JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2001
Afghan refugees carry their belongings in no man's land
at Chaman, the
border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, north
of Quetta, Pakistan,
on Sunday (AP/Arshad Butt)
ISLAMABAD, Nov 18: With Taliban showing no intention
of retreating from Kandahar, the US war planes today
bombarded their positions afresh as whereabouts of Osama
bin Laden remained a source of intense speculation with a
report suggesting he was surrounded by US and British
special forces in an area southeast of
Kandahar...........more
RAMBAN,
Nov 18: In
the first-ever fidayeen attack in this otherwise peaceful
town of Doda district on Jammu-Srinagar national highway,
10 army jawans and four civilians were killed and 32
others including 29 soldiers were injured, 24 of them
seriously. Three fidayeens, who launched the attack on a
large group of army personnel from atop a hill on Maitra
bridge in the heart of Ramban town this afternoon,
managed to escape........more
Union Minister of State for Home Mr I. D.
Swami addressing a press
conference at Jammu on Sunday.
Excelsior/Ashok
JAMMU, Nov 18: Union Minister of
State for Home, Mr I D Swami said that
India was committed to exercise restrain
on border but made it clear that option
to cross Line of Control (LoC) was still
available to smash terrorist training
camps in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir
(PoK).......more
PDP chief Mufti
Mohammed Sayed addressing a PDP
press
conference at Jammu.
(Excelsior/Ashok)
JAMMU,
Nov 18:Cautioning
Central Government against
nefarious designs of National
Conference to rig forthcoming
Assembly elections in the State,
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples’
Democratic Party (PDP) chief
Mufti Mohammed Sayed today asked
the NDA Government to take some
positive steps to revive
confidence of the inhabitants, of
this violence plagued state, in
the democratic
institutions.counts (Gaz)
Services to fill some vacant
posts of Chief Accounts
Officers.............more
NEW DELHI, Nov
18: Britain’s International
Institute for Strategic Studies has
revealed that Osama bin Laden and
Pakistan’s Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) provide "active
support" to the Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) militant outfit operating in Jammu
and Kashmir. .........more
POONCH/RAJOURI,
Nov 18: Eight terrorists
including six infiltrators were
eliminated by army and police in three
operations across the twin border
districts today. All slain ultras were
the foreign mercenaries. Terrorists
slaughtered a Panch in Thanna
Mandi.......more
NEW DELHI, Nov 18: As
Parliament’s winter session begins
tomorrow, opposition parties today
hardened their stand on the controversial
anti-terrorism ordinance even as the
Government said it has an open mind on
changes being suggested to the proposed
law. .....more
NEW DELHI, Nov 18: Minister of State
Maneka Gandhi was tonight divested of the
Ministry of Culture and given independent
charge of the Ministry of Programme
Implementation and Statistics with the
additional charge of Animal Welfare. The
Ministry of Culture has been allocated to
Tourism Minister Jagmohan. .....more
NEW DELHI, Nov 18:CBI has
unearthed a scam in the Defence Ministry
and registered a case against eight
persons including three senior officials
of the ministry and two foreign companies
for allegedly causing loss of crores of
rupees to the Government through supply
of sub-standard ammunition to the Army
during 1992-95. .......more
SIACHIN
GLACIER (LADAKH), Nov 18: Taliban and its
fraternal Pakistani terrorist allies,
including Jaish-i-Mohammad and
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen cadres, now on the
run in Afghanistan, will "face
liquidation" if they dared enter
Indian territory, Defence Minister George
Fernandes warned today. ........more
