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March 3, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Jammu bandh total
Ban on fundamentalist organisations sought Sikh leaders blame BJP for Gujarat carnage |
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Jammu bandh total Jammu, March 2 Except for stray incidents of stone-pelting, the bandh passed off peacefully. While the inter-district transport services were suspended in the morning hours, they were resumed later. However, in Jammu city and within the municipal limits of Udhampur and Kathua towns, passenger transport services remained off the road. Many streets in Jammu wore a deserted look. Private cars and two-wheelers were seen moving on the roads occasionally. Work in government offices and banks was affected as employees could not reach their offices in the absence of transport services. Under the orders of the government, all educational institutions were closed today. The bandh call given by the VHP, Bajrang Dal, Hindu Shiv Sena and supported by the BJP and other organisations had a limited response in Poonch and Rajouri districts where only a small section of
traders had closed their shops. The government had ordered the deployment of police and paramilitary forces in Jammu town and its adjoining areas on a large scale. The police impounded about a dozen vehicles in which activists of the VHP, Bajrang Dal and Hindu Shiv Sena were on a move to ensure that nobody violated the bandh call. At least four activists were taken into preventive custody in the morning and later released. Senior civil and police officers, including the Divisional Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner and the Inspector-General of Police spent the entire day in the police control room monitoring the situation. They earned appreciation from the government for having taken adequate steps for preventing any untoward incident. Several National Conference, Congress, PDP and BSP leaders have condemned all the ugly incidents in Gujarat and urged the Centre to send additional forces to quell violence there.
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Top Tehreek commander held Srinagar, March 2 In a major success, 62-year-old Abdul Gani Dar, alias Gazali, supreme commander of Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, was apprehended by the BSF here last evening. Four others, identified as Mohammad Rafiq Rather, Farooq Ahmad Bhat, Mukhtar Ahmad Bhat and Hilal Ahmad Dar, have also been rounded up on his instance. A pistol, a wireless set, magazine, eight rounds of ammunition and four grenades were seized from their possession, the BSF claimed. They were presented before mediapersons here this morning. The DIG (BSF), Mr R.S. Bhuller, said Gazali was apprehended on a tip-off from the central Lal Chowk area of Srinagar last evening. Appointed as chief of the outfit, he was reported to have been instrumental in bringing the first group of around TUM militants into the valley in 1990. Gazali appealed to jehadi groups to shun violence as gun was no solution to the problem. He was earlier arrested in 1992 and was in prison for over two years. But continued pressure tactics and alleged “harassment” from the security forces led him to rejoin the ranks in 1996, he said. Gazali, a resident of Russu in Budgam district, reportedly exfiltrated to Pakistan thrice and had been active since the eruption of militancy. Three militants, one of them a foreigner, were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Budgam district. Once woman also died in the exchange of fire between the militants and the security forces. Two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were gunned down in an encounter with the security forces at Magota village of Rajouri district early today. The militants were identified as Tahir Tabasum and Mohammad Qasim, both residents of Chakwal in Pakistan. In another incident, three children were killed when a bomb exploded in a cattle shed in the Ghambir Muglan area in Poonch district last evening. A couple was found killed by the militants at Dushal of Udhampur district today. A Special Police Officer, Jalaluddin, was shot dead by some unidentified militants in the Gool area of Udhampur yesterday. |
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Ban on fundamentalist organisations sought Jammu, March 2 At a meeting held here today, the Sikh leaders, including Mr J.S. Mangat, Mr Narinder Singh Khalsa, Dr Jagjit Singh and Mr Sant Singh Tegh, condemned the carnage at the Godhra railway station. They also denounced widespread violence that has rocked Gujarat and other areas in the country. The Sikh leaders criticised the Gujarat Government for having delayed calling out the troops. They said that it was unfortunate that during strifes and communal disorders, the police had been watching the events like passive spectators. In this connection they referred to the 1984 riots and said that had the government taken firm steps right in the beginning, the lives of innocent people would have been saved. They also referred to the fallout of the demolition of the Babri Masjid and said all these events had indicated that the fundamentalist organisations were bent upon sullying the face of India and its democratic and secular traditions. They urged the Government of India to take steps so that such barbaric acts were not repeated. The Sikh leaders appealed to the people in the country to maintain their cool and foil the machinations of the fundamentalists and extremists. |
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Sikh leaders blame BJP for Gujarat
carnage Jammu, March 2 Addressing a press conference here yesterday the president, Jammu and Kashmir Gurdwara Prabandhak Board, Mr S.S. Wazir, Mr Paramjit Singh, president, state unit of the AISSF, Mr Mohinder Singh of Bhai Kanhaiya Nishkam Seva Society, Mr Harbans Singh of the Sikh Welfare Forum and others said the massacre of kar sevaks at the Godhra railway station was condemnable and more condemnable was the act of carnage that followed in Gujarat. The Sikh leaders blamed the BJP Government in Gujarat for having “deliberately” keeping silence over the massacre. |
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J&K gets trophy
for best tableau Srinagar, March 2 |
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