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Top Hizbul militant killed in encounter
‘Kulhand massacre survivor died due to docs’ negligence’
Early Kashmir apples arrive in Jammu
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Mufti for restoration of trade across LoC
Job training for 20,000 Pahari youth
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Top Hizbul militant killed in encounter
Udhampur, August 1 According to the
SSP, on a specific input about the presence of militants, the police and troops of 10 Rashtriya Rifles launched a joint operation at Nagna nullah in mountainous Doda district this morning. As troops were zeroing in on the hideout of militants, they were fired upon by them with automatic
weapons. This was retaliated by troops. In the one-hour gunbattle, Abid Hussain Basra, the self-styled divisional commander of the HM, was eliminated by the security forces. Abid, who hails from the Rehimyarkhan area in the Punjab province of Pakistan, had been commander of the HM outfit for the past 10 years and was coordinating and supervising militant activities, including financial support, in hilly districts of Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban. He was the longest surviving militant in Jammu and Kashmir where he had entered from Pakistan in May, 1997, from Rajouri sector of the Line of Control (LoC) as a militant of the Lashkar-e-Tioba (LeT). He later joined the HM following differences with some commanders of LeT. Some arms and ammunitions were also recovered from the possession of slain militant. Recoveries included one AK rifle with its three magazines and 37 rounds, one grenade, one binocular, two identity cards and one pouch. SRINAGAR: A Jaish-e-Mohammad militant from Pakistan was killed in an encounter by a joint team of the Army and the Baramula police, the police said on Wednesday. Baramula SSP Viplav Kumar said they recovered an AK-47 rifle and ammunitions from slain militant Mohammad Talah Rehan, of Islamabad in Pakistan. The Handwara police also eliminated an unidentified militant on Tuesday morning. The SSP said they got a tip-off that militants were hiding in a particular house on the outskirts of Zaloora village and launched an operation with 22 Battalion of Rashtriya Rifles. When troops were moving toward the target house, an encounter ensued between the militant and them and a militant was killed. The Handwara police eliminated the militant in a joint operation with 30 RR in the Monabal area. SP Haseeb Mughal said they were still ascertaining the identity of the slain militant who appeared to be a foreigner. |
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‘Kulhand massacre survivor died due to docs’ negligence’
Udhampur, August 1 As the body of Bal Krishan reached Kulhand near Doda this morning residents expressed anguish over the negligence of doctors and lamented the deceased survived bullets of militants, but was killed by the doctors. Family members rued that Bal Krishan was battling his injuries for the past one year and recovering, but due to the negligence of doctors he lost his life.The body of Bal Krishan was cremated at Kulhand in the presence of a large number of people. He was among the inhabitants of Kulhand who were herded by militants on May 1, 2006, and later fired at by militants.His five cousins had lost their lives in the firing, and Bal Krishan had become handicapped due to the bullet injury in his right leg during the incident and was undergoing treatment for the past one year. Authorities had not provided any financial help to the victim despite being his getting treatment in a hospital at Jammu. On Tuesday afternoon Bal Krishan died and the administration of the hospital asked the family members to take the body to Kulhand without a post-mortem examination. Family members alleged that Bal Krishan died because of the negligence of doctors who administered him a wrong injection.
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Early Kashmir apples arrive in Jammu
Jammu, August 1 With nearly 1,500 tonnes of apples arriving in the past six-seven days,an open auction of Hazratbali, Condition, Phokla and Razaqwari varieties of the fruit will continue till August- end, as the main Delicious variety apple will begin to arrive here on September 1, said Darshan Kumar Suri, president, Apple Traders Association, here. The fruit's early varieties, which have no shelf life, were already being sent to markets across Punjab, Haryana and Delhi, said another dealer Subhash Malhotra. But consumers in far-away states like Bihar and Bengal and down in the South will have to wait for the Kashmiri apple till October, when its Delicious and American varieties will arrive from the valley, with shelf-life of almost six months, Malhotra said. The harvest and arrival season of the apple produce from Kashmir continues for five months, from August onwards to mid-January, while the same fruit's arrival from Himachal is short-lived, that is, from July 15 to September 30. The Kashmir apple arrivals here at present were about 35 per cent less compared to the corresponding period of last year, according to the Jammu Apple Traders Association. And the wholesale prices at present fluctuated between Rs 150 and Rs 200 per box of 15 kg here, Suri said. The 35 per cent less arrival was mainly because the C-grade crop, with damages due to hailstorms, has been blocked for the food processing units in the valley itself this time, Jammu and Kashmir horticulture director Nazir Ahmed Wani said on phone from Srinagar. "Earlier, the suppliers used to mix the C-grade variety with good quality produce in the boxes, but this season onwards there has been a complete blockade of the damaged portion at most of the collection centres for the supply to outside states," Wani said. With total damage of the crop at an average being unofficially estimated at 30 per cent this season, Wani confirmed that hailstorms had damaged the crop in some areas of the Anantnag belt. |
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Mufti for restoration of trade across LoC
Srinagar, August 1 Addressing a function of the PDP at Baramula yesterday, the Mufti said the key to the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) lay in cross-LoC trade. "SAFTA will become a reality, the day trucks start rolling on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road", he said. The PDP patron held the "tardy follow-up" of the announcement by the governments of India and Pakistan in May last year to start trade through the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road brewed cynicism and disinterest among the people of the state. He said people on both sides of the LoC should be allowed to interact freely at social, cultural and business levels to weaken the forces of ignorance and obscurantism that fuel alienation. Welcoming the decision by Islamabad and New Delhi to allow movement of trucks through Wagah, the Mufti said the Srinagar-Muzaffarbad, Suchetgarh-Sialkote and
Kargil-Skardu roads should have ideally taken precedence over other routes for such activities. Stressing on ending Kashmir’s "economic isolation", the Mufti said free flow of ideas, goods, services and the people across the LoC, as enumerated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, would make Jammu and Kashmir a hub of economic activity.
This, he said, would provide India and Pakistan easier access to huge markets and energy sources in the Central Asian region. |
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Job training for 20,000 Pahari youth
Srinagar, August 1 Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad stated this at the 10th annual meeting of the State Advisory Board for Development of Pahari-speaking people here yesterday. He said a committee of senior officers would formulate a scheme for training Pahari youths for employability in the job market. He said besides utilising available infrastructure in all 47 industrial training institutes of the state, additional facilities could be created.
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Jammu, August 1 Sepoy Sanjay Kumar Verma of 118 Field regiment based in Srinagar was found hanging with a rope in the Army compartment of the train last night, they said. The police recovered the body and handed it over to the Army. — PTI
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Viveik Oberoi visits Vaishnodevi
Jammu, August 1
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The first apple harvest from Kashmir, mainly from the orchards of Sopore and Baramula, has started arriving in Narwal mandi here, the
coun- try's nodal point for the supply of this fruit from the valley.
