SRINAGAR, Jan. 18 -- EARLY TIMES REPORT

Former finance minster Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Saturday challenged senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to prove his allegations against him or otherwise resign from his present position in Parliament on moral grounds.

Reacting to media reports wherein Azad has been quoted saying that some Congress leaders were being threatened to join "Third Front" or otherwise they well get implicated in some false cases, Bukhari said that it is very unfortunate that a leader like Azad is playing cheap politics.

"Let me put it on record that I hold Azad Saheb in high esteem but it is very unfortunate that he has leveled baseless allegations against me and my colleagues stooping so low for doing petty po...