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| Gunbattle, shutdown mark Chidambaram's Kashmir visit | | DIG drives Home Minister through the stone pelters' bastion of Baramulla | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 31: With the situation in Kashmir changing for the better, union Home Minister P Chidambaram today not only held review meetings with senior officials but also made his second visit of the turbulent year to the Valley memorable by driving through the stone pelters' stronghold of Baramulla in a thin cavalcade of three-odd vehicles. Valley observed yet another shutdown to greet Chidambaram even as one militant got killed in a dramatic gunbattle between militants and security forces at Sopore.
Separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani's call for umpteenth shutdown today coincided with the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's second visit of the turbulent year 2010 to Kashmir valley. On September 20th, Chidambaram had earlier arrived in Srinagar as a member of the all-party delegation of the Members of Parliament to assess the current spell of turbulence during a two-day visit before submitting a report to the Prime Minister and Cabinet Committee on Security.
At the end of his two-day-long visit to Leh and Kargil, Chidambaram flew d... | |
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| Instead of autonomy Omar must seek power projects | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 31: The infamous Indus Water Treaty is under attack yet again. This time the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah criticized it while addressing the core group of power ministers last week. Omar knows IWT cannot be amended not to speak of its abrogation. There is no exit clause in the IWT and, therefore, seeking its abrogation is as good as seeking Azadi.
For New Delhi, granting autonomy to the state is easy. It is between State and New Delhi. But when an amendment is sought in the IWT, it ceases to be an internal affair. Omar is right when he says the state has suffered huge loses because of the infamous treaty. But what is the alternative?
Honouring the IWT has ... | |
| | | | 7 hurt in clash over land dispute | | | |
Early Times report
JAMMU, Oct 31: Seven persons were wounded critically when, armed with swords and other sharp-edged weapons, they clashed with each other over a land dispute at Dumi, about 20 km from here, near Akhnoor.
Police sources said Chuni Lal, Bansi Lal and Joginder Kumar, sons of Kaka Ram, and Chaman Lal, son of Mula Ram, were working in their field when their rivals -- Ravi, Praveen and Shashi, sons of Ashok Kumar -- happened to pass from there. All hail from Dumi.
Ravi, Praveen and Shashi also started working on the land their rivals were already working, the sources added. As the two groups spotted each other, there were heated exchanges between them.
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| | | | Hindus will be allowed to consume liquor | | Secular-Democratic Geelani | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 31: Syed Ali Shah Geelani is a great man. He is a noble person. He doesn't believe in outraging sensitivities of the non-believers who cannot live without liquor. He doesn't believe in that Islam that prohibits consumption of liquor and that considers consumption of liquor an evil. Yes, he is an ardent champion of theocratic, feudalistic and dictatorial Pakistan, but it would be wrong to dismiss him as a communalist of communalists. It would be wrong because Geelani is "genuinely secular."
Yes, accepted that Geelani is an ardent believer in what he describes as Nizam-e-Mustafa (Islamic rule), but how could we dub him as a communalist of communalists? We canno... | |
| | | | J&K Solution: Home Minister needs to revise his outrageous views | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 31: Home Minister P Chidambaram has been consistently disappointing the whole nation. He has been dumbfounding everyone who believes in national unity and integrity and Indian sovereignty; who abhors and hates communalism, terrorism, separatism and politics National Conference, People's Democratic Party and Pakistani-style.
The case in point is the outrageous and highly controversial interview he gave to the Zee news yesterday. He defended the failed Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his October 6 dubious accession/merger statement and once again asserted that Jammu & Kashmir acceded to India under "unique circumstance" and "there has to be a unique s... | |
| | | | 'JPBSA grouse genuine', luxury coaches run on political patronage | | | | KUNAL SHRIVATSA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 31: Even as Jammu Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation (JKSRTC), the government owned Public Transport system, could not perform to its optimum level and failed to cater to the needs of lakhs of commuters across the state, the private bus operators with their extraordinary operational skills managed to run a vast network of transportation there by rendering best possible service to the travellers.
Jammu-Poonch Bus Service Association (JPBSA), a pioneer in organised passenger service sector, is one such organization which came into being about fifty years back and since its inception it is running its services with commitment and dedicati... | |
| | | | As J&K "sexy" cops go unpunished, victims rue the day they joined police | | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
Early Times Report
JAMMU, OCT 31: As some police officers, who faced sexual harassment allegations, have gone unpunished in the state, victims rue the day they joined the police force.
The need of the hour is to reopen their cases to help restore the victims' confidence in law and order machinery.
In J&K, the alleged cases of sexual harassment of women, or lady cops, by senior police officers have never become the focus of attention.While Rathore -- a retired Haryana police chief -- was dragged to court for allegedly molesting a budding tennis player in 1990 and then creating circumstances that drove her to commit suicide, probes
in J&K were either left half-way or drop... | |
| | | | Special team to probe into girl's blind murder | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 31: A special police team has been constituted to probe into the blind murder case of a young girl whose body was found in July last from Bakth forests of Billawar.
The girl was first raped and then murdered by the accused, police sources said.
Her face was badly disfigured as it had been crushed with a heavy stone to hide her identity, the sources added.
The special team was constituted after some locals called on IGP, Jammu, few days back and urged him to get the murder investigated. The team reached Billawar today. As part of their investigation, the team members met the locals who had first spotted the body in the woods.
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| | | | Abducted girl recovered, accused held | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 31: A minor girl, who was Thursday last abducted by a youth from her residence in ward No 4 of Rajouri, was today recovered by police from Kotli in Miran Sahib here.
The accused, whom police sources identified as Zakir Hussain, son of Moulvi Abdul Majid, was arrested and his Bolero jeep seized by police.
Sources said Mohammad Sharief of ward No 4, Rajouri, lodged a complaint with Rajouri police station Thursday last that his daughter Rubina Kousar (14) had allegedly been abducted by his son's brother-in-law Zakir when nobody was in their house.
In his complaint, he alleged that the accused had taken the girl to his residence at Kotli.
Acting on the complai... | |
| | | | Auto driver among 3 held with charas | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU,Oct 31: Police last night apprehended two Kashmir-based taxi drivers and a local autoricksha operator allegedly along with six kilograms of charas from Trikuta Nagar area here. They were identified as Kamal Nain Singh, son of Lal Singh of Chittisi-nghpura, Manjeet singh, son of Surjeet Singh of Hathpura,
Srinagar, and Naresh Kumar, son of Trilok Singh of Jullaka Mohalla. Acting on a tip-off that two taxi drivers from Kashmir were to deliver a consignment of charas to an autoricksha driver at Trikuta Nagar, police last night laid a naka to trap them.
Police sources said while cops in mufti waited for them, two taxi drivers arrived there along with the consignme... | |
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