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| At rally to celebrate party's 125th anniversary, Congress call to NC: | | Panchayat polls not acceptable without incorporating 73rd amendment | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 28: In a loud message to the ruling partner National Conference the Congress, which is the main ally of coalition government in J&K today made it amply clear that Panchayat Polls without incorporating the provisions of 73rd constitutional amendments were not acceptable to the party, a demand on which it has been insisting on all fronts and forums. Congress also reiterated it had a right to assert in all the cabinet decisions and vital matters pertaining to governance and the party must get 3 years term for the post of Chief Minister.
In what can be now seen as efforts to build pressure on the NC which has been resisting this move, the party today made a clarion call from a public rally held in the winter capital in connection with celebration of 125th anniversary of the Party, that it was in no mood to go ahead with Panchayat Polls without having this amendment in place. " We raised the issue in the Coordination Committee meeting recently and our ministers have talked about this in the cabinet meeting as well", J&K PCC Chief Prof Soz said in his add... | |
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| For Sheikh Nazir's information | | Sher-e-Kashmir exiled his opponents to PaK | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 28: The National Conference General Secretary, Sheikh Nazir today said that Sher-e-Kashmir was the first to seek opening up of all the routes along the LoC to enable the divided families to meet. "Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah put forth this demand in 1964 during his Pakistan visit", he said.
Nazir further said that Sher-e-Kashmir wanted the people from both parts of Kashmir to "meet for finding a long lasting solution to the dispute." While the demand for opening up of routes along the LoC could be true, Sher-e-Kashmir, Nazir knows, never wanted the people on either side of the LoC to meet. According to most of the historians, Sher-e-Kashmir urged Jawahar Lal Neh... | |
| | | | Woman thief held from a hotel at Jewel | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 28: A woman, who had last week stolen cash and gold jewellery worth lakhs from her neighbour's house at Anantnag, was today arrested by police from a hotel at Jewel here.
Police sources said Asiya Khaki was in love with a youth of Anantnag. After allegedly stealing cash and over 12 tolas of gold jewellery from her neighbour's house, she fled Anantnag and came to Jammu on December 22.
After arriving here, she checked in a hotel at Jewel in wait for her love to come, the sources added. However, when the youth did not come, she went to Srinagar for a day and returned here next day. When she again checked in the same hotel, the staff got suspicious of him and i... | |
| | | | HC issue Notice to JK Govt | | Act banning Inter District Recruitment challenged in HC | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 28: Jammu Kashmir Civil Services Decentralization and Recruitment Act-2010 banning inter district recruitment except for Schedule Casts category in J&K and rules framed there under vide SRO-375 along with the advertisement of SSRB issued in pursuance to the Act and rules have been challenged in the State High Court.
In a Writ petition filed by J&K Tribal United Forum (TUF) an organization of Gujjars and others against Section 13(3) of this Act and 13(5) of the SRO-375 which reads "Notwithstanding anything contrary contained in sub rule (2) and(3), for vacancies reserved for the Scheduled Caste category in any Divisional or District cadre, candidate belongi... | |
| | | | BJP & Kashmir -- III | | Deviation from Vajpayee line provokes separatists, “mainstream formations” | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 28: MP Mehboob Beg of NC was equally critical of the BJP for its stand on J&K. Reacting to what the BJP leaders said in Jammu, he said: "If they (BJP) want to serve the nation, they should help in resolving Kashmir, and politicking on the issue only suits their party and not the nation." He further said, "I want to remind them that it was their Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who said if Kashmir issue wasn't resolved you cannot have peace and separatist leaders have been speaking about his seriousness for resolving the issue." He even went to the extent of saying that the "BJP after becoming issueless are raking up Kashmir for petty vote bank polit... | |
| | | | SSRB changes criteria to favour non-Forestry candidates | | Forestry grads being sidelined in recruitment of Foresters, FPF Inspectors | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 28: Jammu and Kashmir Government Services Selection Board's act of changing criteria in favour of non-Forestry candidates has drawn flak from around 500 unemployed Forestry graduates and post-graduates who have threatened to go on fast-unto-death if justice and transparency were compromised in the current process of recruitment of Foresters and Forest Protection Inspectors.
