India, US should go for pre-emptive strikes, destroy Pak's N-assets: Ex-US senator

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September 26, 2017

Mumbai, Sept 26: Suggesting that each India and the US conduct pre-emptive strikes inside Pakistan to destroy its nuclear websites (the place weapons have both already been saved or are being made), former US Senator Larry Pressler informed on Monday that Donald Trump might turn into one of the best American president but for India as he had lately put Pakistan on discover for harbouring terrorists.

However for this to occur, Trump must get across the Pentagon, which at all times inspired Pakistan, he stated. Such encouragement emboldened Pakistan to assault India as “the mom of terrorism” and “predator” on the UN common meeting session on Sunday, he added. Trump’s description of the Pentagon as “a swamp” was a very good signal, he famous, hoping the US president would drain it quickly (as he’d promised).

A 3-term Senator and twice a member of the Home of Representatives, Pressler (75) authored the well-known Pressler Modification which in 1990 blocked US navy assist to Pakistan when the then US President George H W Bush couldn’t certify Pakistan was not creating nukes.

Because the supply of near 30 F-16 plane to Islamabad was barred, Pressler, then a Republican and head of the Senate’s arms management subcommittee, grew to become one thing of a hero in India and, in his personal phrases, “a satan in Pakistan.” His new e-book, Neighbours in Arms, engagingly tells the story of the modification and of the US overseas coverage that enabled Pakistan to develop nuclear weapons and casts a extreme highlight on the tradition of lobbying in Washington and the grip of the military-industrial state (“the Octopus”) contained in the US.

Pressler has lengthy distanced himself from the Republican Celebration — he contested Senate polls as an Impartial in 2014 and backed Hillary Clinton within the 2016 Presidential polls — however regardless of variations with Trump, he feels the president just isn’t doing half as badly as US media suggests.

Trump’s warning to Pakistan on its sheltering and export of terror, linking of US assist to “motion on terror” and his request to India to “assist us extra with Afghanistan” signalled a recasting of relations.

The ex-Senator hopes Trump will act on the discover.

“US should declare Pakistan a terrorist state, minimize off all assist and should not deal with India and Pakistan as equals. India is a democracy, Pakistan is not. And Pakistan and particularly the ISI have lied to us for many years,” he stated.

All reward for PM Modi, the Vietnam veteran stated it was good the Modi authorities was robust with Pakistan.

He referred to as the denial of a US visa to Modi when the latter was Gujarat CM “a stain” on the US. He was crucial of India, nonetheless, for allegedly handing out hundreds of thousands to lobbyists in Washington. “Pakistan began this lobbying. India does not have to do it,” he stated. He stated Pakistan could not have developed nuclear weapons if US had stopped assist.

Having labored carefully with many US presidents, he felt Ronald Reagan had been very receptive to his concepts on nuclear non-proliferation and his views on Pakistan’s duplicity however had been hemmed in by “Octopus” mandarins. And Invoice Clinton had, on his 2001 journey to India (Pressler was a part of that delegation), given the impression that he beloved the nation and its folks however had, in actuality, repealed the Pressler Modification and inspired navy provides to India’s hostile neighbour.

Pressler was criticised when, within the 1990s, he had expressed issues about an “Islamic bomb.” He stated he stood vindicated in the present day and that the expansion of ISIS and related teams led him to worry that fundamentalist organisations – and never particular person states – might create a “Caliphate.”

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February 14,2020

Lucknow, Feb 14: Uttar Pradesh doctor Kafeel Khan was on Friday booked under the National Security Act (NSA) over his alleged anti-CAA speech at Aligarh Muslim University on December 12, 2019.

The Uttar Pradesh slapped NSA on Kafeel Khan on Friday even as the doctor waited to be released from jail despite being granted bail on Monday in connection with his alleged inflammatory speech.

SP Crime Dr Arvind said that there were sufficient grounds to book the doctor under NSA.

