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| 35 killed in Pakistan blast | | | | Rawalpindi | Mar 2
A blast in northwest Pakistan on Sunday killed 35 people, while 40 others were injured. The injured have been shifted to a local hospital.
The suspected suicide blast occurred at a tribal meeting held to discuss the security situation in the tribal region of Dera Adamkhel. Leaders of 5 major tribes are reported to have been killed in the explosion.
Alam Khan, a tribesman at the meeting, said a young man walked up to a group of elders and apparently blew himself up.
Major cities in Pakistan and hospitals in neighbouring towns have been put on high alert after the blast in Darra Adamkhel.
Earlier yesterday, the Tribal Union of Journalists had asked the government to... | |
| | | | Mind your language: Baig to NC leadership | | | | Early Times Reporter
Baramulla | Mar 2
Deputy Chief Minister and senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Muzaffar Hussain Beigh on Sunday lashed out the leadership of opposition party National Conference (NC) alleging that NC has been resorting to abusive statements against PDP and they (NC leaders) should mind their language.
Addressing his first public rally after being inducted as Deputy Chief Minster, at Delina in Baramulla, Beigh said that NC has always mislead people of Kashmir since its inception by false propaganda.
Reacting to the recent statement of National Conference chief that Mufti Muhammad Sayeed is responsible for destruction in Kashmir, Baig asked NC leadership ... | |
| | | | PDP likely to give up pre-poll alliance idea | | `Tactical alliance' under consideration | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 02
Despite all their public display of bravado and self-confidence, things look pretty confusing for Jammu and Kashmir's main political formations. The key coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party is likely to give up its earlier idea of entering into a pre-poll alliance with Congress for the upcoming assembly polls, this year.
If well informed sources in the party circles have to be believed majority of Kashmir based party leaders are of the idea that PDP will be at the receiving end in case it enters into a pre-poll alliance with Congress. This concern has given rise to another idea; `Tactical Alliance' in the assembly polls to be held in the state... | |
| | | | Parties favour early Assembly polls | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 2
Even though 2008 Assembly elections are far away but poll fever is catching up fast and different political parties are joining the chorus of holding early polls in the state between May- June 2008 to end the current state of political uncertainty.
Raising the demand for preponement of Assembly polls Provincial President of the National Conference, Mr Ajay Sadhotra, said here today "we are ready for early elections in the state." He said we are determined to expose the Cong-PDP coalition and beat them in the poll arena. He said opposition party cannot fix the calendar of the polls adding that the schedule for the Assembly election has to be fixed by... | |
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