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| No Pak commandos, foreign militants involved in Wullar | | Three local Hizb ultras, 3 OGWs participated in action; all identified | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: Police have got identified all the six armed men who had stormed a construction site of the Rs 398 Cr Wullar Conservation Project and warned workers against execution of the works. None of them, according to Police, was either a foreign militant or 'Pak army commando' as erroneously speculated in a section of media.
SP Sopore, Imtiyaz Hussain Mir, confirmed to Early Times that everybody in the group had been identified in the last 48 hours. "We have identified everybody who attempted to cause harassment to the workers and we are sure to tackle with them soon", Imtiyaz said. However, he refused to share details with the argument that it could hamper the investigation. Nevertheless, SP Sopore asserted that no search operation had been conducted by Police or security forces to apprehend the saboteurs after the group of "six masked and armed men" had appeared at the lake spot near Adipora at 10.40 p.m on August 27.
"As of now we have not launched any operation independently or with security forces in Wullar lake area or elsewhere. We are fully awar... | |
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| Maan ya na maan, mein tera mehman | | Interlocutors- turn- job seekers | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: It sounds mock, but true it is, former interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir Dileep Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar are in the Valley not to seek feedback-as they claim-but seek re-appointment to draw perks and other incentives like all other track-two actors who have amazed wealth over festering wounds of the State Subjects- people of all the three regions.
Former interlocutors who arrived here on Wednesday have neither mandate of the Central Government nor the politicians from mainstream and separatist camps have shown any interest in them. It goes Urdu proverbial maan ya na maan mein tera mehman.
A senior Cabinet Minister in Omar Abdullah led coalition ... | |
| | | | New avatar of former interlocutors? | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 30: The former Central interlocutors are now back in the Valley in their new Avatar. Radha Kumar, one of the former interlocutors, has now told the media that their role as interlocutors might be over but they are now in the Valley as resource persons.
It is a well known fact that the report submitted by the three interlocutors to the Union Home Ministry had no takers either in Jammu or the Valley and the Ladakh region of the State. Theirs is a document which has been properly relegated to the realms of history as had been the fate of so many other documents previously prepared on the State of affairs in Jammu and Kashmir.
After incurring huge expenses to th... | |
| | | | CM should have come out of function: Er Rashid | | Asks Chib to resign over JAKLI humiliation | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: Independent MLA, Engineer Rashid has sharply reacted to the recent incident at JAKLI Headquarters at Rangreth, during which senior Cabinet Minister RS Chib, DGP Ashok Prasad and other senior dignitaries of State were humiliated and not allowed to enter the premises of the said headquarters on occasion of Reunion Day.
Chib, Prasad and others had gone to attend a function at the invitation of the JAKLI which had organized the function, also attended by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Early Times had exclusively reported the shabby treatment meted out to the state VVIPs.
"There can be nothing worse and humiliating than the fact that the entry gate leading ... | |
| | | | SHO Geelani, others to face music; Court directs SSP to take action | | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Aug 30: In a complaint filed by Nawdeep Sharma r/o Sainik Colony Jammu, the Special Municipal Mobile Magistrate Jammu has directed the SSP Jammu to register FIR against the SHO P/S Trikuta Nagar Sameer Jeelani and four PSOs for using unparliamentarily language and misbehaving with the a common man.
After hearing Adv JP Nanda appearing for the petitioner, Special Municipal Mobile Magistrate Jammu V S Bhou, perused the allegations which are serious in nature and pointed against responsible police officer and police officials.
Court observed that though a thorough investigation into allegations is warranted and thus the complaint has been forwarded the complainant to SSP Ja... | |
| | | | Interlocutors' fresh meetings drawing flak | | 'Mistrust growing among mainstream politicians too.....' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 30: Amid a controversy over Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's statements on visit of interlocutors Prof Radha Kumar and Dileep Padgaonkar to state, the latter are drawing flak from the mainstream politicians of Kashmir vis-a-vis their bid to have assessment and feedback on the report they submitted few months back.
Former minister and president of PDF Hakim Mohammad Yaseen during his hour long meeting with the duo expressed deep regret over what he alleged that deliberate attempt being made by New Delhi to keep the issues hanging and enveloped in air of confusion as a result of which even the mainstream politicians are gradually losing faith in commitments m... | |
| | | | Raina snubs Engr Rashid, demands single township for Pandits in Valley | | Gadda for three cultural academies | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: Kashmiri Pandit delegation led by a social activist KK Raina called on former interlocutors at Summer Capital here today and demanded a comprehensive return and rehabilitation package for displaced Pandits by settling them at a concentrated place in Valley.
Raina who submitted a memorandum to the former interlocutors including Dilip Padgoankar and Radha Kumar expressed serious concern over the neglect of Kashmiri Pandits by the interlocutors in their recommendations though the community being the first and foremost part to Kashmir issue which has become the main victim of 23 year long turmoil.
Raina told the former interlocutors that they have only ma... | |
| | | | CAG picks faults in Transport Department's functioning | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: In what could be termed as bizarre example of laxity and non flippancy, the State Transport Department has issued registration numbers to thousands of vehicles without the actual details of the owners of vehicles. The department not only has showed a security lapse but also seemed unconcerned to the life of school children by permitting school vehicles without having proper fitness certificates.
The Department has even entered 'bogus' numbers into the data base of the vehicle owners seeking registration whereas thousands of registrations were issued without mentioning the actual parentage and address of the vehicle owner.
"Fields like Purchase date,... | |
| | | | Does legal recourse make any difference here? | | A half widow, her kids | | | ET Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: Yes they did play with other children of the locality. But unlike rest of them they did not know that Jack and Jill had went up a hill. They did not know that Johny consumed sugar and lied to his Papa. They also did not know that the Black sheep had three bags of wool. These school rhymes would make them uneasy and force them into isolation. In the evening they would anxiously wait in their dingy one-room-hut for their father who provided succor to them by working as a laborer. One evening their beloved father did not return. Little did the two kids know that they were going to be enlisted in the long list of `half orphans'?
On a pleasant April morning of 199... | |
| | | | Changing attitude of national media | | Amarnath Yatra & Refugees | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 30: It is perhaps after several years that a leading media house came down heavily not only on Kashmiri separatists but also questioned the very political behaviour of what certain sections term as mainstream political parties, including National Conference (NC). It took on them saying their attitude towards the Amarnath pilgrims and refugees from West Pakistan and POJK is negative, hostile, and even inhuman. It editorially said that "opposition to providing basic amenities to Amarnath pilgrims carries a sinister ring". It was a severe indictment of them. As for the refugees, it said: Their (NC and PDP) failure to act (grant refugees what is rightfully due to them) by taki... | |
| | | | CM commends former interlocutors' exercise | | Workshops On Divisive Report | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 30: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who on Tuesday told reporters at Murran, Pulwama, that former interlocutors - Dilip Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar - who are known for their close association with an American national of Kashmir origin and ISI agent Ghulam Nabi Fai ---were not visiting the State, on Wednesday appreciated their one-year-long exercise in Jammu & Kashmir. On Tuesday, he said: "They (interlocutors) will not arrive in Valley". This was what an English language daily published both from Srinagar and Jammu reported. A Government spokesman yesterday, however, contradicted the report and said a section of media had "twisted version of the Chief Minister's statement".... | |
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