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People raise their hands at Jamia Masjid as Hurriyat leaders disclose road map of Kashmir to be discussed with Centre. -- Excelsior/Javed

‘We’ll talk to Delhi when invited’
Ansari’s Hurriyat unfolds Kashmir road
map at Jamia Masjid
Amid tight security Mirwaiz resolves: Kashmiris will
now resolve Kashmir for themselves

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz & Aijaz Hussain

SRINAGAR, Nov 21: The last Friday of the holy month of Ramazan was politically eventful today as the Abbas Ansari faction of Hurriyat Conference declared in unequivocal terms at a massive congregation at Jamia Masjid that it would soon begin talks with the Government of India to seek the ‘lasting solution’ of the vexed Kashmir problem. The second most important venue of the Jumatul Vida was no less significant at Hazratbal as, first time in the last 14 years, Chief Minister of the State participated in the mass prayers. Separatist leader Shabir Shah landed in Police detention as he and his followers attempted to create a scene with his pro-Azadi slogans at Hazratbal................more

One Pak militant for Rs 5 cr, another for Rs 5

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 21: It took hundreds of Army personnel 48 hours, several casualties and damage worth Rs 5 cr to get one Pakistani militant at Indira Nagar in Sonwar area. It took the driver of a three-wheeler just 5 minutes and fuel worth Rs 5 to get another and hand him over to Army authorities at headquarters of 15 Corps................more

6 top ultras, jawan, civilian killed
*118 Bangladeshis arrested in Ramgarh

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 21: Six militants including a ‘divisional commander’ of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit, a civilian and an army jawan were killed while two other jawans were injured as security forces effected seizure of a huge quantity of ration in two encounters in Banihal and Poonch today................more

ISI more dangerous than Al-Qaeda: Advani

NEW DELHI, Nov 21: The world community should express as much concern over the role of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as it does for Al Qaeda and Taliban if terrorism is to be checked, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said today...............more

Opinion Poll
BJP ahead in MP, Cong in other States

NEW DELHI, Nov 21: BJP is ahead in Madhya Pradesh in the coming Assembly elections, say opinion polls conducted by two news weeklies which, however, place Congress ahead in the other states going to polls on December one..................more

‘India went to UN due to aggression’

ISLAMABAD, Nov 21: Rejecting Pakistan’s demand that UN resolutions be implemented in Jammu and Kashmir, India has said it first went to the world body not because the State was a disputed territory but because of Pakistani aggression......................more

Thackeray warns to disrupt RRB exams

MUMBAI, Nov 21: Championing the cause of sons-of-the-soil, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray today threatened to disrupt Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) exams on Sunday even as RRB announced cancellation of test in Mumbai citing extreme damage to its computer system and other records following violent protests by Shivsainiks on November 18.....................more

Punjab Govt seeks Speaker’s intervention
to prosecute Badal

CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 : Punjab Government has sought the permission of the Assembly Speaker to prosecute former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in the House, in a corruption case filed by the Vigilance Bureau....................more

Pak shuts Islamic groups’ offices

ISLAMABAD, Nov 21: Police shut the offices of two more banned radical Islamic organisations, officials said today...........more

Geelani in Baramulla: No Pak, no talk........

Centre ready for unconditional talks with Hurriyat......

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