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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2000
 

An army jawan keeping vigil at LoC in Tungdhar sector. -Excelsior/Amin War
An army jawan keeping vigil at LoC in Tungdhar sector. -Excelsior/Amin War

Encounter at Chadoura; father, son killed in Qazigund
2 Lashkar militants among 9 killed in Valley

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Feb 4: Even as unidentified gunmen shot dead at least five civilians in Kashmir valley since last evening, the 24-hour-long encounter at Rop-pora, Chadoura, in Budgam district has left killed four persons, including two top militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba and a soldier..........more

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Hurriyat activists assault doctors
Blue-eyed inmates get VIP treatment in Bhalwal jail

By Mohinder Verma

JAMMU, Feb 4: The Hurriyat Conference activists and other militants detained in high security Kot Bhalwal Jail have assaulted the doctors and other para-medical staff posted in the Jail hospital.........more

Centre unions to plead JK employees’ cause
Farooq asked to drop no work, no pay proposal

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 4: Three top trade union leaders of the country have appealed to the Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah to drop its "ill-advised" move of "No Work, no Pay" to over three lakh State Government employees who observed 42- day long strike recently in support of their long pending demands.........more

Militants release in Rubaiya
Kandahar cases wrong : Mehbooba

By Dinesh Manhotra

Ms Mehbooba MuftiJAMMU, Feb 4: J&K Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Ms Mehbooba Mufti has asserted that decisions of the Central Government to release three militants in exchange of her sister, Rubaiya Sayeed and an equal number of ultras for hijacked passengers of an Indian Airlines plane, were wrong. In an exclusive interview with EXCELSIOR, Ms Mufti, daughter of former Union Home Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed, stoutly refuted the allegations that militancy got a boost after the release of militants in lieu of her kidnaped sister. "Without justifying that decision, I want to disclose that Dr Farooq Abdullah, who was Chief Minister of the State............more

Pak trying to disrupt India’s economy: PM

Prime Minister Atal Behari VajpayeeNEW DELHI, Feb 4: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today indirectly charged Pakistan with attempting to disrupt India’s economy by pumping in fake currency notes, even as he said this country had the potential to be a big power which all friends and enemies are aware of. There are conspiracies going on because enemies don’t want to see us prosper. Fake currency notes are being pumped into our country to disrupt our economy, Vajpayee said at a function here without naming Pakistan. Asserting that India has braved such situations earlier also, he said we will smash these and we are confident of that.........more

Undeclare strike in Civil Secretariat
No Work-No Pay issue will be discussed

in Cabinet: Rather

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 4: While the Government has decided to discuss the issue of 'No Work-No Pay' in next Cabinet meeting, chaos and confusion prevailed in the Civil Secretariat on the second consecutive day. Some employees of the Secretariat have attended their duties today but a group observed ‘undeclared’ strike............more

Two suspects spotted by people
Police crackdown in Mast Garh, Peer Kho

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 4: Police today launched a crackdown in Mast Garh and Peer Kho locality this afternoon following reports emanating from some civilians that two suspicious elements were sighted in the locality early today.............more

Protest against power crisis
Irate villager block Jammu-Akhnoor road

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 4: The irate mob of Barnai and adjoining villages blocked the busy Jammu-Akhnoor road for three hours this morning in protest against power crisis being faced by the people of the locality for the last over 25 days...............more

HM militant’s brother arrested
Militants loot GREF camp

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Feb 4: Militants attacked a camp of GREF in the upper reaches of Mahore last night while 8 Rashtriya Rifles today apprehended brother of a top Hizbul Mujahideen militant from Nagni forests in Doda district........more

Justice Gupta to probe Sidhra land scam

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 4: The Government have appointed a Commission of Inquiry consisting of Justice K K Gupta retired Judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court to conduct inquiry and perform such other functions as are necessary or incidental in the......more

Azhar forms new outfit to intensify militancy in Kashmir

Maulana Azhar MasoodKARACHI, Feb 4: A jailed Pakistani muslim leader, Maulana Azhar Masood, released in a deal which ended the hijacking of an Indian Airliner last December, formed a new militant group today. Maulana Azhar Masood founded Jaish-e-Muhammad (army of Islam’s prophet) to intensify the militancy in Kashmir, one of his aides, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, told a news conference in Karachi...........more



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