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ON REGISTER APPOINTED: Wajahat Habibullah is appointed as State Chief Information Commissioner of J&K on Oct 22. Until then CIC of India, as an IAS officer he earlier served J&K for nearly three decades ELECTED: Raja Farooq Haider Khan is elected on Oct 22 as Prime Minister of Pakistan administered Kashmir replacing Sardar Yaqoob Khan. HONOURED: Maharaja Gulab Singh, the founder of J&K, is honoured with a commemorative stamp on his 217th birth anniversary. Stamp is released in Jammu by MoS C&IT Sachin Pilot on Oct 21. AWARDED: Noted journalist, author and human rights activist Balraj Puri is nominated for Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for year 2008. Puri also runs Institute of J&K Affairs at Jammu and is a leading public figure of the country RELEASED: Separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah is released from prison on Oct 20 after 14 months detention. He was arrested in August 2008 while leading the symbolic march to Muzaffarabad during Amarnath land row ARRESTED: A journalist and Editor of a Jammu based News Agency called NAK is arrested by Police on allegations of passing on security information of Pak intelligence agency ISI. He is booked under various sections of Enemy Act and IT Act
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Nation is committed to provide latest weaponry and other sophisticated gadgets to the troops for maintaining sanctity of borders in J&K President of India, Pratibha Patil during his visit to Rajouri on Oct 9
There is a political problem in Kashmir and it has to be solved through dialogue‌there will be dialogue with every section of opinion on Kashmir‌there will be a quiet diplomacy Indian Home Minister P Chidambram, at a Press Conference in Srinagar on Oct 14
It is a good and welcome sign. Hurriyat Conference is committed to dialogue with both India and Pakistan to resolve Kashmir issue Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, reacting to Home Minister's offer for talks
Our tourism potential is biggest economic advantage. West is already enjoying Kashmir, now we need to adopt Look East policy to tap tourist from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore etc Chief Minister Omar Abdullah while inaugurating Kashmir festival on Oct 10
'The acts of terrorists across the globe underscore that terrorism is a global threat which transcends borders and religions and is not linked to any specific sect or religion or creed Union Health Minister and Former J&K CM at Conference on 'Terrorism --National and International' organised by Jama Masjid United Forum in New Delhi on Oct 27
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Epilogue, November 2009