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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43026)7/16/2002 6:21:32 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
NEW DELHI: An Indian interior minister on Tuesday said the government has uncovered an alleged plot by the Pakistani army to hijack an Indian passenger aircraft.Minister of State for Home, Vidyasagar Rao, told parliament that security at domestic airports was further tightened at the end of June after the alleged plot was uncovered by Indian intelligence agencies. “The government has issued instructions to state governments and security agencies to strengthen security at all operational airports in the country,” the junior minister told parliament's lower house. The Central Industrial Security Force, a paramilitary agency that guards government facilities, has also been deployed at all airports, Rao said.
Indo-Pak relations hit: Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said the massacre of 28 Hindu slum dwellers in disputed Kashmir had hurt efforts to improve relations with Pakistan, a television channel reported Tuesday. Sinha told the Aaj Tak (Television Today) news channel in an interview to be aired on Wednesday that Saturday's massacre of Hindus by Muslim
militants would prove a setback to relations.

Meanwhile, Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes said Pakistan is directly to blame for acts of “terrorism” inside India. “This terrorism will not last even a minute if Pakistan does not want it,” he said in parliament.
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