NEW DELHI, Dec 30:Major opposition parties
today came out in full support of the measures taken by
the Government against Pakistan following the December 13
terrorist strike on Parliament and sought maximum scope
for diplomatic steps to force Islamabad to rein in
terrorist outfits as no one wanted a war. .........more
A boy Sikandar Singh displays the bullets, fired by Pak
army, which landed in
his house at Garkhal, about 100 meters from Indo-Pak
border, in Akhnoor
sector. His mother looks on. -- Excelsior/Ashok
JAMMU,
Dec 30: Pakistan
army resumed shelling in Galar area of Samba sector and
Janghar area of Nowshera sector today. A flour mill was
blasted in the shelling in Galar early today while about
600 families migrated from forward villages of Nowshera
and took shelter in the Government schools in safer
areas........more
NEW
DELHI, Dec 30:Describing
Islamabad’s steps against terrorist
outfits as "a joke", Home
Minister L K Advani today said Pakistan
can even now give "firm
assurance" to the world community
and India that it would stop aiding and
abetting terrorism in order to prevent
New Delhi from taking any measure at the
non-diplomatic level. .....more
MARH, Dec
30:Jammu
and Kashmir Peoples’
Democratic Party (PDP), chief
Mufti Mohammed Sayed today
criticised Chief Minister, Dr
Farooq Abdullah for adopting
non-serious attitude in the
prevailing crucial time......more
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: While as at least
seven militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad
outfit and a soldier died in a fierce
gunbattle at Durpora village of Shopian
in south Kashmir today, one militants was
eliminated by security forces in another
encounter, in the north Kashmir forest
area of Hamam Markoot, in Baramulla
district........more
NEW DELHI, Dec
30:The Prime Minister,
Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee has lambasted one
of his ministerial colleagues for his
proposal seeking Central intervention in
Jammu and Kashmir...........more
RAJOURI, Dec 30: Terrorists gunned
down three members of a family including
a woman and wounded another and torched
seven houses in two separate incidents in
Koteranka and Gambhir Mugalan areas of
this district over-night........more
UDHAMPUR, Dec 30:
A Special Police Officer
(SPO) was killed while an ASI and a SPO
were injured in an encounter with the
terrorists at village Trinkala in Gandoh
area of Doda district this morning.
Troops defused a ‘camera IED’
at Batote on Jammu-Srinagar national
highway today.....more
ISLAMABAD, Dec 30: Maulana Masood
Azhar, head of Jaish-e-Muhammad, one of
the terrorist groups involved in the
attack on Indian Parliament, was today
remanded to 90 days custody and shifted
from his native Bahawalpur town to a
prison in Sargodha range, a domestic news
agency reported. .........more
NEW DELHI,
Dec 30: The United States, France,
Iran and Libya have sought firm action by
Pakistan against terrorist outfits
following the December 13 attack on
Parliament even as India conveyed to them
that it is exercising "maximum
possible restraint." ......more
