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| Police footprint everywhere; JKP manning Hospitals, Universities in J&K | | Private Security replaced, happy administrators seek increase | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi/
Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Mar 23: In complete contrast to vehement claims, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's administration has virtually turned Jammu and Kashmir into police state.
From manning parking slots in government medical colleges to controlling academic atmosphere in the Universities, Jawans of Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) meet your eye everywhere. Not one or two, a good number of SPOs have been engaged to maintain law and order inside the universities and hospitals. Private security personnel have been withdrawn for there a sons best known to the authorities.
If higher officials are to asked about presence of police in hospitals, they say that police has helped in controlling crowds besides ensuring that attendants do not clash with doctors. Further, they say that presence of police ensures that parking slots which are essentially meant for Doctors and hospital staff are not misused.
Apart from four police personnel working with Police Post incharge, sources said that 31 SPOs engaged by police headquarter have been kept at the disposal of administrat... | |
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| Delay in DPC dampens spirits of state police officers | | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Mar 23: Discontent is growing among fore runners in the state police who are already due for promotions to the next rank, but for the delay in the holding of the DPC (Departmental Promotion Committee) meeting. The holding of the DPC, aspirants allege is being delayed because of unknown reasons Frustration among the aspirants is reportedly growing as the list that had been forwarded by Police Headquarters to the government, would remain on back burner for some more time.
Now they are waiting when the DPC comprising Chief Secretary Madhav Lal, Principal Secretary Home B R Sharma and Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda give nod to their future prospect.
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| | | | Kashmir 'shrine believers' challenge radical Islamists from heart of Srinagar | | '85-90 pc Valley Muslims have reverence for saints and shrines' | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Mar 23: Wittingly or unwittingly timed on "Yaum-e-Pakistan", a conglomerate of Muslim religious outfits today organized its show of strength at Batmaloo, heart of the congested Capital city. Unfazed by an armed attack on its prominent functionary, Pir Jalal-ud-din, Muttahida Ulema-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat w-al-Jamaat (MUASWJ) sought a thorough investigation into all guerrilla strikes on 'believers of saints and shrines'.
Close on the heels of two mysterious shootouts at Sarai Bala and Batmaloo, JUASWJ organized a march of its followers in vicinity of the revered shrine of Batmaloo Sahab. Most prominent exponents of this nascent religious movement, including the Karwaan-e... | |
| | | | Government suffering from judgmental deficit | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: The State government especially the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is suffering from judgmental deficit.
Speaking a function the on Friday , the CM asked media not to pass judgments.
"There are so many examples before us where media passes judgments and the facts ultimately prove differently," said Omar.
But Just a day before his own National Conference reacting to the statement of PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Beig had termed him a lunatic
The statement reads: "J&K National Conference feels it fit to take no notice of what he (Baig) has said because his maverick behavior shows streaks of lunacy and the only thing he deserves is sympathy and ... | |
| | | | No compromise on Shrines Bill: KPs | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: Undeterred by the mounting pressure of various organizations within the state and outside who are hell bent to sabotage the Kashmiri Hindu Shrines and Religious Places Bill, the KP bodies have decided to launch a nation-wide campaign to garner the public opinion in support of the Bill for protection of age old shrines and religious places in Valley.
Taking serious exception to some organizations spreading canards about the community, a delegation of various KP organizations under the aegis of Pt. Prem Nath Bhat Memorial Trust spear heading the ongoing campaign for passage of the Shrines Bill have made it clear to Parliamentary Affairs and Rural Developme... | |
| | | | March 23, 1987: The day that changed Jammu Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: March 23 is an important date in Jammu Kashmir history. This day changed the state for good. On this day 25 years ago democracy was slaughtered in Valley streets by Congress-National Conference alliance. It was not the Muslim United Front (MUF) that lost. It was democracy that died down on that day. The consequences are quite visible.
This was perhaps the first time when Kashmiris willingly participated in the electoral process. And, on this day it dawned on them that ballot had miserably failed to get them their rights. What happened on that day has been condemned by the incumbent Governor of the state besides former Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee... | |
| | | | Congress shocks nation by ignoring 1994 resolution | | Leasing Gilgit-Baltistan | | | Rustam
Jammu, Mar 23: On March 2, Panun Kashmir (PK) leaders, including Ajay Chrungoo and Prof MK Teng, made a fervent appeal to the Congress-dominated UPA Government to take cognizance of the reported decision of Pakistan to lease Gilgit-Baltistan region - which is undoubtedly Indian - to China for 50 years. The PK leaders asserted, and very rightly, that the reported decision, if correct, was fraught with dangerous ramifications as far as the territorial integrity of India and that it was time for New Delhi to assert its position so that the northern frontiers were fully secured for India. "The Government of India has never chosen to wake up to the reality that Pakistan has always sought... | |
| | | | Beig tears into the Abdullahs, demands inquiry against them | | NC Response | | | Neha
Jammu, Mar 23: Denying allegations of corruption again him on Wednesday, former Deputy Chief Minister and PDP MLA Muzzaffar Hussain Beig blasted the Abdullah dynasty. He not only exposed the late Sheikh Abdullah but also lambasted NC president Farooq Abdullah and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. He urged the Union Government to institute a high-powered inquiry commission to look into the charges of corruption levelled against him by the NC leadership and made a commitment that "if it's proven that I got some property from Governor Jagmohan, I will kick politics and I will voluntarily blacken my face and walk on the streets of Srinagar". At the same time, he demanded that the same inquiry... | |
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