Saturday, June 21, 2008

RIL bags European honour for excellence

Mumbai: After bagging the Deming Quality Control Award 2007, RIL's Hazira division has won the highest recognition of five STARS rating given to a non European Organization by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Forum, Brussels - the Mecca for Business Excellence in Europe under the aegis of GEMS (Global Excellence Model Council)
A five member assessment team drawn from Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, UK and France who visited Hazira submitted their consensus assessment report to EFQM's high level jury comprising of CEOs of prominent European Businesses and European Government Leaders for final moderations and declaration of achievements.
By this endeavour, HAZIRA brings India and East Asia on the map of countries/organisations that have won laurels at EFQM Forum in the very first attempt.

Impact@11%: Automobile, IT brace for demand slump

Mumbai: Maruti Suzuki and other Indian companies are bracing themselves for a slump in demand after a 13-year high inflation triggered fears of curbs on consumer spending and the central bank raising interest rates, thereby hurting India Inc's expansion plans.
"This (high inflation) is criminal... This is going to put a lot of pressure on everything. An interest rate hike is now imminent, which is a very worrying factor for the auto industry. The situation is getting out of control," warned Ajay Seth, CFO of Maruti Suzuki India.
The annual wholesale price index — the most watched index in the country to gauge rising prices — rose to 11.05 per cent in the last 12 months ending June 7. Now, companies fear that in its fight to combat rising prices, the government would raise interest rates, which would, in turn, bring down the 9 per cent economic growth target of the country.
"Interest rates will go up for sure. This means consumers will spend more on essential commodities. As a result, disposable income towards automobiles will go down," said H S Goindi, head, sales and marketing, TVS Motor.
Information Technology, India's second-largest foreign exchange earner, expects to be hit because of rising costs. "With inflation, cost of doing business does go up as there is an increase in input prices," Suresh Senapaty, CFO & director, Wipro, said.
"With the commodity prices at historic high, our internal forecast on inflation was for double digit. The auto industry will indeed be affected. But, I think, the two-wheeler sector would be less affected compared to the four-wheeler segment because the opportunity cost for a two-wheeler will be less than a four-wheeler," he added.
Retailers, who are riding the consumer boom, don't see a drop in consumer spending as the urban buyers' salary is rising faster than inflation. Their concern is hoarding.
"I hope consumers will not start borrowing to hoard commodities for the next three months," R Subramanian, MD, Subhiksha, a food and grocery chain, said. "Though inflation has touched 11 per cent, consumers are seeing 15 to 20 per cent rise in prices in real times," Subramanian added.
Statistics for the last two decades show that corporate profits fall subsequent to rising inflation figures. Alarmed CEOs say they are now making strategies on how to cut costs.
"We are in the process of working out an alternate arrangement to reduce our power cost by switching over to lesser cost fuel such as coal-based power plant and renewable energy sources," said A K Srivastava, managing director of Essar Power. "We are extremely concerned about the steep rise in prices," Srivastava said.
Other companies are relying on raising funds overseas. Sajjan Jindal, Vice Chairman and MD of JSW Steel, said, "The interest rates will harden and could go up by another 1 per cent. We depend mostly on international financing and our projects will not be affected." However, Jindal warned that rising prices would lead to a slowdown in the economy.
The cement companies played down the impact of rising inputs costs. A L Kapur, Managing Director, Ambuja Cements, said, "I do not think there will be any impact of higher inflation on the cement demand. There was an acceptance that inflation would reach a double-digit number.However, if this rise continues, things would be different."

Thousands join Amarnath pilgrimage


Constant vigil

A private helicopter is seen over a base camp lodging Hindu pilgrims from Amarnath cave, near Baltal, 110 kilometers southeast of Srinagar.

Thousands join Amarnath pilgrimage


Arduous journey

Kashmiri Muslims carry Hindu children on their back uphill on the way to the Amarnath cave.

Thousands join Amarnath pilgrimage


Falling back on nature

Pilgrims drink water from a stream on their way to the Amarnath cave.

