Blast at PCC hqrs
*4 SSB, BSF officers among 10
injured
Excelsior
Special Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 23: With
just two days left to polling in
Srinagar-Budgam Lok Sabha
constituency, suspected militants
launched an unsuccessful attack
on the headquarters of Jammu
& Kashmir Pradesh Congress
Committee (JKPCC) on Maulana Azad
Road today. Ten persons,
including four officers of
security forces and two
photojournalists, sustained
injuries. Ten persons, including
the PSO of a Station House
Officer (SHO) got injured when
suspected militants lobbed
another grenade at Ram Bagh in
uptown here today...........more
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Mufti urges people to
vote for change
Excelsior
Special Correspondent
KANGAN, Apr 23: Marching into what
was once considered the bastion of
opposition National Conference, Chief
Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed this
afternoon addressed an election rally
here and asked people to throw out the
present members of Parliament who, he
said, had let their electorate
down.............more
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Are security forces
as well militants disillusioned with
coalition Govt?
Reining
in STF pays dividends to Mufti,
Rawalpindi Road
doesn’t
From Ahmed Ali
Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Apr 23: Ordinary
Kashmiris were disillusioned with Farooq
Abdullah’s government on account of
a host of mundane reasons in 2002. They
gave it what everybody in the Valley
termed as ‘much needed
jhatka’. But, there is no
disputing the fact that irony and paradox
reached a peculiar point of confluence:
Institutions from bureaucracy to media,
from Bar to intelligentsia and also from
security forces to militants were united
in the wish to see change of guard. While
the militants and pro-Pakistan
Jamaat-e-Islami lent their support of
silence to the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), sections of armed forces
celebrated the National Conference’s
debacle. Farooq’s recent revelation
that Army worked to ensure the defeat of
his Ministers, if true, must be
meaningful........more
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Rao figures in
Sonia’s address
HYDERABAD, Apr 23: Former Prime
Minister P V Narasimha Rao, who is
keeping himself away from active
politics, found a pride of place at an
election rally addressed by Congress
president Sonia Gandhi in Coastal Andhra
town of Nellore today...........more
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