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PDP meeting put off
Geelani’s surgery today
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1 killed, two Jaish militants arrested
Chiru no more being hunted,
J-K Govt tells SC
Six killed in J-K mishaps
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PDP meeting put off
Jammu, March 25 The PAC meeting was to be held on March 25 for deciding whether the PDP would continue to support the Congress-led UPA government or lend support from outside or snap ties with it.The meeting was postponed because of preoccupation of Mufti Sayeed and other senior party leaders in confabulations in Delhi. PDP sources said today "the purpose of the meeting stands altered and Mufti Mohd.Sayeed will now simply brief the committee members on what transpired between him and the Prime Minister as far as his demand for reduction in troops, repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and vacation of troops from orchards and houses of civilians are concerned." The sources said Muzaffar Hussain Baig,a former deputy chief minister and now a senior PDP leader, had played a key role in hammering out a settlement of the crisis which had emerged out of the hard postures adopted by the Mufti on the reduction of troops. Even the PDP circles have started labelling Baig as a "trouble shooter" after he had a series of talks with national security adviser M.K.Narayanan and other senior Congress leaders. Ghulam Hassan Mir MLA and a former minister, who too spent three days in Delhi assisting the Mufti in his dialogue with the Central Government functionaries, told this corespondent today, "we have ironed out differences."Asked to explain the contour of the settlement formula he said:"I cannot divulge that at the moment. I can simply say that there is now no threat to the survival of the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir." PDP general secretary Nizam-ud-Din Bhat aired views similar to Mir and said, "the coalition government will survive. It was a case not of any fundamental differences but of perception." Answering a question Bhat said, "the Congress and the PDP leaderships have demonstrated their interest in the welfare of the state and its people.The two sides shares views on peace and progress which facilitated unanimity on the issues raised by Mufti Sayeed." He said, "we have agreed to the decision of the Centre on constituting a high-level committee to carry out a time-bound review of the security scenario with reference to the demand for the reduction of troops from those areas where the level of militancy-related violence had declined." He said the Mufti may extend his stay in Delhi for another couple of days to enable him to keep the "tempo of the sustained talks in tact." The dialogue process would continue, he added
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Geelani’s surgery today
Srinagar, March 25 Breakaway Hurriyat Conference spokesman Ayaz Akbar said here that a team of medicos, led by Dr Hemant B Tondgaonkar, had finalised all arrangements for the operation. “If there are no further complications, the doctors will operate upon Geelani tomorrow,’’ he added. Akbar said Tondgaonkar and his team had thorough discussions on the entire procedure and also took into account any complication which might develop. — UNI |
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Villages face flashfloods
Sampurnpur Kulia (Jammu), March 25 And when the poor villagers had succeeded in bringing a stretch of nearly 10 acres under afforestation along the river banks in 1991, the fury of the water rose time and again to gradually erode and reduce this man-made vegetation, known as "apna van" to almost half between Sure Chak and Sampurnpur Kulia villages. Thus, the villagers along the river are still a worried lot with uncertainty of flash floods looming large during rain. Sampurnpur Kulia, Ganesha Chak, Sure Chak, Daulat Chuk, Dundpur are among such villages which become victims of flash floods or breach of embankments at one or the other place every year with waist deep waters entering villages and eroding agricultural fields in both rabi and kharif seasons. Tawi river bifurcates into two different directions near the main Jammu Tawi bridge to meet again at the Makwal border check post nearly 12 km from here. And these villages have been facing erosion of fields on the banks of the eastern tributary, known as "nikki" (smaller) Tawi, as it earlier carried only 20 per cent of the main Tawi river three decades ago. But now this "nikki" Tawi actually shares more than 60 per cent of the main Tawi river after its bifurcation near the Tawi bridge in Jammu city, the fact realised by the authorities concerned, including the irrigation department and the floods control wing of the state government. This "nikki" Tawi had touched the feet of Sure Chak village during the un-seasonal rain a fortnight ago, scaring the villagers who shifted to safer places in adjacent villages. "Where we stand now is eastern side of the