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Police foil separatist plan of building mosque atop Hariparbat fortress 4/27/2007 11:40:43 PM Srinagar,April 27 Prompt action by the police foiled Hurriyat Conference (G) plan of building a mosque atop Hariparbat fortress in the heart of the summer capital of the state.The plan was buried on time by the police which arrested six senior leaders of Hurriyat Conference (G). A senior police officer of the rank of DIG said today “we had no other alternative but to take these separatists in custody as they had planned to involve people in the mosque building programme.” The officer said that “as a result of prompt action against the hardliners a late evening appeal from the residence of Syed Ali Shah Geelani,who heads the Tehrik Hurriyat Conference,to people to come out in big number on Friday for rebuilding the mosque had no response.” The officer indicated that the six leaders may be arrested under the PSA in case they ventured to disturb peace and kick up communal tension.official sources said that the hardliners had issued an appeal to people to carry bricks with them while scaling the Hariparbat for reconstructing the mosque. The separatists have all...   READ MORE

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Umar Farooq runs faster than Kasuri 4/27/2007 11:39:39 PM BL KAK Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, patron of Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP) and former Home Minister of India, may differ with his "friend", Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, currently Foreign Minister of Pakistan, on some issues, but they seem united one one thing--that is, "much progress has been made on Kashmir by India and Pakistan and that a solution is on the cards". Interestingly, Kashmir's head priest, Maulvi Umar Farooq, who heads the moderate faction of All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), and who has had quite a few meetings with top Pakistani ruling personalities, including Gen. Parvez Musharraf and Khurshid Kasuri, in recent times, wants...   READ MORE   Deteriorating quality of electioneering in UP 'Rahul Gandhi looks like a pig to me': Azam 4/27/2007 11:38:47 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, Apr 27: Anti-Congress hardliners within the Samajwadi Party headed by the beleaguered Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Mulayam Singh Yadav, have taken a tough stance against Rahul Gandhi, parliamentarian son of Sonia Gandhi. Worse still, Mulayam Yadav seems to have granted unbridled freedom to his principal 'yes-man', Mohamed Azam Khan, who is UP's Urban Development Minister. Mohammed Azam Khan is an expert crowd-puller who can really sway partisan crowds. Unfortunately, this time he is falling back on rabid language to attack Rahul Gandhi, who is considered to be Samajwadi Party's sworn enemy. Azam Khan's ...   READ MORE   Traditional childhood games vanishing from the scene courtesy TV/Computers and tight schedule 4/27/2007 11:19:12 PM Sanjay Khajuria Jammu April 27 ‘Where have the rock ‘n’ roll gone’- Clif Richard, a western vocalist going nostalgic for Rock ‘n’ Roll had absolutely and flawlessly sung this number when Break Dance hit the dance floors forcing ‘rock’ to hit the wall. Similarly, is the situation here in India where traditional games like Santolia, Chupphan Chupphai (hide and seek); Ko-Kalachi; marbles (kanche) and Gilli Danda too are becoming extinct from the lives of the young failing to compete with modern TV/Computer and hectic academic schedule. It was not only Cliff Richards, who noticed the change in then society in late 80s but Gazal maestros Jagjit Singh and Chitra Singh too manifested the ...   READ MORE

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