Omar Abdullah Didn’t Resign But Submitted Conditional letter
Srinagar: Two days after Omar Abdullah resigned as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir following a sensational allegation of his involvement in the 2006 sex scandal, Zeenews has learnt from its sources that Omar didn’t tender his resignation, but had submitted a letter to the Governor which stated if proven guilty he would put in his papers.
The revelation comes after the reports that Omar had submitted his resignation to the Governor N N Vora after senior PDP MLA Muzzaffar Hussain Beigh had alleged his involvement in the 2006 sex scandal.
The state Assembly witnessed a high drama after the PDP deputy leader’s allegation. PDP has demanded a judicial inquiry in the case, saying that it was not satisfied with the CBI probe.
Meanwhile, hitting back at the PDP, Omar Abdullah today accused its leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of “shutting his eyes” to the sex scandal when it first surfaced in 2006 as his own people were involved.
“Sayeed preferred that this scandal should go on and never bothered how callously daughters of Kashmir were being exploited by his own people. He should have resigned at that very time if he would have been real son of soil but he preferred to shut his eyes,” an angry Omar said while addressing supporters at his Gupkar Road residence here.
Omar, who has given a conditional resignation to the state Governor after the accusation, said Sayeed was “scared” that his government would fall as his own men were also “involved” in the scandal which came to light in 2006 after the arrest of a woman.
Omar, however, appreciated the role of former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who handed over probe to the CBI.
“Sayeed in his capacity as Home Minister at the Centre selected Jagmohan as Governor and succeeded in his mission to impose AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) in the state,” Omar alleged, adding it was because of these issues that his father Farooq Abdullah had to resign from the Chief Minister’s post in 1990.
“When PDP ruled the state there was no talk about withdrawal of AFSPA. But today when my government is actually making efforts for its removal, that party is sabotaging the process by directly or indirectly fomenting violence,” he said.
Omar asked both Sayeed and his daughter Mehbooba Mufti to be patient and wait for six years to face people in the next elections. “During the last six years, we have played responsible role of opposition. We never snatched any mike from the Speaker’s podium and allowed the government to run its business in the House. But now PDP has crossed all limits by stooping to a level which has no parallel in political ethics,” he said.
He said it is first time that such a massive financial support has come from the Centre under plan funds. Apart from Rs 5,500 crore being earmarked for the state from plan outlay another package of Rs 1,200 crore has been sanctioned under Prime Minister Reconstruction Plan, he added.
Omar Abdullah Didn’t Resign But Submitted Conditional letter was first posted on July 30, 2009 at 6:13 pm.
Chaos Reigns in J&K Assembly for 3rd Straight Day
SRI NAGAR: Pandemonium reigned in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the third consecutive day on Wednesday as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) sought a judicial probe into state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s alleged involvement in the 2006 sex scandal.
Accusing the CBI of defending Omar Abdullah, senior members of the PDP tore up a letter issued by the CBI in connection with their investigation of the case.
The CBI letter states that neither Chief Minister Omar Abdullah nor Union Minister for Non-Renewable Sources of Energy and Omar’s father Farooq Abdullah is figured in the list of suspects that were involved in the 2006 sex scandal.
Assembly Speaker Akbar Lone confirmed that he had received a communication from the CBI to this effect.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had said on Tuesday that there was no mention of Omar Abdullah in the CBI list.
Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir Governor N. N. Vohra had refused to accept Omar Abdullah’s resignation, saying that the latter should continue in office till a final decision is taken on the matter.
Abdullah had formally submitted his resignation to Vohra, hours after a senior PDP leader had alleged in the State Assembly that Abdullah was involved in the sex scandal.
PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Beigh levelled the allegation that Abdullah was involved. Beigh even traded charges with Farooq Abdullah during a heated television debate on Tuesday night.
Beigh said he had list of names who were involved in the scandal and Abdullah was listed as number 102.
The sex scandal surfaced in 2006 with the arrest of a woman, Sabina, who allegedly claimed during her interrogation that she used to send girls, including minors to politicians, senior policemen and bureaucrats.
Among the 17 people chargesheeted by the CBI are G A Mir and Raman Mattoo, both ministers in the then PDP-led Government, and Mohammed Iqbal Khandey, former Principle Secretary to the then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.
Chaos Reigns in J&K Assembly for 3rd Straight Day was first posted on July 29, 2009 at 5:14 pm.
Omar Abdullah Threaten to Resign
SRINAGAR: Chief Minister of held Kashmir Omar Abdullah has threatened to resign after PDP member accused him of involvement in sex scandal.
CM Omar has declared the accusations baseless and said he will tender his resignation to the governor.
Omar Abdullah Threaten to Resign was first posted on July 28, 2009 at 1:42 pm.
