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| PM may launch trucks | | Cross-LoC: Traders looking for answers as modalities not known | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 26: Hectic preparations are underway for rolling out truck service across Line of Control but traders, particularly in Jammu, are still looking for answers on the whole mechanism to be followed on the Cross-LoC trade.
Highly places sources told EARLY TIMES that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may launch the truck service on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route on April 21. When contacted, the top government officials refused to confirm but sources maintained that Prime Minister will be in J&K on October 21. Prime Minister is also likely to inaugurate the Baglihar hydro-electric project and this may be done on the same day, said the sources.
Sources said that trucks will run on the cross-LoC routes once every week and Tuesday has been fixed for Poonch-Rawalakote sector and Wednesday for Srinagar-Muzaffarabad sector. The first service on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad sector will however run on Tuesday, October 21.
Amidst the LoC trade buzz, the traders are confused about the modalities and mechanism of trade to be conducted with their counterparts on other side of L... | |
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| Azad takes alternate route to Jammu | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 26: Conspicuous by his absence from the all-important meeting of Pradesh Congress Committee, the former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is all set to return to the public scene in Jammu but through a different route.
First time after fall of his government in most unpleasant circumstances and the eruption of public fury in Jammu on Amarnath land row, the former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will be showing up at a public function in town on Sunday.
Interestingly, instead of taking the party route, Azad will be arriving at the public scene via a social-religious organization. Guru Ravidas Sabha is holding a public honour for Azad here on Sunday, sources ... | |
| | | | HE in town | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 26: A day after issuing formal orders on allotment of 800 kanals of land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board –a main demand of the two-month long agitation –the Governor NN Vohra today arrived in the town to review the pace of life.
This is first visit of the Governor in Jammu after the agitation which found him in the middle of all protests.
Vohra, who arrived here this afternoon on a three-day visit, held meetings with the senior officers and stressed the need for accelerating the pace of work on various schemes, currently under execution in the division.
The Governor particularly reviewed the progress on the installation of transformers at the Gladni Grid S... | |
| | | | LoC chinks showing | | Family enters 10 KMs deep | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Sept 26: How effective is barbed wire fencing along the Line of Control in preventing infiltration when kids and aged people can cross un-noticed?
A family of 12 people, including five children and an old lady, crossed over the LoC in the wee hours of today in Tanghdar area in Karnah sector of North Kashmir.
The 12 people, which included an eight-month old toddler, reached the police post, located 10km away from the LoC, and presented themselves, sources in the state home department said.
They have been detained and appropriate action will be taken against them as some of them are Pakistani citizens, the sources said, adding the matter had been taken up with... | |
| | | | Poll season picks up | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 26: With the indications that the Election Commission may announce dates for Jammu and Kashmir polls in first week of October, political parties and the election department have got into hyper-operational mode to put their acts together.
Bhartiya Janta Party is already on its toes consolidating dividends of the Jammu agitation, the Congress has suddenly jumped in and the cadres have been asked to fasten their belts. Bahujan Samaj Party, yet another keen player this time, too has gone into active mode. The party is organizing a massive rally here on Sunday.
The National Conference leadership is though not speaking up but their second rung leaders have been... | |
| | | | Let it be trade, not just ritual | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 24: The decision to begin trade across the Line of Control has been widely welcomed in the valley, but with the proviso that it should be substantive and not merely symbolic.
The move comes after an announcement from New York, following a meeting between Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, that business across the LoC would begin on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and the Poonch-Rawlakote routes from Oct 21.
Former chief minister and patron of the People's Democratic Party Mufti Muhammad Sayeed was fulsome in his praise. “It would be a historic day for the people of both parts of Kashmir. It is the result of the sacrific... | |
| | | | Mufti alone knows the art of taking credit | | | | Nirbhay Jammual
If in politics one should learn the art of taking credit for the work one does.Politicians need to learn the art of taking credit even for those works which they have not done.They should learn the technique of taking the credit the work done by others.And if anyone is adept in taking credit for doing this and that job it is the PDP leadership,especially Mufti Mohd.Sayeed.Whether out of his political vision or out of developed situation favourable to him he has succeeded in taking credit for many important events.
Months before the 2002 Asembly election in Jammu and Kashmir he raised the issue of opening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road for traffic.He favoured easy and ... | |
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