Thousands join Amarnath pilgrimage


Daring mission

An Indian paramilitary soldier guards a hill top as pilgrims arrive at a base camp in Baltal, some 115 kilometers southeast of Srinaga, as part of the Amarnath pilgrimage

Thousands join Amarnath pilgrimage


Towards God's abode

A Hindu woman treks to the Amarnath cave, near Dumail, 135 kilometers southeast of Srinagar, India, on Wednesday. Hundreds of pilgrims annually go to the remote Himalayan shrine of Amarnath at 14,500 feet to worship an icy stalagmite representing Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. yatra was suspended on June 20 due to heavy rains near the cave shrine and along the route of the pilgrimage in South Kashmir Himalayas. The two-month-long yatra started on June 18.

Two-third Pakistanis say Musharraf must go: poll

Washington: A majority of Pakistanis favour their government not fighting Al-Qaeda and Taliban but negotiating with the terror outfits, while viewing US as the greatest threat to their personal safety, according to a survey by a US agency.
The survey also said almost three-quarter of Pakistanis participated in the poll opined that embattled President Pervez Musharraf should resign and if he doesn't, he should be removed by the Parliament.
The survey, conducted across Pakistan, also said that the Al-Qaeda has gained public support, while a maximum number of Pakistanis viewed the United States as the greatest threat to their personal safety.
"Fourty-four per cent of Pakistanis think the US poses the greatest threat to their safety while the so-called arch rival India comes at second place with only 14 per cent find it as a threat," the poll conducted by US-based Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion and the New America Foundation said. The poll has revealed that half of Pakistanis want their government to negotiate and not fight Al-Qaeda, while less than one third of them favoured military action against the militant group.
Similarly, 58 per cent of the people surveyed favoured holding negotiations with Taliban and 19 per cent suggest for military action against it. With parliamentary by-elections in the country scheduled for next week, the poll has found that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is emerging as the most popular leader in the country and his party, the PML-N, clear winner in any national contest.

Non-Gorkhas back move for separate state

Darjeeling: They are not Gorkhas, yet many Marwaris, Bengalis, Biharis and others who have lived in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal for decades have been braving the rains and the government's ire to publicly express support for the movement for Gorkhaland.
The three Darjeeling hill subdivisions - Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong - have a total population of 810,000, of which the majority are Gorkhas who are now demanding a separate state. Now several non-Gorkha inhabitants have expressed solidarity with them.
Deepak Kusaryi, a Bengali whose grandfather migrated from Kolkata to Darjeeling, said: "I always support the Gorkhaland demand. Though I don't belong to the Gorkha community, I can easily relate to their problems as I have been born and bred in Darjeeling."
"There has been little development and people are deprived of basic facilities," said Kusaryi, a teacher at St. Joseph's School here.
"There are no water supply lines, no proper sanitation systems. The hills also do not have an adequate number of educational institutes for economically backward local students," Kusaryi said.Several members of the Marwari, Bengali and Bihari communities who have been living in the hills for years have been coming out in the rains to enthusiastically participate in the daily rallies taken out by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha, which is spearheading the protests.
The Gorkhaland movement has also found support among many Muslims, who are a religious minority in the hills.
However, West Bengal Municipal Affairs Minister Ashok Bhattacharya, who is a senior leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), said such a show of support from the non-Gorkhas was only a survival strategy for minority communities in the hills.
"They have to say all this for their survival. Being a minority in the hills, they are demanding Gorkhaland out of fear," Bhattacharya told IANS.
But many non-Gorkhas say the demand for a separate state is genuine.
Kiran Sharma, a shopowner in Darjeeling, stood by his Gorkha brethren. "We don't want anything less than Gorkhaland. And we want full-fledged development for our homeland," said Sharma, whose ancestors came to Darjeeling from northern India long ago.
He criticised the state government for trying to give a communal colour to the movement, which is "essentially political".
"There is neither any communal discord nor any racial conflict in the hills," said Sharma.
Mustaq Ahmed, who took part in a rally at the Darjeeling Chowrasta, said: "This place has a composite culture. We have no enmity with the Bengalis. But it is just that we don't want to remain a part of West Bengal."

