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| Grand curfew foils Lal Chowk march | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 6: Putting entire Kashmir Valley under an indefinite grand curfew, the Governor’s administration today prevented the separatists to take out their much talked about and keenly awaited “Lal Chowk march”.
Kashmir remained under curfew for the second consecutive day today with police and paramilitary forces deployed heavily in the Valley to thwart any attempt by separatists to hold a protest march to Lal Chowk here. The government, however, announced late in the evening that there will be no curfew tomorrow 5 AM onwards.
Barring minor incidents of slogan shouting by groups of people that gathered in old Baramulla town late last night, the situation in the entire Valley was peaceful and there was been no report of any violent incident.
Some of the local newspapers failed to hit the stands as publishers decided not to print them accusing the government of not providing enough curfew passes to their staff, a charge denied by the government.
A virtual siege was laid around Lal Chowk as a large posse of gun-toting security personnel took up position ... | |
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| BJP’s risky drive on safe pitch | | BOOKING FACES: JAITLY & CO. IN JAMMU | | | ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
JAMMU, Oct 6: A war of nerves has broken out in the rank and file of the state unit of BJP as a high powered central team has arrived in the town to hold consultations for nomination of party candidates to the forthcoming assembly elections.
At least one former MLA (who won 2002 elections on JSM ticket) and an active member of Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti are being considered by the BJP for party ticket and efforts are being made to bring all like minded parties on board for a consolidated contest against Congress in ‘safe’ constituencies of four districts.
The team led by BJP general Secretary Arun Jaitly and comprising among others former Himchal Pradesh Chie... | |
| | | | CEC team visiting today | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 6: To make a final ground assessment of the situation for holding impending assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Chief Election Commissioner of India N Gopalaswami is visiting Srinagar tomorrow.
Sources said that the CEC will hold a meeting with the Governor NN Vohra, besides top officers of Civil Administration, Police and Paramilitary forces to get an idea of the ground situation and preparedness of the state’s machinery for assembly elections.
The Election Commission of India, it may be mentioned here, has already had wide consultations with the political parties and the government functionaries in gathering views on the ground situation. Tomorr... | |
| | | | Zardari hero after ‘foot in mouth’ | | Omar discreet, Mehbooba aghast, others say ‘well-done’ | | | SANDEEP BHAT
Jammu, Oct 6: Few are though trying to understand the exact meaning of terrorism and how it is different from militancy, for a while, the maverick Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is a hero of the vocal majority in Jammu and Kashmir.
In his interview to the Wall Street Journal, Zardari was candid enough to describe militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir as terrorists. This statement has landed him in deep soup in Pakistan but in Jammu and Kashmir there is a debate for the good. Advanced dictionaries say that in international political parlance there are as many as 122 different meanings of terrorism. However, in today’s world the best and the widely held is one defined... | |
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