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| Coalition partners pulling in different directions | | Hassan Mir projects his favorite bureaucrat as CS; Mustafa Kamal, Sham Lal trade fire on key issues | | |
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Dec 15: Attrition and acrimony between the ruling coalition partners, National Conference and Congress, does not seem to be as revealing as it was between PDP and Congress towards the completion of one-third of the previous coalition regime. At this stage, nobody can compare it to the day when Mufti called back a helicopter from Amarnath Cave and forced two of the Congress Ministers, Yogesh Sawhney and Gharu Ram, alongwith their wives, to spend the night there without shelter and security. Observers were sceptical about Mufti-Azad tie-up but most of them believed that PDP-Congress coalition would last for six full years. It did not.
A couple of days after Sham Lal’s diatribe against the “Kashmir-dominated dispensation” in Bani, Minister of Health shared stage with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at a different place. Both ignored the political tremors generated by Sham’s controversial statement. Relationship between the coalition partners appeared to be equally undisturbed when Omar made a controversial statement with regard to the state’s accession t... | |
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| Coordination Committee meeting today | | Schedule for Panchayat polls likely to get final shape | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 15: The much delayed Coordination Committee meeting is finally being held tomorrow afternoon in the winter capital of the state under the chairmanship of J&KPCC chief and senior Congress leader Prof Saif-u-Din Soz. In the meeting both pattern and schedule of the Panchayat elections is likely to be given final shape by the ruling allies. The meeting of the two coalition partners under this panel meant for ensuring smooth ties, is being held after over five months.
Sources said that while there a host of important issues to be discussed by the senior leaders of both NC and Congress in this meeting but the focus of the discussion will be on the Panhayat electi... | |
| | | | HM suffers another jolt: Commander, associate held in HP | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 15: The Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) suffered another major jolt when the J&K and Himachal Pradesh police, in a joint operation, apprehended the outfit's district commander and his close associate from Kotla in Dharamshalla area of Kangra district in the wee hours of today.
Last month, HM's Jammu division commander and Pak national Abdullah Inquilabi was held by Delhi police from the union capital's Deer
Park. On December 10 last, another HM commander Javed Qureshi and his associate Tanvir fell in police trap at Dehradun. Qureshi and Tanvir were active in Marmat forests of Doda. The outfit, however, suffered another major jolt, when at about 3.45 am today, poli... | |
| | | | 4 killed, 10 hurt as bus overturns near Udhampur | | | | Early Times Report
UDHAMPUR/JAMMU, Dec 15:
Four persons were killed and 10 others wounded, some of them critically, when the bus in which they were travelling overturned in the middle of the Udhampur-Dhar road this afternoon.
The dead included the bus driver. The ill-fated bus (JK02AH/7479) was on its way from Udhampur to Ramnagar.Police sources said the bus overturned at Chhani Morh at about 1 pm when its driver Nand Lal, son of Munshi Ram of Kainthgali, tried to negotiate a sharp curve.
Nand Lal and three passengers -- Ram Ditta, son of Panjabu Ram of Ramnagar, Suram Chand of Surni, Ramnagar, and Jagdish Chander -- were killed on the spot, the sources added.Ten passengers, who sur... | |
| | | | Beware of malafide campaign against ET | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 15:
In yet another attempt to malign the growing name of Early Times (ET) newspaper, an unknown person claiming to be a top bureaucrat, who obviously has got vested interests, is making telephone calls at different police stations alleging that an ET staffer is threatening him over phone.
One such false assertion is made at Pacca Danga police station few days back where a person claiming to be Director Information, J&K called up and asked the officer on duty to lodge a complaint against an ET staffer for allegedly abusing and threatening him.
However, when the ET management came to know about that a verbal complaint has been lodged, it contacted the h... | |
| | | | Media not meant to favour establishment: Bhim Singh | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu: J&K National Panthers Party Supremo Prof Bhim Singh has strongly condemned the tactics resorted to by the NC led coalition government which are aimed to gag media voices in the state.
In a statement Prof Bhim Singh while condemning the government attitude particularly towards the Early Times Newspaper, has said such tactcis of selective discrmination and harassment at various levels towards a section of print media will not stop the bold voices to speak and highlight truth and disseminate information in an unbiased manner without any favour to the establishment.
The Panthers Party supremo said the government must understand that free press and media are the so... | |
| | | | ET highlighting voices of deprived: Gharu Ram | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu:It is not only suprising but questionable that government continues to muzzle the media in this era when it is only media which is exposing the wrong doings and loopholes in the functioning and deliverance of goverance world over in order to bring transparency and order in the public life. This was stated by BJP leader andMLA Prof Gharu Ram while criticising the attitude of the government towards the print media, ET newspaper in particular.He said this attitude would not stop the newspaper in highlighing the voices of the deprived and less privileged sections of the society which seems have offended the authorities that be.
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| | | | Govt must stop harrassing Jammu newspapers: Jugal Kishore | | | | Early Rimes Report
Jammu: BJP leader and MLA Jugal Kishore has condemnded what he terms as highly deplorable and discriminatory approach of the ruling NC led coalition government towards the Jammu based media in particular and newspapers of the state in general
In a statement Jugal Kishore has said the government must stop such tactics as this approach vindicates the belief of the Party that government continues to adopt discriminatory attitude towards Jammu region. The Et newspaper has been rightly so highlighting the scenario in Jammu vis-a-vis government policies which is why the government wants it to be curbed and gagged, BJP leader said adding that the need of the hour is to allow... | |
| | | | Whose flag is this by the way? | | `Nobody can become an Indian by chanting jana gana mana’ | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 15: Even as a verbal duel between National Conference (NC) and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) over the `state flag’ continues to monopolize the mainstream political discourse; the commoner in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh seems totally indifferent to the issue. A question arises. Whose flag is this by the way? A senior BJP leader denounced the state flag last week. His statement evoked severe reaction from the National Conference and the Awami National Conference (ANC) headed by Sher-e-Kashmir’s daughter, Khalida Shah.
Both ANC and NC have said that the people of state had laid down their lives for the flag. “People of Kashmir identify thems... | |
| | | | Congress may not allow Omar to continue as CM after 2011 | | STARK REALITY | | |
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 15: Congressmen, particularly those belonging to Jammu province, are not happy with the power-sharing formula under which NC leader Omar Abdullah was handed over the office of Chief Minister for full term of six years. They are for that power-sharing formula under which the PDP and the Congress shared power. Under that arrangement, which had been worked out in 2002 in the wake of the fractured mandate, the PDP was to hold the office of Chief minister for first three years and the Congress during the remaining period. In other words, Congressmen in Jammu province want the Congress high command to review its stand on the 2008 “lop-sided” power-sharing ... | |
| | | | New Delhi, not Kashmir, is the real problem | | J-K Status -- II | | |
DIRECT, MINCING NO WORDS
NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 15: It was hoped that Union Home Minister would revise his opinion about Jammu and Kashmir, which acceded to India in terms of the constitutional law on the subject, and make it loud and clear that no one in Kashmir would be allowed to advocate views that had the potential of jeopardizing the unity and integrity of India and diluting New Delhi’s sovereignty in the state. It was also hoped that he would take into consideration the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Ladakh and internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus, besides other religious and ethnic minorities in the state, and declare in clear terms that nothing would done t... | |
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