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| Samiti opens doors to dialogue | | Pranab da’s team arriving Saturday, local extends invite | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 7
Even as violent protests continued to rage across the region, the course of dialogue has started making some headway with Centeral Government naming the all-party delegation and the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti agreeing to engage in talks.
Meanwhile, the four-member panel appointed by the Governor NN Vohra to hold consultations with the Samiti today met to put its acts together and extended an invitation to the SAYSS. When contacted, the Samiti spokesman, Tilak Raj Sharma told EARLY TIMES, that they are ready for holding talks with the Central team as well as the Governor’s four-member panel. “We are not averse to any dialogue but they should be aware of the basic question that we are not for anything less than restoration of land to the Shrine Board”, Sharma said.
An official spokesman confirmed that an all party delegation headed by Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee is visiting Jammu on Saturday to meet Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti (SAYSS). The Union Home Minister, Mr. Shivraj Patil will also accompany th... | |
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| Bum Bum Bhole, Mangat bhi bole | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 7
Amidst the chants of Bum Bum Bhole and a sea of humanity pouring over on roads every day when all Congress leaders have nearly blurred their identities to support what every Jammuite is saying, the last among them too has toed the line of others. Jammu’s grand old man of Congress, Pandit Mangat Ram Sharma had long been conspicuous by his absence from the public scene. Of course, he did not have any more outlets to inaugurate during these days of shut down. But he continued to maintain an eerie silence on the Shri Amarnath Shrine land issue for over a month till today when he admitted that the cabinet of which he was a part, did make some mistakes.
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| | | | Main Banihal grenade attack arrested | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 7
Police on Thursday arrested the main accused involved in the grenade attack at a Banihal bus stand on July 18 in which 31 persons, including several CRPF jawans, were injured, official sources said.
Acting on a tip off, police raided a place in Banihal area of Ramban district and arrested Nazir Ahmed, the sources said.
Ahmed was the main accused in the grenade attack on a CRPF vehicle at the Banihal bus stand on July 18, in which 31 persons including 7 CRPF men sustained injuries, they said.
The accused has been sent to the Joint Interrogation Centre for further probe.... | |
| | | | Curfew lifted in Bhaderwah, relaxed in some areas | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 7
Authorities lifted the curfew in Baderwah town of Doda district while it was relaxed in Jammu, Udhampur and Samba areas for varying periods today, officials said here.
However, curfew remained strictly enforced in the rest of Jammu areas Kathua, Raouri, Akhnoor and Jourian which witnessed violence since June-end over the Amarnath land transfer controversy.
Curfew was lifted from 5 am today in Baderwah, home town of former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, as no untoward incident was reported there since its imposition on August 4.
Yesterday, authorities relaxed curfew in the town from 8 am to 11 and and later extended the relaxation till 1 pm.
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| | | | Congress fears electoral fallout of Jammu unrest | | | | New Delhi | Aug 7
A worried Congress Wednesday discussed the electoral fallout of the unrest over the Amarnath shrine, even as it heard former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad blame other parties for Jammu and Kashmir's worst communal divide in six decades.
At a special orientation programme for party spokespersons across the country, Azad, who had to quit in the wake of the Amarnath row, explained "the realities" that have led to dragging protests in Jammu region.
According to party leaders who attended the one-day programme, Azad asked his party colleagues to aggressively counter the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) propaganda against the Congress on the issue.
Hindu groups in Jammu re... | |
| | | | BJP's 3-day agitation from Aug 11 | | | | New Delhi | Aug 7
Despite government's appeal, BJP's core committee on Thursday decided to go ahead with a three-day agitation on the Amarnath land transfer issue beginning on August 11.
BJP leaders had already made it clear that they would settle for nothing less than re-allotment of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board.
Centre's frail attempt to broker peace over the Amarnath land-for-pilgrim issue had hit a stone with PDP and National Conference opposing BJP's demand for restoration of land and recall of governor N N Vohra.
Governor N N Vohra had appointed a four- member committee on Wednesday night to hold talks with Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti (SASS), spearheading the agitation in... | |
| | | | Land transfer was not my decision: Sinha | | | | New Delhi | Aug 7
It is not just the present Governor of Jammu and Kashmir N N Vohra who is facing ire over the Amarnath land controversy, but also the former Governor Lt Gen SK Sinha, who has often been criticised for his role in the raging land transfer row.
In an exclusive interview to an electronic news channel, a defensive Sinha said that he did nothing wrong.
In the last few months since the Amarnath controversy began, a lot of finger pointing has been going on, majority of which has been aimed in the direction of the former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha. Sinha has been facing accusations that the entire Amarnath mess has come about due to a decision to tra... | |
| | | | Vohra gets three pairs of ears, eyes | | Tyabji, Bloeria, Phunsog to advise Governor | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 7
Just three days short of a month after assuming the charge of state government, the Governor NN Vohra has finally taken Advisors to assist him in the administrative affairs.
So far, the Governor had dropped indication at his all meetings with the officers that he would prefer to work without Advisors and would instead like to have direct rapport with the officers. However, the sudden move of appointing Advisors seems to have been influenced by the fast deteriorating law and order situation and sharpening political sensitivities where Governor apparently needs people around him to handle the situation on political, administrative and security fronts. ... | |
| | | | Land row: Centre prefers dither to decision | | | | Gareeb Dass
Jammu | Aug 7
Whenever Pakistan insists on a dialogue for resolving the Kashmir issue India conveys to Islamabad that let there be first negotiations on trade and travel.When New Delhi tells Islamabad to open the channels of dialogue for resolving the Siachen glacier dispute Pakistan conveys to India the need for giving pace to the confidence building measures.The two sides keep on interacting through foreign secretaries and other high level teams.The two sides know there cannot be a solution to the Kashmir issue to the satisfaction of India,Pakistan and people of Jammu and Kashmir.Hence the two sides have preferred to buy peace by keeping the channels of dialogue open.
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