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With fear lurking on their terror stricken faces, Gujjars thinking about their future as carnages of nomads going on unabated. Excelsior/Ashok

Gujjars killings aimed at spreading terror
Resentment among nomads against politicians

Excelsior Correspondent

BAKOREE (RAJOURI), Mar 4: Tears streamed from the eyes of ailing Nazir Ahmed, 70, while narrating the incident how so-called Muhajideens had brutally butchered his only son Mushtaq as the poor boy had refused to response to their diktats. "They did not kill Mushtaq only, but snatched our lone bread earner from us. If they are true Jehadis, they should have at least thought of our poor family" says Nazir with chocked voice. "They barged into our house, dragged my son out at gun point and next day his mutilated body was found from a Khud", narrated Nazir sobbingly. Only fault of Mushtaq, a Gujjar, was that he had cordial relations with securitymen deployed in their area..........more

PM condemns destruction of Buddha statues by Taliban

SHAHPURKANDI, (PUNJAB), Mar 4: Prime Minister A B Vajpayee today charged Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban militia with making attempts to convert the earth into a "battlefield" terming their act of destruction of Buddha statues as "un-Islamic". ....more

Service chiefs to draw up blueprint for
control of nuclear forces

NEW DELHI, Mar 4: The Army, Navy and Air Force chiefs are understood to have been asked to draw up a blueprint for operational command and control of the nuclear forces as part of the key recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on national security. .......more

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims stop and bow their heads towards
holy Kabba in prayer on the streets of Mecca. More than two million pilgrims
are expected to perform annual Haj this year.

Tearful pilgrims ascend Mount on Muslim Haj climax

MOUNT ARAFAT, (SAUDI ARABIA), Mar 4: Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims ascended Mount Arafat today in an emotional march to pray for mercy on the culmination of the annual Haj pilgrimage. A seemingly endless sea of pilgrims clad in white swept the barren, rocky plain shortly after sunrise as the faithful made their way on foot and in vehicles from Mena where they had spent the night under tents or out in the open air. .......more

Pak training youth for Jehad despite India’s ceasefire

ISLAMABAD, Mar 4: ......morePakistan continues to train youth, mostly teenagers, for Jehad in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s announcement of ceasefire against militants notwithstanding. .....more

Tension in Kathua, people protest
Dalit woman gang-raped; 3 arrested, 2 abscond

Excelsior Correspondent

KATHUA, Mar 4: A Dalit woman was gang raped in the absence of her husband last mid-night at village Said Magloor under the jurisdiction of Rajbagh police station. The woman was raped by five miscreants of a particular community allegedly in vengeance to the abduction of a young girl of their community by a local Dalit boy..........more

Kashmir issue could be solved politically: Ex-Hizb chief

NEW DELHI, Mar 4: Former Hizbullah chief and now a senior Hurriyat leader Shahid-ul-Islam today said the Kashmir issue could be solved......more

Man shot dead, daughter wounded by militants

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 4: Militants gunned down a middle-aged man and critically wounded her daughter in their house at village Duggabala in Thathri area of Doda district last night......more

Cong splits in WB

KOLKATA, Mar 4: The Congress in West Bengal today split with eight party MLAs and three AICC members crossing over to Trinamool Congress, whose chief Mamata Banerjee upped the stakes in her battle against ruling CPI (M) in coming assembly elections in the State by declaring it was a "now-or-never" fight. .........more

350 cops promoted ....

Grenades seized in Basohli....

Indian pilgrims safe: Farooq ....

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