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Babri Demolition Case:
Won't accept dropping of conspiracy charges against Advani, Joshi, Bharti,
other leaders, says Supreme Court
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday kept
its options open on examining the dropping of conspiracy charge against accused
like LK Advani, MM Joshi and Uma Bharti in the demolition of the Babri Masjid
in Ayodhya in 1992.The apex court also came up with the option of ordering a
joint trial of cases arising out of the two FIRs lodged in the wake of the
demolition of the disputed structure.“There are 13 persons who were discharged
only on technical grounds. Today, we are saying why can’t we club both the
cases and have a joint trial,” a bench comprising justices P.C. Ghose and R.F.
Nariman said. “We will not accept the discharge on technical grounds and we
will allow supplementary charge sheet,” the bench said. These observations were
made orally during a brief hearing by the bench, which posted the matter for
further hearing on 22 March. However, the clubbing of two FIRs was opposed by
the counsel for the accused on the ground that there were different sets of persons
named as accused in the two cases, the trial of which were at an advanced stage
at two different places. They were of the view that joint trial would lead to
the beginning of proceedings de novo (afresh). Altogether, 13 persons including
Advani, Joshi and Bharti were discharged of conspiracy charge in the case, the
trial of which is being held at a special court in Raebareli. The second set of
case was against unknown ‘karsevaks’ who were in and around the disputed
structure and the trial was being held at a court in Lucknow.The appeals were
filed by one Haji Mahboob Ahmad (since dead) and CBI against dropping of
conspiracy charges against BJP leaders Advani, Joshi and 19 others for
demolition of the Masjid.During the hearing, the bench also said that supplementary
charge sheet was filed against 8 persons but not against the 13 who were
discharged. Besides BJP leaders Advani, Joshi and Bharti, conspiracy charges
were dropped against Kalyan Singh (presently governor of Rajasthan), Shiv Sena
supremo Bal Thackeray and VHP leader Acharya Giriraj Kishore (both have since
died).The others against whom the conspiracy charge was dropped include Vinay
Katiyar, Vishnu Hari Dalmiya, Satish Pradhan, CR Bansal, Ashok Singhal (now
deceased), Sadhvi Ritambhara, Mahant Avaidhynath (now deceased), R V Vedanti,
Paramhans Ram Chandra Das (now deceased), Jagdish Muni Maharaj, BL Sharma,
Nritya Gopal Das, Dharam Das, Satish Nagar and Moreshwar Save (now deceased).In
the appeal, it has been sought to set aside the Allahabad High Court’s order of
20 May, 2010, which had dropped section 120B (criminal conspiracy) under the
IPC while upholding a special court’s decision. In September 2015, the CBI had
told the apex court that its decision-making was not influenced by anyone and the
dropping of criminal conspiracy charge against senior BJP leaders in the case
was not at its instance.PTI
Babri Masjid demolition: SC
calls for speedy trial with Advani, Joshi, Bharti to face charges again
Babri Masjid demolition: SC
wants trial against Advani, Joshi, Uma, other accused expedited
Babri demolition: SC may
revive conspiracy charges against Advani, Bharti, other BJP leaders
Babri case: SC may examine
reviving conspiracy charges against Advani, Joshi, Bharti
Demonetisation: SC asks
govt, RBI why banned notes deposits are not allowed until 31 March
The Supreme Court on Monday
sought response from the Centre and RBI on a plea alleging that people were not
being allowed to deposit demonetised currency notes till March 31 as
promised."Issue notice returnable by Friday," a bench headed by Chief
Justice JS Khehar said and asked petitioner Sharad Mishra to serve the copy of
its notice to the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India during the course of the
day. Several petitions were also filed by companies and individuals over the
government going back on its decision to extend the date of depositing
demonetised notes till 31 March.The plea referred to the speech of PM Narendra
Modi on Nov.8, 2016, when he said that citizens would be allowed to deposit the
demonetised notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 beyond the cut-off date of 31 Dec.,
2016 till 31 March, 2017.“There may be some who for some reason, are not able
to deposit their old 500 or 1,000 rupee notes by Dec.30, 2016. “They can go to
specified offices of RBI up to March 31, 2017 and deposit the notes after
submitting a declaration form," PM Narendra Modi told in his address to
the nation on 8 Nov.The bench considered the argument that RBI's last
ordinance, which permits only those persons who were outside India during the
stipulated period to deposit the demonetised currency notes till March 31, is a
breach of assurances given by the PM and the RBI. firstpost
Why you went back on
promise to extend cut-off date to deposit old notes, SC asks govt.
