Updated on Sunday, August 01, 2010, 18:45
Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Sunday evening to discuss the situation in Kashmir in the wake of renewed violence resulting in civilian causalities.
Official sources said the meeting, to be held at 8.00 pm, is expected to be attended by Home Minister P Chidambaram and Defence Minister A K Antony.
The development came as three persons including a woman were killed today in fresh clashes even as protest-hit Kashmir Valley remained under curfew for the second day.
Police opened fire to disperse mobs who blocked a national highway and snatched weapons from security personnel in Pampore on the city outskirts.
The mobs blocked NH-1A at Galandar, Kadlabal, Barsoo, Frastabal and Pampore and also torched office-cum-residence of a tehsildar. They set afire a police vehicle and damaged several others.
The protesters snatched weapons from local court guards and also indulged in heavy stone pelting on a police station and security personnel, a police spokesman said, adding the situation turned worse when suspected terrorists fired on the personnel from amongst them.
After a baton charge and tear gas shelling failed to disperse the mobs, police opened fire to quell them. While Nayeem Ahmad Shah died on the spot, two others sustained injuries.
A number of policemen including a Deputy Superintendent of Police of Awantiopora suffered injuries. Another person Raees also succumbed to his injuries later in the hospital.
In Khrew, protesters attempted to set afire a police post and take away the weapons. As the crowd refused to calm down, police fired at them leading to the death of a woman identified as Afrosa.
There were minor protests in some parts of the Valley but the situation in North Kashmir, which was on boil yesterday, remained calm and as well as in downtown Srinagar.
With the three deaths, the number of people killed in violence since Friday has risen to nine.
Barring Handwara, Baramulla town, Budgam, Awanitipora and Ganderbal, curfew remained in force in rest of the Valley.
(With IANS/PTI inputs)
The best solution would be to put J&K under Military rule, with a mandate to wipe out anti-national forces within 6 months. Democracy can be restored after that.
http://www.zeenews.com/news645015.html
Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Sunday evening to discuss the situation in Kashmir in the wake of renewed violence resulting in civilian causalities.
Official sources said the meeting, to be held at 8.00 pm, is expected to be attended by Home Minister P Chidambaram and Defence Minister A K Antony.
The development came as three persons including a woman were killed today in fresh clashes even as protest-hit Kashmir Valley remained under curfew for the second day.
Police opened fire to disperse mobs who blocked a national highway and snatched weapons from security personnel in Pampore on the city outskirts.
The mobs blocked NH-1A at Galandar, Kadlabal, Barsoo, Frastabal and Pampore and also torched office-cum-residence of a tehsildar. They set afire a police vehicle and damaged several others.
The protesters snatched weapons from local court guards and also indulged in heavy stone pelting on a police station and security personnel, a police spokesman said, adding the situation turned worse when suspected terrorists fired on the personnel from amongst them.
After a baton charge and tear gas shelling failed to disperse the mobs, police opened fire to quell them. While Nayeem Ahmad Shah died on the spot, two others sustained injuries.
A number of policemen including a Deputy Superintendent of Police of Awantiopora suffered injuries. Another person Raees also succumbed to his injuries later in the hospital.
In Khrew, protesters attempted to set afire a police post and take away the weapons. As the crowd refused to calm down, police fired at them leading to the death of a woman identified as Afrosa.
There were minor protests in some parts of the Valley but the situation in North Kashmir, which was on boil yesterday, remained calm and as well as in downtown Srinagar.
With the three deaths, the number of people killed in violence since Friday has risen to nine.
Barring Handwara, Baramulla town, Budgam, Awanitipora and Ganderbal, curfew remained in force in rest of the Valley.
(With IANS/PTI inputs)
The best solution would be to put J&K under Military rule, with a mandate to wipe out anti-national forces within 6 months. Democracy can be restored after that.
http://www.zeenews.com/news645015.html
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