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| Congress, NC unnerved by BJP’s ‘show’ ? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu: Bhartiya Janta Party today rocked the strongest ever gathering of Jammuites who stood testimony to greatest ever assurance by the saffron contingent to usher peace, prosperity and development into the state while nailing all detrimental facets into their coffins. Jampacked parade ground and swelling crowd outside the entry gates on both sides of the ground was enough to give worries to the local Congress and Natonal Conference leaders as impressive show of strength by the state unit of the BJP has set a new bench mark for their rivals to match.
“Jammu has not seen such a huge rally in the recent years by any one political party”, was the unanimous comment.
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| | | | Sunjwan, Kaluchak army brigades on alert after Lashkar threat | | ** Alert sounded on IB too | | |
BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, Dec 24: The Sunjwan and Kaluchak army brigades on the city outskirts were Friday put on high alert following intelligence inputs that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) planned to carry out suicide attacks on them.Official sources said security was further tightened at the two army enclosures after the country's top intelligence agencies -- RAW and IB -- apprised army of the LeT plan to target them.Additional troops were soon deployed in and around these two army installations and other army areas here to prevent fidayeens from making a strike, the sources added.A terror alert had also been issued on the International Border (IB).Both the army brigades have been targeted by ... | |
| | | | Police act mischievously; nab bar staff, but free goons | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 24:
Police tonight acted mischievously when they arrested three staffers of Royal Bar at Gole Market, Gandhi Nagar, but let go two goons who
threatened them of dire consequences in case they demanded money from them.Two goons came to the bar at about 8.30 pm and had drinks. However, when they came out without making payment, bar staffers -- Jagdish Singh, Ravi Kumar and Jaidev Singh alias Kaka -- followed them and stopped them on the road outside.
When they asked the drunkards to foot the bill, the latter started pushing them and threatened them of dire consequences if they demanded money from them.While the inebriated men pushed the three bar staffer... | |
| | | | CM on10-day-long Christmas holiday | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 24: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today left for London to celebrate Christmas with his mother, Molly Abdullah, and other family members. Official sources said that Chief Minister would be off for 10-day-long holiday. He was scheduled to reach London later today.
It will be just second time in the current year that the state shall be without head of the government. Officials said that unlike his predecessors, charge of Chief Minister has not been assigned for the period to Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand. During Dr Farooq Abdullah’s government in 1996-2002, there was no deputy Chief Minister but one of NC’s seniormost Ministers, late Ghulam Mohiuddin... | |
| | | | CRPF man, 3 civilians injured in rifle grenade attack in Sopore | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 24: Continuing pace of their strikes in the appletown of Sopore, militants today left four persons wounded in a rifle grenade attack on a CRPF formation. Army claimed to have killed one more Pakistani militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba in an encounter in the same area in north Kashmir.
Informed official sources told Early Times that in the forenoon today militants fired a couple of rifle grenades on a formation of CRPF 179 Bn at Town Hall. Eyewitnesses said that one of the grenades landed well on the main entrance of Town Hall. One CRPF personnel, namely Constable Anil Kumar, besides three civilians, namely Mohammad Ayub Shalla son of Abdul Gaffar reside... | |
| | | | No heart beats for Art 370 in Kashmir | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 24: The people who demand abrogation of Article 370 do not know that in its present form it serves their interests. This is what a senior lawyer said during a discussion in a local hotel in the summer capital today.
Article 370 of the Indian constitution that guarantees special status to the state is widely discussed across Jammu Kashmir yet again. The Kashmiris have shown total indifference. The people by and large believe that it serves no purpose. Article 238 that contained the heart and soul of Article 370 has been omitted from the constitution some fifty years ago. What is left behind is useless, they believe.
Pertinent to mention Article 3... | |
| | | | Muslim scholar of Shaivism to translate 77 Shiv Sutras in Kashmiri language | | | |
JAMMU, Dec 24: When entire Kashmir is burning with hatred and
Violence there has emerged a hope with some Muslims openly advocating for restoration of the age old composite culture of Valley. One of such intellectual Muslims is Dr M H Zafar, Director Kashmir Study Centre and a renowned scholar of Kashmiri Shaivism.
Dr Zafar who had done his doctorate in Kashmiri Shaivism is has taken an onus to himself in bridging the gulf among the people created due to the narrow communal and caste considerations. Earlier this luminary has read many papers in various seminars conducted in different parts of the country on Kashmiri Shaivism. He has also made references to great mystic poets ... | |
| | | | BJP adopts tough stand, snubs interlocutors | | Jammu Meet -- I | | |
MINCING NO WORDS
NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 24: The national BJP yesterday adopted a comprehensive political resolution on Jammu and Kashmir explaining its point of view and criticizing the Congress-led UPA Government’s approach towards the troubled state. The resolution, in particular, held the Congress responsible for all the troubles in the state and enunciated its three-point solution to the problem facing the state.
The resolution, among other things, described the Nehruvian approach to the state as the mother of all ills. The BJP resolution was not just critical of Pakistan and Kashmiri extremists and separatists, but it was also highly critical of the New Delhi-appointe... | |
| | | | Interlocutors’ flawed approach: Conciliation of Jammu imperative | | | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 24: Kashmir-based separatist and “mainstream” organizations, including Jamat-e-Islami, APHC (M). JKLF, NC, PDP and so on, continue to express the view that no solution is possible without the involvement of Kashmiri Muslims. In fact, they have been only reiterating their old stand. They have not saying anything new. They have been saying so ever since Pakistan came into being and Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India as per the provisions of the Indian Independence Act of 1947. The Delhi-appointed interlocutors have also been expressing almost similar views. They have been simply referring to the aspirations of the people of Kashmir and h... | |
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