*TOID190603/ /01/K/1*/01/Y/1*/01/M/1*/01/C/1* New Delhi, Thursday,June 19, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 32 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Jennifer finds Court tells Shilpa’s Pakistan manage new managers father to surrender a 2-wicket win for her assets by tomorrow against England Page 14 Page 7 Page 21 WIN WITH THE TIMES Musharraf: AFP Advani is my Established 1838 strength, Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. And then the monsoons says Vajpayee came, and they couldn’t By Dilip Chaware have come at a worse time, India must TIMES NEWS NETWORK bang in the middle of the rainy season. Mumbai: Efforts to placate — Spike Milligan the pro-Advani factions in the Bharatiya Janata Party respond or... (BJP) were put into high gear NEWS DIGEST on Wednesday when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpay- CAS pricing: A group of By Rashmee Z Ahmed ee himself showered liberal broadcasters, including Star and TIMES NEWS NETWORK Sony, has indicated a total price Pak not yet in praise on Deputy Prime Min- of Rs 175 for all pay channel London: Lobbing yet anoth- ister L K Advani. bouquets, which in effect will scale er shell in the constant and Asean forum BJP’s official line on Tues- Rs 350 per month. The Centre has thunderous Indo-Pak war of day that Vajpayee would lead told broadcasters to file fresh words, President Musharraf New Delhi: Despite the BJP and the National De- some lobbying by mem- pricing norms. P15 has cautioned that the com- mocratic Alliance (NDA) gov- bers and thanks to some parative peace and calm ernment even after the next US spikes F-16 rumour: A little- quiet Indian diplomacy, across the line of control is Lok Sabha election was per- known newsletter has reported this Pakistan has not been not “sustainable” if India ceived to have created an im- week that the US government is admitted to the Asean preparing to announce the sale of doesn’t “reciprocate”. pression that Advani would Regional Forum, con- new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters Just days after his report- have to play a secondary role trary to earlier reports to the Pakistan Air Force. The US ed caution on the need to pre- hereafter and such a feeling emanating from Phnom administration sources have dis- vent another Kargil, Mushar- IS THIS FOR REAL? A man rides his motorcycle through a partly flooded bridge after showers in New Delhi on could affect the party’s im- Penh where the forum’s missed the report. P9 raf issued a veiled warning Wednesday. The first pre-monsoon rain in the Capital brought the temperature down by 6 degrees. age, BJP sources said. foreign ministers are to New Delhi: ‘‘When I say In an apparent damage- Discontent in SP: In the first pub- currently meeting. P15 control exercise, Vajpayee lic indication of discontent in Mu- that there is nothing happen- Rain check himself complimented Ad- layam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi ing on the Line of Control I With deputy prime Rains are on course vani on Wednesday while in- Party, one of its MLAs, Mashhud am very sure that there is Khan, spoke in Lucknow about the nothing happening but all minister L K Advani at his June 18, 2003 augurating the three-day stifling atmosphere and dynastic rule that I say is that this situa- side in the Foreign and Com- TIMES NEWS NETWORK moisture into northwestern India, BJP chintan baithak at Uttan within it. P10 resulting in dust-storms and near here. The meeting will tion is not sustainable for monwealth Office, Straw New Delhi: The weather department thunderstorms in several parts of Delhi conclude on Friday with an Sorabjee on quota: Attorney long periods. You cannot replied to a question about called it ‘‘pre-monsoon showers Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab and address by Advani. general Soli J Sorabjee has written keep a military on high alert Britain’s preferred descrip- caused by an upper cyclonic distur- for a long period, and you tion of the desperate and Haryana. The department recorded This is seen as a systemat- to the law ministry that reservation bance’’. Met jargon apart, for most ic strategy by the BJP leader- would not like people to turn violent men whom Mushar- 9.1 mm of rain in the city. Kolkata to economically backward upper Delhiites the rain on Wednesday ship to avert any internecine castes could be given only through a their guns against you and raf described as ‘freedom- Though the rainfall was short- June 17 morning was a welcome respite from feuds raising their heads in Constitutional amendment. P7 undermine your own govern- fighters’. lived, Delhiites decided to make the the scorching heat. the midst of preparations for ment because you are selling ‘‘We have a single defini- most of it. An IMD