This Months Article

Starting: Mon October 1, 2001
Ending: Wed October 31, 2001

Messages: 462

• SIMI –A war within (Investigation by The Week, September 9, 2001)
• BJP Today, October 16-31, 2001

>>> A dangerous cat and mouse game is being played between the police and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), whose ban a few states have sought. ......
 
• Not Enough Might
• Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, October 30, 2001

>>> The war is not going well. The Taliban have not yielded ground. Not a single important Taliban leader has been killed, or captured or has defected. On the contrary. The Taliban have captured and executed our great Pashtun hope, Abdul Haq. The Joint Chiefs express surprise at the tenacity of the enemy. ......
 
• ISI used Al Qaida camps to train J&K militants: U.S.
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 30, 2001

>>> The U.S. has at long last directly implicated Pakistan for terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Washington now says Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, has “even used Al Qaida camps in Afghanistan to train covert operatives for use in a war of terror against India”. ......
 
• Crucial phase yet to come
• Henry Kissinger, Dawn, October 29, 2001

>>> A new epoch in America's relations with the world began at 8:41 a.m. on Sept. 11 when the first hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Center. By imposing on America a sense of vulnerability, the attack also introduced the country to a new form of warfare - without battle lines and specific demands and not resolvable, as some wars are, by negotiation, only by victory. ......
 
• ‘Anti-terror law first legal salvo’ - New Ordinance more humane than TADA
• Pioneer News Service, The Pioneer, October 26, 2001

>>> The Union Government on Thursday termed the new anti-terrorism Ordinance, banning 23 terrorist outfits, as the first "comprehensive legal salvo against the menace of terrorism, but having more than adequate in-built safeguards against its possible misuse" by law enforcing authorities. ......
 
• Khaleda’s dastardly dance of death
• Sandhya Jain, The Pioneer, October 23, 2001

>>> Intoxicated, or perhaps exhausted, by its exuberant diplomacy with the United States for a share of the action against international terrorism, the BJP-led government has failed to take note of the orchestrated violence against Hindus in Bangladesh, and the dangerously rising levels of Islamic fundamentalism there. ......
 
• Fraud and Congress CM
• V.A. GOPALA, October 23, 2001

>>> The controversial CM of Chattisgarh  Ajit P K Jogi is in the midst of another fraudulent case. The national commission for SC and ST has categorically stated Mr. Jogi "does not belong to the scheduled tribe" but fraudulently enjoying the benefits out of it. His life seems to full of controversies. ......
 
• Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was interviewed on LARRY KING
• LIVE on October 23, 2001 at 06:30 (IST) on CNN. Below are the transcripts of the exclusive interview.

>>> Mr. President, first about your own concerns, an interview published yesterday, the security chief of the Taliban said that Musharraf is our enemy and the next target in due time. Does that cause you some concern?
MUSHARRAF: Well, it does cause concern, but not much. We have joined the coalition as a matter of principle, and we'll stick to our decisions. ......
 
• Bangla Exodus After Assault On Women
• Farid Hossain, The Telegraph, October 22, 2001

>>> Growing violence against the minority community has forced thousands of families to flee their homes in Bangladesh, according to human rights groups and newspaper reports today. ......
 
• Bullets of Saudi gold
• Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Washington Times, October 22, 2001

>>> Rogue states like Iraq and Libya can't hold a candle to Saudi Arabia when it comes to the radicalization of Islam. The controlled Saudi media doesn't mention that at least 10 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis. Nor are Saudi subjects told that their kingdom has been the principal source of funding for the Taliban regime since 1996. ......
 
• Pipedreams and daydreams
• Irfan Husain, Dawn, October 20, 2001

>>> Our paranoid preoccupation with conspiracy theories and the boundless capacity Muslims have for self-delusion never cease to amaze me. Had the consequences of these follies not been so tragic, they would have been downright hilarious. ......
 
• Washington’s double act: Coddle Pak, mollify India
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 20, 2001

>>> President George W Bush's unexpected invitation to Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee to visit Washington next month is evidently aimed at addressing widespread misgivings in India that the U.S. is jettisoning its stated goal of developing strategic ties with New Delhi because of the changed circumstances in the neighbourhood. ......
 
• War on terrorism: impact on India
• P M Kamath, The Free Press Journal, October 19, 2001

>>> Tough India was first to have offered help to the U.S. it is in the fitness of things that the US should use Pakistan rather than India in its immediate aim of bringing to books terrorists involved in the attacks against them. Geopolitical location, access to Taliban and ability to share intelligence on Osama bin Laden- all favour Pakistan rather than India. ......
 
• Duplicitous stand
• Editorial, The Pioneer, October 19, 2001

>>> The Congress's decision to oppose the ratification of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) in Parliament deserves the severest of condemnation. The argument advanced in defence of this deplorable decision, that the legislation “is undemocratic, suffers from serious legal infirmities and is liable to abuse”, is breathtaking for its sheer hypocrisy. ......
 
• Pro-Taliban Pakistan cleric charged with treason
• The Telegraph, October 18, 2001

>>> Pakistani authorities have registered a complaint of treason against a leading pro-Taliban Muslim leader, police said today, but his party officials said such a move would not deter their anti-US campaign. ......
 
• U.S. bombings force Pak women to choose sides
• Fariba Nawa, The Times of India, October 18, 2001

>>> Ayesha Zia Khan is 22. She does not cover her head and studies computing at university. Yet she says she would be glad to see allies of the fundamentalist Taliban regime running Pakistan. She is aware that the Taliban, which has ruled Afghanistan since 1996, has ended public education for Afghan girls and forces women to cover themselves from head to toe. ......
 
• Bush’s New Focus Requires a Shift in His China Policy
• David E. Sanger, The New York Times, October 18, 2001

>>> President Bush, who came into office just months ago talking of China as a "strategic competitor," departed for Shanghai today on a trip expected to complete a significant shift in his policy toward Beijing as he seeks to build, maintain and expand a global coalition against terrorism. ......
 
• The tenets of terror
• Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 2001

>>> The Islamic law student would like to create - through a holy war, if necessary - an Islamic state that spans the globe. All nations would be under the control of sharia (Islamic law), with the locus of authority in Saudi Arabia, "the center of Islam." And for the first act, he looks to Osama bin Laden, "our hero No. 1, our religious leader, our model, our general." ......
 
• Deconstructing the political Left
• Jonathan Down Gailey, The Statesman, October 18, 2001

>>> In the days following the tragedy of the World Trade Center’s demolition, the mysterious and sudden nature of the attack has propelled a public dialogue to two fundamental questions - who was behind the violent act, and, as important, why’? Indeed, as aid workers pick through the rubble of the twin towers, the world has been left to ponder the central dilemma of seeking the underlining cause of this dramatic event. ......
 
• Govt. schools steadily lose ground to madrasas in Kutch
• Times News Network, The Times of India, October 16, 2001

>>> The district police of Kutch have found that many of the teachers imparting Islamic education in the madrasas which have mushroomed in the border areas of Kutch come from as far as Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh, Murshidabad in West Bengal and Kishenganj in Bihar. But this is not a recent phenomenon. ......
 
• Abu Sayyaf threatens to kill American missionary
• Reuters, The Indian Express, October 16, 2001

>>> Muslim rebels in the Philippines put a captive US missionary -on’ the telephone to a radio station on Monday for the first time - and then threatened to kill him and his wife, if attacked. ......
 
• J-K victims ask: is killing freely, freedom struggle?
• Pradeep Dutta, The Indian Express, October 15, 2001

>>> Displaced persons have put the Pakistani President in a dock. General Pervez Musharraf’s recent statement was that “there is freedom struggle and not terrorism” but facts point to something else. ......
 
• Bhujbal faces flak on the home front
• Prakash Joshi, The Times of India, October 14, 2001

>>> Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) warhorse Chhagan Bhujbal has weathered many a storm with several attacks on him by various parties. But now he is under attack from home quarters. A powerful lobby within the NCP has begun targeting him for his style of functioning. ......
 
• Taliban defectors tell of demoralised conscripts
• Peter Baker, The Times of India, October 14, 2001

>>> The militia swept in before anyone realised what was going on. Zalmai, a 20-year-old merchant, was tending to the apples and cucumbers and other produce at his Kabul store when the officers began grilling him. ......
 
