‘Kashmir will be
focus of Indo-Pak talks’
ISLAMABAD, July 8: Under pressure
from former Foreign Ministers, retired
Generals and intellectuals, Pakistan
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said
that the focus of his talks with Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will remain
on Kashmir and he would strive to get a
commitment from India that it was a
disputed territory..........more
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5
encounters in Valley
9 militants, 2
soldiers among 13 killed
Excelsior
Special Correspondent
SRINAGAR,
July 9: With the
date of Vajpayee-Musharraf
meeting drawing closer, security
forces in Kashmir valley have
intensified their drive against
the pro-Pakistan militant
outfits, particularly the dreaded
Lashkar-e-Toiba and
Jaish-e-Mohammad. While as nine
militants were eliminated today
in five different encounters, two
civilians and two soldiers also
got killed.........more
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3 jawans, 2
civilians injured
5
LeT militants, 2 jawans killed in
Surankot; 5 hurt
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, July 9: Five
foreign mercenaries of Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) outfit and two army jawans were
killed while three soldiers and two
civilians were seriously injured in a
fierce gun-fighting in Kacharwara dhok of
Surankot this afternoon. Two civilians
were killed while an ex-serviceman was
kidnapped by the militants in other
incidents in Poonch..........more
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No breakthrough but
police gets clues in double murder
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, July 9: Describing
yesterday’s double murder of PGI
Medical Superintendent Dr Anil
Gupta’s parents in their house at
Trikuta Nagar as ‘blind’,
police this evening said it was still
trying to get a breakthrough in the
case........more
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Don't create
stumbling blocks in success
of
summit: Farooq
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGAR July 9: Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah
today warned against creating stumbling
blocks in the success of forthcoming
Indo-Pak summit, saying that the peoples
of the two countries have pinned many
hopes with it for lasting peace in the
region..........more
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