GILGIT,
Dec 3: The
American forces have intensified their search for
the world’s most wanted terrorists —
Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman-al-Zawahiri and
Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammad Omar —
besides several hundred Al-Qaeda militants in the
mountains of Pakistan’s northern areas....more
At least five
security jawans were killed and several others
injured when two heavily-armed militants carried
out a suicide attack at a joint camp of CRPF and
local police in Sopore area of Baramulla district
in Jammu and Kashmir early this morning. .
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Border Security Force (BSF) DIG Jammu P K Mishra shaking
hand with Deputy Sector Commander of Chinab Rangers Lt
Col Ali prior to sector commander level meeting at Pilli
Post on Indo-Pakistan border on Thursday. -- Excelsior
PILLI
POST (Indo-Pak Border) Dec 2:Pakistani troops recently encroached
upon a 40 metre land in Ballard area along the IB in
Samba sub-sector of Jammu frontier but there was no
tension between the border guards of the two countries,
BSF DIG, Jammu sector, P K Mishra said here
today....................more
ISLAMABAD,
Dec 2:Differences
surfaced between India and Pakistan over the time
schedule to restore the Munabao-Khokhrapar rail link
which was stopped 39 years ago, as the railway officials
of the two countries met here today to discuss the
matter.......................more
JAMMU, Dec 3:Super
comedian of Bollywood Shekhar Suman,
whose comedy serials "Carry On
Shekhar" and "Poll Khol"
had been instant hit, has been charged
along with others with committing a fraud
worth over Rs 14.50 lakh in the City by
the Crime Branch, Jammu................more
ISLAMABAD,
Dec 2: The
student wing of Amanullah
Khan-led JKLF has said that
students from Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir (PoK) should be permitted
to travel to Srinagar for higher
studies as the educational
facilities are better in Jammu
and Kashmir..............more
JAMMU, Dec 2:Two top
militants of Hizbul Mujahideen including
a "launching commander" of the
outfit surrendered before Reasi police in
their hideout at Malarh Khud in a dense
forest area this
afternoon.....................more
SRINAGAR, Dec 2: Two unidentified
gunmen have decamped with over fifty
thousand rupees from a branch of J&K
Bank Ltd in Lalbazar locality of Srinagar
almost same time when Finance Minister
Muzaffar Hussain Baig inaugurated mobile
Automated Teller Machine (ATM) van at the
Bank's corporate headquarters here this
afternoon. Meanwhile, a defence spokesman
said that one more militant had been
killed in Hajan Nar forests of Naristan
Tral area in Pulwama district Tuesday
night...........more
TORONTO, Dec 2:National
Conference president and former Union
Minister of State for External Affairs,
Omar Abdullah has asserted that the
Government of India should not only
permit the Valley's separatist leaders to
visit Pakistan but should also facilitate
their participation in the seminars and
conferences being held on Kashmir
anywhere in the world. He observed that
the JKLF's signature campaign was based
on "sound logic" and he, as a
Member of the Indian Parliament, was
ready to sign Yasin Malik's memorandum
seeking inclusion of the Kashmiris as a
party in any political process on Jammu
and Kashmir. Omar was among a dozen of
the political leaders, parliamentarians
and community activists who addressed the
International Kashmir Alliance's second
International Kashmir Conference in this
North American metropolis.............more
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: As a follow-up to
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s
visit to Jammu and Kashmir and his
assurance to Kashmiri migrants at the
camp in Jammu, the Prime Minister’s
Office has constituted an
inter-ministerial team for preparing a
plan to rehabilitate Kashmiri
migrants..............more
NEW DELHI, Dec 2:Amid strong
protests by the opposition BJP, the
Government today introduced the bill to
repeal the controversial Prevention of
Terrorism Act (POTA) in the Lok Sabha,
seeking to fulfil its pledge in the
Common Minimum Programme................more
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: Syed Sibtey Razi,
a Minister in the P V Narasimha Rao
Government, has been appointed the
Governor of Jharkhand, a Rashtrapati
Bhavan spokesman said today.............more
