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PDP leader, 3 jawans among 15 killed Tussle for supremacy among separatists
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Shias hold processions after a decade in valley Road transport corporation to
cut staff strength Challans against 3 top officials of finance company Lieut-General Kapoor new GOC 75 MW grid station commissioned
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PDP leader, 3 jawans among 15 killed Srinagar, November 17 The security forces also shot dead a militant of Harkat-ul-Ansar in an encounter at Vilgam in the frontier district of Kupwara last night. An official spokesman said militants shot dead PDP leader Mohammad Ismail Khanday at Nanil Duli Mattan in south Kashmir district of Anantnag last evening. With this, three PDP leaders have been killed by unidentified gunmen in south Kashmir during the past two weeks. Two other leaders were killed at Pampore and Anantnag early last week. Official sources said militants hurled a hand grenade towards an ITBP patrol party around 3.30 hours at Mehandi Kadal Anantnag in south Kashmir. The grenade exploded on the road, causing the death of a the jawan of ITBP on the spot and injuries to six civilians. The injured have been admitted to a hospital. The official sources said militants hurled a hand grenade towards the house of Numberdar Abdul Rashid Lone at Anderwani Ganderbal early this morning. The grenade exploded inside the house, resulting in the death of his son Imtayaz on the spot and injuries to another son. Mr Lone, however, escaped unhurt, the sources said adding that the injured was admitted to hospital. Militants also shot dead Peer Siraj-ud-Din Shah at the Tanwani road in Anantnag last night. Two Army personnel were killed when troops foiled an attempt by a group of armed militants to infiltrate into Rajouri district from across the border in the wee hours today, a police spokesman said. However, the official sources said ultras fired indiscriminately at the troops near a forward defence location late last night and entered the Indian territory along the LoC from the Bhimber area of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir into the Biryali- Gambhir forests and killed two Armymen and injured another. The militants escaped back to the PoK after the attack, the sources said, identifying the deceased jawans as Muna Ram and Parweaher Lal. —
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Tussle for supremacy among separatists Jammu, November 17 While the faction led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani is giving a new shape to the organisation that could be loyal to him, those supporting Molvi Abbas Ansari have stopped visiting the APHC headquarters in Rawalpindi. Reports reaching from across the border said even the Peoples’ Conference representative Yusuf Naseem, functioning as the convener of the APHC prior to its split, too had not gone to the APHC headquarters in Rawalpindi for the past fortnight. According to these reports, Ansari’s supporters have avoided visiting the APHC headquarters after they realised that the establishment in Pakistan had stopped giving patronage to them. As the supporters of Geelani, across the border, were busy preparing a list of names who would be taken on the executive committee of the APHC (Geelani), rival faction leaders have started trading charges against him. Supporters of Geelani, while blaming him for causing the split in the APHC, have accused him of being a man of the two Indian intelligence agencies, the RAW and the IB. They have gone to the extent of charging Geelani with conniving with the RAW and the IB for splitting the APHC in Srinagar. Against this, Geelani’s loyalists dub APHC leaders, led by Ansari, as “men of the Government of India.” These loyalists have accused Molvi’s men of having “deviated from the real path the APHC had chalked out and secretly joined hands with the Government of India which has helped them in being on the right side of men who man the PMO.” Back in Srinagar Sajjad Lone of the Peoples’ Conference, who is with the APHC (Abbas), has described Geelani as “partyless wonder.” He has gone to the extent of accusing Geelani of having a secret understanding and alliance with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed, which had helped the PDP to win sizeable number of seats in the previous Assembly poll. However, political observers here opine that Lone’s outbursts, which he made in an interview to a Pakistani newspaper, was a double edged” weapon with which he wanted to attack Geelani and keep the Pakistani establishment in good humour. These observers referring to Lone’s statement, in which he had said that elections were not a substitute to a plebiscite, say that this was to ensure security for himself and for his partymen when Peoples’ Conference leaders had lost the support of agencies across the border after its founder Abdul Gani Lone, had made series of uncharitable remarks against Pakistan and foreign mercenaries before he was killed by unidentified gunmen.
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Shias hold processions after a decade in valley Srinagar, November 17 The processions culminated peacefully at Imam Baras in central Kashmir Budgam town. The stronghold of Anjuman-e-Shari-e-Shian witnessing the largest congregation, official sources said. Over 35,000 Shia mourners, led by Anjuman president and member of Hurriyat’s Geelani faction, Aga Syed Hassan al-Safvi al-Mousvi, marched from the Budgam district headquarters, beating their chests and reciting verses from the holy Quran in the memory of Hazrat Ali, the sources said. National Conference leader and former minister Moulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari also led over 15,000 mourners at Zadibal in the downtown city, the sources said. Hurriyat Conference chairman Moulvi Mohammad Abbas Ansari was seen along with his supporters at Mirgund village of Pattan in Baramulla district leading nearly 15,000 mourners. Reports from Kargil in the frontier region of Ladakh said over 60,000 Shia Muslims marched on streets bare feet carrying a symbolic coffin. Organised by Imamia school and the Imam Khumaini Relief Trust, the march ended peacefully at the local Imam Bara, the sources said. The Shias took out processions after a gap of over a decade as such gathering had been banned after the eruption of militancy in 1989. Since Mr Mufti Mohammad Sayeed assumed power last year, the government lifted ban on Muharram and Milad processions in the state. —
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Road transport corporation to
cut staff strength Jammu, November 17 This was decided today at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the RTC here which was presided over by the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Mangat Ram Sharma. It was decided to phase out 1,541 employees and freeze the vacant posts for three months. No fresh recruitment would be made in the RTC without the prior approval of the chairman. In a bid to earn money, it was decided to set up petrol stations of the RTC in collaboration with the IOC at Pampore, Jammu and Batote. It was also decided to introduce night bus services in the state besides operating double-decker buses on serveral routes. Initially, the night services would be introduced on some routes and later extended to other areas. |
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Challans against 3 top officials of finance company Jammu, November 17 Producing nine split challans against the accused in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, the Crime Branch requested the court to initiate proceedings under Section 512 CrPC, Senior Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, Jammu, Mr H.L. Fothedar, told PTI here. The challans were produced against the company’s Managing Director Manzoor Ahmed Shah and the two Directors — Bashir Ahmed Mir and Munawar Mir — he said, following a complaint filed by Zarifa Parveen and Bharat Bhushan of Jammu. The complainants alleged that they had deposited their money with the company as it had promised 24 per cent interest per annum, the SSP said. On the date of maturity when the complainants went to encash their FDRs, they were told that the officials concerned had gone underground with the deposited money, Mr Fothedar said. During investigations, one of the accused, Manzoor Ahmed Shah, was arrested and it was revealed that the company had duped innocent persons of Rs 49,48,881.
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Lieut-General Kapoor
new GOC Jammu, November 17 General Kapoor is at present Deputy Commandant of the IMA, Dehra Dun. General Brar today relinquished command of the prestigious corps of the Army. On the eve of his departure, he said that terrorism in the Jammu region had been effectively contained. |
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75 MW grid station commissioned Srinagar, November 17 Completed at a cost of Rs 14.66 crore, work on the grid station, spread over nearly 4.5 hectares, was started in 1988-89, an official spokesman said today. He said half of Pulwama district would get adequate power supply through the receiving stations at Lassipora, Shadimarg, Pinjoora, Shopian, Reshipora and Londoora from this grid station. Power Minister Mohammad Sharief Niaz, who inaugurated the grid station yesterday, said that there was a proposal to ensure power supply to Pulwama town also from the station. —
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