Tawi island inhabiting 45 villages, out of which nearly 12 villages are along this bank, facing floods and land erosion," explained Nagar Chand Malhotra, locally known as Master Nagar, an activist of the Tawi Welfare Society, formed by the villagers in 1991. Acknowledging the support of the forest department in the creation of "apna van" (your own forest), raised by the people's participation, Nagar Master, however, laments that this vegetation has also been reduced to half as its fails to stand the rise of river water in the last few years. He counted the Ranbir Canal and plundering of the river bed for sand quarrying near the main Tawi bridge in Jammu as the added factors responsible for the uneven flow of Tawi water towards the eastern tributary, known as "nikki" Tawi. According to the Tawi Welfare Society general secretary R C Gupta, "the "nikki" Tawi, which has now become the bigger tributary after the river's bifurcation at the Tawi Bridge, is threatening the erosion of these fields and villages in years to come," Gupta. |
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1 killed, two Jaish militants arrested
Srinagar, March 25 He said the police recovered the strangulated body of 24-year-old Khurshid Ahmed Gancho from an open field at Nowpora in Awantipora last evening. Gancho, a resident of Trenz in the Shopian area, was kidnapped by militants from Bugund Tral in Pulwama district yesterday morning. The spokesman said the police today arrested two Jaish militants in the Sopore area of Baramulla district. The two overground Jaish militants, identified as Bilal Ahmed Bhat and Bashir Ahmed Mir, were apprehended from Sopore town following a specific tip-off. The two had been working as overground associates of a Pakistani militant commander, Sami-ul-Haq, based in Lolab Kupwara. He said criminal cases under the law had been registered against the two. Jammu: Panic gripped Jammu airport on Saturday evening when an Indian Airlines passenger, on way to Leh, was arrested with 50 live cartridges. Official sources said the security personnel deployed at the airport arrested the passenger, Sham Lal a resident of Udhampur, when he was about to board the Jammu-Leh flight. “During examination, some suspected articles were detecied in his luggage. The police recovered 50 live cartages of .22-bore gun from his bag,” an official said. — UNI
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Chiru no more being hunted,
J-K Govt tells SC New Delhi, March 25 But the state government was accused by conservationist Ashok Kumar’s lawyer Sanjay Parikh of not implementing the apex court’s 2005 direction for certifying each and every old shahtoosh shawl owned by people for their bana fide use. He also alleged that even after the ban on shahtoosh trade by the state government in view of the 2002 legislation putting chiru in the schedule-I of the endangered specie, its wool was being seized in the state. “It showed that the trade is continuing in the state while no certification of the shawls even for bana fide use is being done by the wildLife department,” Parik said. But Jammu and Kashmir’s advocate-general Altaf Naik said it was impossible to have door-to-door survey for certification but those who were coming forward, were being given the certificates. Naik admitted that the wool could have been brought to the state from Tibet via some smuggling routes in Nepal but after the ban no manufacturing and trade was being allowed in the state. And the hunting of chiru was not permitted, he claimed.
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Devender Rana
honoured Jammu,
March 25 Rana, owner of Take One Channel, was recently elected to the Upper House of the Jammu and Kashmir legislature. President Manu Srivats, secretary Suhail Kazmi felicitated Rana on behalf of members of the club and presented him a shawl. Mr Rana thanked members of the press club and veteran journalists for organising felicitation ceremony in his honour.
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Srinagar, March 25 Yawar Ahmad Dar (10) and Sajjad Ahmad Ganai (11) were crushed to death when a tractor they were travelling in overturned at Matipora village in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district today, a spokesman said. Six-year-old Tabish Lateef was killed when a Tata Sumo vehicle hit him at Jamalatta in downtown Srinagar yesterday. In the third accident, an unidentified woman was killed when she was hit by a vehicle at Barsoo-Awantipora, 32 km from here on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, in Pulwama district. Two trucks of the Public Works Department collided with each other at the same place resulting in the death of one of the drivers Muzaffer Ahmad Khan. In a freak incident, Rashida Begum, a resident of Kardpora village in Kupwara district, was critically injured when a horse kicked her with its hoofs. Begum was rushed to hospital where she succumbed to her injuries, the spokesman said. — PTI
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