Monday, January 20, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Indian diplomat harassed in Pak
Don’t repeat such acts: Vajpayee
Islamabad, January 19
India’s senior diplomat in Pakistan complained today that his official car was repeatedly blocked by Pakistani intelligence vehicles when he was trying to drive to diplomatic functions at the weekend. Sudhir Vyas, Charge d’Affaires at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, told Reuters he had lodged a formal complaint with the Foreign Ministry after being obstructed on three separate occasions yesterday and delayed for several hours.

Indians second to none: Dosanjh
Chandigarh, January 19
“Indians must take pride in themselves,” says Mr Ujjal Dosanjh, the first-ever member of the Indian diaspora to become the Premier of a Canadian province, holding that from “outside India looks like a colony of US intellectualship”.

PAP razes 5 rooms of school
Staff not informed, denied entry
Jalandhar, January 19
Five half-built classrooms of Government Model Senior Secondary School, which was set up in the high security PAP Complex during the height of militancy for ensuring security of the wards of police personnel, have been razed to the ground by the PAP authorities.

Virbhadra opposed to pact with HVC Hamirpur, January 19 Mr Virbhadra Singh, former HP Chief Minister and senior Congress leader, is averse to a compromise with the Himachal Vikas Congress. Although the Election Commission has given instructions to the Himachal Pradesh Government to remove big hoardings installed at various places in the state, yet two such hoardings still stand at Salasi and Mattensidh in Hamirpur, the home district of Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal. — Photo Chander Shekhar Sharma