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FBI team quizzes
ex-SFC MD in dual passport case
NEW DELHI: A team of the FBI
visited Jammu and Kashmir and questioned
the former top official of the State
Forest Corporation (SFC), who was
arrested for allegedly concealing his
American citizenship....more
Timber scam:
Probe indicates involvement of PDP
Minister
NEW DELHI: The probe
initiated by the Jammu and Kashmir
government to look into the allegations
of "man-made scarcity" of
timber created by the state Forest
Department was hinting at the involvement
of a senior PDP Minister, sources said
today....more
Slain
militants were trained to blow up rail
tracks
SRINAGAR : All nine militants,
killed in an encounter in Tangmarg area
earlier this week, were foreign fighters
trained for large-scale subversive
activities and tasked with blowing up
railway tracks and army vehicles. ....more
Army Chief Gen Deepak Kapoor speaking to
reporters at Beerwah army base on
Saturday. Excelsior/Amin War
‘Increase
in militancy-related violence’
No
troop reduction till normalcy: Gen Kapoor
SRINAGAR, Oct 6: Insisting that
there is a rise in militancy-related
violence in the State, new Army Chief
General Deepak Kapoor today said there
will be no troop reduction till the State
returns to normalcy....more
7 more
militants, 3 soldiers killed; 5 escape
23
militants, 7 soldiers die around Army
chief's visit
From Ahmed Ali
Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Oct 6: Running parallel
to Gen Deepak Kapoor's maiden visit to
Jammu & Kashmir as Chief of Army
Staff, six more infiltrating militants
and two soldiers have died today in a
fierce gunbattle in Kupwara district
where security forces had killed three
militants of the same group while losing
one soldier yesterday. With today's
gunbattles between militants and security
forces in Kupwara, Rafiabad (Baramulla)
and Chitragam (Shopian), as many as 23
militants and 7 soldiers have got killed
at seven places in Kashmir valley in the
last five days......more
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