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Wednesday,
April 16, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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5
militants, lawyer killed in J&K Woman
killed in Pak firing JKLF
expels 2 overseas leaders BJP to
oppose autonomy, ‘healing touch’
New policy
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J&K
Govt’s incentives to film-makers Hizbul’s
faux pas on strike call Coalmine
staff not paid for 3 months Two
drown in Mansar Lake
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5 militants, lawyer killed in J&K
Srinagar, April 15 Senior Superintendent of Police, Poonch, M K Singh told UNI in Jammu that in an encounter at the Banwali area in upper reaches of Surankote sector troops launched a ‘seek and destroy’ operation to flush out some militants hiding there. As the jawans reached the area, the militants opened fire and in the encounter, which lasted over nine hours, three militants were killed, Mr M.K. Singh said. The slain militants belonged to the HUJI outfit, he said adding two AK rifles, 13 magazines, two RPG rounds, two wireless sets, 412 rounds and one IED were recovered from the site. In another operation, troops shot dead two more HUJI militants in a search operation in the Mendhar sector also in Poonch district late last night, official sources added. An official spokesman said a Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed in an encounter with security forces at Magam Kokernag in Anantnag district last evening. One AK rifle, three magazines, 12 rounds and three grenades were recovered from the site. He said militants entered the house of Advocate Mohammad Fazal at Topa Mendhar late last night and shot him dead. The police recovered the body of Shabir Ahmed Thokar from Larnav Kokernag. The deceased, a resident of Rainpather, was abducted by militants on April 3. Last night, a mine blast occurred at the Town hall building at Pampore on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway. No one was wounded, the spokesman said. In another incident, miscreants set ablaze a school building at Pattan in Baramulla last evening causing considerable damage.
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Woman killed in Pak firing Jammu, April 15 The woman got killed as a mortar shell fired from across the border landed on her house which was completely destroyed. Vikram, a 19-year-old student and a close relative of the deceased, has been shifted to the Medical College Hospital here for treatment. Another boy, Jagdish Raj of the nearby Dariala village, was also wounded. Reports said more than 100 shells were lobbed at the village from across the border without any apparent provocation. People took refuge in the bunkers. The Indian troops retaliated and are learnt to have destroyed many Pak bunkers. Two milch cattle were also killed due to the mortar which fell on the house of Shakuntala Devi. Reports of Pakistani firing on Indian positions in the Balakote, Balnoi and Sagra sectors of Poonch have also been received. Meanwhile, the security forces shot dead five ultras in the Poonch area. Pakistani troops have been firing from small arms in this sector since Sunday, but suddenly they resorted to heavy mortar shelling at about 9 a.m. today and lobbed hundreds of shells within about 90 minutes. Thereafter, they again resorted to small arms firing. The Chambalayal sector of Ramgarh in Jammu district is also witnessing heavy firing from across the border. Pakistani soldiers resorted to unprovoked heavy shelling in the Kargil and Dras sectors of Ladakh on Saturday. They also resorted to shelling in the Uri sector of the Kashmir valley. |
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JKLF expels 2 overseas leaders
Srinagar, April 15 A JKLF spokesman said here today that the Supreme Revolutionary Command Council of the outfit, at a meeting yesterday, decided to expel Abbas Butt, who was the president of the UK and Europe zone, and Shabir Choudhry, executive member of the Central Diplomatic Bureau, from the organisation. Butt and Choudhry were expelled for joining the IKA floated by Mumtaz Kashmiri, Shoukat Kashmiri, Hashim Qureshi and Nazir Geelani, he said. The JKLF had appointed Younis Choudhry, Ajmal Khan and Barrister Majid Tramboo to represent the UK and Europe zone in the Supreme Council of the outfit, the spokesman said. The Hurriyat Conference said the track record of the founders of the IKA was proof enough of their “anti-movement activities.”
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BJP to oppose autonomy,
‘healing touch’ Jammu, April 15 In a statement issued here today, Dr Nirmal Singh said that the BJP would go to any extent to defeat the “nefarious designs” of the NC. He said the suggestion of the NC that the Centre should hold a dialogue with Pakistan and separatists to find a solution to the Kashmir problem was fraught with dangerous ramifications. This would further vitiate the political atmosphere and bad to an explosive situation in the Jammu and Ladakh regions. Dr Nirmal Singh said the NC had already caused much harm to the country by raking up the demand for
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New policy on leasing
state land
Jammu, April 15 “The state government considers all such land as illegally occupied by the ex-lessees and a drive has been launched to get it vacated,” Mr Yasin said. Mr Yasin ruled out any political interference or pressure in this drive and said it covered everyone, howsoever influential. The Minister said the drive had begun in Srinagar with the sealing of more than a dozen premises whose lease period had expired many years ago. He said a complete survey of such land had been ordered and it was estimated that at least 10,000 kanals of land whose lease had expired was in prime urban locations.
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J&K Govt’s incentives to film-makers Jammu, April 15 “We have offered many incentives to Bollywood producers including Rs one crore loan for assurance of wide security cover for shooting films in Kashmir,” Minister of State for Tourism Ghulam Ahmed Mir told PTI here today. The state government is doing everything to woo Bollywood film producers to return to the valley for shooting, he said adding this would help revive state’s tourism industry. The state government would also hold discussions with the Centre for providing air-fare concessions to film-makers, he said. Besides the film producers would not be charged for using government places and gardens for shooting purposes, he said. The steps have been taken after a team of top Bollywood film, makers, including Yash Chopra and Ramesh Sippy, visited Kashmir to study the ground-level situation last week. “The film-makers have also desired to shoot films in the valley and some of them have booked tourist huts for two to three months”, Mir added.
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Hizbul’s faux pas on
strike call Srinagar, April 15 “We appeal to the people of the state to observe a complete hartal on April 17 when Mr Vajpayee will begin his visit to Jammu and Kashmir so that the international community understands that people of Kashmir abhor India,” newly appointed chief operational commander of the outfit Gazi Naseeruddin said in a statement sent to a local news agency here. Mr Vajpayee is actually scheduled to begin his two-day visit on April 18.
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Coalmine
staff not paid for 3 months Jammu, April 15 Mr Rachpal Singh, National Conference MLA of Kalakot, today deplored the attitude of the management of these mines and said that the families of the employees were suffering. The coalition government was sleeping over the matter, he alleged. |
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Two drown in
Mansar Lake Jammu, April 15 The two Hans Raj and Des Raj, were taking a bath last evening, their feet slipped and they felt into the lake the sources said adding their bodies were yet to be found.
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