New Delhi: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today said he will have a look at the mercy petition of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru only after the Winter Session of Parliament.
related to the mercy petition of Guru, returned by President Pranab Mukherjee for review by him, was still with the Home Ministry.
“When Parliament is over, I will ask what is the status (of Guru’s file). It is in the Ministry but has not come to me yet. I have to see his file in detail. I have to see it in depth,” he said at the “Agenda-Aaj Tak” programme here organised by TV Today Group.
The ongoing Winter Session of Parliament will come to an end on December 20.
Asked about the secrecy that was maintained regarding hanging of 2008 Mumbai attack terrorist Ajmal Kasab, Shinde said such operations should always be kept a secret.
“If terrorists can maintain secrecy about their attacks, why cannot the government keep secrets,” he said.
The Home Minister said his experience of having worked as a police sub-inspector and also as Maharashtra Chief Minister had helped him in secretly carrying out along the plan of execution of Kasab in Yerawada jail in Pune on November 21.
Pakistan’s Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and spymaster Zaheerul Islam are the only two from the country who have made it to Forbes’ list of world’s Most Powerful People. The list is led by the US president Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XVI, Angela Merkel, Facebook’s founder and other global leaders, reports The Express Tribune.
The American magazine placed Kayani on the 28th spot for “controlling nuclear weapons and one of the world’s largest standing armies in an unstable country”. Following Kayani is Inter-Services Intelligence’s (ISI) recently inducted chief, Zaheerul Islam.
The list also features a Mexican drug baron, and the young leader of North Korea — a hermit state assailed for pursuing a nuclear programme at the expense of feeding its very poor people. Last year’s No. 2 on the list, Chinese President Hu Jintao, is among those who fell off the rankings altogether this time. In Hu’s case it is because he’s on his way out of office.
The ranking features 71 names, a figure Forbes said it set as a cutoff because there are an estimated 7.1 billion people in the world and thus the ranking works out to one very heavy hitter for every 100 million people.
