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| Mob torches 2 Army vehicles after timber smuggler's death in Shopian shootout | | Murder case registered against Army; 26 soldiers injured; Army hqs takes exception to Police action | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Apr 24: For the first time in 21 years of armed insurgency in Jammu & Kashmir, angry civilian crowds today torched two vehicles of Army and left 26 soldiers injured in a clash after a timber smuggler got killed and one of his associates sustained injuries in Rashtriya Rifles firing during a pre-dawn ambush in Kellar area of Shopian district in south Kashmir. Police have pacified the crowds with registration of a murder case against security forces but the Army Headquarters in New Delhi are understood to have taken strong exception to the Police action and taken up the matter with the union Minister of Defence, A K Antony.
Informed sources told Early Times that in the wee hours today, troops of Rashtriya Rifles 53 Bn opened fire during an ambush near Chewan village in Kellar area of Shopian. One local timber smuggler, namely Ghulam Ahmed Kalas alias Khuda Bakhsh S/o Pir Bakhsh R/o Batfojan got killed and his associate, Manzoor Ahmed Lone S/o Ghulam Mohammad Lone, sustained gunshot injuries. Their associate, Mohammad Yusuf Lone, was c... | |
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| NC-PDP tussle to enter a crucial phase | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 24: If the National Conference leadership is worried it has a reason for being so. If its partner in power, the Congress, is upset it too has a reason. The ruling alliance is perturbed over the PDP plan of launching a movement against Delhi for not resuming the stalled composite dialogue with Islamabad. The PDP has spelled out a number of reasons which have prompted it to launch the agitation. The stir is for revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), reduction of troops, release of detainees, resolution of the Kashmir issue and allied matters. The PDP patron has been an a supporter of the resumption of the composite dialogue and he had been h... | |
| | | | 2 HM ultras killed in Gandoh | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 24: Of the two top Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants, holed up in a natural cave in the dense Makrolu forests of Gandoh in Doda, one was killed by troops in a gunbattle last evening while the other was eliminated this morning.
The two militants were hiding in a natural cave when acting on a tip-off, army and police had rushed to the spot last evening, according to police sources. Sources said while the police and army jawans were laying a cordon around the cave, the two hiding militants fired at them and also lobbed grenades.
The grenades exploded in noman's land without causing any harm to the jawans, the sources added. While one militant, who was ide... | |
| | | | Congress must take on Jinnahs of Jammu and Kashmir | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 24: However, to say all this doesn't mean that the Congress didn't pander to communalism before 1947. It did pander to communalism at least twice, first in 1906 and then in 1916.
In 1906 at Calcutta, the official resolution of the Congress talked of reservation for the backwardly educated class. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who then was the follower of the Congress and had gone to Calcutta to participate in the Congress session, held under the president-ship of Dadabhai Naoroji, opposed the amendment. He said: "There is in this resolution mentioned that there should be reservation for the backwardly educated class, if the Mohammedan community is meant by it, ... | |
| | | | The two escaped infiltrators sighted in Punjab border village | | Massive searches on to hunt them down in Kathua and Punjab | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 24: The two infiltrators, who had escaped from the Rajbagh forest nursery following a brief gunbattle with police on April 19 night, were Friday night sighted in a Punjab border village, which adjoins Kathua.
Police parties from Kathua and Punjab's Gurdaspur district had fanned out in the area and a massive combing operation was on to hunt them down, Kathua SSP Gareeb Dass said. The two militants, who had infiltrated from Simble Spol border area of Gurdaspur, were first sighted on April 19 at about 6.55 pm in the border Hariachak village of Rajbagh, Kathua, where after a brief exchange of fire with a police party, they had taken shelter in a nearby f... | |
| | | | IPL row takes its toll on Pranab's visit to US | | | | ABID SHAH
Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Apr 24: The Indian Premier League or IPL Cricket controversy has taken its toll upon Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to the United States to attend the meeting of International Monetary Fund (IMF). Though there has thus far been no official announcement regarding the cancellation of what was going to be the Pranab Mukherjee's first visit to the US after taking over as Finance Minister, now it has become obvious that he would not attend the IMF meeting that is slated to conclude in Washington DC tomorrow. Obviously, Mukherjee has been two preoccupied by events at home ever since the IPL controversy hit the Government leading to the e... | |
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