HARARE: The commonwealth leaders reportedly agreed to a recommendation to have a facility to monitor elections in member-countries.
The ten-nation high-level appraisal group felt that such a facility would help member-countries reinforce democracy.
The commonwealth secretariat plan to send a 13-member observer team to monitor Zambia’s first multi-party elections in about the results achieved by sending similar teams to observe elections in Bangladesh and Malaysia recently.
India feels that the common wealth should provide such assistance on request, but does not see a merit in institutionalizing the arrangement.
WSN Service
NEW DELHI: Bhindranwale Saffron Tigers of Khalistan owned the last week’s bomb basis in Rudrapur, U.P., in which about 60 people’s dead and scores injured, as an action in retaining to the killing of 10 Sikh pilgrims shot down by the UP Police two months ago.
The force chief Bhai Swaran Singh Jawanda in a statement said that he had “informed” the police chief a month ago. More such blasts would follow if the police officers responsible for the fake encounter of Pilibhit were not punished, he added. The force chief refuted the Khalistan National Army’s claim of organizing the bomb blasts as fake.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 25, 1991
