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| HM's Qureshi has killed an army CO, 13 cops, 37 other persons: IGP | | | | Early times report
JAMMU, Dec 27: Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) divisional commander Javed Qureshi was involved in the killing of 51 persons, including an army CO and 13 police personnel. Sharing this information with media persons here today, IGP Dilbagh Singh said Qureshi, held by Dehradun police on December 10 last and handed over to Doda police on December 16, was a dreaded militant. He told his interrogators that he had hidden a large quantity of arms and ammunition in the Marmat forests. On his disclosure, police busted his 11 hideouts in Sidha top, Mensa top, Palni, Zumwadi Nullah, Reali forests, Saharan Nullah, Prengi Top, Seri Top, Dedni forests, Drorh Dhar and Pingle Ghat areas of Marmat.
One pika gun along with 273 rounds, one RPG, one .303 LMG along with a magazine and 48 rounds, six AK rifles along with 22 magazines and 3,843 rounds, two pistols along with 3 magazines and 10 rounds, two UBGLs, seven UBGL shells, two SLR magazines, four RPG shells, two RPG boosters, one wireless set, its three antennas, one satellite phone along with a charger, one AK binocular, two remote c... | |
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| CM off on vacation, ministers busy with 'other' engagements | | Irregular presence of ministers makes Sectt functioning casual......? | | | Early times report
Jammu, Dec 27: After a hectic schedule of District Development Board meetings which were held in a marathon manner, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is off to London to spend some time with family on year end. In fact it has been son Omar's routine every year to celebrate Christmas with mother in her home town. And this year, perhaps it is a 'well deserved' holiday in the backdrop of turbulent times he faced in tackling and handling the long drawn unrest in Kashmir Valley this summer.
So far so good. Understandably, it is quite natural for all human beings to take some rest, rather breathing time to get further engaged in the 'tiring' schedule of normal business of go... | |
| | | | CM off on vacation, ministers busy with 'other' engagements | | Irregular presence of ministers makes Sectt functioning casual......? | | | Early times report
Jammu, Dec 27: After a hectic schedule of District Development Board meetings which were held in a marathon manner, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is off to London to spend some time with family on year end. In fact it has been son Omar's routine every year to celebrate Christmas with mother in her home town. And this year, perhaps it is a 'well deserved' holiday in the backdrop of turbulent times he faced in tackling and handling the long drawn unrest in Kashmir Valley this summer.
So far so good. Understandably, it is quite natural for all human beings to take some rest, rather breathing time to get further engaged in the 'tiring' schedule of normal business of go... | |
| | | | Transport strike | | | | early times report
JAMMU, Dec 27: Ongoing standoff between the members of the transporters association and the state government authorities over hike of passenger tax today posed great hardships to large number of users of public transport system on account of day long strike.
Since morning the office goers, school children and local residents faced numerous hardships as minibuses, long route buses and even auto rickshaws remained off the roads due to strike call given by the J&K Transporters association.
The worst sufferers were passengers and tourists as they failed to get transport to reach their destinations.
Huge rush of pilgrims arriving here to perform darshan at the Mata Vais... | |
| | | | BJP to keep UPA, State Govts on tenterhooks over Kashmir | | | | Early times report
JAMMU, Dec 27: The entire nation is looking towards Jammu again for leading a nationalist movement at a time when autonomy and self rule are being discussed as the alternative options for solution of Kashmir problem.
As BJP has already launched the campaign to save Kashmir with Party holding state -wide programmes over a month to mobilise the public opinion for a pro-nationalist movement in J&K for its total integration with rest of the country followed by Ekta Sankalap rally at Jammu on December 24. To give an impetus to the movement launched by it, the Party's youth wing i.e BJYM is launching Kolkata to Kashmir rally from January 12 to hoist the National Flag at La... | |
| | | | Why don't disappeared persons avail amnesty package? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 27: "If the disappeared persons are in Pakistan as claimed by the officials they must return now as New Delhi has granted amnesty to youth desirous of coming back." This was stated by Yasin Malik, an executive member of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP).
The APDP was formed in 1994 by Parvez Imroz. According to APDP 8000-10,000 persons have been subjected to enforced disappearance since 1989. The APDP figures have been strongly contested by the government.
However, a series of contradictory statements issued by successive state governments dampen the official denials. On May 2, 2008 Omar Abdullah said 4000 Kashmiris were subjected t... | |
| | | | Counterpoise To Jammu's Just Aspirations | | vKashmiris say valley is ignored, demand Special Task Force | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 27: Resentment is brewing in Kashmir over the Union Government September 25 decision to set up two Special Task Forces, one each for Jammu and Ladakh, so that the developmental needs of these two provinces are identified and addressed. Some influential people in the Valley have, in fact, bemoaned the Union Government's decision, saying it has "overlooked" Kashmir, which has witnessed "little growth in the past two decades. " They have described the Union Government's decision as "surprising."
