| THE LARGEST CIRCULATED DAILY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR | |
JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1999 |
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| THE LARGEST CIRCULATED DAILY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR | |
JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1999 |
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From Ahmed Ali Fayaz SRINAGAR, Nov 11: While as the family of a J&K Police Inspector has been wiped out with the killing of four civilians at Karnah, close to Line of Control (LoC), in north Kashmir, as many as fourteen persons -- 6 BSF personnel, 4 militants and 4 civilians -- have got killed in a daytime encounter of militants and security forces at Panzipora village, near Sopore. In other incidents of violence, identified (and later apprehended) gunmen have shot dead a civilian at Dangarpora, Sopore, and unidentified militants have gunned down a counter-insurgent source of security forces at Pulwama town this evening.............more |
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Sharif charged with treason, may face death penalty
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ISLAMABAD,
Nov 11:
Deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and seven others have
been charged of treason and kidnapping that carry death
penalty reviving memories of conviction and execution of
late premier Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto, two decades ago. The
charges filed by the police after midnight on Thursday
accused Sharif of criminal conspiracy to kill Army Chief
Gen Pervez Musharraf and of attempting to hijack a plane,
police said. The charges, on a complaint by a senior Army
Officer Col Attiq Usman Kiyani filed on behalf of the new
military Government in the Karachi airport police
station.........
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DELHI, Nov 11: Congress leader
and former Union Minister Rajesh Pilot
today said the situation in Jammu and
Kashmir was alarming and the recent
attack by militants on the army
cantonment in Srinagar and the blast at
the secretariat there were clear
indications that militants had the upper
hand at present. The former Internal
Security Minister incharge of J and K
affairs talking to a delegation of
Congress workers who called on him at his
residence here, said the strategy of
containing militancy was not effective.
Although the Central and State
Governments claimed improvement in the
situation, it was the
opposite.............
