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| “Omar trying to draw parallel to Hurriyat leadership” | | 8 Ahulluwalia seeks resignation of CM, three Union ministers | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 24: The main opposition BJP will seek resignation of three Union ministers including Minister of Home Affairs, P Chidambaram, Minister of External Affairs, S M Krishna and Minister for Law Vera pan Moily for backing Omar Abdullah who has challenged the merger of Kashmir with Indian Union recently.
This was stated by Party Deputy Leader in Rajya Sabha, S S Ahuluwalia while addressing a function here today organized by Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Forum in connection with observance of Accession Day.
The BJP will not allow the Parliament to function and it will seek the resignation of three Union ministers for violating the Constitution of India by backing Omar Abdullah who challenged the accession of Kashmir with the country, he said.
The Party will not budge an inch from its demand and will press either for the resignation of three ministers or unconditional apology from them, he added.
Making a strong dig at Chief Minster, Omar Abdullah, Mr Ahuluwalia said as CM he was not supposed to make the statement and this way he too had violated the Constituti... | |
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| `India is a cage that holds people forcibly' | | l Roy, Navlakha support Kashmir struggle | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 24: India is a cage in which millions of people of different nationalities are held against their will. This was stated by celebrated writer, Arundhati Roy while speaking at a seminar organized by Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) in the summer capital today. The seminar titled Whither Kashmir? Freedom or enslavement? evoked massive response. The seminar was also addressed by noted film maker Sanjay Kak, human rights defender from Delhi Gautaum Navlakha and a trade unionist from Delhi, Ashim Roy.
Arundhati hailed the stone pelters for "taking the freedom movement to a decisive phase". Expressing solidarity with the victims of violence, Roy u... | |
| | | | Geelani to be booked for hate speech aimed at breaking India | | | | ET DESK
NEW DELHI, Oct 24: Hurriyat's Syed Ali Shah Geelani and few others were likely to be booked in a case by Delhi police for purportedly giving "hate speeches" in a seminar held here Thursday.
A number of separatist groups had met at a conference here to instigate secession and to say that "India cannot be one and must be broken". Official sources said the union home ministry had given a go ahead to Delhi police for registering a case against Geelani and few
others for their anti-India speeches.
An advice from the home ministry's legal department was received that prima facie a case could be registered against Geelani and others for making statements which were seen as an a... | |
| | | | Love birds end life in Rajouri | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Rajouri, Oct 24: THE Rajouri police recovered bodies of a young girl and a boy who were found hanging from a tree in a forest area of Rajouri here today. Sources said that the duo were having an affair but belonged to different castes.
Police sources said that they have recovered bodies of a girl Samiksha Devi alias Goldi (19) daughter of Daleep Singh and Bansi Lal (23) son of Pritim Singh, both residents of Godar Nadian in Rajouri tehsil from Argi area of Rajouri. They said that the bodies were hanging from a tree and were first spotted by a local resident.
As per sources, the girl was missing for the last three days and her father Daleep Singh had lodged a missing re... | |
| | | | Interlocutors get lukewarm response in Valley | | Gen Moosa, Sehrai refuse to meet; Scribes, KU teachers oblige Delhi team | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
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SRINAGAR, Oct 24: Even as most of the separatist leaders, including the prisoners at Srinagar Central Jail, today refused to interact with the Government of India’s interlocutors on Jammu & Kashmir, some mediapersons and teachers of the University of Kashmir obliged the three-member team from New Delhi with separate meetings.
Not a single separatist leader has so far mustered courage to go in defiance of the hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s diktat of boycott to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s three interlocutors on Jammu & Kashmir---journalist Dileep Padgoankar, academician Radha Kumar and former Central Information Commissioner M M Ansari. On... | |
| | | | One soldier injured in firing from Pak | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 24: One Indian Army soldier was injured as Pakistani troops opened heavy fire with machineguns and rockets at Indian posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district Sunday evening, an army official said. The firing lasted for more than an hour.
Indian troops did not retaliate, for they did not want to escalate tension, the official said.
