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Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra participating in a campaign to clean the Yamuna, in Agra. (UNI)
Kuldeep Khoda, Special DG CRPF, J&K, Anirudh Uppal, Additional DG Law & Order K Rajendera, IG BSF Jammu Frontiers, AK Jain, Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Pawan Kotwal, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Asgar Samoon, IGP Kashmir SM Sahai, IGP Jammu Dilbagh Singh, IGP CID B Srinivas and heads of other Central Police Forces and Intelligence agencies operating in the State. The security review meeting that was expected to last at least
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah addressing a public meeting at Purmandal on Monday. since last year, he said asking are also working for removing People have to be cautious the people to contribute in main- other laws imposed owing to the against these elements and taining tranquility so that the disturbance and violence, he strengthen the bonds of harmony State moves on the road to added. and love. progress and prosperity firmly. Asking the people to mainThe Chief Minister said Mr Omar said that his tain communal amity and broth- that Government has flagged Government has also percolated erhood under all circumstances, comprehensive development peace benefits to the people in he said, many elements are bent of farmers and ruralites as an the shape of softening of the upon creating wedge between (Contd on page 4 Col 3) provisions of acts like PSA. We various sections of the society.
ISI's KAC chief told Virginia court that a UPA Minister was in touch with him before arrest
Excelsior Special Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 9: ISI-sponsored Kashmiri American Council (KAC) founder-chairman, Sayyid Ghulam Nabi Fai, had made a sensational disclosure in his last-ditch effort to escape punishment in the district court of Fairfax in Virginia. He made unsuccessful attempts to project himself as a champion of the "Kashmiri freedom movement" and a "peace broker" between India and Pakistan. During this attempt, he claimed before court that a Cabinet Minister of Dr Manmohan Singh's UPA-II Government had met with him days before he was arrested in July 2011. According to sources closely watching the court proceedings in Virginia, Fai made every possible attempt to claim that he was a "peace broker" between New Delhi and Islamabad, as also a "Kashmir freedom activist" rather than being ISI's agent to promote Pakistan's strategy on the Kashmir issue. He, however, failed to convince the judge. The judge even trashed 'certificates' issued by Indian nationals, including some prominent intellectuals, with the observation that this operation too had been engineered and executed on behalf of ISI. During the course of proceedings, Fai claimed that he had remained "closely associated" with the Indian intelligentsia and the establishment in his attempts of enforcing ceasefire between the Indian security forces and the Kashmiri militants in the year 2000. He claimed that he had remained in touch with then NDA head and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee through his National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra and a New-Delhi based journalist, namely R K Mishra. He claimed that on the other side, he was in a liaison with the Hizbul Mujahideen chief, Syed Salahud-din, and some of Kashmir's radical separatist leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Apart from working together
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JAMMU Partially cloudy. TEMPERATURE Max: 35.9 Degree C Min: 21.8 Degree C RELATIVE HUMIDITY Highest: 35.0 per cent Lowest: 30.0 per cent Sunset on Tuesday: 6.58 p.m. Sunrise on Wednesday: 6.18 a.m. KASHMIR Partially cloudy to cloudy. TEMPERATURE Max: 21.4 Degree C Min: 11.3 Degree C RELATIVE HUMIDITY Highest: 79.0 per cent Lowest: 33.0 per cent
Khoda reviews crime scenario, stresses for better synergy at all levels ...Page 3
Govt committed to strengthen higher, technical institutions: Malik Govt committed to dignified return of migrants: Bhalla ...Page 5 Recovering Yuvraj returns home ...Page 10 ...Page 5
Excelsior Correspondent RAJOURI, Apr 9: An Army soldier was killed in a grenade explosion in Keri sector near the Line of Control in Rajouri today. Reports said one Hardeep Singh of Sikh Regiment, presently deployed in Keri sector was seriously injured when a grenade exploded in his hands at Chiti Bakri ( K-1) post at some forward location. The mishap took place when the jawan was busy in an exercise. Due to mishandling of the grenade, it exploded in hands at around 10.15 am. The jawan, hailing from Punjab was rushed to Rajouri hospital but he succumbed to injuries on the way. The body of the jawan for over a decade for Jamaat-e- was dispatched to his home this afternoon. The Army authorities Islami, Fai and Salah-ud-din have ordered court of inquiry into the incident. were both residents of Soibug village in Budgam district. NEW DELHI, Apr 9: However, the ceasefire The Delhi High Court today reserved its verdict on a plea seekannounced by senior Hizbul functionary, late Abdul Majid ing a CBI probe into mysterious death of a non commissioned offiDar, on July 24, 2000, proved to cer (NCO) of Army Intelligence Corp nearly 34 years ago when he be shortlived when Salah-ud-din was allegedly taken into military custody in connection with the announced its withdrawal in a infamous Samba Spy case. The case relates to the death of Havildar Ram Swaroop whose dramatic development within 12 days in a press conference at wife Anguri Devi has sought re-opening of the investigation claimHotel Holiday Inn in Islamabad. ing the post-mortem report, which is now available to her under the Fai's most sensational dis- Right to Information Act, suggested 39 injuries on his body. Justice M L Mehta reserved the judgement after hearing closure came in his claim that a cabinet Minister of Dr detailed arguments by Deepak A Masih, counsel for Anguri Devi, Manmohan Singh's and Additional Solicitor General A S Chandhioke who opposed the Government was "in touch" plea of the widow. The widow, in her plea, said her husband, employed as a NCO with him and had met with him just days before Fai was in Army Intelligence Corp, was brought dead at the Base Hospital (Contd on page 4 Col 5) (Contd on page 4 Col 5)