Mehbooba Mufti Throws Microphone at Held Kashmir Assembly Speaker
SRINAGAR: There was ruckus in the Assembly of Indian occupied Kashmir on Monday with legislators of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stalling the proceedings by shouting slogans against the Indian government over the Shopian murders.
The PDP legislators gathered near the speaker’s podium and Mehbooba Mufti even tried to fling a microphone at the speaker.
The incident occurred after PDP leaders started raising slogans over the Shopian incident in which two women were raped and murdered in May.
Led by party president Mehbooba Mufti, PDP legislators started shouting slogans like “Produce the killers of Shopian” as the assembly session began.
After repeated requests by the speaker failed to restore order, he ordered the dismissal of the PDP MLAs from the floor of the House. The MLAs, however, refused to leave and police officials had to forcibly escort them out of the assembly.
Pandemonium continued in the assembly till the PDP legislators were taken out of the House.
Mehbooba Mufti later accused the Speaker of using “unparliamentarily” language and acting more like a “ruling NC worker” in the House.
Mehbooba Mufti said, “I took on the Speaker as he was ordering PDP MLAs out.”
“We did nothing wrong. Speaker was at fault, she added.
PDP MLAs led by Mehbooba Mufti are now staging a sit-in dharna outside the assembly.
Meanwhile, the bail applications of IoK police officers Javed Iqbal Mattoo and Rohit Baskotra, arrested in connection with the sensational Shopian murder case, will come up for hearing on Monday at a court in Shopian.
The pleas of the two officers were moved on Sunday before the sessions court by senior Supreme Court lawyer Asim Mehrotra who flew into Srinagar to argue the case on behalf of Mattoo and Baskotra.
Mehbooba Mufti Throws Microphone at Held Kashmir Assembly Speaker was first posted on July 27, 2009 at 3:05 pm.
Woman Among 2 killed in Kashmir
Srinagar: A woman was killed after she was hit by a stone while a youth died and six others were injured in different road accidents in the Kashmir valley where two houses were gutted overnight, official sources said here today.
They said a woman Marah Jan was grazing her cattle in the woods at Kupwara when a stone came and hit her on the head.
She was immediately rushed to hospital where she died. Two people were injured critically when a vehicle hit their motorcycle at Shikargah near petrol pump.
The injured were admitted to a hospital where a resident of Nowgam Shiraz Ahmad Dar, who had married only five months ago, died.
The condition of another injured was stated to be critical.
Sources said four people were injured when a recovery van in which they were travelling met with an accident at Kurhama in Ganderbal district. The injured were admitted to hospital. A motorcyclist was injured after he was hit by a vehicle at Boulevard road on the bank of Dal Lake. He was hospitalised.
Sources informed fire gutted two houses at Ghat Narbal and Zakoora. The cause of fire was not known, they added.
Woman Among 2 killed in Kashmir was first posted on July 21, 2009 at 5:26 pm.
Kashmiris Observe `Accession to Pakistan Day’
Kashmiris in occupied Kashmir, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan are observing `Accession to Pakistan Day’, today.
The Muslim Conference of occupied Kashmir in a statement issued in Srinagar described the July 19, 947, Resolution a political and constitutional stance, a local news provider agency reported.
The statement maintained that Kashmiri people wanted settlement of the Kashmir dispute through the United Nations resolutions and dialogue between Pakistan, India and genuine leadership of Kashmiris.
In this connection functions were held in Srinagar under the auspices of Jammu Kashmir Muslim League and Muslim Khawateen Markaz.
The speakers in their addresses said that on the day the people of Kashmir through a resolution had decided accession to Pakistan.
They stressed on India to accept the ground realities and take solid steps for amicable solution to the dispute. The Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement in its statement fully supported the accession resolution.
Kashmiris Observe `Accession to Pakistan Day’ was first posted on July 19, 2009 at 4:46 pm.
Kashmiris Observe `Accession to Pakistan Day’
Kashmiris in occupied Kashmir, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan are observing `Accession to Pakistan Day’, today.
The Muslim Conference of occupied Kashmir in a statement issued in Srinagar described the July 19, 947, Resolution a political and constitutional stance, a local news provider agency reported.
The statement maintained that Kashmiri people wanted settlement of the Kashmir dispute through the United Nations resolutions and dialogue between Pakistan, India and genuine leadership of Kashmiris.
In this connection functions were held in Srinagar under the auspices of Jammu Kashmir Muslim League and Muslim Khawateen Markaz.
The speakers in their addresses said that on the day the people of Kashmir through a resolution had decided accession to Pakistan.
They stressed on India to accept the ground realities and take solid steps for amicable solution to the dispute. The Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement in its statement fully supported the accession resolution.