Demonetization: SC issues
notice to Centre, RBI on plea alleging non-acceptance of banned notes
Don't have minimum balance
in your SBI account? Get ready to pay fine from April 1
New Delhi: After a gap of
five years, State Bank of India has decided to reintroduce penalty on
non-maintenance of minimum balance in accounts from April 1, and revised
charges on other services, including ATMs. The country's largest bank will
permit savings bank account holders to deposit cash three times a month free of
charges and levy Rs 50 plus service tax on every transaction beyond that. In
case of current account, the levy could go as high as Rs 20,000. As per the
list of revised charges of SBI, failure to maintain Monthly Average Balance
(MAB) in accounts will attract penalty of up to Rs 100 plus service tax. In
metropolitan areas, there will be a charge of Rs 100 plus service tax, if the
balance falls below 75 per cent of the MAB of Rs 5,000. If the shortfall is 50
per cent or less of MAB, then the bank will charge Rs 50 plus service tax. The
charges and MAB varies according to the location of bank. It is minimum in case
of rural branches. RBI has permitted banks to levy charges for breaching
minimum balance limit. Withdrawal of
cash from ATMs will attract a charge of up to Rs 20 if the number of
transactions exceeds three from other bank's ATMs in a month and Rs 10 for more
than 5 withdrawals from SBI ATMs. economictimes
SBI will penalise you for
keeping low balance in account; ATM charges revised
Revised bank charges:
Here’s why and how much you have to pay
SBI, HDFC, Axis and ICICI
Bank: All you need to know about the revised transaction charges
Cash transactions charges
most retrograde step: Chidambaram
The move by some public and
private banks to levy charges after certain number of cash transactions at
branches is the most retrograde step, ex-Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram
said. Banks including HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank
and Axis Bank at present charge
a minimum Rs 150 per transaction for cash deposits and withdrawals beyond 4
free transactions in a month. "Bank charges for depositing cash and
withdrawing cash is most retrograde step," he tweeted. moneycontrol
J&K saw 3-fold increase
in rioting in 2016: State police data
Jammu: J&K saw a 3-fold
increase in cases of rioting and a substantial rise in arson cases in 2016
which also witnessed five-month-long unrest after killing of Burhaan Wani,
official data showed.According to data of crime branch of state police, J&K
has witnessed as many as 3,404 cases of rioting in 2016 as compared to 1,157
such cases in 2015, an increase of 2,247.Similarly, police registered as many
as 267 cases of arson in 2016 as compared to 147 such cases in 2015, thereby
showing an increase of 120 during the period, it said. Crime branch officials
point towards this increase because of the 2016 unrest in Kashmir Valley for 5
months following killing of Wani in July.There has also been an increase of 143
cases of attempt to murder from 2015 to 2016.PTI
Terror funding: NIA summons
13 J&K traders
NIA has summoned 13 traders
from J&K to Delhi on suspicion of funding terrorism.The agency found
irregularities in the trade dealing of these businessmen with the counterparts
in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. “It seems they have used their resources to fund
terrorist activities in the state, mainly the Kashmir valley,” sources
said.Mumbai Mirror
Mumbai university students
rap ABVP for silencing dissent on campuses
Mumbai: Nearly 100 students
from various student organisations staged a protest rally at the Kalina campus
of University of Mumbai (MU) on Saturday against recent instances of violence
at JNU and Ramjas College of Delhi University (DU).The protestors blamed the
ABVP, a right-wing student group, for trying to suppress free speech in college
campuses across the country. A week earlier, ABVP protested at Kalina campus,
demanding action against 'anti-national' elements in various universities.
