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Lahore hostage drama ends with death, arrest of all terrorists 30 cops, suicide bombers killed in day-long operation 3/31/2009 12:37:34 AM AGENCIES LAHORE, MARCH 30: The commandos were seen celebrating at the rooftop of the training centre after the assailants surrendered and freed the hostages as the death toll in the deadly strike rose to 20 while the number of injured has been pegged at close to 150. Media reports said that two of the attackers blew themselves up while the two others were killed by the Army snipers. Earlier, a gunman was captured by the locals and handed over to the security forces when he ventured in front of the training centre building to lob a grenade at a helicopter. Two grenades and a communication device were recovered from the attacker and he has been taken to an undisclosed location for interrogation. A spokesman for the forces had said that they were willing to try whatever approach was needed to bring the siege to an end, including negotiating with the attackers. The spokesperson said that there was no confirmation of the number of people killed in the explosion. The gunmen had taken nearly 500 policemen hostage at gunpoint. Bodies of policemen were strewn on the...   READ MORE

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Briefcase containing lakhs of rupees recovered from Airport 3/31/2009 12:37:09 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, MAR 30: Pannic gripped in the airport when a constable spotted a briefcase in the premises of airport here today. The matter was informed to the DySP airport and when the briefcase was opened lakhs of Indian currency notes, some documents were found in it and the same were handed over to its owner after proper verification. The incident occurred when a constable identified as Raguveer Singh spotted a briefcase in the premises of the airport.He, sensing foul smell informed the DySP airport Yogesh Sharma and SSP airport .On opening it police found lakhs of Indian currency notes, dollars, four credit cards and some documents. Police during the verification of the doc...   READ MORE   Protest in front of DDC, Tehsildar held 3/31/2009 12:36:58 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT BANIHAL, Mar 30: A wide protest demonstration against DDC Ramban and Tehsildar Banihal was held here in front of their office by the people demanding strict action action against those who are responsible for the death of one Javed Iqbal son of Ghulam Nabi resident of the area whose body was found in Srinagar few days ago. They alleged that Javed was kidnapped by one Ghulam Mahiudeen to Srinagar where he was murdered but no action has been taken against the accused.The matter was pacified only after the intervention of SSP Ramban Sunil Dut who gave assurance of proper inquiry into the incident.He also made the case registered in Banihal police station. ...   READ MORE   2 militants killed in Pulwama encounter 3/31/2009 12:36:16 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, MARCH 30: Two unidentified militants were killed in a gunfight with Security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, official sources said here. The gun battle took place at Moshwara village in Kellar area of South Kashmir Pulwama district. Police, assisted by troops of Rashtriya Rifles, cordoned off the area following specific information about presence of militants, the sources said. The hiding militants opened fire on the officials and in the ensuing gunfight, two militants were killed, the sources said. The identity of the deceased militants and the group they belonged to was being investigated. Two militants, including one...   READ MORE   NTPC threatens to tighten power supply to J&K 3/31/2009 12:35:57 AM AGENCIES NEW DELHI, MAR 30: NTPC has threatened to regulate power supplies to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, pending liquidation of its electricity dues. The state has totaled up arrears of over Rs.222 crore, against power supplied from NTPC stations. Notably, J & K has also failed to heed a notice issued in this direction by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. CERC has issued a notice to Government of J & K for its failure to liquidate the cumulative interchange dues to the tune of Rs. 222 crores for the month of July and August 2008.This is over and above the hangover of past. Pertinently, CERC had ordered on May 13, 2008, that the state government was required to liqu...   READ MORE   89 cross LoC via Chakan-da-Bagh 3/31/2009 12:35:40 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, MAR 30: While the number of first-timers from Jammu remained in single digit, 56 visitors from Pakistan Administered Kashmir, PaK reached Jammu via Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Pooch district of the winter capital. A total of 89 persons boarded the weekly Poonch-Rawalakote bus service. Sources told Press Bureau of India that 13 civilians crossed over to Pak which included 2 residents from Jammu and 11 Pak returnees who returned home from after meeting their relations on this part of the Kashmir. Sources said that 76 persons including 56 fresher visitors reached Poonch while remaining 20 were resident of this part of the Kashmir who returned to their h...   READ MORE   23 nominations filed for Poonch-Jammu seat 3/31/2009 12:35:34 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, MAR 30: Fourteen more candidates including People’s Democratic Party nominee filed nominations papers for the Jammu-Poonch Parliamentary segment Monday. In all 23 candidates excluding two covering nominee have filed nominations for the seat which was last time won by congress. Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, Dr Mandeep K Bhandari, who is Returning Officer for Jammu-Poonch seat, told PBI that 14 candidates filed the nomination on the last day today. They include PDP’s Sardar Trilok Singh, Hilal Ahmad Beigh (independent), Santram (independent), Mushtaq Hussein (independent), Uday Chand, Surjeet Singh Sadhotra (RKSP), Satish Poochi (independent), Sanjeev Man...   READ MORE   Omar to Mufti: Forget Pardesi, talk of Rafi Mir ‘Thinner the Ministry, lesser the expenditure’ 3/31/2009 12:34:38 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Mar 31: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today made it clear that expansion in his Council of Ministers could happen only after completion of the current Lok Sabha elections. Responding to the PDP Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s allegation that the National Conference-led coalition government had committed “a bizarre act of political corruption” in engineering Ghulam Qadir Pardesi’s defection over bargaining of a seat for him in the Legislative Council, Omar sought to remind him that PDP had donme the same in arranging the defection of former NC leader Rafi Ahmed Mir just three years ago. “I am working with 10 ministers and the government is functioning well. Wit...   