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Suicide attack foiled, 2 ultras shot
170 traders booked for deceiving tourists
APHC not to force Centre
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Suicide attack foiled, 2 ultras shot
Srinagar, June 15 An Army jawan and a CRPF man were killed, while three soldiers and five civilians were injured when militants opened fire on an Army convoy at the main chowk, Sopore in Baramula district today morning. The Army jawan died on spot while the CRPF man succumbed to his injuries on way to the hospital. Five civilians were also injured in the exchange of fire that took place between militants and security forces. Two Pakistani militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit were killed in an encounter with the police and security forces in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of Srinagar early today. The local police said the two militants were a part of a suicide squad, which was tasked to carry out a sensational attack in the wee hours. According to SP (Operations) Mohammed Irshad, hardcore local militant Abu Faisal arrested here had disclosed that a suicide squad had sneaked into Srinagar to carry out the sensational attack. Acting on the specific information searches were carried out in various areas during which the police came under fire from militants at Gojbugh, Nowgam area at 3 A.M. Both of them, identified as Abu Tufail and Abu Hafiz, were killed in the encounter, while one wanted militant, Obaid, alias Shahid, escaped in the cover of darkness in an injured condition. Two AK rifles, two pouches and five grenades were recovered from the encounter site. Unidentified gunmen shot dead Farooq Ahmad Sheikh at his house in Gadwad Siver Lolab in Kupwara district of North Kashmir. The police recovered a bullet-ridden body of an Al-Badr militant from Harman village in the Shopian area of South Kashmir. He was identified as Mudasir Ahmad Naikoo, alias Vakas from Aloora, Shopian, who had been killed by militants in a group clash, the police said. The Army apprehended two suspected militants and an upper ground worker of the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Kupwara district and recovered two hand grenades, 10 detonators, and 500 grams of explosive from their possession.
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170 traders booked for deceiving tourists
Srinagar, June 15 He said the government had launched a massive drive against the defaulters. The enforcement wing of the tourism department has booked 170 traders and realised a fine of Rs 21,700 from them for violating various norms of the Act, the spokesman added. He said Rs 4,850 had been retrieved from offenders and refunded the amount to the complainants (tourists). A special drive has been launched at the Gulmarg and Dal Lake areas where 138 tourist traders were found violating the Act. The spokesman said Rs 9,100 was realised as fine from the Gulmarg area alone. —
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APHC not to force Centre
for separate dialogue
Jammu, June 15 Senior APHC leader Abdul Gani Bhat said the “the role of relevant political forum is imaginatively vital for ensuring stability,security and peace in the entire South Asian region.” Prof. Bhat said there was need for drawing a line between the “ masters and the surrogates” so that Delhi and Islamabad hold parleys with the relevant political forum. He stated that India and Pakistan “cannot carry the dialogue process in isolation. Both of them have to take us into confidence because we represent the aspirations of people of Kashmir.” The APHC leader explained that in the interest of the survival of the entire South Asian region we would have to address the issues with courage, wisdom and sincerity.”Our political forum, if involved in talks could rid India and Pakistan of sentimentalism bordering insanity as far as the Kashmir issue is concerned,” he added. The Union home secretary had reiterated that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s stand on the issue by saying that the Government of India had invited the separatists for the round table conferences to which they had not responded adding that it was their wish to respond or reject the invitation. In fact,he obliquely ruled out the possibility of having a separate dialogue with separatists. The APHC leadership is of the view that the dialogue process between the surrogates,leaders of mainstream political parties,and the Central Government had been going on for the past more than three decades without yielding any results. As such it had become mandatory for the Government of India to involve the separatists in the dialogue process so that a solution to the vexed Kashmir issue was hammered out. |
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