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| BSF Commandant’s criminal involvement established | | 13 cops reveal to IO how Birdi ordered and Lakhwinder gunned down teenager at Nishat | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Feb 13: Superintendent of Police East, V K Birdi, who is investigating the broad daylight murder of Zahid Farooq Sheikh of Brain Nishat, has established the criminal involvement of BSF Commandant, R K Birdi, as all 13 eyewitnesses of the paramilitary force today deposed that the detained accused, Constable Lakhwinder Kumar, had fired upon the teenager on the orders of his officer. The statements recorded by the Investigating Officer (IO) have made it clear that BSF’s Special Director General, P P S Sidhu, had doled out lies at his news conference here the other day to shield the real criminal of the gruesome killing.
Well-placed sources revealed to Early Times that the IO today recorded statements of all 13 eyewitnesses of the paramilitary force which led to establishment of the BSF Commandant R K Birdi’s criminal involvement in Zahid Farooq’s broad daylight killing. Zahid had been fired upon by a party of BSF 68 Bn in close vicinity of the office of IG CRPF at Brain, Nishat, on the banks of Dal Lake here on February 5th. On February 10th, BSF... | |
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| PC arrives on Feb 17 to discuss "cross-border surrender policy" | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 13: To translate into a scheme the idea of offering amnesty to Kashmiri militants in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) for their return to the state, home minister PChidambaram is scheduled to arrive here on February 17 to chairUnified Command meet.
Apart from reviewing security situation in the state and plansfor modernisation of police, he would discuss the amenstypolicy in the meet, according to official sources.The idea was floated by Omar Abdullah in chief ministers' conference on internal security in New Delhi last Sunday. The Centre had promptly accepted it, saying: "The idea that any Indian national who had crossed over to PoK and wishes to return home... | |
| | | | Omar asks Pranab for NE-2007 package for J&K | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 13: Apart from the already operational industrial package of 2002, chief minister Omar Abdullah has asked union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to extend the North-East Package-2007 to Jammu and Kashmir also.
In his meeting with Mukherjee in New Delhi today, he said the NE Package-2007 was must for the state too for its averall development.
It was the concern of entire country to bring out Jammu and Kashmir from all such industrial ailments which were caused as a result of two decade turmoil, he added.
Omar asserted said that it is the endeavor of his Government to ensure massive investment in the sectors of Industry and Commerce in the State s... | |
| | | | Will Congress honour commitment on allowing NC to head coalition for six years ? | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu,February 13:-Will the congress stick to its commitment of allowing the National Conference to head the coalition in Jammu and Kashmir for full six years ?This question has assumed interest after the level of mistrust between the National Conference and the Congress within the state having increased towards the end of the first year of its completion.When in January 2009 the Congress decided to support the National Conference in the Government making it was agreed verbally that the Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,will be allowed to head the Government for full six years. A plea for this arrangement was made by the National Conference leadership which conveyed t... | |
| | | | New surrender policy may embolden separatists | | | |
RUSTAM
JAMMU, Feb 13: Home Minister P Chidambaram has accepted the suggestion of the J&K Chief Minister and announced that he is for general amnesty to the militants and for the return of Kashmiri youth, who went to Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) for undergoing arms training. It was expected that the NC and other Kashmir-based parties would hail the decision and it has happen.
It was also expected that the parties like the BJP, the J&K National Panthers Party and the internally-displaced Kashmiri Pandits would oppose it for reasons not difficult to fathom. The BJP, the Panthers Party, the displaced Kashmiri Pandits are opposed to the surrender policy, as also to the return ... | |
| | | | Amnesty offer for militants: NC, PDP, CPI in fray to claim credit | | | | ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 13
The surrender policy theory before actually getting manifested into a practicality, besides inviting social ire from the soils of Jammu, has started to gather political fury of the dissent parties which are trying hard for an opinion in valley for them being the pioneers to have mooted the idea.