“They (Pakistani troops) opened fire with machineguns around 5.30 p.m. and also fired rockets,” 16 Corps Brigadier General Staff (BGS) Satish Dua told .
He also said that a soldier was injured.The firing lasted for more than an hour and has now ended.“We did not retaliate in the interest of confidence... | |
| | | | Advance party of Durbar arrives to a 'relaxed' atmosphere …! | | Facelift provides succour to Jammuites too | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 24: Amid a flurry of activity going on in the winter capital for the past one fortnight Jammu welcomed the advance party of Durbar Move which arrived today. Some officials of the advance party deputed by respective departments reached Jammu on Saturday to a relaxed and relieved atmosphere in terms of both weather conditions as well as the contrasting situation in the two winter capitals.
The advance party mostly comprises officers and employees belonging to Jammu region who arrive in the winter capital soon after the Durbar schedule gets finalized. This year almost all the employees belonging to Jammu region will start arriving from Monday . The offices will... | |
| | | | Karan Singh snubs Omar Abdullah, says accession final & Kashmir just one factor | | | | RUSTAM
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JAMMU, Oct 24: The other was that Kashmir doesn't represent the entire State of J&K. What he said was that the state consists of three distinct regions, Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh and no regions could be ignored or bypassed while working out a policy aimed at ending unrest in Kashmir. In this regard, he said, " if the youth in Kashmir are angry in their hearts, then the youth of Jammu too are not happy. They are also angry, as they too are facing the problem of unemployment. The only difference is that there in Kashmir the youth are pelting stones, but here in Jammu the youth are not resorting to such tactics. Why this fact is being ignored…Jammu is very contente... | |
| | | | Time for Jammu to fight for the dignity of Jammu-based policemen | | 8 Height of discrimination | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 23: What has the Omar Abdullah-led government done to demonstrate its commitment to communalism and to establish that it could go to any extent to communalize even the police department, a very important tool of the government. It would be only appropriate to refer here to that reported government order that proves beyond any shadow of doubt that the present dispensation is highly communal and discriminatory and that its action is outrageous, insulting and humiliating. Such an exercise has become imperative to expose the present dispensation and its policies that have the potential of causing resentment among the Jammu-based belt forces.
The number of the G... | |
| | | | Anti-India elements in full command: Problem in Jammu, interlocutors in Kashmir | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 24: The people of Jammu province, who are nationalist to the core and have made supreme sacrifices during all these 63 years to controvert the pernicious influence of the Kashmiri separatists and communalists, are most unfortunate. There is none in New Delhi who is prepared to redress their grievances and empower them or bring them at par with the privileged people of Kashmir. They were at the receiving end in 1947, when the state acceded to India, and they are at the receiving end even today. New Delhi dismissed them with contempt in 1947 and transferred political power from Jammu to Kashmir using surreptitious means and it is doing exactly the same even tod... | |
| | | | Opposing AFSPA is to play into separatists' hands: Army chief | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Oct 24: Coming down heavily on those shouting for the dilution of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), army chief, Gen V K Singh said that the Act was being used as a "beating stick" by the separatists in Jammu and Kashmir.
"We are unnecessarily playing into the hands of separatists for whom this is a beating stick," he asserted.The AFSPA was being "unnecessarily demonised" although it had
nothing to do with the present unrest in Kashmir, he said.He firmly stuck to his opposition to any withdrawal or even dilution of the Act which gave army vast powers to deal with insurgents.
Gen Singh was clear that non-applicability of the AFSPA to specific areas w... | |
| | | | 104 armymen punished for HR violations in J&K: Gen Singh | | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI,Oct 24: Army chief, Gen V K Singh today said 104 army personnel, including 39 officers, had been punished in J&K in cases of human rights (HR) violations while strongly rejecting charges that no action was being taken against troops in such cases.
He, however, said over 95 per cent of the allegations of HR violations had proved to be false and apparently been levelled with the "ulterior motive of maligning the armed forces".
Gen Singh, whose force is time and again accused of fake encounters and other HR violations, made it clear that he would not tolerate any "bad eggs" in army and tough action was taken against erring personnel.
"In army, under the Army Act or milit... | |
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