• U.S. campaign pays dividends for India
• Manoj Joshi, The Times of India, October 14, 2001

>>> New Delhi: Senior government officials here say they are “heartened” by signs of Pakistan making an effort to put an end to sponsoring terrorism and maintain that the U.S.-led campaign is already paying dividends for this country. ......
 
• Laden hunt may last a year: Bush
• Agencies, The Indian Express, October 13, 2001

>>> US President George W Bush today said that “it may take a year or two” to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, but asserted that after a five- day aerial bombardment of Afghanistan, “we've got them on the run.” ......
 
• UK deports Pak cleric ‘sponsoring terrorism in J-K’
• H S Rao, The Indian Express, October 12, 2001

>>> A UK-based Pakistani Muslim cleric, accused of recruiting British Muslims for terrorist training and raising money to fund a ‘holy war’ in Kashmir, is to be deported to Pakistan. According to security service investigators, Rehman (34) had raised funds for the Lashkar-E-Toiba in Britain while working for its political wing, Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad. ......
 
• ‘Pak cleric is a threat to UK’s security’
• Rashmee Z. Ahmed, The Times of India, October 12, 2001

>>> A Manchester-based cleric, Shafiq-ur Rahman, is accused of recruiting and funding the Lashkar-e-Toiba. He has finally been deemed a threat to Britain's national security, four years after his deportation was first ordered by the then British home secretary, Jack Straw. ......
 
• Bhujbal embarrassed by his partymen
• Times News Network, The Times of India, October 12, 2001

>>> Deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal is being embarrassed by the leader of his own party, the NCP. He was the first leader to openly demand a ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). But on Thursday, NCP spokesperson Vasant Chavan said the ban should not have been effected without collecting adequate evidence against SIMI. ......
 
• CIA needs ISI more than ISI needs CIA
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 12, 2001

>>> The United States could well consider naming Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) a foreign terrorist organisation judging by the revelations spilling out now about its nefarious activities that have not only troubled India but also jeopardised Washington's battle against terrorism. ......
 
• War against terrorism will not extend beyond Afghanistan: UK
• Rashmee Z Ahmed, The Times of India, October 11, 2001

>>> Prime Minister Tony Blair is fighting a frenzied rear guard propaganda war with Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden even as Britain has been trying to address the growing anxieties across the Muslim world by promising that any future military action in the war against terrorism will be within the bounds of international law. ......
 
• Sonia plays spoilsport for Krishna’s party
• Express News Service, The Indian Express, October 11, 2001

>>> It was meant to be a bi-partisan conclave of the Prime Minster and Chief Ministers to be hosted by Karnataka CM S M Krishna in Bangalore later this month. The aim was to narrow differences in the political leadership on economic reforms. But Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has pulled Krishna up for it. ......
 
• Islamic States Have A (Deadly) Way With Words Zev Chafets
• Ny Daily News, The New York Times, October 10, 2001

>>> In the second week of October 2001, Islamic foreign ministers gathered in the Persian Gulf city of Doha (in Qatar) to discuss where they stand on America's response to the Bin Laden Holy War. ......
 
• Reconstruction of Ram Temple after March 12 – Ashok Singhal
• Ravindra Saini, Organiser, October 7, 2001

>>> “The Ram temple movement purely belongs to saints and Hindu society. It has nothing to do with any political party. Now we are fully prepared to start the reconstruction work and it can begin any time after March 12, next year”, said the Working President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Shri Ashok Singhal. ......
 
• Islam and Terrorism, (Time to call spade a spade)
• Bal Raj Madhok, Organiser, October 7, 2001

>>> The terrorist attacks on World Trade Center at New York and Pentaon at Washington, in which more than 6000 innocent people lost their lives, have brought the problem of terrorism in the name of jehad from which India has been suffering for a long time into focus. It has opened the eyes and stirred the conscience of many who had been underplaying the gravity of the problem. ......
 
• Confusing Islam with Terrorism
• Dr. S. Ausaf Saied Vasfi, Organiser, October 7, 2001

>>> That was the least expected by the “superpower”, which has no second in the present day unipolar world. And, perhaps, therein lies the justification of its less-than-balanced reaction. Its ego has been badly bruised. Chinks in its armour have become visible to all and sundry. Fortress America is pregnable, this is the general impression. ......
 
• America has now seen the true face of Islam
• Steve, Organiser, October 7, 2001

>>> Ever since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001 serious-minded people have started cogitating about terrorism, identified as jehad and also about the complexion of Islam. For, Islam is seen as the motivating factor for terrorism in different parts of the world, including the latest one perpetrated on the US. ......
 
• Ban on anti-national SIMI is no surprise
• Shyam Khosla, Organiser, October 7, 2001

>>> The ban on the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) slapped last week did not come as a surprise. The Centre was under tremendous pressure from several State Governments, including Congress-run States like Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, to ban the activities of this fundamentalist outfit that had links with Pakistan's ISI and terrorist organisations operating in J&K. ......
 
• SIMI seen in true colours
• Editorial, Organiser, October 7, 2001

>>> The Union Home Ministry's long overdue ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has come at an appropriate time. The Islamic set-up that followed a hardline militant posture on all issues concerning Islam and Muslims was put on the watch-list by the Government for long. ......
 
• Indians in Pak jails turning insane, say freed prisoners
• Dharmendra Rataul, The Indian Express, October 3, 2001

>>> A large number of Indian prisoners languishing in Pakistani jails are turning insane because of unhealthy living conditions and torture. Despite having completed their jail terms many of them were still imprisoned there. ......
 
• Musharraf trapped in his web of deceit
• Wilson John, The Pioneer, October 31, 2001

>>> There is a strong possibility that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf just might not return from New York where he is scheduled to attend the United Nation's General Assembly next month. Back home, in Islamabad, there is nothing much left for him to return to any way. The Americans, who might not be averse to providing him safe haven, are already preparing for such an eventuality. ......
 
• Jihad the new obsession for J&K youth
• Kavita Suri, The Statesman, October 30, 2001

>>> Anger in Kashmir over the attacks on Afgha-nistan has fuelled a recruitment drive of thousands of youths eager to fight against the USA. They have the support of the ISI, now focusing on recruitment of youngsters, despite Pakistan’s support to the USA. ......
 
• Mosque siege ends, ultra killed
• Press Trust Of India, The Statesman, October 30, 2001

>>> Security forces killed the Lashkar-e-Taiyaba militant holed up in a mosque in central Kashmir’s Badgam district this morning ending a 45-hour-long stand-off without any damage to the place of worship, an official spokesman said here. ......
 
• Mindless massacre
• Editorial, The Pioneer, October 30, 2001

>>> The massacre of 18 Christians in Pakistan is yet another sign that President Pervez Musharraf is fast losing his grip on the situation. The killings are being widely perceived as revenge against the US bombing of neighbouring Afghanistan. ......
 
• Pak. Christians vow ‘revenge’
• The Hindu, October 30, 2001

>>> Thousands of mourners shouted “revenge, revenge” as the bodies of the 15 Christians were brought to the church, where they were massacred a day earlier, for funeral rites today. ......
 
• Pak. media won’t buy ‘Indian hand’ theory
• B. Muralidhar Reddy, The Hindu, October 30, 2001

>>> The Pakistani establishment is pointing fingers at the possible involvement of the Indian intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), in the Bahawalpur church massacre on Sunday. However, the Pakistani media is not prepared to buy the line this time. ......
 
• US anti-terrorism men fly to Philippine island
• Agencies, The Pioneer, October 29, 2001

>>> US Anti-terrorism experts flew on Sunday to a southern Philippine island, where Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebels were holding captive an American missionary couple and eight Filipinos. ......
 
• US special forces beat retreat as enemy ‘fought back like maniacs’
• Michael Smith, The Telegraph, October 26, 2001

>>> The American troops who took part in last Friday's raids inside Afghanistan encountered far heavier opposition than they expected, forcing commanders to call in the SAS for future missions. ......
 
• Pak hands over three retired scientists to US
• The Navhind Times, October 31, 2001

>>> Pakistan has handed over three retired nuclear scientists accused of having links with terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to United States authorities for investigations, media reports here said today. ......
 
• UK Muslims told they risk death if they join Taliban
• The Navhind Times, October 31, 2001

>>> Alarmed at an increasing number of British Muslims offering themselves to fight along with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Britain has issued a stern warning to them saying they risk being shot by British forces or put on trial if they return alive. ......
 