No fresh decision on Sarabjit: Pak

Islamabad: Amid renewed hopes of reprieve for Sarabjit Singh on late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's birth anniversary on Saturday, an interior ministry official said there was no decision yet on the Indian prisoner on death row.
"No decision has yet been taken on the several petitions filed to President Pervez Musharraf for mercy to Sarabjit Singh," the official told IANS.
Singh's sister Jagir Kaur, Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney and some others have filed mercy petitions with the president to convert his death sentence into life imprisonment.
Singh was sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Pakistan nearly two decades ago. Singh himself filed a mercy petition with the president which was rejected. However, the president stayed his death sentence until further orders.
On Saturday, the 55th birth anniversary of Bhutto, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani in the National Assembly or the lower house of parliament announced conversion of death sentence of prisoners in Pakistan to life imprisonment, barring those prisoners who were involved in terrorism and other heinous crimes.
The announcement led to fresh hopes for Singh.
"I think this created confusion that Sarabjit's death sentence has been suspended ... He was involved in terrorism and was given death sentence for his crime to plant bombs and he cannot be included among those whose death sentences have been converted into life imprisonment," the interior ministry official said.
Asked how many prisoners on death row will benefit from this, the official said he was not sure. "I believe all the prisoners given death sentence had been involved either in terrorism or murder which is a heinous crime. So there may not be even a single person who could benefit from this," he commented.
Earlier in the day, several TV channels, especially in India, said Singh might be set free after Gillani's announcement as he had already completed term equal to life imprisonment.
"This is not an ordinary case ... I believe he is innocent and there may be an error of judgement," Burney told IANS.
He, however, added that media misjudged the announcement made by the prime minister.
He said he had sent a letter to the president, prime minister and Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar to convert death sentence of all prisoners to life imprisonment but no decision was yet taken.
Last month Gillani had said that he would recommend to the presidency to change Singh's death sentence into life imprisonment but there was no progress afterwards.
According to sources, senior officials in the establishment have objected to setting Singh free as they think it will encourage terrorism and will set a "wrong precedent".

BSP move not to hit govt: Congress

New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was not facing any crisis after the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) withdrew its support, the Congress party said on Saturday.
"It is to early to say (on BSP chief Mayawati withdrawing support). She has been taking such decisions and then dropping out (of them). We will reflect on it and give our assessment of the situation," said M. Veerappa Moily, head of the Congress media cell.
"There is no crisis to the government," he told IANS.
Announcing withdrawal of her support, BSP president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati accused the Congress-led UPA government of failing to bring down rising food prices.
"The central government has failed to curb inflation. I consider the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to be the same. The Congress has tried to tarnish our image in every way," Mayawati told a press briefing here.
The BSP has 17 MPs in Lok Sabha and the withdrawal of its support will have no effect on the longevity of the government.
"In case a no-trust motion against the UPA government is brought in parliament, we will decide on the basis of the issue," Mayawati said.

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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Many job aspirants give fake educational documents: Study

MUMBAI: In the first study of its kind in India, an employee background screening company has found that among the job aspirants who cheat, nearly 85 percent resort to giving fake educational documents.
First Advantage specialises in background screening for 90,000 companies globally. It will make public its first 2008 quarterly report pertaining to the kind of "frauds candidates and employees perpetrate to acquire or retain a job". First Advantage managing director (West Asia) Ashish Dehade told media that the report "will be made public early next week". Declining to reveal the percentage of people who cheat, he said it was "very high".
Talking about the sudden interest of corporates in seeking background screening of potential candidates, Dehade said that in recent times, "we are witnessing a massive discrepancy and a high growth of risks in candidate recruitment and contract staff or vendor hiring".
"One of the reasons why many candidates manage to get away with spurious credentials and documents is because jobs are multi-located. In simple words, jobs are not confined to one region or state or country," he said. "Thus it becomes very easy for a person to get away with forged documents and fake claims."
The findings of the 2007 study had come as a shock to firms and their human resource managers. "And in our 2008 first quarterly report, we have found that almost all industry sectors witnessed an increase in both employment and education related discrepancy as compared to the previous quarter."
Dehade said the fraudulent practices are not confined to just one sector, "it permeates almost every arena, be it banking or health".
The discrepancies were also found enveloping other facets of candidates.
For example, it was found that 21 percent of the candidates had inflated their previous designations, 44 percent had given an incorrect tenure and 21 percent had provided false employment information like incorrect company name, employment status and reasons for leaving.

