Militant’s wife fights her temptation to vote

Militant’s wife fights her temptation to vote
November 23rd, 2008 – 9:07 pm ICT by IANS -
Jammu, Nov 23 (IANS) Parveen Akhtar, 22, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri has gone to live with her uncle in an adjoining district to escape persuasion by her relatives and temptation to come out to vote Sunday.Howsoever she wished, Parveen [...]

Indo-Pak secy level talks in Islamabad

Indo-Pak secy level talks in Islamabad
Bhavna Vij-Aurora
New Delhi, November 24, 2008
Armed with a detailed report on investigations into Samjhauta Express blast last year in which 68 people – mostly Pakistani nationals – were killed, Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta has left for Islamabad on Monday.
He will be holding talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Federal Secretary [...]

India, Pakistan to review dialogue Wednesday

India, Pakistan to review dialogue Wednesday
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Days after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari surprised many by his advocacy of no first use of nuclear weapons, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi comes here Wednesday on a four-day visit that seeks to invigorate the peace process between the two countries. This is Qureshi’s [...]

Sopur tense; Police, CRPF use force to quell protesters

Sopur tense; Police, CRPF use force to quell protesters
UNITED NEWS OF INDIA
Updated at 1430 hours IST
Srinagar, Nov 24: Police and paramilitary CRPF troopers used force to quell the protesters in north Kashmir’s Sopur town on Monday.
Reports said the trouble started when hundreds of people took to the streets, protesting against the killing of two youths [...]

Kangan attack: Policeman succumbs

Kangan attack: Policeman succumbs
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Nov 24: A policeman, Ghulam Hyder, who was injured in a grenade attack at Kangan last week , succumbed at SK Institute of Medical Sciences here this morning.
Hyder was among the four people who were injured in a grenade attack at Kangan Bazar on November 21, the last day [...]

Heavy voter turnout sharpens urban-rural divide in Kashmir

Heavy voter turnout sharpens urban-rural divide in Kashmir
Ganderbal (J-K) (PTI): The heavy turnout in the first two phases of elections in Jammu and Kashmir has sharpened the urban-rural divide in the Kashmir Valley with both sides blaming each other for the “political mess” in the state.
In the urban areas, people have boycotted the polls [...]

IHK Bar condemns killing of youth by troops in Baramulla

IHK Bar condemns killing of youth by troops in Baramulla
Srinagar, November 24 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Bar Association has strongly condemned the killing of two youth by Indian troops’ unprovoked firing in Baramulla town.
The Bar Secretary General, Ghulam Nabi Shaheen in a statement issued in Srinagar termed the killing as an act of sheer [...]

Round Table to focus on Encounter Deaths

. Round Table to focus on Encounter Deaths
New Delhi, November 24:
General Invitation to attend a Round Table On the ‘Alternative Guidelines towards Encounter Deaths’ & Strategies of Resistance
The panel of initiators for the discussion are:
Prashant Bhushan �(Human Rights Lawyer) � Defence Counsel for
the PUL petition in Supreme Court regarding alternative guidelines on
encounter deaths; Sufian Siddiqui [...]

J&K set for elections amid tight security

J&K set for elections amid tight security
Srinagar/Jammu (IANS): Jammu and Kashmir goes to the polls Monday to elect a new assembly amid boycott calls by separatists, with the 10 constituencies in the first of seven-phase elections spread over the Kashmir Valley, the Hindu-majority Jammu region and the mainly Buddhist Ladakh.
With a world keenly watching the [...]

Bandipore turned into ‘garrison’

Bandipore turned into ‘garrison’ARIF SHAFI WANI
Updated at 1625 hours IST
Bandipore, Nov 16: Hundreds of paramilitary CRPF troopers, policemen and army soldiers, have been deployed in this north Kashmir town to hold polling ‘smoothly’ on Monday.
On Sunday troopers were noting down the numbers of the vehicles and were checking the identity of all the visitors entering [...]