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Jammu, July 16: One of the most interesting of the Indian politicians and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah has finally once again missed the opportunity to board the bus of his dreams.
Towards the end of his last stint as Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah developed a serious interest in running for the post of President or the Vice President of India. Recently he had admitted that he was so deeply involved in the race for Vice Presidential post that his part lost at the home turf in 2002 elections.
The United National Progressive Alliance also known as Third Front was actively considering the name of Dr Abdullah as its nomin... | |
| | | | BJP critical of PM’s statement | | | |
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Jammu, July 16: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s vision of seeing the Line of Control –which divides Jammu and Kashmir into two parts –as Line of Peace has triggered reactions among the BJP circles which has sought to question the Congress stand on status of Jammu and Kashmir –particularly the area under illegal occupation of Pakistan.
While the Jammu unit of BJP was too critical of the statement, its national president Rajnath Singh asked Congress to clarify its stand on Kashmir. He said, the Prime Minister’s statement was violating the Parliamentary resolution on the occupied part of Kashmir.
A party statement flayed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's suggestion that ... | |
| | | | Doctor’s Prescription: Put House In Order | | ‘PM pulled up Congress leaders for inertia, internal bickering’ | | |
ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 16: A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a significant trip to this winter capital city, reports of the ‘doctor’s’ prescription to the Congress leaders have started pouring out.
Sources who were privy to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s meeting with the Congress party leaders said that the visiting leader was not quite happy with the performance, attitude and organisational behaviour of the party leaders in Jammu and Kashmir. Political analysts believe that there was nothing on the occasion which could have upset the Prime Minister but he had specific inputs about the bickering in the ranks of Congress unit of J&K.
However, the Prime Ministe... | |
| | | | Lal Masjid effect: ultras fleeing? | | | |
In bizarre incidents in different parts of state, the security forces are observing exfiltration movement of militants fleeing to Pakistan occupied Kashmir through the Line of Control. Analysts believe this trend may have some connection with the Lal Masjid fallout.
Though the top bosses in different security formations are yet obtain an analysis of the trend, but reports have suggested that post-Lal Masjid operation some militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir are pushing off.
Just few days after the Lal Masjid siege and the following anti-fundamentalist operations in Pakistan, the Army has noticed incidents of exfiltrations- Pakistan based militants returning back to their pa... | |
| | | | PDP brainstorming session today | | | |
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Jammu, July 16: With a variety of issues on its agenda, particularly the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s snub on the issue of demilitarisation, the Political Affairs Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party is meeting in Srinagar on Tuesday under the chairmanship of its patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
Sources said that the meeting was convened to discuss the fallout of Prime Minister’s snub to the PDP leaders when they raised with him the issue of demilitarisation here Sunday. “The meeting was already scheduled to discuss some important issues, but this latest development also assumed significance”, said a PDP leader while underplaying the hy... | |
| | | | VDC member, daughter killed; 4 ultras held | | | |
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Jammu, July 16: In a gruesome incident, militants late last night shot dead a father-daughter duo belonging to the minority community in a remote village of Doda district.
Meanwhile, in other militancy related incident, Army arrested four militants and seized huge quantity of arms and ammunition in North Kashmir, reports reaching here said.
Dalhal village in Doda district was in a pall of gloom after suspected ultras killed a villager and his daughter and critically injured another woman. The slain villager Dev Raj was a member of Village Defence Committee (VDC) - a voluntary village level self-defence force equipped with arms and ammunition by the government, accordi... | |
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