Monday, December 24, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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10 Pak soldiers killed; 15 bunkers destroyed
Jammu, December 23
At least 10 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 15 Pakistani bunkers were destroyed in heavy Indian retaliatory firing across Poonch and Samba sectors during the past 24 hours. 
A paramilitary jawan keeps vigil from inside a bunker in Srinagar on Sunday. 4 Indian bunkers destroyed, claims Pakistan

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A paramilitary jawan keeps vigil from inside a bunker in Srinagar on Sunday.
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Forces on high alert: George
Hopes better sense will prevail over Pak
Defence Minister George Fernandes New Delhi, December 23
Indian forces are in a state of “very high alert” in the wake of Pakistani build-up along the border after last week’s terror attack on Parliament but New Delhi still does not feel that the situation might spill over into a conflict or a nuclear flashpoint.

External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh CCS takes stock of situation
Next step at appropriate time: Jaswant
New Delhi, December 23
India today decided to open four consulates in Afghanistan besides the embassy in Kabul. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security here today. 

Parliament staffer arrested
Passed sensitive documents to Pak official
New Delhi, December 23
Amidst a new low in the Indo-Pakistan ties, the Delhi police arrested an official of the Parliament Secretariat for allegedly supplying to a Pakistan High Commission staffer certain “sensitive” informatin on national security and is probing if officials of the Pakistan High Commission were involved in the December, 13 terrorist strike on Parliament.

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Islamabad, December 23
The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, led by Pakistan-based Amanullah Khan, has contested US President George W. Bush’s terming of the Pak-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba as a Kashmiri organisation.

Afzal to be taken to Kashmir
New Delhi, December 23
In a bid to trace the whereabouts of the Jaish-e-Mohammad supreme commander in the country, Ghazi Baba, the special cell of the Delhi Police will take the main suspect in the Parliament attack, Mohammad Afzal, to Kashmir.
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Ex-Taliban envoy seeks asylum in Pak
Mullah Abdul Salam ZaeefIslamabad, December 23
The former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Mr Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, and one of the best-known faces of the war on Afghanistan said today that he had applied for political asylum in Pakistan.

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No train to Pak, no weddings!
Qadian, December 23
Maqbool Ahmed, a journalist hailing from this town which is the international headquarters of Ahmediya Muslims, was engaged to a Pakistani girl and the marriage was scheduled to take place next month. 

Chhibber ‘shielded’ the corrupt
Budhlada, December 23
Former Union Minister and general secretary, Shiromani Akali Dal, Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal, while accusing a former Governor of Punjab, Mr B.K.N. Chhibber, of shielding ministers of the previous Congress government after they had been indicted by the Lokpal, said the time had come when the people would not allow the Congress to come to power in the state again.

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