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Kundal report indicts senior PDP Minister FBI sleuths question former MD of SFC for US nationality 10/7/2007 8:46:35 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 7 Even as the storm was yet to settle down in the coalition relations that BR Kundal inquiry report is all set to kick off more dust. The findings of the inquiry have all the potential of rocking the government but it all now depends whether Chief Minister takes an action in follow up or just winds the file up. The probe report which is ready since last week has indicted a senior Minister of the Peoples Democratic Party for conniving with the foreign timber supplying firms for which an artificial scarcity of timber was created, highly placed sources told EARLY TIMES. Source said that the inquiry report was ready since early last week but the same could not be submitted to the Chief Minister as he was away in Delhi almost all this week. Sources who had access to the report said that the findings have all the potential of rocking the government if the Chief Minister chooses to initiate action on recommendations. Interestingly, Qazi Mohammad Afzal, who had to loose even his Housing and Urban Development portfolio after Forest department was rev...   READ MORE

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Soz bids at grassroots connections 10/7/2007 8:45:52 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 7 After carving for himself a formidable position in the top organizational hierarchy in New Delhi, the "guest in Congress" Prof Saif-ud-Din is now making grassroots inroads to make his political relevance in Jammu and Kashmir. A die hard National Conference stalwart Saif-ud-Din Soz switched sides to the Congress when he played an instrumental role in the fall of Atal Behari Vajpayee government in 1999. His party National Conference had decided to vote for the Vajpayee regime but Soz skipped his presence during a crucial floor test thus proving instrumental in fall of the then 13 months old Vajpayee government. The National Conference spared no time in...   READ MORE   Rs 10 Crore up in smokes as animal skins destroyed 10/7/2007 8:45:10 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 7 'Illicit wealth' worth rupees ten crores was up in smokes today as officials of the wildlife department destroyed rare animal skins on directions of Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Meanwhile, a rare snow leopard was killed by some unidentified persons today in Poonch district. The animal skins, which were destroyed today in Srinagar, were seized from various fur traders in the Kashmir Valley. Chief wildlife warden A.K Srivastava said the market value of these animal skins were 9.42 crore rupees in 1997, and today it might be higher than that. Srivastava also said that by destroying these animal skins the authorities want to preserve the conservatio...   READ MORE   Timber scam: Probe indicates involvement of PDP Minister 10/7/2007 8:28:02 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 7 The probe initiated by the state government to look into the allegations of "man-made scarcity" of timber created by the state Forest Department was hinting at the involvement of a senior PDP Minister, sources said today. The findings of the inquiry, being conducted by Financial Commissioner (Home) B R Kundal, could trigger another political storm in the state between Congress and its junior alliance partner PDP, which has been put on the back foot by the Ghulam Nabi Azad government after it divested one of its ministers, Qazi Afzal, of the portfolio of Forest and Environment in September this year. The probe indicated that a senior leader of the P...   READ MORE   CBI favours monitoring of internet gateways and networks 10/7/2007 8:26:53 PM New Delhi | Oct 7 With terrorists' growing using the cyber network for communication, security agencies, including CBI, has asked the government to amend Information Technology Act to enable investigating and intelligence agencies to monitor the internet network and gateways. This was opined at the just-concluded Directors and Inspectors Generals Conference being organised in the capital by Intelligence Bureau. According to sources, monitoring of network was essential as this would help the probe and intelligence agencies in gathering real-time information and take necessary preventive measures. Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), used to transmit voice signals as data packets thr...   READ MORE   20 militants, 10 others killed in Pak tribal area 10/7/2007 8:25:45 PM Islamabad | Oct 7 At least 20 militants and 10 others were killed as Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships launched a major offensive against the local Taliban in the restive North Waziristan tribal region. Six soldiers and four civilians, including three women, were also killed in the crackdown prompted by a wave of militant attacks on military convoys. "The raid was launched today after militants ambushed our forces last evening. We have reports that 20 militants were killed and 15 wounded," military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said. Helicopter gunships and artillery pounded militant hideouts in the mountainous Mirali area of North Waziristan. Local residents sai...   READ MORE   After 20 years; someone kills a snow leopard 10/7/2007 8:14:41 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 7 A rare snow leopard was killed by some unidentified persons today in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said. Acting on the information, a team of forest department officials recovered the snow leopard's body with multiple injures in the neck from Bafliaz area in the Pir-panchal ranges of Surankote tehsil, they said. This is the first instance of killing of the snow leopard in Pir-panchal ranges in the last two decade, they said. A case has been registered in this direction, they said adding the postmortem is being conducted to know the reason behind the animal's death....   READ MORE   Azad meets Arjun, demands two central universities 10/7/2007 8:10:12 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Oct 7 Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad met Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Arjun Singh at New Delhi today and urged upon him to declare one university each in Kashmir and Jammu as central university. Citing the announcement of Prime Minister during his recent visit to Jammu where he said that one university in Jammu & Kashmir would be declared as Central University, the Chief Minister underscored the need to accord this status to two universities in the State. Azad also stressed on providing funds for construction of buildings for colleges at Bijbihara, Uri, Billawar and Ramban which have already been made functional. The colleges had been san...   READ MORE   Contours of Fatwa fall out Congress to cash on in J&K, BJP elsewhere 10/7/2007 8:08:58 PM Early Times Special Correspondent Jammu | Oct 7 Fatwa issued by Grand Mufti of Kashmir, Mufti Bashir-ud-Din against J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, after forceful demand made to this effect by the hardcore secessionist leader, Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani, bracketing Ghulam Nabi Azad with Salman Rashade and Danish cartoonist for alleged act of blasphemy in preaching Gandhian ideology to the Muslims in Kashmir, bring to fore once again the strong secessionists and Islamic fundamentalists hold over the Islamic clergy in Kashmir, which has been openly indulging in politics and anti India activities. Earlier, on the initiation of Sayeed Geelani and some other secessionist leaders, the Grand M...   READ MORE

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