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More troops rushed to Mendhar's Beri Rakh woods to hunt down ultras An army Maj was killed and a Col hurt in militants' ambush 7/15/2010 12:30:16 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: Reinforcements had been rushed to the thick and treacherous Beri Rakh forests of Mendhar in Poonch to hunt down the six odd holed up terrorists, who Tuesday night killed an army Major and injured six others, including a Colonel, in an ambush. The terrorists, all stated to have infiltrated into India from across the Line of Control (LoC), last night made two attempts to break the army cordon, but troops foiled them. Official sources said the gunbattle, which stopped late last night, restarted at 7 am today. The intermittent exchange of fire continued till 4 pm after which there was no fire from the other side, the sources added. Sources said Romeo Force GOC, Maj Gen K AS Bhullar was personally supervising the operation. The militants, said to be foreigners in the age group of 18-21 years, were frequenting the area for the past few days and locals had sighted them several times. Acting on these inputs, which were substantiated by intelligence reports, two groups of 37 Rashtriya Rifles, one led by Maj Amit Kumar Thenge and the other by Col A...   READ MORE

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LeT commander killed in Kishtwar 7/15/2010 12:29:48 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) district commander was killed by security forces in a gunbattle in Bunjwan Kithar forests of Kishtwar this morning. Police sources said acting on a tip-off, police and army jawans cordoned off a hideout of LeT militants in Bunjwan Kithar forests in the morning. While the jawans were closing in on the hideout, militants opened fire on them, which was returned, the sources added. In the ensuing exchange of fire that lasted over an hour, jawans shot dead one militant who was identified as LeT district commander Mohammad Ishaq of Goni Patnazi, Kishtwar. He had been active in the area for the past five years. Sources termed his ki...   READ MORE   Omar sees hope for the Valley in SM Krishna's Pak visit 7/15/2010 12:29:34 AM ABID SHAH EARLY TIMES REPORT NEW DELHI, July 14: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna who arrived in Islamabad today on a three-day visit to Pakistan at the invitation of Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi would also meet President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. This has been said in a statement released on Krishna's arrival in Pakistan to indicate that all issues could be taken up during the talks. The statement sets the tone of this high level contact with Pakistan and it indicates a desire for deep and purposeful engagement with Pakistan besides India's willingness to discuss all issues while keeping paramount importance for Mumbai attack and ...   READ MORE   ‘Kashmir unrest is India's internal matter’ 7/15/2010 12:29:18 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT New Delhi, July 14: Violence in Jammu and Kashmir that has left 15 people dead is 'an internal matter of India', External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said here Wednesday. The minister was asked to comment on his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi's reported comment to take up the issue of alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir during talks with Krishna Thursday. 'India has always taken a consistent position. Whatever is happening in Kashmir is an internal matter of India,' he said. Fifteen people, mainly young men, have been killed in firing by security forces during street protests in the Kashmir Valley since June 11. ...   READ MORE   In post crisis steps, Omar wants dialogue with 'everyone' Accolades for Congress for 'support' 7/15/2010 12:29:04 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, July 14:With life returning to normal and situation showing signs of peace, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who indeed got a 'fresh lease' if life in terms of his government's survival, today advocated a dialogue between the Centre and "everybody" in the state "who is willing to talk". Omar who all through the turbulent time during the past two weeks has been talking about political measures to calm down the anger of masses, quite apparently favouring a dialogue with the Hurriyat as well as separatists of all hues, "I think the Centre should talk to everybody who is willing to talk and should also reach out to those who are unwilling to talk." A visi...   READ MORE   BJP to Omar : Stop demoralizing forces, we are with you 7/15/2010 12:28:28 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: In a state where politics happens on conditions, the BJP second largest opposition party in Jammu and Kashmir has reassured its all help to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for his peace making efforts ,albeit on a condition . The party which was prompt to accept the invitation of Chief Minister for All Party meeting on Monday last , today said it is ready and willing to help government bring peace in the Valley provided it does nothing to demoralise the security forces and gives them a free hand to tackle the situation.It is pertinent to mention here that party leadership has all through expressing concern and fears of damaging repercussions and implic...   