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| Haseeb Drabu, Muzaffar Baig identified as fathers of PDP’s self rule concept | | Mehbooba wants ‘independent state’, says Kashmir is dotted with ‘martyrs graveyards’ | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Aug 26: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President and daughter of the former Home Minister of India Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Mehbooba Mufti, today identified Chairman of Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd, Haseeb Drabu, and her party’s legal luminary, Muzaffar Hussain Baig, as the architects of PDP’s “self rule concept” and asserted that nothing short of an “independent state” would neutralize the separatist sentiment in Jammu & Kashmir. She said that in the last sixty-two years, New Delhi had played fraud after fraud with this state of special status by way of holding the people on gun point as it had permitted Army to occupy hundreds of thousands of Kanals of land, misused Police as a political tool to crush voices of dissent even as the Valley was dotted with martyrs’ graveyards and was being turned by the establishment into a Guantanamo Bay---dreaded USA jail for Al-Qaeda detainees on an island.
In PDP’s key speech over Chief Minister’s grants for Home, Power, Planning and some other departments, Mehbooba Mufti lashed out on New Delhi and her ‘political st... | |
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| Pakistan still not behaving: Gen Bhardwaj | | Northern Command Chief sees no threat from China | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 26: Contrary to the general belief in country’s strategic think-tanks, a top commander of Indian Army today asserted that the infrastructure buildup along Chinese borders did not pose a threat even as he pointed out that Pakistan’s continuous support to militancy kept the threat alive despite falling levels of violence in Jammu and Kashmir.
"The Chinese infrastructure across the LAC (Line of Actual Control) does not pose any threat to us," Lt. Gen. P.C. Bhardwaj, the general officer commanding-in-chief of the strategic Northern Command that guards India's borders with China and Pakistan, told reporters at its headquarters at Udhampur, 70 km from here.
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| | | | DD cameras return to assembly | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 26: After being disallowed to enter the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly yesterday, the cameramen of the Doordarshan Kendra (DDK), Srinagar, were back in the house today.
''I have allowed the cameramen to enter the House today after the DDK Director met me yesterday and assured that proper coverage of the House proceedings would be telecasted,'' speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone informed the House before taking up question hour.
He however added we asked the cameramen to withdraw from the house yesterday as despite repeated directions from the chair, the DDK failed to give adequate coverage to the House proceedings.
The House was getting complaints fro... | |
| | | | DD cameras return to assembly | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 26: After being disallowed to enter the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly yesterday, the cameramen of the Doordarshan Kendra (DDK), Srinagar, were back in the house today.
''I have allowed the cameramen to enter the House today after the DDK Director met me yesterday and assured that proper coverage of the House proceedings would be telecasted,'' speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone informed the House before taking up question hour.
He however added we asked the cameramen to withdraw from the house yesterday as despite repeated directions from the chair, the DDK failed to give adequate coverage to the House proceedings.
The House was getting complaints fro... | |
| | | | DD cameras return to assembly | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 26: After being disallowed to enter the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly yesterday, the cameramen of the Doordarshan Kendra (DDK), Srinagar, were back in the house today.
''I have allowed the cameramen to enter the House today after the DDK Director met me yesterday and assured that proper coverage of the House proceedings would be telecasted,'' speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone informed the House before taking up question hour.
He however added we asked the cameramen to withdraw from the house yesterday as despite repeated directions from the chair, the DDK failed to give adequate coverage to the House proceedings.
The House was getting complaints fro... | |
| | | | DD cameras return to assembly | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 26: After being disallowed to enter the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly yesterday, the cameramen of the Doordarshan Kendra (DDK), Srinagar, were back in the house today.
''I have allowed the cameramen to enter the House today after the DDK Director met me yesterday and assured that proper coverage of the House proceedings would be telecasted,'' speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone informed the House before taking up question hour.
He however added we asked the cameramen to withdraw from the house yesterday as despite repeated directions from the chair, the DDK failed to give adequate coverage to the House proceedings.
The House was getting complaints fro... | |
| | | | Regularization of employees on cabinet agenda | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, August 26: The cabinet meeting which was deferred twice since Monday will meet on Friday evening to clear the plan of regularising the services of those employees and officials appointed on contractual and adhoc basis.
Official sources today said that this was the main agenda for the cabinet meeting and the remaining business pertained to promotions and transfers in the PWD,PDD,R&B departments. Sources said that a list of several hundred contractual and adhoc employees has been prepared and it will be submitted for cabinet clearance.
Besides this while screening cases for regularisation the official agency reviewed their academic qualification so that they cou... | |
| | | | Disturbed Areas Act to continue | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 26: The government today ruled out withdrawal of Disturbed Areas Act in the state, saying no such proposal was under the government's consideration.
Answering a question raised by Nizamuddin Bhat (PDP) in the state assembly Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said, "No such proposal is under the consideration of the government at the moment."
However, he said the state's internal security is under continuous review, and action will be considered as and when the situation warrants.
Replying Mohammad Khalil Band of PDP, Omar said security cover is provided to persons on the basis of an assessment of threat perception.
"The details of security cover provided to o... | |
| | | | Disturbed Areas Act to continue | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 26: The government today ruled out withdrawal of Disturbed Areas Act in the state, saying no such proposal was under the government's consideration.
Answering a question raised by Nizamuddin Bhat (PDP) in the state assembly Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said, "No such proposal is under the consideration of the government at the moment."