According to those who have criticized the decision of the Union Government on the ground that New Delhi has excluded the "underdeveloped" Kashmir Valley, the auth... | |
| | | | CM’s SKEWPY fails to address J&K's unemployment woes | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
early times report
JAMMU, Dec 27: Chief Minister much hyped "Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Policy for Youth (SKEWPY)" has failed to redress issues of unemployment, beggar, hopelessness and despondency among youth of Jammu and Kashmir.
The policy has died slow death and is in real terms nowhere in existence. Youth are being made to run from pillar to post both by government agencies and banks involved in the implementation of policy which is considered brainchild of Chief Minister . Even the officials who have been designated to execute the policy accept that the policy is no solution to the ever increasing menace of unemployment in the state.
They affirm that ... | |
| | | | BJP & Kashmir -- II | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 27: As for the reaction of Kashmiri leaders, separatists or otherwise, to what the BJP leaders said in Jammu, almost all of them said it was "all communalism." Yasin Malik of the JKLF accused the BJP of "launching a campaign against the resolution of Kashmir issue and asked the party to desist from such practice and instead push the Congress-led UPA Government to carry forward the process for finding a peaceful solution to Kashmir issue." He asked BJP leaders, especially L K Advani, to recall what his party did when in power and refrain from making provocative statements. His suggestion was that the BJP should pursue the Atal Bihari Vajpayee line. In t... | |
| | | | Army recovers huge quantity of arms, ammunition | | | | JAMMU: Troops of 38 Rashtriya Rifles of Romeo Force and territorial army today recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition from a militant hideout in Kathunia forests of Rajouri.
Army sources said during a search operation launched in Kathunia forests on a tip-off, the troops came across a militant hideout which was carved out in a natural cave.
Its search led them to the recovery of one Pak-made pistol, two AK magazines, 102 AK rounds, 32 electronic detonators, 10 pika rounds, 40 grenades of automatic grenade launcher, 14 MGL rounds, three IEDs, one kilogram of IED explosive, nine Chinese grenades, one Pak-made grenade and other warlike stores.The hideout was later busted by the tro... | |
| | | | Firing on LoC in Poonch after army foils infiltration bid | | | | JAMMU: A heavy exchange of fire between the two sides began late tonight on the Line of Control (LoC) in KG sub-sector of Poonch after army foiled any infiltration bid by militants.
Official sources said an alert army patrol sighted a group of militants on the LoC in KG area at about 9.30 pm. As the troops on KG's Chhajja Maan and Dogra forward posts were in the process of laying ambushes to kill the infiltrators in case they entered the Indian territory, they came under heavy fire from the Pak posts, the sources added.
The enemy fire was aimed at facilitating infiltration by the militants who had moved close to LoC. India retaliated. The exchnage of fire between the two sides... | |
| | | | Pregnant woman, child killed in road mishaps | | | | JAMMU: A pregnant woman and a five-year-old boy were killed in separate road accidents here today. Police sources said Hazra Begum (28), wife of Moh-ammad Assad Chouhan of Jarneli Mohalla, Poonch, was carrying home vegetables when a speeding autoricksha (JK02F/1602) hit her at old Bus Stand Morh in Poonch town, resulting in her instant death.
She was seven months pregnant. Police later seized the autorickshaw and arrested its driver Rakesh Kumar of Nai Basti, Poonch.
Aneesh Masih, son of Jagdish Masih, was crushed to death after the rear tyre of a truck (JK14A/6281) ran over him at Neili Nullah in Udhampur.Police had registered a case in this connection against the truck driver who wa... | |
| | | | Angry people ransack Bhaderwah hospital after boy's death | | | | JAMMU: Angry people ransacked sub-district hospital (SDH), Bhad-erwah, Sunday due to the absence of an ENT specialist needed to take out a whistle from a five-year-old boy's throat. A whistle got stuck in the thorat of Shubham Sunday at his residence at Udarana, Bhaderwah. His family took him to SDH, Bhaderwah.Police sources said since there was no ENT doctor in the hospital, Shubham was referred to Doda district hospital.
As ill-luck would have it, Doda hospital too did not have an ENT doctor following which the boy was referred to the GMC hospital but he died on the way.The angry relatives later ransacked the Bhaderwah hospital. SDM, Bhaderwah, has ordered a probe into the incident.... | |
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