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| Geelani's yet another shutdown fails in Valley | | Groups upset over hardliner's meetings with BJP, 'recognition' to Maulana Shaukat's killers | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
srinagar, Jan 7: With some of the separatist outfits publicly flaying Syed Ali Shah Geelani's "recognition" of the detained 'killers' of Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadith (JAH) chief Maulana Shaukat and others distancing from his current bonhomie with BJP leadership in New Delhi, the Hurriyat hawk's call for shutdown against shifting of Kashmiri prisoners to jails outside the state evoked a lukewarm response in Kashmir valley.
Notwithstanding closed shops and business establishments in Srinagar Civil Lines and parts of few towns in South Kashmir, Geelani's call for shutdown did not evoke a substantial response in the Valley today. Even in the capital city, which has been a nerve centre of the separatist sentiment and politics for the last over two decades, business remained unaffected in most of the segments. Shops, trade centers, groceries, pharmacies, bakeries, restaurants, petrol filling stations, showrooms and workshops worked without paying attention to the call and traffic---public, private and commercial---operated without any disruption.
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| Kamal uttering affronts Congress again | | Leadership asks him not to poke 'ugly' nose in Congress' affairs | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 7: In what can once again start bickering and differences between the two coalition partners National Conference and Congress, NC leader and Uncle of Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah, Dr Mustafa Kamal has been snubbed by the senior Functionaries of the JKPCC for having commented 'unpleasant remarks' against the Congress party and its leadership. In a hard hitting statement Mustafa Kamal has asked in categorical tone that he should be concerned only about fate and future of his own party instead of poking his 'ugly' nose in the affairs of the Congress.
The tone and tenor of the Congress statement which reflects anger and annoyance against the senior leader of... | |
| | | | Using 'Religion' as poll plank, NC not an exception | | 'Doosron ko nashihat khud mian fazhiataptly applies to NC | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 7: Union Minister Farooq Abdullah may have warned people against forces exploiting religion at the time of elections for political mileage but perhaps he might have forgotten that his son's lines in 2008 have sparked Amarnath land Row.
As there is a good saying 'it is easy to say but to practice and the same may be aptly fits to National Conference (NC) leadership which only believes in delivering sermons but rarely tries to practice the same at its own.
In a veiled attack on BJP for its promises to build the Ram Temple in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Abdullah said, "Go and build, why announcing this at the time of elections. "We divide the people. We divid... | |
| | | | Mufti seeks people's support against prevailing trust deficit in Omar regime | | Stains of blood of Haji Yusuf still are fresh on their hands: Beigh | |  Early Times Report
kathua, Jan 7: Expressing his concern over prevailing trust deficit in the government and mal-administration in the state, former Chief Minister and patron of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today sought support of the people to change the present inefficient and corrupt system so as to give justice to the all sections of the society.
While addressing a well attended public meeting at Kathua today chief patron PDP Mufti Sayeed alleged that the stat... | |
| | | | Cabinet Meeting today | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 7: The state cabinet is meeting here tomorrow to discuss among other things the address of the Governor NN Vohra for forthcoming Budget session of Legislature beginning from Feb 23. The meeting which is taking place after over two weeks will be held under the CHief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Apart from the routine agenda of effecting some transfers, the cabinet more importantly will discuss and approve the Address which the Governor has read on the first day before joint legislature. Apart from this, what may come up as one more vital agenda is the presenattion of the report Cabinet Sub COmmitee on Power Projects, indicationa bout which was given by the CHief M... | |
| | | | Congress sabotaged the WC report to hit Jammu | | Administrative units | | | Neha
Jammu, Jan 7: According to the Wazir Commission report of 1983, Jammu deserved 10 districts and Kashmir 7 (Report of the Commission for Rationalization of Administrative Units, December 1983, PP. 12, 61, 214, 362). But the Congress-led government in the state bypassed this recommendation and increased the number of districts in Kashmir with one stroke of pen from the existing 6 to 10 in 2007, one each for 1585.3 sq km on an average, with a couple of districts just one-tehsil district (for example, Shopian). The state government created 4 more districts in Kashmir despite the fact that there was no such demand anywhere in the Valley. It also increased the number of districts in Jammu f... | |
| | | | Is Jammu & Kashmir part of the so-called secular India? | | Refugees From West Pakistan -- II | | | Rustam
Jammu, Jan 7: It was in 2007 that the state BJP moved a private member's bill in the legislative assembly seeking citizenship rights for the refugees from West Pakistan. Ghulam Nabi Azad, presently Union Health Minister, was then ruling the state. It was hoped that his government would adopt a positive and ensure the adoption of the private member's bill, but it was not to be. All the Kashmir-based legislators, without any exception, and all the Congress legislators, including those belonging to Jammu province, without any exception, joined hands and defeated the bill in no time. There was no discussion on the bill. It was a summary rejection.
Remember, the legislative assembly als... | |
| | | | AFSPA is not to protect acts of crime: Omar | | ‘It is not applicable to local police’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 7: Thanks to Supreme Court observation on AFSPA, a reality has finally dawned on Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah. "AFSPA is for legitimate protection and not for protection of the acts of crime. And that is something we have always maintained," Omar told reporters here.
Omar said, "I do not think the armed forces have to commit rape, murder or any other such activities in order to perform their duties.
Questioning the extent to which the army can claim blanket immunity under AFSPA, the Supreme Court had said rape and murder committed by its personnel should be considered a "normal crime", and that there is "no question of sanction" from the govern... | |
| | | | Waderas, like Gandhis, very anxious to serve the poor | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 7: AICC president Sonia Gandhi, who hardly speaks in the Parliament, has been ruling the country since May 2004. This is what the BJP and other critics of the Congress, including Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy, say. They say that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is there but it is 10 Janpath that actually controls everything. It is also the general perception. At the same, however, a section asserts that it is not just Sonia Gandhi who is ruling the roost and playing all the shots; it is she plus her son Rahul Gandhi who constitute the Congress or the Congress high command whose directions are treated by all the Congressmen as the words of God. Their di... | |
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