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Khurana's charge against Advani

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"Embarrassing" evidence regarding senior BJP leaders led to decision

NEW DELHI: The former Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Madan Lal Khurana, has alleged that the white paper on the activities of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in India, promised by L.K. Advani, the Home Minister between 1998 and 2004, was not published because some "inconvenient names" that would have embarrassed the party came up.

Information from bureaucrats

At a press conference here on Saturday, Mr. Khurana said that he made this allegation on the basis of information collected from bureaucrats who were given the task of putting together the white paper.

Mr. Advani, when in the Opposition, had demanded a white paper on the activities of the ISI and had promised to publish it after he became Home Minister.

Later, he said that security considerations had prevented the Ministry from publishing such a white paper.

`Dawood links'

Mr. Khurana alleged that the real reason why Mr. Advani dropped the idea was that some embarrassing evidence had come up of links between a businessman of the Capital and the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and links between that businessman and some senior BJP leaders.

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