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| Prof Gani’s ‘truth’ stirs hornets’ nest in separatist camp | | Guerrilla groups call him “Indian agent”; Geelani camp tightlipped | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Jan 3: Hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, his political alma mater Jamaat-e-Islami, his seven-year-old Tehreek-e-Hurriyat as well as his faction of the Hurriyat Conference today did not react to the senior separatist leader Prof Abdul Gani Bhat’s admission that most of the Kashmiri intellectuals and politicians had been eliminated by none other than Kashmiri militants. A number of radical guerrilla groups, however, dismissed Bhat as an “Indian agent” and charged him with committing “sabotage of the freedom movement”.
Local news agency, KNS, reported that someone who identified himself as Samee-ul-Haq and claimed that he was the spokesman of an alliance of three... | |
| | | | Cong, NC high command’s fresh directive to leaders: | | Let coalition run ‘smoothly’, follow ‘dharma’ in full spirit | | | Early Times Report
Jammu: Even as the NC led coalition government is running smoothly in the state, both NC High Command and Congress High Command are said to be getting wary of the statements and comments of leaders of the both the parties which is creating wedge at various levels. In order to prevent further widening of the gap both the parties are convening separate meetings where the matters would be discussed threadbare besides meetings with individual leaders whose comments have caused tension in the ties.
Sources said the NC High Command is convening a meeting soon in which only senior leaders from both the regions would be called with whom it intends to discuss the imperatives of... | |
| | | | New degree colleges still lack infrastructural facilities | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu Jan 3: Though coming into being, over three years back the degree colleges in the state setup by previous coalition government still lacks the basic infrastructural facilities resulting in lot of hardships to the students. According to Sources many newly set up degree colleges are still functioning in higher secondary schools and they lack laboratories, libraries and other basic facilities. Sources said some of the colleges even have the shortage of teaching as well as non-teaching staff and despite the tall claims of government authorities have till date failed to solve these problems. Sources said setting up of new degree colleges in remote area and rural belts... | |
| | | | Calling non-Kashmiris Kashmiris an insult to non-Kashmiris | | MINCING NO WORDS -- III | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 3: Apart from Dogras and the Mangolite Ladakhis, who are racially, culturally, religiously and politically different from Kashmiris, the state is also inhibited by a number of other communities as, for example, Gujjar and Bakerwals and Paharis. Gujjars and Bakerwals are all Sunni Muslims. They are nomads and they constitute the third largest social group in the state after the Dogras and Kashmiris. They, like the Dogras and the Mangolite Ladakhis, do not have anything common with the Kashmiris. In fact, only recently, Syed Ali Shah Geelani had dismissed them as non-Muslims. These Gujjars and bakerwals inhabit the mountainous areas of Jammu province and K... | |
| | | | Pistol, ammunition recovered from Keri woods | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMu, Jan 03:
Security forces today recovered arms and ammunition from a tree truck hole in Keri forests of Reasi.Official sources said the recovery was made on a tip-off by a joint
column of police and territorial army from a tree trunk hole in Keri forests in the morning.Apart from a pistol, its magazine and seven rounds, 121 AK rounds,
one binocular and some war-like material were recovered, the sources added.
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| | | | APHC leader's statement proves our point: Khoda | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 03:
DGP Kuldeep Khoda today said APHC leader Abdul Ghani Bhat's admission that militants and not Indian security forces were to blame for the murders of top separatist leaders supports police stand on these killings.
"Bhat has said what we have been saying all along," he told media while commenting on the remarks of the former APHC chief.Bhat told a seminar in Srinagar Sunday that the assassinations of Mirwaiz Moulvi Mohammad Farooq, father of moderate Hurriyat chief
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and Peoples Conference chairman Abdul Ghani Lone were caused by militant rivalry and that the security forces had no hand in them.
The statement stunned the audience, a... | |
| | | | Leh remains coldest at minus 23 deg C, cold wave intensifies | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Jan 3:
The intense cold wave condition in Kashmir division, including Ladakh region, aggravated further today with Leh recording a minimum temperature of minus 23 degrees Celsius for the second consecutive night, officials said here.
The temperature in Leh town in Ladakh region was recorded at minus 23 degrees Celsius, a day after the city experienced the coldest night of the season at minus 23.6 degrees Celsius, a MeT department official said.
Kargil town also witnessed extremely cold night with a minimum temperature of minus 18.2 degrees Celsius. The cold wave has also intensified in Gulmarg skiing resort in north
Kashmir and Pahalgam health resort in sou... | |
| | | | Will AFSPA repeal make any difference? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 3: What will happen if government of India repeals or amends some provisions of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as demanded by separatist and some mainstream parties? Will it make any difference?
AFSPA is a special legislation. It has been framed to give special powers to the armed forces fighting insurgency in various states. Its section 6 has attracted attention of the human rights defenders, politicians and even social workers because it confers impunity from prosecution.
Surprisingly Section 40 and Section 197 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) provide similar impunity against arrest and prosecution of the public servants including pers... | |
| | | | Come out of security idiom, Mehbooba tells GOI | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 3: PDP President Mehbooba Mufti has said by ruling out reduction of troops and revocation of AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir, Government of India was compromising the fundamentals of the country's standing as a democratic nation.
Reacting sharply to the reported statement of Home Minister P Chidambaram ruling out reduction of forces in the state, she said this stance was against the democratic ethos and constitutional mechanisms of India. "By repeatedly emphasizing the need for retention of draconian laws and continued deployment of security forces to administer civilian areas, GoI seemed to be conveying a message that the state is part of the country onl... | |
| | | | Day-long gunfight with 5 ultras who Saturday killed 2 TA men at Gool | | ** Army helicopter drops commandos in vicinity of militants' hideout to hunt them down | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 03:
Braving inclement weather, security forces today trapped the five Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, including outfit's commander Abu Moosa, in the densely forested and snow-covered mountains of Kharawa, 5 km east of Bhimdasa near Gool in Ramban, and engaged them in a gunbattle.
Moosa and his four accomplices had Saturday killed 163 TA Bn jawans -- Mohammad Sharief and Mohammad Khalil -- in the Kharawa forests where they had gone on a specific information about the presence of militants.
Police sources said acting on a tip-off that the five militants were perched in a hideout in the Kharawa woods, a joint column of police and 58 Rashtriya Rifles... | |
| | | | Killed TA jawans buried | | | | Early Times Report
KATRA, Jan 03:
TA jawans -- Mohammad Sharief and Mohammad Khalil -- who were Saturday killed by militants in the Khrawa forests of Gool, Ramban, were today buried at their respective villages.While Sharief hailed from Baldanu in Arnas, Reasi, Khalil was
resident of Nera, Ramban.
Police sources said their bodies were brought down the hills today and then sent in vehicles their homes.The bodies were later buried by their families with full military
honours.
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