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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2004

Election Commissioner B B Tandon talking to media in Srinagar
on Tuesday. —Excelsior/Javed

I-card process suspended over NC's complaint
EC seeks report from DGP on Mehbooba FIR

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Sept 28: Election Commission of India has taken a serious note of the Police inaction on an FIR which had been lodged against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti, in May this year. Election Commissioner, B B Tandon, today called the Director General of Police, Gopal Sharma, and directed him to submit a detailed report on the progress, if any, achieved in the electoral offence allegedly committed by the PDP chief during this year’s Lok Sabha elections.............more

BSF jawan, 3 ultras killed
*Two PSOs of SSP Poonch injured

Excelsior Special Correspondent

POONCH, Sept 28: A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan and three militants were killed while three security personnel including two PSOs of SSP Poonch Mukesh Singh were injured in three separate encounters in the district since last evening. Security forces destroyed a militant hideout and recovered 8 kg RDX besides other explosive material and ammunition..........more

Pakistan journalists' programme
Press Club hails the visit but unable to participate

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Sept 28: Members of the Jammu Press Club today decided to boycott the visit of a group of Pakistani journalists to Jammu and Kashmir next month as part of a media exchange programme between India and Pakistan..........more

TROIKA Ambassadors meet Governor
Peace in Kashmir not a far cry: Sinha

Excelsior Special Correspondent

Srinagar, Sept 28: The Governor, Lt. Gen. (Retd) S K Sinha today gave a detailed background of the Jammu and Kashmir problem starting from October 1947 in an hour long interaction with a visiting team of Ambassadors from the European Union at Raj Bhavan here this morning.........more

Shah suggests setting up Kashmir Committee
headed by Vajpayee

SRINAGAR, Sept 28: Senior separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah today suggested setting up of a Kashmir Committeee headed by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to frame a policy and build consensus in the country to resolve the issue.............more

Britain rejects Musharraf's multilateralism on Kashmir

NEW DELHI, Sept 28: Britain today strongly supported India’s stand on the Kashmir issue and rejected Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s assertion that the two countries must explore the option of "multilateralism" if they failed to resolve their differences bilaterally.............more

Montek to meet PM on foreign experts

NEW DELHI, Sept 28: In a bid to defuse the crisis over appointment of "foreign" experts in the Planning Commission, its Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said he would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and exuded confidence on finding a solution shortly...............more

Talks on Siachen soon: Pranab

KOLKATA, Sept 28: Military level talks on Siachen between India and Pakistan will be held soon, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said today..........more

British soldiers killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Sept 28: An Egyptian hostage was freed in Iraq as two British soldiers were killed in a flare-up of violence in Southern Iraq today and US warplanes again pounded the rebel-held town of Fallujah.........more

Two Hizbul militants killed in Valley

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Sept 28: A self-styled company commander of Hizbul Mujahideen was among two militants killed in two encounters in the Valley today...........more

India seeks Bangla support on terrorism......

Lalu watched Al-Qaeda site: Naidu......

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