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AZAD LIKLELY TO EXPAND HIS COUNCIL OF MINISTERS BETWEEN JULY 22-25 7/10/2006 9:42:22 PM Jammu, July 10 : The chances of second round of expansion of 13 member Ghulam Nabi Azad cabinet has once again brightened. Highly placed sources in the congress party confided that prospects of second round of cabinet expansion between July 22-25 has once again raised hopes of jobless legislators belonging to the ruling coalition, awaiting their turn to occupy the ministerial berth since November 2005. Sources pointed put that hectic lobbying was already going on in the power circles for the ministerial berth. Coalition partners including PDP,JKPP and others were also busy shortlisting names of their party nominees before the expansion. Inside reports suggest after names of few legislators figured in the Srinagar sex scandal the state government decided to postpone the cabinet expansion. But now as the probe in the case was not nearing completion and chances are that it may linger on for some more time a section of the leaders in the state have been able to convince the chief minister to go in for the second round of cabinet expansion. Sources said that PDP patro...   READ MORE

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DELIMITATION COMMISSION: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NEEDED BEOFRE INCREASING NUMBER OF SEATS: EXPERTS 7/10/2006 9:41:48 PM Jammu, July 10 :-The decision of the state Government to set up a delimitation commission has gripped majority of people in the two regions of Jammu and Kashmir by euphoria but the excitement may be a short lived affair in case the state Government does not get requisite constitutional amendment adopted by the state legislature during its session beginning from July 28. The state legislature had adopted an amendment to the constitution when Dr Farooq Abdullah was the Chief Minister under which the Assembly seats had been frozen on the pattern of the bill adopted by the parliament providing for freezing of Lok Sabha and state Assembly seats till 2026. The central bill had imposed no ...   READ MORE   SRINAGAR SEX SCANDAL : ROPING IN CBI FOR PROBE SMACKS OF MISCHIEF: SEPARATISTS 7/10/2006 9:31:40 PM Srinagar, July 10 : A section of Kashmiri separatists attribute "motives" to the sex scam,that rocked the Kashmir valley recently, on the plea that the way the CBI has been ordered to inquire into the scandal was part of the game to "malign,defame and denigrade valley's women." More than three senior separatist leaders told the Kashmir Independent Press on Monday "we condemn the sex scam and favour heavy punishment for those found guilty in the scandal." They said "at the same time roping in the CBI for holding the probe smacks of mischief." One senior separatist leader said "it is for the first time that a CBI inquiry has been ordered in Kashmir in the sex scam.I believe that the Ch...   READ MORE   Pakistan facilitates the task Chinese in action across J&K frontier 7/10/2006 9:29:46 PM From B L KAK NEW DELHI, July 10: Pakistan's 'super commando', Gen. Parvez Musharraf, has a strategy aimed at providing more ground for the unpredictable Chinese in an area just opposite Indian Kashmir's frontier. The area is located near the most strategic Karakoram highway. The 537-mile Karakoram highway strteches from the Indus valley of Pakistan to Sinkiang (now known as Xinjiang) province in China. At this rooftop of the world, where as many as 33 peaks rise 24,000 feet high, the borders of four countries lie in close proximity--Pakiastan, China, India and Afghanistan. China and Pakistan have officially maintained that he Karakoram highway is a trade route. They do not pro...   READ MORE   Nepal's Prachanda obliges India's CPI(M) Yechuri plays key role in Nepal's politcal revolution 7/10/2006 9:29:18 PM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI, July 10: It is the tale of two cities--the tale of two revolutionaries. Khatmandu-based Prachanda, the Maoist leader, and Sitaram Yechuri, politburo member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). Yechuri, who is also a member of Rajya Sabha, has been playing a key role in the ongoing political revolution in Nepal. Yechuri has been carrying out talks with the Maoists as well as with the seven political parties, and has succeeded in bringing the rebels into the democratic process. The success is attributed to the personal rapport that he enjoys with Prachanda, the Maoist leader, who is an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in ...   READ MORE   New threat from non-Kashmiri planners SIMI 'silent fighters' infiltrate into J&K 7/10/2006 9:28:47 PM From B L KAK NEW DELHI, July 10: The government of India has directed security and intelligence agencies in Jammu and Kashmir to put in place, without any delay, a sustainable operational strategy to meet a 'new' threat from the hard-line loyalists and operatives of Students' Islamic zmovement of India (SIMI). The directive follows interception of messages, in recent days, not only in Srinagar, sumer capital of the J&K State, but also in Baramulla, Kupwara, Kulgam, Shopian, Anantnag and Lolab sector in the Valley and Rajouri and Poonch sectors of Jammu region. The messages offered two sensational inputs. First, the dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen has managed a tie-up with an unspec...   READ MORE

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