Wednesday, January 9, 2002, Chandigarh, India
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LeT attacks Army camp
Two militants, jawan killed
Srinagar, January 8
Two Pakistani militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba’s suicide squad were killed when they made an attempt to enter an Army camp in the Trehgam area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir this morning. An Army jawan was also killed and two of his colleagues were injured in the exchange of fire.

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Indian soldiers clear a mortar gun after firing across the border at the Chhamb sector on the border on Tuesday. 
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Act to convince the world, Bush tells Pak
Washington, January 8
US President George W. Bush has again asked his Pakistani counterpart, Gen Pervez Musharraf, to continue to take strong action against terrorism. He said tensions between Pakistan and India remain high, and Musharraf can do more to ease the pressure.

Advani to broach hijackers’ issue with USA
New Delhi, January 8
Union Home Minister L.K. Advani today left for a week-long visit to the USA to apprise it of the measures being taken by India to counter cross-border terrorism.

Israel assures all-out support
New Delhi, January 8
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres today concluded his two-day visit to India during which he is understood to have assured the Indian leadership of all-out support to India in making available strategic military equipment, particularly the Phalcon airborne warning and control system.
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Blair vows to stand by Afghans
Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan, January 8
British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Afghanistan and promised its war-weary people the world would not abandon them again. Speaking at Bagram airbase north of Kabul yesterday, Mr Blair said the world had learned how high a price was paid for neglect.
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An Afghan girl gives her little brother a piece of bread An Afghan girl gives her little brother a piece of bread made of grass in a remote mountain village of Bonavash in the Abdullah Gan region, Northern Afghanistan, on Monday. Besieged by the Taliban and crushed by years of drought, people in the region are dying of hunger. Hundreds of thousands in other mountain regions along the former front lines are also living in desperate conditions. 
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PM: issue of dual citizenship resolved
New Delhi, January 8
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today announced that the government had resolved the issue of dual citizenship, which would facilitate the Indians settled abroad to make their contribution in the progress of the country.

Ordinance on excise duty hike
New Delhi, January 8
The government today decided to arm itself with powers to raise excise duty beyond twice the existing rate ahead of the Budget through an ordinance amending the Central Excise Tariff Act that gives emergency powers for the purpose.

Kainthla panel indicts Virbhadra, MLAs
Shimla, January 8
The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet has decided to proceed in accordance with law against the CLP leader and former Chief Minister, Mr Virbhadra Singh, who has been “vicariously” held reponsible by the Kainthla Commission.

They don’t flee even during war, shelling
Indo-Pak Border (Amritsar), January 8
The Rai Sikhs, who link their lineage to a Rajput clan, are known as “tigers” of the border belt as they do not flee even during shelling from across the border. They are the permanent inhabitants of the border.

Unmindful of the heightened tension, children mingle with jawans at Dagg village, near the Indo-Pak border on Tuesday. — Tribune photo Rajiv Sharma

 Unmindful of the heightened tension, children mingle with jawans at Dagg village
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