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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2001

Third party involvement ruled out
Vajpayee for frank discussion with Musharraf on Kashmir

NEW DELHI, July 13: On the eve of their summit meeting, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today offered to "frankly discuss" with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Jammu and Kashmir and other issues, and measures for peace along the Line of Control (LoC) and the Actual Ground Position Line in Siachen. Voicing the hope that Musharraf would bring to the Agra summit a desire to bury the conflicts of the past and to build a new relationship of trust, Vajpayee said India had never shied away from addressing any issue, including Jammu and Kashmir, with Pakistan peacefully through bilateral approaches............more

Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah paying floral tribute at Mazar-e-Shohda, Srinagar on Friday.

Farooq wants PM to talk terrorism to Musharraf

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, July 13: Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah today hoped that Prime Minister Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee will forcefully take up the issue of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan President General Parvez Musharraf during Agra summit. Answering questions of media persons, after paying floral tributes to 1931 martyrs at Mazar-e-Shohda in down town here this morning, the Chief Minister said the State has been worst hit by over a decade long militancy and the people now want peace and an end to gun culture..............more

Blast rocks Thanna Mandi, IED defused
Arms haul from doctor's house

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, July 13: Army today recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the house of a doctor in Manjakot while a powerful explosion rocked Thanna Mandi and another IED was detected and defused by security forces............more

Mishra's report to decide fate of new BJP chief

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, July 13: The fate of new Bharatiya Janata Party president in the Jammu and Kashmir is going to be decided by the Party High Command on the report of All India Party vice-president Mr Kailashpati Mishra who left for the Union capital last evening after two-day discussion with party leaders and holding series of meetings with all the groups within the party, the two MPs and the legislators here...........more

'India, Pakistan should accord priority to make restraint'

HYDERABAD, July 13: On the eve of the much-hyped summit meeting between Prime Minister A B Vajpayee and Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf, former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Gen K V Krishna Rao today said both the countries should accord priority to arrive at an agreement on nuclear restraint as it was much more important than the Kashmir imbroglio..............more

Hurriyat’s bandh on Martyrs’ Day
4 militants, soldier, civilian killed

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, July 13: While as Kashmir valley today observed a partial shutdown on Martyrs’ Day, four militants, one soldier and a civilian died in different militancy-related incidents, since last evening..........more

Sarpanch shot in Gool

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, July 13: Militants gunned down a Sarpanch outside a marriage party function and attacked a Border Security Force (BSF) camp in Sangaldan in two separate incidents in this district last night.............more

Musharraf won't accept LoC as permanent border

DUBAI, July 13: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out accepting the Line of Control (LoC) as permanent border and said he is willing to extend his trip to India by another 48 hours if New Delhi is serious about finding a solution to the Kashmir issue............more

Threshold of new opportunity: India

NEW DELHI, July 13 : On the eve of the Indo-Pak Summit, India today said the two countries stood on the threshold of a "new opportunity" and New Delhi was looking forward to the future with a "great deal of hope"............more

Forget bitterness, says Imam

NEW DELHI, July 13: Shahi Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid Mufti Mohammad Mukarram Ahmad today appealed to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf to forget the bitter past and take concrete decisions in the larger interest of the two countries at the Agra summit...........more

DGP, IGP visit Surankot, Mendhar.....

Advani to do plain speaking.....

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