Bonanza for car buyers as cos offer heavy discounts

NEW DELHI: The auto industry may soon be slumping into a lower gear, but it might spell good news for consumers in terms of lower prices and greater discounts from car makers. At a time when fuel prices have hit an all-time high and soaring, Indian auto dealers are a worried lot. They are caught in the dilemma of pushing their sales while at the same time bringing in features such as fuel efficiency, which could lure the consumers.
While all this has worried those in the business, it might get customers a deal of their lifetime. Companies, in their attempt to make up for the slowdown in the market, are offering discounts in the range of 10-15%. So those of you who were planning to wait till the festival season to go in for the big purchase, think again. Now is the time for you to get your dream car.
What’s more, auto companies are competing with each other to ensure impressive sales. Topping the list of discounts and freebies is Hyundai Sonata Embera that attracts a discount of Rs 1.24 lakh, followed by Toyota Corolla that come with a discount of Rs 85,000. Discount offers on Maruti Suzuki’s Zen Estilo sums up to about Rs 57,000 while Wagon R fetches a discount of Rs 50,000.
Market experts feel the customers can expect even more discounts as the auto companies are trying to make a recovery from last year’s slowdown. The companies are being forced to clear stocks and maintain the momentum going and are offering huge discounts.
The monsoon season is always a lean period but the steep hike in fuel prices could not have come at a worst time. Already, the market is flooded with discounts, especially in the high-volume compact car segment. Companies as well as dealers are busy dishing out further discounts to increase sales,” said a spokesman at Rana Motors, a Maruti Suzuki dealer in Delhi.
Though there has been growth in the market so far, the auto manufacturers have prepared themselves for a slump in the market. Despite the encouraging sales in the first two months of the fiscal, the industry experts are cautious. High interest rates, increasing fuel prices, spiralling inflation and restricted finance for vehicle purchases might make the coming months challenging for the industry.
“It is a difficult situation for us as we are under pressure from already rising input costs and high interest rates. The fuel price hike will definitely impact our sales and all the companies are trying to counter it by giving attractive discount offers. But in the long run, the customers will accept it and the sales should return to normal,” said Arvind Saxena, senior vice-president, marketing and sales, Hyundai Motors.
Fuel efficiency has also become an important issue these days and with soaring fuel prices, everyone wants to go in for a vehicle that can help them save some money. “There are promotional offers round the year, but the present situation has forced us to take stock of the situation seriously. Fuel efficiency is one area where we are working on. At a time when petrol and diesel prices are going up, it becomes an important issue for customers,” said Ankush Arora, vice-president, marketing and sales, General Motors India.
There has already been an increase in CNG-driven cars and the present oil crisis might lead to an increase in the sales of diesel-run cars. “We have a limited portfolio in alternate fuel-run cars but we have already seen an increased interest in CNG-run, diesel and alternate fuel-run cars. It has increased from approximately 28% in 2006 to 36% in 2007. We are expecting a higher increase this year,” added Saxena.
Car manufacturers recently increased prices by 4% citing high input costs as the reason. With these discounts, however, things look good for the customers as the price increase component has been balanced out by the discount. “The companies, however, are not offering heavy discounts on popular models. So while the prices of those models go up, other models fetch excellent discounts,” said a spokesman at Ring Road Honda, a Honda dealer in Delhi.
“The crude price hike is too recent to show its impact. We have various offers that are running but we can’t do anything more than that,” said a Tata Motors spokesperson. Most of the major manufacturers, however, have predicted a flat or very marginal sales growth this fiscal.

