Tuesday, September 21, 1999
`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.
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.
Lankan dailies play up massacre
Two communities, two different reactions - that about sums up the national response to last week's twin tragedies, one in which 21 Tamil civilians were killed in an air-raid, and the other in which 50 Sinhalese villagers were massacred by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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