- L.K. Advani, 74, is alleged by a Pakistani newspaper, The News, to have been involved in a September 1947 plot to murder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah died on September 11, 1948, after an illness.
- Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan and leader of Opposition in the Diet, visited India on January 10-11 and laid wreaths at the building of the National Assembly of J&K at Srinagar and at Parliament House, New Delhi, as a mark of respect for those who died in terrorist attacks on October 1 and December 13 respectively.
- Harish Khare, of The Hindu, wrote an editorial page article in his paper of January 23, 2002, titled "The General and the Minister" with a sub-head: "The fraudulent deshbhakts who preside over New Delhi ought to be slowed down in their heedless quest for making India into a garrison state," whatever that meant!
The Hindustan Times
The Pioneer
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The Times of India
The Hindu
"...unwittingly the General invited comparison with the circumlocutory external affairs minister, with the discredited and inconsistent defence minister, not to mention with the halting and pausing Prime Minister, and with the always-full-of-himself home minister"
"The Whole Truth with all the Documents, About the Aluminium Caskets Bought by the Defence Ministry in 1999-2000"
(The writer is a senior journalist and former editor of Imprint)