"Emboldened by the BJP-led govt at the centre, ABVP is trying to muzzle
freedom of expression at campuses. The hooliganism in the name of nationalism
must end and ABVP activists must be arrested," said Suvarna Salve, a
member of Samata Vidyarthi Aghadi. Speaking on the occasion, Obaidur Rahman
Ansari, city president of Students Islamic Organisation of India, said there is
an atmosphere of fear in colleges. "Universities are supposed to be the
placers where students engage in constructive activities, but now we see
destruction everywhere. There's no trace of Najeeb Ahmed, despite the Supreme
Court's intervention in the matter," he added. Jenny Sulfath, a member of
Radical Study Circle, a student group at TISS, said the discourse around
nationalism is aimed at suppressing other national identities in the country.
"ABVP is calling students [who don't agree with them] anti-national. One
should consider other voices from the country, including those who don't want
to be a part of the country," she said.HT
Ex-servicemen hold protest
in support of Gurmehar Kaur; flays RSS, ABVP
Patiala:Ex-servicemen held
a protest march in support of Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, a Kargil
martyr's daughter, who recently stood up against campus violence. Over 150 people,
under the banner of the State Ex-servicemen Welfare Association (SEWA), took
out a march from the war memorial on the YPS Chowk and marched through Fountain
Chowk and Lower Mmall.SEWA president Colonel (retd) Kuldip Grewal said that the
ideology of the RSS and its student wing ABVP is being turned into an
un-christened law of the land with its political wing, BJP, has long maintained
silence over their wrongdoings.The definition of nationalism, he said, was
fiddled with to thrust upon a particular line of fundamentalism on the people
of all castes and creeds. Educational institutions have become battlefields of
affiliated political outfits of students. Atmosphere of fear is being created
among peace-loving people, he added. hindustantimes
More than half of under-5
kids in India are anaemic
In a stark and chilling
reminder of the realities of life in India, the recently released family health
survey (NFHS 4) results show that over 58% of children below five years of age
are anaemic, that is, they suffer from insufficient haemoglobin in the blood,
leaving them exhausted, vulnerable to infections, and possibly affecting their
brain development. The survey, which was carried out in 2015-16 and covered six
lakh households, also showed that around 38% of children in the same age group
were stunted, 21% were wasted and 36% underweight.While all the internationally
accepted markers of children's health have improved since the last such survey
in 2005-06, the levels of undernourishment, caused mainly by poverty+ , are
still high and the improvement too slow.Based on the 2011 Census data, the
total number of children under five in India in 2015 is projected at 12.4
crore. So, around 7.2 crore children are anaemic, nearly 5 crore are stunted,
around 2.6 crore are wasted and 4.4 crore are underweight. These numbers are
not too different from those in 2005-06. Since population has increased, their
share is down.
Police find 19 female
fetuses dumped in sewer
Mumbai: Indian police said
Monday they had found 19 aborted female fetuses dumped in a sewer in the
western state of Maharashtra, highlighting the country’s problem of female
feticide.Prenatal sex tests are illegal in India, a policy designed to stop
unborn girls being aborted by parents desperate for a boy.But the tests are
still thought to be common, particularly in poor rural areas, and sex ratios
are skewed toward males across India.“We have recovered 19 fetuses and are
trying to arrest the doctor, who is absconding,” Dattatray Shinde, a police
superintendent in Maharasthra’s Sangli district, told AFP.He said the fetuses
were found late Sunday wrapped in blue plastic bags in a sewer next to a clinic
run by doctor Babasaheb Khidrapure in the village of Mhaisal.Officers made the
discovery after a 26-year-old woman died during a failed abortion attempt at
the surgery, Shinde said.AFP/ arabnews
Uttarakhand ‘Death in
custody’:16yr Ziauddin cried for 2 days,says family;died hours after FIR filed
Uttarakhand: For two days,
Ziauddin Raza’s family says, they kept visiting Katoratal police outpost in
Kashipur in Udham Singh Nagar district in Uttarakhand with food and tea for
him, begging the police to let him go. On the third, an FIR was registered
naming him in a case of elopement. Hours later, the 16-year-old was found dead.
The family got a call from LD Bhatt Govt Hospital on Feb.28 asking them to
collect his body. The shoes and jacket he was wearing were found absent, and
later recovered from the police outpost after a probe started. Zaiuddin’s phone
remains missing.4 policemen have since been suspended, while the family of the
girl whom Ziauddin allegedly helped flee is absconding. Subdivisional
Magistrate Dayanand Saswati, who is leading the magisterial probe, has ruled
out any arrests as of now, saying the initial postmortem indicated “he
(Ziauddin) hanged himself”. An FIR has been registered against Constable
Balwant Singh, Sub-Inspector Praveen Singh and other unidentified policemen.
