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Damaged LoC fencing being repaired
Militancy cost Rs 3,100 crore to Centre
Two Hindus invited by PoK President
3 militants killed in encounter
Peer Sawalia’s tomb in neglect
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Damaged LoC fencing being repaired
Srinagar, June 2 This was conveyed to the Jammu and Kashmir Governor, Lt Gen S.K. Sinha (retd) during his visit to the forward areas of Tangdhar and Kupwara sector in north Kashmir yesterday. Briefing the Governor about the restoration work, Corps Commander of the Srinagar based 15 Corps, Lt. Gen Nirbhay Sharma, said snow had not melted at the upper reaches as yet but repair work was afoot in a big way in the lower areas which was nearing completion, an official spokesman said. The Governor was told that the damage had been more or less as anticipated as a result of unprecedented snowfall this year. Going by the experience of this winter, the Army should be able to minimise damage to fencing in future he added. Addressing troops at Tangdhar, the Governor complimented the officers and jawans for combating militancy with valour and fortitude. He was happy that they had been carrying out successful military operations against terrorists while exercising maximum restrain to ensure minimum damage to civilian population. He exhorted the troops to give equal importance to winning the hearts and minds of people through civic action programme under Operation Sadhbavna. The Governor also lauded the valour of people living in the border areas in braving the situation and contributing immensely in heralding peace and bringing about normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir. He expressed happiness at the very cordial relations between the Army and local people. He visited Sadi picket on Shamshirbal ridge in Kupwara and was given the demonstration of Diot project operating on solar energy that can supplement the mini hydel projects and even be used independently to provide electricity in remote villages. |
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Militancy cost Rs 3,100 crore to Centre
Jammu, June 2 According to an official document released here today, out of Rs 3101.86 crore, a sum of Rs 653.85 crore was provided as assistance to Kashmiri migrants, Rs 513.16 crore for welfare activities, Rs 287.1 crore as security works-related activities, Rs 258.19 crore for election-related additional securitry-related expenses, Rs 1139 crore for
additional expenditure on the police and Rs 250.54 crore for action plan. For the year 2004-05, the revised budget provision under security-related expenses was Rs 172 crore and Rs 146.89 crore under relief and rehabilitation. The document revealed that the Centre released Rs 15.21 crore to Himachal Pradesh Government during 1999-2004 for meeting security-related expenditure in its efforts to control the spillover of terrorism-related activities from Jammu and Kashmir. During the last financial year, Himachal Pradesh received Rs 3 crore for this purpose. A sum of Rs 20 crore had been released by the Centre to the Jammu and Kashmir Government for the purchase of tents and for providing civic amenities in the camps set up for the border migrants in various sectors of the state. |
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Two Hindus invited by PoK President
Jammu, June 2 Jagdish Raj Tandon and former MP Tirth Ram Amla will be treated as “state guests” during their stay in PoK and the invitation was extended through Khalid Hussain, a former J&K government bureaucrat. Hussain and his wife went to Muzaffarabad in the first ‘Caarvan-e-Aman’ bus to PoK on April 7 and returned on April 21. Maj Gen Anwar Khan made the offer “when I apprised various leaders in PoK on April 8 that Tandon was keen to talk to his brothers living in the Gaddi Dupatta area there”, Hussain told PTI here. Mr Tandon migrated to Jammu in 1947, but his three brothers stayed back in PoK to carry on the business of their father, Hari Shah. They converted to Islam and Kashi Nath became Sheikh Gulam Rasool, Mohan Lal-Abdul Rashid and Mangat Ram-Mangtullah Sheikh, he said. Hussain said the PoK President took personal interest and arranged for a telephone conversation between Tandon and his brothers. — PTI
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3 militants killed in encounter
Srinagar, June 2 Four persons, including a police constable Abdul Majeed, were killed on the spot and another person was injured. The injured has been admitted to hospital, he added. A massive hunt has been launched in the area to nab the militants responsible for these killings. JAMMU: The security forces shot dead three militants in an encounter in the Gool area of Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir today, police sources said here. The security forces, on specific information about the presence of militants, launched an operation in Mahakund hamlet of Gool at around 10.30 a.m. today, they said, adding the ultras opened fire from their automatic weapons on the advancing troops. The security forces retaliated and in a prolonged encounter, three ultras were killed, the sources said. — UNI, PTI
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Peer Sawalia’s tomb in neglect
Jammu, June 2 A 65-year-old Munshi Ram, who was also in the devotees, said that enforcement of ceasefire on the LoC had “gives us a chance to visit the tomb of the Baba during the past two years.” He said prior to the enmforcement of the ceasefire the entire area rattled due to exchange of heavy fire between Indian and Pakistani troops. One BSF officer said “we expect a team of Pakistani Rangers to visit the shrine tomorrow for carrying sweet rice as a for people across the border..” He said “last year Pakistani Rangers had accepted sweet rice from the shrine for distribution among people across the border on the next day.” Village elders are not certain about the life and mission of the Baba. They said the shrine had been existing since the Mughal rule. Recalling what their ancestors had told them villagers said that more than 120 years ago people had started felling trees in the thick forest belt that had enveloped the tomb. And those who had felled trees became insane. Villagers then visited the shrine and their prayers were answered and those who had gone insane became normal again. Since then people started having faith in the Baba’s powers. People said prior to the 1971 India-Pakistan conflict people on both sides of the border used to visit the shrine together. After the war the shrine became out of bounds for the people living across the border. Munshi Ram said that the “holy place is in a state of neglect. The government has not been able to develop environs of the shrine so that more pilgrims could visit it.
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