JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2002
Finance, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Muzaffar
Hussain Beig replying to the discussion on Accountability
Commission Bill in Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.
JAMMU,
Nov 26:Finance,
Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Muzaffar Hussain
Beig said today that some bureaucrats in the previous
National Conference Government including a former Chief
Secretary had scuttled the process of bringing in a Lok
Pal Bill though the then Chief Minister and Law Minister
wanted to introduce the legislation..........more
NEW
DELHI, Nov 26:Controversy over the release of detenues in Jammu and
Kashmir intensified today with Congress sticking to its
stand that they were released after getting clearance
from central agencies and accused Deputy Prime Minister L
K Advani of "misleading the country with a
mischievous intent" keeping an eye on Gujarat
elections........more
JAMMU, Nov 26:Come
Thursday, Chief Minister, Mufti Sayeed,
will be in the Union capital on an
important J&K-specific mission. It
will be his first visit to Delhi after
taking over as head of the coalition
Government in the State.........more
JAMMU, Nov 26:Former
Finance Minister and senior
National Conference leader Abdul
Rahim Rather today took on PDP
leader Mehbooba Mufti, who came
to the Legislative Assembly for
the first time, and wanted to
know what happened to the
PDP’s election manifesto of
repealing the draconian laws and
disbanding of the Special
Operations Group
(SOG)............more
NEW DELHI, Nov 26:The
Congress headed by Ms Sonia Gandhi on
Tuesday steered clear of the
People’s Democratic Party (PDP)
vice-president, Ms Mehbooba Mufti’s
reported remarks that India and Pakistan
should not interfere in Jammu and Kashmir
affairs..........more
JAMMU, Nov 26:Reacting
strongly to the statement of Deputy Prime
Minister, L K Adavni, that the Centre was
never consulted in the matter of
releasing militants by the J&K
Government, senior Congress leader and
PCC chief, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has charged
him with misleading the nation by his
"incorrect" statement in
Parliament.......more
The
determination of Pakistan-backed suicide
squads to reap where they have not sown
confirms the general feeling that
terrorism will continue to exist for an
indefinite period of time. It is, of
course, a different matter that the
people of Jammu and Kashmir have
learnt—indeed, they have been
compelled to learn—to live under the
lengthened shadows of terrorism.........more
SRINAGAR, Nov 26: While as militants
have massacred three members of a family,
including two women, in Waterhail village
of Budgam district, three children today
died in a blast at Gund Kralpora in
Kupwara district. Meanwhile, one soldier
has got killed and four civilians have
sustained injuries in Pakistani
troops’ shelling in border areas of
Baramulla and Kupwara districts in north
Kashmir........more
UDHAMPUR, Nov 26:Three
terrorists including a ‘deputy
commander’ of Hizbul Mujahideen
outfit and an army jawan were killed
while two soldiers were injured in an
encounter in Banihal tehsil of Doda
district today. With this, a total of six
terrorists have been eliminated in
Banihal during last two days..........more
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26:A senior
leader of Pakistan’s Islamist
Alliance Muthahida Majlis Amal and chief
of the Jamat Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad
has met the founder-leader of the banned
militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba Hafiz
Muhammad Saeed in Lahore to evolve a
joint strategy on Kashmir issue........more
