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Sri Lanka Talks Soon
The Sri Lankan government will hold preliminary talks with representatives of the Tamil United Liberation Front and the militant groups in Thimphu, Bhutan 'very soon' to resolve the island's ethnic problems. The Indian government will provide facilities like transport for all delegates. Officials declined to specify who would head the government team but indicated the possibility that it might be at the ministerial level.
Tohra On Punjab Poll
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, warned the government in Ludhiana that until it accepted all the demands of the Akali Dal (Longowal), it would not be possible to hold elections in Punjab. He added that if the Congress (I) thinks of forming a government after the next election without solving the Punjab problem, it should learn a lesson from the past and recall the case of the Darbara Singh government, which had to be suspended after only half its term.
Iraq-Libya Ties Sour
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