• Naipaul finds US aims, allies dubious
• L K Sharma, DH News Service, October 31, 2001

>>> Nobel Laureate V S Naipaul said if America wished to eradicate terrorism it could not have acquired one ally who was the paymaster of terrorists and another ally who provided the foot soldiers. He said he supported the war against terrorism but was not sure that it was a war against terrorism, probably it was something else. ......
 
• The Saudi Connection: Osama bin Laden’s a lot closer to the Saudi royal family than you think.
• David Wurmser, The Weekly Standard, October 29, 2001

>>> Two Questions have been raised about Osama bin Laden. First, if bin Laden opposes the Saudi regime, why has he never struck Saudi targets? Second, if he threatens Saudi Arabia, why has the Saudi government taken the lead in recognizing and funding the Taliban government of Afghanistan, which is entwined with bin Laden's al Qaeda organization? ......
 
• The king who fought casteism
• C V Gopalakrishnan, The Hindu, October 29, 2001

>>> The unveiling of the statue of Sri Chithra Thirunal Balarama Varma last king of the erstwhile Travancore State - on November 13 by Dr. C. Rangarajan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh, should recall the turbulent history which the former State had gone through in the thirties on the eve of the epoch- making Temple Entry Proclamation issued by the Maharaja. ......
 
• 16 Killed in Pakistan Church Attack
• Yahoo News, October 28, 2001

>>> Unidentified attackers opened fire Sunday morning on a Christian church in southern Pakistan, killing at least 16 worshippers, police and hospital officials said. ......
 
• Fresh Bangladeshi influx alarms Govt
• Chandan Nandy, The Hindustan Times, October 28, 2001

>>> A fresh influx of Bangladeshi nationals into some Indian border states after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance captured power in Dhaka recently has set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power here. West Bengal and Tripura have taken the brunt of illegal immigration. ......
 
• Pak continues to train militants, says George
• PTI, The Times of India, October 28, 2001

>>> Dismissing all speculation that terrorist training camps in Pakistan and areas illegally occupied by it had been closed, defence minister George Fernandes on Saturday charged Islamabad with continuing to impart training to militants, even as he indicated a new multifaceted strategy to counter terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. ......
 
• Kabul’s call for jehad breaks many a Pakistani home
• IANS, The Economic Times, October 28, 2001

>>> Her only son has gone, leaving behind a note saying he is joining the jehad in Afghanistan, SADA reports. The scene is repeated over and over in many areas here, as members of numerous religious outfits go from door to door trying to persuade young men to join the 'holy war' in neighbouring Afghanistan. ......
 
• Bush approves new anti-terror laws
• Patricia Wilson, The Economic Times, October 28, 2001

>>> President George W Bush signed new anti-terror laws on Friday, aggressively expanding the US government's power to detain immigrants, eavesdrop on electronic communications and crack money laundering schemes. 'Today, we take an essential step in defeating terrorism while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans,' Mr Bush said at the White House. ......
 
• U.S. Is Planning an Aid Package for Pakistan Worth Billions
• Joseph Kahn, The New York Times, October 27, 2001

>>> The Bush administration has put together an aid package for Pakistan that is likely to total several billion dollars and includes sweeping debt rescheduling, grants stretching over many years and trade benefits as a reward for its support against terrorism. ......
 
• Powell prunes Pak role in Kabul
• Kyodo, October 26, 2001

>>> Sixty Pakistani soldiers were killed and 70 others injured in Kabul by Thursday's U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan, the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance's commander said Friday. ......
 
• Powell prunes Pak role in Kabul
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 26, 2001

>>> Pakistan suffered a major diplomatic and strategic setback on Wednesday when the U.S. declared that its frontline ally would have to take a backseat in determining the future dispensation in Afghanistan. ......
 
• ‘Musharraf wants to replace madarasas with schools’
• India Abroad, October 25, 2001

>>> The United States said on Wednesday that Pakistan was seeking aid not to buy arms but to replace the education provided by the madarasas (seminaries) with modern schools. ......
 
• Children Trained in Special Schools to Fight ‘Infidels’ - A Reporter's Notebook: A Booming Voice
• Tina Babarovic, ABC News, October 25, 2001

>>> Many people will remember his voice because it was his voice that first attracted our attention. I will remember his eyes, and his schoolmates'. ......
 
• “China claims ‘big victory’ over Xinjiang separatists”
• AFP, The Hindustan Times, October 25, 2001

>>> Authorities in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang region have declared a "big victory" in smashing what they called separatists, religious extremists and terrorists, state press said on Thursday. ......
 
• Mystery man handed over to US troops in Karachi
• Masood Anwar, The News, October 25, 2001

>>> Pakistani authorities handed over a 'suspected foreigner' to the US authorities in a mysterious way in the early hours of Tuesday and there are strong suspicions that he was an Arab student of the Karachi University, with connections to some infamous wanted organisation. ......
 
• Harkat killing: Red faces in Pak
• Agencies, The Indian Express, October 25, 2001

>>> Pakistani border officials on Wednesday fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators in Karachi after 35 Harkatul Mujahideen militants were killed by US bombing in Kabul, witnesses said. ......
 
• Pak provokes Indian public opinion - India decides to be far more aggressive
• B L Kak, The Daily Excelsior, October 24, 2001

>>> India's Foreign Office has sent out a message, informing Washington that New Delhi would decide when to resume dialogue with Islamabad. India, the message has asserted, cannot be forced to accept dictation from others. ......
 
• Pakistani nuclear scientist arrested
• Staff and agencies, The Guardian, October 24, 2001

>>> The former head of Pakistan's nuclear research programme, who is also an outspoken supporter of Islamic radicals, has been arrested in Pakistan and placed in "protective custody", the government said today. ......
 
• Report riles Arab-Americans in Michigan
• Steve Miller, The Washington Times, October 24, 2001

>>> Detroit: This city has been cited in a state police report as a "major financial support center for many Middle East terrorist groups," setting the sizable Arab-American community on edge. ......
 
• Taleban’s Pakistani volunteers
• Ian MacWilliam and Altaf Hussain, BBC News, October 24, 2001

>>> Pakistani militants have been crossing into Afghanistan since the start of the US-led military campaign, vowing to defend the Taleban regime and Osama Bin Laden. ......
 
• Delhi takes a serious view of attacks on minorities: Vajpayee
• Pallab Bhattacharya, The Daily Star, October 24, 2001

>>> Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said India is in touch with Bangladesh in connection with reported attacks on minority Hindus in that country and New Delhi has taken a "serious view" of damage to Durga Puja pandals in Bangladesh. ......
 
• Delhi for seek-and-destroy mission
• B L Kak, The Daily Excelsior, October 24, 2001

>>> The Government of India is understood to have approved a plan to carry out seek-and-destroy mission in Jammu and Kashmir. ......
 
• Al-Qaida weaves a web of terror across Europe
• Peter Finn and Sarah Delaney, The Times of India, October 24, 2001

>>> Telephone wiretaps and listening devices planted in the apartment of a 33 year-old Tunisian here have produced evidence that a network of terrorist recruits trained at Osama Bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan has fanned out to a half- dozen European countries, according to Italian investigators. ......
 
• Muslim Population Overstated
• Rachel Zoll, The Associated press, October 22, 2001

>>> The American Jewish Committee, concerned by the growing political influence of U.S. Muslims, released a report Monday saying commonly used estimates of the Muslim population in this country are too high, likely by millions. ......
 
• ‘No hot pursuit of terrorists for now’
• Agencies, The Economic Times, October 20, 2001

>>> Asserting that India would fight its 'own' battle against terrorism with a 'firm hand', home minister L K Advani today ruled out for 'now' hot pursuit of terrorists and their camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir saying that New Delhi at present wanted the global war against the menace to 'succeed'. ......
 
• Anti-US protests turn violent in Hyderabad
• Statesman News Service, The Statesman, October 13, 2001

>>> At least 30 people were injured when police thrashed people inside the Mecca Masjid after they rained stones following the Friday prayers at the mosque near the Charminar. For the first time police entered the historic mosque after water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets failed to bring the violent crowd under control. ......
 
• Pak ‘sweet talk’ not surprising
• Rahul Datta, The Pioneer, October 11, 2001

>>> On Monday, Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf urged Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during a late evening telephonic conversation not to do anything to rock Islamabad's military regime. ......
 