Stunned by the endorsement of the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram over the proposal mooted by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for an general amnesty to PoK militants, PDP as well as well as a faction of disgruntled groups has started maneuvering their respective machinery to spread a public opinion vis-à-vis surrender policy be... | |
| | | | 11 injured in Mendhar bus accident | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 13 : At least 11 passengers were today injured, three critically, when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road at Mendhar in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
A local passenger vehicle with registration number JK02M8623 -- was on its way from Uchhad to Mendhar when it met with an accident at about 1115 hrs, police said.
All passengers, including the injured, were evacuated from the vehicle, which, the sources said, was carrying more passengers than its authorised capacity.
The injured were shifted to a nearby civil hospital for treatment, police said.
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| | | | Mumma Kanna ‘ Goonda’ Killer of 5000 Kashmiries: Mehbooba | | | |
SHAFIQ MIR
Rajouri, February 13
Terming the controversial Padamshri of Kashmir, Mumma Kanna as a goon and a killer of more than 5000 Kashmiries in valley , People’s Democratic Party president , Mehbooba Mufti lambasted at the state and central governments for recommending his name for the prestigious award of the country . Mehbooba said that the person who have been given Padamshri award is the rapist and murder of innocent Kashmiries . This she burst while addressing to a public rally organized by her party workers at frontier border district Rajouri on Saturday .
Making the frontal attack on the National Conference government in the state of Jammu and Kashmir , Mehbooba Mufti s... | |
| | | | Information Dept has no information on normalcy | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 13: The government and its agencies are desperate to trumpet what they call return of normalcy. The Chief Minister, his ministers, the DGP and other bureaucrats issue statements to make outside world believe that normalcy was round the corner. But the state information department, it seems, is not impressed. Or does it hold a contrary view?
The official website of the government of Jammu Kashmir is designed, maintained and upgraded by the information department. Normally the information department works round the clock to keep the ministers and bureaucrats in good humor. Besides sending statements on activities of ministers through email to newspaper o... | |
| | | | Ire against St Valentine’s Day vanishes into the blue | | | |
Early Times Report
New Delhi,
A new wave of emancipation sweeps through the country. Not just Mumbai has played cool to Bal Thackerey’s war cries against Shahrukh Khan’s movie, My Name is Khan, but Jammu and Kashmir too has been spared of the rage of Dukhtarane Millat this time whose veiled activists have been tearing off St Valentine Day cards during the years gone by and storming the shops selling these token’s of love in Srinagar. Yet in far off Karnataka the sides have reversed as far as muscle flexing goes through the countdown to St Valentine’s Day that since yore became an insignia of love, nay romance, expressed through cards, cakes, flowers like being exchanged today among bud... | |
| | | | JKPCC allows 8 rebels to rejoin party | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 13
Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) today accepted the request of eight dissidents, who had contested the last Assembly elections against the party in 2009, to return into party fold.
As per the press statement issued here, JKPCC president and former Union Minister, Saif-ud-Din Soz said, “It was during the last elections to the State Assembly that some of the party functionaries had chosen to contest against the party candidates,” adding that the party had taken objection to their behaviour and conveyed disciplinary action against such persons.
In the meantime, many of these leaders have expressed regret for their decision that ha... | |
| | | | Infiltration bid foiled on LoC in Poonch | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 13:
Amid ceasefire violation by Pakistan, an infiltration bid was foiled on the Line of Control (LoC) in Krishna Ghati sub-sector of Mendhar in Poonch this evening.
Official sources said Pak army opened fire from their Daku and Battal outposts on Kranti and Kirpan forward Indian positions at about 6.15 pm to fascilitate infiltration.
They fired RPG rocckets and used machine guns, the sources added.
India retaliated and put troops all along the LoC on high alert to foil any infiltration bid by the Pak-based militants.
When contacted, BGS Media, Brigadier Gurdip Singh confirmed the incident of firing by Pak, saying "it was a clear case of ceasefire ... | |
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