ISLAMABAD,
Dec 29 :Pakistan
today promised not to raise the Kashmir issue at next
week’s SAARC summit here and offered to remain
"constructive and supportive" on issues
relating to terrorism...............more
Cops
examining the site of grenades attack at Bus Stand on
Monday evening. -Excelsior/Ashok
JAMMU,
Dec 29:Nine
persons sustained minor injuries when a suspected
militant lobbed a grenade in General Bus Stand from a
connecting road this evening during the evening power
cut. The militant escaped taking the advantage of
darkness................more
JAMMU, Dec 29:In a
significant development, Vigilance
Organization today registered a case
against former Minister Dr Mustafa Kamal,
Mohd Aslam Qureshi, the then Vice
Chairman Jammu Development Authority
(JDA) and others under the Prevention of
Corruption Act and Criminal
Conspiracy.........more
RAJOURI, Dec 29:For
11-year-old Muzaffar Iqbal, it
was a rebirth after he was
rescued by the Army during a
recent counter-insurgency
operation in
Poonch................more
SRINAGAR, Dec 29:Two
Kashmiri cadres of Hizbul Mujahideen and
a woman have died in the overnight
gunbattle between militants and security
forces at Arihal village in Pulwama
district. Meanwhile, security forces have
killed a militant and militants have
killed an SPO in Kashmir valley since
last evening............more
JAMMU, Dec 29:US-Pak
friendship is a marriage of convenience
and India should not hitch its wagon with
American neo-conservatives but formulate
country’s foreign policy keeping in
mind its own strategic
interests...........more
NEW DELHI, Dec 29 :A day after
her remarks on Prime Ministership,
Congress today said Sonia Gandhi will be
the Party’s Prime Ministerial
candiadate but left it to the
constituents of the proposed anti-BJP
Front to decide on who would lead the
grouping as her opponents said she has
conceded defeat even before the battle
has begun..........more
JAMMU, Dec 29: Army today gunned
down one militant in an encounter at
village Peer Bhera in Keri sector in
Rajouri district and apprehended another
in Nowshera sector..................more
CHENNAI, Dec 29:Toeing
DMK’s line, MDMK today decided to
pull out of the National Democratic
Alliance and withdraw its two ministers
from the Union Government "keeping
in mind" BJP’s overtures to
tie-up with rival AIADMK in Tamil
Nadu.......more
BHOPAL, Dec 29: The Sangh Parivar
fraternity led by Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee and RSS chief K S
Sudarshan today bid a tearful adieu to
their stalwart and former BJP president
Kushabhau Thakre as his mortal remains
were consigned to flames with full state
honours here......more