• Osama Taliban are first in our line of fire: Blair
• Times News Network, The Times of India, October 7, 2001

>>> If India had expected a clear-cut public endorsement of its stand against the cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan, it was certainly not forthcoming in a s many words. ......
 
• Jaish’s car bomb also blew up in Pak’s face
• Muzamil Jaleel, The Indian Express, October 7, 2001

>>> Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Jaish-e-Mohammad's suicide attack on the J K Assembly in which 38 people were killed was as much a warning to Islamabad-for its role in the current international campaign against the Taliban-as it was a message to New Delhi. ......
 
• 572 militants killed in Rajouri till October-end
  • The Times of India, October 31, 2001
    >>> A total of 572 militants have been eliminated by police and security forces      in the border districts of Poonch and Rajouri since January 1 to October-end this year, a senior Army officer said here on Wednesday. ......
   
  
  
• Attack on terrorism must be multi-faceted: Arun Shourie
• Ramesh Menon, Rediff on Net, October 31, 2001

>>> Union Divestment Minister Arun Shourie on Wednesday warned that the fight against terrorism should also take into account chemical and biological warfare. ......
 
• “Losing on the home front”
• Paul Craig Roberts, Townhall.com, October 31, 2001

>>> For many Americans, the events of Sept. 11 have breathed new life into patriotism, but many in academia and the media remain hostile to America. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (www.thefire.org) has intervened in recent instances where academic administrators intentionally stifled patriotic expression and retaliated against those who voiced support for our country. ......
 
• ‘ISI weapon supply to Taliban continues’
• PTI, The Hindu, October 31, 2001

>>> Pakistan's ISI continues to supply the Taliban with weapons and other goods even though President Pervez Musharraf has replaced the agency's chief, the Northern Alliance spokesman in Washington has said. ......
 
• 3 tribals killed in police firing in Orissa
• Rediff on Net, October 31, 2001

>>> At least three tribals were killed, and eight policemen injured in a bloody clash between tribals and police in Nabarangpur district in Orissa, police sources said. ......
 
• More sex please, we are the Taliban
• Aditya Sinha, The Hindustan Times, October 31, 2001

>>> Peshawar:  With their harsh edicts, the Taliban are known as  women-haters. However, there is a little-known soft side to the Taliban, filled with  the romance and passion of a cheap novel. ......
 
• Terrorists or scriptwriters?
• Sonia Trikha, The Indian Express, October 31, 2001

>>> This may come as a surprise to Ariel Sharon but Indian air force base at Avantipora is used to hide Israeli planes in Srinagar. The Lashkar-e-Taiba certainly thinks so and in an account that reads like an incomprehensible mix of Harry Potter and Commander comics, it has posted a part fantasy, part fiction story of its attack in Avantipora on October 22. ......
 
• Top VHP leader Pravin Togadia arrested
• Press Trust of India, October 30, 2001

>>> International general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Pravin Togadia, was arrested at Bhusawal station in Jalgaon on Wednesday morning, Maharashtra Minister of State for Home Kripashankar Singh said. ......
 
• Drilling for Tolerance
• Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, October 30, 2001

>>> In April 1988 Saudi Arabia asked the U.S. to withdraw its newly appointed ambassador, Hume Horan, after only six months. News reports said King Fahd just didn't like the U.S. envoy. What the Saudis didn't like about him, though, was that he was the best Arabic speaker in the State Department ......
 
• China Calls Papal Message a “Positive Sign”
• Zenit.org, October 30, 2001

>>> China welcomed John Paul II's request for forgiveness for the past faults of the Church's children in that country. But it also wants him to apologize for last year's canonization of 120 China martyrs. ......
 
• Organizations Call for End to Bombing
• Gustav Niebuhr, The New York Times, October 29, 2001

>>> A group of American Muslim organizations has called for the United States to halt its bombing campaign in Afghanistan and instead develop "a more effective and long-term policy" to counter terrorism. ......
 
• ‘Taliban are welcome in Kashmir’
• The Hindu, October 28, 2001

>>> Ms. Asiya Andrabi is the only wanted woman leader in Kashmir. Just before the terrorist strikes in the United States, police did not spare any effort to apprehend her for alleged involvement in the much-publicised burqa (veil) campaign launched by the Lashkar-e-Jabbar(LeJ). ......
 
• Jubilant Calls on Sept. 11 Led to F.B.I. Arrests
• Neil A. Lewis and David Johnston, The New York Times, October 28, 2001

>>> Within hours of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, law enforcement officials say, F.B.I. agents intercepted telephone calls in which suspected associates of Al Qaeda in the United States were overheard celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ......
 
• Two Different Worlds!
• CR Irani, The Statesman, October 28, 2001

>>> The campaign in Afghanistan is entering a fourth week and there is precious little to show for it. Hopes of an imminent Taliban collapse, desertions from their ranks, disintegration of their support, have all come to naught. Even Taliban claims of collateral civilian damage have had to be confirmed — reluctantly — days after the event. ......
 
• VHP to go ahead with temple plans
• Sunita Aron, The Hindustan Times, October 24, 2001

>>> The Vishwa Hindu Parishad is in a defiant mood. Even after Prime Minister Vajpayee said in Lucknow that the storming of the disputed structure at Ayodhya had harmed his efforts to find an amicable solution to the temple dispute, the VHP is all set to launch its second phase of countrywide programme from November 1. ......
 
• Mayhem in Bangladesh
• Abhijit Bhattacharyya, The Pioneer, October 22, 2001

>>> Islamic Bangladesh of Bengali language and Bengali culture is back at its favourite game of smashing the Hindu minority and raping their women and maiming them for life. Lest this is perceived as fabrication by an Indian, the above piece of information has been lifted from the report of a Bangladesh daily of October 11, 2001. ......
 
• Making it clear
• Editorial, The Pioneer, October 22, 2001

>>> India and Russia have done well to make it clear that they did not agree with the United States and Pakistan on the issue of a future political dispensation for Afghanistan, and that there was no place for the Taliban in the latter. ......
 
• Pakistan should forget about a role in Afghanistan and start behaving like a good neighbour’ (Interview wih Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq)
• Abhijit Sinha, The Hindustan Times, October 21, 2001

>>> Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq, the interior minister in the Burhanuddin Rabbani-led Islamic State of Afghanistan (the Taliban government is known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan), has a one-line message for General Pervez Musharraf: “Stop conspiring against Afghanistan”. ......
 
• Atal ridicules Pervez, says Pak shouldn’t doubt India’s resolve
• Press Trust of India, The Indian Express, October 21, 2001

>>> Somnath, Gujarat, October 31: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Wednesday made a subtle attack on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for his recent statements and said nobody should be under any illusion about India's unity and strength. ......
 
• Kohima to Kashmir: On the Terrorist Trail
• M V Kamath, Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> Prakash Singh is no ordinary policeman. His credentials for writing authoritatively on terrorism are impressive. During thirty-five years of service as a police officer he has served in almost all the troubled theatres in India. He started with service in Kohima in 1965. ......
 
• Muslim businesses to boycott US, British products
• A Chalomumbai Correspondent, Mid-Day, October 30, 2001

>>> Muslim business communities in Mumbai and the neighbouring Thane district have decided to stop undertaking any financial transactions with American and British banks besides boycotting the products manufactured by companies from these countries. ......
 
• Ally Or Playing Both Sides? Some Question Allegiiance Of Pakistani Spy Agency
• John Daniszewski, Tyler Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 2001

>>> Behind a dusty gray wall in the military district here works an organization with the secret knowledge that could spell success or doom for U. S. military operations against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. ......
 
• Minorities in Bangladesh need to pay Tax to stay in their ancestral home - declaration from BNP cadres in Rauzan and Rangunia: A report from Sangbad (Translated from Bengali)
• Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities, October 30, 2001

>>> From Chitagong Bureau (South-east Bangladesh)by Anjan kumar Sen: In many villages of Rauzan and Rangunia Upa-Jillah (sub-districts), the hindus this year couldn't offer Durga Puja - not even `Ghat- puja' (symbolic Durga puja). Many houses were torched and looted after the election on Oct 1st..... Not only the houses were torched, the minorities have been threatened that they need to pay tax to perform `ghat-puja'. On Vijaya Dashami, the oppressors (`Faizal Vahini') also declared that the minorities need to pay monthly tax to live in Bangladesh. ......
 
