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Detection of bunkers puts question mark on security
Pak journalists strike a chord with locals
3 jawans, two militants die in gunbattle
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All applicants to go for Haj
Kerala to adopt 100 Kashmiri orphans
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Detection of bunkers puts question mark on security
Jammu, October 6 Six such bunkers were detected earlier this week as the security forces were chasing a foreign mercenary, Abu Salama, who had killed a soldier. This indicates that the ultras were still entrenched in the border district where the authorities were claiming to have an upper hand over the terrorists. The Army had come under severe criticism about two years ago, when concrete bunkers built by terrorists were found in the Hilkaka area. The Army had destroyed the bunkers that were stocked with large quantity of rations, arms, and ammunition. However, the chance detection of the underground bunkers has put a question mark on the security of the area, where terrorists have been calling the shots by killing innocent civilians, whom they suspect of being informers of the security forces. This was bound to demoralise the civilian who had started coming forward to provide vital information about the hideouts of ultras. There were reports of terrorists carrying mobile phones with international dialling facility to quickly get in touch with their mentors. They have started shunning the high frequency wireless sets as the Army was able to intercept their conversation. The cellular companies of Pakistan were beaming their signals into the Indian territory that enables the ultras to use the SIM cards issued by them. Four wireless sets and three mobile phones were recovered from the six terrorists who were shot by the Army in the Keli Ban area. Satellite phones were recovered by the security forces from slain terrorists in the past. |
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Pak journalists strike a chord with locals
Jammu, October 6 Their excitement heightened as the journalists reached Kashmir yesterday. During the past 15 years, many groups of journalists from the electronic and the print media from various countries and different parts of India have visited Jammu and Kashmir. But none of them had emotions attached the place. Even the local people were indifferent to their visit. Ms Rehana
Hakim, a member of the delegation, was in tears while receiving bouquets at a dak bungalow near Qazigund in south Kashmir on Tuesday. It seemed she had a strong connection with this place. When Mr Abdul Aziz, a Kashmiri-born journalist who had migrated to Pakistan in 1947, visited Srinagar in the early ’80s there was excitement not only among the mediamen, but among the politicians and bureaucrats too. Late Sheikh Abdullah had invited him at his residence. And when Mr Abdul Samad Wani visited his birth place at Safapora in north Kashmir in early 80’s village women celebrated their arrival by dancing and singing. However,with patronage from Government agencies, in Pakistan and India,the visit of the 16-member delegation of journalists from across the border turned out to be a big event where people vied with each other while welcoming them. For those people who are keen to see peace restored to the state the visit of Pakistani journalists was harbinger of better days to come. Their hope for interaction with the people on the other side of border have been revived. And this very hope brought Mr Ram Lal Verma, who had migrated from Muzaffarabad in 1947, to the venue of meeting with the Pakistani journalists in Jammu on Monday. He simply wanted to know if some journalist had come from Muzaffarabad. He was delighted when he was introduced to Mr Tariq Naqash who had come from Muzaffarabad as a member of the delegation. The two hugged each other. It was again an emotional union though Tariq Baqash’s father had migrated to Muzaffarabad in 1958. The Pakistani delegation is in Jammu and Kashmir to study the ground realities and report facts in their newspapers. Kashmiri Pandit migrants during their interaction with Pakistani journalists told them in clear terms that they should also highlight human rights violations committed by militants and separatists in Kashmir. On the condition of anonymity said militants, in the training camps across the border, had been told that all mosques in Kashmir had been sealed by the Indian security forces and people were not allowed to offer namaz in mosques. The officer said “organisers and the government agencies should have given a chance to the journalists to meet common people so that they could judge the extent of religious freedom Muslims enjoyed in Jammu and Kashmir.” Mr Imtiaz
Alam, leader of the delegation said they had come not to change the history but to create an atmosphere which could give peace a chance. |
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3 jawans, two militants die in gunbattle
Srinagar, October 6 Two LeT militants were gunned down after a heavy exchange of fire late last evening while the troops were conducting search operations in the Zainakot area of the city, the sources said. Earlier, three jawans were killed last evening when their search party came under heavy fire from militants hiding in one of the houses. |
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All applicants to go for Haj
Srinagar, October 6 The announcement was made by the Minister of State for Haj and Auqaf, Mr Sarfaraz Khan, during his interaction with a delegation of the applicants at Tangmarg today. He said that all the applicants including those who were dropped in the recent draw of lots would be allowed to proceed for its Haj pilgrimage. This was possible because of the approval of the Central Government and the All-India Haj Committee (AIHC) to increase the quota of pilgrims, he said. The draw of lots for selection of pilgrims was made due to the limited quota for the pilgrimage this year, which had led to resentment among the applicants and aspirants. The government had claimed that there was only limited quota made available to the state this year which had led to the draw of lots following the receipt of more applications that” the quota available. |
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Kerala to adopt 100 Kashmiri orphans
Srinagar, October 6 This follows a meeting between Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and patron of Markaz-e-Saqafia Sunnia (Sunni cultural centre) Calicut, Sheikh Abu Bakr al Saqafi al Qadri who called on the former here yesterday. This is the third successful initiative of the coalition government led by Sayeed in a year to persuade organisations outside the state to adopt orphans from Kashmir whose parents have been devoured by violence during the past 14 years. Earlier, the army school at Beas and a Pune-based NGO, Sarhad, had adopted more than 200 orphans from the state on similar basis.
— PTI |
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