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Issue of accession: 18 questions for CM Omar Abdullah 10/10/2010 10:58:18 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 10: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who has miserable failed as an administrator and brought the state to such a sorry pass, has generated heat in the state and the rest of the country by raking up the settled issue of accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India. He has reportedly alarmed the Prime Minister and the Home Minister and he has put the Congress party on the mat and created an awkward situation for it. He has given a handle to his opponents and integrationists to beat him from right and left and question his credentials. So much so, they have dubbed him as "anti-national" and demanded his dismissal and arrest. He has sought to divert the people's attentions away from the real issues facing them by taking recourse to falsehood and politics of emotional blackmail and deceit. The Chief Minister, who has lost his way and become thoroughly unpopular because of his own acts of omission and commission, inefficiency, recklessness and failure on each and every front, has sought to convey an impression in the restive Kashmir Valley that the political statu...   READ MORE

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Centrally Sponsored Schemes go missing J&K violates Supreme Court orders seeking implementation 10/10/2010 10:57:47 PM SYED JUNAID HASHMI EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 10: Supreme Court has ridiculed Jammu and Kashmir government for not implementing orders passed by it for implementing the schemes which either make food directly accessible to the people or provide them means to acquire the same. The country's highest court has said that Jammu and Kashmir government has violated respective Supreme Court orders. Commissioners of Supreme Court have in their report "Hunger in Valley", vehemently raised serious questions over the claims of administrative efficiency and political vibrancy. The report is an assessment of the success and failure of the government in the implementation of food and livelihood sch...   READ MORE   Keeping a secret in Kashmir? If New Delhi knows Kashmir, Islamabad is not ignorant? 10/10/2010 10:56:51 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Oct 10: People across the globe guard their secrets and even succeed. But in contemporary Kashmir holding a secret is simply impossible. There are state actors and no-state actors in the field. All of them have connections and sources in NGOs, political parties and elsewhere. And with such a massive network operating in the strife torn Valley, everybody loses his secrets. A prominent person (a local news agency says Prithvi Raj Chauan) visited Hurriyat chairman, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq in recent past. Following the precedents, Mirwaiz did not disclose it and people, by and large remained unaware of the `important' development. But then happened the inevitable. A Pak...   READ MORE   NC-PDP two sides of one and the same coin, seeking to break India 10/10/2010 10:56:33 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 10: It is obvious that that a return to the pre-1953 constitutional position will grievously harm the legitimate political and democratic rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, enslave them once again and lead to the disintegration of India, bloodshed and displacement of population. Thus, the People's Democratic Party, which has become symbol of such divisive and unsettling slogans as "healing touch", "peace with dignity", "self-rule", "economic independence", "joint-management", "demilitarization", "withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act", "soft borders", "shared sovereignty" and "irrelevant Line of Control, and the National Conference, wh...   READ MORE   A case of legal "infiltration": Youth go to Pak on regular visa, return after militant training 10/10/2010 10:56:22 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Oct 10: A new issue of legal "infiltration" has started bothering security forces in the militancy-torn Jammu and Kashmir. As reports emerge, youth are visiting Pakistan on regular visas which are extended to facilitate their basic training in handling explosives and weapons. The matter came to the fore when police apprehended a youth from Budgam who had ostensibly gone across the border to meet relatives and later extended the visa by another two weeks during which he underwent the "daura-e-aam" (basic) training course of Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit. During interrogation, the youth, whose identity was kept a secret, told police that there were oth...   READ MORE   Salahuddin visits border to encourage ultras to infiltrate 10/10/2010 10:56:05 PM ET DESK NEW DELHI, Oct 10: Hizbul Mujahideen chief, Syed Salahuddin has visited terrorist training camps along the Line of Control (LoC) with Pak army and ISI officials in a bid to encourage militants to infiltrate before the onset of winter and step up violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Salahuddin's recent movement has caused concern in the government as renewed attempts are being made from across the border to make up for the "lull" in terrorism after 2009 by pushing militants across the border before the onset of winter, an official said. Government officials said Pakistan continued to pursue the strategy of pushing infiltrators and triggering violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Infiltr...   READ MORE   Who is not a separatist in Kashmir? 10/10/2010 10:55:45 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, Oct 10: This is now a million dollar question to answer that who is not separatist in Kashmir..........after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made his historic speech on the floor of assembly on October 6 . The points ,he (CM) justified on the floor of the state assembly were no different from what Syed Ali Shah Gillani and other separatist leaders have been raising for decades. In his speech, Omar clarified that calling Jammu and Kashmir state as an integral part of India commonly known as (Atoot Ang) was not correct as per the accession agreement . He also declared "Kashmir" as an international dispute which was the long pending demand of hard line Hurriyat lead...   READ MORE   Exfiltrator killed on IB at Regal 10/10/2010 10:55:24 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 10: An exfiltrator was killed by a BSF ambush party near the barbed wire fencing on the International Border (IB) in Regal area here Saturday night. A BSF spokesman said an ambush party observed a man moving under suspicious circumstances near the border flood light pole at Regal at about 12.05 am. Though he was asked to stop for checking, he ignored the repeated warnings and tried to breach the fencing, he added.The jawans then fired at him, killing him on the spot. Nothing incriminating was recovered from him. The spokesman said when the jawans fired at the exfiltrator, they were fired upon by the Pak Rangers from across the IB. Fire was effectively retur...   READ MORE   PoK national held near LoC 10/10/2010 10:55:01 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 10: A Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) national was today apprehended by troops of 13 Dogra regiment from the Balakote sub-sector of Poonch.He was identified as Inayat Hussain (41), son of Faiz Mohammad. He hails from Sajuni near Kamroti in Ramtullah Gali area of PoK, according to army sources. Sources said when the troops apprehended him at about 1 pm, he had come about 3 km inside the Indian territory.His search led troops to the recovery of a without stamp identity card of PoK's agricultural department, an empty wallet, one tobacco packet, one cigarette lighter and one rosary.His sustained questioning was on. "He may have come to this side of the Line of ...   READ MORE   Over 65 lakh voters to get ID cards in J-K 10/10/2010 10:54:41 PM AGENCIES SRINAGAR, Oct 10: In the run-up to the Panchayat elections scheduled to be held in December this year, Electoral Photo-Identity Cards (EPIC) have been issued to nearly 63 per cent of over 65 lakh eligible voters in Jammu and Kashmir so far, official sources said here today. Nearly 41 lakh registered voters out of the total 65.31 lakh have been issued EPICs so far, the sources said. "Efforts are on to issue the EPICs to as many voters as possible before the Panchayat elections and Municipal polls are held in the state," they said. State Panchayati Raj Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that elections to the Panchayats will be held in the month of December this year. The state...   READ MORE

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