DISAPPOINTED BY THE GLOBAL RESPONSE ON KASHMIR: IMRAN

NEWYORK: Pakistan Prime MinisterImranKhanwarnedthatwar was possible over Kashmir even as he admitted for the first time onTuesdaytohavingbeendisappointedbythelackof responseto his campaign to bring international pressure on India over Kashmir, blaming it on India’s appeal as a “market of 1 billion people” and the fact that Kashmiris are predominantly Muslim. “There is a potential that two nuclear-armed countries will come face to face at some stage,” he said

Speaking to reporters at a news briefing at the UN, Khan added: “To be absolutely frank, I am a bit disappointed by the international community. He claimed that the reaction would have been different and more urgent had it been eight million Europeans or the Jewish people or Americans who had been put under siege. Khan and his delegation have raised Kashmir at everyforumandmeetingand,by his own admission, done everything possible. MUMBAI/NAVIMUMBAI: A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED)bookedformerUnionministerSharadPawarandhisnephew AjitPawarforallegedirregularities in the Maharashtra State Co-operative (MSC) Bank, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief on Wednesday said he will go to the ED office on Friday to ask if they needed any information from him.

Adoptinganaggressivestance andhintingthattherewasapolitical motive behind the move, Pawar also said that he will not bow down before New Delhi.

ChiefministerDevendraFadnavis insisted that the action is MUMBAI: In a clear sign that the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance is intact, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the saffron alliance will return to power after next month’s Assembly elections. Thetwoleadersshared the stage for an event in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday even as the two parties are yet to seal the seat-sharing agreement.

Senior Sena functionaries said the seat-sharing discussion is now between Thackeray and being taken in accordance with theBombayhighcourtorderand was not politically motivated.

The friction between Pawar and BJP comes just at a time whenthecampaignforAssembly polls is gaining momentum and the issue is likely to be played up during campaigning. Fadnavis.

The BJP, which is riding high on its Lok Sabha performance, is expected to offer less than half of the 288 Assembly seats to Sena

“Maharashtrafollowstheideology of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.Wedon’tknowbowing down before the Delhi takht (throne),” Pawar said during a press conference at YB Chavan Centre in Mumbai. for the state polls, while keeping other seats for itself and its smaller allies.