Subordinate Services Recruitment Board has on Monday notified 279 vacancies of Foresters and Inspectors in the state Forest Department and Forest Protection Force (FPF) respectively. In the previous process of recruitment in 2004, SSRB had fixed 40 points for 10+2 and 25 points for BSc ... | |
| | | | Counterpoise to Jammu's just aspirations -- II | | Kashmiris say valley is ignored, demand Special Task Force | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 28: The complaint of the Kashmiris that the successive governments in the state have ignored the Valley is false. It is based on heresy or it is based on what appeared in the Kashmir-based dailies after the submission of the biased and lop-sided State Finance Commission's report. Had the votaries of Task force for Kashmir gone thorough what two of the four members of the State Finance Commission Swami Raj Sharma from Jammu and Sonam Dawa from Ladakh disclosed at the time of the submission of the controversial report, they would not have said that Jammu was more developed as compared to Kashmir.
Sharma and Dawa have not only bemoaned the non-inclusion o... | |
| | | | World doesn't understand the language of stone pelting: Dr Gilani v | | 'J&K CM is constitutionally bound to facilitate cross-LoC visit of interlocutors' | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Dec 28: London-based Kashmiri human rights activist and constitutional expert, Dr Syed Nazir Gilani, today advised Kashmiri separatist leaders to shun their rigidity and negotiate on the Kashmir problem with the Indian Parliamentarians. He said that the civilized world had not, and would never, under the language of stone pelting that, according to him, had exclusively become the mark of identification of Muslims from Kashmir to Palestine.
Addressing a news conference in the midst of his exhaustive visit to his home state after several years, Secretary General of Jammu & Kashmir Council for Human Rights (JKCHR), Dr Gilani, asserted that viol... | |
| | | | Youth held with weapon at Katra | | | | JAMMU: An alleged criminal was today apprehended by police at Kun Drodian in Katra along with a sharp-edged weapon.
He was identified as Manjit Kumar of Kun Drodian. A case was registered against him under relevant sections of law, police said.
Boy falls from bus, injured
Jammu: A 15-year-old boy was wounded after he fell from a bus near Parakh in Reasi today. Police sources said Ibrar Ahmad, son of Mohammad Altaf of Parakh, was wounded after he fell from the bus (JK02AN/6561) near Parakh.
He was admitted to primary health centre, Pouni, and later referred to the GMC hospital here. Police had registered a case in this connection.... | |
| | | | Dilbagh reviews security arrangements at Katra | | | | JAMMU: IGP Dilbagh Singh today reviewed security arrangements in the holy Katra township.
In a meeting with DIG (Udhampur-Reasi) Jagjit Kumar and SSP (Reasi) KR Chaursia at Katra, he took stock of the security arrangements.
Later, en route to the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi, he inspected the CCTV cameras.
Dilbagh also paid his obeisance at the holy cave shrine. At the bhavan, he had an interaction with DSP Parshotam sharma and bhavan police station SHO, Inspector Vijay Dhar.... | |
| | | | Sopore Police unearths nexus between militants, stone pelters, Govt employees | | v'Militants raise funds in apple town, pay Rs 400/day to each stone pelter' | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
Early times report
SRINAGAR, Dec 27: Police in North Kashmir today claimed to have unearthed yet another module of militants, stone pelters and government employees which allegedly played key role in this year's street clashes and demonstrations in Sopore. Activists detained by Police have revealed how militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba had been raising funds from local traders and making cash payment to the stone pelters at the rate of Rs 400 per day.
Contrary to the belief of a many politicians from New Delhi to Srinagar, including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, DIG North Kashmir, Munir Khan, today claimed that there was a working nexus between militants and stone pelters in... | |
| | | | No let up in infiltration attempts in J&K | | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 27: As many as 470 infiltration bids were made by Pak-based militants this year, which is marginally lesser than the 485 reported in the previous year in Jammu and Kashmir.
Around 125 militants were eliminated during the year near the Line of Control (LoC) while trying to sneak into the border districts of Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara in North Kashmir, official sources said.
There was no let up in attempts by Pakistan to push in as many ultras as possible to fuel violence in the border state this year, the sources added. Sources said dozens of militants were eliminated in attempts to infiltrate along the LoC in Poonch and Rajouri districts and other areas alon... | |
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