This is the beforehand leafage of The Indian Express published connected October 11, 1984, Forty Years Ago.
The United States is reported to person offered a atomic umbrella to Pakistan, arsenic successful the lawsuit of the NATO countries. US President Ronald Reagan made the connection successful a idiosyncratic missive to President Zia successful instrumentality for Pakistan abandoning its atomic weapons programme, the Urdu daily, Nawai Waat, reported.
One Shot Dead
One idiosyncratic was killed and a aesculapian practitioner changeable astatine and wounded successful 2 abstracted incidents successful Punjab portion the Gurdaspur constabulary claimed the apprehension of a violent allegedly progressive successful the massacre of 8 autobus passengers adjacent Batala connected September 12. Darshan Lai, a shopkeeper, was changeable dormant portion sleeping successful the unfastened successful Hardowal colony successful Gurdaspur district.
Buddhism Conference
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi exhorted radical to retrieve Lord Buddha’s teaching that a triumph which leaves a way of sorrow breeds hatred and the lone existent triumph is that successful which determination are nary vanquished. Inaugurating the archetypal planetary league connected “Buddhism and National Cultures” successful New Delhi, the Prime Minister asserted that successful today’s times, determination tin beryllium nary victors. The redemption of mankind lies successful pursuing the way propagated by Lord Buddha.
Vajpayee’s Claims
The BJP president Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said that successful the coming elections, the absorption parties volition beryllium contending not lone against the ruling enactment but besides against the government. Speaking astatine the league of the BJP nationalist executive, Vajpayee said that arsenic successful totalitarian countries, the dividing enactment betwixt the authorities and the ruling enactment has disappeared: “The Prime Minister, the main ministers and adjacent the Congress-I wide caput person been carrying connected their governmental run astir wholly astatine authorities expenses.”