JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2001
Flames
destroy homes set ablaze in this residential
neighborhood, in the view from television, after an
American Airlines jetliner, on its way to the Dominican
Republic with 255 people aboard crashed moments after
takeoff from Kennedy Airport, in New York, Monday.(AP
Photo/Fox5-WNYW-TV)
NEW
YORK, Nov 12:In
yet another frightening air tragedy, an American airliner
today crashed in a residential area minutes after taking
off from John F Kennedy international airport here
killing all 255 people on board, two months after
terrorist strikes in the US, prompting a fresh high alert
across the country....more
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair
greets Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee outside
Downing Street in London, Monday. (AP/Alastair Grant)
LONDON,
Nov 12:Skirting
any direct mention of terrorism in Kashmir, British
Premier Tony Blair today said his Government’s
position on the issue has not changed and it wished to
see tensions reduced between India and Pakistan........more
SRINAGAR, Nov 12: While as militants
have kidnapped a Police constable in
Kupwara, security forces have eliminated
five militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba and
Jaish-e-Mohammad in Kashmir valley since
last evening. Militant also carried out
unsuccessful grenade attacks on three
formations of SSB and BSF........more
ISLAMABAD,
Nov 12:Opposition
Northern Alliance forces today
made a major push towards Kabul
and captured the entire Bamiyan
province in central Afghanistan
and the key western city of Herat
as ruling Taliban retreated from
all northern provinces except
Kunduz...........more
NEW DELHI, Nov 12:Asserting
that India must call Pakistan’s
bluff on Kashmir, Minister of State for
External Affairs Omar Abdullah today
candidly conceded that New Delhi had been
found wanting in effectively putting
across its point of view........more
NEW DELHI, Nov 12:Senior
Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Lone today
admitted for the first time that the
leadership of the amalgam had been
holding "informal" talks with
the Centre for resolving the Kashmir
dispute. ........more
Chairman of Hurriyat
Conference, Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, calling
for "all parties’
cease-fire" at a news conference in
Srinagar on Monday. Former Hurriyat
chairman and Mirwaiz of Kashmir, Maulvi
Umar Farooq, was also present.
-Excelsior/Javed
SRINAGAR, Nov 12:The
Hurriyat Conference today called for a
"comprehensive" ceasefire by
all groups including the militants and
security forces as part of its
three-point formula to resolve the
Kashmir issue....more
POONCH/RAJOURI, Nov 12:Seven
terrorists and a guide were killed in
three operations across Poonch district
today. One of them was carrying a fake
identity card of sub district hospital,
Surankot. The terrorists killed a
father-son at their residence in Taryath
area of Kalakot tehsil in Rajouri last
night. .....more
NEW DELHI, Nov 12:America’s
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
have forwarded a set of questions to the
Indian Defence Ministry and Army
Headquarters on the whereabouts of
Taliban-aided ‘terror
merchant’, Osama bin Laden.........more
NEW DELHI, Nov 12:Osama bin
Laden’s Al Qaeda network may have
successfully transported several nuclear,
biological and chemical weapons of mass
destruction to the United States, a
Pakistani daily has reported..........more
