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Jawan killed in firing near LoC Jammu, May 31 A senior military officer of the Northern Command said here this afternoon that Pakistani troops opened heavy mortar fire from across the LoC in Kargil, Dras, Batalik, Mushkoh, Uri, Gurez, Poonch and Nowshehra sectors, targeting military installations and civil population. In the wake of fierce retaliation from Indian soldiers, the Pakistanis restored to heavy artillery fire for pounding frontline Indian positions and border villages. The jawan was killed at a forward post due to shelling in one of the sectors, a defence spokesman said. More than 10 Pakistani bunkers and army vehicles were destroyed when the Indian troops retaliated in Nowshehra and Sunderbani areas of Rajouri district. Defence Minister sources said the Pakistani troops fired more than 50 mortar and artillery shells in Laam and Jhangar areas of Nowshehra in which some civilian houses were partially damaged. As a result of the heavy shelling, more than 300 persons migrated to safer places from the border villages of Nowshehra. The Pakistani troops also restored to heavy shelling and firing from across Kanachak in Akhnoor sector. The explosion of mortar shells was heard in several parts of Jammu city. According to Defence Ministry officials, the Indian troops reacted effectively and caused heavy losses to the enemy troops and their weaponry across Kanachak. The sources said several Pakistani shells exploded in Lalyari and Beli Azmat areas of Kanachak but there was no major damage caused to civilian houses. |
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Militants blow up vital bridge Baramula, May 31 Official sources said a powerful IED was planted beneath a wooden bridge, connecting as many as 12 villages with Bandipora, and triggered the explosion in the wee hours. The bridge, which was totally damaged, was militarily important as it was being used by the security forces. JAMMU: Five special police officers (SPOs) were injured in an encounter in the Duprian-Khaneter area of Poonch district last night, an official spokesman said. Militants opened fire on a patrol party in the area last night, he said adding security forces retaliated and in the exchange of fire, five SPOs sustained bullet wounds. SRINAGAR: Panic gripped Maisuma, near here, when some gunmen shot dead a shopkeeper, Tanveer Ahmad Dar, while elsewhere in the valley two bodies were recovered. Official sources said militants fired upon Dar from a close range at Maisuma in the heart of the city. Later, the residents of the area demonstrated against the killing and shops in the area were shut down. One body each was recovered at Rainawari and Shopian this morning. The bodies were later taken away by the police for identification.
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Undeclared war, says Advani Leh, May 31 “India does not want war but it will take all steps for a victory in the undeclared war being waged by Pakistan for the past 15 years,” Mr Advani said while laying the foundation stone for the Akashvani Centre here. Mr Advani is here on a two-day visit. In this “undeclared war”, he said, “ only security agencies alone were not involved but civilians were being targeted and killed and nobody knew which way the situation will take a turn.” On Pakistan’s statement that it would not initiate a war, Mr Advani wondered what it had been doing all these years. India had been suffering for more than a decade because of the proxy war and still Pakistan had the temerity to say that it would not initiate a war, Advani said. “You (Pakistan) have already been waging a war against us and now you are saying you will not initiate war,” he said. Security forces who are deployed on the border have to do their job to defend the country’s sovereignty but people had to be prepared to make all sacrifices in the present situation, the Home Minister said.
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Minister cautions youth against religious extremism Srinagar, May 31 Twelve years of upheaval in the state has left everyone desperate and depressed for want of employment and peaceful existence and in this situation people with vested interests can mislead the youth, Mr Suharwardy said addressing a public meeting at Nehama in Pulwama district of south Kashmir yesterday. He said those who had been misleading the youth in the name of religion should realise that the advent of gun had only fetched death and destruction to the state. The minister said no religion, including Islam, taught violence and killing of innocent people, instead those who attached such deeds to Islam were actually bringing dishonour to the great religion which stood for peace and equality of all human beings. Questioning the prudence of the people who were responsible for perpetrating violence, he said there was need for introspection so that the people could realise the losses that the state had suffered during the past 12 years. The devastation of public property including bridges, hospitals and schools, had severely affected the socio-economic structure of the state, he said, adding that the worst sufferers of the violence were the youth.
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Medical contingency plan Jammu, May 31 Under the contingency plan more than 100 hospitals, nursing homes, and nearly 50 school buildings, private guest houses, community centres besides the Medical colleges in Jammu and Srinagar have been kept ready for meeting any crisis in the event of a war. According to Dr H.K. Goswami, city of Jammu has been divided into six divisions and in each division a Civil Defence Depot has been set up. These depots equipped with necessary first aid material have been kept under the charge of Divisional Wardens. In addition to this postoperative recovery room would be converted into intensive care units as the number of such units in the hospitals and the medical colleges was limited. Under the disaster management plan all corridors, OPDs and registration rooms in the hospitals and medical colleges would be converted into wards. In the event of a war normal surgical operations would be postponed and those wounded in the war were to be treated on priority basis. The state government agencies have approached the Government for the sanction of purchase of additional trollies, stretchers, wheelchairs and other life-saving drugs and equipment to meet any emergency. Nearly 500 beds in hospitals and medical colleges in the state were to be kept available only for the war victims. In the city of Jammu alone 700 NCC and NSS cadets, 11000 volunteers, in the six districts of the Jammu region, and over 200 Home Guard volunteers have been trained in rescue, fire-fighting and first aid. Blood banks in medical colleges and other centres have been directed to keep ready 150 to 200 bottles of blood that may be needed in any emergency. Registrars and services of assistant professors in the medical colleges would be placed at the disposal of war victims. |
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