India's top investigating agency had accused Mr Kumar of inciting crowds to kill Sikhs in Delhi's Cantonment area.

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The commander of the Ikeja cantonment, Brigadier-General George Emdin, had earlier appeared on state television to reject rumours that the explosions were the beginnings of a coup.

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Further, Varanasi was a British protectorate with a British Cantonment.

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Khan's paternal grandfather, Khan Faizullah Khan, was a contractor, and the British used him to build roads and the cantonment areas in the district of Dera Ismail Khan and in present-day Waziristan.

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Now, earlier in the war, a U.S. commander on the ground reached a temporary cease-fire with the MEK which he justified on the grounds that it enabled our forces to contain the MEK forces in cantonment areas, while not having to fight against them or to actively disarm them.

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