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PDP minister’s son roughs up govt officials
Panthers Party, BJP to seek bigger share
Panjikar to head counter insurgency force
Centre to finance Chamba road
2 arrested for making illicit liquor
60 cattle perish in fire
2 die, 30 hurt in mishap
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2 LeT militants arrested
Srinagar, May 10 They have been identified as Mohammad Yasin (18) from Lahore and Mohammad Akhtar-ul-Islam (21) from Sialkote, Pakistan. They were part of a seven-member group of Pakistani youth who had got one to three months arms training at Aksa near Muzaffarabad in the PoK. They had crossed over to this side of the LoC between April 20 and 21. Talking to media persons at the Kilo Force headquarters here today, the two Pakistani militants said they had been forced to undergo arms training at Aksa, Muzaffarabad. Mohammad Yasin said he was earlier trained forcibly kept in the camp for about one month before crossing over. The visibly shaken Mohammad Akhtar-ul-Islam said he was paid Rs 10,000 before crossing the LoC and was also assured to get more through his family members once he joins the ranks across the border. GOC of the Kilo Force Maj Gen Rajinder Singh said the group of six militants was launched on April 16 and with the help of a guide crossed the LoC between April 20 and 21.One of them was killed in an encounter while others managed to escape, he added. Two others died after they slipped into a nulllah and their bodies were recovered between April 23 and May 4. One of them was killed in the encounter while two others were apprehended and are being handed over to the police, he added.
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‘J-K infiltration on rise’ New Delhi, May 10 “We are aware of the fact that with the melting of ice in summers, there is a surge in infiltration,” he said on the sidelines of defence exhibition Defcom India. PDP, which is a Congress coalition partner in the state government, has been demanding reduction of troops in the state but this statement may well shelve any move from the centre’s side. Comments from the minister also come close to the warnings issued by various intelligence agencies, including Military Intelligence that militant groups based in Pakistan were having plans to infiltrate into the state in a big way. Incidentally, government has formed a committee to examine the issue of relocating troops from the state. The committee is headed by Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt. The minister also said the government had taken serious note of the banned LTTE’s attempts to obtain air power and its capability to carry out air strikes. His comments come close on the heels of government deciding to mobilise additional air force assets in south and step up surveillance, following fears that LTTE could carry out aerial attacks on Indian nuclear facilities. The decision to move more fighter jets and surveillance systems to south was taken at a high-level meeting chaired here by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
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Removal of security pickets
Udhampur, May 10 Leader of Doda Swami Raj said the demilitarisation process was silently started in Doda district as authorities started withdrawing the troops from the isolated and far-flung areas. He gave the example of Mashala village in the Bhagwa area and Bueali belt comprising over 12 hamlets from where security pickets had been withdrawn. Echoing similar views Gian Singh of Dhar-Dashnana village said a picket of security forces was established at their village after the Kulhand massacre, but now they had been removed.“We will meet the DC of Doda before taking any step”,he said. Terming the situation in hilly areas as the worst,Swami Raj said it was an unwise decision of the authorities. “Militants had earlier made several attempts to attack these villages, but failed due to troops deployment”, he said and informed that most of the youths in these villages were working with security forces in anti-militancy operations. “After the winding up of pickets, these youths will become soft targets of militants'', he observed. — TNS
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PDP minister’s son roughs up govt officials
Srinagar, May 10 Ayaz Qazi, son of forest minister and senior PDP leader Qazi Mohammad Afzal, has been charged with physically assaulting government employees on duty, the sources said. They said the case was registered after three senior officers of the department— executive engineer Mansoor Ahmad, assistant executive engineer G.M. Shah and assistant engineer Nissar Ahmad - alleged they were roughed up by four persons led by the minister’s son at Lar village today. The officers claimed that they had gone to the village to look into allegations levelled by locals that the power transformer sanctioned for them was installed in another locality in violation of the government order. The officers were stopped by a group of five persons allegedly led by Ayaz Qazi, thrashed and forced to retreat. The minister, when contacted, said the name of his son was unnecessarly being dragged into the controversy. However, he said if an inquiry holds his son responsible he would not intervene and allow the law to take its own course. Without identifying anyone, the minister accused the executive engineer of working “at the behest of vested interests bent upon defaming him”. “The power department has sanctioned a 250 kv transformer at Lar village and in this connection the officials concerned had sought my suggestion for identification of the place for its instalment”, he said adding that he asked the officials to set up the transformer at the central stage so that all three localities could equally benefit. However, the minister said instead of installing the 200 kv transformer, the executive engineer installed a 100 kv transformer each at two localities, leaving another locality without power. The move irritated residents of the locality who staged a protest when the engineers visited the village, he added. — PTI
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Panthers Party, BJP to seek bigger share
Jammu, May 10 Leader of the Panthers Legislature Party Harsh Dev Singh said here today that “my party has decided to argue in favour of earmarking 52 assembly seats for the Jammu region, and an equal number of seats for the Kashmir valley once the parties agreed to increase the number of seats by 25 per cent.” He said for the Ladakh region “I would support the demand of raising the seats from four to six.” In reply to a question he said under Section 47 and 48 of the state’s Constitution there were 111 assembly seats out of which 24 had to be kept vacant till Pakistan Occupied Kashmir was liberated.” |
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Panjikar to head counter insurgency force
Jammu, May 10 Maj Gen Panjikar is an alumnus of the IMA Dehra Dun. A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, the General has held many important staff and command appointments during his service. He has the distinction of commanding one of the most decorated Mechanised Infantry Battalions - 4 Mech Inf and an Armoured Brigade in the deserts of Rajsthan. Besides, he has held the coveted post of the Military Attaché with the Indian High Commission in Germany.
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Centre to finance Chamba road
Udhampur, May 10 With an eye on wooing foreign as well as local tourists of Himachal Pradesh, the state government has put this road on top priority and convinced the Central government to finance the project. Minister of roads and buildings Gulchain Singh Charak said the Central ministry of surface transport and highways has agreed to provide financial assistance to complete the construction of this road under the Inter-State Connectivity Road Project.
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2 arrested for making illicit liquor
Jammu, May 10 In a raid on an illegal liquor manufacturing unit,the police arrested Anju and Rinee, manufacturing the liquor. The unit was destroyed and over two tonnes of material and 500 litres of country made liquor recovered from them. A case was registered against them.
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60 cattle perish in fire
Jammu, May 10 The fire started in a cowshed late last night and spread to nearby sheds in Checkdevi village, they said adding, over 60 heads of cattle perished in However, no damage to other property was reported as the fire was brought under control by this
morning. — PTI |
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2 die, 30 hurt in mishap
Jammu, May 10 Twenty two of the 30 injured were brought to GMC hospital here, while eight others were discharged after the first aid at a hospital in Sambha, the local police said.
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