UP minister offers reward

Published February 19, 2006

NEW DELHI, Feb 18: In India, newspapers made front page news of an 11.5 million dollar bounty offered by Mohammed Yaqoob Qureshi, a minister in the northern Uttar Pradesh state government, for anyone who decapitated one of the cartoonists.

The government of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, one with a large Muslim community, said the minister’s statements were “his personal wish” and did not violate government rules.—AFP

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