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Manmohan gave India its second freedom: Sibal

Toronto: India's Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal has called upon the expatriate community in Canada to help uplift 700 million Indians from their “uneven” world into “the flat world of the 400-million-strong Indian middle class.”
Speaking as chief guest at the 31st Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce annual dinner gala here Saturday night, Sibal pointed out that India got its political freedom in 1947. But it was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who gave India its second freedom when he, as finance minister, ushered in economic liberalisation in 1991, said Sibal, who is here with a trade delegation for bilateral talks.

Thanks to Singh's liberalisation, India was now a trillion-dollar economy, with its forex reserves crossing the $315-billion mark, Sibal said.

India was now growing at a rate of about 9 percent, creating a middle class which outnumbered the combined population of the US and Canada, he said amid applause from the 1,000-strong gathering.

Calling the Indian middle class "the six-lane highway," Sibal said: "That is India's great story."

However, he said: "There is another story lurking behind this highway, the uneven road of 700-million Indians who ride bicycles."

The challenge now, he added, was to concentrate on “this uneven road so that the world is flat” also for the remaining 700 million Indians. And the successful Indian community in Canada can help in the betterment of underprivileged Indians, he said.

Monte Solberg, Canadian minister for human resource and social development, said India was poised to become a technological and economic super power.

India was a vibrant democracy which shared a common history and values with Canada. For these reasons, he said, the emerging economic power was strategically important for his country.

The signing of the scientific and technological cooperation agreement in 2006 and the foreign investment protection and promotion agreement in 2007 showed the importance Canada attached to India, he said.

Solberg said India-Canada trade ties will get a further boost with Prime Minister Stephen Harper announcing two new trade offices in Hyderabad and Mumbai.

The minister said India-Canada relations are "firing on all cylinders" and the 900,000-strong Indian community was contributing immensely to strengthening these ties.

Ten Indo-Canadians and Canadians were also honoured at the gala for their achievements in their respective fields and contribution to promoting India-Canada relations.

Meet the sexiest woman in the world!


Now, we await Fox's effort in the late-2008 release How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, where she'll star alongside Jeff Bridges and Kirsten Dunst. She's also lined up for two Transformers sequels.
Apart from her increasing celebrity as an actress, Fox has become a Men's Magazine superstar. In 2007, she ran the gauntlet, posing for the March 2007 issue of FHM, the June 2007 issue of GQ, the July 2007 issue of Maxim, and the September 2007 issue of Arena. The provocative photo-shoots helped propel Ms Fox to the much-coveted World's Sexiest Woman award.
Last year, Fox became engaged to actor Brian Austin Green. And Fox's frankness regarding the intimate details of the couple's sex life has stirred up a storm of controversy. 'I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which I think is sad,' she said in a recent interview with FHM.
'I'm young and have a lot of hormones -- I'm always in the mood! I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind.'

Meet the sexiest woman in the world!


In 2004, Fox starred in Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen alongside Lindsay Lohan. And though, at the time, Lohan was the talk of tinsel-town, many couldn't help but ask: Who is this Megan Fox? And why isn't she a big star?
Then, in a typically American success story sort of way, she achieved her meteoric rise to fame. She auditioned and snagged the lead female role of Mikaela Banes in the much-hyped 2007 live-action film Transformers, a movie based on the toy and cartoon that had captivated America a generation earlier.
Her performance as the love interest of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) earned rave reviews, and suddenly the girl with the Tennessee twang was on the tip of everyone's tongue.

Meet the sexiest woman in the world!


In just a few years, Megan's ascended to the top of the pedestal, chosen by FHM's readers ahead of perennial hotties Jessica Alba, Keira Knightly and Scarlett Johansson.
But not long ago, she was just another an aspiring model-cum-actress, making her film debut in the 2001 film Holiday In The Sun, where she played the villain to Ashley Olsen's heroine.
The talented young hottie continued in supporting roles and guest appearances, earning rave reviews for her trade-mark bitchiness. She can count bit parts in Ocean Ave, What I Like About You, Two And A Half Men and The Help, roles that established her as a true up and comer.

Meet the sexiest woman in the world!


