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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2001
 

First ever battle on Warwan-Zanskar border
7 top Jaish militants, 3 cops killed in Kishtwar
*Boy shot in Banihal, people block NH

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 22: In one of the fiercest operation, the Special Task Force (STF) Doda gunned down seven hardcore foreign mercenaries of Jaish-e-Mohammed outfit in far off Rikanwas Sukhnai village in Warwan area of Kishtwar in Doda district this afternoon. Three police jawans sacrificed their lives and two others were critically wounded in the operation..........more


Fencing work apace in Kanachak sector. -Excelsior/Ashok
Fencing work apace in Kanachak sector. -Excelsior/Ashok

Several fencing pillars damaged
9 blasts rock Gajansu; 3 IEDs defused
*Explosions occur close to a BSF picket

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 22: Making a mockery of security arrangements, Pakistan-backed militants struck about 100 yards away from a Border Security Force (BSF) post triggering nine powerful explosions at Beli Azmat in Gajansu area under the jurisdiction of Kanachak police station early this morning.......more

CCS meets today on cease-fire

NEW DELHI, May 22: The Cabinet Committee on Security will meet here tomorrow evening when it is likely to extend the cease-fire in Kashmir beyond May 31 in view of positive response from some militant groups to restore peace in the troubled State......more

Peace move can succeed only with Pak
involvement: Hurriyat

NEW DELHI, May 22: In an apparent easing of its "rigid" stand, Hurriyat Conference today said the peace move in Kashmir could move in a right direction if the Centre accepted that Pakistan was a party to the dispute and its involvement would be facilitated, even at a later stage.......more

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NC pulled J&K out of mess: Omar

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 22: The Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Mr Omar Abdullah today said the National Conference Government has pulled the State out of the political and economic mess created by the militancy.......more

One killed in Reasi
Ultras rescue colleague from forces custody

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, May 22: Militants today rescued their one of associate from security forces custody after exchange of firing with troops at village Lambi Bari in Reasi tehsil of this district. However, another militant was shot dead by forces during the encounter.........more

Another attack on DFP office
Letter delivered to Musharraf

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 22: Even as both the emissaries of the separatist Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) — Mohammad Abdullah Tari and Saleem Geelani — remained untraced, party president Shabir Shah today claimed that his letter was delivered on the Chief Executive of Pakistan Gen Pervez Musharraf...........more

Encounters in Pattan, Bandipore, Handwara
3 militants, civilian killed in Pattan

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR May 22: While as three militants of Hizbul Mujahideen and a civilian died in an armed clash between militants and security forces in Pattan area today, at least eleven civilians sustained splinter injuries when militants hurled a grenade on a vehicle of security forces at Kunzar, in Tangmarg.......more

Hashim dismisses Hurriyat claim

NEW DELHI, May 22 : Founder of JKLF and hijacker of an Indian Airlines plane in 1971, Hashim Qureshi tonight dismissed the claims of Hurriyat Conference that the amalgam could influence the militant organisations operating from Pakistan........more

Underworld-JK militants nexus exposed; 3 held

NEW DELHI, May 22: The Delhi Police has for the first time exposed an underworld-terrorist nexus in the country with the arrest of a member of the Chhota Shakeel gang and two Pakistan-based Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front (JKIF) terrorists on charges of conspiring to cause blasts in the capital, Mumbai and Punjab and ‘eliminating’ members of the Sangh Parivar. ........moreMissing
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Imam in Pak on ‘Mission Kashmir’....

George rules out withdrawal of support....

Singh appointed IB Director....



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