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| ‘Willing to engage with separatists, militants, opposition’ | | Omar says, Pak role in dialogue undeniable, Shimla agreement internationalised Kashmir issue | | |
ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, Nov 29: In first official and public response to Hurriyat leader Abdul Ghani Bhatt’s proposal to all Kashmiri parties to join hands for a workable resolution of Kashmir issue, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that he and his party were willing to get engaged with all shades of opinion whether they come from mainstream or separatist landscape of Jammu and Kashmir’s politics. He, however, stoutly clarifies that getting engaged should not be misconstrued for joining hands which, Omar believes, is an entirely different proposition.
The Chief Minister has also admitted to the ‘international dimension’ of the Kashmir issue and vociferously asserted that Pakistan has a definite role in taking the Kashmir dialogue process to a logical end. Omar believes that it was Shimla agreement (between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto) that internationalized the Kashmir issue. Arguing that Shimla agreement brought Kashmir issue to international stage, Omar says, “it is a fact accepted by us (read India) on paper. In fact it is a fact you can’t run away from toda... | |
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| Arms recovered in Reasi | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: Army today busted a militant hideout and recovered from it a cache of arms and ammunition in Reasi district.
Acting on a tip off, troops of Rastriya Rifles launched a search operation in Nikan forest belt of Reasi district, 90 Kms from here, and busted a hideout, defence officials said.
Troops recovered one UBGL, two shells and 21 bullets of 303 ammunition, they said, adding that militants had escaped from the spot. ... | |
| | | | 2 PoK residents dodge Police in Uri, escape | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 29: Two residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK), waiting for deportation for nearly two months, escaped from protected custody today in Uri sector of North Kashmir's Baramulla district.
Gowhar Rehman and Amin Badshah, both aged about 25 years, escaped from Police Station Uri, 101 kms from here, in the wee hours today, Senior Superintendent of Police, Baramulla, Viplav Kumar said.
Hailing from a village close to the Line of Control (LOC) in Kalakote Tehsil of POK, the duo were arrested last year, he said, adding they served a jail term of one year for illegally crossing into this side.
"Police was in the process of completing legal formali... | |
| | | | Army Chief worried over Pak nuclear stash button | | | |
New Delhi, Nov 29: Chief of Army staff General Deepak Kapoor on Sunday said it was important to ensure that the control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons command does not go to "wrong hands".
Reacting to media reports that the National Command Authority in the neighbouring country, which controls the nuclear button, has been handed over to Pakistan Premier Yusouf Raza Gilani, Kapoor said, "It is more important to have proper control over nuclear weapons and ensure that it does not go to wrong hands."
On Sino-India relation, Kapoor said India has "good relations" with China and there was a mechanism in place to discuss the border dispute with that country.
"There is nothing to get ... | |
| | | | J&K HC judge likely to get CJ’s post in another State | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, NOV 29: The move to appoint High Court judges and Chief Justices is likely to pick up after Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan, expressed his concern here two days ago in his Law Day address over staggering number of cases pending in courts all over the country as also continuing vacancies of judges at all levels.
The Union Law Ministry is likely to announce appointment of judges against vacancies in higher judiciary soon in the wake of the remarks made by the top most judge of the country on Friday evening here at Supreme Court lawns while addressing judges and lawyers on Law Day.
He said that there are five vacancies for Judges in the Supreme Cour... | |
| | | | Chill deepens in Indo-Pak talks | | | |
AGENCIES
Port Of Spain, Nov 29: In a reflection of further chill in Indo-Pak relations, Foreign Ministers of the two countries avoided a meeting even though they were at the same venue here for the last three days to attend the Commonwealth Summit.
India was not keen on a meeting between Foreign Ministers of the two countries as it is unhappy over Pakistan’s response to demand for action against those involved in the Mumbai attacks.
India put the Composite Dialogue process with Pakistan on hold after the Mumbai terror attacks which were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists from that country. New Delhi had been maintaining that the dialogue process cannot be resume unles... | |
| | | | Youth kidnapped in Reasi | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: Militants today barged into the house of a youth and kidnapped him from a village in Reasi district today, police said here.
Around three militants barged into the house of Zakir Hussain and kidnapped him on gun point from Prankote morha village, 85 Kms from here, this afternoon, they said.
He was taken into the forest belt, they said adding, that the family informed police and a joint operation was launched with the army to track down the militants and rescue the youth. Reasons for the kidnapping were being investigated, officials said. ... | |
| | | | Hurriyat’s bilateral talks mode: are grapes too sour? | | | |
MUNISH GUPTA
Jammu, Nov 29: For the APHC leadership it is a tale of grapes are sour. The leadership was initially in favour of the resumption of the centre-Hurriyat dialogue. That is the reason that it was excited when the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh announced that he was willing to reopen channels of dialogue with the separatists. Now the APHC leadership has moved from bilateralism to trilaterlism because of certain compulsions.
The APHC leadership had no other alternative but to support triangular talks when the voices within the conglomerate opposed bilateral dialogue. And when Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who heads the hardliners, announced his opposition to the bilateral dial... | |
| | | | Bill to bar docs from taking pharma favours | | | |
Kolkata, Nov 29: To clamp down on medicos favouring particular pharmaceutical companies while prescribing medicines, the union health ministry will soon table a bill in parliament, barring doctors of state-run hospitals from taking favours like foreign trips and gifts from pharma majors.
‘We receive complaints from hospitals which provide cheap medicines that some doctors don’t prescribe these medicines. Instead, they prescribe particular medicines manufactured by specific companies,’ Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said at a medical convention here Sunday.
‘It often transpires that these companies sponsored foreign jaunts or showered gifts on these doctors. This is not a health... | |
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