But Fox, star of 2007's hit movie Transformers, wasn't always the glamorous, beautiful belle she is today.
In fact, in an industry dominated by the uber-swanky Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive, Fox comes from a humble background. Born and raised in Tennessee, a state known more for Jack Daniels Whiskey and country music than cocktail dresses and red carpets, she was self-admittedly 'very poor.'
After moving to Los Angeles to pursue a modelling career, she was forced to wear 'pants all the time' because she 'didn't have enough money to buy disposable razors.'
Talk about a real-life act of transformation.

Meet the sexiest woman in the world!


She's sultry. She's alluring. She's the winner of FHM magazine's Sexiest Woman in the World 2008.
With soft, pouted lips, mesmerising eyes, high cheek-bones and a bodacious bod, Megan Fox has drawn numerous comparisons to Angelina Jolie. But Mrs Brad Pitt came in at number nine this year, and it's been three years since she brought home the crown (Angelina won FHM's Sexiest Woman 2005).
So, the message is clear: Move over Angelina, Hollywood has anointed a new big-screen bad girl.

Karnataka BJP MLA's wife found dead in Delhi


Karnataka BJP legislator Raghupathi Bhat's wife Padmapriya, 32, was found dead in an apartment New Delhi on Sunday. The wife of the MLA from Udupi had been missing since June 10.According to the police, her body was found hanging in room number 29 of Kshama Apartments in Dwarka Sector-6.
On the day she went missing, Padmapriya was supposed to go to her parents house in Mulki, a town near Udupi. She had called her parents, informing them that she would reach there by afternoon. She never turned up. However, no police complaint was lodged till Friday.Once the missing person complaint was lodged by Bhat, police found her car was found abandoned near a temple near Kunjalgiri, near Udupi. In the car police found bloodstains, Rs 8,000 in cash, broken bangles and a cell phone without a sim card.
A senior Karnataka police officer told rediff.com that they will be sending a team to New Delhi to ascertain whether it was a case of murder or suicide.
Reports had earlier suggested that she may have left the house due to strained relations with her husband. However, Bhat denied these and asserted that his relations with his wife were fine. "When I filed my election nomination form, my wife came with me and she also helped me during my campaign," he said.Another angle that was being attached to Padmapriya going missing was the role of Naxalites. However, state Home Minister V S Acharya had rejected this theory stating that there was no Naxal presence in and around Udupi district.Padmapriya's brother Rajshekhar, who is in New Delhi , suspects foul play behind her death even though he confirmed that her body had been found hanging. He alleged that a contractor from Udupi may have driven her to take the extreme step.The incident has sent shock waves across Karnataka and the state Women's Commission has initiated a suo motu case. Nirmala Venkatesh, chairperson of the commission, said they were deeply hurt and would like to probe into the matter.Meanwhile, Bhat is on his way to New Delhi along with Acharya to complete the formalities.

