c m y k c m y k TABLOID Victoria Beckham 32 HE SIAN GE recreates her T NEWA DELHI MONDAY 21 OCTOBER 2019 A signature leg pose NATION | Politics WORLD | America Rahul criticises Piyush, After facing criticism, Prez calls him a ‘bigot’ over Trump drops plan to host Abhijit Banerjee remark 3 G-7 at his Doral golf resort 8 www.asianage.com RNI No. 57290/94, Regd No: DL-SW-05/4189/15-17 Vol. 26 No. 245 | 32 PAGES | `5.00 WINDOWS ■ 6 Pak soldiers, many terrorists killed ■ 2 jawans, civilian die Army hits back across LoC, Haryana, Maha to vote today; BJP hopes high destroys 4 terror launchpads Bypolls to 51 Assembly seats to be held across nation PAWAN BALI Pakistan Army spokespe- NEW DELHI, OCT. 20 rson Maj. Gen. Asif Mumbai/Chandigarh, Ghafoor in a statement Oct. 20: Polling will be In a major counter-attack, said only one Pakistani held on Monday to elect the Indian Army early on soldier was killed and two Maharashtra and Sunday morning killed at soldiers were injured in Haryana assemblies with least six Pakistani sol- the Indian Army firing. the BJP and its allies diers and destroyed four The Indian Army, in a seeking to retain power in terror launchpads along statement, said its the two states on the back the Line of Control oppo- artillery hit terror of the recent Lok Sabha site the Tangdhar sector launchpads, Pakistan polls victory, while the with heavy targeted Army posts and Pakistani opposition is hoping to artillery shelling. gun positions along LoC turn the tide by taking Rohit Sharma celebrates after This was in retaliation in the Tangdhar sector. advantage of any anti- scoring a double century for the Pakistan Army’s One civilian, Mohd incumbency. during the second day of last truce violation on Houses and property damaged due to firing and Sadeeq, 55, was killed in Bypolls will also be held Test between India and South Saturday night to push shelling by Pakistan Army in Gundi Shath village in J&K Gundi Shath village in to 51 Assembly seats and Africa in Ranchi on Sunday. terrorists into India, in Tangdhar in the Pakistan two Lok Sabha con- ■ Report on Page 14 — PTI which two Indian soldiers We have been heavily damaged. Army firing. Also, three stituencies spread across and one civilian had died “It was decided that we civilians from the same 18 states. in the Tangdhar sector of able to destroy target terror camps village were injured — In Maharashtra, where Polls officials collect EVMs and other election materials 8,000-yr-old pearl, Kupwara district in the 4-5 terrorist across. We had the coordi- Mohd Maqbool, 70, Mohd the “Mahayuti” alliance at a distribution centre in Hisar on Sunday, the eve of Kashmir Valley. camps. Each such nates of these camps,” Shafi, 50, and Yusuf of BJP, Shiv Sena and the Haryana Assembly polls. — PTI the world’s oldest, “According to reports camp has around said Gen. Rawat. He said Hamid, 22. “Last night smaller parties is against been made with deploy- which we have received, in the past one month, Pak Army initiated the “Maha-agadhi” led by PAGE 3 ment of more than three found in Abu Dhabi there has been heavy 10-15 terrorists in there were repeated unprovoked ceasefire vio- the Congress and the ◗ Rapid change in lakh personnel from state them. Abu Dhabi: An 8,000-year- damage to the Pakistan attempts from different lation to assist infiltration NCP, a total of 8,98,39,600 favour of Cong, police and central forces old pearl that archaeolo- Army and the terrorists sectors to infiltrate terror- by terrorists into Indian people, including in Maharashtra, while who were in these terror — Gen. Bipin ists. “We have been able territories,” said a senior 4,28,43,635 women, are eli- will form next govt over 75,000 security per- gists say is the world’s old- Rawat est will be displayed in Abu camps. At least six to 10 to destroy 4-5 terrorist Army officer. He said that gible to vote. in Haryana: Selja sonnel have been Dhabi, according to authori- Pakistani soldiers died Army Chief camps. Each such camp the Indian Army retains As many as 3,237 candi- mobilised in Haryana. ties who said on Sunday it and a similar number of has around 10-15 terror- the right to respond at a dates, including 235 90 Assembly seats in Counting of votes will be is proof the objects have terrorists were also and we are not even able ists in them. It is difficult time and place of its women, are contesting in Haryana which has over on October 24. been traded since Neolithic killed,” said Army Chief to pick up any mobile right now to give exact fig- choosing in case the 288 seats and 96,661 1.83 crore voters, includ- The high-voltage elec- times. The natural pearl was Gen. Bipin Rawat. He said communications from ures of how many terror- Pakistan Army continues polling booths are in ing 85 lakh women and tioneering by the BJP saw found in the floor of a room unconfirmed reports sug- across,” said the Army ists have been killed,” to assist terror activities place with 6.5 lakh staff 252 transgenders, while participation of a galaxy discovered during excava- gest that the terrorists’ Chief. He said at least said a senior Army offi- across the Indian border. for the voting exercise. 