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| Mob attacks CRPF Commanding Officer in Tral | | 4 CRPF, 2 civilians injured in clash, shootout | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Aug 16: Commanding Officer of a battalion of CRPF had a narrow escape when a pro-Azadi crowd of more than 1,000 people attacked a paramilitary cavalcade at Tral in South Kashmir. Four CRPF sustained injuries and their vehicles were badly damaged even as two of the mob sustained gunshot wounds in resultant shootout.
Informed sources told Early Times that a 1,000-strong crowd, shouting pro-Azadi and anti-India slogans, attacked the cavalcade of Commanding Officer of CRPF 180 Bn, Neeraj Pandey, at Tral township in Pulwama district when the paramilitary deployments were withdrawing from the national highway and returning to the battalion headquarters this evening.
Sources said that the crowds raised the pitch of slogans on sighting the cavalcade and launched an attack on the Commandant's bullet-proof Gypsy as also a non-BP Gypsy carrying the escort personnel. All the paramilitaries jumped out of the vehicles and took shelter behind a structure. The crowds destroyed the non-BP Gypsy completely. The Commandant's vehicles also suffered extensive damage. Four... | |
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| Army chief briefs governor | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 16: Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh Monday briefed Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra about the overall security situation in the state and the emerging threats.
Gen. Singh, who arrived here Monday, called on Vohra at the Raj Bhavan.
'During their more than one and a half hour meeting, the chief of army staff also discussed issues pertaining to the infiltration from across the Line of Control (LOC) and the international border and the likely security scenario in the state in the coming months,' an official statement issued here said.
The governor also thanked the army chief for the excellent work done and being done by the army in the wake of the recen... | |
| | | | Over 230 armymen died in four years fighting terrorists | | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, Aug 16 : Defence minister A K Antony today told the Lok Sabha that a total of 234 army personnel had died fighting terrorists in the last four years. "From 2007 to 2009, 196 army personnel died while 38 lost their lives this year," he said in reply to a written query.
The Indian army is deployed in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and the North-east for many years now. It was deployed in the Northeast in the 1950s and later on tasked to handle the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir since late 80s.
On another query, the minister said 8,214 officers were inducting into the army in the last three years.
The defence minister said, in reply to a query... | |
| | | | Grenades recovered from militant hideout | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 16 : Grenades and other explosive items were recovered by security forces from a militant hideout in Dhok Dhelia forests of Budhal in Rajouri last night. Police sources said during searches in the Dhok Dhelia forests, police and army jawans came across a militant hideout last night.
Its search led them to the recovery of two Chinese grenades, an IED weighing five kilograms, one wireless set fitted with an antenna, one radio set, one torch and 12 pencil cells. The hideout was later smashed by the jawans, the sources added.... | |
| | | | Gujjars, Bakerwals in Valley oppose Azadi,autonomy term accession final | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug16: Over 10 lakh Gujjars and Bakerwals in Kashmir Valley are perturbed over the prevailing deteriorating law and order situation and increasing activities of secessionists and anti national elements in the Valley which they term is totally inimical to unity and integrity of the state and nation as a whole.
According to sources the members of Gujjar and Bakerwal community in Kashmir who are nationalists by core and have stood with the army and security forces during the past three wars with Pakistan and the proxy war launched by the neighbouring country in 1989-90, are today most perturbed over the present turmoil in Kashmir Valley.
The sources said the commu... | |
| | | | Kashmir violence likely to have adverseimpact on security scenario in Jammu | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 16: Since the separatists have not accepted the terms and conditions laid down by Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh,for the r esumption of dialogue with all those who are on the other side of the fence the state and the central Governments were planning for an offensive against those indulging in violence.
Official sources said that that after the Government had exhausted all its options for motivating he separatists and groups of youth for giving up the path of violence it was left with no other alternative but to deal firmly with the protesters indulging in violence and stone throwing against the security forces. Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah,has told people ... | |
| | | | Need for reassessment of proper manpower resources | | Is our Police Force overstressed and overstretched ……? | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 16: There may be scores of reasons analysts and observers are attributing to the shoe hurling episode but the story also calls for focus on a larger picture -the state of mind of the Police force in the trouble torn J&K. Beating up of culprit Ahad Jan, an ASI by the SSG and suspension of as many as 15 more cops that too of a junior level are the steps which only antagonize the perspective needed to look at the things carefully in terms of the functioning of the Police for the last two decades. The biggest question which both the government and the authorities of Police Department need to ponder over and reassess as to how best they can have proper utilization... | |
| | | | Centre asks govt to "reactivate" civil admn in Kashmir | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 16: As the unrelenting protests show no signs of receding in Kashmir, the Centre is said to have asked the Omar-led coalition government in the state to take effective steps to end the unrest and restore peace.
"The Centre has taken a serious note of the unyielding protests continuing in the valley for the past two months and asked the government to go beyond focusing on curbing violence," official sources said. The Centre had conveyed to the government that it needed to reactivate the civil administration in Kashmir, the sources added.It asked the state to bring in senior civil servants with a proven track record from outside, if needed.
The Centr... | |
| | | | Unpopular National Conference down and out! | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 16: National Conference (NC), premier political organization of Kashmir, is, it appears, not just down. It is also out. No one had ever expected that the NC, which was founded by Sheikh Abdullah in 1938 and which played a significant in the political and religious history of Kashmir, would become so unpopular that the likes of suspended Head Constable Abdul Ahad Jan would hurl shoe at Chief Minister and former NC president Omar Abdullah and that, too, during the independence day function at the Srinagar's heavily-guarded Bakshi Stadium.
That Jan managed a seat in the Central pavilion and was successful in hurling a shoe at the Chief Minister speaks for itself... | |
| | | | Thanamandi operation over,all three ultras killed | | Huge quantity of explosives, painkiller injections recovered | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI/JAMMU, Aug 16: With the killing of all the three trapped Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants in a gunbattle at Saronwali in Thanamandi, Rajouri, the 60-hour-long operation was called off this afternoon.
While two of the militants were shot dead Sunday, one was killed this morning, police sources said, adding they were suspected to have infiltrated into the Indian territory from across the Line of Control (LoC).
Sources said after the two militants were killed yesterday, the third continued firing intermittently throughout last night.He was ultimately killed by the troops at about 11 am today, the sources added.While those killed yesterday were identified as Abdul J... | |
| | | | Jammu has not given mandate to PM & NC to decide its fate | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 16: It was obvious that the Prime Minister's August 10 statement on autonomy would embolden Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to the extent that he would on the eve of the Independence Day rake up the autonomy issue. Remember, welcoming the Prime Minister's announcement in the all-party meeting regarding restoration of autonomy to J&K, the Chief Minister had said "this would help remove the trust deficit that has crept in due to its erosion." "This", he had said, "is a historic opportunity for us and we must take advantage of it."
The Chief Minister didn't stop here. He outraged the nationalist sentiment of the people of Jammu province, or for that manner ... | |
| | | | Prominent persons to woo separatists! | | Who will talk, what and with whom? | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 16: Even as Kashmir is up in flames, preparations are on for getting the separatists especially Syed Ali Geelani to the negotiating table. A local news agency quoting highly informed sources made the revelation today saying a team of prominent citizens had been entrusted the job of getting separatists onboard.
Last year the Home Minister offered secret talks to the separatists. It was opposed by most of the separatist leaders. A moderate face in Mirwaiz Hurriyat, Fazal Haque Qureshi became a casualty. He was shot at outside his residence. The shot has crippled him for life. It also caused ripples in the Hurriyat Conference with leaders like Nayeem Ahmad Kha... | |
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