Islamabad: The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan
has denounced reports that it planned to attack Peshawar, saying the
North-West Frontier Province capital "is not Srinagar that we want to
capture it". In a statement, the chief of the Taliban militants,
Baitullah Mehsud, accused the government of sponsoring propaganda about
an impending attack on Peshawar to justify new military operations
against his men, The News reported Saturday.

"Peshawar isn't
Srinagar that we want to capture it. Taliban cannot think of damaging
their beloved Peshawar, which is the capital and identity of our
province," Mehsud said in the statement.

The Taliban commander
was referring to the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir, the
urban hub of Pakistan-backed separatist campaign that has raged for
nearly two decades.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Tens of thousands of Kashmiris filled the
streets for a fourth day of protests Thursday, after police killings
during earlier demonstrations enflamed their anger over the transfer of
land to a Hindu shrine in this Muslim-majority region.

Protesters
clashed with riot police in several parts of Srinagar, the main city of
India's portion of Kashmir. Police responded to rock-throwers by firing
live ammunition and tear gas into the air in an attempt to disperse the
mobs, said police officer Sajjad Ahmed.

More than 20,000 people
were protesting in towns across the Himalayan state, Ahmed said, and
thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers were spread out to
control the angry mobs.

No injuries were immediately reported Thursday.

When officials of ATS have clearly mentioned in a press conference that
the accused have confessed about carrying out bomb blasts at Gadakari
Rangayatan theatre out of their personal vendetta and they were not
connected to Sanatan Sanstha or Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, some
anti-Hindu newspapers, organizations and political parties are
demanding ban on the above 2 organizations. Reactions of such
organizations and their office bearers who know about activities of
Sanatan Sanstha and HJS are given below.  

Anti-Dharma
principles are against HJS as they can not bear its mission of creating
awareness among people towards their Dharma ! : Nitinji Vyas, President
for Vidarbha, Chhava Sanghatana

aul & Virendra Nath Bhatt

New Delhi, Lucknow, June 24: CPM
Politburo member M K Pandhe today tried to claim he didn’t mean to
inject a “communal” twist in the nuclear deal debate. But his remark
that “an overwhelming majority of the Muslim masses” oppose the nuclear
deal and that Mulayam Singh Yadav should think twice before supporting
it sparked off a chorus of outrage from Muslim organisations and
leaders to the Samajwadi Party itself. ain from virtually all
Muslim leaders The Indian Express spoke to was: the CPM’s attempt to
communalise foreign policy was condemnable and, yes, some Muslim groups
are opposed to the nuclear deal with the United States but that has
nothing to do with their being Muslim. Remarks like these, they said,
only end up alienating Muslims further by reinforcing the stereotype
that Muslims have to “prove” their loyalty to the “national interest”
every time there is a debate over it.