READ MORE   BSP to contest in all 6 seats in J&K: Mayawati 3/31/2009 12:34:20 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, MAR 30: Bhaujan Samaj Party (BSP) today kicked off its campaign for Lok Sabha elections here with party supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati making scathing attack on Congress and BJP for being the capitalist parties. She declared that her party would field its candidates in all the six constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing a large public gathering at Parade Ground here, Ms Mayawati termed the Congress and BJP capitalist-based parties which have neglected the poor and downtrodden class during their successive regimes since independence. These parties raise funds from the capitalists and after being voted to power, they in return introd...   READ MORE   Geelani held on day two of his anti-poll campaign 3/31/2009 12:33:50 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, MAR 30:Chairman of hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani was today taken into preventive custody by police, thwarting his plans to launch an anti-poll campaign from Budgam district. Geelani, 79, was taken into custody from his Hyderpora residence this afternoon and lodged at Humhama Police Station as police had specific information that he was planning to visit Budgam to kickstart a campaign against upcoming parliamentary elections a day after visiting areas in Pulwama district, official sources said. After his return from Delhi last week, Geelani has been visiting different places and urging people to boycott the Lok Sabha electio...   READ MORE   8 nominated MLCs sworn in by Dy Chairman 3/31/2009 12:33:33 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, MAR 30: Deputy Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council (JKLC) today administered the oath of office and secrecy to eight newly nominated members, four each from Congress and the ruling national conference, taking the strength of the House to 31. The new MLCs Ravinder Kumar Sharma, Subash Chander Gupta, Amrit Malhotra and Bashir Ahmad Magray (all Congress) and Javed Ahmed Rana, Mehboob Beg, Sheikh Ghulam Qadir Pradesi and Ajay Kumar Sadhotra (all NC) - were administered the oath of office by Deputy Chairman Arvinder Micky in his office chamber here this evening, officials said. Governor N N Vohra had nominated eight politicians of the ruling NC a...   READ MORE   Poll disruptive plans from across LoC will be foiled: CM 3/31/2009 12:33:10 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, MAR 30 Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today feared that attempts could be made from across the border and LoC to disrupt Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir but he asserted that the same would be foiled. "We are well aware of the threat that is posed to elections. I am reviewing the situation on a regular basis with both of my security advisors (GOCs of Srinagar and Jammu Corps of Army) and taking whatever steps are necessary," Omar Abdullah told reporters immediately after reaching here with a two-day schedule of tours and meetings. "We do understand that attempts would be made to disrupt the elections and we will do everything possible to render thos...   READ MORE   Dialogue with Pak to resume only after credible action: Menon 3/31/2009 12:32:40 AM AGENCIES NEW DELHI, MAR 30: India on Monday made it clear that composite dialogue with Pakistan cannot resume till New Delhi sees credible action by Islamabad to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice and dismantle the terror infrastructure. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon also disfavoured any mediation by the US or any other country between India and Pakistan, saying the best results can be achieved if the two South Asian countries do it bilaterally. He maintained that India and Pakistan had made progress in their relationship before the Mumbai attacks as they dealt with issues bilaterally. "It is hard for any external source to replace" the bilateral proces...   READ MORE   BSF on high alert along Wagah border 3/31/2009 12:32:18 AM AGENCIES New Delhi | Mar 30: BSF has sounded a high alert along the Wagah border after heavily armed gunmen today stormed a police academy in Lahore, 12 km from the Indian border, killing at least 22 policemen, including 11 officers. "An alert has been issued along the Indo-Pakistan border especially along Wagah. The troops have been asked to keep a strict vigil and remain on high alert for any possible attempts of intrusion and other suspect activities," a senior BSF officer here said. The alert has been issued under the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) followed by BSF whenever there is an activity on the other side of the border, the officer said. The BSF has also asked offi...   READ MORE   Mumbai, Lahore identical: Pak Minister 3/31/2009 12:31:59 AM AGENCIES LAHORE, MAR 30: The attack on the Lahore police training centre Monday was similar to the Mumbai terror strike, Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said while the attack was in progress. Malik told a local tv channel that the terror strike in Lahore was similar to the Nov 26-29, 2008 carnage in Mumbai that left about 170 people dead. Last year, nine terrorists from Pakistan were killed and one arrested by the security forces that battled them for 60 hours at several locations, including a busy railway terminus, luxury hotels and a Jewish centre, all in south Mumbai. While Monday's attack was going on, Malik said: "This is an attack on the country by forces which do no...   READ MORE   No parallels between Mumbai, Lahore: Chidambaram November strike was clearly planned in Pak 3/31/2009 12:30:41 AM AGENCIES New Delhi, March 30: India on Monday condemned the attack on police training centre in Pakistan but ruled out its parallels with the Mumbai attack of November 26th last year. Expressing India’s deepest sympathies to the people of Pakistan, Home minister P Chidambaram, when asked whether he saw any parallels between the Lahore incident and the Mumbai attacks, said: “There can be no parallels. The only commonality is that they are terror attacks”. "In the case of Mumbai, the source is known to be Pakistani soil. We don't know about the (source of) Lahore attack. Therefore, it would be completely wrong to draw a parallel." "We don't have full information. We are deeply con...   READ MORE

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