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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1999
 

Pressure mounting to sack Ansari
CM holding parleys on Cabinet reshuffle

Excelsior Special Correspondent

Farooq AbdullahJAMMU, Dec 12: Hectic consultations are underway within the top brass of ruling National Conference to come at a conclusion for revamping the entire State Cabinet in a bid to tide over recent corruption and scandal charges leveled against some Ministers, presently holding various portfolios in the Farooq Abdullah Ministry. While the pressure is building up within the rank and file of the Party to sack Urban and Housing Minister Moulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, allegedly involved in the housing scam, Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah, this morning held....more

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Union MoS Home Mr Vidya Sagar Rao addressing a press conference in Jammu on Sunday. -Excelsior/Ashok
Union MoS Home Mr Vidya Sagar Rao addressing a press conference in Jammu on Sunday. -Excelsior/Ashok

White Paper on ISI activities soon
Militancy will be defeated : Rao

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 12: Union Minister of State for Home, Mr Vidya Sagar Rao today said the Pakistan-sponsored militancy will be defeated in Jammu and Kashmir notwithstanding the recent spurt in militant activities in the Kashmir valley.......more

Afghans settled close to LoC

NEW DELHI, Dec 12: Pakistan’s ISI has reportedly got hundreds of Afghan mercenaries settled close to Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after the October 12 Army takeover, a move seen as an indicator towards the military regime’s plans to increase infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir for militant activities......more

Revamp in Cong (I) on cards
CWC accepts Antony recommendations

NEW DELHI, Dec 12: A major organisational revamp in the Congress is on the cards with its Working Committee today accepting most of the wideranging recommendations of the A K Antony Committee report on the worst electoral debacle even as the party stuck to a cautious stand on coalition politics and tie-ups with Dalit parties.......more

CISF opens firing in air
20 injured as Dul Hasti workers turn violent

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Dec 12: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) opened firing in air and resorted to lathicharge and teargassing for second straight day on Dul Hasti project workers in Kishtwar tehsil of Doda district resulting into injuries to more than 20 workers.... ..more

BSF kills 2 militants in Romeo sector

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 12: The Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down two militants during two separate encounters in Romeo sector since last evening. A large quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered from the possession of slain militants.....more

Musharraf’s top priority to Kashmir
Pak-aided Islamic Commandos sneak into Jammu Kashmir

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI, Dec 12: The Home and Defence Ministries have just been informed by intelligence sleuths about the arrival in Jammu and Kashmir of a new crop of attackers, each one of them trained across the border. And the attackers – their exact number is not known – are Islamic commandos, who, before their entry into Kupwara and Ganderbal sectors of Kashmir valley and Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu region, received training in Pakistan in terrorism, subversion, sabotage and abduction......more

SPO killed in Kupwara blast
Master Ahsan Dar’s brother killed

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 12: Unidentified gunmen have shot dead the brother of the former Hizbul Mujahideen chief Master Ahsan Dar in Pattan area of Baramulla district while as a Special Police Official (SPO) has been eliminated in a major blast at his house in Kupwara district during last night.....more

CBI to re-open Mattoo case if asked by HC

NEW DELHI, Dec 12: CBI Director R K Raghavan tonight said agency would re-investigate the Priyadarshani Mattoo murder case if the High Court directs it to do so.......more

2,000 bunkers to be built in Kargil

NEW DELHI, Dec 12: To protect civilian population from frequent heavy shelling by Pakistan, about 2,000 underground bunkers would be constructed in Kargil town and nearby border villages by this month-end, official sources said today......more

No talks with Pak : PM

SAINJ VALLEY (HP), Dec 12: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today ruled out the possibility of holding talks with the military regime in Pakistan. ......more



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