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Sheikh Abdullah sitting on sofa, Dogra rulers on the mat Humiliating & Provocative 6/14/2011 8:29:16 AM MINCING NO WORDS NEHA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, June 13: That the attitude of the Kashmiri leadership towards the Dogra kings and the Dogras has not undergone any change whatever could be seen from Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s Twitter. On June 11, he posted on his twitter a collection from his family archive half a dozen photographs of his grandfather Sheikh Abdullah. Just look at these photographs and you would find a photograph that is not ordinary. The photograph is humiliating and provocative. It is a manifestation of the Kashmiri leadership’s contempt for the Dogra rulers and the Dogras. In this photograph you would find Sheikh Abdullah sitting on sofa and the Dogra rulers like Maharaja Pratap Singh and Maharaja Hari Singh and one Dogra Maharani sitting on a mat. It is indeed surprising that certain anti-Dogra elements in Kashmir are willfully insulting the Dogras and Karan Singh and his sons are watching these taunts and insults as mute spectators. When will the Dogra wake up from their deep slumber and protect their self-respect? However, the question is: what prom...   READ MORE

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How Kashmiri militants rose from rags to riches: ask people of Valley? 6/14/2011 8:28:19 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 13: Though militancy is on wane in Kashmir as people are fed up with gun culture but a common question which is making rounds in entire Kashmir Valley is that how some separatists leaders who took to arms in 1989-90 and were responsible for killing hundreds of innocent Kashmiris as well members of security forces rose from rags to riches overnight . This is a common question haunting the Kashmiris at present and people want to seek its reply. The majority of the separatist leaders who took to arms in 1989-90 belonged either to middle or lower middle class families and during the last 22 years of turmoil they have created assets worth corers of rupees i...   READ MORE   DDK Srinagar lady official ‘missing’ 6/14/2011 8:26:15 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Jun 13: Executive Producer in Dooradrshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar, Shammi Shayir, has disappeared in mysterious circumstances from her house at Shalimar in the afternoon today. Sources at DDK Srinagar said that Shammi Shayir appeared at her office in the forenoon today and soon left back for her home with the plea that her father was ailing. However, when DDK officials attempted to contact her in connection with today’s open-air show of Natiya Mushaira at Emporium Garden on phone, it was continuously switched off. Officials later contacted her husband, Malik Mansoor Vellayat, a Superintending Engineer in Power Development Department and other fami...   READ MORE   Youth caught impersonating friend in 10th class exam 6/13/2011 10:57:11 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 13: A youth was today arrested by police from an examination centre at Ramgarh in Vijaypur area of Samba while impersonating his friend in Mathemathics paper of 10th class. Police sources said when Mohammad Iqbal, son of Lal Hussain of Chak Manga, Samba, who was taking Mathematics paper at government higher secondary school, Ramgarh, produced examination slip, the invigilator found that the photograph on it had been scratched beyond recognition. This made him of suspicious of the candidate. He brought the matter to the notice of centre superintendent, who called police. Sources said when police put him to questioning, he confessed his crime and told police...   READ MORE   Omar comes to rescue of 20 year old boy left paralyzed by police 6/13/2011 10:56:19 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jun 13: A 20 year old boy in Jammu and Kashmir is brutally tortured by the Police leaving him partially paralyzed. While the Chief Minister has ordered a probe into the matter - what is worse is that the police admit that there is no case against the victim. Vishal is 20-years-old, but has to be dealt with like a child. Vishal-totally dependent on his mother for eating his food, drinking a glass of water or even wear his clothes. "He is the only breadwinner of the family. We can't meet our expenses now. They have spoilt his life. There is lot of tension," Vishal's mother said. He has been reduced to this sorry state due to atrocities by the police. He was pi...   READ MORE   '100 illegal votes cast in a Budhal Panchayat' Candidate moved Appellate court challenging the election, demands re-polling 6/13/2011 10:55:52 PM Amit Sharma EARLY TIMES REPORT Rajouri, June 13: Although being a big crime, there are reports that some candidates in Budhal area have allegedly managed entry of voters in more than one voter lists to support particular candidates in recent held Panchayat elections. A candidate in this regard has moved appellate court challenging about 100 votes in Morha A Panchayat of this block. As per reports, a defeated candidate Haji Mir Hussain of Morha A panchayat has moved Appellate Court claiming that there are 100 votes which have been illegally polled in the area. The Court has yet to decided the fate of the candidate but it is put question mark on the working of the Block Level workers who ...   READ MORE   Congress for Kashmiris' Azadi, what about Jammu? Blaming K Separatists 6/13/2011 10:54:46 PM Rustam EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, June 13: Concerned people blame Kashmiri separatists and votaries of autonomy and self-rule for all the troubles in the Valley. They say that since the Kashmiri leaders believe in the two-nation theory or in an ideology that culminated in the communal partition of India in August 1947 and the establishment of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, they are leaders demanding separation from India. They equate the votaries of independence and Pakistan with the protagonists of autonomy and self-rule saying there is no fundamental difference between their attitudes towards India. To be precise, they opine that the grant of autonomy of the type the Kashmiri leaders are ...   READ MORE

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