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Pak must rein in militants: Mufti
Man killed by Army; probe ordered
Girl killed for spurning advances of militant
Leopard mauls boy
419 leave for Jeddah
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Pak must rein in militants: Mufti
Srinagar, December 17 “President Pervez Musharraf has taken various initiatives to carry forward the peace process. I strongly hope the Pakistan government will try to rein in militants to give peace a chance,” Sayeed told reporters here today. He said Pakistan needed to advise militants operating in the state to shelve the gun and allow the peace process to proceed without any hindrance. The political and dialogue process has taken precedence over the gun and militants should fall in line and give peace a chance,” he said. The PDP leader said focused attention on the state from both India and Pakistan at both the governmental level as well as that on the level of a people-to-people contact had contributed to developing a new era of friendship. He credited the change in perceptions between the neighbouring countries to the major role played by the people of Jammu and Kashmir. About the four-point formula put forth by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for resolving the Kashmir issue, Sayeed said: “I do not agree with those who have rejected the formula. I welcome the formula. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has shown willingness to discuss the formula. Parameters have already been drawn...Without changing borders a resolution has to be found out,” he said. Terming the present friendly atmosphere between the two countries as an opportunity of a century, he said for the Congress it was a golden opportunity to resolve the Kashmir issue in a manner that would be acceptable to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan. He said the BJP-led NDA government, after the attack on Parliament and the Kargil war, had initiated the dialogue process with Pakistan and the Congress had to carry it forward. About the National Conference boycott of the Roundtable Conference and the Working Group set up by the government to address the Kashmir issue, Sayeed said the NC had invited separatists to the Roundtable Conference and the Working Group was now spurning the conferences. About his PDP’s self-rule formula, Sayeed said in the formula the verdict of people should not be negated. He said autonomy was part of self-rule and met the regional aspirations of the people. Answering a question on the agitation launched by separatists against land lease at the Gulmarg hill resort he said a plan had already put on hold by the government and said the land at the hill resort would be given to state subjects only to build tourism related infrastructure. PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, while highlighting the broader contours of the self-rule formula, said it accommodated aspirations of all the regions of the state and was aimed at empowerment of the people.
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Man killed by Army; probe ordered
Srinagar, December 17 The Army regretted the killing and said a Court of Inquiry had been set up to probe the incident. Sonaullah Magray, a village chief, was killed when he walked into an ambush laid by the troops of the Rashtriya Rifles to trap militants in Tarigam-Dooru village thid morning, official sources said. A Defence spokesman said at around 6:30 pm, an ambush party challenged a man when they saw him approaching them. When he did not stop, the security forces fired a warning shot, he said. Instead of heeding to the warning, the man bent down and the troops thought that he was pulling out a weapon from his clothes, the spokesman said. The troops fired two shots at him. The spokesman said the Army regretted the killing which was a case of mistaken identity, adding that a Court of Inquiry had been constituted to probe the killing. The killing sparked instant protests with villagers holding massive demonstrations, demanding severe punishment for the erring security personnel.
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Girl killed for spurning advances of militant
Jammu, December 17 A group of militants belonging to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen’s Pir Panjal regiment, led by Mohammed Anwar, entered Parveen Bi’s house forcibly at Mada Dhiraj village in the district last night and Anwar asked her to come with him. When Parveen, a class X student, refused to oblige, he shot at her and beat up her brother and father, official sources said. As the family resisted and fought back, a clash erupted during which a militant sympathiser Liyaqat Ali was also shot dead. The police and securtiy forces later recovered two bodies and registered a case. They also handed over the bodies after a post-mortem examination to their families, the sources said.
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Leopard mauls boy
Srinagar, December 17 The sources said the leopard took away Irfan Ahmed Khan who was playing in an open field. The villagers and the police started search for the boy in the forest area early this morning. The police and villagers later found the mauled body of the boy.
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419 leave for Jeddah
Srinagar, December 17 The pilgrims were seen off at Srinagar airport by senior officials of the state administration and the Haj Committee. With this, a total of 8, 295 people from Jammu and Kashmir have proceeded on the Haj pilgrimage so far. About 10,674 pilgrims from the state would be able to perform the Haj this year as compared to 9,200 in 2005.
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