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| Maulana Shaukat murder accused Abdullah Gazali, Bil Papa disowned by TM | | After Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen too regards Srinagar Police investigation | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Aug 29: In a significant development, militant outfit Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TM) has disowned two of its key functionaries, Abdullah Gazali and Bil Papa, who have been charged by Srinagar District Police with killing of cleric-politician Maulana Shaukat Shah. President of Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadith (JAH) Jammu and Kashmir, Maulana Shaukat had died in an IED blast at a mosque in Maisuma locality here on April 8th this year.
JAH President and head of the separatists' SIT, Maulana Ghulam Rasool Malik, today released TM's letter which indirectly corroborated involvement of its key functionaries, Abdul Gani Dar alias Abdullah Gazali of Russu, Budgam, and Javed Munshi alias Bil Papa of Chhanapora, Srinagar, in Maulana Shaukat's assassination in April. On August 26th, Malik had released a letter from another formidable militant organisation, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, which also confirmed Srinagar District Police investigation, described Javed Munshi as the key assassin but claimed that LeT's Kashmir-based Pakistani commander Abdullah Yuni was not involved in the heinous ... | |
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| NC led govt virtually gives up governance; onus just on completing six years in office | | Geelani rules the roost in J&K? | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Aug 29: Blessed by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, working on the directions of 'clerks' of Union Home Ministry, marred by arrogance and terrorized by separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, National Conference (NC) led government has virtually given up on governance and is making all efforts to ensure it completes six years.
Information department, which is the official mouthpiece of Omar government, does not need to issue clarification nor is it required that two or three coalition ministers would sit together, address a press conference to deny what has now become talk of the town. Governance has gone astray. Insiders maintain that key issues are decided by '... | |
| | | | Govt rigid, opposition silent over demands of arrears, retirement age | | State employees get support from surprising quarter: Mirwaiz Omar | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 29: The state government employees who have been agitating and intensfying stir for a long time to get their demands fulifilled have got support this time from a surprsing quarter- the separatist leader, chairman of moderate faction of Hurriyat Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, who feels not only injustice has been meted out to them but they have become victims of discrimination , given the fact what they are asking already stands granted to IAS and IPS officers in the J&K state.
Mirwaiz , according to an agency report has expressed full suppor and sympathies with the employees, who form a huge chunk , working in various departments across all the three regions of the ... | |
| | | | Police fails to restore JDA land back, team returns blank | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 29: The men in khaki have the principal duty to maintain law & order and ensure security of the general public with their grit, determination and vigilant eyes.
However, today's incident at Gol Gujral exhibited that even the police sometimes buckles under pressure.
It may sound strange but it is true that a police contingent assisting Jammu Development Authority (JDA) officials to vacate a piece of land in Gol Gujral area proved weak kneed as it could not bear the desired result.
The police team miserably failed to vacate the land from the clutches of encroachers as it face stiff resistance from land grabbers.
The buckling of police under pressure led to ... | |
| | | | Good decision if Geelani's threatening did not prompt it? | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 29: The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announcement's to grant one time amnesty to stone pelters by withdrawing cases against them ahead of the Holy Eid has come as a welcome step. But there are some strong fears which the common man expresses about what prompted the decision. People argue that beyond the apparent goodwill, there is a serious underlying message in this decision.
Kashmiri separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has threatened an agitation after the Eid festival if all arrested youth and political prisoners are not released by the State government before the Eid festival.
Geelani has threatened to spearhead an agitation on th... | |
| | | | Forgetting plight of existing IT parks CM demands special grants for electronic industry | | | | Early Times Report
new delhi, Aug 29: Without even bothering about the existing IT parks in the State which are already defunct because of the lack of opportunities and official apathy, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Monday sought Special Central grants to the State to promote green field clusters and harness the potential for growth and development of electronic industry.
Omar Abdullah should have spared a few of his precious moments to address the problems of the existing IT parks in the State which were inaugurated with fanfare a few years back and are now defunct and begging for official attention.
Incentives were given to some blue-eyed IT professionals and those were pocketed by th... | |
| | | | Congress down and out, advantage BJP | | Anna's Crusade | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 29: Anna Hazare, who sat on fast-unto-death on August 16 to force the arrogant and undemocratic Congress-led UPA Government to accept his demands seeking eradication of corruption and the corrupt, has scored a magnificent victory. He and his team members, plus millions of his supporters across the country, brought to their knees the Manmohan Singh-led government and the cornered and defeated UPA Government adopted on August 27 a resolution endorsing the viewpoint of the determined, committed and unrelenting Anna.
