From my archive of press clippings:
The Hindu
‘Indian linked to Mumbai blasts issued fake Pak passport’
Islamabad, January 12, 2010
Three Indian citizens, including a man linked to the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, were issued Pakistani passports by the country’s consulate in the U.S. city of Houston, an anti-corruption court has been told by a senior diplomat.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Pakistan’s Consul General in Houston, Aqil Nadeem, appeared as a witness in the accountability court in Rawalpindi on Monday and confirmed that Pakistani passports were issued by the consulate to Indian nationals Aziz Moosa, Saleem Ali and Abdul Sadiq.
Mr. Nadeem told Judge Wamiq Javaid that the passports were issued by the Houston consulate as had been alleged by the National Accountability Bureau, the country’s anti-corruption agency, in its case against former Consul General Ghulam Rasool Baloch and other persons."
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"An American passport bearing the name Syed Nazar Ali was found after the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai and probe revealed the man was actually an Indian national named Aziz Moosa."
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Showing posts with label Mumbai. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Thursday, August 6, 2009
re: "A Foreign Policy Insurgency?"
Cheryl Rofer at WhirledView ("A Look at World Politics & Most Everything Else") posted an interesting book review.
Money quote(s):
"Connectivity, a central concept in Barnett’s thinking, is changing the world. The connectivity provided by fax machines and primitive e-mail helped to undercut the Soviet Union and got the Tianmen Square rebels’ story out in 1989. Now we get tweets as Mumbai is being attacked. We have hardly begun to exploit that connectivity. "
"I belong to a cluster of bloggers who discuss foreign policy and other topics. We read each other’s blogs and link among them. Barnett calls us, if I understand him correctly, superempowered individuals. I’m not entirely happy with the jargon aspect of that phrase or what Barnett seems to mean by it. I have access to a great many things through the internet, true; but there are limits to the power that gives me. One of thosee limits is being heard. If I write a blog and nobody reads it, does it really exist?"
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"Very Special People. That term, abbreviated VSPs, refers to those whose ideas Count, who are listened to by the media and the political class. The requirements for entry into VSP status include credentialization by a university (Ph.D. preferred) or holding a high position in an appropriate government organization. And, of course, to be okayed by the VSP community."
Money quote(s):
"Connectivity, a central concept in Barnett’s thinking, is changing the world. The connectivity provided by fax machines and primitive e-mail helped to undercut the Soviet Union and got the Tianmen Square rebels’ story out in 1989. Now we get tweets as Mumbai is being attacked. We have hardly begun to exploit that connectivity. "
"I belong to a cluster of bloggers who discuss foreign policy and other topics. We read each other’s blogs and link among them. Barnett calls us, if I understand him correctly, superempowered individuals. I’m not entirely happy with the jargon aspect of that phrase or what Barnett seems to mean by it. I have access to a great many things through the internet, true; but there are limits to the power that gives me. One of thosee limits is being heard. If I write a blog and nobody reads it, does it really exist?"
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"Very Special People. That term, abbreviated VSPs, refers to those whose ideas Count, who are listened to by the media and the political class. The requirements for entry into VSP status include credentialization by a university (Ph.D. preferred) or holding a high position in an appropriate government organization. And, of course, to be okayed by the VSP community."
Friday, March 13, 2009
DNAI - Fake US visa racket busted, five arrested
Diligent Media Corporation India
Fake US visa racket busted, five arrested
Preety Acharya
Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:29 IST
Mumbai: The Pydhonie police busted a fake visa racket with the arrest of five persons on Tuesday. The accused, apart from issuing fake US visas, were also involved in issuing bogus ration cards and birth certificates.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
""Police said Khan used to collect rejected US visas and remove the 'rejected visa' stamps from them. He then replaced these with a fake visa which would have a 'stamp of approval'. "
Fake US visa racket busted, five arrested
Preety Acharya
Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:29 IST
Mumbai: The Pydhonie police busted a fake visa racket with the arrest of five persons on Tuesday. The accused, apart from issuing fake US visas, were also involved in issuing bogus ration cards and birth certificates.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
""Police said Khan used to collect rejected US visas and remove the 'rejected visa' stamps from them. He then replaced these with a fake visa which would have a 'stamp of approval'. "
Thursday, February 12, 2009
TOI - Satara to Spain: Grandma wants adoption probed
Times of India
Satara to Spain: Grandma wants adoption probed
4 Feb 2009, 0443 hrs IST, Swati Deshpande , TNN
MUMBAI: Kisabai Lokhande, an illiterate vegetable vendor from Karad, has been fighting a lonely battle to get back her two granddaughters who went "missing'' from a children's remand home in Satara in 2004.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"In 2005, the girls were learnt to have been adopted by a Spanish couple.
