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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Hunt who wrote (12243)	12/24/2001 10:48:13 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 27720

India may strike after Christmas [ ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, 24 December — Pakistan accused India yesterday of detaining and beating up a member of its embassy staff in New Delhi as skirmishes resulted in the death of four people on both sides of their common border. The government of Atal Behari Vajpayee held a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security at the prime minister’s residence in New Delhi and sources said India may strike at alleged terrorist outfits in Azad Kashmir after Dec. 25 even if the government in Islamabad took strong action against these. Meanwhile, India will likely exercise other diplomatic options. These include withdrawing the most-favored nation status to Pakistan, a ban on commercial flights from Pakistan and boycott of Pakistan’s high commissioner. In Islamabad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Pakistan had strongly condemned what it called the "illegal detention and torture" of Muhammad Sharif Khan, a staff member of its High Commission in New Delhi, by Indian intelligence agents yesterday. The ministry said Sharif Khan was abducted while shopping in the afternoon and held for five hours. "During interrogation, he was stripped naked, severely beaten and tortured resulting in visible and internal injuries," it said. "The medical report confirms that Mr. Khan was ruthlessly beaten and tortured." The ministry said it had lodged a strong protest with New Delhi over what it called "this reprehensible, provocative and unacceptable action on the part of the Indian government". Pakistan said it had attacked Indian Army bunkers after a civilian was killed and at least 12 others were injured by heavy shelling across the Line of Control in Kashmir. Pakistani troops destroyed four "strong" Indian Army bunkers and damaged several others in the retaliatory strikes, a Defense Ministry official told the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan. India said three of its border troops were killed and three injured during the exchanges. ] Source link arabnews.com