READ MORE   Recruitment rally turns violent, 12 hurt in lathicharge 7/15/2010 12:28:12 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT RAJOURI, July 14: Taking a cue from their counterparts in Kashmir valley, thousands of unemployed Rajouri youth invited by the army for recruitment rally today lodged a strong protest and resorted to stone pelting at Palma. As per reports, 156 Territorial Army had invited more than 15,000 unemployed for physical test for 8 posts of Sepoy at Palma Camp Rajouri, however sources said that army could not control the mob and they turned violent following which recruitment rally ground turned battlefield between the troops and the aspirants. When the troops restricted the protest, mob turned violent and they started heavy stone pelting on the army camp. They also torched ...   READ MORE   Mustafa Kamaal’s tirade against New Delhi misplaced, motivated 7/15/2010 12:27:54 AM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Jul 14: It would be only desirable to reflect on National Conference leader Mustafa Kamaal’s biased, motivated and ill-designed formulations that do not represent the true picture of facts and that provoke the people of Jammu province and the Punjabi Muslims (read Pathowari-speaking and ethnically non-Kashmiri Muslims who inhabit Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Poonch-Rajouri belt in Jammu province and the erstwhile Kupwara and Baramulla districts in Kashmir province, who have been suffering since 1947 for the simple reason that the NC leadership never considered them part and parcel of the state destined to enjoy rights a particular Kashmir-based sect has...   READ MORE   Need for engaging Kashmiri separatists in parleys 7/15/2010 12:27:32 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: Security and political experts in India fear that Islamabad may kick up conflict with Delhi over one issue or the other in order to divert attention of people from the growing economic difficulties in Pakistan. These experts said that even though Islamabad has started favouring friendly ties with India these exercises may be cosmetic. Reports received here from Islamabad revealed that economy in Pakistan was in mess following swelling in its fiscal deficit to 6.2 per cent against 5.1 per cent last year. What seems to have added to the economic woes is growth having remained sluggish because of falling investment, energy shortages Political instability...   READ MORE   Double standard: BJP has no moral right to criticize Congress on Afzal Guru issue 7/15/2010 12:27:10 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: RSS-appointee BJP national president Nitin Gadkari has, it seems, gone astray. He has lost control over his tongue. He is using such language against his political opponents which no civilized politician would ever use. That he has lost control over his tongue could be seen from the comparison he made between dogs and senior leaders, including Lalu Prasad Yadav of the Rashatriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SM). He virtually compared these two senior leaders with dogs because they and their parties had not supported the BJP-sponsored cut-motion in the last budget session of the Parliament. He had to tender an uncondit...   READ MORE   Fresh batch of around 9,000 leave for Amarnath 7/15/2010 12:26:46 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, July 14: About 9,000 pilgrims left Baltal and Pahalgam base camps today for the holy Amarnath cave shrine. According to sources 8760 yatris today left for Amarnath Cave shrine for darshan of natural Shivlingam. Out of 8760 pilgrims , 3963 yatris comprising 2725 males , 907 females ,136 children and 195 sadhus left from Pahalgam base camp while 4797 comprising 3065 male, 1385 female , 341 children and 6 sadhus left from Baltal Base camp. So far, about 1.75 lakh yatris have had darshan of the ice Shivlingam since the commencement of the pilgrimage on July 1. Twelve pilgrims hence, however, died due to cardiac arrest during the pilgrimage till now. According...   READ MORE   2 killed, 4 injured in separate road mishaps 7/15/2010 12:26:31 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT RAJOURI, July 14: Two employees of education department including a Principal of a Higher Secondary School (HSS) got killed while another employee was injured in a road mishap at Kandi area. As per reports, three employees of Government Higher Secondary School Draj were on their way to Morha Draj in Budhal tehsil from Rajouri, when the car they were traveling in skidded off the road near Bakori Morh and fell into a deep gorge resulting in on the spot death of Mohammad Yousaf Shah, a peon in education department. Two others identified as Tasaduq Hussain, Principal of HSS Morha Draj and Mohammad Farooq, peon received critical injuries in the incident. Soon after the ...   READ MORE   7/15/2010 12:26:12 AM Two missing girls still untraced, FIR registered against SHO EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: As tempers ran high in the remote Gulabgarh area of Paddar, Kishtwar, over the missing of two 12th class girl students, senior police and civil officers rushed there today to defuse the situation. The two girls -- Sapna, daughter of Nand Lal and Sangita, daughter of Janki Nath -- were Tuesday detained for half an hour or so at Atholi police station by cops after they were found sitting on the bank of Chenab river with their classmate Pradeep Kumar alias Ramu. After their release, the duo had gone missing under mysterious circumstances. Tension gripped Gulabgarh after this incident with peo...   READ MORE

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