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| BATTLE LINES DRAWN BETWEEN NATIONAL CONFERENCE-PDP OVER SELF-RULE | | | |
Srinagar,September 22 :- The battle lines between the PDP and the National Conference,two main political foes,are drawn over the divergent stand taken by the former against the latter despite peoples’ indifference to the slogans of self-rule and restoration of greater autonomy.
Finding that the PDP leadership has started cashing on Gen. Parvez Musharraf’s idea of self-rule,which also finds support from the All Party Hurriyat conference,by having set up a committee under the chairmanship of Mr Muzaffar Hussain Bai,a former Deputy Chief Minister,for preparing the document on self-governance,the National Conference President,Mr Omar Abdullah,and its patron,Dr Farooq Abdullah,do not miss any opportunity in blaming the Muftis for “misleading people by raking up the idea of self-rule.
Mr Abdullah has gone to the extent of saying that the National Conference has not only prepared a document on the restoration of greater autonomy but got it passed by the state Legislature when the PDP had neither drafted the document nor explained the contours of self-rule .He has said that as... | |
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| SECURITY BEEFED UP ON THE EVE OF NAVRATA FESTIVAL IN KATRA, JAMMU | | | |
Jammu, September 22 : On the eve of the nine day long Navrata festival security has been beefed up across Jammu and Katra to prevent any major terrorist strike by militants at crowded and religious places.
Senior police authorities after reviewing the security situation decided to deploy additional forces in and around Katra township besides beefing up security apparatus here in Jammu especially around religious places.
Senior police officials told Kashmir Independent Press on Friday paramilitary and state police jawans have been assigned duties which included routine checking and frisking of suspected individuals, round the clock patrolling in and around Katra township and... | |
| | | | CBI submits list of those involved in J-K sex scandal to HC | | | |
Jammu:
The CBI which is investigating the sex scandal case in Srinagar, has submitted two lists of persons allegedly involved in the case to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
The central investigating agency filed the lists of persons involved in the scandal to the division bench of the court comprising of Justices Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain and B A Kirmani during the hearing on Thursday.
However, the CBI counsel sought more time to submit the third list of persons involved in the case which was granted by the bench. It directed the investigating agency to do the same by the next date of hearing.
The court listed the case for hearing on 27th September.
On 13th September, the co... | |
| | | | Joint mechanism on tackling terrorism must be given a try: PM | | | |
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the joint mechanism with Pakistan on tackling terrorism must be given a try and hoped it will succeed.
This was conveyed by him to top Left leaders whom he met over lunch to brief them on his visit to Brazil and Cuba recently.
Left sources said the Prime Minister told them that the joint mechanism with Pakistan has been generally welcomed except by BJP.
He noted that in both the countries there has been criticism from the fringe that there has been a "sell out of the country" by their governments.
"We will see how it works. Everything must be tried. I hope it will succeed," the sources quoted him as having told them.
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| | | | HC stays deporting of 107 years old person who came back from POK after 41 years | | | |
Jammu, September, 22:- In a writ petition filed by one Nawab Din, who during 1965 gone to POK, seeking direction to respondents to allow him to reside in his native Village at Rajouri, Justice JP Singh of J&K High Court Jammu Wing today after hearing Advocate Sunil Sethi with Adv Shahzad Azeem issued notice to state of J&K through Chief Secretary, Union of India through Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi, Commissioner/ Secretary to Govt Home Department J&K, Deputy Commissioners Rajouri and Poonch and DIG Police Rajouri Poonch Range, with the direction that till further orders from this Court, respondents shall permit the petitioner to stay at Village Raj Nagar, Budhal Tehs... | |
| | | | J&K waters, Kabul waters, Skardu dam | | MEN & MATTERS | | |
B L KAK
Indus Water Treaty has come to occupy an important place in the chequered history of India-Pakistan relationship. And as the treaty cannot be scrapped unilaterally, noises over the sharing of waters by the two countries will continue. Pakistan's water worries cannot and should not escape India's attention.
Pakistan has no storage sites on the Chenab and only one site on the Jhelum, at Mangla just within Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). It has lost 30 per cent of overall storage capacity at Mangla, Tarbela and Chasma (the latter two on the Indus) on account of sedimentation. It is raising Mangla by 30 feet to store an additional 2.9 MAF and is desperately looking for other... | |
| | | | Peace offensive in Kashmir to continue | | Dozens of J&K detainees to be freed next month | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 22: The government of India has agreed, in principle, to permit the release of dozens of Kashmiri prisoners from various jails within and outside the Jammu and Kashmir State. According to sources in the Union Home Ministry, the J&K Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, is for the 'freedom' of those who are not involved in heinous crimes.
The plan envisages release of dozens of Kashmiri prisoners in phases, during the holy month of Ramazan starting next week. Even as the Union Government is reported to have finalised, in consultations with the Jammu and Kashmir administration, the first batch of prisoners to be set free, mandarins of the Ministry of Home Affair... | |
| | | | LeT sharpens its anti-India knives | | Separatist stir in Kashmir to be intensifed | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 22: With 'hate-India' sentiment having become an unavoidable requirement for the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa is reported to have planned to intensify the separatist stir in Kashmir. Clearly, its Kashmir line is loaded with anti-India accent and emphasis. Doubts, if any, in this regard have been set at rest by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Toiba, one of the most feared militant groups in Kashmir.
Hafiz Saeed's interview to a foreign news agency has reaffirmed Jamaat-ud-Dawa's resolve to continue to help "freedom fighters" in Indian Kashmir. That he did not want to make public the type of assistance the "freedom fighte... | |
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