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| Name PDP ministers not supporting you Mr. Azad | | | |
Jammu, October 17: In a veiled attack on PDP ministers, former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig on Tuesday asked Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to name PDP ministers not extending him support in governing the state.
Reacting to the statement of Chief Minister that PDP was not supporting Congress in governing the state,PDP leader dared Azad to name all those PDP ministers and also inform Mufti Mohd Sayeed about the same.
He said when he was deputy Chief Minister PDP Patron Mufti Mohd Sayeed had asked him to extend full cooperation to Chief Minister.On the question of stablity of coalition government and their future realtionship, Baig said, i wish it to continue and believe it do so.He said, since we are running a coalition government and it becomes important for all the ministers to work in tandem and extend full cooperation to each other. We must cooperate and extend our full support,he said.... | |
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| If Guru is hanged militancy would peak: Baig | | | |
Jammu,October 17 : Joining chorus with National Conference Patron Dr Farooq Abdullah, PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig said on Tuesday if Mohd Afzal Guru is hanged militancy in Kashmir valley would go up.
Talking to reporters after attending special session with intellectuals drawn fron various streams on self-rule here in Jammu, Baig said issue of Mohd Afzal Gurus hanging has been made a political issue and everyone opposing hanging has joined hands.
He said the mood in the Kashmir valley is against hanging Afzal Guru.If he is hanged situation will go out of hands as more youth will join ranks of militants after Pakistani sympathisers would emot... | |
| | | | Make Kasheer Channel more local oriented: CM to Prasar Bharti | | Azad for improvement in DD coverage, production of programmes | | | Srinagar, October 17 - Stressing the need for extending Doordarshan coverage in the state and increasing its viewership percentage by launching network of low power (LPT) and high power transmission stations (HPT) and producing high quality popular programmes, Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad said that steps need to be taken to bring 100 percent viewership under the ambit of Doordarshan.
Addressing a high level officers of Prasar Bharti at a meeting here Tuesday, Chief Minister said that keeping in view the topography and hilly terrains a well knit transmission systems need to be installed throughout the state to ensure coverage at sub-division, tehsil, block, Niabat and village... | |
| | | | J&K peace process under threat | | LeT supremo for 'total liberation' of Kashmiri people | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 17: In a significant turn of events, taped messages from the chief of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, have, under utmost secrecy, reached several pockets on this side of the Indo-Pakistan border. The LeT supremo's messages are loaded with anti-India accent.
The Lashkar-e-Toiba, which, according to the government of India, has pockets of influence in a number of areas in Jammu and Kashmir, has established, beyond doubt, that it can neither be ignored nor marginalised. Pakistan government has, under the pressure from the international community, particularly the USA, imposed restrictions on militant Islamist outfits in recent time... | |
| | | | BJP leadership is in a fix | | Rajasthan CM triggers new controversy | | | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, OCT. 17: Chief Minister of the BJP-ruled Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje, has walked her way into a new controversy once again. She walked down the ramp at a fashion show in Bangalore, which has got the Congress up in arms.
Vasundhara Raje, after sensing dissatisfaction of her politcal adversaries, commented: "I am not fashion conscious as such. But I believe that it is going to give people that opportunity and therefore fashion for development is to be cheered". Raje might have had her reasons to sashay down the ramp at an event showcasing men's fashion in Bangalore but she had no idea what a storm she was going to kick up back home.
An ambassa... | |
| | | | Spell of silence and sleep not to be misconstrued as marginalization of APHC: Prof. Bhat | | | | Srinagar,October 17 :-What exactly the APHC leaders are doing at present ?”We are watching waves in the ocean of politics.We are trying to capture the waves and we do not know whether we can do it or the waves will swallow us,”was the cryptic answer from a senior APHC leader,Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat,in reply to a question.
He told Kashmir Independent Press on Tuesday “it is for the Government of India to resume the dialogue with us.I know there can be no escape from holding talks with us on the sidelines of the India-Pakistan dialogue.”
In reply to another question Prof. Bhat said “yes more than four months have elapsed when we had a meeting with Prime Minister,Dr Manmohan Singh.But the... | |
| | | | Stiff-necked approach of the Congress may allow PDP to draw political mileage. | | | |
Srinagar,October 17 :- Unwittingly the state unit of the Congress is allowing its coalition partner,the PDP,to draw political mileage from the former’s stiff-necked approach towards the latter.
