Archives

  • 1973
  • 1975
  • 1977
  • 1980
  • 1982
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • 1987
  • 1988
  • 1989
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 1992
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013

    • Archive for July, 1984

    Police round up 200 before Kashmiri vote

    blast from the past

    SRINAGAR, July 23 (1984): A curfew was clamped on the tourist resort of Srinagar last night, and 200 people were put under ''preventive arrest'' to head off trouble during a parliamentary showdown today over the dismissal of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Farouq Abdullah. A police spokesman said the curfew in the city, capital of the state, would remain in force until normal conditions returned. The state assembly will be voting on a motion of confidence concerning Mr. Abdullah's brother-in-law, Ghulam Shah, who...

    Posted 10530 days ago.

    Police round up scores before Kashmir elections

    SRINAGAR, July 13, (1984): A curfew was clamped on the tourist resort of Srinagar last night, and 200 people were put under ''preventive arrest'' to head off trouble during a parliamentary showdown today over the dismissal of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Farouq Abdullah. A police spokesman said the curfew in the city, capital of the state, would remain in force until normal conditions returned. The state assembly will be voting on a motion of confidence concerning Mr. Abdullah's brother-in-law,...

    Posted 10540 days ago.

    Kashmir legislators bribed by Gandhi, Farooq Abdullah says

    SRINAGAR, july 5 (1984): A former chief minister of Kashmir state charged yesterday that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's central Government paid 12 local legislators the equivalent of Rs 113440 each to defect from the administration. The desertions on Monday left Mohammed Farouq Abdullah with only 34 of 76 assembly seats. Mr. Abdullah was immediately fired by the state governor - a Gandhi appointee - and replaced by his brother-in-law, Ghulam Shah. The 12 defectors were all given posts in Mr. Shah's...

    Posted 10548 days ago.

    Thousands of National Conference protest in Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, July 4 (1984):  About 7,000 supporters of Farouq Abdullah, the ousted chief minister of Indian Kashmir, demonstrated in defiance of a curfew while he called for a campaign of civil disobedience to force new elections. Abdullah, dismissed Monday by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, called for strikes throughout Jammu and Kashmir state, a sensitive region near the Pakistan border. The Ghandi government has accused Abdullah of allowing Sikh extremists to operate training camps in...

    Posted 10549 days ago.

    Curfew, protests in Kashmir after Farooq Abdullah's dismissal

    SRINAGAR, July 4 (1984): Police and troops flooded through the capital of Kashmir to put down scattered violence, and businesses shut down for 24 hours in protest against the dismissal of Chief Minister Farouq Abdullah's state government. About 7,000 followers of Mr. Abdullah, many of them wearing black armbands and chanting slogans, marched to the chief ministry office. At a rally there, Mr. Abdullah called for strikes to be held throughout Jammu and Kashmir state, a sensitive region near the...

    Posted 10549 days ago.

    Gandhi government topple Farooq Abdullah in Kashmir

    blast from the past

    NEW DELHI, July 2 (1984): The leadership of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir was dismissed today after 12 legislators defected from the Chief Minister's faction within the National Conference Party to a rival faction. The defection left the government of the Chief Minister, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, without a majority in the 78-member state assembly. The move put in place a state government that was expected to be friendlier and more helpful to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi when she runs for re-election later this...

    Posted 10551 days ago.