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| Fai's arrest a setback for Kashmiri separatist movement | | Irony: Anti-Indians are secure in India, insecure in America | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, July 20: As we returned from the day one of our busy schedules in Washington D.C and wanted a siesta for a while in our rooms at Hotel Topaz, close to DuPont Circle, I found the telephone in the room continuously blinking red. It contained a recorded message in Kashmiri: "Assalamu Alaikum. I am your neighbour in Budgam, Ghulam Nabi Fai. As I learned that five journalists from Jammu and Kashmir, including you, are here on the State Department's International Leadership Programme, I came all the way running to see you. Due to my bad luck, you were all away till I waited for over an hour. Whenever you get this message, please call on my numbers……"
That was the voice of someone whose write-ups in Urdu I regularly read in Daily Aftab when I was a student of 6th or 7th standard. His articles published in the name of Fay Budgami or Ghulam Nabi Fay Budgami. Years later, I heard all of my Jamaat-e-Islami friends and teachers call him Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai. He lived five miles from my village but the people in the countryside would love to call ... | |
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| How long will NC-Congress marriage of compulsion last? | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 20: What binds the Congress with the National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir ?The lure of power and the lust for running the Government.Nothing beyond this.If the two have managed to move together on a cobbled path it is because of the support the alliance with the National Conference gets from the Congress high comman,particularly from the AICC general secretary, Rahul Gandhi.
It is uneasy calm in the Congress-NC tie-up.The state unit of the Congress is a patient spectator of the big brotherly role being adopted by the National Confer ence leadership and the latter seem to be in a helpless position,tolerating occasional barbs from the Congress,because it d... | |
| | | | Employees got both respect and demands fulfilled during previous coalition regime, say leaders | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 20: The NC led coalition government may well have its reasons in not being able to fulfill the demands of employees of the state. But the way it has been conducting itself against the employees is only widening the already wide gulf and distancing itself to the extent that they call previous coalition regime a golden era particularly during Mufti Mohammad Sayeed contending every section and in every heirrarchy the employees not only received due respect but they were heard for every small , big issue.
Two days after the police crackdown on protesting employees who came on roads in support of their unfulfilled demands, the employees today feel a distraught lo... | |
| | | | Newly recruited KP youth running from pillar to post for salaries for last 6 months | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 20: What can be more apathy and callousness of the State Government towards the displaced Kashmiri Pandits than this that it (Government) has failed to release the salaries of hundreds of newly appointed migrant employees in Kashmir Valley for last five to six months.
The failure of the Government to pay the salaries to these hapless employees has put a question mark on its return and rehabilitation policy of displaced Pandits in Vallley with honour and dignity. The Kashmiri Pandits questioning the policy of state and Central Government in this regard say that when it could not pay salaries and provide other facilities to the 1700 newly recruited employ... | |
| | | | Lekhi lambasts Diggy, BJP lambasts Congress | | "Communalising Terror" | | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 20: As if the Congress' appeasement policy was not enough to give legitimacy to the politics of communalism and separatism and promote the Pakistan cause in the country, including Jammu and Kashmir, some top-ranking leaders have unleashed a no-holds-barred propaganda blitz against the RSS saying "RSS is a bomb-producing outfit" and "RSS is responsible for the rise of terrorism in India." One of the said Congress leaders is none other than Digvijay Singh, AICC general secretary and former Cm of MP. The other leader is the party spokesperson and former Minister of State Home Affairs Shakkel Ahmad.
It was Digvijay who found in dastardly 13/7 terrorist a... | |
| | | | Establishment of CU in Jammu on the top of its agenda, says BJP | | Half-hearted Announcement? | | | Neha
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 20: The J&K unit of the BJP, which is unsuccessfully struggling to recapture its lost political space since the day its seven legislators committed an act of political debauchery and voted for the Congress and NC candidates seeking election to the legislative council, has finally realized that it committed a serious blunder by not making common cause with those spearheading movement for the establishment of the sanctioned Central University (CU) in Jammu and declared yesterday at Akhnoor that the establishment of the said university is "on the top of its agenda."
The announcement to this effect was made by the state BJP president whom most of the peopl... | |
| | | | Coalition coordination committee meet on July 22 | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, July : An emergency meeting of coalition government's coordination committee has been called on July 22 in which Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, Union Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah and State Congress President, Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz are expected to participate.
Sources told KNS that the committee will review last two and half years' performance of coalition government. "The leaders will also discuss how to make the coordination between NC and Congress more strong," they said.
Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather and senior Congress leader, Mangat Ram Sharma are also expected to attend the meeting.
Talking to KNS Prof Soz confirmed that the meeting of the coord... | |
| | | | Militants using women as couriers in J&K: Police | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR: Investigations into the twin attacks on Sopore police station in Baramulla district has revealed that the militants might have established a wide network of women to act as couriers and conduits for them, officials said here today.
Police has arrested a 22-year-old woman, Quratul Ain, on July 12 while probing the rifle grenade attack followed by an IED explosion at Sopore police station, 55 kms from here, six days earlier.
One policeman was killed in the attack by the militants, who, according to police, were later killed in an encounter with security forces in Lolab area of Kupwara district on July 15.
Police claims that the investigations so far have ... | |
| | | | More girls questioned for their alleged links with militants | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir police has questioned seven more girls for their alleged links with the militants in Sopore, where a local court yesterday extended the remand of a girl to July 26.
A police spokesman denied newspaper reports that 300 girls were summoned to police station Sopore and questioned for their links with militants.
He said here today that according to Superintendent of Police (SP), Sopore, only seven girls were called for questioning in the Police station Sopore, following reports of their involvement in militancy and unlawful activities and their contacts with a militant commander.
These girls were only called during the day hours and have alway... | |
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