Afghanistan ready to take out Taliban on Pak soil

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday threatened to send his troops into Pakistan to target Taliban leaders, prompting Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to assert that Islamabad will not let anyone interfere in its internal affairs.
"Afghanistan has the right of self-defence. When they (militants) cross the territory from Pakistan to come and kill Afghans and to kill coalition troops, it exactly gives us the right to go back and do the same," Karzai told a media persons in Kabul.
In his toughest warning yet to Taliban fighters operating from Pakistan's tribal areas, Karzai warned that Afghan troops would target militant leaders in their homes and bases.
"(Pakistani Taliban supreme commander) Baitullah Mehsud should know that we will go after him now and hit him in his house. (Pakistani Taliban leader Maulana) Fazlullah should know the same, that we will go after him and hit him in his house and in his bases," Karzai said. "And the other fellow, Mullah Omar of Pakistan, should know the same," he said. Afghans will 'defeat (the Taliban leaders) and we will avenge all that they have done in Afghanistan in the past so many years,' Karzai said.
Reacting to Karzai's warning, Gilani said Pakistan is a sovereign country that will not let anyone interfere within its territorial limits. 'We will neither interfere in the internal affairs of any country, nor will we allow anyone to interfere in our affairs,' Gilani told ARY Oneworld news channel.
'Such statements will not help in the normalisation of friendly ties between the two countries and will hurt the sentiments of people on both sides of the border,' he said, adding that Pakistan wants good relations with all its neighbours, including Afghanistan.
Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said Pakistani troops alone have the responsibility to act against terrorists on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan.
Reacting to Karzai's statement, Sadiq said Pakistan has a 'clear position' on the issue of military action against terrorists.
'On the Afghan side of the border, the Afghan National Army, International Security Assistance Force and US Army could take whatever action they want against terrorists,' he said.
'On the Pakistani side of the border, it is the Pakistani troops who have the sole responsibility to take action.' Sadiq emphasised that 'any statement that negated this basic principle neither helped in the war on terrorism, nor promoted stability in the region'.
The Afghan government claims Taliban leader Mullah Omar is hiding in Pakistan's tribal areas and that Baitullah Mehsud's fighters help in launching cross-border attacks on coalition forces.
Mehsud, the chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan who is based in the restive Waziristan tribal region, is currently holding peace talks with the Pakistan government through tribal elders.
Karzai's comments came five days after an air and ground strike by US-led forces in Afghanistan killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary personnel in the tribal belt.
Meanwhile, Lashker-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said Karzai's 'threat to pursue the Taliban into Pakistani territory is in reality another American declaration of war against Pakistan'.
In a statement, Saeed, who now heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, said, 'American violation of Pakistan's territorial sanctity is an ingredient of its machinations and attempts to sabotage the peace agreement between the Pakistani government and the local tribal population, and an attack on Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity'.

ADAG thrashes RIL's claim as 'meaningless'

Amid the ongoing war between the Ambani siblings, younger brother Anil's camp on Sunday thrashed Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries [Get Quote] claim of rights of first refusal in former's Reliance Communication by quoting a decision of the Union Cabinet.
Asserting that Reliance Industries claim was not even incorporated in the Articles of the Association of Reliance Communications [Get Quote], the Anil Ambani group official said based on the legal opinion the Union Cabinet had taken the view that there could be no restriction on transfer of shares of a listed company.
A communication by RIL claiming its first right of refusal to buy a majority equity in RCom had triggered the latest round of fight in middle of Anil Ambani Group company's negotiation with South African telecom major MTN group for an estimated $70 billion amalgamation deal.
"The Union Cabinet of Ministers based on the opinion by Attorney General of India and various Supreme Court decisions had firmly taken the view that any restriction on free transfer of shares in an Indian public listed company even if present in its Articles of Association, are illegal and unenforceable, as per section 111 A of the Companies Act.
"On that basis, RIL's claim is meaningless," he said, adding, "RIL's position is even worse as its alleged right of first refusal is not even incorporated in RCOM's Articles of Association."
In its communication to MTN and RCOM, Reliance Industries had threatened legal action and damages in case its Rights of first refusal was violated, to which Anil's Camp had vowed to give a befitting reply.
Responding to claims by RIL that it was 'confusing' the Family Settlement between Ambani brothers and the pact between the two groups, an RCOM spokesperson said that "RIL's reference to an agreement dated January 12, 2006 is misleading as RCOM has written to RIL the very same day ...and rejected the unilateral procedure adopted for finalising such agreements as being illegal. The Bombay High Court has upheld this stand by a judgement delivered on October 15, 2007."
The spokesperson said that anyway there was no basis for RIL to jump the gun and threaten MTN with litigation and damages as the discussions between RCOM and the South African entity were still on.
"Till the framework for the potential combination is finalised, there is no basis for RIL to speculate that the alleged right of first refusal would be attracted to the proposed transaction," the spokesperson said.
The battle between the two richest Indians had flared up after RIL wrote to MTN and ADAG, copies of which were sent to the bankers, cautioning that the amalgamation deal through reverse swap would tantamount to breach of RIL's first right of refusal to acquire a controlling stake in RCOM. In a strongly-worded reply, Anil's group warned to retaliate in case Mukesh-led Reliance Industries goes legal with its claim on the potential multi-billion dollar amalgamation deal.