• Rage of Luton Muslims
• The Times of London, October 30, 2001

>>> There is a terrible, visceral rage among Luton's young Muslim brotherhood, a fury so powerful that already dozens of men, all British born and highly educated, have disappeared to fight for the Taleban. It has left parents terrified, the town's mosques full of loathing and yesterday, as The Times discovered first-hand, seen journalists and photographers physically attacked. ......
 
• Watching The Warheads
• Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, October 29, 2001

>>> The Bush Administration's hunt for Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network has evolved into a regional crisis that has put Pakistan's nuclear arsenal at risk, exacerbated the instability of the government of General Pervez Musharraf, and raised the possibility of a nuclear conflict between Pakistan and India. ......
 
• Pakistan Criticized for Blasphemy Law Allowing Death Penalty
• Zenit.org, October 29, 2001

>>> Sunday's attack on a Catholic church in Pakistan, which left 18 dead, highlighted the fragile situation of religious minorities in this overwhelmingly Muslim country. ......
 
• A Working Class Hero
• Prem Shankar Jha, Outlook, October 29, 2001

>>> In recent weeks, American and European presidents, prime ministers and sundry other dignitaries have showered praise on Pakistan for siding with the modern world and joining wholeheartedly in the fight against terrorism. With dazzling speed, the US has lifted all sanctions, begun providing military assistance and piloted the rescheduling, which amounts to partial write-off, of $30 billion of Pakistan's $37 billion foreign debt. ......
 
• US special unit ‘stands by to steal atomic warheads’
• Ben Fenton, The Telegraph, October 29, 2001

>>> An elite American military unit is preparing for possible incursion into Pakistan in order to steal its nuclear weapons arsenal, it is reported today. ......
 
• Pakistani Intelligence Had Links to Al Qaeda, U.S. Officials Say
• James Risen and Judith Miller, The New York Times, October 29, 2001

>>> The intelligence service of Pakistan, a crucial American ally in the war on terrorism, has had an indirect but longstanding relationship with Al Qaeda, turning a blind eye for years to the growing ties between Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, according to American officials. ......
 
• Proxy War Threatens To Unravel U.S. Alliance - Vale Of Kashmir
• John Kifner, The New York Times, October 29, 2001

>>> Word travels fast in this corner of paradise, the narrow twisting streets of the Maisuma quarter, a hotbed of Kashmiri separatism. Among the narrow stalls of copper craftsmen pounding out kitchen utensils and little halls decked with ribbons for bridegroom receptions this wedding season before Ramadan, people craned to look around corners, and young men walked in the opposite direction at a pace a little quicker than casual. ......
 
• FBI Wary of Investigating Extremist Muslim Leaders
• Walter Pincus, Washington Post, October 29, 2001

>>> Fearing charges of religious persecution, the FBI for years has hesitated to investigate radical Islamic clerics in the United States despite evidence that their mosques have been used to recruit and fund suspected terrorists, present and former law enforcement officials said. ......
 
• How Many U.S. Muslims?
• Daniel Pipes, New York Post, October 29, 2001

>>> Until now, basically, no one has had any idea. By law, the U.S. Census cannot ask questions about religion. There are also plenty of other difficulties in coming up with a number, starting with the problem of defining who is a Muslim: Does one include non-standard believers like Louis Farrakhan and the Druze? ......
 
• Bangladeshis attack Indian village, kill one
• Syed Zarir Hussain, Rediff on Net, October 29, 2001

>>> Heavily armed intruders, allegedly from Bangladesh, hacked to death an Indian tribal villager after ransacking a border hamlet in Meghalaya, community leaders said on Monday. ......
 
• Time’s right for hot pursuit
• Bobby Sharma, The Pioneer, October 29, 2001

>>> US Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld, in his press briefing on October 19, said: "Terrorism has to be dealt with offensively, we must take the battle into terrorists' territory". International law on terrorism recognises the military pursuit of terrorists to their bases as legitimate. Pakistan, which created the Taliban and its government in Afghanistan has already betrayed them-for money and "national interest". ......
 
• Questions for V.S. Naipaul on His Contentious Relationship to Islam
• Adam Shatz, The New York Times, October 28, 2001

>>> Q.: Although your prose has been universally praised, you remain an object of considerable controversy. You have been charged with insensitivity and pandering to Western prejudices in your writings about Islam.
A.: Well, that is the trouble with writing about Muslim people. There are people of the universities who want to run you out of town, and they're paid to, and so they pay no attention to what you actually say.
......
 
• Darul Uloom issues fatwa against US goods
• Vinay Krishna Rastogi, Mid-Day, October 28, 2001

>>> The country's renowned Islamic institution Darul Uloom in Deoband has issued a 'fatwa' (religious command) to Muslims throughout the country to boycott all goods manufactured in the United States and Britain. Use of such goods would be an un-Islamic act, the institute has warned. ......
 
• 21 Afghan Sikhs, Hindus cross over into India
• Statesman News Service, The Statesman, October 28, 2001

>>> After foreigners, now Afghan Sikhs and Hindus have lined up to enter India, thanks to the US strikes on Afghanistan. ......
 
• Minorities in Bangladesh targetted
• Somnath Batabyal, NDTV News, October 28, 2001

>>> The general elections in Bangladesh at the beginning of this month saw not only a change of guard but also changed the life of several thousand Bangladeshis forever. In the post election aftermath, violence swept through the remote villages of the country, especially in the Barisal District and incidents of arson, rape, loot and extortion have become common. ......
 
• Indian troops storm Kashmir mosque to flush out militant
• AFP, October 28, 2001

>>> Indian troops stormed a Kashmir mosque Sunday to flush out a Muslim militant barricaded in the shrine since Saturday afternoon, police said. ......
 
• Indian town tense after police shooting of anti-US protestors
• AFP, October 28, 2001

>>> India's western town of Malegaon remained tense Sunday, a day after police shot dead at least seven people in a violent demonstration against US- led attacks on Afghanistan, officials said. ......
 
• Thirteen killed in unrest Indian Kashmir
• AFP, October 28, 2001

>>> Eleven separatist Muslim militants and two Indian security officials were killed in overnight unrest in disputed Indian-administered Kashmir, police said Sunday. ......
 
• Interview With Lalit Mansingh
• CNN Saturday Morning News, October 27, 2001

>>> MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: Since the start of the U.S.-led strikes against Afghanistan, violence in the Kashmir region has soared. Nearly a dozen Pakistani militant groups are fighting India's rule in the region. Authorities say more than 30,000 people had been killed in nearly 11 years of rebellion. ......
 
• Interview With Maleeha Lodhi
• CNN Saturday Morning News, October 27, 2001

>>> MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: Last hour we spoke with India's ambassador to the United States. We are now joined by Maleeha Lodhi, the Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. The two nations have fought three wars. Both have nuclear weapons. And a main bone of contention now is the region called Kashmir. ......
 
• How to Lose a War
• Frank Rich, The New York Times, October 27, 2001

>>> Welcome back to Sept. 10. The "America Strikes Back" optimism that surged after Sept. 11 has now been stricken by the multitude of ways we're losing the war at home. The F.B.I. has proved more effective in waging turf battles against Rudy Giuliani than waging war on terrorism. ......
 
• Taliban Executes a Top American-Backed Rival
• Barry Bearak, The New York Times, October 27, 2001

>>> Within a week of making furtive entry back into Afghanistan, Abdul Haq, a former guerrilla commander who was seen by some American officials as the potential leader of an anti-Taliban uprising, was caught and executed, his Taliban captors said today. ......
 
• Czechs Confirm Iraqi Agent Met With Terror Ringleader
• Patrick E. Tyler with John Tagliabue, The New York Times, October 27, 2001

>>> The Czech interior minister said today that an Iraqi intelligence officer met with Mohammed Atta, one of the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, just five months before the synchronized hijackings and mass killings were carried out. ......
 
• Is yoga good for you?
• BBC News, October 27, 2001

>>> Madonna is a big fan. So is Sting. They are just two stars who are devoted practitioners to the discipline of yoga. ......
 
• US plan to destroy Pakistan's N-facilities if Pervez's ousted
• India Abroad News Service, Economic Times, October 27, 2001

>>> President George Bush is consulting senior leaders on plans to neutralise Pakistan's nuclear capabilities if the Pervez Musharraf regime collapses, a senior US lawmaker has indicated. ......
 
