Wednesday, January 2, 2002, Chandigarh, India
  Updated at 3:00 am (IST)


10 Pak soldiers killed in Poonch
16 enemy bunkers destroyed
Jammu, January 1
In a renewed border conflict, Indian troops destroyed 16 Pakistani bunkers and killed at least 10 Pak soldiers in a fierce gun-battle in the Mandhar area of Poonch early this morning. Defence Ministry sources said the Pakistan troops resorted to the heavy mortar and artillery fire on the Indian villages and posts in the area since last evening. 

A Kashmiri girl holds her younger brother as they huddle against the cold at a refugee camp in Samba, about 40 km south of Jammu, early on Tuesday. Ministers visit migrants’ camps (J&K page)


A Kashmiri girl holds her younger brother as they huddle against the cold at a refugee camp in Samba, about 40 km south of Jammu, early on Tuesday. — Reuters photo

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Limited strikes not ruled out
Training camps in Pak likely to be targeted
New Delhi, January 1
Even as the Vajpayee government has launched a diplomatic offensive so that Pakistan moves against terrorist organisations operating from its soil, the possibility of incisive limited strikes through deep intrusions are reportedly being explored as a means of liquidating terrorist camps across the border.

Ultras raid Army range in Himachal
Two jawans killed, four wounded
Damtal (Nurpur), January 1
Two Army personnel were killed and four others critically wounded, when militants opened fire on them at an Army firing range near Damtal on the Punjab and Himachal Pradesh border this morning.

Lashkar men gun down six of family
Jammu, January 1
An infant and an eight-year-old boy were among the six persons of a Hindu family killed in a gruesome massacre by gun wielding Lashkar-e-Toiba militants in a village in the border district of Poonch, official sources said today.

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Kathmandu, January 1
Dashing Pakistani hopes, India today ruled out any bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf during the SAARC summit here, saying that Islamabad was yet to take any “credible” and “visible” action against terrorist outfits behind the December 13 attack on Parliament House.
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Pervez feels pinch of airspace ban
Kathmandu, January 1
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf felt hurt over India’s decision to ban overflight facilities to Pakistani aircraft from January 1, despite knowing that he would have used Indian airspace to travel to the Himalayan kingdom for the SAARC summit, a senior Pakistani official said today.

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Cops ‘humiliate’ panch
Jalandhar, January 1
In a rare incident, an 80-year-old “Amritdhari” member of the Nahal village panchayat was allegedly made to undergo inhuman torture by the Shahkot police station SHO and other officials.

Residents flee Fazilka villages
Abohar, January 1
Only a few left out residents of villages located between the drain and the international border in Hindumalkot and Fazilka sectors, opposite to Bahawalpur and Sulemanki sectors of Pakistan, take shelter in the villages considered to be safer after sunset on this side of the drain. The villagers had shifted their domestic goods to safer villages of their relatives.

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