Omar Abdullah welcomes Pakistan President’s statement on India

July 30th, 2009 JAMMU - Activists of the National Conference party took to streets here on Thursday over the allegations made against state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of his involvement in the 2006 sex scandal. The protesters chanting slogans against PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti and her party burnt Mufti's effigy as well.

July 29th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Coming down heavily upon the People's Democratic Party (PDP) for creating a ruckus in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Union Minister for Non-Renewable Sources of Energy Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said the PDP does not want any development in the State. "The PDP just wants to create chaos.

April 9th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday reviewed the security situation in the valley at a meeting of senior officials. Abdullah met senior officials of the state police, army, intelligence and civil administration in Srinagar ahead of Lok Sabha elections, beginning April 16.

March 25th, 2009 JAMMU - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday asked security forces on the frontiers with Pakistan to be on alert against infiltration attempts by militants from across the border. The long drawn shootout between militants and security forces in north Kashmir Kupwara district 'indicates that efforts (by militants) to infiltrate will continue and our efforts to thwart that must also continue', Abdullah told reporters here.

March 4th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Wednesday that the time had come when Pakistan needed to act decisively against the perpetrators of terror. 'The elements used by Pakistan in Afghanistan and other countries in the past are now spreading terror there,' Abdullah told reporters here.

March 2nd, 2009 GULMARG - Relations between India and Pakistan should improve so that 'complete normalcy' returns to Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Monday. 'I hope relations between India and Pakistan improve in the near future so that complete normalcy returns here,' Abdullah said while inaugurating a two-day ski event, Gulmarg Derby 2009.

January 8th, 2009 JAMMU - Omar Abdullah, on his first day in office as Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Friday said forces opposed to India-Pakistan friendship would 'have to be defeated' and that his government would try to bring unity in the state. 'I would in my capacity continue to advise caution and continue to advise that the enemy is not Pakistan but the forces in Pakistan inimical to friendship between the two countries.

January 4th, 2009 JAMMU - Omar Abdullah Monday took oath as the eighth chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir along with nine ministers including Tara Chand of the Congress as his deputy at this winter capital of the state. Governor N.N.

January 4th, 2009 JAMMU - Omar Abdullah Monday took oath as the eighth chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir along with 10 ministers at this winter capital of the state. Governor N.N.

January 3rd, 2009 JAMMU - Jammu and Kashmir chief minister-designate Omar Abdullah Sunday said he was 'desirous' of talking to separatist leaders from the state. Omar Abdullah, accompanied by his wife Payal and father Farooq, arrived here to a warm reception Sunday afternoon, a day before the National Conference president is slated to be sworn in as the ninth chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

January 2nd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Omar Abdullah, chief minister designate of Jammu and Kashmir, has decided to stay in his present three-bedroom house in summer capital Srinagar and not shift to the palatial chief minister's official residence. 'I have a small family.

December 30th, 2008 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir chief minister-designate Omar Abdullah was received warmly by a huge crowd of enthusiastic supporters at the Srinagar airport Wednesday after his arrival from New Delhi. Waving National Conference (NC) flags - a plough in white against a red background - his supporters accompanied Abdullah in a procession to the party headquarters here.

December 29th, 2008 NEW DELHI - The National Conference and the Congress Tuesday confirmed that they would form the new coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir, with Omar Abdullah heading it. The announcement was made after the National Conference chief, Omar Abdullah, met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the national capital.

December 28th, 2008 SRINAGAR - National Conference (NC) chief patron Farooq Abdullah Monday endorsed his son Omar Abdullah as the party's chief ministerial candidate in Jammu and Kashmir after many flip-flops on the decision. The NC emerged as the single largest party in the assembly polls and is looking to form a coalition government with the Congress.

December 27th, 2008 SRINAGAR - National Conference (NC) patron Farooq Abdullah said Sunday that a final decision on a chief ministerial candidate would be made by the party if an alliance is worked out between the NC and the Congress. 'It is too early to comment on who the chief ministerial candidate would be.