Hurriyat leaders not to
meet PM: Mirwaiz
*Shah demands Kashmiris' inclusion in
talks
Excelsior
Special Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 16: Hurriyat
Conference chairman Mirwaiz Omar Farooq
has said that amalgam leaders will not
meet Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh
during his two-day visit to the State,
whileas Jammu and Kashmir Democratic
Freedom Party (DFP) chairman Shabir Ahmad
Shah has urged Prime Minister to involve
Kashmiris in finding any solution to
Kashmir issue................more
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PM working
on Rs 7140 cr plan for rebuilding
J&K's economic framework
Mufti Govt seeks
grand economic package
From Ahmed Ali
Fayyaz & Aijaz Hussain
SRINAGAR, Nov 16: Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, who is
unlikely to announce anything
like an internal ceasefire with
Kashmiri militants or formal
invitation to the separatist
leadership during his two-day
visit to Jammu and Kashmir, is
well expected to unfold a grand
economic package for the
strife-torn border State. Keeping
both of the former Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee’s
economic packages intact, Dr
Singh is likely to announce a
substantial infrastrutural
development programme, involving
over Rs 5,000 cr, at a public
rally here on
Wednesday...........more
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Army confident of
stopping infiltration level on own: Vij
BANGALORE, Nov 16: Asserting
that the country had taken into
consideration the army’s confidence
in checking "infiltration of any
level" in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief
of the Army Staff, General N C Vij today
said reduction of troops deployed in the
State would commence
shortly......................more
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11 die in Valley on
eve of PM’s visit
Militants
kill 6 to take away head of an Ikhwani
Excelsior
Special Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 16: Gunmen, widely
believed to be the militants of Hizbul
Mujahideen, have struck terror in the
central Kashmir district of Budgam by
killing two counter-insurgent Ikhwanis,
as also four members of their host
family, at Chak-e-Kawoosa village during
last night. Their prime target seemed to
be an Ikhwani who was allegedly
responsible for killing the
brother-in-law of the dreaded Hizbul
Mujahideen commander, Mohammad Yusuf
Sheikh alias Sajjad, at Sozeth village in
Narbal locality, earlier this
year..............more
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Patil for talks with
groups shunning violence
NEW DELHI, Nov. 16: Home
Minister Shivraj Patil today favoured a
dialogue on a "sustained basis"
with all groups in Jammu and Kashmir
abjuring violence and raising of
additional battalions of security forces
to provide jobs to unemployed youths
there..............more
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