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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2002
 

Heavy shelling in Drass town, traffic suspended
240 Pak soldiers killed, 75 bunkers destroyed

NEW DELHI, May 27: For the first time after the Kargil conflict, Pakistani forces today opened heavy fire on the Drass town on the crucial Srinagar-Leh highway as army officials here said 240 Pakistani soldiers had been killed and 75 bunkers destroyed in retaliatory fire over the past 10 days, reports PTI.............more




PCC president Ghulam Nabi Azad addressing a rally at Mandli in Billawar on Monday.
PCC president Ghulam Nabi Azad addressing a rally at Mandli in Billawar on Monday.

'Vajpayee fit to sit in Opposition'
Indecisive Govt dangerous for country: Azad

Excelsior Correspondent

MANDLI (Billawar), May 27: Former Union Minister and Pradesh Congress Committee president Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA Government at the Centre is not able to take any decision to deal with the Pakistan on the issue of terrorism and such Government is very dangerous for any nation.........more

'Peer Baba post' also perishes
Pak army's 8 double-storey bunkers smashed

Excelsior Correspondent

TREVA (ARNIA SECTOR), May 27: Troops of 5 JAK Li last night destroyed eight double-storey posts of Pakistan army opposite this forward village in retaliation to mortar shelling by the enemy troops in the evening. Atleast 10 Pakistan army soldiers were reported dead in the retaliation.............more

Sajjad now blames Farooq for Lone’s murder

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 27: Successor Sajjad Lone, who had earlier blamed ISI for his father’s assassination and later dismissed it as "an emotional outburst", today held the Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah responsible for Abdul Gani Lone’s liquidation. He was addressing a thick remembrance rally at Chinar Bagh of Handwara town in Kupwara district......more

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‘Tension with India at its height’
Musharraf rejects complaints on terrorism

ISLAMABAD, May 27: In his much-awaited address to the nation tonight, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf only repeated his earlier promise not to allow any terrorist attacks from the country’s soil and brushed aside India’s complaints on cross-border terrorism saying no infiltration was taking place from the Pakistani side........more

Border migrants say their patience is running out

From Sanjeev Pargal

HIRANAGAR/ARNIA, May 27: For over 6,000 freshly migrated families from Hiranagar to RS Pura sector on the International Border, the disbursement of relief and other necessary facilities in the migrant camps remained a major problem thanks to ‘inept handling’ of the situation by the local authorities........more

‘New Delhi is not receptive to Kashmir’s pro-peace voices’
Mufti ridicules PM’s J-K package

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 27: Former Union Home Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, has been providing second hand to New Delhi’s political clap in Jammu & Kashmir since 1996. In spite of his running different anti-NC, anti-BJP parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief had shown perceptible soft corner vis-s-vis Atal Behari Vajpayee’s Kashmir Policy during the last three years. However, Mufti Sayeed today categorically dismissed Vajpayee’s J&K package as "hollow and frivolous"...........more

India wants Pak to translate promise into action: PM

MANALI, May 27 : Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today firmly told his British counterpart Tony Blair that India expected Pakistan to translate into action any promise to combat cross-border terrorism and said its patience was running out in the wake of continued attacks..........more

Straw to ask Musharraf to end cross-border terror

LONDON, May 27: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who embarks tomorrow on a visit to Islamabad and New Delhi seeking to calm Indo-Pak military tensions, would make it clear to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf that he must stop terrorist attacks on India.........more

Two IEDs weighing 40 kg defused

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, May 27: Troops of 10 Rashtriya Rifles and STF Doda today averted a major tragedy by defusing two IEDs of 40 kg RDX on Doda-Bhagwa road............more Missing
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