Jai Mata Di
SATURDAY
23 May
2015
Jammu-India
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The best way to find yourself is
to lose yourself in the service of
- Mahatma Gandhi
others.
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ISIS captures
Iraqi town
Baghdad: Islamic State militants
have seized another town in Iraq’s
western Anbar province less than
a week after capturing the provincial capital, a tribal leader said
Friday, while in neighboring Syria
the group’s fighters killed dozens of
pro-government forces in the ancient
town of Palmyra. Islamic State fighters combed Palmyra, detaining and
killing dozens of people two days after
seizing the town, which is home to
one of the Middle East’s most famous
archaeological sites, activists and officials said. As many as 280 soldiers
and pro-government forces have been
killed in Palmyra since it was captured
Wednesday. Militants abducted
soldiers and pro-government gunmen
from homes, shops and other places
where they had gone to hide.
Pak denies visa to
150 Sikh pilgrims
Islamabad: Pakistan High
Commission has rejected the visa of
150 Sikh pilgrims visiting Pakistan
to commemorate the martyrdom day
of 5th Sikh Guru Arjan Dev. The visa
was rejected after differences over the
date of observing the martyrdom day,
with SGPC officials wanting the visa for
Sikh pilgrims for today (May 22), while
Pakistan said it would grant visa for
June 16 when Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara
Prabandhak Committee observes
the anniversary. “We wanted the visa
for Sikh pilgrims to visit Pakistan on
May 22 when SGPC is observing the
martyrdom day of Guru Arjan Dev,
while Pakistan government said they
are observing the day on June 16 and
could grant visa only for that day.
Rajnath Singh
sits in dark hall
New Delhi: In the second security
scare for Rajnath Singh at a CRPF
building here, the Union Home Minister
had to spend anxious minutes in a dark
hall today as the power of the building,
where he had gone to attend a BSF
function, tripped just before his arrival.
The CRPF building where Singh was
the chief guest at the Border Security
Force investiture ceremony plunged into
darkness minutes before his arrival. An
unnerved Singh sat on the dais of the
pitch dark large room for ten minutes
after which some backup lights came
and lit the room partially.
Pak, LeT flags
waived in Srinagar
Srinagar: In another alarming
situation, a group of protesters in
Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city
waved flags of Pakistan and terror
outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba on Friday. The
protesters clashed with Jammu and
Kashmir Police in the Nowhatta area
of Srinagar. The police then resorted to
bursting of teargas shells to disperse
the mob. The incident happened soon
after the Friday prayers. The protesters
also pelted stones at the police who
were deployed in strength outside the
Jamia mosque. Incidents of Pakistani
flags being raised have happened
in past as well in the Kashmir Valley.
Earlier supporters of separatists leader
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday
waved Pakistani flags and raised antiIndia slogans at a separatist leaders
rally in old Srinagar.
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EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, May 22|15: Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar,
who is on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday visited the Siachen glacier - once
the world’s highest battlefield
- and reviewed overall security
situation.
Srinagar: The Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar, who arrived here on a two visit to the
state, visited the Siachen glacier
- once the world’s highest battlefield - and reviewed overall
security situation. Later, he met
Governor N N Vohra and Chief
Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed.
The Chief Minister held talks
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strategic and defence related
matters. The meeting was also
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BJP committed to revoke Omar targets Mufti govt
Article 370: Rathore
over Parrikar’s remark
AGENCIES, MAY 22|15
New Delhi: BJP is committed
to “revoke” Article 370 from
Jammu and Kashmir and whenever the party has majority in
the state, the special status will
be scrapped, Union Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore today said.
“The stand of the BJP over article 370 has not changed. Whenever we have majority in Jammu and Kashmir, we will revoke
Article 370,” Rathore said. He
was speaking at #Modi365, a
conclave organised by CNN IBN
to mark a year of BJP government in office.
Rathore also tried to justify
Narendra Modi’s foreign visits
saying the earlier Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also un-
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Srinagar, May 22|15: Work-
dertook trips for same number
of days, but it was hardly taken
notice of.
