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| Illegal but officially, Jammu based NC Minister manages 4th extension for his blue-eyed | | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, Aug 11: Notwithstanding Government's excuse of financial crunch for not addressing the issue of enhancement in retirement age of its employees from 58 to 60 yrs, tainted officers, by getting extension over extension after retirement, have proved that their reach is far beyond anybody's guess and that they are not alone but have a strong backing of one or the other Minister who sometimes cross all the limits while seeking extension for their favourits.
Even the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been repeatedly saying that any move to raise the retirement age of employees from the present 58 to 60 years will severely hurt the interests of the educated unemployed youth.
Notwithstanding this unemployment crisis, which the Government has miserably failed to address, at least 165 officials have been granted extension in service or re-engaged since 2007 after their retirement, most of them quietly.
The J&K Government, pertinently, has come under severe criticism for re-employing its "favourite officers".
It is now widely believed that extensions to retired o... | |
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| Upset over detection of secret tunnel dug by it on IB, Pak targets Indian posts in Arnia sub-sector to facilitate infiltration | | BSF jawan hurt critically | | | Bharat Bhushan
Jammu, Aug 11: Upset and noticeably driven to despair by the detection of the secret tunnel dug by it in Samba sub-sector which subsequently led to the foiling of its evil designs to push militants into the Indian territory through this underground path, Pakistan today resorted to heavy firing in Arnia sub-sector, targetting at least three BSF outposts and seriously wounding a jawan.
The unprovoked Pak firing is seen as an attempt of the Rangers to facilitate infiltration. In the past nearly two decades, the incidents of firing and infiltration attempts have seen an abrupt jump on the two most important Indian dates -- August 15 (Independence Day) and January 26 (Republic D... | |
| | | | PDP emerges stronger on political horizon of State | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Aug 11: Is People’s Democratic Party (PDP) really emerging stronger in Jammu and Kashmir, answer is yes. Has PDP earned credibility of the people, answer is again in affirmative.
The wide-spread perception about Omar Abdullah led coalition Government being a non-starter has, for sure, given an edge to the opposition People’s Democratic Party and its leadership.
As for its emergence as party of future, the well attended public meetings of the party across Jammu and Kashmir is an indicator.
Though regional parties were emerging as strong political forces across the length and breadth of the country, PDP, however, has a distinction in the sense that it is... | |
| | | | Daylight murder of retired DySP exposes chinks in security armour | | Was it a message killing? | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Aug 11: The broad daylight murder of a retired police officer in the heart of Srinagar city has once again exposed chinks in the security armour, but more importantly, it has proved a disturbing fact-militants can choose to strike at will and do so successfully.
It is not that a retired or serving police officer was attacked for the first time in the State, nor was it for the first time that militants carried out their sinister designs and then vanished into the thin air. What is a matter of serious concern is that the attack has come at a time when the Jammu and Kashmir Government had started to push its case for revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers ... | |
| | | | Who extended draconian laws to JK? | | | | ET Report
Jammu, Aug 11: While National Conference accuses Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of extending Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to Jammu and Kashmir, the Sheikh family, political circles, believe is the real culprit.
After burying the `Plebiscite Front' in 1975, Sher-e-Kashmir opted for a preventive detention law to silence his own workers who had been chanting slogans of Plebiscite under the dynamic leadership of his most trusted lieutenant, Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg for 22 years. In 1978 the Jammu Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) was passed and extended to the State. The misuse of this law continues to this day.
In 1984 a de-facto member of the Sheikh family, Ghulam Mohammad Shah e... | |
| | | | It is belated Congress salvo against National Conference | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 11: When the PCC chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz, stated the other day that he had stalled the revocation of the AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir what had provoked him to comment on an issue which is highly sensitive ?The answer to this question is not difficult to find as it confirms reports indicating fresh conflict between the State unit of the Congress and its partner, the National Conference.
But this can be a generalised statement. Actually the Congress, which is reeling under growing peoples' resentment and disenchantment, has begun moves to regain the ground that it has lost in the State, especially in the Jammu region. Hence announcing that he had initiated mov... | |
| | | | Congress chief Soz in the line of fire | | Revocation Of AFSPA | | | Neha
Jammu, Aug 11: JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz is under severe attack. The reason is that Soz made certain comments on the AFSPA in Jammu on August 9 on the sideline of a function, organized in connection with the August 9, 1942 Quit India Movement. The function was organized at the party headquarters. Talking to reporters, Soz gave them to understand that the AFSPA could not be revoked or amended without the consent of "stakeholders" like the Army. In fact, this had been his line ever since October 2011, when Chief Minister Omar Abdullah unilaterally announced in Srinagar that he would revoke AFSPA before the Durbar offices opened in Jammu in November. It was a policy statement. Soz had ... | |
| | | | Why has BJP not spoken a word against Jethmalani? | | Playing Mischief | | | Rustam
Jammu, Aug 11: Senior BJP leader and great friend of Kashmiri separatists, Kashmir Committee chairman Ram Jethmalani, along with other well-wishers of Kashmiri secessionists, including Madhu Kishwar, editor of the defunct Manushi, were in Kashmir for two days (August 4 & 5). During those two days, they met with extremists and separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Khan and his wife and university professor Hamida Nayeem and a few others, including some so-called mainstream leaders belonging to the main opposition party. They did not interact with the media this time. But the Kashmir-based media did report what had transpired between th... | |
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