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Govt, Geelani in competition to condemn Sopore Hurriyat (G), Police happy over shutdown on killing of two women 2/4/2011 11:57:00 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, Feb 4: Initially cornered by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over the separatist camp’s silence towards the brutal killing of two young women in Sopore, hardliner Hurriyat chief, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, is now on the forefront of condemning the carnage. Geelani’s call for shutdown evoked substantial response in the apple town where the state government agencies mobilized a rally of women that demanded exactly what the union Home Minister P Chidambaram desired in a meeting in Jammu---arrest of the killers at an earliest. Few people mustered courage to visit Ghulam Nabi Dar’s two-room cottage in a wooden shack at Muslim Peer in Sopore on the day of his two young daughters’ funeral on Tuesday last. In contrast to massive funerals on similar deaths, perceived to be done by Police or the state’s armed forces, not more than a hundred residents attended the burial. Unmistakably at the receiving end of public anger, most of the separatist leaders have issued equivocal statements of condemnation after the NC leader’s dressing down in the last three days. Neve...   READ MORE

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Center’s ‘reach out’ policy or Congress’ assertion in matters of governance …….? Chidambaram’s visit to Kistwar 2/4/2011 11:56:38 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 4: Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram’s visit to the Kishtwar district today to take stock of ‘things’ in the five hilly adjacent districts cannot be taken as a routine one, only to review law and order situation or the prevailing security scenario in these areas. In capacity of senior Congress man, the objective was to take first hand assessment report on the administrative matters as well by monitoring ‘everything’ himself in these backward areas. Sources said Chidambaram who has been asserting in matters even at the district level for the last few months by making personal visits had chosen the visit to Kishtwar district for more than one reason. O...   READ MORE   Is Azad strengthening or weakening Congress ….? 2/4/2011 11:55:44 PM Early Times report Jammu, Feb 4: Former Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad’s recent visit to Jammu has once again brought fissures in the Congress party to the fore. The Congress high command, according to sources in the Congress party is highly disturbed over the development. While the Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram is trying to bind the warring factions together, the fissures continue to deepen. There is no denying the fat that the Congress party performed well in 2002 elections under Azad’s dynamic leadership. National Conference was shown the exit and the state came under coalition rule. Azad became a hero. An in-depth analysis of Azad’s stay in the state reflects his failure a...   READ MORE   Action against Health Minister Sham would ensure the demise of Congress party 2/4/2011 11:54:56 PM MINCING NO WORDS NEHA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Feb 4: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday disclosed that the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, is contemplating action against Health Minister in the Omar Abdullah-led coalition government Sham Lal Sharma for what he said at Bani (Kathua) on December 5 during a public rally. He said the Congress high command has taken a serious note of Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma’s statement on Kashmir issue and a decision would be taken soon in this regard. If what Azad has revealed is correct, then the Congress is doomed. Sham had only said what he should have said and what he said was what the people of Jammu province, barring the agen...   READ MORE   JKPCC lodges complaint against NC demands regional council for Jammu Meeting With HM 2/4/2011 11:54:41 PM STARK REALITY RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Feb 4: The position of the Congress party in Jammu and Kashmir is precarious. It is helpless. It shares powers with the NC, which cannot rule the state even for a day without the support of the former, but it doesn’t have the ability and capacity to apply brakes on the latter, which is willfully and systematically destroying its alliance partner and has practically rendered the Congress party weak and ineffective. The fact of the matter is that the Congress is at the mercy of the NC and its only role is to endorse without murmur whatever decision the NC takes and decides to implement. The plight of the Congress is indeed very miserable. It’s...   READ MORE   Man falls into well, dies 2/4/2011 11:54:22 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 04: A labourer died under mysterious circumstances after he fell into a well at Jagti near Nagrota here last night. Quoting family members, police sources said Mohammad Rafiq, son of Abdul Aziz of Banihal, who worked as labourer at Jagti, last night went to the village well to collect water. When he did not return till late at night, family members went to the well and found his body floating in the well waters, the sources added. After the matter was brought to their notice, police rushed to the spot and fished out the body. After completing legal formalities, cops removed the body to the GMC hospital mortuary where post-mortem was conducted on it ...   READ MORE   Absconder held at Painthal 2/4/2011 11:54:05 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 04: An alleged thief, who was absconding for the past over five years, was today apprehended by police at Painthal checking point. He was identified as Balwan Chand of Naklotta, Udhampur.Police sources said a theft case was registered against Balwan at the Katra police station in 2001 on the complaint of a man in whose house he worked as a servant. After he went underground, he was proclaimed as absconder.Sources said he was taken into custody by cops at the Painthal checking point in the morning and whisked away to the Katra police station. ...   READ MORE   BSNL employee arrested, four petrol bombs seized 2/4/2011 11:53:46 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Feb 4 A BSNL employee was arrested and four petrol bombs and a Hizbul Mujahideen letter pad were recovered from him in Anantnag district today, police said. Ali Mohammad Bhat, a BSNL employee, had been arrested and a case registered against him, they said The seizure was effected when police and army troops conducted a search operation in village Lok Bhawan. A binocular, a letter pad of the Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit and four petrol bombs were recovered from Bhat''s possession, the police said. ...   READ MORE   Track Sopore girls' killers speedily: Chidambaram 2/4/2011 11:53:25 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 4 Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday demanded that the killers of two teenaged sisters in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town be speedily tracked down and given severe punishment. Attending a meeting of the Unified Command here before leaving for Kishtwar to attend a security review, the minister sought the details about the incident and the progress police have made in the case. He said this is a 'litmus test' for the security agencies and such gruesome crimes 'must be tracked and criminals punished', official sources told . Chief Minister Omar Abdullah assured that 'all-out efforts would be made to trace the killers and punish them', an official quoted...   READ MORE   Omar, Chidambaram meet one on one, review security scenario 2/4/2011 11:53:00 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 4: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram who arrived here Thursday had one to one meeting with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at the latter’s official residence this morning. During the breakfast meeting which lasted about an hour, the two leaders discussed matters pertaining to security scenario in the state. The issues relating to the development projects were also taken stock of in the meeting. Later, the Chief Minister and the Union Home Minister got appraisal of the security and law and order situation and reviewed the measures in place to maintain peace and tranquility in the State. The meeting among top brass of security forces and J&K Police was attended...   READ MORE   Terror incidents down, infiltration up in J&K 2/4/2011 11:52:44 PM NEW DELHI: Terrorist violence in Jammu & Kashmir has dipped but infiltration from across the Pakistan border has steadily risen, after recording the lowest level for several years in 2008. As the Kashmir region saw nearly three months of violent protests and shutdowns in 2010, Pakistani terror outfits were quietly pushing militants across the border. According to estimates presented by the Union home ministry at the recent chief ministers' conference here, estimated infiltration of militants into J&K has gone up to 489 in 2010 from 485 in 2009 and 342 in 2008. The numbers of terrorists killed in the state have also been on the higher side. While 239 terrorists were killed in the sta...   READ MORE

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