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Monday,
September 3,
2001, Chandigarh, India  
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Army jawan
among three killed in J&K Transborder
smugglers helping ultras: SSP Don’t
overcharge for burqas, tailors warned Hurriyat’s
Kerala visit put off |
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Fruit
production up in J&K NC, BJP
dividing people: Congress
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Army jawan among three killed in J&K Srinagar, September 2 The jawan was killed during an encounter between militants and security forces at Michal in north Kashmir late last night. A civilian also was killed when he was caught in the crossfire, the officials said. The militants managed to escape. The police found a body, later identified as that of Mohammad Abduallh at Tangmarg. Meanwhile, the police has arrested an executive member of the Hurriyat Conference and People’s League chairman Sheikh Abdul Aziz under the Public Safety Act from the state Capital, official sources said today. The sources said Aziz, who has been raising anti-national slogans in the recent past, was detained yesterday from the state hospital where he had gone for a check-up. He is reported to have been lodged in Kot Balwal Jail in the Jammu region, they said. Aziz had launched a tirade against the government during his recent visit to Pakistan, where he had gone to attend the marriage function of his brother. In a pre-dawn swoop, the police today also picked up a senior functionary of Jamaat-e-Islami Mohammed Ashraf Sherai from his residence in uptown Srinagar. The Hurriyat Conference has condemned the arrests, terming them as a “frustrated” move by the government.
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Transborder smugglers helping ultras: SSP Jammu, September
2 These smugglers also help militants to find temporary shelters, commit acts of sabotage and then return to Pakistan, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Jammu, R.R. Swain, told mediapersons here last night. He said since Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) had not been able to find encouraging results from locals here, they had changed their modus operandi and started sending militants directly from Pakistan. Besides, militants from the hinterland, like the Kashmir valley and Doda district, were continuously trying to create hideouts and then with the help of harbourers, indulging in violence. Admitting that there had been an increase in militancy-related crime in Jammu district, Mr Swain said during the past three months ending August, six militancy-related incidents, including the one at the railway station, had taken place in the district. Eight militants were killed by the police in various encounters in the incidents, three of them arrested and a huge quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives seized. The seizures included five AK rifles with 20 magazines and 617 rounds, nine pistols with 16 magazines and 32 rounds, three rocket launchers, 19 hand grenades, 24 rifle grenades, 14 time pencil bombs, two grenade launchers 10.50 kg of RDX and 10 detonators. The SSP said various steps had been taken here to contain militancy in the winter Capital. These include mobile patrolling in the city during vulnerable hours, further strengthening of nakas around the city and main roads and deployment of flying squads with modern equipment to repulse ‘fidayeen’ (suicide) attacks. He said various voluntary organisations like the Civil Defence and Young Blood Organisation had been involved in preventive policing and their checking at nakas had yielded positive results. The owners/managers of various hotels, inns had been directed to get identity of their customers ascertained so that no militant got shelter or caused any act of sabotage. Besides, better coordination and cooperation with sister organisations, including army and paramilitary forces, was being maintained, he added. The
SSP said some priority programmes being pursued were improvement of police-public relations, further strengthening of village defence committees by providing them better weaponry and effective communication system and developing and building up image of police as secular and impartial for dispensing justice.
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Don’t overcharge for burqas, tailors warned Srinagar, September 2 In its first press statement issued here today, the militant outfit confirmed that extending the deadline for women in Kashmir to wear burqa till September 10 and said its activists would take action against tailors and cloth merchants if they indulge in overcharging. The warning follows complaints by especially women and girls that tailors and cloth merchants had increased rates for stitching and cloth for burqas.
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Hurriyat’s Kerala visit put off Thiruvananthapuram, September 2 The Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (CHRO), which is playing the host, said the APHC leaders failed to catch their flight from Bangalore and will now arrive here tomorrow. According to a statement issued by CHRO Secretary General Mukundan C Menon yesterday, Awami Action Committee head Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and APHC founder-member and Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference leader Abdul Gani Lone were to interact with a group of invited guests, including political party leaders, social and human rights activists and the media, here today. The CHRO had also specially invited leaders of the BJP and the CPM to participate in the interaction. Meanwhile, the city observed a hartal till noon today in response to a call given by the BJP in protest against the Hurriyat leaders’ visit. The city unit of the BJP also held a rally to register their protest.
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Fruit production up in J&K Srinagar, September 2 About 143 hectares of more land are being brought under orchards in the district under the dry land and centrally sponsored programme during the current financial year, official sources said today. For this purpose 20,000 plants of apple and walnut would be provided to the orchardists on 75 per cent subsidy which comes to Rs 10 lakh. One thousand olive plants were also being distributed among farmers of Uri tehsil free of cost, they said. To popularise Kashmir fruit, eliminate middlemanship and explore new markets, the Department of Horticulture and Planning and Marketing has taken various meassures. The department operates three markets in Sopore- Baramulla, Parimpora-Srinagar and Narwal-Jammu. Another fruit and vegetable market at Nowpora-Sopore is under construction. It has 700 shop sites, 16 multi-purpose auctions and packing seeds and 70 to 100 kiosks, they said. The department has reduced the annual ground rent per site from Rs 5,000 to Rs 500. To provide sale cover to small and marginal growers, the officials said, the Horticulture Department has established 19 markets, 17 satellite and rural markets, and one terminal market, one grain market at a cost of Rs 44.26 crore in which the Nabard loan component is Rs 26.50 crore. Of these, 11 markets are in Kashmir division and eight in Jammu division. They said to save the fruit growers from exploitation, the department organised fruit growers cooperative societies which facilitate finance through financial institutions. To provide timely information of market trends of the country to growers and traders, they said, the department is establishing a computerised data bank at lower Munda on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.
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NC, BJP dividing
people: Congress Jammu, September 2 In a statement issued here yesterday, a senior party leader and member AICC, Mr Amit Malhotra, said that as Assembly poll was drawing near the BJP and the National Conference were trying to play regional and communal cards to woo the voters in areas of their influence. While accusing the BJP of adopting anti-Kashmiri and anti-Muslim stance, Mr Amit Malhotra blamed the National Conference leadership for imitating Kashmiri separatists in order to win the support of Muslim electorates in the Kashmir valley. The Congress leader urged both the BJP and the National Conference to desist from playing such a dirty game which could endanger the regional and communal amity in the state. He said in the context of disturbing security scenario in the state it was the need of the hour for the National Conference and the BJP to avoid taking recourse to gimmicks . |
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