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Imams condemn Pak-backed intrusion

The All India Organisation of Imams of Mosques today strongly condemned the ''military intrusion by Pak-backed militants and regulars'' in the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

''Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and any effort by any quarter to alter its present status will not be tolerated by the the Imams in particular and Muslims in general,'' a statement by its president Alhaj Maulana Jamil Ahmed Ilyasi said.

Maulana Ilyasi also took ''strong cognizance of the cowardly act of shelling by Pak intruders near the site of the prime minister's visit in Kargil'' and condemned it in the strongest terms.

The Maulana assured Prime Minister A B Vajpayee that in this hour of national crisis, the entire Muslim community along with its spiritual leaders is solidly behind him.

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The Kargil Crisis

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