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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2002
 

Daughter Shabnam and other relatives wailing over the dead body of senior Hurriyat leader and president of Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Conference, Abdul Gani Lone, at Rawalpora residence in Srinagar on Tuesday evening. -Excelsior/Javed
Daughter Shabnam and other relatives wailing over the dead body of senior Hurriyat leader and president of Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Conference, Abdul Gani Lone, at Rawalpora residence in Srinagar on Tuesday evening. -Excelsior/Javed

Hurriyat’s moderate voice silenced on eve of PM’s visit
Gani Lone, PSO gunned down at Eidgah
Geelani not allowed to approach coffin
Anti-Pak mood at Lone’s house
Son, Sajjad Lone, blames ISI
Pro-Pak slogans at Martyrs Graveyard

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, May 21: Senior separatist Hurriyat Conference leader and founder-president of Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Conference, Abdul Gani Lone, was gunned down by unidentified assassins, alongwith his personal security officer (PSO), at the "Martyrs Graveyard", on Eidgah grounds here this evening. The seventy-year-old politician’s death came in broad daylight on occasion of the 12th death anniversary of Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq, who was gunned down by militants at his residence, this day in 1990.............more




PM begins J&K tour
Meeting with Pak on Indus Water Treaty cancelled
*Perpetrators of Kaluchak massacre will not go unpunished

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 21: Scrapping of the Indus Water Treaty, security of far-flung interior areas of Jammu region following the deployment of Army on borders and strengthening of Village Defence Committees (VDCs) are some of the key issues that are learnt to have cropped up during Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s preliminary discussions with the State Government here today, the first day of his three day visit to the State.......more

VDC member shot dead, camp attacked
Jawan killed, 3 hurt in blast

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, May 21: An army jawan was killed and three others including a Subedar were seriously injured when the terrorists detonated an IED at Kalginder, about one km from Pul Doda on Doda-Bhaderwah road this morning. Terrorists also fired rockets on an army camp in Banihal this afternoon............more

BSP ready for seat adjustments with other parties
War decision rests with Centre: Kanshi Ram

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 21: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Kanshi Ram said here today that any decision regarding going for a war with Pakistan should be taken by the Government of India only after keeping in view the interests of common man........more

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Lone, a powerful voice of moderation

SRINAGAR, May 21: Moderate among separatist Hurriyat Conference leaders, Abdul Gani Lone, who was killed here today, was under attack from hardliners for his stand that violence was no solution to the Kashmir problem........more

Pallanwalla shelling toll goes upto 5

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 21: Death toll in last night’s mortar shelling by Pakistan army in Pallanwalla village of Chhamb sector today rose to five with two more civilians and an army jawan succumbing to their injuries in the hospitals. Two more civilians were injured in the shelling and firing today in Hiranagar and Nowshera sectors.........more

India rejects charge that it is belligerent

NEW DELHI, May 21: India today rejected the charge that it was in a war-like mood or belligerent towards Pakistan in the wake of the Kaluchak massacre but made it clear that it would do everything to protect national interests..........more

4 militants among 9 killed in Valley
Girl killed, 5 injured in CRPF firing

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 21: Even as security forces eliminated four militants and CRPF left one killed and five wounded in a shootout here this evening, militants have slaughtered two more pro-Government activists in Rajwar area of Kupwara district......more

Advani condemns Lone's killing

NEW DELHI, May 21: Condemning the killing of senior Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Lone, Home Minister L K Advani tonight said it was an attempt to prevent those elements in Jammu and Kashmir who were inclined to participate in the coming Assembly elections. .....more

Army withdrawn from Gujarat

AHMEDABAD, May 21: After nearly two months of deployment, the army today withdrew 6,000 troops from riot-ravaged Gujarat to bolster deployment on the borders but supercop K P S Gill said the move would not affect policing... .....more Missing Indian Kids - Children
IAF clears MiG-21 aircrafts .....

Lone’s murder direct attack on peace: Powell.....



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