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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2001
 

People jostle with each other to get drinking water from a water tank in view of acute water shortage in Udhampur. Excelsior/K. Kumar
People jostle with each other to get drinking water from a water tank in view of acute water shortage in Udhampur. Excelsior/K. Kumar


Kashmir integral part of India: Vajpayee

MUMBAI, June 19: In crucial remarks ahead of the Indo-Pak summit, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today asserted that Jammu and Kashmir is an ‘integral part’ of India and this position would remain ‘unchanged’ during his proposed talks with Pakistan’s military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf next month. ......more



Musharraf-Vajpayee summit in Agra

Pakistani military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf NEW DELHI, June 19: Pakistani military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf will visit India for three days from July 14 and the summit meeting with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be held in Agra. "At the invitation of the Prime Minister, Chief Executive of Pakistan Gen Pervez Musharraf and Begum Musharraf will visit India from July 14 to 16," a spokesman of the External Affairs Ministry said announcing the broad schedule for the summit.........more

No confidence expressed in leadership
Section of Jammu Bar calls off strike

Excelsior Legal Correspondent

JAMMU, June 19: Expressing no-confidence in the leadership, a big section of Bar Association Jammu including young lawyers, today called off the ongoing strike against the opening of Fast Track Courts and decided to attend the courts from tomorrow.....more

Pak defence reduction 'modest, misleading'

NEW DELHI, June 19: Pakistan’s first ever reduction in defence spending was today viewed with scepticism by security analysts in India who described it as "too modest" and borne out of Islamabad’s economic compulsions rather than the craving for a favourable climate ahead of the Vajpayee-Musharraf summit. ....more

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Intrusion bid foiled in Mendhar
New outfit's commander among 3 ultras killed

Excelsior Correspondent

POONCH/RAJOURI, June 19: Army and police today killed three militants in three separate operations across Mendhar and Surankot tehsils of Poonch district overnight. An infiltration attempt was also foiled by army in Mendhar sector.. ........more

1668 more yatris registered in Jammu
Massive security for Amarnath pilgrims

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, June 19: As this year’s Baba Amarnath yatra is coinciding the summit between India, Pak Governments and in view of the last year’s militants attack on pilgrims at Pahalgam and a registration counter at Jammu, the State Government is going to take no chance and it has made the fool proof security arrangements for the pilgrims from Jammu Base Camp to Cave Shrine........more

Civilians thrashed, 3 hospitalised
Army jawan killed, Subedar injured in Banihal blast

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, June 19: Militants triggered a powerful explosion at village Chanjlu, about two kms from Banihal town this morning killing an army jawan and critically wounding a Subedar. Five civilians were beaten-up and injured while three others were arrested by security forces in the aftermath of blast.. ....more

More arrests likely in plot to blast US embassy

NEW DELHI, June 19: Delhi Police today said more arrests were likely to be made in Udaipur in Rajasthan and Bihar in connection with the recent unearthing of a conspiracy to carry out blast at the United States embassy here even as the American sleuths have sought some more information from the city police in the case. .....more

No formula on Kashmir expected from
coming Indo-Pak summit

NEW DELHI, June 19: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan Chief Executive Gen Pervez Musharraf will not discuss any formula or proposal on Kashmir during their summit meeting next month as the proposed talks do not have any structured agenda, sources said. Commenting on proposals on Kashmir in circ....more

Rs 3.60 Lakh looted, official injured in bank dacoity
Lt, 8 Hizb militants killed in Valley

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, June 19: In their continued strike on militants, after withdrawing six-month-long unilateral ceasefire, security forces today eliminated eight militants of pro-Pakistan Hizb-ul-Mujahideen in Kashmir valley, while losing an officer in an operation at Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector. ............moreMissing
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Qazi meets Sonia .......

Summit will benefit India, Pak and region: US ..........

JKLF urges Pak to give up claim over J&K .....

India rejects Pak proposal to involve Hurriyat ....

Mahajan Sabha affairs
Langer’s tenure marks various achievements.......



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