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A file photo of Sartaj Aziz, Foreign Affairs Adviser to Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif.

Washington, March 2

Acknowledging that there was a “significant change” in its policy to act against terror groups without discrimination, Pakistan has said it hopes the US would now consider it an “ally from heaven” and not from hell, as described in a recent book by an ex-CIA chief.

“After my government came in 2013, there has been a significant change in our policy. We are now moving against all terrorists without any discrimination. And I hope that we would qualify to be an ally (of US) from heaven,” Sartaj Aziz, Foreign Affairs Adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, told a Washington audience.

Aziz’s remarks during his interaction at the Council on Foreign Relations came in response to a question in which his attention was drawn to a recently-released book written by a former CIA chief in which Pakistan was described as “an ally from the hell”.

“There was a big divide in our thinking after 9/11 because the US suddenly changed sides from those people who they trained to fight the Russians. From holy warrior they suddenly became terrorists,” Aziz said.

He conceded that from 2002 till 2012-13, there was a perception that Pakistan was on one hand participating in the war against terrorism and on the other supporting some of these groups.

But, this perception and the narrative being sold in the West was not correct, Aziz said, claiming that Pakistan had arrested and handed over some 600 al Qaida terrorists to the US during the same time.

“That time we were fully co-operating. At that time there was question mark on some of the groups. And that’s the time when these kinds of perception came in,” Aziz said. “But in my view they are out of date,” he added.

“Now there has been a significant change in our policy,” Aziz said.

In his latest book “Playing to the Edge”, Michael Hayden, the former CIA Director and also head of Director of National Intelligence, expresses his deep frustration of the “duplicity” of the Pakistani leadership when it came to taking action against terrorist group in particular al Qaeda, the Taliban, LeT and the Haqqani network.

Arguing that the Pakistani Army is built to fight against India and not terrorists, the country’s top leadership particularly those from its military in the past one decade have repeatedly expressed its inability to take on the terrorist groups in the tribal regions as desired by the US, he wrote.

Narrating an incidence when the then Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf refused to fill up gas in the airplane that flew him to Islamabad, where he had gone to press him to take action against terrorists Hayden wrote: “One more bit of evidence that these guys really were the ally from hell.” The crew had forgotten their government credit card— you can’t make this stuff up— and the Pakistanis wouldn’t budge, he wrote. — PTI

Ex servicemen Joint Action Front(Sanjha Morcha) Team visited Ambala to join Rally with Ex-Servicemen welfare committee.

1. Brig Manjit Singh ( Chairman)
2. Col Ranjit Singh Boparai (President)
3. col Avtar Singh Binder ( Joint President)
4. Col Charanjit Singh Khera(Gen secy)
5. Major Multani (president SAS Nagar & pension I/C cell)
6. Capt Khushwant Singh Dhilon (Joint secy)

Members of a new woman squad, which is currently under training for the PCR service ahead of its launch, in Jalandhar on Wednesday. Photo: Sarabjit Singh

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 30

The next time you spot women police personnel smartly dressed in camouflage uniforms in the city, don’t be surprised.They are a part of a new 20-member squad, currently being trained in the city, who would be assigned tasks akin to the previous Women Armed Special Protection Squad (WASPS) formation. The new strengthened and revised version of WASPS is set to be launched in another two-three days by the Jalandhar Commissionerate.Commissioner of Police Arpit Shukla said, “This is a similar squad but in a new avtar. Unlike the black commando type attire that they used to wear, they will be in a smarter attire now. You will soon see them deputed outside schools, colleges and market places. Like the previous WASPS squad, they will keep an eye on eve teasers but in a more coordinated manner. We have made minor changes in the old format and ensured that the response time will be shorter.”

Former Subedar Prabhati Singh Dhankar shows his documents in Bhiwani. TRIBUNE PHOTO

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Tribune News Service

Bhiwani, March 28

Former Subedar Prabhati Singh Dhankar had not faced as many hurdles during his deployment in the 1962, 1965 and 1971 wars while serving in the Indian Army as he has been facing in the past two decades for claiming his wife’s share of agriculture land at Badhra village of the district.“I am a resident of Sasroli village in Jhajjar district but my wife Hoshiyari Devi was a lone child of his parents and hails from Badhra village of the district. Her father had left 10 acres of agriculture land for her but few village musclemen had taken illegal possession over it,” said Prabhati Singh.Singh, who is now 80-year-old, said he had approached a Dadri court first in 1995 where he had won the case but the accused, who had some fake documents, appealed in the Bhiwani district session court, but there also he won the battle.“Again there was an appeal in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, where also the lower court’s order got ratified but in the past two decades, the police had failed to provide me the possession of my land,” he said.Alleging high-handedness on the part of the police and the administration, he said the SHO concerned shows scant respect for the court’s order and leaves no effort in humiliating him as and when he approaches the police for seeking the possession of his land.On the clout of accused, he said three of them, identified as Zile Singh, Zaildar and Jagbir Singh, all sons of Jagti Ram, had been convicted by the local court in a separate criminal case but they are out on bail and forcibly enter the field and take away the fodder from the harvested crop.Badhra SHO Ashok Sharma, an ASI, said retired Subedar Prabhati Singh wants to claim more land than inherited by his wife in documents.On the allegations of soft attitude of the police in the case, Sharma said he (Subedar) had filed multiple cases in the court and complaints with senior police officials and wants to irrigate more land than his wife’s share.

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Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar sparked yet another controversy on Tuesday when, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, he alleged that some Indian army personnel rape women in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Beijing, March 14

China on Monday dodged a direct response to reports of presence of PLA troops at a forward post in the PoK and said it “regretted” that the media keeps “popping up” stories of incursions into the Indian side of the LAC.

“I have not heard about the incident you mentioned,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kong said at a media briefing here, replying to a question about the presence of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops at a forward post opposite Nowgam sector in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

In response to another question on reports of recent incursions of PLA troops on the Indian side in the Ladakh sector, Kong said “there is no such thing as going beyond the border”.

“We deeply regret that the media keeps popping up the relevant issue. The bilateral relationship (between India and China) has maintained sound momentum of development. Friendly cooperation is the mainstream of the bilateral relationship.

“We hope that the relevant media would report objectively about China-India relations and do more to improve the friendly relationship between the two sides,” he said.

At the same time Lu reiterated Beijing’s stand on the Kashmir issue, saying that “China’s position on Kashmir issue is consistent”.

“We believe that the relevant issue was left over by history between India and Pakistan. We maintain that the two countries should properly resolve it through negotiations and consultations,” he added.

Asked whether presence of PLA troops is connected to the work related to the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, over which India has conveyed its protest, Lu merely reiterated China’s stand on the Kashmir issue.

India has conveyed its protest to China on the corridor connecting China’s Xinjiang province with Pakistan’s Gwadar port as it goes through PoK along the Karakoram Highway.

China in the past maintained that the corridor which is part of its Silk Road initiative is aimed at improving the people’s livelihoods and in no way affects status of the Kashmir issue.

Both the sides have established Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) to discuss the issue of incursions and aggressive border patrols by their troops along the 3,488-km-long disputed border. — PTIhttp://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/china-evades-query-on-reports-of-presence-of-pla-troops-in-pok/208745.html