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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2001

Security personnel carry away four dead bodies of militants in Awantipore Air Force base, south of Srinagar on Monday. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

4 Pakistani militants, IAF gatekeeper, bus-driver killed
Lashkar strike on IAF base fails

From Ahmed Ali Fayaz

SRINAGAR, Oct 22: In its 18th suicide strike of the year in Jammu & Kashmir, the Pakistan-based pan-Islamist militant organisation, Lashkar-e-Toiba, today struck on Awantipora base of the Indian Air Force. The broad day light strike, however, failed as security forces gunned down all the four militants of the group outside the main entrance of the fortified premises. A gatekeeper as well as the driver of a civil minibus got killed in the shootout........more

Image from Qatar based Al Jazeera television aired on Monday which is reported to show the remains of a US military helicopter allegedly shot down near Kandahar by Taliban forces on Saturday. Only the landing gear, marked Boeing and CH-47, is shown in the footage but the Boeing CH-47 is the official designation of the Chinook transport helicopter. (AP Photo)

US jets pound Taliban frontlines

WASHINGTON/KABUL, Oct 22: The United States, under pressure to achieve a breakthrough in its Afghan campaign before the Muslim holy month of Ramzan, today again attacked frontline positions of the ruling Taliban that guard the capital of Kabul. .........more

Security at IAF bases beefed up

NEW DELHI, Oct 22: The suicide attack on the forward air base at Awantipur in Jammu and Kashmir had been foiled as Air Force authorities "enforced a high vigil at all air bases particularly in Western Command" in the wake of US strikes on terrorist bases in Afghanistan, according to Air Marshal V K Bhatia. ......more

Pak training women jehadis for Kashmir

WASHINGTON, Oct 22: More than 100 religious schools in Pakistan are engaged in brainwashing girls as young as five to women as old as 65 preparing them to "attain martyrdom" by fighting in Kashmir and elsewhere. ...more

Lt dies in Pak shelling
JCO, 4 terrorists killed in Poonch

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, Oct 22: Pakistan army intensified firing and shelling on the Line of Control (LoC) in twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch today killing an army officer in Nowshera and wounding two BSF jawans in Poonch sector......more

'Jehadis' call for massive offensive in J&K

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI, Oct 22: In a major development, the Pakistan-Afghanistan Defence Council has joined hands with Islamic jehadi groups to launch a "massive" offensive in Jammu and Kashmir. .....more

4 cops injured in rocket attack
Two youths killed in Kishtwar

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Oct 22: Two youths were killed in exchange of firing between the terrorists and security personnel at village Gun in hilly Marmat area of Kishtwar tehsil in Doda district this morning. Army, however, claimed that both the youths were HM terrorists.....more

Five arrested, 4 tankers seized
Two gangs of kerosene oil black-marketeers busted

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 22: Police today busted two major gangs involved in black-marketing of kerosene oil in Sainik Colony and Sidhra areas by apprehending five persons and seizing four oil tankers. Police have also identified some petrol pumps in the City, who used to get adulterated petrol from the black-marketeers. ......more

Kashmir movement can't be termed jehad: Rehman

ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 : A leading pro-Taliban Pakistani cleric has said that "movement" in Kashmir can not be termed as Jehad as Pakistan only fought for a piece of land and not for the self-determination of Kashmiris. ....more

Don't rely on Pak: JKLF to ultras

DUBAI, Oct 22: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has warned the militant groups operating in Kashmir that they risk being left in the lurch if they relied too much on Pakistan. .......more

Putin supports Northern Alliance......

PM blames Pak forsuicide attack...

6 jawans hurt in explosion....

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