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A passage to curfewed Srinagar Thanks to PDP and NC, 1990 returns in 2010 9/20/2010 5:58:48 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Sept 19: Sighting Barkha Dutt in the Valley had an ominous interpretation, not only for Police officials but also for ordinary Kashmiris, in yesteryears of turbulence. Whenever she arrived in, there was something newsy---a fidayeen strike, an IED blast, a massacre of resident Pandits or non-Kashmiri workmen. But, when rows of passengers in the Go Air flight 372 caught the Indian news television's most familiar face disembark at Srinagar Airport, nobody looked surprised. For, this time round, trouble has already set in. Kashmir is four years down the day a diminutive Dutt had joined Prannoy Roy's NDTV in 1994. Barkha had vomited ire on my piece on introduction of 'embedded journalism' over a month back though I had not identified her as the New Delhi-based journalist taken to Tufail Matoo's home by Security Wing of J&K Police with nanny care amid unprecedented curfew. Targeted by many of her 'well wishers' in Srinagar, she dismissed my observation as "completely false and fabricated" and believed that I had "stooped to this level of fa...   READ MORE

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PDP, NC lock horns once again, trade charges Will All party delegates be able to 'assess real picture'? 9/20/2010 5:58:21 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 19: A day ahead of All Party delegation to Kashmir Valley, the two arch rivals PDP and ruling National Conference have locked horns , both trying to prove each other wrong in their intentions to present 'real' picture to the visiting politicians. In the backdrop of the din of allegations of both these parties against each other, will the high level delegation be able to 'register' the real picture and fulfil the purpose for which the visit is intended…….? State's main opposition party PDP which only two days back 'behaved well' as a responsible mainstream political party when without creating any fuss it swiftly agreed to attend the All Party meeting con...   READ MORE   3 ultras, jawan, civilian killed at Bandipora 9/20/2010 5:56:35 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Sept 19: In two gunbattles between security forces and militants in Bandipora district of Kashmir, three militants, a jawan and a civilian were killed. A police spokesman said two encounters broke out in Dardpora and Pannar forest range in the morning. The two spots were just a few kilometers away from each other, he added. The gunbattles broke out when army launched search and cordon operations at the two places to flush out militants. The spokesman two militants and a trooper were killed in the Pannar encounter early in the morning. One more militant was killed in the evening, he added. A civilian was killed in Dardpora encounter after he was caught in c...   READ MORE   Fed up with continued strikes, Kashmiris in search of flats outside 9/20/2010 5:56:24 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 19: With normal life remaining paralysed in Kashmir Valley for last three months now, there is a simmering resentment among the mass in the Valley against the prolonged bandhs which have hit the common man worst. Fearing the backlash from the separatists and anti national elements the people who have been hit hard by the three month long strike are hesitating to revolt against the protagonists of Azadi in Kashmir. But the resentment is growing among the masses to such an extent now against the forces who have set the Kashmir Valley on fire that they are not ready to tolerate them any more now . According to sources there have been various incidents where t...   READ MORE   Pak mortars fall, explode in Mankote village; no harm done 9/20/2010 5:56:13 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 19: Mortars, fired by Pakistan Saturday night in clear violation of the border ceasefire, fell and exploded in the vicinity of Mankote village in KG sector of Poonch, spreading panic. Official sources said violating ceasefire, Pak army resorted to heavy shelling and small arms fire, targetting forward Indian army posts of Kranti, Kirpan and 31 at about 9.45 pm. India retaliated. The enemy fire was aimed at facilitating infiltration by militants from across the Line of Control (LoC), the sources added. Sources said there was heavy exchange of fire between the two sides from 9.45 pm to 10.30 pm. During this time, some Pak mortars fell in close vicinity of Man...   READ MORE   NC repeats 2000 to retain control over power 9/20/2010 5:56:00 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 19: The National Conference continued to share power in New Delhi after 2002 for quite sometime, despite the fact that the BJP-led NDA government had rejected its autonomy committee report that sought withdrawal of all the Central laws from the state. It was height of political debauchery and it proved that the National Conference was interested more in political power than in its ideology How could Farooq Abdullah's son Omar Abdullah tread a different path? Ever since his entry into the political arena, Omar Abdullah has been eating his words and making a mockery of himself and his already dysfunctional, incompetent and corrupt government. He is doi...   READ MORE   Who will meet the visiting delegation? 9/20/2010 5:55:48 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 19: With the authorities determined to keep the people indoors during All Party Delegation's stay in Srinagar, the chances of ordinary citizens of meeting the Parliamentarians seem quite bleak. After yesterday's four-hour relaxation in various parts of the summer capital, the authorities chose to enforce strict curfew today. Taking strong note of curfew restrictions, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mahbooba Mufti said it reflects Omar's frustration. "If curfew is not relaxed, I will reconsider my decision of meeting the delegation", she threatened. While the people stayed indoors, the authorities gave Airport Road a facelift. Scores of workers wer...   READ MORE   Appointing Habibullah as J&K Governor would be dangerous 9/20/2010 5:55:37 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sep 19: If what appeared in a national daily on the edit page on Saturday is correct, then the state is doomed and the nation ruined. The case in point is the information given by a well-known columnist in his column "Ride out the storm" that the "UPA Government has sounded out Wajahat Habibullah for the job of Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. " According to him, Habibullah may take over as Jammu and Kashmir Governor anytime after September. Chief Information Commissioner Habibullah is retiring on September 30. Ironically, the writer has hailed Habibullah and said that "he understands the Kashmir question better than many others", that "he has a lot to cont...   READ MORE   Scrap dealer electrocuted 9/20/2010 5:55:21 PM KATRA: A scrap dealer was electrocuted at Chintamani near here this morning. Police sources said Jagdish Raj, son of Hari Singh, inadvertently touched a live wire in his rented room at Chintamani at about 11.30 am, resulting in his instant death. Originally a resident of Gujarat, he was putting up at Chintamani for the past eight years. He was a scrap dealer and had set up his business well in Katra, the sources added. His body was kept in the Katra hospital mortuary. Sources said his family members in Gujarat had been informed of his death. Post-mortem would be conducted on the body after the arrival of his family members here. Later, it would be handed over to them for last rites. Po...   READ MORE   Suspected 'dengue' patient dies 9/20/2010 5:55:08 PM Jammu: A three-year-old child died of suspected 'dengue' fever in SMGS Hospital. ''The deceased, who was undergoing treatment in SMGS hospital, died here last night,'' sources said. They said the girl was suffering from high fever and her platelets count in the blood was less. ''Nandini Sharma, daughter of Kuldeep Raj, resident of Marar Chak, Bishnah, who was gripped by high fever on Thursday was referred to the SMGS hospital, Jammu on Friday,'' sources said. ''Suspected 'dengue' fever could be the cause of death,'' official sources said. A team of experts have been asked to conduct a survey in village Marar Chak of tehsil Bishnah to ascertain reasons about the outbreak of the epidemic....   READ MORE   HM man held with hawala money 9/20/2010 5:54:55 PM JAMMU: A Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) sympathiser and close associate of the outfit's commander for Ramban district was today apprehended by police from Trana Khari in Banihal along with hawala money. He was identified as Mohammad Sharief, son of Ghulam Akbar Naik of Khari. A hawala money of Rs 20,000 was recovered from him, according to police sources. Acting on a tip-off that hawala money was being transferred from Banihal to Khari for its delivery to HM district commander Abdul Rashid Naik alias Qari Zubair, son of Akbar Naik of Gulseer, a special naka was laid by police at Trana Khari. Sources said while cops were frisking pedestrians, they developed suspicion about Sharief when the latte...   READ MORE

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