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BJP rejects Jethmalani’s formula Jammu, February 13 Mr Hari Om, spokesman of the state BJP, told mediapersons here today that the BJP would not give up its well-considered stand on Jammu and Kashmir in order to please the Hurriyat. Nor did the BJP consider the Hurriyat an umbrella organisation of 23 anti-Indian and pro-Pakistan parties as the sole factor in the state’s political situation. He said the BJP believed that the acceptance of the Kashmir formula devised by Mr Jethmalani would mean, the dilution of Indian sovereignty over Jammu and Kashmir and a dangerous respectability to the politics of separatism based on religious fanaticism and the cult of violence. He also dismissed the formula as a deliberate attempt on his part to impose the religio-political will of the Hurriyat on all others in the state who held democratic and liberal values dear and wished to be an integral part of the national mainstream in order to enjoy the fruits of Indian democracy. Mr Hari Om accused Mr Jethmalani of deliberately ignoring the composition and complexion of the Hurriyat and its area of influence. The Hurriyat had to support whatsoever in Jammu and Ladakh and it represented a microscopic minority in Kashmir. He also accused the PCC chief, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, of trying to subvert the Constitution by suggesting that the fresh delimitation of constituencies should not be held at the moment. |
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Eight killed in valley Srinagar, February 13 An official spokesman said that militants shot dead a forest guard, Farooq Ahmad, and Mohd Abdullah at Banakote Bandipora in north Kashmir this morning. He said militants also shot dead Mohd Sadiq Mir in his house at Chountwar Sogam late last night. In a separate incident, militants shot at and critically wounded Mohd Yousf Mir at Sanoor Kalipora Beerwah last night. He later died in hospital. Elsewhere, two persons - Mohd Hussain and Beggo-bi - were killed during an encounter between militants and the security forces. Militants shot dead a civilian, Ghlum Nabi Marazi, at Kolangam Handwara in north Kashmir when he was on his way home after offering prayers at a mosque, the spokesman said. The security forces recovered the body of a militant of the Al-Jehad at Sopore last evening, he said. The security forces also arrested a militant at Uri last evening and seized some arms and ammunition from him, he added.
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Jawan killed in Pak firing Jammu, February 13 A jawan, Tejinder Singh, was killed at a forward defence location in the Krishna Ghatti sector and a BSF vehicle damaged in the firing resorted to by Pakistani troops since yesterday, they said. The sources said 171 families, comprising 768 persons, migrated from the Lalal area in Rajouri district due to the heavy shelling. They had taken shelter in Government High School in Gagroate village. Indian and Pakistani troops fired mortar shells in the Bhawani sector last night, they said, adding no loss was reported on the Indian side. Intermittent small arms fire was reported between the two sides along the international border in the Akhnoor, R S Pura and Samba sectors.
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Police post attacked, 14 injured Jammu, February 13 The villagers, protesting against excesses by the security forces during cordon and search operations overnight, attacked a police post in Lowang village in Bani tehsil with sticks and stones, police sources said here. Six police personnel, including the officer in charge of the post, were injured in the attack, they said. Eight civilians were also injured. The police fired into the air after a lathi charge failed to disperse the villagers, they said. the situation was brought under control after reinforcements were sent from Kathua. Senior officers, including the Deputy Commissioner and the SSP, had gone to the scene to persuade the agitating villagers who were not allowing the injured policemen to be shifted to hospital, the sources said. Medical teams from Bani have also been sent to the area.
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Escaped ultra
nabbed Jammu, February 13 In a search operation last night, the police raided a militant hideout in the Gunthal forest area in Surankote tehsil and nabbed the militant, the sources said. Shah, one of the accused in the case relating to the massacre of 30 migrant labourers in the Qasim Nagar area of Jammu city last year, was brought to Poonch district where he was lodged in jail.
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