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5,000 Govt shops remain shut to keep Hurriyat’s shop open J&K Govt is the biggest taker of Geelani’s shutdown calls in Srinagar 10/26/2010 11:32:05 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Oct 26: Hapless Gullas and Sullas shut one or two or three shops each but Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s government happens to be the biggest contributor to the success of separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s unending calls for total shutdown and ‘civil curfew’ in Kashmir valley. Over 5,000 shops of different departments of the state government, allotted to residents of Srinagar, remain shut on the diktats of separatist leaders and militants in this capital city----mostly in the Civil Lines areas and fashionable markets spread between Jehangir Chowk and Boulevard. With the business having come to a grinding halt since June this year, Valley has observed over 1750 days of shutdown (nearly 5 years) since the armed conflict erupted in 1989. Omar Abdullah may play it down as an ‘inheritance of loss’ but the fact remains that, during 22 months of his government, continued shutdown for over one hundred days, particularly around the seat of power in the capital city, has served as a big statement of the separatists’ writ running l...   READ MORE

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For the information of controversial interlocutor Padgaonkar 10/26/2010 11:00:59 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 26: Yesterday, the Early Times brought to the notice of interlocutors on J&K - Dilep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari -- certain glaring disparities between Kashmir and Jammu. The intention was to make them aware of the ground realities in the state and inform them that the problem in Kashmir is neither political nor economic, nor the problem confronting the nation in Kashmir "human." Had that been the case, there would have been complete peace and normality in the Kashmir Valley. After all, it is Kashmir that has been ruling the state ever since 1947. Kashmir that witnessed hundred-year-long (1847-1947) struggle directed against Jammu Kingdom of...   READ MORE   Too much of freedom being used against country: Farooq 10/26/2010 11:00:28 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT New Delhi, Oct 26: While media continues to debate and discuss , some analyzing in support and others deeming appropriate to question what ARundhati Roy has said, the sources in home department in J&K today said the transcript of the speech delivered on October 25 a seminar ‘Wither Kashmir: Freedom or enslavement’ organised by Coalition of Civil Societies (CCS) has been handed over to the legal department for examining it. If the legal opinion favours registering a case against the Booker prize winner, the state police would register the same, the sources said. “Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is an historical fact. Even the Indian Government ha...   READ MORE   Where do ‘huge’ funds come from for anti India activities……? High time to check activism ‘civil society groups’ 10/26/2010 10:59:55 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Oct 26: Pro Azadi people in Kashmir, particularly separatists have a reason to rejoice. For them the so called prominent personalities from so called civil society of India have become a loud voice to echo what they have been parroting for long . Writer activist Arundhati Roy and her likes are only facilitating this new found channel to express in an unbridled manner about J&K, no matter it is in sharp contrast to what Indian state states. Notwithstanding the Centre is mulling some action against her and the Jammu & Kashmir police is looking into her controversial speech on Jammu & Kashmir’s accession to India, it is high time to bring such ‘civil society’ and i...   READ MORE   Interlocutors instigating secession, asking Kashmiri youth to prepare roadmap for Azaadi 10/26/2010 10:59:16 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 26: What is it that is going in Jammu and Kashmir? Is the Indian State in a state of war with itself? Has New Delhi decided to hand over Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan? Has the United States ultimately taken the plunge and persuaded the authorities in New Delhi to send persons from New Delhi to Kashmir to prepare the ground for the Kashmir's secession from India? Have the authorities in New Delhi given the mandate to persons whom they have sent to the state as interlocutors for legitimizing the ongoing struggle for "Azaadi" in the Kashmir Valley? Are the interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir and sympathizers of Kashmiri separatists and Maoists like Arundhati Roy ...   READ MORE   Interlocutors told to opt for Govt accommodation 10/26/2010 10:58:35 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 26: Hours before landing in Srinagar the team of three Interlocutors, headed by Dileep Padgaonkar, had conveyed to the state Government that they neither required Government accommodation nor the official cars and any security. And to ensure that they stuck to their plan rooms had been booked in a private hotel in the state's summer capital. Inside reports said that soon after landing in Srinagar the interlocutors were given accommodation in a Government guest House in Srinagar. They were provided with bullet proof cars and adequate security cover. These reports said that during the last two days the interlocutors have visited a number of areas and met a cros...   READ MORE   Progressive intellectuals in Kashmir also term accession as final, question role of interlocutors 10/26/2010 10:58:10 PM ASHWANI EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 26: Not only the political parties, social and religious organizations in Jammu region had expressed their apprehensions over the role and appointment of interlocutors on Kashmir but a section of progressive intellectuals, writers and poets from Valley have termed their appointment an exercise in futility. ``We don't know what was the fun of appointing the interlocutors on Kashmir by Centre which is a settled issue so for as signing of instrument of accession by the then Maharja of J&K State and then Governor General of India Lord Montbatton is concerned'', said Ghulam Rasool a social scientist from the Valley. Mr Rasool, who is associated with cul...   READ MORE

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