India, UAE for pact on law enforcement

DUBAI, JULY 3.India and the United Arab Emirates today called for better coordination between the law enforcement agencies of the two countries to contain transnational crime. The Union Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani, and the UAE Defence Minister and Dubai's Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al Maktoum, during their meeting here, agreed that there was an urgent need to contain transnational crime, which could be achieved by better coordination between the law enforcement agencies of the two countries.

Mr. Advani stressed the need for operationalising the three agreements - extradition, mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and in civil matters - reached between the two countries. He extended an invitation to the Crown Prince to visit India.

Meets Sindhis

Later, while speaking at a reception hosted by the Sindhi community here, Mr. L. K. Advani ruled out any reservation for the Sindhi community in Parliament as has been demanded, saying the concept of reservation was outdated.

The Sindhis demanded that the Indian passport holders living abroad for more than five years be given voting right and plitical system in India should be reformed to introduce political funding.

On Singhvi report

Speaking at a meeting of 27 Indian associations at the Indian Consulate here on Monday, Mr. L. K. Advani has said the NDA Government would do its best to implement the recommendations of the L. M. Singhvi report on NRI Diaspora.

``We are awaiting the report of the Singhvi committee and the present government will do its best to implement the recommendations of the report,'' Mr. Advani said.

The Singhvi committee was constituted to study and report on the problems the overseas Indians faced in the Gulf and elsewhere. Various NRI organisations had submitted representations to the panel when it visited the UAE a few months ago.

- PTI

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