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| Lashkar founder is a free man | | Islamabad unwilling to oblige Lahore adminstration | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 28: Islamabad is said to be unwilling to accept the demand of the local administration in Lahore for re-arrest of Hafiz Mohamed Saeed, founder of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and chief of the controversial Islamic charity, known as Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Pakistan's Punjab government, which voiced the demand twice soon after the recent release of Hafiz Saeed, has, according to a set of media reports from Lahore, failed top garner Islamabad's support.
Worse still, Pakistan's all-powerful organisation, the ISI (Inter Services Intelligence), has deputed its own men to ensure protection of Hafiz Saeed. The High Court in Lahore recently ordered his release, in spite of the apparent efforts of Pakistan's Punjab government to keep him under detention. And according to uncontradicted reports from across the border, the Pakistani government did not build a strong case against him.
Wasim Ahmad Shah, a legal affairs correspondent for Dawn, wrote: "The case revolved around two points-- that Saeed was engaged in collecting donations for nefarious ends, and tha... | |
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| Kashmir continues to be Army's biggest challenge | | Corrective measures to avoid loss of life: Army Chief | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 28: It is offical: Protracted operations to cope with the proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir have taken a heavy toll on the Indian Army. And as the Army commemorated the historic success of the 1947 airlift as Infantry Day on Friday, it was also an occcasion for introspection over the fact that Kashmir continues to be its bigest challenge six decades later.
The Army has been forced to commit a huge number of its troops to uphold Indian sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir. There have been, since the end of the 1947-48 war, many twists to the Kashmir conflict. And the conflict shows no signs of ending.
From a peak of 3,200 terrorist attacks in 1994, the Army co... | |
| | | | Spotlights on Kashmiris' 'legitimate rights' | | Pak to support 'oppressed' Kashmiris: Shaukat Aziz | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 28: Even as Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, has once again advocated the need for friendly relations between his country and India, Islamabad is not willing to suspend its support to the separatists in Kashmir. If there was any doubt about it, it was set at rest by the Pakistan Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, during his visit to Muzafarrabad, capital of PoK (Pakistan ocupied Kashmir).
Shaukat Aziz, while addressing a gathering of edarthquake survivors on Eid day, declared: "No one can deprive the Kashmiris of their rights and I tell them that every Pakistani will support them in their just struggle and they will achieve their rights". And the Pak P... | |
| | | | Baglihar power project in news | | Final three-day meeting in Washington on Nov 7 | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 28: The stage is being set for a final thre-day meeting on the future of Baglihar hydroelectric power project curently under construction in the Jammu region. The World Bank-appointed neutral expert has invited Indian and Pakistani water experts for the meting in Washington on November 7.
The neutral expert will hear arguments from both sides to finalise verdict that he would release before the end of December. Pakistan's Ministry of Water and Power has maintained that the World Bank-appointed expert's determination will be final and binding under the terms of the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960. Pakistan has already dispatched comments on the draft of findin... | |
| | | | Gurdeep attached to prision HQ, S Rashid to take over as jail superintendent | | | |
Jammu, October 28 : Jail Superintendent Kot Bhalwal Jail Gurdeep Singh, presently on leave, has been attached by the state government to Prisons Headquarter till further orders and officiating Jail Superintendent Sheikh Rashid has been directed to take charge as Jail Superintendent.
Gurdeep Singh will now face an inquiry set up by the state government after the recovery was made to establish how mobile phones and SIM cards reached inside highly fortified Kot Bhalwal jail.
According to Home commissioner BR Kundal Director General Prisons MK Mohanty has been instructed to issue orders directing Sheikh Rashid to take over the charge of Jail superintendent with immediate effect.
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| | | | Shaivism should be revived: Karan Singh | | | |
NEW DELHI: Underlining the need for reviving studies in Kashmir Shaivism, former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Karan Singh on Saturday said he has requested the Mata Vaishno Devi University to start a new course on the religious way of life.
"We definitely need to revive the study of Kashmir Shaivism. I have personally urged the Mata Vaishno Devi varsity to include Kashmir Shaivism as a special course," Singh, who is also former chancellor of Jammu and Kashmir University, said during the inaugural function of a two-day seminar on Kashmir Shaivism here.
"For the last 17 years, Kashmiri Pandits have been living as refugees in their own country. In such times, the teachings of great spi... | |
| | | | Domestic violence: Govt employee booked | | | |
CHENNAI: An employee of the public sector Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Board has become the first person to be arrested under the recently introduced Domestic Violence Act.
Joseph, who is a peon with the TNWDB, was arrested late on Friday night after his wife, Benedict Mary, filed a formal complaint with the police, saying that her husband had beaten her with a stick and an umbrella during a domestic quarrel.
Benedict Mary, a government schoolteacher, has been admitted to a local hospital with grievous injuries. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act - 2005 came into effect on Thursday.
Under the Act, wives, mothers, live-in partners, sisters, mothers-in-law or ... | |
| | | | Mysore cops to probe terrorists' Kashmir links | | | |
Saturday, October 28
BANGALORE: A police team from Mysore will go to Jammu and Kashmir to probe terror links of two suspected Pakistani militants nabbed after a shootout in that city on Friday, a top police official said.
"We have formed a six-member investigation team to follow the leads obtained from the arrested militants -- Fahad Hai, 24, and Mohammed Ali Hussain, 25 -- during interrogation and the incriminating material seized from them," Mysore police commissioner Praveen Sood said over the telephone on Saturday.
"The team is visiting Kashmir to collect information on their terror networks operating in the northern border state. Documents such as letterheads, correspondence... | |
| | | | JKLF Chairman assaulted | | | |
SRINAGAR , OCT 28: Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front took to streets in Maisuma area of Srinagar this afternoon after the Front Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik was allegedly beaten by police.
Activists burnt tyres and pelted stones, forcing the shops in the area to down their shutters and traffic to divert. The activists raised slogans demanding action against the police.
Malik was allegedly beaten by the Personal Security Officer of a MLA on Maulana Azad Road in Srinagar 's Lal Chowk area.
"To make way for MLA's vehicle, security personnel were asking the drivers to move their vehicle to one side. While Malik's vehicle took a little while to move aside, security guar... | |
| | | | One killed, 18 injured in Sopore blast | | | |
Srinagar , Oct 28 : One person was killed and 19 others, including three security forces personnel, injured when a grenade exploded in a busy Sopore market in North Kashmir Baramulla district.
Police said that unidentified militants hurled a grenade 12:40 this afternoon over a security forces gypsy in main Market Sopore that left three Border Security Forces personnel and 16 civilians injured.
"One among the injured succumbed to his injuries in Srinagar's SMHS hospital," SHO Police Station Sopore told KIP.
The deceased has been identified as Khazar Mohammad Malla, a resident of village Rakh in Haigam area of north Kashmir Baramulla district. the condition of seven other inj... | |
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