• 10,000 Pakistan tribesmen head for Afghan border to join war
• Rediff on Net, October 27, 2001

>>> Close to 10,000 Pakistani tribesmen armed with automatic weapons, swords and axes set out in a 100-truck convoy to join the Taleban militia in its fight against the United States, an agency report quoting a Pakistan interior ministry official said. ......
 
• US admits mistakes in policy on terrorism
• Rediff on Net, October 27, 2001

>>> Admitting that Washington had made mistakes in its policies on terrorism, United States Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill said that the war against terrorism had to address the menace in India. He also said that the issue would be discussed during the Vajpayee-Bush meeting in Washington next month. ......
 
• US won’t target Kashmiri militants: Musahrraf
• Rediff on Net, October 27, 2001

>>> Pakistan on Saturday said it had asked the United States not to link terrorism and militancy with Kashmir and hoped that Washington would not target Kashmiri militants as part of its war against terrorism. ......
 
• Masood Azhar, in his own words
• Praveen Swami, Frontline, October 26, 2001

>>> In India, Mohammad Masood Azhar's name first hit the headlines after the December 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight IC 814, when he was released from jail in return for the lives of people who were held hostage on the plane. More than a year later, after the bombing of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, his name has resurfaced. ......
 
• ‘Dawood part-financed Pak N-procurement’
• Shivnath Jha, The Statesman, October 26, 2001

>>> Wanted in more than two dozen heinous crimes, including the 1993 serial bomb blasts, Mumbai’s underworld don Dawood Ibrahim had partly financed Pakistan’s clandestine procurement of nuclear and missile technology, highly placed Intelligence sources said. As a reward, Dawood was given “economic citizenship” in Pakistan. ......
 
• Bombing at Hindu Festival Kills 4
• The Associated Press, The New York Times, October 26, 2001

>>> A powerful bomb exploded during a Hindu festival in India's northeast, killing four people, including one child, and seriously wounding 24 others, officials said Friday. ......
 
• ‘A right-wing ploy’ (Interview with K.N. Panikkar.)
• K.G. Santosh, Frontline, October 26, 2001

>>> Q.: How significant was the setting up of the KCHR and what are the implications of the decision to disband it?
A.: The Council represented a very positive step towards the organisation of historical research in the State. Primarily, the Council intended to create the necessary infrastructure and facilities for researchers. In fact, at present even access to resources of Kerala history is very limited, apart from the rather poorly organised State Archive......
 
• A shade of saffron
• R. Krishnakumar, Frontline, October 26, 2001

>>> The Congress(I)-led United Demo-cratic Front (UDF) government has decided to do away with the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), an institution that represented perhaps the first serious attempt in Kerala to promote scientific historical research. ......
 
• Attack Pakistan first, say Afghan refugees
• Narendra Kaushik, Mid-Day, October 9, 2001

>>> Pahle Pakistan ko maaro. Sabse bada terrorist woh hai.” This refrain by an Afghan refugee reflects the sentiments of most of his kindred who are in Delhi. ......
 
• Bin Laden’s nuclear threat
• Philip Webster and Roland Watson, The Times, October 26, 2001

>>> Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network have acquired nuclear materials for possible use in their terrorism war against the West, intelligence sources have disclosed. ......
 
• Thousands mass for giant anti-US rally in Pakistan
• Yahoo News, October 26, 2001

>>> At least 50,000 militants massed in Pakistan's biggest city on Friday, burning the US flag and effigies of President George W. Bush in the biggest anti-US protest since air strikes on Afghanistan began. ......
 
• Bombing at Hindu festival kills 4, wounds 24
• The Associated Press, October 26, 2001

>>> A powerful bomb exploded during a Hindu festival in India's northeast, killing four people, including one child, and seriously wounding 24 others, officials said Friday. ......
 
• Lessons from the Gulf War
• Harold A. Gould, The Hindu, October 25, 2001

>>> Descriptions of the Afghan operation suggest that the United States may be on the brink of making the same mistakes that doomed the war against Iraq to eventual failure. Let it be remembered that the Iraq campaign failed in the end because it did not result in the removal of Mr. Saddam Hussein. ......
 
• Enduring Fiefdom
• Editorial, The Statesman, October 25, 2001

>>> Colin Powell issuing “cool it” messages to India and Pakistan is in perfect consonance with US national interests — which is an excellent reason why New Delhi should partly ignore the advice. Instead, it must keep reminding Americans that their current best friend in the war against terrorism continues to be a springboard from which terrorists jump into India. ......
 
• Throttling Own Babies
• Editorial, The Navhind Times, October 25, 2001

>>> The news about the killing of as many as 22 terrorists belonging to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen group, which is one of the many militant organisations patronised by the government of Pakistan, is bound to cause embarrassment to the Musharraf cabinet in Islamabad. According to western media reports, some of the terrorists were Kashmiris from the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, while some were from Lahore. ......
 
• China, Russia press for political solution
• The Times of India, October 23, 2001

>>> Moscow: Russia on Monday pledged its support for the Northern Alliance as the "sole legitimate government" and signed a statement with ousted Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani on "the need to find a political solution for Afghanistan". ......
 
• Pakistani Islamists Ask Army to Topple Musharraf
• Raja Asghar, Reuters, October 26, 2001

>>> Pakistan's largest Islamic party called on Friday for the army to topple military ruler General Pervez Musharraf for backing U.S.-led military strikes on neighboring Afghanistan. ......
 
• On hostile tract
• Sumit Mitra, India Today, October 22, 2001

>>> During wars, walls have ears. However, in the post-Soviet years in Afghanistan, when Pakistan and the indigenous Taliban were wresting control of the country from a more civil regime, the world outside had little idea of what the concoction of feudalism and fundamentalism meant to ordinary lives. ......
 
• Living on the Edge
• Anna M. M. Vetticad, India Today, October 22, 2001

>>> It’s easy to spot him. On a dusty footpath at one of the less fashionable addresses in south Delhi, Mohammed Zaher Omar, 56, is busy repairing bicycles. In his neatly pressed grey trousers and faded but spotless tee, he doesn't look the part. But he plays it anyway. ......
 
• The Ultimate Hatred Is Nuclear
• Bruce G. Blair, The New York Times, October 22, 2001

>>> Bioterrorism, like the anthrax threats currently rattling America, is horrific. But perhaps the ultimate horror in our newly uncertain world is the prospect of terrorists with nuclear weapons. ......
 
• India and America: Love’s Labour Lost
• Vir Sanghvi, The Hindustan Times, October 21, 2001

>>> If the American press is to be believed, Washington is now getting increasingly concerned about the growing anti-US feeling in the Islamic world. As the ‘war’ (or the bombing, at any rate) in Afghanistan drags on, the rising tide of anti-Americanism seems to have become almost unstoppable. ......
 
• Discriminatory land and property laws in operation
• Rabindra Ghosh, The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> After the independence of Bangladesh in the year 1971 the basic structure of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh was: (a) nationalism (b) socialism, (c) democracy and (d) secularism. ......
 
• Fatwa on Blair
• Shrabani Basu and Amit Roy, The Telegraph, October 11, 2001

>>> A UK-based fundamentalist group has issued a fatwa against Tony Blair, but the British Prime Minister shrugged off the threat even as security agencies reacted by tightening their ring of steel around him. ......
 
• Former minister flays NCERT textbook portions
• Statesman News Service, The Statesman, October 9, 2001

>>> The deputy leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and former education minister, Dr Harshavardhan, today criticised the controversial portion in certain NCERT textbooks which hurt the religious sentiments of the Jains and Sikhs. ......
 
• Shahi Imam blasts America
• Statesman News Service, The Statesman, October 9, 2001

>>> The Shahi Imam, decrying the American attack in Afghanistan, said Afghanistan will “Crush” American “might and pride” and endorsed the Afghan ulema’s fatwa for a jehad against the US. ......
 
• Marxists feed on poverty
• K.P. Joseph, The Indian Express, October 24, 2001

>>> The Marxists have a vested interest in the poor who constitute their main vote bank. A decline in the number of the poor will lead to a decline in their power and a diminution of their vote bank. In other words, there is a reverse correlation between the Marxist party and development. If the development process speeds up, the Marxist party declines and if the development process slows down the Marxist party grows. ......
 
