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Pak raising bundh along LoC Army chief to visit valley today Minister’s nephew was arrested, not kidnapped JKLF seeks founder’s remains, begins stir |
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Traffic jams mar bridge inauguration Landslides cut off access to valley J&K rail project: 4 global
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Pak raising bundh along LoC
Suchetgarh (Jammu), February 10 The bundh was being raised as a curtain or obstacle to prevent the Indian security forces watching the activities of the Pakistani troops across the border. During initial ceasefire in November last, Pakistani authorities had asked their counterparts here to stop fencing of the border. However, India made it clear that the fencing would continue as this had helped check infiltration from the other side of the border. In the past, Pakistani troops tried to stall the work of fencing by firing indiscriminately at those engaged in the job on the Indian territory. But now with the ceasefire by both sides, work on the bundh has been speeded. The Border Security Force (BSF) has, so far, constructed the barbed wire fencing on 106 km out of the 180 km international border between Madhopur and Akhnoor. The entire border is expected to be fenced by July next and the work might be completed earlier because of the ceasefire. Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, recently visited various places on the border to examine fencing. The Army is itself laying the fence along the Line of Control (LoC) in the districts of Rajaouri and Poonch. However, this is being done at selected places because of the mountainous terrain. While steps are being taken to prevent infiltration of unwanted elements, but the signals of the mobile phone service of Pakistan (PAK 03) are clearly available in the Indian territory far beyond the border. However, the service of BSNL gets snapped as one approaches the border villages. The Army has laid the condition that BSNL should not make its service available within 10 km of the border or the Line of Control.  |
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Army chief to visit valley today Srinagar, February 10 The visit has assumed significance following the killing of five civilians at Chithaybanday near Bandipore in Baramula district on Sunday. The killings following an encounter between the Army and militants in the nearby forest has evoked resentment though the Army has decided to hold an inquiry into the incident. General Vij’s visit also assumes significance in view of the recent development in Indo-Pak relations, ceasefire along the border and next week’s Secretary-level talks between the two countries. The Army chief would also attend the inaugural function of two bridges at Sakhras and Yannar near Pahalgam in Anantnag tomorrow. The bridges would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Mohammad Sayeed. The programme was scheduled for January 21 but could not be held due to bad weather conditions. The bridges over Lidder river have been constructed by the state government and the Army as part of the Army’s Operation Sadhbhavana and healing touch policy of the government. |
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Minister’s nephew was arrested, not kidnapped Srinagar, February 10 The SHO of the Kreeri police station has been suspended for “picking up” the minister’s nephew, Mohmammad Altaf Qazi from Ganderbal yesterday without informing the local police. Altaf and Abdul Majid Laloo, a resident of Nai-nar Sumbal, were arrested by the police in connection with a criminal case registered against them at the Kreeri police station in Baramula district, the spokesman said. The Kreeri police arrested them without informing the Ganderbal police, triggering confusion. The police had said yesterday that unidentified gunmen, some of them in uniform, who came in a Tata Sumo, kidnapped Altaf from the Lar area of Ganderbal around noon and was taken to an unknown place.
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JKLF seeks founder’s remains, begins stir Srinagar, February 10 Led by party chief Mohammad Yasin Malik and senior vice-chairman Javid Ahmad Mir and Bashir Ahmad bhat, over hundreds of JKLF activists and supporters observed as fast in front of the JKLF headquarters at Maisuma in the heart of the city today. Chairman of the breakaway Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani and president of the Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Ahmad Shah also visited them. JKLF spokesman Ghulam Rasool Dar, alias Eidi, said the hunger strike will continue till the government returned the remains of Bhat to Kashmir and agreed to involve people of the state in the talks to resolve the Kashmir issue. The hunger strike commenced a day ahead of Bhat’s 20th death anniversary He was hanged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail on February 11, 1984. |
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Jawan, 4 others killed in J&K Srinagar, February 10 A jawan also lost his life in the gunbattle, the spokesman said. The police recovered body of Mohammad Shakoor from Thillu village in Mahore area of Udhampur district, he said. In south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, another body, that of a resident of Kellar village, was recovered from Drabgam area, the spokesman said. Meanwhile, a group of unidentified terrorists fired at a police post at Behram Gala in Surankote tehsil of Poonch district yesterday, official sources said. The fire was returned by the police there and the exchange lasted for an hour, they said, adding the terrorists later fled. JAMMU: Two militants and a special police officer were killed in two separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir. Reports from Poonch district said the body of Nissar Ahmad, posted in Mendhar and reported to have been abducted by militants from his house at Bhaticar village, was recovered by the police. The police found body of the SPO buried in Salwah area of Mendhar, they said, adding search was continuing to trace the culprits responsible for his abduction and killing.
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Traffic jams mar bridge inauguration Jammu, February 10 There was great rush of vehicles, particularly around the Bikram Chowk on the Gandhi Nagar side of the bridge where frequent traffic jams irked the motorists. Although the bridge has been constructed speedily, but the authorities have so far not clear a bottleneck in the Bikram Chowk causing traffic jams. Moreover, the traffic police has failed to control movement of vehicles towards the main road from the warehouse and the university. Experts said that a flyover was needed in the chowk and adding new bridges would hardly help remove the traffic chaos. Meanwhile, the three-lane pre-stressed box girder RCC bridge opened by the Chief Minister is 313.23 metres. It has carriage width of 10 metres and a footpath. Dr Karan Singh, MP and a senior Congress leader, was present on the occasion. The bridge has been named after his father and former ruler of J and K, Maharaja Hari Singh. Minister for Roads and Buildings, Madan Lal Sharma, said that many steps were being taken to ease traffic in the city. A Rs 29 crore underground road was proposed to be constructed between the Jogi Gate and radio station. He said that a flyover would be constructed in the Bikram Chowk. Earlier, the Mufti inaugurated a car parking lot in the doctors lane near the secretariat. The parking lot constructed at a cost of Rs 52 lakh has capacity for 300 vehicles. |
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Landslides cut off access to valley Srinagar, February 10 The highway, only road link of the Kashmir valley with rest of the country, was closed yesterday evening around 5.30 pm following heavy and landslides, a traffic police official told UNI. As the road became slippery because of between
Qazigund-Banihal and landslides in the Ramban area, no vehicle was allowed from Srinagar or Jammu today, he added. However, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), have pressed its men and machines into services to clear the highway. A report said hundreds of vehicles, including passenger buses and trucks loaded with essential commodities were stranded on the highway. It has been decided to allow the stranded vehicles to move to destinations once the road is cleared, officials said. They said vehicles from Jammu and Srinagar would be allowed only after clearance from traffic officials.
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J&K rail project: 4 global
companies apply for tender Jammu, February 10 The bridge over the Chenab would be the first of its kind in the country. The rail track between Reasi and Banihal is 90-km long, but the railways will have to construct about 300-km-long approach roads to the track. Prof Gupta said the previous governments the Centre had spent Rs 38 crore on the Jammu-Udhampur rail project between 1982 and 1996, but the NDA government had provided Rs 3,500 crore in a short span. The first train would run between Jammu and Udhampur on March 25. The valley would be linked by rail by 2007, he said. |
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The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) today began an indefinite fast, demanding that the mortal remains of its founder, Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, be brought home for burial in Kashmir.
