Punjab Lokpal orders inquiry against CM, Parkash Singh Badal!

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Press Trust Of India / ibnlive.in.com / Posted on Aug 29, 2011 at 07:48pm IST.

Chandigarh: Punjab Lokpal on Monday ordered an inquiry into complaint on 'illegal occupation' of prime government land in Kapurthala district by former SGPC chief Jagir Kaur at the alleged behest of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

Lokpal Justice (Retd) DS Dhaliwal directed that an inquiry officer of the rank of IG should submit a report within a month's time, officials said.

Complainant George Shubh, of Kapurthala district, had recently filed a petition before the Lokpal alleging that 12 acres of prime government land of Nagar Panchayat, Begowal estimated to have a market price of Rs 100 crore had been illegally occupied by Kaur, who is also chairperson of Kapurthala District Planning Board.

The Lokpal has recorded the statement of the complainant while ordering the inquiry.

The complainant had also alleged that Kaur had the backing of Badal on the issue.

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What happened to PM's honorary degree?

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July 28, 2011 / IANS, CHANDIGARH / DC.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished students to have ever studied at Panjab University. But his name seems to be curiously missing from a list of those given an honorary doctorate of law degree.

A Right to Information (RTI) inquiry by activist Rajinder K. Singla shows that the prime minister's name does not figure in the list of those honoured by the university with a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) degree since 1949.

However, it's common knowledge that the university had organised a special convocation for its most distinguished student Nov 3, 2009, and conferred on him the same degree.

"The university had hosted a special convocation on November 3, 2009, to award a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), to Manmohan Singh, incurring huge public money for the event," Singla said.

"The registration branch of the university has disclosed that a total of 74 honoris causa doctorate degrees have been awarded by the university in the field of law, literature, science and oriental learning since 1949 till February 2011.

"As per the RTI reply, no individual has so far been awarded twice with such honorary degrees. Accordingly, Dr Manmohan Singh has been awarded with only D.Litt. on March 12, 1983, but not any Doctor of Laws," Singla said.

But the activist said that in the case of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alone the university has conferred on the same person two degrees honoris causa - a Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) and a Doctor of Laws.

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WIKILEAKS: Pakistan's Punjab turning into hotbed of extremism, U.S. had warned!

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PUNJAB FACING MILITANT HEAT:Pakistani policemen and rescuers searching for victims in the rubble of a destroyed police building after a suicide car bomb attack in Lahore in May 2009, one of many terrorist attacks in the province in recent years.


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CHENNAI: While Pakistan's security establishment is yet to be convinced that militant groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed need to be done away with, U.S. diplomats have long been sending worried messages back to Washington that these groups, along with a network of radical madrassas and charity fronts, are exploiting the poverty in the country's Punjab province and turning it into a hotbed of extremism.

In a series of cables sent over a period of two years, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and the Consulate in Lahore documented the ways in which the madrassas recruited boys as young as eight, indoctrinated them into jihadi philosophy, and sent them to terrorist training camps, on the back of an estimated $100 million flowing in from organisations from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The cables document that the southern and western Punjab, which once constituted “the spiritual heartland of South Asia's Sufi communities” and is a traditionally moderate area, had become a hotbed of extremism in Pakistan.