The girl, 15, at the centre of the incident, had gone missing from her home in
Kajibagh on Feb.25. Constable Shankar Tamta, the new in-charge of Katoratal
police outpost, says her father made an ‘oral’ complaint and blamed
Ziauddin.Ziauddin’s father Mohammad Yameen says that at 9am on Feb.26, a
policeman called up his son and summoned him to the Katoratal chowki in
connection with the girl’s disappearance. Tamta says police had found calls by
the girl to his phone. “We got scared and took the boy to the outpost, hoping
that his name would be cleared. But they detained him,” says Yameen, a
58-year-old daily wager who earns around Rs 5,000 a month. The family’s version
is corroborated by Younis Chaudhary, a state Congress secretary, who says he
accompanied the family and Ziauddin to the police outpost. “Ziauddin was very
scared. I told him we must go and clear his name. Ziauddun was a decent child,
I met him every day and complimented him on his hairstyle. He could not have
taken his life,” says Younis. Says Yameen, “When we met him on Feb.27, he
looked battered. He was crying and was very scared. The policemen, I don’t know
their names, said we would be also taken into custody. The girl’s father was
present too, and kept insisting that Ziauddin knew where his daughter was.”He
also claims that the girl had called up her father while they were at the
police station and said she was fine, and that Ziauddin was not involved. “That
angered the father more.”Ziauddin’s uncle Mohammad Salim, 45, claims he saw the
policemen “thrashing” his nephew on Feb.28.Indian Express
Reservation for Muslims:
Telangana JAC proposes discussion on Sudheer Report
Nizamabad:
Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has decided to meet floor leaders of
all political parties in Assembly and Council to urge them to discuss G Sudheer
Commission Report and its recommendations with regard to providing 12 per cent
reservations to Muslim minorities. The commission has already submitted its
report to the government.TJAC Nizamabad district committee organised a minority
convention on Sudheer Commission Report here on Sunday and TJAC chairman Prof M
Kodandaram participated in the meeting.TJAC is conducting district level
meetings in all the districts on Sudheer Committee and the series will be
concluded on March 11 in Warangal. Newindianexpress
Cancellation of book
session an act of self-censorship: Teesta Setalvad
New Delhi:Activist
Teesta Setalvad, a session on whose book has been cancelled by Oxford
Bookstore, Sunday hit out at its management, terming it as an act of
“self-censorship”. The popular bookstore in Delhi has cancelled the session
that was scheduled to be held on Monday, citing “volatile” situation in the
city in the wake of back-to-back student protests.“It appears to be an act of
self-censorship. There was absolutely no need for it. It is sad that such
things are happening in the capital of the country. We are dealing with forces
that cannot tolerate dissent of any kind, particularly political dissent,”
Setalvad told PTI. She said that the book had a “fantastic release” in Mumbai
and sessions on it were held in Varanasi and in the JNU in Delhi.PTI
Dear Digvijay Singh, you
are wrong in comparing madrasas with RSS-run schools:
How India Rolls Out Red
Carpet for Israeli Entrepreneurs and Sub-Standard Products: Tariq Farooqui,
Caravan Daily
WORLD
US delegation explores
moving embassy to Jerusalem
A US delegation is in
Israel exploring the possibility of relocating the American embassy from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that Palestinian officials have strongly warned
against.The delegation is led by Ron DeSantis, a Republican congressman, who is
expected to meet Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, during the
two-day trip which ends on Sunday. "The delegation is in Jerusalem to
learn first hand what it will mean to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem," said Ruth Lieberman, a friend of DeSantis and a political
adviser in Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post.US President Donald Trump
repeatedly promised the move during his election campaign and pledged to
recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. Palestinians criticised such
promises as they hope to make East Jerusalem the capital of their future state,
and have had the broad support of the international community for that aspiration.US
has two consulate-general buildings in West Jerusalem.One mainly deals with
diplomacy with Palestinians, while another building issues visas to people who
live in Jerusalem and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza."If the US
were to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem ... it would be effectively
recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," said Al Jazeera's Bernard
Smith, reporting from West Jerusalem."It would also be taking away from
