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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2001
 

Chattisinghpora picket attacked
SOG Srinagar nabs 7 ultras

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Feb 6: Two days after the gunning down of six Sikhs here, militants attacked a police picket set up for protection of minority community in Sikh-dominated Chattisinghpora in Anantnag district last night........more


An army jawan keeping a strict vigil on Satwari Chowk during curfew on Tuesday. -Excelsior/Ashok
An army jawan keeping a strict vigil on Satwari Chowk during curfew on Tuesday. -Excelsior/Ashok

Curfew relaxed for 2 hrs in Old City
Protests continue in Simbal Camp; bandh
in Kathua, Poonch
*Deceased cremated amid tight security

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 6: Police arrested over 100 protestants from Simbal Camp this morning after a large number of people tried to march towards Jammu defying curfew restrictions while authorities relaxed curfew in the Old City for two hours this evening following improvement in the situation. A State Bank of India (SBI) employee Mohinder Singh of Narwal, who was killed in unprovoked police firing at Malik Market, Narwal yesterday, was cremated at Channi Rama cremation ground this afternoon amidst tight security arrangements. No untoward incident took place during the cremation...........more

SPOTLIGHT
All is fair in love and war
Pak twisting facts on Musharraf-Vajpayee talks

From B L Kak

The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, does not appreciate what is termed as "a deliberate attempt" by Islamabad to twist facts vis-à-vis the widely-publicised telephonic conversation between him and the Chief Executive of Pakistan, Gen Parvez Musharraf. Even as the conversation took place last Friday after Gen Musharraf actually rang up Mr Vajpayee, Islamabad allowed the circulation of reports in Pakistani media that insisted that the Indian Prime Minister had called Pakistan’s Chief Executive.........more

Attack aimed at migration : Advani
Sikhs mount pressure for security, warn migration

NEW DELHI, Feb 6: Sikh leaders today mounted pressure on the Centre for adequate security to protect the community from being targeted by militants in Jammu and Kashmir even as Home Minister L K Advani said the recent attacks on it were aimed at triggering a "second migration" from the Valley. ..........more

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Musharraf ready to invite Vajpayee for dialogue

Gen Pervez MusharrafPrime Minister Atal Bihari VajpayeeNEW DELHI, Feb 6: Close on the heels of the first-ever contact over telephone with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pakistan’s military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has said he is ready to invite the Indian leader to Pakistan for talks to resolve the vexed Kashmir issue. "Vajpayee is the only moderate and he is surrounded by hawks. So, if we have to move in any substantial way, it can only be done in a dialogue between him and me," Musharraf was quoted as saying in an interview published today in Dubai-based ‘Gulf News’...........more

Militant, 2 civilians shot dead
Two jawans killed in IED explosion at Surankote

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 6: Two army jawans were killed in a powerful blast at Mehrot, Surankote this afternoon while a hardcore militant and two civilians including a middle-aged woman were killed and another civilian was injured in separate militancy related incidents across the region today......more

28 security guards arrested
Fake licences issued from Udhampur, Kohima seized

NEW DELHI, Feb 6 : In a major breakthrough, the Delhi Police today said, it has busted a fake arms licence racket in the Capital with the arrest of 28 security guards possessing weapons illegally, and an arms dealer........more

‘No talks with Pak till terrorism stops’

NEW DELHI, Feb 6: India today asserted that Pakistan Chief Executive Gen Pervez Musharraf’s ‘earthquake diplomacy’ will not alter its stand on resumption of dialogue with Islamabad.........more

Schools to remain closed today

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 6: All educational institutions including degree college will remain closed tomorrow, according to an official spokesman......more

NHRC team to visit J&K

NEW DELHI, Feb 6: A high-level team of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) would visit trouble-torn Jammu and Kashmir from February 8 to 10 to discuss with the State authorities the issue of human rights violations..........more Missing Indian Kids - Children
Cease-fire not weakness: BJP...

Over Rs 148 cr subsidy for Haj pilgrimage....

India, China to discuss ties....



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