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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2001
 

Centre, State Governments flayed
Experts favour clubbing of hamlets to check killings
*Call for Nagaland type experiment in J&K

Excelsior Team

JAMMU, May 11: Anti-insurgency experts, who had handled insurgency in different states, have favoured clubbing of small hamlets’ population into one large village in isolated areas of militancy-infested upper reaches of Doda and Udhampur districts to stop the massacre of ‘soft targets’ by Pakistan-backed militants...............more


A bus accident victim being shifted to Medical College. -Excelsior/Ashok
A bus accident victim being shifted to Medical College. -Excelsior/Ashok

Mahore bound bus rolls down in Katra
3 women, child among 7 killed; 39 injured

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 11: Seven persons including three women and a child were killed and 39 others were injured, five of them seriously, when a Mahore bound bus rolled down about 80 feet deep into a nullah on new Katra-Reasi road, about half km from Katra town this morning....................more

Three Services headquarters to be integrated: Govt

NEW DELHI, May 11: The Cabinet Commitee on Security (CCS) tonight decided to integrate the three headquarters of the armed forces and create an intelligence co-ordination group and a defence intelligence agency to bolster national security apparatus............more

Excesses on civilians, cease-fire & mishandling
How forces lost a militant-free Magam

From Ahmed Ali Fayaz

MAGAM, May 11: A counter-insurgent, Ghulam Ahmed Yatoo alias Ama Kana, is alleged to have committed untold excesses, including outraging modesty of pretty women, ostensibly to crush militants and their sympathisers in several villages around this prosperous town of Magam, on Srinagar-Gulmarg road..........more

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Fierce gunbattle in Vilgam forests
Two militants, two Ikhwanis killed

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 11: While as two Kashmiri counter-insurgents died in Valley since last evening, security forces eliminated two Pakistani militants in a fierce encounter at Vilgam forest area, in Kupwara district.............more

Another injured succumbs
Curfew imposed as tension mounts in Kishtwar town

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 11: Authorities imposed curfew in Kishtwar tehsil this morning in view of simmering tension in parts of Doda district against the killings of minorities in Sajjar area of Atholi yesterday. Of three injured, one died in Kishtwar before he could reach a hospital taking unofficial death toll to nine and official to seven...............more

Sena Bhawan blasts
Spl Cell to probe HM claim

NEW DELHI, May 11: The special cell of Delhi Police today began investigations into the Sena Bhawan twin blasts case amidst a claim by the pro-Pakistan terrorist outfit Hizbul Muzahideen that its activists carried out the explosions in the heart of the capital on Wednesday.............more

Cease-fire fails to bring down violence in J&K

SRINAGAR, May 11: The unilateral ceasefire announced by the Centre in Jammu and Kashmir failed to bring down militant activities in the State, according to official figures released here today.............more

HM’s local militant shot dead in Reasi

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, May 11: Security forces today killed a local militant in Kili area of Pouni Park in Reasi tehsil. This was for the first time that security force had a face to face encounter with the militants in Pouni Park area, which indicated that militants were fast expanding their area of operation in Reasi tehsil............more

Two injured in Rajouri
Jawan, militant killed

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, May 11: An army jawan and a militant were killed while two other soldiers were injured in two separate encounters in Surankot and Gambhir areas today..............moreMissing
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Two youths drown.....

‘Chela’ fires at Mahant in Manda....

Auto lifters gang linked to J&K busted.....



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