However, he said the state's internal security is under continuous review, and action will be considered as and when the situation warrants.
Replying Mohammad Khalil Band of PDP, Omar said security cover is provided to persons on the basis of an assessment of threat perception.
"The details of security cover provided to o... | |
| | | | 935 Pandit families apply for return | | | | Early Times report
Jammu, Aug 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s rehabilitation plan for the return of Kashmiri Pandits back to their homes and hearts in the troubled Valley sounded quite doable and state government’s substantiating efforts too have been encouraging but the priorities of this displaced community are somewhere else –security and stability is clearly running high on the minds of Pandit migrants than the economic spinoffs connected with their return to Valley.
Responding to the Prime Minister’s Rs 1618 plan announced in July 2008, not many Kashmiri Pandits have opted for their return to the Valley even though the economic benefits of the plan could have attracted anyone... | |
| | | | 935 Pandit families apply for return | | | | Early Times report
Jammu, Aug 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s rehabilitation plan for the return of Kashmiri Pandits back to their homes and hearts in the troubled Valley sounded quite doable and state government’s substantiating efforts too have been encouraging but the priorities of this displaced community are somewhere else –security and stability is clearly running high on the minds of Pandit migrants than the economic spinoffs connected with their return to Valley.
Responding to the Prime Minister’s Rs 1618 plan announced in July 2008, not many Kashmiri Pandits have opted for their return to the Valley even though the economic benefits of the plan could have attracted anyone... | |
| | | | Panther roars again as angry young man returns to House | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 26: Two days after opposition members sarcastically demanded a hunt to trace a ‘missing’ Omar Abdullah, the Chief Minister today returned to the Legislative Assembly but to come across yet another confrontation with a legislator who asked the Speaker on Monday “where is angry young man?”
Interestingly, while taking on the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the Panthers Party legislator Harsh Dev Singh repeatedly reminded him of the parliamentary interests of his father Dr Farooq Abdullah who as Chief Minister would devote more time to the assembly to listen to the members and personally attend to the issues raised by them.
As Omar attended the assembly toda... | |
| | | | Bureaucracy dividing people, Jammu to get CU: Madan | | | |
Abid Shah
New Delhi, August 26: Lok Sabha member from Jammu, Mr Madan Lal Sharma, has tried to allay fears about the fate of Central University to be built near Jammu by saying that there should be no confusion regarding Central Government’s firm plan to set up CU in Jammu and an Indian Institute of Management at Srinagar as per the original plan.
Asked to specify as to what caused confusion, Mr Sharma said that mainly this was because of bureaucracy that preferred to set people of Jammu and Valley against each other. The Vice-Chancellor of the new university Professor Wahid Qureshi too got caught in the wrangling between diverse interests hampering the task of setting up office of the... | |
| | | | Delink rehabilitation from return | | | |
Abid Shah
New Delhi, August 26: Sops offered to Kashmiri Pandit migrants in the State Budget presented earlier this month in J&K Assembly have not impressed over a lakh-strong displaced Pandit community settled here. The Budget promises 15,000 jobs in Government and private sectors to those KPs who wish to return to the Valley.
Yet, the leader of a Pandit migrants’ organisation, Dr L.N. Dhar, says the issue before the displaced Pandits is not job, work and vocation alone but also safety, security, peace and tranquility. All these things still remain a far cry not only in the Valley but also in the rest of the State that face the same threat with often a lesser degree.
“There are no... | |
| | | | Delink rehabilitation from return | | | |
Abid Shah
New Delhi, August 26: Sops offered to Kashmiri Pandit migrants in the State Budget presented earlier this month in J&K Assembly have not impressed over a lakh-strong displaced Pandit community settled here. The Budget promises 15,000 jobs in Government and private sectors to those KPs who wish to return to the Valley.
Yet, the leader of a Pandit migrants’ organisation, Dr L.N. Dhar, says the issue before the displaced Pandits is not job, work and vocation alone but also safety, security, peace and tranquility. All these things still remain a far cry not only in the Valley but also in the rest of the State that face the same threat with often a lesser degree.
“There are no... | |
| | | | Delink rehabilitation from return | | | |
Abid Shah
New Delhi, August 26: Sops offered to Kashmiri Pandit migrants in the State Budget presented earlier this month in J&K Assembly have not impressed over a lakh-strong displaced Pandit community settled here. The Budget promises 15,000 jobs in Government and private sectors to those KPs who wish to return to the Valley.
Yet, the leader of a Pandit migrants’ organisation, Dr L.N. Dhar, says the issue before the displaced Pandits is not job, work and vocation alone but also safety, security, peace and tranquility. All these things still remain a far cry not only in the Valley but also in the rest of the State that face the same threat with often a lesser degree.
“There are no... | |
| | | | Delink rehabilitation from return | | | | Abid Shah
New Delhi, August 26: Sops offered to Kashmiri Pandit migrants in the State Budget presented earlier this month in J&K Assembly have not impressed over a lakh-strong displaced Pandit community settled here. The Budget promises 15,000 jobs in Government and private sectors to those KPs who wish to return to the Valley.
Yet, the leader of a Pandit migrants’ organisation, Dr L.N. Dhar, says the issue before the displaced Pandits is not job, work and vocation alone but also safety, security, peace and tranquility. All these things still remain a far cry not only in the Valley but also in the rest of the State that face the same threat with often a lesser degree.
“There are not go... | |
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