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Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday warned Pakistan to halt the increase in infiltration across the border, saying not doing so would invite a telling response from Indian security forces.

Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah told Home Minister P. Chidambaram to reconsider the continuation of the ban on pre-paid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir when Chidambaram concluded his day-long visit to the state on Wednesday night, officials said.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that the Government has made it clear that it does not view the confrontation with the Naxalites as a war against the Naxalites.

With the electorate in Jharkhand having defied the CPI(Maoist)'s poll boycott call to clock an impressive 58% overall turnout in thefive-phase election, Union home minister P Chidambaram on Monday took time out to congratulate the state’s voters for their “stinging rejection” of Naxalites ’ diktat to stay indoors.

It was a high drama during Home Minister P Chidambaram's press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday when a journalist threw a sport shoe (size 8) at the minister.Chidambaram was addressing journalists at the Congress headquarters on terror and the party's policies to deal with them, when the incident occurred.

Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday that no Cabinet minister was a supporter of Naxal violence, apparently dismissing charges that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was sympathising with Maoists.

A Sikh journalist, Jarnail Singh, on Tuesday flung a shoe at Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in protest against the Congress partys decision to field Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case for the Lok Sabha elections.

Calling for a radical restructuring of India's security architecture, home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday proposed the setting up of a National Counter Terrorism Centre.

Admitting that in dealing with the Maoist threat, we had been in a state of denial, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here on Tuesday that the Centre did not accept the theory of an armed struggle, and that unless the left ultras abjured violence, the paramilitary forces will engage them and reassert the authority of the State.