Taking a jibe at the suit-boot
ki Sarkar comment of Congress
vice-president Rahul Gandhi,
the minister said, “it is better to
be suited than to be booted out,”
Lashing out at the
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ing president of the Opposition
National Conference, Omar
Abdullah on Friday hit out at
PDP-BJP coalition government
in the state over the remarks of
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on the strategy of eliminating militants in the state.
“Looks like (Chief Minister)
Mufti (Mohammad) Syed (sic)
is reviving & empowering the
Ikhwanis (counter-insurgents).
That’s the only way to carry
out ‘terrorists killing terrorists’
policy of MOD,” Omar tweeted.
He was referring to the statement made by Parrikar in an
interview with an English daily.
“Our proactive attitude is to
identify terrorists and then effectively neutralise them. Every case is handled firmly with
clear-cut intelligence for targeted kills.
“We ensure minimal collateral
damage. You have to neutralise
terrorist through terrorist only.
Why my soldier has to do it all
the time?” Parrikar had said.
Several groups of counter-insurgents, known as Ikhwanis in
Kashmir, actively helped the security forces to tackle militancy
in the valley during second half
of 1990s and early 2000s.
However, the groups were disbanded and many of the cadres
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militants on the night hours of
Thursday raided three mobile
tower sites in north Kashmir’s
Sopore area of Baramulla district and directed the land owners to wind up the operations
of these towers, a top official
source revealed Friday. The
source said that the “militants”
went to Shuwa village, Dooru
village and Dangerpora village
of volatile Sopore and “made
it clear to the proprietors on
whose land these mobile towers
are erected to shut the operations or they will destroy them
(towers) by blasting”.
The development has come at
a time when tensions between
militants and telecom operators are already running high
in Sopore. Exactly three weeks
ago, a group of masked militants
who were armed with pistols,
raided the outlets of three leading telecom companies which
include Vodafone, Airtel and
Aircel in the Town and allegedly
thrashed some of their employees, security officials had said.
The development came after a
communication device installed
by militants on an Airtel mobile
tower was removed by telecom
operators at Badambagh locality of the Town.
The offices, outlets and other
franchises of the telecom companies are closed since three
weeks in Sopore causing inconvenience to the customers. The
customers said that no recharge
for mobile phones is available
in the Sopore and its adjoining
areas and for doing same they
have to approach their families and friends outside Sopore.
The internet connectivity has
also been hit in the Town, they
Geelani passport row:
Jammu District Tops in
ado about nothing
Domestic Violence Cases in JK Much
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EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu,
May
22|15:
The Jammu district has
reported the highest number of incidents of domestic violence
in the state
since
2009,
topping the
charts with
1,247 cases
as over 4,000
such cases reported from the
Jammu
and
Kashmir. As
many as 4157
people have
been booked in
2009 cases of domestic violence
and protection of women from
domestic violence during last
five years in the state, officials
of the state Home Ministry said.
Among the 22 districts, Jammu,
the winter capital of the state,
comes first with booking of 1247
people in 455 cases of domestic violence against women,
they said. Meanwhile,
as per the figures,
districts of Jammu
region have shown
notoriety in cases of
domestic
violence
than Kashmir region.
In Kashmir valley,
439 people have
been booked in 255
cases in Srinagar
district,
91 people
were booked
in 71 cases in
Baramulla, 72 people booked in
29 cases in Anantnag, 44 people
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UMAR
HARMA
Jammu, May 22 |15: Leader
of the hard-line faction of Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah
Geelani needs to meet his ailing
daughter in Saudi Arabia. For
this, he has to travel outside
India on a traveling document,
a passport issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
There are some formalities
which have to be completed before a travel document can be
issued just as they are in other
cases. Without completing these
formalities, no travel document
can be issued.
A travel document entails
many responsibilities on the
part of the issuing nation. A
travel document is, in fact, a sort
of identity card for international
travel. The nation which issues
the passport assumes total responsibility for the citizen who
is issued the travelling document. The passport is issued
to any citizen subject to some
norms. A citizen is issued a
passport for different purposes,
and obviously, citizens fall in
different categories for the issuance.
There are some citizens who
can be, and are, issued passport
almost instantly. Such is their
nature of work or such are their
travel needs that a nation expedites their passports. Then there
are citizens who are considered
persona non grata by the nations. These citizens are issued
passports, at times, subject to
fulfillment of certain conditions.
