India charges Pak with
continuing cross-border
terrorism in J&K
From B L Kak
NEW DELHI, Feb 24: Pakistan continues
sponsorship of cross-border terrorism in
Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of
India. Indeed, cross-border terrorism
"stepped up" following
Pakistan’s military defeat in Kargil
in 1999, according to the Minister for
External Affairs, Mr Jaswant Singh..........more
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Poonch
encounter toll 9
Gujjar couple
shot dead by militants in Doda
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 24: Pakistan-sponsored
militants gunned down a Gujjar
couple in their house at Dool
Sarthal in Kishtwar tehsil of
Doda district last night while
troops of Grenadiers under
Krishna Ghati Brigade gunned down
another militant in Khanetar Top
in Poonch this afternoon taking
death toll in the encounter to
nine.........more
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Foil designs of secular
leaders: Geelani
 SRINAGAR,
Feb 24: The rift within the
Hurriyat Conference came to the fore with
the former chairman of the Conference,
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, asking the people
to foil designs of so-called
"secular leaders bent upon harming
the freedom struggle in Jammu and
Kashmir". "A conspiracy is
going on in the Hurriyat Conference and
it is you who have to distinguish and
choose between the so-called secular
leaders and those toeing the Islamic
line," Geelani told a Friday
congregation in Baramulla district
yesterday.........more
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BJP leader involved in
grabbing KPs property
By Avtar Bhat
JAMMU, Feb 24: Despite the
enactment of Distress Sale of Migrant
Property Act by the Jammu and Kashmir
Government during the year 1997, the sale
and forcible occupation of the immovable
property of the displaced people goes on
unabated in the Kashmir valley.....more
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Water to cost more,
liquor cheaper
SHIMLA, Feb 24: Drinking
water in Himachal Pradesh will cost more,
both in urban and rural areas with hike
in rates per kiloliter, application
charges, security and connection charges
enhanced drastically.........more
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NEW DELHI, Feb. 24 : Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee today declared 
KOHIMA, Feb
24: Union
Home Minister L K Advani said today the Centre 
