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| PDP MAY RECALL MUZAFFAR HUSSAIN BAIG FROM THE AZAD CABINET | | | |
Srinagar, August 31: PDP leadership is quite annoyed with Chief Minister GhulamNabi Azad for using his discretion for retaining the portfolios allocated to Muzaffar Hussain Baig in November 2005.
Before Chief Minister could undertake the exercise of allocating the portfolios to his newly inducted council of ministers the PDP leadership had recommended to the Chief Minister that Muzaffar Hussain Baig should be divested of his portfolios of Law, Parliamentary affairs and Finance.
In the allocation of the portfolios announced by the Chief Minister late in the evening it indicated that Chief Minister used his discretionary powers for not accepting the request of the PDP leaders.
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| | | | Amid controversy CM announces distribution of portfolios | | | | Srinagar, August 31
Following cabinet expansion, Chief Minister Gh Nabi Azad today announced portfolios among ministers of his 10 month old coalition ministry. Throwing to winds the proposal of PDP Chief Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Azad re-allotted key portfolios of finance, planning, law and parliamentary affairs to Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beig, but he was divested of tourism portfolio.
Mangat Ram Sharma was allotted portfolios of Health and Medical Education Departments, while as Hakeem Mohd Yaseen was allotted portfolio of Transport department and Taj Mohi-ud-Din was once again given the portfolio of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department in addition to A... | |
| | | | JK Cabinet Ministers | | | | Mr. Muzaffar Hussain Baig; Finance, Planning, Law and Parliamentary Affairs.
Mr. Mangat Ram Sharma; Health and Medical Education, Labour and Employment and Ladakh Affairs.
Mr. Abdul Aziz Zargar; Agriculture, Sericulture, Cooperation and Fisheries.
Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen; Transport.
Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed; School Education; Science and Technology, Information Technology, Haj and Auquaf.
Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora; Power.
Mr. Taj Mohi-ud-Din; Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Animal Husbandry and Sheep Husbandry.
Qazi Mohammad Afzal; Forest; Environment and Ecology.
Haji Nissar Ali; ... | |
| | | | NO RIFT WITH GEELANI: HM | | | | Jammu,August 31 :- The reported rift between Tehrik Hurriyat Chief,Syed Ali Shah Geelani,and the Muzaffarabad based United Jehad Council Chief,Syed Salahuddin,has been laid to rest by Hizbul Mujahideen leadership which described these reports as “unfounded and baseless.”
A spokesman of Hizbul Mujahideen,Mr Ehsan Illahi,said,in a statement,that reports on Salahuddin-Geelani confrontation were concocted and baseless.He said that Hizbul Mujahideen had faith in the leadership of Mr Geelani who is one tall political figure in Kashmir who stuck to his stand on Kashmir during the last 50 years.
Mr Illahi said that the reports on rift between Geelani and Salahuddin had been manipulated to p... | |
| | | | NC SHOULD DO SOME SOUL SEARCHING: BJP | | | | Jammu,August 31 : President of the state BJP Dr Nirmal Singh on Thursday responded to the statement made by the Provincial President of the National Conference that BJP owes an apology to the nation for releasing the dreaded terrorist Masood Azhar in 1999 despite resistance by former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah saying that National conference leadership should do some soul searching before making such statements.
Addressing a press conference here at the party headquarters, Dr Nirmal Singh and Prof Hari Om said that a party which thrive on exploiting regional sentiments, communalism and had a dubious past cannot point fingers towards patriotic and Nationalist pa... | |
| | | | Menon new For. Sec.; Saran to be spl Envoy on nuke deal | | | |
New Delhi, Aug 31 Shiv Shankar Menon, highly-regarded Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, was today appointed as the new Foreign Secretary in succession to Shyam Saran who was named Special Envoy for negotiations relating to the Indo-US deal.
The 57-year-old Menon supersedes 14 senior IFS officers and will have a tenure of about three years starting October one after Saran retires.
A 1972-batch IFS officer, Menon, who flew back to Islamabad this afternoon after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and others during the past few days, was India's envoy to China before being posted to Pakistan three years ago. He has also served in Japan, Israel, Austria and Sri Lanka.
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| | | | India, Pak released 231 persioners in last six months | | | |
Islamabad, Aug 31 Pakistan has released 112 Indians from its jails while India freed 119 Pakistanis in the last six months, Foreign Minister Khurhid Mehmood Kasuri said today.
The Indian government has released 60 civilian prisoners and 59 fishermen since January 1, 2006 to June 30, 2006 while Pakistan has freed 19 civilian prisoners and 93 fishermen in the same period, he said told the National Assembly here.
The main reasons for arrest of civilian prisoners were illegal stay, incomplete documents, crossing border without visa, over-stay and visiting banned cities, he said.
The fishermen were arrested for fishing in each other's territorial waters.
To a question Kasuri said th... | |
| | | | Spotlights on Islamic banking instruments | | Assets controlled by Muslims are 1.5 trillion dollars | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 31: Banks in India and elsewhere in the world are reported to have begun to eye the vast assets controlled by Muslims. According to one estimate, these assets are worth 1.5 trillion dollars. If this estimate were any guide, the assets are growing at 15 per cent per year.
Mind-boggling figures have been put out with regard to Islamic bonds. It has been reported that Islamic bonds collected in 2004 were to the tune of 30 billion dollars. Islamic bonds of about 20 billion dollars have been collected during the first seven months of this year. Malaysia, which has friendly ties with India, has already emergted as the hub of Islamic banking. Malaysia’s importanc... | |
| | | | Pak nuclear arms can be stolen | | US position will erode, say CIA planers | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 31: Come 2020, India and China will occupy vital places on the world map. The two countries, according to an in-house CIA think tank, will increasingly flex powerful political and economic muscles as major new global players. The reported study of the think tank is interesting, likening the rise of India and China to the emergence of the United States as a world power, a century ago.
India and China are two nuclear-armed giants in Asia. However, there is one striking difference between the two countries. India is a vibrant democracy, while China continues to be a one-party state. America’s National Intelligence Council has already predicted that India and... | |
| | | | Dirty politics, politicking plague students, too | | | | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, AUG. 31: Politicians and political parties in India have no plans to keep students away from politics, even as the all new aggresive face of student politics includes everything-- be it threats, violence or even murder, as it happend in Ujjain's Madhav College.
For those who arrived on the national political scenario, riding on their success as active student politicians, these are embarrasing times. "There should be leadership camps for students. There is no training nowadays," says Tariq Ahmed, general secretary of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Former students leaders say that they are apalled. They insist that this kind of behav... | |
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