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| Kalam unveils peace mission for J&K | | | | SRINAGAR, Friday, July 28: Recommending a four-point peace mission for militancy-torn Jammu and Kashmir, President APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday advocated a state-level movement to eliminate terrorism and the setting up of an economic zone near the Line of Control.
"Citizens must be allowed to participate in large numbers for curbing terrorism. Schools and colleges should promote value-based education right from primary education," Kalam, who is here on a two-day visit, said in his address to the state assembly here.
Kalam, who arrived here from Leh after inaugurating a weeklong Buddhist festival, asked the state government to authorise law enforcement agencies to make Kashmir free from terrorists in a mission mode approach.
In an apparent reference to Kashmiri Pandit migrants, he said a "conducive environment" should be created for all Kashmiris who had left the state "to return and contribute to the growth".
"The police can consider creation of open police control van patrolling services in small towns and crowded areas. There is also a need to develop highway police, highway trac... | |
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| 'Pakistan Army is a Muslim Army' | | For a Pak soldier India is the enemy: Akhtar | | | EARLY TIMES DELHI BUREAU
NEW DELHI, JULY 28: "The Pakistan Army is a Muslim Army fighting for jihad", Lt. Gen. Muhammad Nasir Akhtar (retd) has proudly proclaimed. He served in the Pakistan Army for 36 years and took part in two wars against India.
In 1965, Lt. Gen. Akhtar was in the Rann of Kutch. Later he moved to the Chhamb area across Akhnoor in Jammu sector. In the 1971 war against India, he was posted in Sialkot, across Jammu's Suchetgarh sector. In a media interview during his visit to India, Lt. Gen. Akhtar said: "For a serving Pakistani soldier India is the enemy. And he is trained for it. But once we retire from service we have our own perceptions about things and even... | |
| | | | It is a grave security failure | | Romantic trio crash PM bungalow's inner gates | | | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, JULY 28: Two girls and a boy created history of sorts by driving up to the inner gates of the Prime Minister's bungalow on the 7, Race Course Road. With this unexpected event Thursday evening, top echelons in the police and security agencies are up in arms against the serious breach of sxecurity at the Prime Minister's residence.
The trio, it is officially reckoned, successfully managed to drive up to the inner gates of the Prime Ministers' bungalow in a black Sonata, breezing past the security cardon at the main gate. Their reason was simple: they wanted to meet the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh.
Carefree and blowing kisses to the media sta... | |
| | | | Race begins for WBPCC chief post | | 'Boisterous boy', Dasmunsi, emerges front-runner | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JULY 28: The word 'election' does exist in the Congress party's lexicon. But it is the word 'selection', which has more often than not been made use of by the party's high command. No wonder, eyes are focused on the Congress supremo, Sonia Gandhi, as far as the question of making available a new chief for the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC).
Eyes, at the same time, are also focused on Sonia's 'boisterous boy', Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, who is currently a Cabinet Minister in the Congress-led coalition government at the Centre. Dasmunsi has emerged front-runner in the race for the post of the Congress party's West Bengal State unit president.
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| | | | Islamabad rift persists | | Pak Foreign Minister adopts tough posture | | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JULY 28: Pakistan is reported to have decided not to formally request India for a meeting of Foreign Secretaries in Dhaka next week on the sidelines of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) council of ministers.
India has yet to make such a submission as it called off the Foreign Secretary level meeting of the two countries that was scheduled for July 20 in New Delhi.
A meeting between the two heads of the delegations on the margins of the SAARC meetings has already been ruled out, as India will be represented at lower level while Pakistani Foreign Minister, Khurshid Kasuri, will represent Pakistan.
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| | | | MEN & MATTERS | | Kaho na you are my Sonia | | | B L KAK
'Kaho na you are my Sonia'. This expression, though borrowed from a Bollywood Hindi film, is these days used by more and more Congress members and supporters. They also include some Central Ministers and a battery of MPs. Sonia Gandhi is seemingly well-entrenched. And in recent times she has been found to have emerged as a picture of confidence.
Now-a-days nowhere in evidence is the nervousness she used to display every time she spoke in public. Catapulted into prominence with the assassination of her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, by Tamil militants in 1991, Italian-born Sonia was considered a greenhorn in politics. She had refused to tgake up the leadership of the party offered ... | |
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