‘Decision on AFSPA soon’

Have Given Our Views To Govt: Lt Gen Hasnain

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 11: Army Monday said security situation over the next few months will decide the outcome of the consultative process with the Jammu and Kashmir government over revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).“We have given our views to the government (on AFSPA). The consultative More

‘Geelani a Buzurg’

Srinagar, July 11: Describing Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani as a Buzurg (elderly man), General Officer Commanding (GOC) 15 Corps, Lt Gen S A Hasnain Monday said there is nothing wrong in purchasing his (Geelani’s) autobiography “Wullar Kinaray”.“There is no controversy More

Union Cabinet reshuffle today

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 11: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers tomorrow inducting some new faces and elevating some in the exercise that may also see a few being dropped.Trinamool Congress Chief Whip in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandhopadhyay is set to be More

US suspends military aid to Pakistan

LALIT K JHA/PTI

Washington, July 11: The US has decided to suspend its military aid to Pakistan following Islamabad’s request for a “significant cutback” of American military trainers on its soil, the Pentagon said Monday.The suspended aid, which is about one-third of the USD 2 billion in annual American security More

Can do without it: Pak army

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, July 11: Putting up a brave front after the US withdrew USD 800 million dollar military aid to it, Pakistan army Monday said it would continue to conduct operations without American assistance.“We have no comments” on the move, said a spokesman for the Pakistani military in response More

India welcomes

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 11: India Monday welcomed the US decision to suspend military aid to Pakistan, saying a heavy presence of arms would have disturbed the equilibrium in the region.“With reference to the special circumstances between India and Pakistan and how India has consistently taken the view More

SFC recommends restructuring of Education Deptt

‘Inadequacies Necessitate Policy Interventions’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, July 11: From a three-tier education “policy think-tank” to State Education Council headed by Chief Minister and education secretariats at the regional level, a –quasi-government panel has put forth range of recommendations to revamp the education sector, presently marred by lack of policy More

Littered explosives continue to kill

9 Fatalities This Year

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, July 11: With the killing of two boys in Tral area of South Kashmir last night, the fatalities by ‘unexploded ordnance’ (UXO) during the first seven months of this year in the state have gone up to nine, which include five children. The causalities have put a question mark over the sanitization More

Locals refute police claim

KHALID GUL

Tral, July 11: After preliminary investigation into the mysterious explosion on Sunday in Rathsuna village of this South Kashmir area, that left two boys dead and one injured, police today said that the grenade was handed over to one of the deceased by an unidentified person outside his home. However More