Salah-ud-Din forced to pick up gun: BJP

‘Interlocutors Working For Pre-53 Status To JK’

RAJEEV SHARMA

Jammu, Apr 23: In a noteworthy statement, a senior state BJP leader Saturday said the rigged elections of 1987 forced United Jihad Council (UJC) chief Muhammad Yousuf Shah alias Syed Salah-ud-Din to take to arms.“Faulty administrative functioning in the state and rigged assembly elections of 1987 More

Manmohan in ‘secret talks’ with Kayani

‘PM Appointed Unofficial Envoy To Make Contact With Pak Army Chief’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

London, Apr 23: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh opened secret talks with Pakistan Army chief ten months ago to build on the cricket-inspired diplomatic thaw between the two countries, a media report said on Saturday.Singh “appointed an unofficial envoy to make contact with General Ashfaq Parvez More

Kashmir Committee has no locus-standi: Omar

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Apr 23: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday said the Kashmir Committee, revived after a decade by Ram Jetmalani, has no locus-standi on Kashmir issue and it is just an individual effort.The chief minister said the Centre’s Interlocutors, currently on a visit to the state, are the only More

Interlocutors meet Guv, CM

Jammu, Apr 23: On the last leg of their week-long visit to Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre’s interlocutors on Kashmir Saturday met Governor, NN Vohra and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, here this evening. The three-member team of Interlocutors Dileep Padgaonkar, Prof Radha Kumar and MM Ansari More

Nothing to do with it: GOI

‘Interlocutors Our Baby’

New Delhi, Apr 23: Government of India Saturday sought to distance itself from the work of the Kashmir Committee headed by eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani that plans to open channels of dialogue with the people of the state.Highly placed sources said the government has nothing to do with the Committee More

Hurriyat (M) to wait for IuM reply

Moulana Abbas Controversy

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Apr 23: The Hurriyat Conference (M) on Saturday decided to wait for the reply of suspended constituent Ithehad-ul-Muslimeen to the show-cause notice served to them before taking any further action.During the Executive Council meet at its headquarters here, the amalgam decided to wait More

Police raid Jamiat headquarters

Seize Records, Question Staffers

Moulana Showkat’s Killing

WASIM KHALIDSrinagar, Apr 23: Police Saturday raided Jamiat-e-Ahli Hadees (JAH) headquarters at Barbarshah here and seized documents allegedly having bearing on the assassination case of president of the organisation, Moulana Showkat Ahmad Shah.Sources in police said the raid More

JK UNDER RADAR FOR FEMALE FETICIDE

Health Ministry Summon State Authorities

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Apr 23: With Jammu and Kashmir recording alerting figures of sex ratio in 2011 Census the state has now come under radar for its “poor performance” to check the worrying phenomenon.Sources told Greater Kashmir that the government of India has taken serious note of decline in female population More

Hospital sealed for ‘illegal abortions’

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Apr 23: A private hospital was sealed by the Government here following complaints of illegal abortions in the healthcare institution.Official sources said a team headed by Chief Medical Officer Srinagar locked Ratan Rani Hospital at Khralkhud here on April 20. They said the hospital More

Comedian Moin Akhtar dies of cardiac arrest

Karachi, Apr 23: Legendary Pakistani television, stage and film actor Moin Akhtar, best known to audiences in the subcontinent for his role in comedy play ‘Bakra Qiston Pe’, died in Karachi Friday.Akhtar, 61, was undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for heart disease, Geo More

It’s official: Mutton Rs 240/kg

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Apr 23: Yielding to the mutton dealers’ demand, the government today fixed the retail and whole rate of meat at a high level meeting here today.Division Commissioner Kashmir, Dr. Asgar Samoon told Greater Kashmir that the retail and wholesale mutton rate has been fixed at Rs 240/kg and More