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Traffic suspended on Srinagar highway
Beig talks coalition etiquette, Mufti harps on self-rule
Kashmiri poet Manzoor Ahmed dead
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Traffic suspended on Srinagar highway
Srinagar, December 21 The traffic on the vital highway was closed this morning as a precautionary measure following rolling down of stones at Panthal, about 150 km from here, official sources said. They said the authorities were monitoring the situation on regular basis and once the stones stop falling, traffic on the arterial road would be thrown open as there was no other problem. It started snowing across the Kashmir Valley, including Srinagar, early this morning after several hours of rain but the spell lasted a brief period. However, it started snowing again in the upper reaches, including Gulmarg, where nearly three feet of snowfall already existed on the slopes following snowfall last month, the sources said. They said resorts of Yusmarg, Sonamarg, Khilanmarg, Pahalgam, Duksum, Kokernag and Verinag along with the cave shrine of Amarnath also received fresh snowfall. Reports of a heavy snowfall was received from the high altitude areas, particularly those near the Line of Control in Kupwara and Baramula districts,
since early today, the sources said. In Srinagar, the minimum temperature rose to 0.7°C today after remaining below the freezing point for the past several days.
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Beig talks coalition etiquette, Mufti harps on self-rule
Jammu, December 21 Mr Beig, in presence of Mufit Sayeed, said irrespective of differences, the coalition government would last its full term of six years. There could be a difference of opinion in a democratic set up, but it did not mean that the coalition would break. He hoped that the Congress leadership in the state would realise that the PDP was not anywhere in conflict with it. While the PDP was fighting the BJP in the Jammu region, it was facing the National Conference in the Kashmir valley. He said the coalition government should work unitedly to bring the people out of the turmoil here. Interestingly, the Mufti, in his speech, did not touch upon the issue of confrontation between his PDP and the Congress. He urged the central Congress leadership to put another feather in its cap by solving the turmoil in Kashmir as it had earlier done in the other conflict-struck areas of he country. The Mufti said Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi had taken bold initiatives to settle the conflicts in Nagaland and Mizoram. The Congress-led UPA government should not lose the golden opportunity to solve the turmoil in Kashmir as Pakistan had now offered to shun its earlier rigid stand on the issue. He described the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's, response to Pervez Musharraf's four-point peace formula for Kashmir as "historic". He advised Musharraf to exercise his influence by asking the militants to shun violence in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India. The Mufti said the ‘self-rule proposal’ of the PDP was the best roadmap for restoring normalcy in the valley. The proposal was appreciated when he recently went to the United Nations General Assembly and also met several leaders from Pakistan and the PoK. He suggested that more trade routes between India and Pakistan should be opened up so that the areas around these places could flourish economically. The Suchetgarh-Sialkot road in Jammu should also be reopened, he demanded. All ministers, belonging to the PDP in the coalition government, were present in the public meeting.
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Kashmiri poet Manzoor Ahmed dead
Srinagar, December 21 Ahmed (70) is survived by wife and a son. He was suffering from acute kidney problem since long. Ahmed's body will be brought here from New Delhi tomorrow for burial at his ancestral graveyard at Gojwara. Born on January 17, 1937 at Srinagar, he had written more than 15 books. Some of his famous books in Urdu are Na Tamaam, Barf Ruton Ki Aag and Lahu Lamas Chinar. Ahmed also served headed the Education Department and worked as the District Development Commissioner and the Custodian General besides the Jammu and Kashmir Resident Commissioner in New Delhi. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and his wife Shameema Azad have expressed deep sorrow over the demise of the writer.
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