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| Omar fumbled and faltered from day one in office | | Hate-India sentiment became a craze with mainstream politicians | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Aug 14: New Delhi's policy of having no Kashmir policy proved to be disastrous in the current turbulence. Even as Congress became NC's coalition partner both at the Central as well as the state level, Kashmir continued to be handled by intelligence and security agencies. Perhaps this would not have been the position with men like Rajesh Pilot in Sonia Gandhi's Congress and UPA. Left to bureaucracy and the intelligence and security agencies, Kashmir was turned into a political laboratory. In the last several years, Farooq Abdullah's politics of jingoism-that was perceived to be turning dangerous with NC's insistence on autonomy---was replaced b... | |
| | | | 2 killed in clashes at Anantnag, Narbal | | Demonstrations, attacks on camps continue inspite of curfew in Valley | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Aug 14: Taking the toll of the civilians killed in clashes with Police and CRPF since June 11th June in Kashmir valley to 54, demonstrations and attacks on camps of armed forces continued amid total shutdown and curfew today. For the first time today, groups of youth seized much revered Hazratbal shrine and shouted pro-Azadi slogans after an attack on Police barracks while as someone reportedly fired on CRPF from a .12 bore rifle at Narbal, leaving five personnel wounded.
Informed sources told Early Times that an unruly mob attacked a CRPF party while it was withdrawing in the evening at Lazbal in Ananag this evening. During the fierce clash,... | |
| | | | Night before I-Day: High alert on IB, 12 LeT ultras sighted across Manguchak in Samba | | Additional police nakas laid on Kathua-Jammu, Jammu-Akhnoor roads | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: The atmosphere was extremely tense all along the International Border (IB) here the night before Independence Day. Reason: The movement of two groups of 12 odd Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants was picked up this afternoon across the fencing in Manguchak area of Samba.
All BSF outposts on the IB and the border police posts in the area were put on high alert, police sources said and added multiple ambushes were also laid in the border fields and on the known infiltration routes.
Sources said additional police nakas were laid on the Kathua-Jammu and Jammu-Akhnoor roads and all the vehicles coming from the border areas were being checked thoroughly."They want... | |
| | | | Youth confess Aug 15 is another holiday in calender of events | | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: As the nation celebrates 64th Independence Day Sunday under the shadow of gun, the youth of the state confess that for them August 15 is just another holiday in the calender of events.
They attach less importance to the day. May be because now-a-days they are not taught much about the sacrifices made by the great Indians to free India from the Britishers on this day in 1947.
Looking forward to a day of kite-flying, Sanjay, a class X student, said like every year, he planned to spend the day with his friends.He, however, regretted that the I-Day this year fell on Sunday. "Had it come on any working day, I could have got one more holiday,"... | |
| | | | 6 ultras trapped near Thanamandi, encounter on | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI/JAMMU, Aug 14: At least six militants, who on August 11 attacked two army vehicles and a Video Coach at Manyal Gali in Thanamandi, Rajouri, were today tracked down and engaged in a gunbattle by army and police jawans at Seranwali.
After the August 11 attack in which two persons had lost their lives and 20 were wounded, the militants had fled the spot and melted into the nearby woods.
Police sources said army troops and police tracked them down at Seranwali, a village close to Manyal Gali, at about 12.30 pm today.
When the troops challenged them, they opened fire which was returned, the sources added.
Sources said though the intermittent firing between the two... | |
| | | | Police, paramilitary forces sound alert for I-Day | | Security noose tightened around city of temples | | | mishu Gupta
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 14: Come Independence Day, and the people become aware of another day of captivity and harassment coming knocking on their doors.
Besides the region being turned into high security forte, the commoner is too put to toil by the police and administration for intermittent frisking and questioning that ruins the whole week preceding August 15.
This time around the measures are harsher and stringer for men and machinery alike as three-tier security arrangement mooted by the authorities has been put in place to make the function smoother and incidents free.
Sources, in the wake of making the Independence Day success, disclose that additional companie... | |
| | | | Gang war averted, one held with sharp edged weapon | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: Police averted an apparent murderous attack when it arrested a gangster, who along with an accomplice, was on way to eliminate one of his rivals.
Satwari police developed information that two youth with sharp edged weapons were on way to eliminate their rival gangsters and accordingly a trap was laid by ICPP Chatha Parmjeet Singh and SHO Satwari Bishnesh Kumar in Chatha area where on suspicious ground police gave halt signal to motorcyclist but instead of applying brake motorcyclist accelerated its speed.
