Vajpayee to address UN
Assembly on Nov 10
NEW DELHI, Oct 17: Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will pay a
two-day visit to the United States from
November nine during which he will
address the UN General Assembly........more
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Demands ban
on Jaish, Laskhar, Hizb
Farooq meets
Advani, George; lauds troops
 NEW DELHI, Oct
17: Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq
Abdullah today met Union Home and
Defence Ministers to discuss the
present situation in the State
besides raising the demand for
banning some more terrorist
outfits. During his
meeting with L K Advani, Abdullah
stressed the need for banning of
terrorist outfits like
Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul
Mujahideen and Lashker-e-Toiba.
"The militant outfits
need to be banned immediately and
their actions should be exposed
through a concerted campaign
within democratic and civilised
countries," Abdullah told
PTI after the meetings..........more
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Residents from a nearby
village look at ordnance in the village
of Karam, some 50 kilometers west of
Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Taliban officials
brought a group of foreign journalists to
Karam to show them the damage caused by a
US air attack. (AP/Enric Marti)
Taliban
frontline hit for first time
US
troops land near Kandahar
*Mullah Omar vows to defeat big infidels
TEHRAN, Oct 17: US infantry
landed from helicopters today near
Kandahar in southwest Afghanistan,
stronghold of Taliban leader Mullah
Mohammad Omar and suspected terrorist
mastermind Osama bin Laden, Iranian state
radio said, reports AFP...............more
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India, US sign treaty on
terrorism
NEW DELHI, Oct 17: India and
the United States today signed a treaty
on mutual legal assistance in criminal
matters to strengthen bilateral
cooperation in law enforcement and
counter-terrorism
measures.................more
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FBI, CIA benefit from
RAW's inputs
From B L Kak
NEW DELHI: The US
Administration has called for
"quiet" investigations by
America’s intelligence establishment
in close cooperation with its allies
outside the United States of a set of
reports, all accusing Pakistan’s
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of
having played its role while facilitating
the September 11 terrorist attacks in New
York and Washington..........more
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