
Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Lalita case -- France begins judicial probe
Signalling the seriousness with which it is dealing with the matter, the French Government Prosecutor has begun a judicial investigation into the case of Lalita Oraon, the 17-year-old housemaid of an Indian diplomat in Paris.

`Naik has papers on secret Indo-Pak talks'
The controversy surrounding former Pakistan foreign secretary Niaz Naik plot seems to have thickened with a newspaper now reporting that Naik's confessions to the daily Jung last week were those he had privately shared with diplomats, policy makers and journalists on several occasions in the past.

Bin Laden has no role in J&K -- Hurriyat leader
Mirwaiz Moulvi Omer Farooq, leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, yesterday said that Osama bin Laden had no locus standi on espousing the cause of Kashmiris by declaring a ``jehad'' against India.

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