Police team also chased them and held one of them with sharp edged weapon. During interrogation of the accused Sukhjinder Singh alias Romy son of Chara... | |
| | | | Amarnath yatra suspended | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 14: Authorities on Saturday suspended the Amarnath yatra from here due to heavy rains along the route leading to the cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas.
A fresh batch of pilgrims was not allowed to proceed from the base camp of Bhagwati Nagar for onward journey due to overnight rains along the routes between Baltal and Nunwan camps in Pahalgam to the shrine, police said.
The tense situation in Kashmir also led authorities to stop another batch from proceeding, they said.
This is for the fifth time that the Amarnath yatra has been suspended from here since it commenced on June 30. ... | |
| | | | Raids by sales tax deptt trigger protests at Kanak Mandi | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: Raids by the officials of sales tax department today triggered protests at the ever-busy and congested Kanak Mandi with shopkeepers blocking vehicular traffic at City Chowk.
The officials, who had reports that some shopkeepers at Kanak Mandi were indulging in the violation of VAT norms, swooped in on the market in the morning and seized some items.
This sparked off strong protests with the shopkeepers alleging that they were being harassed for no fault of theirs.Amidst raising of slogans against the department, the shopkeepers later blocked the nearby City Chowk for vehicular traffric.The goods seized by the officials were, however, later returned on the... | |
| | | | All actions of security forces are the Chief Minister's actions | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: Two Delhi-based private news channels on Friday reported that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had expressed unhappiness over the four killings on the same day during the police-crowd clashes at Bommai in Sopore, Trehgam and Pattan. These channels also reported that the complaint of the Chief Minister was that the decisions taken at the Unified Headquarters meetings, which are chaired by the Chief Minister himself, are not implemented on the ground. The Chief Minister has, it needs to be noted, repeatedly directed the police officials to exercise maximum possible restraint while dealing the "protestors" (read unruly mobs who indulge in arson, attack public pro... | |
| | | | PDD daily wagers being forced to work without wages | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: Engaged with a promise of regularization, daily wage employees of power development department are without wages since the last more than one year. Besides, state government is yet to take a decision with regard to their regularisation.
State government engaged daily wagers to redress the shortage of 24,000 employees in the power development department. They were appointed around 15 years ago and have not been regularised so far. Daily Wagers maintain that there is shortage of around 24,000 employees in the department but PDD authorities are neither recruiting fresh daily wagers nor regularizing those who have been working in the department since the la... | |
| | | | Growing secessionism in Valley forces | | KPs to intensify struggle for homeland | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: With the secessionist activities gaining momentum in Kashmir Valley for over a month now sealing the chances of the hapless Kashmiri Pandits to return to their homes and hearts, the community leadership is seriously thinking to intensify the homeland struggle for over seven lakh Pandits in Valley who are leading an exiled life in different parts of the country for over last 20 years now.
There is a serious debating among the members of the displaced community at present on the disturbing situation in Kashmir and the future of the Hindu minorities who are the aborigines of the Valley whose cultural history dates back over 5000 years. " The deteriorating s... | |
| | | | Panun Kashmir Seminar: Jammu makes sense of happenings in Kashmir | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 14: M.M. Khajuria, who knows everything about what has been happening in Kashmir since decades, was of the view that the "present rioting in Kashmir appeared to be yet another attempt by Pakistan and its stooges in the Valley to demoralize the Indian State." He said: "The Quit Jammu & Kashmir" call given by Tehrik-e-Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani amidst the ongoing disturbances in the Valley exposed the political dimension of the conspiracy hatched by Islamabad and its local collaborators" and that "this vicious slogan could be dismissed as a gimmick or prank but for the fact that the extremist fringe was holding a sizable section of the populati... | |
| | | | Govt accused of reviving Ikhwaan to quell protests | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: After having failed to curb the on-going protests, the government has been accused of resorting to overt and covert means to silence the defiant people. The Ikhwanies (pro-government gunmen) are on prowl once again- this time in Hazratbal area of Srinagar city. Earlier they were spotted in Anantnag town on July 13.
According to a local news agency, a dreaded Ikhwani forced entry into a residential house on the outskirts of Hazratbal area of Srinagar city a few days ago. The inmates were thrashed and the house was ransacked. The incident sent shock waves across the city.
While the motive behind the attack could not be established, the people see govern... | |
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