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NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 1: Attempts are being made at national and international level to create an impression that the entire population in J&K belongs to the one and the same ethnic stock or that all the people in the state are ethnically Kashmiris. The objective of those who have unleashed this campaign is to mislead the international community and make it believe that the people of the state are one as far as their needs, compulsions and aspirations are concerned and that all of them want political emancipation from the “Indian occupied forces.” One of the persons of Kashmir origin who have been presenting the demographic profile in the state is Gulam Nabi Fai.
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| | | | 800-year-old Sharda Devi idol surfaces in Handwara | | Muslims preserved the antique, passed it on to Pandits through Magistrate | | |
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Jan 01: One of the Kashmiri Pandits’ most revered deity Sharda Devi’s over 800-year-old idol has surfaced during excavation at a Muslim’s house at Gonipora, near Handwara, in north Kashmir. It has been temporarily preserved at a Shankar temple in Handwara after Muslims passed it on to representatives of the minority community through an executive magistrate.
Forty-five days ago, it was exactly on the day of Eid-ul-azha that an antique idol surfaced during an excavation in the premises of one Ghulam Qadir Khuroo at Gonipora, 2 miles from Handwara, in Kupwara district. Members of the majority community lost no time in establishing contact with President... | |
| | | | Intrusion bid foiled on LoC, Pak violates ceasefire | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 01:
India last night foiled an infiltration bid by militants on the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote area of Mendhar in Poonch amid ceasefire violation by Pak.
Official sources said movement of five to six militants was picked up by alert border troops at about 8.45 pm Friday in Kangan nullah area of Balakote.
While the troops laid ambushes, they came under heavy fire from the Pak forward posts. Fire was returned.
Sources said the unprovoked Pak fire was aimed at facilitating infiltration by the militants.Alert troops, however, laid multiple ambushes to foil any intrusion
attempt by the militants, the sources added.The intermittent exchange of fire be... | |
| | | | Cop fires in air after patwari did not let him sit in autorickshaw | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 01:
A cop today got angry and allegedly opened fire in the air at the Gujjar Nagar police naka after a patwari did not allow him to share seat with him in an autoricksha he had hired.
The cop, whom police sources identified as Shariqul Islam of IRP 11 Bn, was deployed at the Gujjar Nagar police naka on the Tawi bridge.He signalled an autoricksha in which patwari Parvez Ahmad was travelling. He had hired the autoricksha and was on way to deputy commissioner's office in tehsil complex where he was posted.Sources said when the autoricksha stopped at the naka, the cop expressed desire to share seat with the patwari.
However, when the patwari refused to let hi... | |
| | | | Two TA jawans killed in encounter at Gool | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 01:
Two jawans of 163 Bn of territorial army (TA) were today killed in an encounter with militants in Kharawa forests near Bhimdasa in Goolarea of Ramban.
Police sources said an encounter took place between militants and a joint column of police and 58 Rashtriya Rifles in Kharawa forests.Two jawans of 163 TA Bn were killed in the gunbattle, the sources added.
The dead were identified as Mohammad Sharief and Mohammad Khalil. The militants later fled the spot unhurt.Sources said a massive hunt was on in the area for the escaped militants.
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| | | | Kashmir college lecturer pleads innocence | | ‘Seditious question paper’ | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 1: College lecturer Noor Mohammed Bhat who was arrested on the charges of setting a seditious graduate-level English paper has pleaded innocence immediately after his release from the jail.
He has stated that he had set the paper keeping in view syllabus covered during the year. A lecturer of Gandhi Memorial College Noor Mohammad Bhat was released on bail after 20 days. He said that the graduate-level English paper he was arrested for was “student-friendly” and that he had no malafide motives.
“I suffered because I had set student friendly paper since students had only been taught ten percent of the syllabus. Let me make it clear that neither I nor my f... | |
| | | | Kamal makes it personal, attacks soz, Congress | | | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 1: NC MLA, Chief Minister’s uncle and former Cabinet Minister Mustafa Kamal has done it again. He has attacked JKPCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz and he has ridiculed the Congress with whose support NC is ruling the state.
His attack on the JKPCC chief is personal and his is a calibrated attack on the Congress party. Paradoxically, he also heads Ethics Committee of the J&K Assembly. It is not for the first time that he has violated the cardinal principles of coalition dharma and painted Soz and Congress black, unscrupulous, unprincipled and treacherous.
He has been abusing and ridiculing JKPCC chief and the Congress since the installat... | |
| | | | If Govt allows BJP’s Lal Chowk Chalo programme? | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 1: The separatists called for as many as fifty Chalo programmes last year. Every time, the government imposed curfews and restrictions to foil the programmes. The authorities resorted to unprecedented security arrangements whenever the separatists urged the people to reach Lal Chowk. Besides imposing curfew in the summer capital, the authorities would seal all routes leading to Lal Chowk. Barbed wire and steel sheets would be freely used to keep people off the historic place. Now, the BJP and its Yuva Morcha intend to conclude their Bharat Yatra at Lal Chowk on Republic day. Can the government allow it?
Lal Chowk undoubtedly is a historic place. This ... | |
| | | | BSF lodges protest with Rangers over ceasefire violation | | | | JAMMU: BSF today lodged a strong protest with the Pak Rangers over the ceasefire violation on the International Border (IB) in Samba sector near here. "We lodged a strong protest with the Rangers at a commandant-level flag meeting at Ramgarh outpost in Samba over the ceasefire violation, firing and rocket attacks on Ballard outpost on IB," BSF sources said.
In the meeting, 59 Bn commandant OP Upadhaya represented BSF while the Pak side was led by wing commander Raja Syed. The meeting lasted for over half an hour.
Sources said the Rangers, however, denied any knowledge about the firing and ceasefire violation and said that they would monitor such activities on their side of the bor... | |
| | | | 2 killed, 32 hurt in road mishaps | | | | JAMMU: Two persons, including an army jawan, were killed and 32 others wounded, some of them critically, in separate road mishaps here since last night.
An army jawan lost his life and another injured seriously after an unknown vehicle hit them on the national highway near Chopra shop in Udhampur last night, police sources said.
The incident occured at about 8.45 pm when the jawans were walking by the roadside, the sources added. The dead was identified as Naik E V Vainkai Raman of Andhra Pradesh and the injured as Naik Naveen Kumar, also a resident of Andhra Pradesh.
Naveen was admitted to command hospital, Udhampur, and his condition was stated to be out of danger. In another in... | |
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