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PDP proposes joint J&K Parliament Mehbooba tells Pugwash: Self Rule is about blurring LoC 3/30/2008 10:52:10 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Mar 30 Picking up a thread from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ‘Line of Peace’ proposal, the Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti today suggested blurring of the dividing line and constituting a joint parliament for both parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Sounding far from reality, Mehbooba told the Pugwash Conference in Islamabad, “Growing awareness of the complexity of the notion of representation and the multifunctional nature of modern legislatures may be affording incipient new rationales for a unique system to be set up”. Mehbooba said that such an arrangement is contained in the self rule proposal of the Peoples Democratic Party. Text of her speech released from Islamabad said, “It is possible to think of Regional Council for the undivided state of Jammu and Kashmir”. The Upper House of the State Assembly can be redesigned in the form of a regional Senate with members from J&K as well as Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PAK). At present our state assembly holds 20 seats for representatives from PAK. These could be given up and held as...   READ MORE

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Jammu fest to stretch across region 3/30/2008 10:51:41 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Mar 30 Amidst voices of discord from various artists and theater groups, the fortnight long Jammu festival is all set to take off opening new vistas of cultural reflection at the micro level across Jammu region. The unique feature of this year’s festival is that stretches across to the entire region and is not confined merely to walled winter capital city. The festival is being held at all district headquarters and other smaller townships to offer a sense of cultural inclusiveness. “The main endeavor of the festival is to divert the Vaishnodevi Yatri’s to other tourist destinations in the state and also to project Jammu Region as a tourist destination with...   READ MORE   Mangat hospitalized 3/30/2008 10:51:09 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Mar 30 Congress veteran and Health Minister Mangat Ram Sharma was today hospitalized after he fell unconscious at a function. Sharma was attending a function of a cricket team of medicos at Bakshi Nagar when he fell unconscious. He was immediately rushed to the nearby Government Medical Hospital for examination. A team of doctors was immediately summoned which examined Sharma. He was later moved to the cardiac care unit of the hospital for monitoring. Though it was initially apprehended that Sharma might have had a cardiac congestion but the doctors ruled out any such thing. They said that he fell unconscious due to over-exertion. The doctors attending ...   READ MORE   Pak Cabinet being sworn in today 3/30/2008 10:50:33 PM Islamabad | Mar 30 Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will administer oath of office to a 24-member federal cabinet headed by Prime Minister Gilani on Monday. The Prime Minister's Secretariat is learnt to have sent a summary in this connection to President Pervez Musharraf through the Cabinet Division. According to the Cabinet Division, 11 out of 24-member cabinet will be from the PPP, eight from the PML-N, two from the ANP and one each from the JUI-F and the FATA. The News said the list was finalised on Friday with the approval of PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif. The ministers from the PPP are Shah Mehmood Qureshi (Foreign Affairs), Sherry Rehman (Inform...   READ MORE   Spicy grenades in offing 3/30/2008 10:50:14 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Mar 30 As militancy is still far from over, the security forces are trying novel ideas to chase the militants –the latest being spicy grenades filled with chilly. Conceived and designed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the chilly powder grenades on the one hand will achieve maximum success and on the other hand may silence the human rights activists as militants will land in the hands security forces alive and not killed. Defined as thermal smoke grenades, the new weapons are filled with high concentration of red chilly and pepper. The 81-mm calibre grenades, which have been developed by the Defence Research and Development Orga...   READ MORE   Industry fumes over midway withdrawal of incentives 3/30/2008 10:49:46 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Mar 30 Proposing handsome sops for economic development across the country, the Union Government has put the Jammu and Kashmir state in a fix by withdrawing the package of incentives for industrial investors here. The notification for withdrawal of incentives has already pressed a panic button and industrialists are out to launch a massive protest against this decision. A reaction from the state government is, however, yet to come. In a sudden decision, the Union government has withdrawn a special tax and incentive packages for investors in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. This way the Central Excise authorities have diluted the commitment made by the Governm...   READ MORE   Omar snubs Zardari for Kashmir freeze 3/30/2008 10:48:47 PM Islamabad | Mar 30 Opposing suggestions that the Kashmir issue should be "deep frozen", National Conference president Omar Abdullah on Sunday claimed that PPP chairman Asif Ali Zardari's stand that Indo-Pak ties should not be held hostage to the dispute had little support in Pakistan and J-K. Such a stand would be the "option of the last resort" for the national conference. "Besides, there is no guarantee that a future generation will be better (at resolving the issue)," the former J-K Chief Minister told agencies on the sidelines of a Pugwash conference here. Abdullah insisted that his party did not want the Kashmir issue to be "deep frozen". He said, "we should take a look at what ...   READ MORE

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