross-border killings of his throat slit after he went hours of Friday. The fourth abductee Fayaz preliminary investigation points, or 3.03 per cent, to hit The indices closed in the ./ 0 Indian security personnel did missing when the Pakistan Hours later, bullet-riddled Ahmad Bhat, who was broth- revealed the role of “terror out- a low of 35,993.64 in afternoon red for the fourth day in a row, & not stop and Islamabad was Rangers fired at a patrol team bodies of the three SPOs were er of an SPO, was set free and fits Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) trade, before staging an equal- during which investors lost a /12O " seen to be setting the agenda clearing elephant grass along recovered from Lumni returned home. and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) in ly sharp recovery within min- massive 5.6 lakh crore. & for the meeting rather than the the international border. Wangam village in Shopian. Police in a statement said this barbaric act of terror. utes. It finally closed at Detailed copy on P10 ! ! R " ,- ./ # 3.45 The girl somehow managed to reach her flat unharmed and narrated , , &34% 21-year-old woman executive engi- her ordeal to her family members. 3.45 P Aneer working with an MNC foiled “Meanwhile, the arrested accused am Aadmi Party’s rebel a rape bid by seven of her rowdy neigh- have been identified as Abhishek, day after The AMLA Sukhpal Singh bours at her high-rise residential com- Sawan, Ankit, alias Kali, Mukesh, aka APioneer reported Khaira-convened ‘all-party- plext in an upscale society at Sector-86 Monty, and Sachin, while Hemant and how wedding lawns meeting’ to discuss the burning Chandigarh: SAD on Friday maintained that the all-party- in Gurugram on Thursday around Kamal, alias Nandi, are still at large, are flouting MCD and issue of sacrilege, though wit- meeting, convened by the breakaway Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 9.45 pm. police said. green laws with impuni- was never nessed negligible participation of Sukhpal Khaira to garner support in favour of the report Acting on her complaint, police Brothers Ankit and Sawan are res- ty, the Supreme Court taken. from Punjab’s major political submitted by his brother-in-law Justice (retired) Ranjit have arrested five accused out of seven idents of Jind in Haryana and have com- appointed Monitoring The Monitoring parties, on Friday further Singh, turned out to be a mere fiasco. on the charge of rape bid while two, who pleted BTech and were residing in a Committee has cracked Committee has pressed for action against those “It was neither well attended, nor all party,” said SAD’s are brothers, are absconding, police said. rented flat in the society. down on such marriage venues and written to both the corporations, direct- “guilty and involved” in the senior vice-president and spokesman Daljit Cheema, who “When I reached the society I Their friend Nandi was allegedly motels located in south and north Delhi. ing them to seal them 48 hour after incidents of desecration of holy dubbed it “half-party-meeting” because even all the legisla- thought of taking the stairs. When I attacked by a Delhi-based gangster The committee conducted an serving notices. Guru Granth Sahib, and relat- tors and leading lights of AAP preferred to abstain. reached the first floor, I noticed a per- and had received six gunshots a few inspection of the Confirming the development, ed firing incidents. Continued on Page 4 son there.