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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2001
 

Major gunbattles in Kupwara, Shopian
14 militants among 20 killed in Valley

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 18: Even as militants have eliminated yet another brother of the slain counter-insurgent Azad Nabi in Anantnag and three soldiers died in a fierce gunbattle with militants in Shopian, security forces have eliminated at least 14 militants in Kashmir valley since last evening.................more


An Afghan refugee, second from left, pours water to a customer as other refugees gather around him on Pak border. A glass of water sells for 1 Rupee ($0.04 U.S. cent). (AP/Bullit Marquez)
An Afghan refugee, second from left, pours water to a customer as other refugees gather around him on Pak border. A glass of water sells for 1 Rupee ($0.04 U.S. cent).
(AP/Bullit Marquez)

Death toll rising, say Taliban
Strikes paving way for ground war: Bush

ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: With all known surface-to-air missile sites destroyed in Afghanistan, US warplanes kept up their relentless assault targeting Taliban troop garrisons and barracks across the country today even as the militia battled to defend the key northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif from advancing opposition forces..............more

Girl shot dead in Gandoh
6 Pakistani terrorists, JCO, 3 jawans killed

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Oct 18: In a fiercest day long gun-battle today, six foreign mercenaries, a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of Rashtriya Rifles, a jawan and two Special Police Officers (SPOs) were killed while two terrorists escaped in critically injured condition in Gandoh area of Doda district.........more

Pak retaliates with heavy fire arms; tension flares up

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 18: Two days after ‘punitive action’ by Indian troops, Pakistan army retaliated last night targeting Chicken Neck sector in Akhnoor and Balakot sector in Mendhar using heavy caliber weapons but failed to cause much damage or any casualties..........more

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Militants strike on Baramulla highway
Sagar, Sadhotra have narrow escape

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 18: Two ministers of National Conference (NC) Government—Ali Mohammad Sagar and Ajay Sadhotra—survived attempts on their life when militants struck on Srinagar-Baramulla highway. However, luck favoured the ruling party leaders and none was harmed in the two unsuccessful attacks...............more

Security strengthened in Ayodhya
Probe blames CRPF men

AYODHYA, Oct 18: Security was today beefed up in and around the makeshift temple here even as an inquiry by Faizabad district administration squarely blamed the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel for "failure" to prevent Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists’ from storming it yesterday..................more

5 terrorists, guide killed in Surankot

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, Oct 18: Army and police gunned down five terrorists and their one guide today in village Boriwala near Mehrot in Surankot tehsil of Poonch district and were hunting another group of four ultras in the same village, police said..........more

Hurriyat sets Delhi in motion
Passport Act to be amended in Dec

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI, Oct 18: Kashmir’s All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has created history of sorts, necessitating the Government of India to set the stage for introducing an amendment in the Indian Passport Act, 1967................more

One million dollar reward for anthrax culprits

WASHINGTON, Sept 18: The United States today posted a one million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of "terrorist" culprits who sparked a germ warfare alert by mailing anthrax............more

Israeli rocket attack kills Fatah leader

BETHLEHEM, Oct 18: Israeli helicopter gunships today killed a leader of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement wanted for the death of a Jewish settler woman, as well as two other Fatah activists in Bethlehem, Palestinian security officials said.............moreMissing Indian Kids - Children

Fernandes visiting Siachen tomorrow.....

Two Bank staffers held for fraud......

Justice Passayat is new SC Judge......



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