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 Kashmiris need respite from terror: Omar Abdullah | | 2003-04-11 | Onkar Singh | Rediff News | | Omar Abdullah, former minister of state for external affairs and president of the National Conference, has said that there has been no change in the law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's government took over last year. |  | |
| Mufti's Message | | 2003-04-10 | Humra Qureishi | The Times Of India | | The recent massacre of 24 Kashmiri Pandits at Nadimarg has pushed the five-month-old coalition government in Srinagar on the back foot, with critics accusing it of going soft on militancy. But chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed tells Humra Qureishi that his government will not be deterred from reaching out to the people | | | |
| US has no plans to attack Syria, Iran: Blair | | 2003-04-04 | REUTERS | The Times Of India | | British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday the United States had absolutely no plans to attack Syria and Iran, who have been warned by Washington over their alleged involvement in Iraq | | | |
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| Revenge hit: 23 massacred in Assam | | 2003-04-03 | United News Of India | The Indian Express | | In one of the worst ethnic massacres of recent times, 23 people belonging to the Dimacha tribe were killed by suspected Hmar militants in Cachar, Assam. | | | |
| Indian American community forms anti-terrorism front | | 2003-04-02 | PTI | The Times Of India | | Upset over continuing terrorist killings in Jammu and Kashmir, the two million-strong Indian American community has established an organisation to educate and lobby the US Administration and lawmakers on the issue of global terrorism | | | |
| Racist attacks rise against Muslims, 350 mosques warned | | 2003-04-02 | Nabanita Sircar | Hindustan Times | | While the Muslim Council of Britain has issued official warnings to 350 mosques around Britain about the risk of racist backlash following the start of the war in Iraq, there have been reports of some racist attacks against Muslims in Britain. | | | |
| 100,000 children at risk in Basra | | 2003-03-31 | Shyam Bhatia | Rediff News | | A much needed pipeline from Kuwait across the border into Iraq has been completed in record time, but it stops at Um Qasr, several miles short of the besieged city of Basra, where 100,000 children are at risk because of problems with the water supply. | | | |
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| Terrorism in Kashmir threatens to spark Indo-Pak conflict: US | | 2003-03-28 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | The US has warned that terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir "threatens to become a flashpoint for a wider Indo-Pak conflict" while terming Pakistan as a "favoured destination" for fleeing terrorists from Afghanistan. | | | |
| NHRC seeks reports on Pulwama killings | | 2003-03-26 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | Taking suo-motu cognizance of the killing of 24 Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Sunday night, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday asked the Centre and state government for "factual reports" within a week. | | | |
| India should follow America, attack Pak: Togadia | | 2003-03-26 | PTI | The Times Of India | | VHP international general secretary Praveen Togadia on Wednesday said India should attack Pakistan for its terrorist activities in the country, emulating the United States, which had attacked Iraq by-passing the United Nations. | | | |
| Massacre a barbaric act, says Muslim cleric | | 2003-03-25 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | Prominent Muslim cleric Syed Athar Hussain Dehlavi, chairman of the Anjuman Minhaj-e-Rasool (S), on Monday condemned the massacre of Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir as "a highly barbaric act". | | | |
| Militants massacre 24 in Kashmir | | 2003-03-24 | PTI | The Times Of India | | In a major strike, militants gunned down 24 Kashmiri pandits at Nandimarg in Shopian area of south Kashmir in the wee hours of Monday, official sources said here. | | | |
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| ‘We had a white flag on the house, why did my son die?’ | | 2003-03-24 | Mark Magnier & Sam Howe Verhovek | Indian Express | | Amid the jubilation here as convoys of US and British troops streamed north, a panicked woman waved her arms and wailed in grief as the battered pickup she was riding in skidded to a stop on the dusty street. On the floor of the truck were two dead men, their blood splattered over women supporting their limp bodies. ‘‘It came from the foreign helicopter,’’ one of the women said. ‘‘It came right into the house.’’ | | | |
| Iraq says US strikes killed one civilian | | 2003-03-20 | REUTERS | The Times Of India | | US warplane and missile strikes on Baghdad at dawn on Thursday hit empty media and customs buildings and civilian suburbs, killing one person, the Iraqi government said | | | |
| A moment for Rachel in the epoch of war | | 2003-03-19 | Tomas alex Tison & Lynn Marshal | The Indian Express | | At 23, Rachel Corrie was the person many people dream of becoming: passionate, giving, courageous to the point of risking her life. One-on-one, friends say, she was as soft as a petal. Which makes the circumstances of her death — crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer on Sunday — all the more brutal for the family and friends she leaves behind in Washington’s capital. | | | |
| Three persons killed, eight hurt in explosion in Orissa | | 2003-03-18 | Press Trust of India | Hindustan Times | | Three persons were killed and eight injured in an explosion today while they were engaged in manufacturing crackers at Manpur village, about 60 kms from here, police said. | | | |
| Death toll in Assam bomb blast rises to 7 | | 2003-03-17 | PTI | The Times Of India | | The death toll in Sunday's bomb blast triggered by the Ulfa in Goalpara district of Assam rose to seven on Monday with one of the injured succumbing to his injuries, official sources said. | | | |
| Pak arrests top al-Qaeda member al-Jaziri | | 2003-03-15 | REUTERS | The Times of India | | ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities said they had arrested a leading al Qaeda member, Moroccan national Yasir al-Jaziri, in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday | | | |
