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BSF officer killed
in blast Srinagar, June 17 Militants lobbed a grenade on a BSF vehicle at Iqbal market to the town in Baramula district, 55 km from here, around 3.45 p.m., which exploded inside it, BSF DIG K. Srinivasan said. One Assistant Commandant was killed in the blast while the condition of three injured jawans was critical, he said. The injured have been identified as constables Ravi Raina, Dilip Singh, Amitab and Baldev Singh, labourers Ram Lal, Sagar Lal, Jagesh and his three-year-old son Ratan and Zahoor Ahmad, Fayaz Ahmad, Sikandar and Mohammad Sultan. In another incident, militants shot dead a ruling People’s Democratic Party worker and injured another in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, official sources said here today. Ultras shot at and seriously injured Sarwar Khan inside his residence at Gopalpora village in Anantnag district last night. Khan was rushed to a hospital for treatment, where he succumbed to his injuries this morning, the sources said. Khan, who was in fruit business, was affiliated to the PDP and had taken active part in the recent parliamentary elections in the state, they said. In another incident, militants shot at and injured Ghulam Hassan Dar at Nagam village in the Kokernag area of the district last night. Dar, a farmer by occupation, was also targeted for taking part in the polls. Meanwhile, a militant was killed during an encounter with security forces at Kandi in the Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the sources said, adding that further details of the incident were awaited. JAMMU: Two militants were shot dead today by security forces in a fierce gunbattle in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources here said. Army troops and the police launched a joint operation in Gursai forest belt of Mendhar border tehsil in Poonch district early today. In a gunbattle during the operation, two ultras were killed, they said, adding that two AK rifles, five magazines, two grenades, one IED, five UBGL grenades and some documents were recovered from them.
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Infiltration picking up: Gen Prasad Udhampur, June 17 This was stated here today by the GOC-in-C, Lieut-Gen Hari Prasad, after laying a wreath at the war memorial on the occasion of the 33rd raising day of the Northern Command. He said earlier the infiltration was low due to cold weather. Surveillance on the borders had been strengthened to prevent infiltration. He said the Army had foiled 18 attempts of infiltration in the past five months in which 41 terrorists were killed. The General described the increased incidents of attacks on civilians as a sign of desperation among terrorists. The terrorist attacks on the Army and the security forces had reduced. He said the Army had good success in the anti-insurgency operations during the past six months. Nearly 550 militants were killed or made to surrender. The General said fencing of the Line of Control (LoC) would be completed by June 30. Modern gadgets had been installed to detect the movement of militants. Regarding the de-mining operation, he said almost 99.6 per cent work had been completed so far and a compensation of Rs 80 crore had been disbursed among farmers. About 500 mines were yet to be removed. However, the General denied the reports that certain Kargil peaks were under Pakistan occupation. He said the Army would not allow the Hill Kaka area in Poonch district to be used again by the terrorists. The Gujjars and Bakarwals were allowed to go to certain mountain pastures with their cattle this summer and the Army was providing them medical care. Two former commanders of the Northern Command, Lieut-Gen H.C. Rai (retd) and Lieut-Gen M.L. Chibber (retd), also participated in the celebrations. Prior to Independence, the headquarters of the Northern Command were located at Rawalpindi. After the Partition, the command headquarters were allocated to Pakistan, and in India new headquarters, designated as Western Command, are located at Shimla to look after the northern borders with Pakistan. |
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Vohra calls on Mirwaiz Srinagar, June 17 Mr Vohra met Mirwaiz at his uncle’s residence at Nishat on the
outskirts of the city here this afternoon. He arrived in a private car to escape the attention of the horde of journalists waiting outside and left within five
minutes. Maulvi Mushtaq was shot at and seriously injured by militants last month and he succumbed to his injuries on June 7. After the meeting, Mirwaiz said the Centre’s interlocutor had come to condole his uncle’s death and there was nothing political about it. “No. He did not come with any message from the government. Nor did we discuss politics today. We are still in mourning and it is not the right time to talk about anything else,” the founding chairman of the Amalgam, which has held two rounds of talks with the Centre, said. Hectic backstage activity is going on here as well as in the national capital to arrange for a third round of talks between the government and
the Hurriyat. “I am here as part of India-European Union round table. But there is a possibility of meeting Hurriyat leaders at their convenience,” he said. — PTI |
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Notices to police, security forces on missing youth Srinagar, June 17 The youth, Wasim Ahmad Rather, a resident of Keeri-Nowpora of Dooru area of Anantnag district, had allegedly been arrested by troops of the 49 Rashtriya Rifles on June 14 as per parents of the captured youth and declared missing. Issuing notices to the police and security forces yesterday, the SHRC chairman Justice A.M. Mir asked them to inform the kin of Rather about his whereabouts. The SHRC has fixed the next date of hearing on July 1. Defence spokesman Lieut-Col Mukhtar Singh today, however, said that no individual by the name or description of Wasim Ahmad Rather of Keeri-Nowpora had been arrested by security forces. Colonel Mukhtar Singh said the security forces had, on specific information, arrested a suspected terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, son of Ghulam Mohammad of Keeri village, on June 14. The arrested person is a terrorist of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami the (HUJI). Incriminating documents and an identity card proving his association with HUJI have been recovered from his possession and he was handed over to the police on June 15, he said.
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Change in festival date to hit tourism: RSS Jammu, June 17 “The festival date changes were not known to people across the country. As a result, there will be a loss to the tourism industry in Ladakh as visitors will not turn up in large numbers during the festival,” RSS prachar pramukh (Northern India) Kishore Kant said here today. Mr Kant, who along with RSS Delhi media centre in charge Balram Mishra and Haryana chief Susheel Kumar visited Leh to take part in the festival, said he was disappointed due to the change in dates. “Hundreds of tourists and people like us, whose sentiments are involved with Sindhu Darshan, were virtually disappointed and hurt by Union Minister of Tourism Renuka Chaudhary’s decision,” he said. The RSS leader demanded that the festival should be telecast live for the benefit of the people.
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Notice to Amarnath board officer Jammu, June 17 Taking cognizance of a public interest litigation filed by A.N. Sharma, President of the Shri Amarnath Seva Dal, Mr Justice S.K. Gupta issued the notices and directed the registry to list the case before the vacation judge. Mr Sharma, in his petition, had challenged the state government’s decision to confine this year’s yatra to just a month instead of two months. The petitioner’s counsel pleaded that once the Amarnath Board took a decision of allowing the yatra for two months, the state government could not overrule the decision. Further, no reason was given by the state government in restricting the yatra to only one month, he said. The petition submitted that “unnecessary and unconstitutional interference” by the state government in the working of the board was “absolutely illegal and arbitrary”. The petition prayed for the direction to the respondents to extend the yatra for two months from July 2 to August 29 and also sought directions for the registration of yatris at Chandanwari and Baltal only.
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Indo-European conference begins Srinagar, June 17 The Centre’s interlocutor on Kashmir N.N. Vohra presided over the meeting, which will discuss in detail bilateral relations between India and EU, official sources said. The three-day meeting assumes significance as this is for the first time any International meeting is being held in Kashmir.
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