the Palestinians the separate recognition that these consulate general offices
give them." Aljazeera
US warned Israel against
annexing West Bank: Israeli Defence Minister Lieberman
http://www.worldbulletin.net/todays-news/185832/us-warned-israel-against-annexing-west-bank-minister
Israeli Defence Minister
Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday that the United States has warned that
annexing the West Bank would lead to an "immediate crisis" with
President Donald Trump's administration.He said annexation would provoke a
crisis with Washington and result in steep costs for the Israeli government
since it would be required to provide services to Palestinians in the West
Bank."We have received a very clear, direct message from the United States
stating that the application of Israeli law in Judea and Samaria (the West
Bank) would provoke an immediate crisis with the new administration,"
Lieberman said before a parliamentary committee.World Bulletin
Ex-S. African leader
pessimistic about 2-state solution
http://www.worldbulletin.net/headlines/185807/ex-s-african-leader-pessimistic-about-2-state-solution
Former South African
President Kgalema Motlanthe has said Israeli’s continued construction of
settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories rendered the two-state
solution unworkable.Speaking at the launch of the Israeli Apartheid Week in
Johannesburg Sunday, Motlanthe said he supported the possibility of a democratic
one-state system.“The formation of a new political identity within a one-state
solution will no doubt be a difficult process that requires compromises on all
sides,” he said in his address.The Israeli Apartheid Week is an
"international series of events that seeks to raise awareness of Israel’s
settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian
people".The former South African leader said the two-state solution has
been difficult to achieve for many years because of several pressing issues and
different demands from the two sides.World Bulletin
Israeli settlement
operations in West Bank continue
As Israeli authorities plan
to establish a new settlement project in the south of Jerusalem, the Israeli
forces have embarked on bulldozing an agricultural land near the southern
Nahalin village of Bethlehem.Ibrahim Shakarnah, the President of the Nahalin
Villagers Council, has said that the Israeli bulldozers have begun demolishing
the village’s main highway, which has been closed some years ago, including the
“Danielle” settlement as well as other neighbouring areas, in a move to
establish a public resort for the settlers. Speaking in an interview with Quds
Press, Shakarnah explained that the demolish of what he described as
“historical road” of the Nahalin village, came after an appeal for re-opening
the road was filed to the Israeli Supreme Court. The road was confiscated in
2002 and leads to the city of Bethlehem. Middleeastmonitor
Donald Trump to sign new
travel ban executive order 'excluding Iraq'
Donald Trump was poised on
Monday to sign a new executive order banning travel from certain
Muslim-majority countries, a senior White House source was quoted as saying.The
new order, replacing an earlier version that was blocked by federal judges,
will exclude Iraq from the black-listed countries, but continue to block entry
to the US for citizens of Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya and Yemen.It will
also clarify the status of people from these countries who have already
received US green cards, specifying that they are not affected. Tens of
thousands of legal permanent residents were left in limbo by Mr Trump's
previous order. Independent
Report: More than 200,000
displaced by Mosul conflict
More than 200,000 people
have been displaced as a result of the Iraqi forces' battle to retake the city
of Mosul from ISIL that began in October, according to a Switzerland-based
nongovernmental organisation.The International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
estimates, in a report released on Sunday, said 45,000 people have fled west
Mosul since the push to seize it from ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant group, began in Feb.More than 17,000 people arrived from west Mosul
on February 28 alone, while over 13,000 came on March 3, according to the IOM. Aljazeera
US raid ‘mistakenly’ kills
33 ex-Iraqi forces in Mosul
http://www.worldbulletin.net/todays-news/185829/us-raid-mistakenly-kills-33-ex-iraqi-forces-in-mosul
At least 33 former members
of Iraqi security forces were killed in a U.S.-led coalition raid in western
Mosul on Monday, according to a local police officer. Federal police officer
Abdullah al-Mayahi said ISIL militants had held dozens of former members of the
security forces to question them about an alleged collaboration with the Iraqi
