JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2002
British
Prime Minister Tony Blair shakes hands with his Indian
counterpart
Atal Behari Vajpayee at Blair’s country residence
Chequers in London on Saturday.
LONDON, Oct 12: British Premier Tony Blair today
said Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s
"personal commitment" was critical in ensuring
that elections in Jammu and Kashmir were free and fair as
the two leaders discussed key issues including Indo-Pak
relations and ........more
NEW DELHI, Oct 12: Efforts to sew a coalition between
PDP and Congress in Jammu and Kashmir made headway
tonight with Mufti Mohammed Sayeed meeting Sonia Gandhi
to discuss Government formation even as Governor G C
Saxena called PCC president Ghulam Nabi Azad for
exploratory discussions by October 15. ......more
NEW DELHI, Oct
12:Jammu and Kashmir
Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ghulam
Nabi Azad said that the Congress
Legislature Party (CLP) meeting will be
held in Srinagar on Monday to elect the
leader. . ...more
SRINAGAR,
Oct 12:National
Conference will strengthen itself
at the grass root level and
ensure that it is revitalized,
said Mr Omar Abdullah, party
president, adding the Party will
with renewed vigour, work for the
welfare of the people of the
State and continue to fight for
their rights... .......more
JAMMU, Oct 12:The 36
member Working Committee, the highest
decision making body of National
Conference (NC) will meet at Srinagar
tomorrow to review the present political
scenario in the State besides the reasons
for the Party’s debacle in the just
concluded State Assembly elections.....more
JAMMU, Oct 12: A major
anti-incumbency factor was noticed in
just concluded Assembly elections in
Jammu province where 22 sitting MLAs out
of a total of 37 were unseated by the
electorate. Only seven MLAs including
four from the National Conference, two
from Congress and one belonging to
Panthers Party could retain their seats..
. .....more
NEW
DELHI, Oct 12:Urging the
Prime Minister to hold a dialogue with
militants and separatists in Jammu and
Kashmir, chairman of the Kashmir
Committee Ram Jethmalani today suggested
that the new Government in the State
declare a general amnesty for all those
who publicly lay down arms and favoured
removal of restrictions on travel to and
from Pakistan and PoK. . .....more
JAMMU, Oct 12: A Border Security
Force (BSF) jawan and an army soldiers
were killed while the terrorists
triggered an IED blast in Surankote
disrupting vehicular movement on
Rajouri-Poonch road in separate incidents
today.......more
JAMMU, Oct 12:
The
outgoing Chief Minister, Dr Farooq
Abdullah, on Saturday offered a bit of
fun in Jammu, the State’s winter
capital. On his arrival in the city from
Srinagar, the ebullient Chief Minister
took shopkeepers and pedestrians in the
famous Raghunath Bazar by surprise when
he suddenly descended on the crowded
market....more
SRINAGAR, Oct 12:Even as a
defeated candidate of the pro-India Awami
League has survived an attempt on his
life in Kangan, security forces have
eliminated five militants in Kashmir
valley since last evening.. .......more