The suspended pediatrician, Kafeel Khan, was arrested for allegedly delivering a controversial speech during Anti-CAA protests on December 12 at the Aligarh Muslim University or AMU. While he was granted bail on Monday, his family members claimed on Thursday that he was yet to be released.

Dr Kafeel Khan's brother Adeel Ahmed Khan had issued a statement saying that despite being granted bail Mathura jail authorities had not honoured the court's order.

Dr Kafeel Khan was arrested by the UP Special Task Force from Mumbai on January 29 for participating anti-CAA protest at AMU. A case was registered against him at the Civil Lines police station here for promoting enmity between different religions.

After his arrest in Mumbai, Dr Khan was brought to Aligarh, from where he was shifted to the district jail in neighbouring Mathura.

According to police, this was done as a precautionary measure in view of the anti-CAA protests on the AMU campus and at the Eidgah grounds in the old city. Police had said that the Dr Khan's presence in the Aligarh jail could have aggravated the law and order situation in the city.

The doctor was earlier arrested for his alleged role in the death of over 60 children in one week at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur in August 2017. Short supply of oxygen at the children's ward was blamed at that time for the deaths.

About two years later, a state government probe cleared Khan of all major charges, prompting him to seek an apology from the Yogi Adityanath government.

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July 23,2020

New Delhi, Jul 23: With the highest single-day spike of 45,720 cases, India's coronavirus count crossed 12 lakh mark on Thursday.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed that 1,129 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.

The total number of coronavirus cases stand at 12,38,635 including 4,26,167 active cases, 7,82,606 cured/discharged/migrated. The cumulative toll has reached 29,861 deaths.

Maharashtra has reported 3,37,607 cases, highest in the country followed by Tamil Nadu with 1,86,492 cases. Delhi coronavirus count has reached 1,26,323 cases.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 1,50,75,369 samples were tested till July 22 out of which 3,50,823 samples were tested yesterday.

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April 26,2020

Seoul, Apr 26: A train presumed to belong to North Korean's Kim Jong-un has been spotted at a station in the state's eastern coastal town of Wonsan amid speculation about the leader's health, a US monitor said on Sunday, citing commercial satellite imagery on the region, Yonhap news agency reported.

According to 38 North-- a website devoted to analysis about North Korea, the imagery showed a train "probably belonging to Kim Jong Un parked at the Leadership Railway Station servicing his Wonsan compound since at least April 21."

"The approximately 250-metre long train, although partially covered by the station's roof, can be seen at a railway station reserved for use by the Kim family. It was not present on April 15 but was present on both April 21 and 23," it said.

"The train's presence does not prove the whereabouts of the North Korean leader or indicate anything about his health, but it does lend weight to reports that Kim is staying at an elite area on the country's eastern coast," it added.

The report came as rumours about his health have spread as Kim apparently skipped an important annual visit to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the occasion of the April 15 birthday of late state founder and his grandfather, Kim Il-sung.

CNN intensified the speculation by reporting earlier last week that the United States is looking into intelligence that Kim is "in grave danger" after surgery.

Seoul officials have disputed recent media reports about Kim, saying there have been no unusual signs from the North. Some said that Kim is presumed to be staying in Wonsan for unspecified reasons.

Washington has also dismissed the reports, with US President Donald Trump calling such reports "incorrect" in a press briefing late last week.

On Saturday, other media reports stated that China has dispatched a team of medical doctors and officials to North Korea "to advise on" Kim, citing multiple unnamed people familiar with the situation.

North Korea's state media, however, has not made any mention of Kim's public activity for two weeks since he was last seen in April 11 presiding over a major party meeting, though it has reported on his handling of routine state affairs, such as sending diplomatic letters.
But not all speculation has proven to be false.

When he was absent from public for about a month in 2014, speculation arose about his health and a political crisis in the secretive state. He later reemerged with a cane and a limp reportedly after having a cyst removed from his ankle.

The 36-year-old leader is known to have various health problems apparently caused by obesity and heavy smoking. He took office as leader of the communist state after his father, Kim Jong-il, died of a heart attack in late 2011.

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