STATE TIMES NEWS
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency has arrested a Faridabad resident for allegedly harbouring Dr Umar-un Nabi, the man who drove the explosive-laden car that blasted outside the Red Fort in Delhi on November 10, killing 15 people.
An official spokesperson for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said the agency arrested Soyab, a resident of Dhauj in Haryana’s Faridabad, for allegedly providing logistical support to “terrorist Umar Un Nabi” before the Delhi terror bomb blast.
Soyab is the seventh accused arrested by the NIA in the case, part of a ‘white-collar’ terror module busted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
“The agency continues to pursue various leads in connection with the suicide bombing, and has been conducting searches across states in coordination with the respective police forces in a bid to identify and track others involved in the gruesome attack,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
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India rejects Pak’s criticism of flag ceremony at Ram temple
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday strongly rejected Pakistan’s criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s participation at a ceremony in Ayodhya’s Ram temple and said the neighbouring country, with a deeply strained record of repression of minorities, has no moral standing to lecture others.
“We have seen the reported remarks and reject them with the contempt they deserve. As a country with a deeply stained record of bigotry, repression, and systemic mistreatment of its minorities,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said. “Pakistan has no moral standing to lecture others. Rather than delivering hypocritical homilies, Pakistan would do better to turn its gaze inwards and focus on its own abysmal human rights record,” he said.
Pakistan had criticised Modi’s participation at the flag hoisting ceremony at the Ram temple on Tuesday that marked the formal completion of its construction.
The Pakistan foreign office expressed “deep concern” over the ceremony and referred to construction of the temple at the site of the Babri Mosque and alleged that it is a reflection of pressure on religious minorities in India.
