'Temperamentally, they are quite alike.' 'Ahmed Patel avoided the limelight and was not a power seeker.' 'The Gandhis too are not power wielders, but trustees of power.'
The choice of 'Hari Niwas' conversion into the chief minister's residence came following growing security concerns for the chief minister.
The no-confidence motion against the government could not be introduced amid the din in the Lok Sabha.
"People have realized that militancy has given them miseries, devastation and destruction," he said, adding that that state was poised towards lasting peace.
However, Azad said he personally did not favour capital punishment.
"I think the Pakistani President has not applied his mind as everything was hotch-potch and the road map was not clear when he was making the proposals," Azad said.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has defended his decision to allow the pro-Pakistani hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani to perform Haj saying the piligrimage is necessary for all Muslims.
Azad also accused the state and Centre of not being bothered about the people.
Imtiyaz told the troops that he had been instructed to lob it when Azad would visit the town in the afternoon, the official said.
In an effort to push its demand for creation of a separate "homeland" for Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley by undertaking reorganisation of the state, a frontline organisation of the community plans to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh soon.
With the inauguration of a direct flight from Delhi to Srinagar, Deccan Aviation, which operates Air Deccan, on Tuesday announced that the low-cost airline would concentrate on increasing the connectivity within Jammu and Kashmir.
This comes after the government and opposition parties said a consensus has been reached to extend the duration of the allotted time on the discussion on a Motion Thanking the President for his Address to the Joint Sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajaya Sabha at the beginning of the Budget Session, from the currently allocated 10 hours to 15 hours.
The Budget session of the Parliament is likely to begin from February 25 with the Presidential Address to a joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha followed by presentation of rail budget and general budget on February 26 and 28.
In Leh and Kargil, the army shifted 1000 people to safer areas in the past 24 hours.
'The Congress can exist without (someone from) the Nehru-Gandhi family being its president.'
An interview with former J&K chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
Released on Friday after his detention under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked, former chief minister Farooq Abdullah drove from his residence to nearby Hari Nivas where his son, also a former chief minister, has been held first under preventive custody since February 5 under the PSA. The two warmly embraced.
On December 13, 2001, five heavily-armed gunmen stormed the Parliament complex and opened indiscriminate fire, killing nine persons.
The CLP will meet at 11 am at Vidhan Bhavan, party spokesman Anant Gadgil said.
Asserting that human rights violations will not be tolerated, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday defended the firing by security forces on protestors in Kupwara.
Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday led the nation in paying rich tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 61st birth anniversary.
Under attack from both the Opposition and its Left allies, the government has agreed for a discussion on the Nanavati Commission Report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
"If they (some leaders) persist (with G-23) that means there is a vested interest for a few of them to work against the Congress party which we don't subscribe to and rather oppose it," the former Union minister said.
It comprises 200 flats, a temple, shopping centre, sewerage treatment plant and other basic facilities. It will cost about Rs 20 crore.
The results of the by-elections in the four Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir were a mixed bag for the Congress' coalition partners.
Over 1,500 people from India and Pakistan, separated from their family members, crossed the border by road through the Kaman crossing post in Jammu and Kashmir in the last one and half years.
The opposition party also launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asked why is he "so kind" to Chinese President Xi Jinping and "not showing loyalty towards the country".
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has broached the issue with senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani and National Democratic Alliance convener George Fernandes.
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