Lokhande (66), after having protested outside the Satara collector's office in 2007, has now filed a police complaint seeking a probe against the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), the Central Adoption Resource Centre (CARA), a Spanish NGO and a Pune-based private adoption agency for executing the allegedly illegal cross-border adoption without her consent."
She also sent the complaint to the Chief Justice of the Bombay high court with a plea to turn it into a suo motto habeas corpus petition to get her granddaughters back.
The crucial issue she is raising now with the help of advocate Pradeep Havnur is that various agencies connived to get the girls declared "destitute'' in December 2004 to facilitate their international adoption."
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"Lokhande has now alleged that her granddaughters were "kidnapped'' and that despite being the children's guardian, she was not informed.
She is alleging a larger conspiracy involving various agencies to have children declared abandoned and then be given away illegally, perhaps even "sold'', in the international adoption market."
Satara to Spain: Grandma wants adoption probed
4 Feb 2009, 0443 hrs IST, Swati Deshpande , TNN
MUMBAI: Kisabai Lokhande, an illiterate vegetable vendor from Karad, has been fighting a lonely battle to get back her two granddaughters who went "missing'' from a children's remand home in Satara in 2004.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"In 2005, the girls were learnt to have been adopted by a Spanish couple.
Lokhande (66), after having protested outside the Satara collector's office in 2007, has now filed a police complaint seeking a probe against the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), the Central Adoption Resource Centre (CARA), a Spanish NGO and a Pune-based private adoption agency for executing the allegedly illegal cross-border adoption without her consent."
She also sent the complaint to the Chief Justice of the Bombay high court with a plea to turn it into a suo motto habeas corpus petition to get her granddaughters back.
The crucial issue she is raising now with the help of advocate Pradeep Havnur is that various agencies connived to get the girls declared "destitute'' in December 2004 to facilitate their international adoption."
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"Lokhande has now alleged that her granddaughters were "kidnapped'' and that despite being the children's guardian, she was not informed.
She is alleging a larger conspiracy involving various agencies to have children declared abandoned and then be given away illegally, perhaps even "sold'', in the international adoption market."
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
TTOI - US advisory for visitors to Mumbai
From my archive of press clippings:
The Times of India
US advisory for visitors to Mumbai
Dec 2008, 0228 hrs IST, Srinivas Laxman, TNN
MUMBAI: The terrorist attacks on Mumbai tragically demonstrate that even in five-star hotels, security is not equipped to deter such strikes, says an alert issued by the US department of the state on Saturday.
Read the whole article here.
The Times of India
US advisory for visitors to Mumbai
Dec 2008, 0228 hrs IST, Srinivas Laxman, TNN
MUMBAI: The terrorist attacks on Mumbai tragically demonstrate that even in five-star hotels, security is not equipped to deter such strikes, says an alert issued by the US department of the state on Saturday.
Read the whole article here.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
WSJ - India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror. At Tourist Haunts and Train Station, Swiftly Launched Assault Overwhelmed Police
From my archive of press clippings:
Wall Street Journal
India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror. At Tourist Haunts and Train Station, Swiftly Launched Assault Overwhelmed Police; Home Affairs Minister Steps Down.
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV, GEETA ANAND, PETER WONACOTT and MATTHEW ROSENBERG
DECEMBER 1, 2008, 4:42 P.M. ET
MUMBAI -- As waiters started setting dinner buffets in Mumbai's luxurious hotels, the killings that would ravage this Indian metropolis began out of sight, in the muddy waters of the Arabian Sea.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Hotline Numbers
The U.S. State Department has established a Consular Call Center for Americans concerned about family or friends who may be visiting or living in Mumbai, India. The number is (888) 407-4747. The U.K. government has set up hotlines for people worried about the safety of friends and family. The U.K. number is 44 (0)20 7008 0000. The number in India is (0091) 1124192288."
Wall Street Journal
India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror. At Tourist Haunts and Train Station, Swiftly Launched Assault Overwhelmed Police; Home Affairs Minister Steps Down.
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV, GEETA ANAND, PETER WONACOTT and MATTHEW ROSENBERG
DECEMBER 1, 2008, 4:42 P.M. ET
MUMBAI -- As waiters started setting dinner buffets in Mumbai's luxurious hotels, the killings that would ravage this Indian metropolis began out of sight, in the muddy waters of the Arabian Sea.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Hotline Numbers
The U.S. State Department has established a Consular Call Center for Americans concerned about family or friends who may be visiting or living in Mumbai, India. The number is (888) 407-4747. The U.K. government has set up hotlines for people worried about the safety of friends and family. The U.K. number is 44 (0)20 7008 0000. The number in India is (0091) 1124192288."
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