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Omar Govt has turned J&K into a Police state: Mehbooba 'Sopore, Surankot custodial killings humble SC ruling on fake encounters' 8/10/2011 12:08:29 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Aug 9: President of the principal opposition party PDP, Mehbooba Muftib, today lamented that Omar Abdullah-led coalition government had 'outsourced' governance fully to the Police force and Jammu & Kashmir had been turned into a "Police State". Apprehending all gunbattles as fake encounters, Ms Mufti exclaimed with surprise that Police had killed two civilians in custody at Sopore and Surankot at a time when Supreme Court of India declared that uniformed participants of all fake encounters should be hanged to death. Addressing a crowded news conference at her official residence on Gupkar Road, Mehbooba Mufti claimed that 31-month-long Omar Abdullah-led coalition government had given a free hand to its Police and armed forces in eliminating innocent civilians in custody and fake encounters. She said it was all the more surprising that Police and Army personnel had killed two civilians in custody---one in physical torture in Sopore and another in a fake encounter in Surankot---at a time when judges of Supreme Court of India had declared...   READ MORE

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Vohra's sermons on enforcement of laws, justice make no sense Priyadarshni Mattoo seminar Probe yet to be ordered in official victimization of Early Times 8/10/2011 12:07:39 AM Early Times Report srinagar, Aug 9: Governor N.N. Vohra spoke at length in the seminar-cum-award function organised by Priyadarshni Mattoo Memorial Foundation (PMMF) about effective enforcement of laws, alongside referring to maintenance of law and order by ensuring answerability of all concerned authorities at all levels. However, what skipped though his mind was the plea of Early Times newspaper. He forgot that while national media ensured justice is done in Priyadarshni Mattoo case, here in Jammu and Kashmir, a local daily has been facing worst kind of nightmare and none is bothered about getting justice done in this case. None includes Governor N.N.Vohra who is well aware of the injus...   READ MORE   Sher-e-Kashmir suggested guerrilla war in 1964 August 9 hang over 8/10/2011 12:06:35 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 9: After August 9, 1953 incident, Sher-e-Kashmir did change but not fully. He continued to nurture separatist tendencies. He even flirted with the idea of a guerrilla war for liberation of Jammu Kashmir. After 1965 war when Pakistan President, General Ayoub Khan and his foreign ministry officials including late Zulifkar Ali Bhuttoo shifted the blame for the failure of Operation Gibraltar on the people of Kashmir, Mir came out openly to defend the hapless Kashmiris. In a meeting with Shabir Chowdhury at his Rawalpindi residence, immediately after the war, Mir said, "When Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah visited Pakistan in 1964, he discussed a possibility of guerrill...   READ MORE   Kin of a prominent Trade Unionist running from pillar to post in Kashmir to seek permission for opening a news paper 8/10/2011 12:06:03 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Aug 9: What can be the grave injustice and highhandedness of authorities in the state than this that the kin of a respectable citizen belonging to a progressive thought has been denied the permission for publishing the newspaper from Kashmir Valley. Shah Nawaz Rasool, son of Ghulam Rasool Mir a veteran trade unionist of the state who worked for his entire life for cultivating the progressive movement in Kashmir Valley has been denied the permission for publishing a news paper from Kashmir. Rasool who had applied for permission to Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal for permission in May 2008 is running from pillar to post for the same as till date the person has bee...   READ MORE   Antony seeks detailed report on Poonch encounter Trust deficit removing exercise 8/10/2011 12:05:36 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 9: Both the state Government and the centre seem to be worried over a new trend taking shape in Jammu and Kashmir which has the potential of triggering civilian strike. And this trend pertains to fake encounters and the custodial killing besides alleged rape by the security forces. And it is for the first time that the Defence Minister, A.K. Antony, has sought a detailed report from the Army authorities in Jammu regarding the fake encounter in Poonch in which one civilian killed was shown as Lashkar-i-Toiba commander. Though there have been fake encounters in the past but the Defence Minister has not sought detailed report on those fake encounters within a fe...   READ MORE   Interlocutor Radha tenders resignation, says she can't work with Ansari Fai Connection 8/10/2011 12:05:08 AM Rustam EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Aug 9: Kudos to interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir MM Ansari. Kudos for what? Kudos because he has succeeded in inspiring or provoking Radha Kumar to tender resignation from the position she had been holding since October 13, 2010, when the Union Government took an extraordinary step and appointed a three-member panel of interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir with senior journalist Dileep Padgaonkar as its head. Radha Kumar, according to a leading Delhi-based national daily, sent her resignation letter to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram yesterday informing that "she doesn't want to be associated with her colleague MM Ansari." In he letter to the Union Home...   READ MORE   Central University: Jammu's another crowning triumph SLAP ON Leadership's Face 8/10/2011 12:04:34 AM Neha EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Aug 9: The Dogras of Jammu in general and the Dogra student community in particular have once again demonstrated their strength and brought the authorities to their knees and scored a magnificent victory, notwithstanding the fact that it is a partial victory -- partial victory because the demand in Jammu was for the appointment of a local academician as Vice-Chancellor. The case in point is the appointment former Chief Secretary SS Bloeria as first Vice-Chancellor of the Jammu Central University. The appointment of Bloeria as Vice-Chancellor may not enthuse many in Jammu but the fact remains that he belongs to Jammu and that he is a Dogra. A number of stude...   READ MORE   Pak Rangers hand over minor's body to BSF 8/10/2011 12:03:47 AM JAMMU: The Pak Rangers today handed over to BSF the body of Sarmoo (6), son of Yousaf of Chak Manglan, Samba, who was Sunday evening washed away in flash floods in Basantar river. Sarmoo was grazing cattle close to the Basantar bank at Samba when he was washed away by flash floods across the International Border (IB) in Pakistan. His body was today fished out from the river by the Rangers. Police sources said the Rangers contacted troops of 59 Bn of BSF at Galad outpost and handed over the body to them. The BSF later gave the body to his family for its last rites....   READ MORE   Mud house gives way to rains at Mohalla Paharian 8/10/2011 12:03:31 AM JAMMU: A mud house gave way to torrential rains at Mohalla Paharian here late Monday night. Police said the mud house of Vijay Kumar, son of Bansi Lal, collapsed due to heavy rains at Mohalla Paharian late last night and the debris fell on the gift house of Rajesh Khurana, son of SP Khurana of Shastri Nagar. Though there was no casualty in the incident, several items in Khurana's gift house were damaged. The loss was estimated at about Rs 2 lakh. Police said Khurana also dealt in photostat machines and mobile phone spare parts. The city police had registered a case in this connection....   READ MORE   2 cops hurt in fight 8/10/2011 12:03:17 AM JAMMU: Two police constables were hurt in a fight on the national highway at Ramban, about 150 km from here towards Kashmir. Traffic police cop Talib Hussain stopped Maruti car (JK02AR/1665) at Ramban for routine checking. The car was being driven by cop Javed Iqbal of JKAP 12 Bn, who at present was posted in SSG, Srinagar. Police sources said the two cops fought over some trivial issue as a result of which they sustained minor injuries. A case was registered against both of them at Ramban police station....   READ MORE

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