Local youths help ultras to carry out sabotage
Nexus between Kashmir, Punjab militants behind
Jammu blasts

By: Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Feb 13: Jammu Police officials, investigating two explosions at railway track in Vijaypur and Jewel Chowk, apprehended a nexus between Kashmir and Punjab militants and said both were operating clandestinely to trigger explosions in Jammu and its outskirts............more

Pak mercenary groups locked in rivalry over
operations in J&K

NEW DELHI, Feb 13: Intense rivalry has surfaced among mercernary groups in Pakistan over moves to form a joint command apparently to act in tandem with Army for upcoming major covert operations in Jammu and Kashmir, according to Pakistani media reports.........more

‘We demand autonomy, not independence’
Pak will create more trouble in JK before
Clinton’s visit: Farooq

JAIPUR, Feb 13: Pakistan will create more destruction in Jammu and Kashmir before President Clinton’s coming visit to India to give an impression that it is not behind such activities, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah said today. It would try to drive home the point that stepped up militant activities in the state were the handiwork of ultras belonging to Afghanistan and Sudan, Abdullah told a convention of Rajasthan private doctors here. The world should now realise that Pakistan is the father and the mother of terrorism in India, he said maintaining the Kashmir issue should be resolved bilaterally........more

Ultras kill two youths
4 top Lashkar militants shot dead in Doda

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 13: Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group (SOG), in a joint operation today, gunned down four dreaded militants in Sarthal area of Kishtwar tehsil of Doda district while an army jawan was killed in an encounter at Surankot in Poonch district.......more

Massive protest against NC, BJP
Mob heckles Bali in Krishna Nagar

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 13: Former Industries Minister and provincial president of National Conference, Mr Bodh Raj Bali was heckled by agitated family members and relatives of Science College blast victims at Krishna Nagar this morning. The former Minister was forced to flee from the locality by an angry crowd which shouted slogans against Home Minister L K Advani and Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah..........more

Kakkar reviews JK security scenario

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 13: Two member team of the Ministry of Home Affairs today arrived here on a day’s visit for on the spot assessment of the situation in Jammu division, in the wake of two powerful explosions here this week, that claimed about a dozen lives and injuring scores others.......more

Toiba-Harkat hitman killed in encounter

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Feb 13: A dreaded Kashmiri militant working as the hitman for Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was killed in a joint operation by police and paramilitary forces at Rainawari in downtown Srinagar last night, an official spokesman said here today...........more

Major tragedy averted
Top ultra nabbed in Jammu

Averting a major tragedy during tomorrow’s Jammu bandh, police today nabbed an Afghan-trained militant from Narwal area on the outskirts of Jammu City and recovered explosives from him, which he had brought here to trigger explosions tomorrow.......more