19,578 polling stations of leaders led by Prime tions at Marawah Island, off casualties were much three terrorist camps cer. He said the number of Defence minister The ruling BJP is locked have been set up. Minister Narendra Modi the capital of the UAE, higher. were completely Pakistani soldiers who Rajnath Singh also spoke in a contest with the Polling will be held from and his Cabinet col- which revealed the earliest “There is a kind of radio destroyed and a fourth have been injured is to Gen. Rawat over the sit- Opposition Congress and 7 am to 6 pm. Tight secu- leagues Amit Shah and ■ architecture found in the silence on the other side terrorist camp was also much higher. However, uation. the fledgling JJP for the rity arrangements have Turn to Page 4 country. — AFP Full report on Page 11 ■ 1 dies, tension in Dibrugarh UP murder: Yogi EC to probe J&K: Has the trust of 70 yrs gone? video ‘threat’ promises all help ANAND K. SAHAY month elicits nothing but Mobs attack Hindi Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh CM SRINAGAR/BARAMULLA/ TROUBLE IN PARADISE-1 praise. A young woman Yogi Adityanath on Sunday SHOPIAN, OCT. 20 lawyer said: “The in Karnal by met here at his official resi- Otherwise, the reaction With Sheikh Abdullah Pakistan PM spoke about dence the family members Perhaps the only set of in the Valley can be marshalling popular opin- the crisis that hit us after speakers in Assam, BJP nominee of slain Hindutva leader people in the Kashmir summed up by a disgusted ion, in 1947 Kashmiris put August 5 — the jailing of Kamlesh Tiwari and sought Valley pleased with the journalist in the north their faith in secular thousands, the communi- AGE CORRESPONDENT to assure them of all help Narendra Modi govern- Kashmir town of India rather than Islamic cations blackout. He is the many houses burnt NEW DELHI, OCT. 20 and justice but failed to win ment’s revocation of Baramulla: “We are back Pakistan, although the only one who spoke about the trust of the killed man's autonomy are the adher- at 1947”. (Identities have latter continued to attract us. Prime Minister MANOJ ANAND ◗ The villagers were The Election mother. — PTI ents of the Jamaat-e- been kept secret to avoid the allegiance of a small Narendra Modi, on the GUWAHATI, OCT. 20 served extortion Commission on Full report on Page 3 Islami, an influential reli- dire consequences.) section since then. With other hand, spoke about Sunday named for- gio-political outfit which And now they are asking the revocation of Article ‘shauchalya’ (toilets) at In what has created ten- notices to pay mer deputy election believes in merging with whether the choice that 370, this section has now the UN! He could have sion and panic among amounts ranging commissioner Vinod Zubin Mehta leaves Pakistan, and which is they had made in 1947 come alive. talked about peace, but Hindi-speaking people in from `20K to `50K Zutshi as special now expected to command needs to be revisited. “It The speech of Pakistan didn’t.” Upper Assam’s by Takam Mising observer for the Israel Philharmonic greater attention than has been an illusion,” PM Imran Khan at the UN A north Kashmir Dibrugarh district, a mob Assembly polls in Jerusalem: Superstar con- before. they say. General Assembly last ■ Turn to Page 4 of more than 100 people Porin Kebang, a Assandh, in Karnal ductor Zubin Mehta, 83, belonging to Takam local organisation district of Haryana takes to the Tel Aviv stage Mising Porin Kebang after a video went on Sunday for his final per- (TMPK), a local organisa- `20,000 to `50,000 by viral in the social formance as music director Rail Board to tion, attacked a village of TMPK, security sources media. The BJP can- of the Israel Philharmonic, milkmen and set their said the attack took place didate in Assandh is retiring after 50 years with houses on fire. In the as the villagers, who seen in the video the orchestra. — AFP be trimmed, attack, one person was mostly earn a living sell- threatening voters Full report on Page 11 killed while six others ing milk, said they were that they will know 25% officers have been critically unable to pay the extor- easily who had voted COUNTERPOINT injured.