Militancy victims cremated amid tension (J&K page) BSF troopers help an injured man after an explosion in Srinagar on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

Pak closes ISI wing on J&K ultras
New York, January 2
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has ordered the shutdown of the wing of military intelligence agency ISI that deals exclusively with the armed groups that Pakistan backs in Kashmir, a newspaper here reported today.

• Detentions of ultras in Pak fake: BJP

10 Pak soldiers killed
Enemy bunkers smashed
Jammu, January 2
At least 10 Pakistani soldiers, were killed and 10 Pakistani bunkers were smashed when the Indian troops opened retaliatory firing across the Poonch and Nowshehra sectors today.

Villagers ready to play soldier
Ferozepore, January 2
“Give us arms, every house in the border belt is a castle, every man will be a soldier”. This was stated by Mr Joga Singh, Sarpanch of Mohar Kheeva village which is surrounded by Pakistan from three sides. This village had suffered a colossal damage during the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars.

Train driver, asst crushed to death
Chandigarh, January 2
A goods train driver and his assistant were crushed to death by another goods train on its way from Chandigarh to Ambala at Dapar near Lalru here tonight. 

Fog hits train, air services Patiala shivers at 2.7°C Chandigarh, January 2 With cold wave tightening its grip over the entire northwest region on the ninth day today, people in and around Ambala (Haryana) and Jammu, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, shivered as the mercury in the low dropped to 1.8°C the lowest of the season so far. Patiala was the coldest place in Punjab, as the minimum temperature today plummeted to 2.7°C.