Daily Analysis of 'The Hindu' - 6th April, 2020 | Additional Study Material for UPSC PDF Download

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QUOTE OF THE DAY 
 
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QUOTE OF THE DAY 
 
MOCKERY OF JUSTICE 
?Ruling by the Sindh High Court: overturned the conviction of Omar Saeed 
Sheikh, and 3 others. 
?Reason: for lack of evidence 
?Systematic way the case has been diluted from the beginning. 
?Pearl, then South Asian Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, was abducted 
in Karachi in January 2002. 
?Many ransom demands later, a video was handed over on February 21, 2002, 
wherein Pearl was shown being methodically beheaded with a knife. 
?Americans began to squeeze Pakistan 
 
 
Daniel Pearl 
American journalist 
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QUOTE OF THE DAY 
 
MOCKERY OF JUSTICE 
?Ruling by the Sindh High Court: overturned the conviction of Omar Saeed 
Sheikh, and 3 others. 
?Reason: for lack of evidence 
?Systematic way the case has been diluted from the beginning. 
?Pearl, then South Asian Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, was abducted 
in Karachi in January 2002. 
?Many ransom demands later, a video was handed over on February 21, 2002, 
wherein Pearl was shown being methodically beheaded with a knife. 
?Americans began to squeeze Pakistan 
 
 
Daniel Pearl 
American journalist 
?Masood Azhar, Omar Sheikh, and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar had been released in 
exchange for hostages of Flight IC 814 in December 1999 into Taliban/ISI custody 
in Kandahar. 
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QUOTE OF THE DAY 
 
MOCKERY OF JUSTICE 
?Ruling by the Sindh High Court: overturned the conviction of Omar Saeed 
Sheikh, and 3 others. 
?Reason: for lack of evidence 
?Systematic way the case has been diluted from the beginning. 
?Pearl, then South Asian Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, was abducted 
in Karachi in January 2002. 
?Many ransom demands later, a video was handed over on February 21, 2002, 
wherein Pearl was shown being methodically beheaded with a knife. 
?Americans began to squeeze Pakistan 
 
 
Daniel Pearl 
American journalist 
?Masood Azhar, Omar Sheikh, and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar had been released in 
exchange for hostages of Flight IC 814 in December 1999 into Taliban/ISI custody 
in Kandahar. 
?Omar Sheikh ‘surrendered’ to Ijaz Shah, a former Intelligence Chief, then Home 
Secretary of Punjab; he is now the country’s Interior Minister. 
?Even more curiously, it was after many days that Sheikh’s arrest was shown. 
?The Sindh government has extended Sheikh’s detention and the provincial 
prosecutor has said that the High Court ruling will be appealed in the Supreme 
Court. 
?Once the pressure eases, Sheikh and his cohorts will be let off as has 
happened with others before them. 
?In 2015, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, who supervised the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, was 
released from detention, and remains free. 
?Pakistan needs to be persuaded to move beyond tokenism and demonstrate a 
much higher order of commitment to deal with such terrorists than it has 
hitherto shown. 
 
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QUOTE OF THE DAY 
 
MOCKERY OF JUSTICE 
?Ruling by the Sindh High Court: overturned the conviction of Omar Saeed 
Sheikh, and 3 others. 
?Reason: for lack of evidence 
?Systematic way the case has been diluted from the beginning. 
?Pearl, then South Asian Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, was abducted 
in Karachi in January 2002. 
?Many ransom demands later, a video was handed over on February 21, 2002, 
wherein Pearl was shown being methodically beheaded with a knife. 
?Americans began to squeeze Pakistan 
 
 
Daniel Pearl 
American journalist 
?Masood Azhar, Omar Sheikh, and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar had been released in 
exchange for hostages of Flight IC 814 in December 1999 into Taliban/ISI custody 
in Kandahar. 
?Omar Sheikh ‘surrendered’ to Ijaz Shah, a former Intelligence Chief, then Home 
Secretary of Punjab; he is now the country’s Interior Minister. 
?Even more curiously, it was after many days that Sheikh’s arrest was shown. 
?The Sindh government has extended Sheikh’s detention and the provincial 
prosecutor has said that the High Court ruling will be appealed in the Supreme 
Court. 
?Once the pressure eases, Sheikh and his cohorts will be let off as has 
happened with others before them. 
?In 2015, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, who supervised the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, was 
released from detention, and remains free. 
?Pakistan needs to be persuaded to move beyond tokenism and demonstrate a 
much higher order of commitment to deal with such terrorists than it has 
hitherto shown. 
 
ENEMY AT THE GATES 
?Kerala’s grievance over Karnataka sealing its border to prevent the spread of 
COVID-19. 
?Kerala High Court directed the Centre to ensure free vehicular movement for 
those requiring urgent medical treatment on the national highway that connects 
Kasaragod in Kerala to Mangaluru in Karnataka. 
?Kerala High Court: denying emergency medical aid amounts to a violation of the 
right to life and liberty 
?Supreme Court has directed the Centre to confer with the States and formulate 
the norms for creating a passage at Talapadi, the border.