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Wednesday,
May 22, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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PM’s
visit: Hurriyat backs boycott call Hurriyat
asks Centre to initiate steps for dialogue Package to
‘rehabilitate’ Pandits soon Rs 5-cr
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GMC
prepares disaster plan Srinagar-Leh
highway opens Land scam
in Badgam dist
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PM’s visit: Hurriyat backs boycott call Jammu, May 21 Hours before the Prime Minister landed in Jammu the All-Party Hurriyat Conference supported the call for boycott given by the Kashmir Bar Association. Asked why the APHC had supported the boycott call the Hurriyat chairman, Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, said that “we are boycotting the Prime Minister’s visit in order to demonstrate that people in Kashmir are not for any economic or political package, but for the permanent settlement of the Kashmir issue.” He said “unless the Government of India addresses the core issue of Kashmir we are not going to participate in any function connected with Mr Vajpayee’s visit.” Mr Vajpayee, who is reaching Srinagar on Wednesday morning, would spend one night in the valley. He is scheduled to visit the border area of Kupwara. Prof Bhat said that Mr Vajpayee should accept in principle that people of Kashmir, India and Pakistan were the three parties that had to be involved in a dialogue for finding a permanent settlement of the Kashmir issue. “We are not for any political, economic or even psychological concessions. We want the Kashmir dispute to be settled once for all,” he said adding that “war is no solution.” The Hurriyat chairman said that Mr Vajpayee’s Kashmir visit “does not carry any political mission”. “It is a visit simply to encourage the troops and the field commanders,” he said. Prof Bhat said “take it from me, they will discuss war but will never go for war.” He did not elaborate. In reply to a question he said “we are for the settlement of the issue through a dialogue.” He stated that first of all India should accept in principle that Kashmir is a disputed territory and allow Hurriyat leaders to visit Pakistan for discussing the issue with Islamabad and leaders of militant groups. If India agreed, he said, “we will have a dialogue with Mr Vajpayee.” |
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Hurriyat asks Centre to initiate steps for dialogue New Delhi, May 21 The Hurriyat said the Assembly elections due before October should not be a priority if a permanent solution to the Kashmir issue was to be found. “The initiative (for dialogue) lies with the Government of India,” Hurriyat spokesman Abdul Majid Bandey said, adding that the organisation had “always shown its readiness for a political solution through dialogue”. “But the government should set out its intentions at the beginning of any dialogue process,” Mr Bandey told PTI here. Terming Assembly elections as a “routine matter”, he said it would not help in solving the Kashmir issue and hence could even be postponed if the dialogue process began. “A solution can be found to the vexed problem only through a dialogue and this is the opportune time for it,” he said.
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Package
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Pandits soon Srinagar, May 21 A large number of migrants, especially from Kupwara district, were present at the meeting and the problems highlighted by the Pandits included grant of
ex-gratia for the damaged properties, timely release of salaries and grant of house rent allowance to migrant employees, enhancement in cash relief, provision of employment to migrant youth and better sanitary conditions. Choudhary Ramzan said the government had formulated a comprehensive package for rehabilitation of the migrants in their homes and hearths and was awaiting response from the Centre.
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Rs 5-cr package for border migrants Srinagar, May 21 Ration, kerosene, free-medical aid, drinking water, electricity and cash allowance would be paid to people under the relief package, Chief Secretary I S Malhi said today. He said government was “deeply concerned” over the hardships being faced by the people of
Hiranagar, Samba, Akhnoor, Nowshera, Poonch, Uri, Tangdhar and other areas of Jammu and Kashmir due to heavy mortar and artillery firing from across the border. In addition to the migration which took place in the wake of the Kargil intrusion, about 15,000 persons from these sectors have migrated to safer places in the past four days, he said.
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GMC prepares disaster plan Jammu, May 21 Talking to UNI here yesterday the Deputy Medical Superintendent of GMS Dr Yashpal Sharma, said the institute had chalked out the plan to treat more victims of Pakistani firing along the International Boundary and the Line of Control (LoC). “In the days of Operation Vijay (Kargil intrusion) we offered round-the-clock services to provide medicare to injured jawans as well as civilians,’’ he recalled. The plan existed in those days also but with the passage of time it has been modified to suit the need of the hour. He said all life-saving and other vital drugs had been brought so that there was no dearth of medicines in the hour of crisis. All key instruments had been kept operational round the clock to provide medicare to the critically injured. Dr Sharma, however, denied that there was any paucity of funds but chipped in to say that the NGOs too should play a key role to ensure the smooth functioning of the medicos.
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War is ‘last option’ Samba (Jammu), May 21 Dr Abdullah, who toured the border areas yesterday, told reporters, “We will try all available options and when all of them get exhausted, then war is the final reality.”
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Srinagar-Leh highway opens Srinagar, may 21 However, the highway re-opened on May 13 after the first convoy was flagged off by the General Officer Commanding 15 Corps after the Border Roads Organisation cleared 10-feet to 24-feet snow accumulated on the highway. The highway was formally thrown open after the completion of the necessary repair work on the road by the beacon officials. However, no traffic movement would be allowed from both sides on Fridays. For the smooth plying of traffic on the hilly and strategic highway, the movement of vehicles will be regulated by the Commanding Officer stationed at Sonamarg who would be responsible for strict adherence to the sequence for the movement.
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Land scam in Badgam dist Srinagar, May 21 An official spokesman said here that revenue records of over 200 kanals of the state land at Hanjik (Badgam) have been changed to facilitate its acquisition by private parties. The site had been
identified for an Army camp. A tentative award had also been finalised, the possession has already been taken over by the intending department. The Director, Land Records, Kashmir, has established that officials of Badgam tehsil have illegally transferred 48 kanals to Lal Mohammad Bangroo, resident of Bemina, Srinagar, about 57 kanals to Mohammad Hussain, resident of Shariefada, Badgam, six kanals to Ali Shah and Gaffar Rasool both, residents of Ganderbal, in equal shares. Another fraudulent mutation involving an area of 141 kanals was attested on August 19, 1999, by the then tehsildar, settlement, Badgam, Mr Ghulam Hyder Mir, which has been shown to have been entered in the records of 1987 by the then patwari, verified by naib-tehsildar. The Revenue Minister has asked the SSP, Crime and Railways, to conduct a probe into the matter. The Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Deputy Commissioner, Badgam, and Collector, Defence Budget, have been asked to ensure that no payment of rent on compensation of this land was made. |
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