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Wednesday,
July 2, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Registration denied, 50 pilgrims go on fast
Six
injured in Anantnag blast Hizbul to
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HUJI
chief’s mobile sent to Delhi Jobs for
martyred jawans’ kin 89
Bangladeshi infiltrators held Kale
kachhewala gang strikes again
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Registration
denied, 50 pilgrims go on fast
Jammu, July 1 These persons, including sadhus, who had come from Rajasthan, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, sat on fast in front of the registration office at exhibition ground near the Tawi bridge. They alleged that the state government was troubling them and no senior officer of the Jammu division had come to listen to their problems. Some of them had spent the money they had bought. A group of irate persons said their efforts to meet the Divisional Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner had failed as their subordinates kept on saying that the officials were attending meetings. The registration of pilgrims was to close on June 28, but it was stopped on June 26. Mr Subhash Baba said the registration office was closed since June 25. The agitating persons alleged that never in the past five years had there been so much of confusion and chaos. They demanded that the Centre should take charge of the conduct of the pilgrimage. No minister of the state government had incited the site to supervise the process of registration and the conduct of the pilgrimage, which would begin on July 12. It was alleged that the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Mangat Ram Sharma, was keeping himself away from the arrangements here. Keeping in view the rush of people seeking registration the local authorities had urged the state government to increase the number of pilgrims. No action had been taken by the government. A sadhu, who had got himself registered, said he had to spend Rs 60 for pathological tests though the government doctors deployed for the purpose should have conducted these free of cost. The agitating sadhus demanded that 50,000 more persons should be allowed to go on pilgrimage. They threatened that more persons would join the indefinite fast if their demand was not met immediately. Various religious and social organisations blamed the state government for the chaos and mismanagement of the registration of pilgrims. Senior officials were shying away from mediapersons. Repeated efforts to contact the Deputy Commissioner were futile. The authorities had said 4,000 pilgrims would be registered yesterday, but no official turned up.  |
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Registration
for Amarnath yatra ends Srinagar, July 1 They said 1.07 lakh pilgrims had registered for this year’s pilgrimage at 84 branches of Jammu and Kashmir Bank across the country, which was entrusted the task by the government. The registration has been closed in accordance with the Nitish Sengupta Committee report according to which only 3,500 pilgrims per day should be allowed darshan. Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayed was personally reviewing the arrangements, including security, for the yatra to ensure that it passed off smoothly, the sources said.
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Six injured in Anantnag blast Srinagar, July 1 The militants hurled the grenade on a security patrol at Achabal bus stand in the town, 50 km from here, but it missed the intended target and exploded on the road causing injuries to five
pedestrians and a CRPF jawan, the sources said. They said the ultras fled the scene after triggering the blast around 3.30 pm by taking advantage of the panic that followed the explosion. The injured had been admitted to hospital where doctors stated their condition to be stable, the sources said. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the explosion so far. JAMMU:
A militant was killed in an encounter and a Pakistani national were arrested in Udhampur district and RS Pura area of this division since Monday, BSF sources said here on Tuesday. The militant was killed in a shootout after BSF troops, on specific information, launched an operation in the Ramakunda area in Gool Tehsil of Udhampur district on Monday, the sources said. One rifle with four magazines, two hand grenades, a compass and a binocular were recovered from the slain militant, whose identity was yet to be ascertained. The BSF troops arrested a Pakistani national when he crossed into Indian territory in the RS Pura sector via the border out-post at Abdullian. Meanwhile, the Army and the police have launched a joint operation in the Gangyal area of this district to track down two suspected militants. Two persons, carrying weapons, were seen moving about in Gangyal and locals reported the matter to the police.
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Hizbul to back peace movers Srinagar, July 1 “We are pursuing wait-and-watch policy on the ongoing developments on Kashmir. We are ready to extend our cooperation at the right time to the
initiatives taken by India and Pakistan,” the outfit’s spokesman Junaidul Islam told a local news agency in a statement. The outfit, known for its hardline approach and oft repeated assertions that ‘jehad’ (holy war) was the only way to solve the Kashmir issue, said it wanted the Kashmir issue to be solved through peaceful means and dialogue. The spokesman, however, said, it was “imperative that the Government of India moves forward for talks with sincerity.” Welcoming the Indo-Pakistan peace moves, he said the two countries have made a “new beginning” for resolving the Kashmir issue. Referring to the statement of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam during his just-concluded visit to the state that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India, he said “The President must not ignore the reality. After judging the facts, he must accept the long pending demand of Kashmiris and adopt a realistic approach. Kalam must work for a meaningful talks between India, Pakistan and Kashmiris.”
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HUJI chief’s mobile sent to Delhi Jammu, July 1 The mobile phone was seized from Amin, alias Wazir Ahmed, when he was arrested along with three other HUJI militants from a Srinagar-bound truck at Basholi Morh in Kathua district on Sunday, sources said. The handset and SIM card will be thoroughly examined in New Delhi and incoming and outgoing calls documented to gather information of HUJI’s units or modules and networks in the country, they said. “It will take at least a week to know the exact picture of modules and networks of HUJI in Delhi and Chandigarh, besides their receipts of finances from the HUJI chief and arrested militants,” the sources said. Amin, when arrested by the police, immediately pulled out the mobile and threw it into a bucket of water in a bid to destroy it, but the set was later retrieved, the sources said. The group of militants had stayed in New Delhi at seven places over two months and at one place in Chandigarh possibly to set up HUJI’s modules across the country and to finance the existing ones, they said.
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Jobs for martyred jawans’ kin Jammu, July 1 The Mufti came here from Srinagar and went to the Khanpur and Karalian villages of the Ramgarh area to sympathise with the families of Lance Naik Ashok Kumar and Lance Naik Vijay Kumar, who were among those killed in the attack. He was accompanied by Minister of State for Rural Development, Garu Ram, Mr Manjeet Singh, BSP MLA and Mr Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, CPM, MLA. At Karalian, two-year-old daughter of Vijay Kumar sat in the lap of Mufti Sayeed unmindful of the tragedy which had hit the family. At Khanpur, Mr Jaggu Ram, 80-year-old father of Lance Naik Ashok Kumar, broke down when the Mufti
reached there. Ashok Kumar was the only son in the family and his widow, Surjeet Kumari, is a matriculate. Ashok Kumar has also left a one-month-child behind. The Chief Minister also visited the military hospital here where seven critically injured soldiers are being treated. |
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89 Bangladeshi infiltrators held Jammu, July 1 Deputy Inspector-General P.K. Mishra said jawans of 60 Battalion detected the movement of the group across the border trying to infiltrate into Indian territory near the Sangral border outpost in the sector. When the group had infiltrated 50 yards into Indian territory, they were challenged and overpowered by the BSF personnel. Meanwhile, a Pakistani infiltrator was apprehended by BSF personnel near Abdulian border outpost in the same sector late last night.
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Kale kachhewala gang strikes again Jammu, July 1 Members of the notorious
kale kachhewale gang, which had been active in the city for the past six months, barged into three houses at Chani
Kartholi, Saror Adha and Mainchadak Gujjar Basti villages in the wee hours, they said. They attacked the inmates of the houses with rods and pipes, injuring seven, including three women. They took away jewellery, cash, valuables and other articles from the houses. The injured have been taken to Government Medical College Hospital. The police has registered a case.
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