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Seven Hizb militants
held 10 in fray for J&K
poll USA finds solution to Kashmir
problem? J&K:
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Seven Hizb militants held SRINAGAR, Feb 6 (UNI) — In a major swoop, seven Pakistan-trained militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen were arrested and a huge cache of arms and ammunition seized from them by the Jammu and Kashmir Police Special Operations Group from Srinagar and its adjoining areas in the past 24 hours. An official spokesman said members of the outfit were involved in several militant activities, including hurling grenades and causing blasts. A rifle grenade launcher, two rifles, two pistols, three rocket projectile guns, a medium machine gun, 14 grenades, a wireless set, 16 rifle grenades, six kg of RDX, a remote-controlled device, 376 rounds and 13 magazines were recovered from the arrested militants. Four persons were killed while a ruling National Conference leader escaped bid on his life. Seven Hizb militants and three more were arrested in the valley since last evening. Kashmir University has postponed its examinations because of curfew restrictions in some areas. Official sources said militants attacked the house of ruling National Conference block president Ghulam Mohammad at Achabal in south Kashmir last evening. However, his guards retaliated and the exchange continued for some time. No one was hurt. Militants attacked a patrol party at Nagabal in Tral of Pulwama district last night. In the shootout, 70-year-old Ama Shah was killed. An unidentified body was recovered from Machama in Pulwama last evening while militants caused two blasts near a shopping complex belonging to Mohammad Subhan Mir at Bulgam in Sopore late last night, causing extensive damage to the building. The forces arrested Reyaz Ahmad and seized six rifles from him at Badgam last evening. A report from Baramula said the security forces arrested two militants last evening, including a resident of Uttar Pradesh and recovered some arms and ammunition from them. |
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10 in fray for J&K poll JAMMU, Feb 6 (UNI) — Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council Abdul Rashid Dar and state Revenue Minister Abdul Qayoom are among the seven NC candidates to have filed papers for elections to eight Legislative Council seats in the state. Among the six nominations filed from Kashmir, three belong to the NC while Mr Abdul Rehman is the Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate. Mr Dar and Mr Qayoom filed their papers yesterday. Two more candidates filed their nominations today. Out of the seven nominations filed by the ruling party, five are sitting MLCs whose term will expire in March. For Jammu, papers were filed by Choudhary Mohammad Hussain, Mr Nazir Ahmad Mir, Mr Abdul Aziz and Brij Mohan Sharma (all NC). Today was the last date for filing nominations for these seats. The papers will be scrutinised tomorrow and polling, if necessary, held on February 11. |
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USA finds solution to Kashmir
problem? SRINAGAR, Feb 6 — The USA has formulated a plan to solve the Kashmir issue, which enjoys the support of foreign-based Kashmiri lobbyists. This was disclosed today by a militant-turned politician who launched his own party in the name of Tehreek-e-Husoole Aman (Movement for Peace), which will mobilise public opinion for the US agenda. Khursheed Mir, who launched the party here today, has recently returned from Pakistan from where he toured some western and Muslim countries. He said when the militants brought the Kashmir issue in focus the opinion was that now was the time for the Kashmiri people to take advantage of the changed situation and play a political role. He hailed New Delhi’s peace move and the response shown to it by the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), which he said enjoyed a true representative status. He urged the Hurriyat Conference to move forward by persuading militants to cooperate.
He said his party would play the role of a facilitator in the peace process.
He suggested that borders restrictions be eased so that separated Kashmiri people are allowed to meet each other. NEW DELHI, Feb 6 — Extending its support
to the peace moves of government in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress
today stressed more coordination between the state and Central
Governments so that concrete results could be achieved from the peace
process. A delegation of senior party leaders met Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee here this evening to know government’s view on
the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Home Minister L.K. Advani, Defence
Minister George Fernandes and External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh
were also present at the one-and-a-half hour meeting. Besides Mr Manmohan Singh, the Congress delegation comprised Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mr Arjun Singh and Mr Natwar Singh. This is the first such meeting between the government and the main Opposition party since the government announced ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to TNS, Mr Azad said that Congress leaders reminded the Centre that after the massacre of Sikhs in Chattisinghpora, the government had assured to take necessary security measures, but the recent killings of Sikhs in the valley suggested that not enough had been done. While extending support towards government moves aimed at bringing peace to the valley, the Congress leaders said that the government should put its act together and see that innocent lives were not lost. Though the government had claimed that the ceasefire was announced after taking political parties into confidence, the Congress denied that it had been consulted. The
government told the Congress leaders that overall situation had
improved after the ceasefire. |
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