This Months Article
Starting: Mon October
1, 2001
Ending: Wed October 31,
2001
Messages: 462
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SIMI –A war within
(Investigation by The Week, September 9, 2001)
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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. ......
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Not Enough Might
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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. ......
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ISI used Al Qaida
camps to train J&K militants: U.S.
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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”. ......
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Crucial phase yet
to come
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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. ......
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‘Anti-terror law
first legal salvo’ - New Ordinance more humane than TADA
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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. ......
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Khaleda’s dastardly
dance of death
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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. ......
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Fraud and Congress
CM
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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. ......
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Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf was interviewed on LARRY KING
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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. ......
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Bangla Exodus After
Assault On Women
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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.
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Bullets of Saudi
gold
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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. ......
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Pipedreams and daydreams
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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. ......
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Washington’s double
act: Coddle Pak, mollify India
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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.
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War on terrorism:
impact on India
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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. ......
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Duplicitous stand
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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. ......
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Pro-Taliban Pakistan
cleric charged with treason
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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. ......
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U.S. bombings force
Pak women to choose sides
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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. ......
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Bush’s New Focus
Requires a Shift in His China Policy
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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. ......
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The tenets of terror
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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." ......
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Deconstructing the
political Left
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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. ......
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Govt. schools steadily
lose ground to madrasas in Kutch
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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. ......
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Abu Sayyaf threatens
to kill American missionary
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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.
......
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J-K victims ask:
is killing freely, freedom struggle?
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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. ......
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Bhujbal faces flak
on the home front
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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. ......
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Taliban defectors
tell of demoralised conscripts
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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. ......
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U.S. campaign pays
dividends for India
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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. ......
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Laden hunt may last
a year: Bush
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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.” ......
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UK deports Pak cleric
‘sponsoring terrorism in J-K’
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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. ......
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‘Pak cleric is a
threat to UK’s security’
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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. ......
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Bhujbal embarrassed
by his partymen
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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. ......
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CIA needs ISI more
than ISI needs CIA
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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. ......
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War against terrorism
will not extend beyond Afghanistan: UK
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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.
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Sonia plays spoilsport
for Krishna’s party
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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. ......
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Islamic States Have
A (Deadly) Way With Words Zev Chafets
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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. ......
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Reconstruction of
Ram Temple after March 12 – Ashok Singhal
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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. ......
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Islam and Terrorism,
(Time to call spade a spade)
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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. ......
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Confusing Islam
with Terrorism
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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. ......
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America has now
seen the true face of Islam
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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. ......
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Ban on anti-national
SIMI is no surprise
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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. ......
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SIMI seen in true
colours
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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. ......
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Indians in Pak jails
turning insane, say freed prisoners
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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. ......
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Musharraf trapped
in his web of deceit
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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. ......
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Jihad the new obsession
for J&K youth
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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.
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Mosque siege ends,
ultra killed
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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. ......
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Mindless massacre
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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. ......
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Pak. Christians
vow ‘revenge’
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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.
......
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Pak. media won’t
buy ‘Indian hand’ theory
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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. ......
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US anti-terrorism
men fly to Philippine island
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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.
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US special forces
beat retreat as enemy ‘fought back like maniacs’
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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. ......
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Pak hands over three
retired scientists to US
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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. ......
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UK Muslims told
they risk death if they join Taliban
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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.
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Naipaul finds US
aims, allies dubious
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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. ......
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The Saudi Connection:
Osama bin Laden’s a lot closer to the Saudi royal family than you think.
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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? ......
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The king who fought
casteism
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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. ......
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16 Killed in Pakistan
Church Attack
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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. ......
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Fresh Bangladeshi
influx alarms Govt
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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. ......
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Pak continues to
train militants, says George
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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.
......
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Kabul’s call for
jehad breaks many a Pakistani home
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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. ......
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Bush approves new
anti-terror laws
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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. ......
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U.S. Is Planning
an Aid Package for Pakistan Worth Billions
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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. ......
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Powell prunes Pak
role in Kabul
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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.
......
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Powell prunes Pak
role in Kabul
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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. ......
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‘Musharraf wants
to replace madarasas with schools’
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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. ......
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Children Trained
in Special Schools to Fight ‘Infidels’ - A Reporter's Notebook: A Booming
Voice
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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'. ......
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“China claims ‘big
victory’ over Xinjiang separatists”
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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.
......
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Mystery man handed
over to US troops in Karachi
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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. ......
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Harkat killing:
Red faces in Pak
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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. ......
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Pak provokes Indian
public opinion - India decides to be far more aggressive
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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. ......
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Pakistani nuclear
scientist arrested
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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. ......
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Report riles Arab-Americans
in Michigan
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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. ......
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Taleban’s Pakistani
volunteers
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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. ......
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Delhi takes a serious
view of attacks on minorities: Vajpayee
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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.
......
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Delhi for seek-and-destroy
mission
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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. ......
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Al-Qaida weaves
a web of terror across Europe
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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. ......
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Muslim Population
Overstated
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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. ......
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‘No hot pursuit
of terrorists for now’
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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'. ......
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Anti-US protests
turn violent in Hyderabad
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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.
......
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Pak ‘sweet talk’
not surprising
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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. ......
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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
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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.
......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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?
......
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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. ......
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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.
......
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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. ......
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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.
......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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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. ......
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‘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. ......
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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.......
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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. .......
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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. .......
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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. .......
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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”. .......