The Anna's crusade against corruption which mobilized the exploited and humbled Indian nation in no time and attracted attention at world scale, with the bulk ... | |
| | | | DDK Srinagar record room gutted in mysterious blaze | | 17 RTI application, seeking record of programmes and payments, had piled up in 2 months | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 29: One official got critically injured when record room of Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar gutted in a mysterious fire last evening. Since seventeen private producers had applications in the last about one month and sought records of the 'fraudulently paid' in-house programmes under RTI, officials are wildly suspected to have destroyed the files that could have landed them in trouble.
Even as DDK Srinagar maintained silence and it did not issue any clarification, informed sources revealed to Early Times that a devastating blaze occurred in mysterious circumstances in the record room at around 1700 hours last evening. Sources said that voluminous records... | |
| | | | Jammu against discrimination, wants parity with Kashmir | | Unfair Polity | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 29: The people of Duggar Pradesh are the most neglected community in the country. They have been suffering enormous socio-economic and political losses ever since 1947, when the Congress and the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru transferred political power from Jammu to Kashmir to appease his anti-Jammu and anti-Dogra friend Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. He transferred the political power from the Duggar Pradesh to Kashmir knowing it full well that Sheikh Abdullah had no love lost for the Dogras, as also overlooking the fact that the Sheikh and Valley-based National Conference had hatred for India. Nehru overlooked all the antecedents of the Sheikh to prove his so-called sec... | |
| | | | Will LA extend new JJA to JK? | | | | Jammu: With the Governor having summoned the session of the state legislature, the human rights defenders hope that the legislators will take appropriate measures to extend the new Juvenile Justice Act 2000 to the state.
The state continues to be governed by older version of the legislation that was enacted in 1986 and was extended to the state in 1987. The law came up for discussion when Amnesty international released its report on Public Safety Act titled `A lawless law' early this year.
The law came under severe criticism when police detained a youth from Faizan from South Kashmir under Public Safety Act (PSA). The police maintained that Faizan was not a minor as per the provisions ... | |
| | | | Navin is new ADG prisons | | | | JAMMU: The government today ordered the transfer of an additional director general of police (ADGP), one SSP and three SPs.
According to a Home Department order -- Home-901(P) - issued today and signed by principal secretary BR Sharma, ADGP (security) Navin Aggarwal was transferred and posted as ADGP, prisons, in place of MA Anjum, who retires on August 31.
Sheikh Mehmood, commandant IRP 6th Bn, is transferred and posted as SSP, Srinagar PCR, vice Javed Farooqi who retires on August 31.
SP Saifudin Shah, commandant of auxiliary police Ist Bn, is posted as IRP 6th Bn commandant in place of Sheikh Mehmood.
SP Showkat Ahmad Dar, who was on deputation to SKIMS, Srinagar, is posted as additi... | |
| | | | JU employee allegedly lifted, beaten by Sarpanch | | | | JAMMU: A Jammu University employee was allegedly lifted and thrashed by Sarpanch of Miran Sahib here today.
One Ashok Kumar, security guard in Jammu University Campus, in his police complaint alleged that he was lifted by Sarpach of the area namely Bittu in an auto rickshaw when he was on way to his home after performing his duty.
JU employee who is undergoing treatment at GMC hospital further alleged that the Sarpach and his goons took him to an unidentified area and after beating him they escaped from the spot.
Old enmity is stated to be the reason behind the incident. No case in this connection was registered with the Miran Sahib police till late hours.... | |
| | | | Hon'ble speaker must ensure answers from State Govt | | | | It is our foremost duty to set the record straight for our esteemed readers to whom we owe the success of Early Times in such a short period of time. Our readers have stood by us while all vested interests and those who feel grossly insecure due to our brave, outspoken and straightforward criticism of the corrupt, inefficient, anti-national and anti-social elements, ganged up to harm the interests of Early Times.
During the last session of the State Legislative Assembly, an hon'ble member of assembly, Shri Chaman Lal Gupta of the BJP asked a very pertinent question regarding the state government's attitude towards Early Times. The hon'ble member had asked a question seeking the government... | |
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