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| Taliban emerge where law, order, justice vanish | | | | BL KAK
New Delhi | February 24
The frontier territories of Aghanistan have attracted a good deal of attention of various capitals across the world, including New Delhi. In fact, India's Foreign Office has, in recent times, evinced greater interest in the changing situation in the strife-torn Afghanistan. New Delhi's anxiety is not without a basis. Media as well as intelligence agencies continue to report cases of Taliban infiltration of towns and cities to the point where they even asume law enforcement duties and parade criminals in the streets, supplanting mistrusted and inefficient state authorities.
Pakistan's Daily Times newspaper has quoted a retired police official in the afflicted North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), as saying: "Where law and order and justice vaniss, Taliban emerge and the public response is positive because people want protection, irrespective of who provides". And other police officials claimed that whole areas in the province have been "taken over" by the Taliban. In the armaments-making centre of Darra Adam Khel, located 30 km from the NWFP cap... | |
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| Emerging threat to Kashmir, Ladakh | | Sino-Pak rail project up to strategic Khunjerab | | | BL KAK
New Delhi| February 24
An alarming development across the Kashmir-Ladakh border: Beijing and Islamabad have joined hands to lay railway track up to 4,730-meter-high Khunjerab. This will link Pakistan with China's rail network.
By expanding its stake in Pakistan's rail sector, China is poised to exploit the country's advantageous geographic position--strategically located at the confluence of South, Central and West Asia. Beijing's involvement in several rail projects in Pakistan is motivated primarily by commercial considerations, but it also sees distinct advantages for its improved transportation and access to Central Asia and the Persian Gulf states. A reliable network o... | |
| | | | Raise 15 more Battalions : JK to centre | | | | Jammu | February 24
With a view to further strengthening the security grid in Jammu and Kashmir the State government has sent a proposal to the centre seeking sanction for raising 15 new battalions in police force.
Official sources said here today that the recruitment process for the four police battalions would be completed shortly but in the meantime “we have requested the centre for sanctioning raising of 15 new battalions during the next five years.”
A senior police officer of the rank of DIG said “at present the police strength is over 75,000 excluding 25,000 SPOs and VDC members. And the strength of the police force in the state was 30,000 in 1990 when militancy took roots... | |
| | | | Baramulla Police arrests youth for drug abuse | | | | Srinagar | Feb 24
A youth was held today by police and seized large number of medicines from his possession which were likely to be misused.
According to reports, Police arrested Showkat Ahmad Dar son of Mohammad Shaban Dar resident of Khanpora and seized 160 bottles of cough syrup (Recodex) and 100 strips of Spas Moproxyan. The accomplice of the arrested person namely Imtiyaz Ahmad Dar son of Abdul Gaffar resident of Khanpora is still absconding. An FIR bearing number 48 under section 8/20 NDPS Act and 420 RPC has been registered in police station Baramulla.
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| | | | Neelam: Precious wealth of state deliberately kept behind the curtains | | Adequate exploitation can alone put derailed economy of state on track | | | Jammu | Feb 24
One of the precious stones “Neelam” which is rarely found in the world but abundantly available in our state has been deliberately kept on the stage of under exploitation by the successive state governments led by Kashmiri leaders as Kishtwar is a part of Jammu Region. It is believed that extraction and sale of this precious stone in world market could alone have the potential to put the derailed economy of state on the track. But, smugglers are ruling the roost in present dispensation and making the most of the opportunity as state government has maintained a criminal silence over the matter. .
According to reports, Padder, Dachan, and Wadhwan areas in Kishtwar are bless... | |
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