India trashes Pak’s charge
New Delhi, Jan 25: India on Thursday dismissed as “false and malicious” propaganda Pakistan’s allegations linking Indian agents to the assassination of two Pakistani terrorists in Sialkot and Rawalkot last year. “It is Pakistan’s latest attempt at peddling false and malicious anti-India propaganda,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said. The comments came hours after Pakistan claimed that it had “credible evidence” of links between what it called as “Indian agents” to the assassination of two Pakistani terrorists associated with the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba. India was carrying out “extra-territorial and extra-judicial killings” inside Pakistan, Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi alleged at a press conference in Islamabad. “As the world knows, Pakistan has long been the epicentre of terrorism, organised crime, and illegal transnational activities,” Jaiswal said. “India and many other countries have publicly warned Pakistan cautioning that it would be consumed by its own culture of terror and violence,” he said. “Pakistan will reap what it sows. To blame others for its own misdeeds can neither be a justification nor a solution,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson added. (PTI)
Minor rape victim to lose arms
Rewa (MP), Jan 25: The arms of a 14-year-old rape victim in Rewa in Madhya Pradesh will have to be amputated due to gangrene, a health official said on Thursday. The girl was raped by a 17-year-old boy on the promise of marriage and a case was registered in November last year, as per police. The accused is languishing currently in a correctional home. The girl’s pregnancy was terminated on the instructions of a court, after which she and her parents left for neighbouring Gujarat. However, the family returned to Rewa on Wednesday after her health deteriorated and got her admitted in the state government-run Sanjay Gandhi Medical College and Hospital. “Gangrene has spread as per the reports of medical tests. To save her life we have no option but to amputate both of her arms. It is difficult to say if she had gangrene when she was raped or developed it later,” the Hospital Superintendent said. (PTI)