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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2001
 

Residents look at the damage caused by a US airstrike in the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Thursday after a night of the heaviest bombardment yet of the capital.
Residents look at the damage caused by a US airstrike in the Afghanistan
capital Kabul on Thursday after a night of the heaviest bombardment yet of the
capital.(AP Photo/Amir Shah)

Blair bid to win over Arab public opinion
US launches biggest ever assault; over 200 killed
*Bunker busting bombs dropped for first time
*American troops, aircrafts land in Pak airbases

ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: In its heaviest onslaught, US war planes today dropped for the first time "bunker-busting" bombs on Kabul and Kandahar inflicting heavy casualties and returned to pound the Afghan capital at night as American troops and aircraft landed in Pakistan, indicating possible ground operations against the Taliban militia..............more


Centre considering Farooq’s suggestion
PM hints at military action

VARANASI, Oct 11: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today vowed to firmly deal with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, stating that security operations will be stepped up to flush out the Pakistan-backed mercenaries...........more

Govt rules out hot pursuit of militants
Jaish may be next target

External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant SinghNEW DELHI, Oct 11: India today indicated that Pakistan-based terrorist outfits including Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) may be targeted as part of global campaign against terrorism but ruled out hot pursuit of militants and their camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. "The target is Al Qaeda network, promoter of which is Osama bin Laden and one of the consequences is Taliban. The Al Qaeda has a number of terrorist organisations in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India and when Al Qaeda is targeted, these organisations are all targeted," External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh told reporters here.......more

Hostel was frequented by Ansari activists
Terrorist turns out to be a college student

Excelsior Correspondent

KATHUA, Oct 11: Of five harbourers of the terrorists, arrested by police from across the district for their involvement in the killings of two brothers and other incidents, one has turned out to be a student of degree college. Hostel of the college, where he had been putting up, was oftenly frequented by the terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen’s Shakeel Ansari group, thus, putting lives of hostel students to risk...........more

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House of Lords rules deporting Muslim cleric to Pakistan

LONDON, Oct 11: In a major blow to Pak-sponsored militancy in Kashmir, the House of Lords today ruled that a Muslim cleric, Shafiq-ur-Rehman, who sponsored and supported terrorism in Kashmir, be deported to Pakistan...................more

Militants ambush BSF in Kokernag
5 soldiers, 4 militants killed

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 11: While as militants ambushed Border Security Force (BSF), killing three soldiers in Daksum forest area of Kokernag in south Kashmir, four militants and two Army personnel died in a fierce gunbattle in Shopian, since last evening..................more

Ban likely on 12 militant, political outfits
New Delhi asks J-K Govt to be tough on militants

From Ahmed Ali Fayaz

SRINAGAR, Oct 11: Taking advantage of the world opinion turning against terrorism and Pakistan landing in the trouble of its own creation, New Delhi has intensified efforts to label the 12-year-long Kashmir militancy as "terrorism flowing from Pakistan and Afghanistan". Instructions have been flashed to security forces and the Jammu & Kashmir Government to launch what the officials call, hot pursuit..........more

Jamaat asks Musharraf to change policy or quit

(TIMERGARA) Pakistan, Oct 11 : Pakistan’s largest Islamic Party today said it will launch a campaign to force the military Government either to revise its support for US-led attacks on neighbouring Afghanistan or give up power...............more

‘It must be rooted out but no calendar can be fixed’
Kashmir terrorism part of global war: US

NEW DELHI, Oct 11: The United States clearly recognises that the problem of terrorism in Kashmir is part of the global war against the menace and that it must be rooted out but feels a "calendar" cannot be set for it............more

Porter hurt, hideout busted

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Oct 11: Tension prevailed in village Bharti in Gandoh area of Doda district with minorities, fearing another strike by the terrorists in the aftermath of burning down of five houses of majority community, threatening to migrate if permanent security pickets were not established in the village................moreMissing
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Strikes to last atleast a year.....

Fight against terror not Islam: Blair.....

JK Bank net profit up by 40 pc.....

2700 grenades seized from pro-Taliban tribesman.....

Naipaul wins Nobel literature prize .....



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