army. He said a coalition warplane mistakenly fired two missiles into a train
station, where the captives were held. “The strike killed 33 former security
forces members and injured eight others,” he said. According to al-Mayahi, a number
of ISIL militants were killed and injured in the airstrikes. “ISIL has tried to
cover up his crime by claiming that the bombed site was hosting refugee
families,” the police officer said. World Bulletin
Syria is a ‘testing ground’
for new Russian weapons
Russia has tested 162 types
of new weapons in its combat in Syria, its defence minister said, hailing the
military’s performance in the war-torn country, in which more than 310,000
people have been killed.The weapons have proven their worth in the conflict,
Sergei Shoigu told the Russian parliament last month, adding that ‘only’ 10
weapons failed to meet expectations. Among the new weapons tested in combat for
the first time in Syria were long-range cruise missiles carried by navy ships
and strategic bombers. middleeastmonitor
11 Soldiers killed in Mali
attack as violence surges
11 soldiers have been
killed and five wounded in an attack on a military base in Mali as rival armed
groups surrounded the city of Timbuktu.There was no immediate claim of
responsibility for the attack near the border with Burkina Faso on Sunday but
armed groups, including al-Qaeda affiliates, have been increasingly active in
recent months, attacking army posts beyond their usual strongholds in the
north. aljazeera
Houthis: America should
cooperate with us for effective attacks on Al-Qaeda
Houthi militias and
their allies yesterday condemned US attacks on Al-Qaeda in Yemen, saying they
would never be “fruitful” if America doesn’t cooperate with them, the Anadolu
Agency reported.Over the past the past couple of days, the US has increased its
attacks on what it claimed are Al-Qaeda bases in Yemen. News reports spoke of
more than 30 attacks in the governorates of Al-Baydaa, Abyan and Shabwa. Yemeni
news agency run by the Houthis reported an official saying: “Houthis and forces
of Ali Abdullah Saleh reiterated that the unliteral American military measures
violate the national sovereignty of Yemen.” Official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, stressed: “The attacks will never be fruitful without security and
intelligence cooperation with our authorities which fight Al-Qaeda and Daesh.” Middleeastmonitor
Seoul says North Korea
carried out missile tests
North Korea has fired four
ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan's northwest coast, South Korean and
Japanese officials said, days after the reclusive state promised retailiation
over US-South Korea military drills it sees as a preparation for war.Seoul said
four missiles were fired from North Pyongan province into the East Sea on
Monday and that South Korea and the United States were "closely
analysing" tracking data for further details. aljazeera
Iran: Hajj issues with
Saudi Arabia resolved
Most of the outstanding
issues with Saudi Arabia regarding Iranian pilgrims have been resolved, the
caretaker of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organisation Hamid Mohammadi
said.Mohammadi said the Iranian delegation proposed to Saudi Arabia that
representatives from Iran participate in the fact-finding committee on the Mina
stampede incident in order to reach a final and comprehensive settlement,
Iran’s IRNA reported.Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Reza Salehi-Amiri
described the last round of negotiations with Saudi officials as “successful”,
where “some issues were settled and we will discuss the rest of the issues in
the next round of negotiations”. middleeastmonitor
Turkey holds over 1,300
terror suspects in one week
Ankara: More than 1,300
terror suspects were arrested in Turkey over the past seven days, the Interior
Ministry said Monday. Among them are 920 suspected members of the Fetullah
Terrorist Organization (FETO); of those, 45 were remanded in custody, said the
statement. Turkish government holds FETO responsible for the deadly July 2016
coup attempt. Others included 386 PKK -- 32 remanded -- and 12 Daesh suspects.Police
also detained 12 other suspects over alleged links to a leftist terrorist
group. Anadolu Agency
Taliban in police uniform
kill 6 Afghan officers
Kabul: A group of Taliban
militants wearing security forces’ uniforms killed 6 policemen in northern
Afghanistan on Sunday, a provincial police chief said. Gen. Abdul Hamid Hamid
said a large group of Taliban fighters attacked the check post of the Afghan
Local Police (ALP) in Kunduz province early Sunday morning, killing 6 officers
in the Zakhil area of the 3rd police district. Safiullah Amiri, a member of the
provincial council, told Anadolu Agency the attackers fled the scene with the
arms and equipment belonging to the security forces. Anadolu Agency
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