• This is not a war against Muslims: Blair
• Afternoon Despatch & Courier, October 9, 2001

>>> British Prime Minister Tony Blair has reiterated that the US-led military action in Afghanistan is not targetted at the Islamic world. “This is not a war against Muslims, but against terrorists. We don’t want revenge. We want justice,” Blair told the Al Jazeera satellite TV channel yesterday. ......
 
• Recent Atrocities Against Minorities in Bangladesh - Weekly Report
•  

>>> House of Sukhendu Baidya in Ramer Kathi Village in Ujirpur upazilla In Barishal was damaged by terrorists on 01/10/01. Sukhendu Baidya is the Jt. Secretary of Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad (HBCOP), Central committee member of Bangladesh Puja Organising Committee (Puja Udjapan Parishad) and former Jt. Secretary of Bangladesh Chatra League. ......
• Inside Jehad
• Ghulam Hasnain, India Today, October 29, 2001

>>> Four Bearded militants warm themselves at a gas heater in an Islamabad safe house. A wireless set suddenly crackles. "Our boys have entered Srinagar Airport, a grave, distant-sounding voice announces. The voice, speaking in Urdu and broadcasting from deep within India's part of Kashmir, is detailing the progress of a suicide mission by Lashkar-e-Toiba, a ruthless, Pakistan-based militant group waging war to wrest Kashmir from India. ......
 
• War and Pretence
• Tavleen Singh, India Today, October 29, 2001

>>> I would think that faced with one of the gravest terrorist threats ever, the US would try--just for a moment--to understand the concerns of a country like India which has suffered terrorism for 20 years now. Terrorism that can be laid almost entirely at Pakistan's door. But, no, judging from US Secretary of State Colin Powell's statements, this is not going to happen. ......
 
• Language Power
• Jayanta Bhattacharya, The Statesman, October 26, 2001

>>> For about two decades the popularity of vernacular- based education all over India is at a low ebb. The middle class in general prefers the English medium in all subjects. Even for schools run by Central Board of Secondary Education or those affiliated to it, most of the work is in English. ......
 
• Pak: Clear and present danger
• Wilson John, The Pioneer, October 25, 2001

>>> President Pervez Musharraf's latest fulminations against India only betray the neurotic obsession of a failed General who once nursed ambitions of being a statesman. Mark the words he has chosen to launch his latest tirade against India. They reveal a man with a flawed upbringing; a bully caught in his own game of deceit. ......
 
• Pakistani guerrillas return with eight killed by U.S.
• Willis Witter, The Washington Times, October 25, 2001

>>> Members of a militant Pakistani guerrilla group smuggled the bodies of eight colleagues from the Afghan front back into Pakistan, then confirmed yesterday that the eight had died in U.S. air strikes. ......
 
• Ordinance bans 25 terrorist groups
• Times News Network, The Times of India, October 25, 2001

>>> With the promulgation of the     Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO), 2001, at least 25 groups have been put on the list of ``terrorist organisations'' and declared as ``unlawful'' and banned under Section 18 of the ordinance. ......
 
• How far to bow to Pakistan?
• Bill Nichols, USA Today, October 25, 2001

>>> Washington - When the Bush administration began to mount a military response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, senior officials faced a central question: Would Pakistan help? ......
 
• Israel Rebuffs U.S. Request to End the West Bank Raids
• Tim Weiner, The New York Times, October 24, 2001

>>> Israel today rebuffed President Bush's personal request to withdraw its forces from Palestinian-controlled territory, putting new pressure on American-Israeli relations and the United States' counterterrorism coalition with Arab allies. ......
 
• Hindus persecuted in Bangla; enter India
• The Navhind Times, October 23, 2001

>>> At least 100 Bangladeshi Hindu families have crossed over into Tripura, alleging persecution and harassment by supporters of Bangladesh's new government, witnesses said on Monday. ......
 
• Being a Muslim in the US Navy is a ‘tough’ job
• Megan I Stack, The Indian Express, October 23, 2001

>>> When Fawaz goes home to Jordan, his relatives brush him off. They don't want to over dinner with him, don't care to listen to the tales of his travels. At best they say, he's a man of questionable politics. At worst a traitor. ......
 
• Let’s Not Create Another Monster (Letters to the Editor)
• M. Rajendra, The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2001

>>> The Oct. 12 page-one article "As Pakistan, India Join U.S. in Fighting Terror, Kashmir Gets in Way " by Peter Fritsch is one of the few in the mainstream media highlighting the role of Pakistan in promoting terrorism and the danger of any long-term strategic relationship with that country in the fight against terrorism. ......
 
• A Nobel for Mr Naipaul
• Mid-Day, October 13, 2001

>>> In the work of V S Naipaul, who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the reader walks on surefooted sentences into a place where the ground is suddenly uncertain, the crust thin and broken, the familiar landmarks replaced by eruptions that no one but the author seems to notice. ......
 
• Pakistan seems to be bailing out Taliban govt for its mere survival’
• Mohua Chatterjee, The Times of India, October 8, 2001

>>> Pakistan seems to be bailing out the Taliban government in Afghanistan for its mere survival, according to a home ministry report. The report claims the Taliban government has no source of income other than its drug trade. Hence, it has been sustaining largely through funds made available to it by Pakistan. ......
 
• Laden with danger
• Editorial, The Pioneer, October 8, 2001

>>> British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to Delhi has done little to dispel the growing impression that what the United States and the United Kingdom describe as the global war against terrorism has come to be focussed solely on bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. ......
 
• American General
• Anil Narendra, The Pioneer, October 4, 2001

>>> In this new war against terrorism initiated by the United States, the biggest winner is Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf. General Musharraf has been successful in not only legitimising his military regime but has also emerged as the closest ally (after Britain) of the US in the present war. All one has to do is watch the CNN. General Musharraf's picture follows President Bush's and Prime Minister Blair's in the war bulletins. ......
 
• Pakistan’s game
• Editorial, The Pioneer, October 3, 2001

>>> Monday's fidayeen (suicide squad) attack on the Jammu & Kashmir(J&K) Assembly complex, which killed 30 and injured another 60 people, should end all speculation as to whether events in Afghanistan had led to the easing of militant activities in J&K. ......
 
• ISI on rescue mission to save Afghan jehadis
• Deepak Sharma, The Pioneer, October 3, 2001

>>> Even as the US gears up to launch an offensive against the Taliban militia, Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence is making a last ditch effort to rescue the top Jehadi leaders operating from Afghanistan. The decision to shift the key leaders to safer places was reportedly taken in a meeting presided over by the ISI DG Lt Gen Mehmud Ahmed and attended by two important core comanders of the Pakistan Army. ......
 
• The end and the beginning of a war
• Thomas E. Ricks, The Indian Express, October 24, 2001

>>> As the US military begins combat ground operations in Afghanistan, some Pentagon officials are concerned about where the conflict ultimately will lead, and whether tactical military gains in Afghanistan could lead to bigger strategic problems for the US and its allies. ......
 
• Pak provokes Indian public opinion - India decides to be far more aggressive
• B L Kak, The Daily Excelsior, October 24, 2001

>>> India's Foreign Office has sent out a message, informing Washington that New Delhi would decide when to resume dialogue with Islamabad. India, the message has asserted, cannot be forced to accept dictation from others. ......
 
• Delhi for seek-and-destroy mission
• B L Kak, The Daily Excelsior, October 24, 2001

>>> The Government of India is understood to have approved a plan to carry out seek-and-destroy mission in Jammu and Kashmir. ......
 
• 4 Hizbul Mujahideen militants held near Bombay
• J Khan, Rediff on Net, October 24, 2001

>>> Four militants belonging to the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen were arrested in a pre-dawn operation on Wednesday in Mumbra in neighbouring Thane district. ......
 
• Pakistan rejects bodies of Harkat militants
• Rediff on Net, October 24, 2001

>>> Pakistan border guards on Wednesday refused to let in the bodies of eight of the 35 Harkat-ul-Mujahideen militants killed during an American air strike on Kabul, officials said. ......
 
• Shabana Azmi objects to label ‘Islamic terrorism’
• Letter to Times of India, October 24, 2001

>>> In her interview with Lalita Panicker, Shabana Azmi (The Times of India October Interview October 24, 2001) said ‘But to equate the whole Islamic world with terrorism is both untrue and unfair. It is strange that the Hiroshima bombings were never called Christian terrorism, the LTTE's action is never called Hindu terrorism.’ ......
 
