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| Mufti: Self rule is way forward | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 20
After getting some consolation on demilitarization, the Peoples Democratic Party has now come afresh with the self rule campaign which has been lying cold since last year.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a public meeting at Marh today, the PDP patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said that his party will continue to campaign for self rule proposal as a lasting solution to the Kashmir issue. He said while demanding more powers from the center, the party is carefully devising a strategy to empower the people at the ground levels with districts as units of administration.
Earlier addressing the public meeting, Mufti said tha... | |
| | | | On Airtel, be careful with your words | | Probe into encrypting technology after tapping complaints | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 20
When you are talking over telephone you are always talking in the air, there may be many number of persons hearing you –says a statement of wisdom. But in Jammu and Kashmir using an Airtel connection, one needs to be little extra-cautious.
Therefore, next time you make a phone call from an Airtel connection be doubly sure about the unauthorized intermediate listener of your conversation.
Following allegations and written complaints from some army officers working in Jammu and Kashmir that their conversations were being put to tapping, the department of Telecommunication has asked its Vigilance wing to check the encrypting technology being used by A... | |
| | | | Pak. investigators quiz teenager over Bhutto killing | | | | Islamabad | Jan 20
Pakistani investigators are questioning a teenager who confessed he was "next in line" to kill former premier Benazir Bhutto if other militants involved in her assassination last month had failed.
Aitzaz Shah, 15, who was arrested with another militant named Sher Zaman in Dera Ismail Khan town in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on Thursday, has told investigators he was trained as a suicide-bomber and was part of a five-man squad sent by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan commander, Baitullah Mehsud, to kill Bhutto.
Security personnel also raided Shah's home in Battal area of Mansehra district of NWFP Sunday morning, officials said.
This were the first arrests made in the... | |
| | | | Traffic resumes on J&K Highway | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Jan 20
The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, which was blocked for four days following landslides, was opened on Sunday for normal traffic.
The 300-km highway, the only road link between the Kashmir and the rest of the country was cleared of the landslides, which occurred due to snowfall and incessant rains, at Panthal and accumulated snow around Jawahar tunnel on Saturday, official sources said.
Though the arterial road was thrown open for traffic on Saturday after the Border Roads Organization (BRO) cleared the blockade, preference was given to vehicles which remained stranded at various places after the closure of the road on Wednesday.
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| | | | Encounter: The villain and victim | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 20
If Sabina is the most infamous name in Srinagar sex scandal, Yasmeena –who fell prey to many a big wigs' lust –is the most victimized character of this whole sleaze ring. Perhaps it was the poverty and ignorance of her parents which led this young girl into an unending nightmare.
Yasmeena's becomes from a poor family in the downtown Srinagar. Her father Mohammad Ameen Khan and mother Rafiqa Khan do not have a house of their own. They wound take rented accommodation on the locality and change that quite often under the prevailing circumstances. The ugly face of Srinagar sex scandal, Sabina happens to be a distant relative of theirs.
The ill fates sto... | |
| | | | Dismal record of five years of coalition government, concerning Jammu region | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Jan 20
With more than five years of the six year term of the present assembly and the coalition government completed and hardly nine months left for the next assembly elections, the report card of the coalition government presents a dismal picture, as far its declared agenda concerning Jammu region is concerned. None of the points concerning Jammu, incorporated in the Common Minimum Program of the coalition government, which forms the bedrock of joining hands by forces having divergent agendas, has been implemented.
The worst part of disappointment about the non fulfillment of any of the aspirations and urges of the people of Jammu region, is th... | |
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