official said that Mumbai Chennai Space TV’s DTH plan: The I&B ‘‘The morning temperatures in the the elections. out because there is no recip- tion for terrorists. We the city can expect intermittent show- ministry has allowed Space TV, pro- capital dropped to 24 degrees Celsius, However,insiders said par- rocation coming from the supported the Government ers and cloudy conditions over the moted by Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV, which is about 6 degrees below ty general secretary Pramod other side.’’ of India’s draft convention next two weeks till the start of the to go ahead with its direct-to-home normal. These conditions will • Monsoon has reached Mahajan had spoken on But damagingly,and some- on terrorism,’’ Straw told monsoon around June 29. He added telecast plan. P8 continue for 24 hours,’’ said an drought-affected Tuesday about Vajpayee con- what embarrassingly, the journalists with unambigu- that the pre-monsoon showers were a official at the Indian Meteorological Saurashtra and Kutch tinuing to lead the party into Castro may visit India: Cuban ous emphasis. Pakistani president’s robust Department (IMD). good indication that the monsoon • It has also got to Bengal the polls only after a clear President Fidel Castro has accepted defence of the so-called “in- The Pakistani president’s would start on time. an invitation to visit India. The dates According to the IMD, an upper cy- and parts of Jharkhand signal from the powers that digenous” freedom fighters forthright views, broadcast will be worked out through diplomat- clonic air circulation system lay over And though the rain brings its fair • Cities in Punjab and be in the organisation. Like ic channels. The invitation was ex- in J&K was slapped down by worldwide on BBC’s Asia Gujarat and its neighbouring areas share of problems like traffic jams, Himachal received rain other leaders, Mahajan, too, tended by minister of state for exter- British foreign secretary Today television programme, and a similar disturbance lay over overflowing sewers and faulty tele- and more rain is expected does not want to be caught in nal affairs Digvijay Singh during his Jack Straw within hours of came within hours of eastern Rajasthan and western Uttar phone lines, for now Delhi is enjoying in the next 24 hours the crossfire. visit to Cuba. Musharraf ’s arrival in the Advani’s departure from Pradesh. This led to an incursion of the pleasant weather. Vajpayee said that Advani British capital. London. Militants release children: The has been discharging twin re- militants, who took captive three sponsibilities of looking af- children in Poonch on Wednesday ter the party and the govern- and used them as human shields, Indian commander for US ship Minister quits amid scandal ment. ‘‘Not only is he a released them unharmed later. source of strength for me Dehra Dun: Uttaranchal’s revenue minister, Harak in the government but he By Chidanand Rajghatta YOU SAID IT by Laxman US Navy in 1984 something I hoped to have an oppor- Singh Rawat, tearfully announced his resignation at the also devotes a lot of his TIMES NEWS NETWORK after his parents tunity to do, to come to my nation of state assembly on Wednesday, after he was accused of time and energy to guide the moved to the US birth on a Navy Ship,’’ he wrote via party,’’he noted. Washington: When the American having got a woman pregnant. Speaker Yashpal Arya ad- in the early 1960s. e-mail from the high seas. Taking a cue from Adva- warship USS Gary sails into Kochi journed the House four times, after Opposition parties Commander ‘‘While I have never exercised refused to allow the assembly to function and demanded ni’s usual advice to the party for a port call on Thursday morning, Dua took charge with the Indian Navy, I know of workers to maintain their in- it will be a sweet homecoming of a discussion on the issue. of the USS Gary,a their superb reputation as mariners Arya finally sent a five-member all-party delegation to tegrity and perpetuate the sorts for the captain of the ship. Guided Missile and have spoken to some of my image of the BJP as a party In an eloquent testimony to the visit the woman and confirm the fact. They came back Frigate of the friends who have been fortunate to with their report, which he sent on to the government. with a difference, Vajpayee first generation bonds between Oliver Hazard sail with them,’’ he wrote. As the Opposition was shouting for it to be tabled in the said political power had an India and the United States, the Tito Dua Perry class with a ‘‘All on the ship look forward to House, Rawat tearfully said he had been framed by his intrinsic quality of reducing warship is being commanded by complement of the opportunity of spending a few own colleagues and members of the Opposition.