Kashmiris Observe `Accession to Pakistan Day’ was first posted on July 19, 2009 at 4:46 pm.
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Mirwaiz Urges Clinton to Push for Kashmir Resolution
SRINAGAR: Indian Kashmir’s top leader urged visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday to push nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan to resolve their dispute over Kashmir.
“Kashmir is not a religious issue, it is not an issue of terrorism or extremism, it is a political dispute and the United States has a role to push both India and Pakistan to settle this political dispute,” Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said in a statement.
Mirwaiz is chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference, the volatile region’s main alliance.
His comments came as Clinton kicked off her Indian visit in Mumbai, scene of the attacks last year by militant gunmen that killed 166 people.
India has accused Pakistan of harbouring extremists who allegedly trained, equipped and financed the militants.
After the attacks, India suspended a peace dialogue with Pakistan that, among other issues, sought a resolution of the Kashmir conflict that has dominated bilateral relations since the division of the sub-continent in 1947.
Both countries claim the entire region of Kashmir which is currently divided between them by a Line of Control. A 20-year Muslim insurgency has claimed 47,000 lives in the Indian-administered section.
Peace in South Asia cannot be achieved “without a resolution of core issue of Kashmir,” Mirwaiz said.
Clinton denied Saturday that President Barack Obama’s administration is pressuring India into seeking peace with Pakistan so the latter could focus entirely on beating an Islamist insurgency on its border with Afghanistan, a US priority.
“The US… is very supportive of steps that the governments take but we are not in any way involved in or promoting any particular position,” she told reporters.
After talks Thursday in Egypt with his Pakistani counterpart Yousef Raza Gilani, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said negotiations with Pakistan would remain on hold until Islamabad takes action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks.
Mirwaiz Urges Clinton to Push for Kashmir Resolution was first posted on July 18, 2009 at 5:33 pm.
Omar Abdullah Hails De-linking Dialogue From Terror
Srinagar: The chief minister, Omar Abdullah, Thursday said the cordial meeting between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan had assumed historical import, as both the nations had agreed to de-link dialogue from terrorism.
Omar welcomed the joint statement of the two premiers, saying the success of their meeting at Sharm-al Sheikh was a victory not only of his own stand but of billions of people of sub-continent who strongly believe in peace and abhor violence.
The CM said in the past stray “incidents of terror” had delayed composite dialogue, like the Mumbai attack. He said agreement between the prime ministers to discuss all outstanding issues between the two countries was a positive development, which will lead “all of us towards an era of peace and tranquility and defeat forces having vested interest in violence.”
Omar said that the success of their meeting lies in the fact that both have agreed to work for creating an atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence and promote regional cooperation. “We were waiting for this agreement for long as it will silence forces inimical to peace,” he said, appealing people of the state to gear themselves up “for golden chapter of peace, development and mutual cooperation.”
Omar reiterated that dialogue was the only way to resolve all outstanding issues, and agreement between the two premiers has strengthened this belief further.
The chief minister said that everybody was conscious of the fact that both the countries and Jammu and Kashmir in particular had suffered due to their bickering. “Our economy has collapsed during the past two decades and we are struggling hard to revive the same so that the development of the state is ensured,” he said.
It is a positive development that the two premiers have stressed on development and elimination of poverty.
Omar Abdullah Hails De-linking Dialogue From Terror was first posted on July 17, 2009 at 5:46 pm.
78th Kashmir Martyrs Day on Today
MIRPUR: Jammu and Kashmir people living on both sides of the Line of Control and in rest of the world are observing the 78th Kashmir Martyrs Day on Monday with the renewed pledge to continue their struggle for the achievement of their birthright to self-determination and for the freedom of occupied Jammu and Kashmir from the India.
The Kashmir Martyrs day is observed every year ob the both sides of the LoC to commemorate the supreme sacrifices of Kashmiri martyrs they gave this day in 1931 when the Dogra troops shot dead 22 Kashmiris in front of the Central Jail Srinagar.
A large number of people had gathered outside the jail protesting against the trial of a young man Abdul Qadeer for treason inside the prison.
There will be complete strike in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir state marking the observance of the Kashmir Martyrs Day, according to a report reaching here Sunday.
The strike will be followed by anti-India and pro-freedom rallies by the valiant sons of the soil across the occupied state. In occupied Srinagar, a large number of people will visit Mazar-e-shuhada in processions to offer Fateha, according to the schedule of the day to commemorate the supreme sacrifices of the Kashmiri martyrs. In AJK, the day will be marked with special meetings including seminars and symposiums scheduled to pay rich tributes to Kashmiri martyrs to be followed by protest rallies and demonstrations against India.
78th Kashmir Martyrs Day on Today was first posted on July 13, 2009 at 12:32 pm.
