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SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2004
 
 

Mufti for opening Ladakh route for Mansarovar pilgrims
*Three-day Sindhu festival inaugurated

Excelsior Special Correspondent

LEH , June 18: Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed today strongly favoured opening of Ladakh land route for pilgrims going to Kailash Mansarovar, and said that he would take up the issue with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and the External Affairs Ministry...................more

Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed with a Pakistani tourist who had come to attend the Sindhu Darshan Festival at Leh on Friday
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed with a Pakistani tourist who had come to attend the Sindhu Darshan Festival at Leh on Friday

EU treats J&K as any other part of India: Ambassador

SRINAGAR, June 18: Asserting that European Union treated Jammu and Kashmir as any other part of India, EU Ambassador to New Delhi Francisco Da Camara Gomes today said the grouping supported the efforts between India and Pakistan to normalise relations..............more

Talks on nuclear CBMs with Pak begin today

NEW DELHI, June 18: With differences persisting on key nuclear-related issues, India is cautiously approaching the first-ever crucial expert-level talks on nuclear Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) with Pakistan beginning here tomorrow..........more

Top Hizbul commander to surrender today

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, June 18: A top ‘commander’ of the Hizbul Mujahideen, who was active in Doda district and other areas of the Jammu region for last 10 years, will surrender before the police in Kathua tomorrow..........more

Capt deposes against accused Major

JODHPUR, June 18: An Army officer, second in command of Maj. Surinder Singh, accused of fake killings in Siachen, today deposed before a military court here that the erring major had asked him to file false report of enemy attack in August last year....................more

‘No question of meeting Vohra’
No third option, it's either India or Pak: Geelani

From Aijaz Hussain

SRINAGAR, June 18: Amid slogans jeevey jeevey Pakistan and Kashmir banay ga Pakistan (Long live Pakistan, Kashmir will become Pakistan), senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani today categorically ruled out the concept of "independent Kashmir". He declared that there were only two options of either merger with Pakistan or India, as envisaged in the United Nations resolutions, before the people of Kashmir as solution to the Kashmir dispute. The Jama’at-e-Islami ideologue asserted that he would never meet N N Vohra, New Delhi’s pointman on Kashmir, currently in Srinagar.............more

First ever Pak tourist in J&K

Excelsior Special Correspondent

Leh, June 18: In the 57 years since the Partition, Jammu and Kashmir had the first tourist from Pakistan today when a group of three Pak nationals arrived in Leh to attend the Sindhu Darshan Festival...........more

Mangat Ram meets Home Minister

NEW DELHI, June 18: Jammu and Kashmir Government today asked the Centre to provide more job opportunities to youth of the state in central para-military forces and sought help in providing better facilities to displaced Kashmiri Pandits and people displaced from border areas.......................more

Vajpayee accepts personal responsibility for defeat

PRINI, MANALI, June 18: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today accepted personal responsibility for the defeat of the NDA in the Lok Sabha elections...........more

Father, son beheaded in Tral

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, June 18: While as suspected militants have decapitated a 55-year-old Gujjar and his son in Tral area and also gunned down a restaurateur in the Capital city today, security forces have killed a Pakistani militant in Aeshmuqam area of Anantnag district..........more

‘Azad Kashmir Police’ constable arrested.......

NHRC seeks report from Gujarat police......



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