The ministers,belonging to the Congress,forced a situation,during the Monday’s cabinet meeting, in which the Government had to defer its announcement regarding the release of another instalment of DA to the employees for which the Finance Minister,Mr Tariq Hamid Qarra, had made a commitment a few days ago.
The Congress ministers objected to Mr Qarra’s statement regarding the release of another instalment of DA on the plea that only the cabinet was entitled and empowered to take a decision on... | |
| | | | Pak court orders release of LeT founder | | | |
Islamabad, Oct 17 A Pakistani court today ordered the release of Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, ignorng the government's argument that his "increasing activities" could hurt relations with "neighbouring" countries.
In his order, Lahore High Court Judge Justice Akhter Shabbir asked the government to immediately release Saeed, who was detained on August 28, saying his detention was against the constitution and law.
According to Saeed's Attorney Nazeer Ahmad Ghazi, the judge held the arrest order and the reasons given by the government as "unlawful" and ordered his immediate release. A detailed judgement was expected later.
The arrest of the head of the self-proclai... | |
| | | | Back channel talks on to resolve Kashmir issue: Kasuri | | | |
Islamabad, Oct 17 India and Pakistan are discussing through back channel "something different" to resolve the Kashmir issue besides their formal standpoints on the dispute, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said.
Back channel talks aimed at hammering out a solution to the Kashmir issue that is acceptable to all parties are taking place, he told the media during an Iftar dinner here last night.
He was asked about the chances of the settlement of the Kashmir issue in the light of India's stand that borders cannot be changed and Pakistan's stand that LoC is not acceptable.
"Besides formal standpoints of the two countries on Kashmir, something diff... | |
| | | | Indo-Pak Foreign Secy level talks to resume on Nov 13 | | | |
New Delhi, Oct 17 The Indo-Pak composite dialogue will resume on November 13 when the Foreign Secretaries of the two countries meet here to consider a wide range of issues, including giving shape to the joint anti-terror mechanism through which India will offer evidence of Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai blasts.
Shivshankar Menon, who took over as Foreign Secretary on October one after serving as High Commissioner in Islamabad, will have discussions with his Pakistani counterpart Riaz Mohammad Khan on November 13 and 14 and review the progress of the peace process covering key bilateral issues.
The dialogue had been interrupted as the meeting of the Foreign Secr... | |
| | | | 'Not giving Nobel Peace Prize to Gandhi was biggest omission' | | | |
NEW DELHI, OCT 16
Not conferring Nobel peace prize to Mahatma Gandhi was the "biggest omission" made so far by the committee that decides the prestigious global award, the director of Norwegian Nobel Institute has said.
Geir Lundestand told Indian journalists in the Norwegian capital Oslo that there was an intention but since Gandhi passed away in 1948, the idea of conferring the Mahatma with Nobel prize was dropped, NDTV said in a report today.
It was the biggest omission by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee so far that it did not confer the prize to Mahatma Gandhi, the channel quoted Lundestand, who is also Secretary to the secretive five-member Nobel Comittee, as saying.
Lu... | |
| | | | Afzal clemency: BJP hits out at Pak | | | |
NEW DELHI: The opposition BJP on Tuesday demanded the government immediately summon Pakistan High Commissioner and warn him about snapping diplomatic ties with his country in the wake of Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's remarks on Parliament attack convict Mohd Afzal.
"This is the height of interference in India's internal matters. The government should immediately summon the High Commissioner and tell him that New Delhi would review its diplomatic ties with Pakistan after Kasuri's remarks on Afzal," BJP chief Rajnath Singh said.
Singh, who maintained that India should snap diplomatic ties with Pakistan, said the government should also hold discussions with the opposition... | |
| | | | Cabinet reshuffle likely before Diwali | | | |
Monday, October 16,
The long-awaited expansion cum reshuffle of the Council of Ministers is likely to be a pre-Diwali affair.
It is amid indications that senior leader Pranab Mukherjee has emerged a frontrunner for the External Affairs minister's slot.
Mukherjee's name has suddenly gained ground in political circles despite the Defence Minister reportedly not very keen about external affairs.
This is given the fact that he is also the Leader of the Lok Sabha, which would make it difficult for him to travel abroad during Parliament days.
Mukherjee is also wearing many hats. Besides being the West Bengal PCC chief, he is also a member of the all powerful Congress Core Gro... | |
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