Wednesday, June 3, 1998
Bodos blow up rail, road links with N-E
Rail and road links between North-East and the rest of the country snapped today following three successive bomb blasts by suspected Bodo militants in three lower Assam districts in the early hours. The blasts in troubled Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Nalbari districts damaged a railway and two road bridges, severely affecting rail and vehicular traffic in all the three sites.
BJP Govt keen on liberating PoK: Sharma
In a succinct statement, the Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president K L Sharma yesterday announced that liberating the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) was the objective of the Vajpayee government. He also commented that the issue was also the government's creed as it was mandated by the 1994 all-party resolution of both Houses of Parliament to achieve this end.
Pak paints itself a victim of arms race triggered by India
While India now prefers to battle the infamy of its nuclear tests with silence and restraint, Pakistan has sent a most articulate spokesman, Akram Zaki, to explain to Washington how it was forced into conducting its tests to contain New Delhi's aggressive policies and intentions. Akram Zaki is the chairman of the Pakistan's Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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