At times, they are denied a
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The development has
come at a time when
tensions between
militants and telecom
operators are already
running high in Sopore
added.
Usually, the telecom companies in Kashmir employ one of
the land proprietors for operating the mobile towers. A senior
police official informed that the
hunt to nab the “militants” is on
and the forces including Special
Operation Group (SOG), Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
and army have intensified patrolling during day time as well
as in the night hours. “We are
hopeful that we would be able
to track down the militants,” he
said.
The security agencies have already questioned several youths
in this connection but so far no
one has been arrested. Earlier,
posters warning the telecommunication companies to close
their services surfaced in the
Town. “We warn these telecommunication companies to close
all networking services, close
their offices and stop recharging services as well. We warn
the retailers as well to stop recharging the subscribers within
seven days,” read the posters of
unknown Lashkar-e-Islam outfit. The gunmen reportedly have
held the telecommunication
companies exclusively responsible for the killing and arrest of
top militant commanders in the
Town.
Another youth
stabbed in
Miran Sahib
EARTH NEWS SERVICE
Jammu, May 22|15: In an alleged on-going gang war, a person was inflicted injuries at his
hands and legs with sharp-edged
weapons by a group of five to six
persons at Indira Nagar area,
Friday afternoon. This is second
case of stabbing within 10 days
by same group of youth in the
area resulted creating panic in
the area. Identity of the injured
has been established as Balbir
Singh alias Bindu Punjabi son of
Shamshar Singh of Gurdaspur,
Punjab presently staying at Talab Tillo.
“Bindu Punjabi was standing
near Petrol Pump in Miran Sahib where a group of five
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Ambaran-Pamberwan the ancient
Buddhist site in Akhnoor awaits attention
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with the Defence Minister on
wide range of issues including
which was also attended by senior officers of the State Government and Ministry of Defence,
the two leaders discussed several strategic issues related to
prevailing security situation in
the State. Earlier, the Defence
Minister arrived today at Raj
Bhavan, Srinagar, on a two day
visit to the State. He was received by Governor N N Vohra.
The Chief Minister took up
with the Defence Minister matters related to civil aviation
which included allowing nightlanding facilities at Srinagar
Airport and expansion and development of Jammu and Kargil
Airports. He also highlighted
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YASH KHAJURIA
Jammu, May 22 |15: Suspected
A
mbaran-Pamberwan
the ancient Buddhist
site in Akhnoor, is a
place that has every potential
to become a centre for religious
tourism if included in tourism
promotion activities.
Even as several announcements were made to improve
infrastructure at the site but
Ambaran is yet to find its right
place in tourism directory of
the state.
Ambaran has acquired a religious and tourism status and
the place has become a source
of attraction for the locals as
well as the outsiders.
If promoted properly by the
department of tourism the site
is expected to invite special attention of the archeologists,
historians along with tourists
and visitors not from across
the country but also from the
world.
The site is very significant in
view of the historical relevance
which also breaks the myth
that the Harrapan civilization
was confined within the Indus
Valley as this is considered as
j&k: a dream destination
the last bastion of the Harappan Civilization as there has
been no trace of any object that
could show that Harappans
moved any further beyond this
town.
The significance of Ambaran
can be gauged by the fact that
the Dalai Lama has visited the
site and the excavations carried out between 1991 and 2001
threw up relics of 5,000-year-old
Harappan and pre-Harappan
civilizations, says a report.
Excavations at AmbaranPamberwan sites have proved
that the place was a prominent
abode of Buddhism during the
Kushan period and Gupta period. Apart from an ancient
eight-spoke Stupa (a moundlike
structure
containing
Buddhist relics, made of high
quality baked bricks and sur-
rounded by stone pathways,
meditation cells and rooms),
life sized Terracotta busts of
Buddha and coins belonging to
those periods were also excavated from the sites. The 14th
Dalai Lama visited the place in
August, 2012. Buddhist relics
from the Pre-Kushan reign and
silver caskets, gold and silver
leaves, pearls, corals and three
copper coins from the Gupta
period are reported to be found.
The location of the Stupas is
such that it lies on the ancient
routes from Pataliputra, now
in present day Patna, Bihar in
India to Taxila now in Punjab
Province, Pakistan.
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