• Pakistanis arrested in Mali
• Joan Baxter, October 24, 2001

>>> Police in Mali have arrested a group of about 20 Pakistani citizens following a meeting called to express solidarity for Osama Bin Laden and the people of Afghanistan. ......
 
• 4 Hindu families arrive from Pak
• Rashmi Talwar, The Tribune, October 24, 2001

>>> Passenger rush in the Samjhauta Express drastically came to an all-time low here today in the aftermath of US strikes on Afghanistan. Four Hindu Pakistani families arrived here to look for opportunities to migrate from trouble-torn Jacobabad. ......
 
• Pakistani nuclear scientist arrested
• Staff and agencies, The Guardian, October 24, 2001

>>> The former head of Pakistan's nuclear research programme, who is also an outspoken supporter of Islamic radicals, has been arrested in Pakistan and placed in "protective custody", the government said today. ......
 
• U.S. man wept before beheading by Philippine rebels
• Erik de Castro, Reuters, October 24, 2001

>>> A Californian tourist kidnapped by Muslim guerrillas in the Philippines wept and pleaded with his captors before they beheaded him in June, a detained teenager who was part of the group said on Wednesday. ......
 
• US Air Strikes Help India
• B.Raman, South Asia Analysis Group, October 24, 2001

>>> "It needs to be noted that the Taliban units fighting against the Northern Alliance in the forward areas to prevent their entry into Kabul consist largely of Pakistanis, either madrasa students from Quetta, Peshawar and Binori in Karachi or ex-servicemen.  ......
 
• Bajrang Dal, VHP threaten ‘retaliatory attacks’
• The Hindu, October 24, 2001

>>> The Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal today warned the Bangladesh Government of ``dire consequences'' including retaliatory attacks on illegal Bangladeshi nationals in India if atrocities on Hindus there do not come to a stop by tomorrow. ......
 
• Running Out Of Time
• Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2001

>>> In the past two days, U.S. forces have finally done what they had previously been unwilling to attempt -- hit the Taliban where it hurts. ......
 
• Advance the Story
• William Safire, The New York Times, October 22, 2001

>>> Veteran reporters and creaking commentators have a single goal in writing about great events: advance the story. Unearth facts that policy makers do not know, do not want to know, or do not want the public to know they know. ......
 
• At Pentagon: Worries Over War's Costs, Consequences
• Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post, October 21, 2001

>>> As the U.S. military begins combat ground operations in Afghanistan, some Pentagon officials are concerned about where the conflict ultimately will lead, and whether tactical military gains in Afghanistan could lead to bigger strategic problems for the United States and its allies. ......
 
• How many Ladens?
• Claude Arpi, Rediff on Net, October 20, 2001

>>> During the last presidential campaign in the United States, George W Bush, Jr, is reported to have been asked by an interviewer the names of three prime ministers of Asian nations. The would-be-president knew none, but he told the journalist that as president of the United States he did not need to know these things personally; his advisers would know. Two of these countries were India and Pakistan. ......
 
• China paid bin Laden for access to US cruise missiles: report
• Agence France-Presse, www.inq7.net, October 20, 2001

>>> China paid suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden several million dollars for access to unexploded US cruise missiles following an attack on his bases three years ago, according to a newspaper report here Saturday. ......
 
• ‘Even One Death Matters’ (Interview - Dalai Lama)
• The Times of India, October 19, 2001

>>> Q. With the world witnessing a spiral of violence - the September 11 terror attacks on America and the subsequent bombing of Afghanistan do you think your pacifist movement for liberating Tibet will ever succeed?
A. Violence only leads to retaliation, which means bloodletting. Nothing gets satisfactorily solved by violent methods. Most world leaders realise this. Yet there is a lack of compassion and love for one another. As for Tibet, we cannot take on the Chinese might. But our cause is just. Our struggle may go on for generations.
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• ‘Taliban led West, UN up garden path on opium’
• Manoj Joshi, The Times of India, October 19, 2001

>>> According to Indian narcotics control officials, contrary to the claims of the UN and some Western countries about the Taliban having ensured “zero cultivation” of opium this year, it is business as usual in Afghanistan as far as the drug trade is concerned. ......
 
• Punished and for what?
• Ajanta Chakraborty, The Statesman, October 17, 2001

>>> George Bush now knows what fundamentalism is all about. Atal Behari Vajpayee has long known. But no one knows better than Kolkatans. We've lived with a kind of extremism for the last quarter of a century. A fact that was reiterated last Sunday. ......
 
• Durga puja pandals attacked in Bangla
• The Navhind Times, October 16, 2001

>>> Another brutal chapter was written in continuing attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh yesterday when armed men attacked Durga puja mandaps and damaged idols of Hindu gods and goddesses in southern districts of Pirojpur and Chandpur in Bangladesh. ......
 
• PM calls for unity to quell al Qaeda threat
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 16, 2001

>>> Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee termed Al Qaeda's warning to the US not to help the Hindus a serious matter. 'If this statement is true, then it is a serious challenge. We will have to combat it together,' said Mr Vajpayee while speaking to the press after the swearing in-ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Mr Vajpayee's remarks are along expected lines. ......
 
• ‘Restraint is self-inflicted injury’
• Lt Gen NS Malik, The Pioneer, October 14, 2001

>>> It is war between the good and evil. Good will win. We will not spare the terrorist and those who harbour them," said US President George Bush. Brave words indeed! But would the Bush administration support an Indian action to destroy evil across the LoC in the land of those who harbour terrorists? ......
 
• Bitter Church-Crescent Clash
• Muzaffar Hussain, The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> A few weeks after the terrorist attack on America, the situation may appear quiet, but the burning lava beneath the surface is sure to erupt. It will be no surprise if again on the US streets there are violent scenes like Hindu-Muslim riots in India, or like bloody conflict between Whites and Blacks in US. This has started. What happened in Texas is indicative of this. ......
 
• No difference between Laden and Imam
• Dr. M.S. Usmani, The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> Q. What is your reaction to the recent statements of Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid?
A. It is not surprising to have provocative statements from the people who always have the intention to exploit the sentiments of their community and also 'to encourage religious fundamentalism. In fact, they cannot survive without doing it. Terrorism has no religion and it is totally wrong to connect the US move against Taliban or Osama bin Laden with Isla.......
 
• What the Imam said
• The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> Truly following the footsteps of his father, Sayed Abdullah Bukhari, who had described himself as an ISI agent and dared the Government of India to arrest him, the new Imam of Jama Masjid, Sayed Ahmed Bukhari has started making attempts to disturb the communal harmony of the country. .......
 
• Rein in Imam Bukhari
• The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> The intellectual section of the Muslim community is fully in disagreement with the statements issued by the Imam of Jama Masjid Sayed Ahmed Bukhari. They have demanded a legal action against the Imam for attempting to disturb communal harmony in the country. .......
 
• Is China a model for India?
• M. V. Kamath, The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> In recent weeks efforts to compare India with China, very unfavourably, have been very marked in certain intellectual circles. China's economy has been increasing by leaps and bounds, Chinese cities look even better than western cities while India continues to struggle is the charge frequently made. .......
 
• Reds fuming as Antony disbands KCHR
• S. Chandrasekhar, The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> The Marxists are seething with rage. The reason is the disbanding of Kerala Council of Historic Research (KCHR) by the Antony-led UDF Government. The KCHR established on the lines of ICHR, by the CPM-led LDF government, prior to two months of their losing power, was packed with anti-Hindu historians and left intellectuals. .......
 
• A Dangerous Mix
• Ashwani Kr. Chrungoo, The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> The world, it seems, has got engaged in responding to the terror of terrorist onslaught. The world opinion led by USA is by and large convinced that it is now or never. The calls of “war', “do or die”, “fight to finish”, and “get ready those Who are in the uniforms” constitute the resolve to hold the bull by the horns. The whole focus at this point of time is either on Afghanistan or on Osama bin Laden. .......
 
• Time to Act
• Seshadri Chari, The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> It is about a month now that the Islamic jehadis brought down the twin WTC towers in New York. The USA is still finding the right kind of words to describe the war-like situation. In an article in the New York Times, US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld has said that President Bush is rallying the nation for a war against terrorism attack on “our way of life”. .......