| TERROR HITS MUMBAI, TRAIN BLAST KILLS 11 | | 2003-03-14 | Express News Service | Indian Express | | A day after the tenth anniversary of the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, a powerful explosion ripped through the first class ladies compartment of a Karjat-bound local train on Thursday evening, killing 11 commuters, including four women, and injuring 91 others. This is the fourth bomb blast in the city in as many months | | | |
| Israel quits Gaza leaving ruins in wake | | 2003-03-10 | REUTERS | Times Of India | | Israeli troops withdrew from a four-square-mile area of northern Gaza on Monday, three days after seizing the patch of land to prevent the firing of rockets at Israel border towns | | | |
| Israel hits back, 11 dead in raid | | 2003-03-07 | Nidal Al-mughrabi | Indian Express | | Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians, including some torn apart by a tank shell, when troops stormed a Gaza Strip refugee camp on Thursday after a suicide bomber killed 15 people on an Israeli bus. | | | |
| Khalid predicts attacks on US in case of war | | 2003-03-07 | PTI | Times Of India | | Arrested Al Qaeda terrorist Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has threatened of a violent terrorist backlash against the American forces, if the US attacked Iraq. | | | |
| Israeli forces seize chunk of northern Gaza | | 2003-03-07 | AP | Times Of India | | Israeli troops seized a chunk of the northern Gaza Strip on Friday and set up key positions there in what an army commander said would be an open-ended stay to try to stop rocket attacks on nearby Israeli towns | | | |
| Israeli tank shell kills six in Gaza: Medics | | 2003-03-06 | Reuters | Hindustan Times | | An Israeli tank shell killed six Palestinians during an Israeli armoured sweep through a Gaza refugee camp on Thursday, medical officials said. | | | |
| White House cautious on status of bin Laden | | 2003-03-06 | Agence France-Presse | Hindustan Times | | The White House on Thursday refused to confirm reports that terrorist chief Osama bin Laden is alive and that US and Pakistani authorities are tightening the noose around the world's most wanted fugitive. | | | |
| Philippines airport blast 20 dead, 149 hurt | | 2003-03-05 | Reuters | Indian Express | | About 20 people, including an American, were killed and 146 injured on Tuesday in a powerful bomb attack at the busiest airport in rebellion-torn southern Philippines, officials said. | | | |
| Pressure on Pak to continue, Bush assures Vajpayee | | 2003-03-05 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times Of India | | As part of a worldwide effort to rally support for the US on its campaign against Iraq, President George Bush briefed the Prime Minister on Tuesday evening on the US' efforts to get a second resolution in the UN on Iraq, seeking destruction of that country's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). | | | |
| Pak poses greater security threat to US than Iraq, says expert | | 2003-03-05 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Pakistan has become the new command centre for Al-Qaeda and poses a greater national security threat to the US than Iraq, according to a report by a leading American think tank which said Islamabad should be warned that the US-led war against terror could spread even to its territory. | | | |
| Philippines blast kills 18, wounds over 100 | | 2003-03-04 | Reuters | Hindustan Times | | A bomb ripped through a crowd at the Davao international airport in the strife-torn southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people and wounding up to 100. | | | |
| Geneva convention not for captured terrorists: US | | 2003-03-04 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Washington, Mar 4 (PTI) The US does not recognize the applicability to captured terrorists, of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, and has also ensured that interrogation of terrorists like recently captured al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, takes place in third countries to avoid protest in America. | | | |
| General banter | | 2003-03-04 | Editorial | Hindustan Times | | The capture in Pakistan of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attack, has messed it up further for the Musharraf dictatorship. While it tries to earn brownie points from the US for helping out with the arrest of a top Al-Qaeda operative, the action has angered the country’s increasingly high-profile and expanded jehadi opposition. It has accused the government of letting loose the American secret services on Pakistanis and sinking the country’s honour. | | | |
| Terrorists videotaped WTC towers before 9/11 | | 2003-03-04 | PTI | Times Of India | | Months before the attack on the World Trade Center in the United States, the terrorists who masterminded the bombing, had "painstakingly" videotaped the twin towers | | | |
| LeT issues fresh threats to target Atal, Advani | | 2003-03-02 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Lashkar-e-Taiba has issued a fresh threat to unleash a spate of suicide attacks in India and targets include Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee among others, reports Pakistani media. | | | |
| 9/11 mastermind taken to undisclosed location | | 2003-03-02 | AP | Times Of India | | US authorities have taken the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks out of Pakistan to an undisclosed location after capturing him in a joint raid by CIA and Pakistani agents, a senior government official said Sunday | | | |
| Conspiracy angle in Pak crash | | 2003-03-02 | Vishal Thapar | Hindustan Times | | Conspiracy theories about the air crash which killed Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Chief Mushaq Ali Mir last month have started surfacing with reports that he was bitterly opposed to providing airbases to the US in its war against terrorism. | | | |
| Key Al-Qaeda suspect still in Pakistan: Minister | | 2003-03-02 | Reuters | Hindustan Times | | Pakistan's interior minister on Sunday denied reports that suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been handed over to the United States and said he was still in Pakistan | | | |
| Pak rejects demand for handing over terrorists | | 2003-03-01 | PTI | Times Of India | | Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has rejected India's demand for handing over 20 wanted terrorists and criminals who have taken refuge in that country | | | |
| Gunman kills three guards outside US consulate in Pak | | 2003-02-28 | PTI | Outlookindia | | A lone gunman shot dead three policemen and injured seven others guarding the US consulate in the port city of Karachi today, in the second deadly strike outside the US mission here in eight months. | | | |
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