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.
......
 
• '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". .......
 
• Terrorism a global menace
• T H Chowdary, The Organiser, October 14, 2001

>>> The destruction of the World Trade Center in New York and one of the buildings of the Pentagon in Washington with the consequent loss of thousands of lives highlights the monstrous dimensions terrorism has grown to. This has been coming for quite sometime. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) led by Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian outfits have made terrorism an instrument of political action. .......
 
• Anti-US protests rock Delhi, Karachi, Manila, Jakarta.
• Agencies, The Economic Times, October 13, 2001

>>> Angry Muslims took to the streets in protest in many countries across the world, including India, after the first Friday prayers since US President George Bush launched raids on Afghanistan. .......
 
• Guns and poses: Truth is first casualty in war briefings
• Ronald Brownstein, The Times of India, October 13, 2001

>>> If history is any guide, the daily briefings from defence secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld could prove an imperfect portrait of the unfolding war in Afghanistan. .......
 
• Rupert Murdoch ready to switch off Bin Laden
• Adelaide, The Economic Times, October 13, 2001

>>> Rupert Murdoch said today his television networks would refuse to screen video-taped footage of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda group if there was concern it contained coded messages to his followers. 'We'll do whatever is our patriotic duty,' Mr Murdoch told reporters after the annual meeting of News Corp, the world's fifth largest media group. .......
 
• 'Islam Has Been Militant From The Beginning': Elst
• Sundeep Dougal, Outlook, October 13, 2001

>>> Q.: Why do you think Islam has turned increasingly militant?
A.: I think Islam has been militant from the beginning. Later on, its degree of militancy fluctuated with a number of factors, one of them being the power equation with its rivals. Today, Islam lives in the shadow of Western (and locally in South Asia, Hindu) economic and cultural supremacy, which gives it an incentive for militant opposition to the Wes.......
 
• Musharraf's choice
• Editorial, The Pioneer, October 12, 2001

>>> Predictably, as the United States' attacks on the Taliban's military establishment and fighting formations escalates, the Musharraf regime in Pakistan gears up to cope with its internal problems arising out of his decision to support America's action. .......
 
• "The American realised we were leaving the city... Shah pulled out a pistol and looked at him the way cat does a mouse"
• Manoj Mitta, The Indian Express, October 12, 2001

>>> That night we arranged to meet the next evening at Hare Krishna. Next morning I told Shah saab at the Markaz that I had two Britishers on the pipeline, did he want them? He answered affirmatively and we arranged to meet next morning when I would hopefully have made the arrangements.......
 
• Blackwill gets an earful from Muslim leaders
• Shahid Faridi, The Asian Age, October 11, 2001

>>> The US ambassador to India, Mr Robert D. Blackwill, who has been lobbying Muslim leaders and organisations to tone down reaction of the community against US strikes on Afghanistan, received an earful recently about the "double-standards adopted by his country in dealing with terrorism." ......
 
• 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. ......
 
• Vedas embody the true concept of a free woman
• Mukunda Goswami, The Hindustan Times, October 11, 2001

>>> Research shows that the countries with the largest percentage of women in business, government and education are Sweden, Norway, Denmark and New Zealand. But are these truly the marks of "freedom" and even if India comes further down the list, does that mean that its women are less free? ......
 
• Free Islam
• Farrukh Dhondy, The Asian Age, October 10, 2001

>>> I don't object to the way George Dubya speaks. I have no snobbery about his colloquialese. "Wanted, Dead or Alive" is a great phrase, and anyone who read comics in their childhood or watched Western movies, has retained it probably as the first public statement of law and order, much more resounding than "local constabulary have filed an FIR and show-cause amendment in the magistrate's court". ......
 
• Taliban is displeased at Afghan - Bengali couple's story going on celluloid
• PTI, The Times of India, October 8, 2001

>>> The shadow of the Taliban looms large over the celluloid depiction of the traumatic experience of a Bengali housewife in Afghanistan, with the husband threatening to give talaq out of fear for the safety of his relatives. ......
 
• Get Tough With Pakistan
• Jonathan Foreman, The New York Post, October 22, 2001

>>> If it weren't already plain that Secretary of State Colin Powell, for all his virtues, may be the wrong man to be running U.S. foreign policy at this time, then his unfortunate visit to South Asia last week should make it abundantly clear. ......
 
• China assisting Taliban against US: military chief
• A Chalomumbai Correspondent, Mid-Day, October 22, 2001

>>> Taliban Commander-in-Chief Jalaluddin Haqqani has claimed that the militia was "in touch" with China, which was assisting them in the war against US. ......
 
• Muslims Love Bin Laden
• Daniel Pipes, The New York Post, October 22, 2001

>>> Ask Westerners and you'll hear how marginal he is. President Bush says bin Laden represents a "fringe form of Islamic extremism . . . rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics." American specialists on Islam agree. "Osama bin Laden is to Islam like Timothy McVeigh is to Christianity," says Mark Juergensmeyer of the University of California. ......
 
• Why Kandahar continues to haunt us
• ML Kotru, The Pioneer, October 20, 2001

>>> In a limited way, Kandahar seems to continue to haunt us Indians. What haunts is the image of External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh landing up in Kandahar in 1999 to negotiate the release of the hijacked passengers of the Indian Airlines flight. ......
 
• Veiled women show the way to terrorists in the Kashmir
• Kavita Suri, The Statesman, October 20, 2001

>>> With the arrest of a woman guide along with four Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Kathua district last week, security agencies in J&K have stepped up surveillance on people suspected to be harbouring militants. Securitymen have been told to monitor the movements of women covertly or overtly helping militants. ......
 
• Whitewash: 'Nothing to Do With Islam'?
• Amir Taheri, The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2001

>>> "This has nothing to do with Islam," British Prime Minister Tony Blair recently told a delegation of Muslims at a meeting at 10 Downing Street, referring to the September 11 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ......
 
• Opportunity doesn't knock twice...
• Kamal Kant Gouri, The Pioneer, October 12, 2001

>>> With American military action in Afghanistan in full cry, it is a great opportunity for India to bring an end to the miseries inflicted on Kashmir and the nation because of Pakistan's proxy-war. Upholding national interest and not getting bogged down by its own unrealistic, moral posturing, the Indian leadership must utilise the attack on terror as a chance to set things right in its own backyard. ......
 
• Ambiguous General
• Kalyani Shanker, The Pioneer, October 12, 2001

>>> How is the sacking of three important hardliners in Pakistan, including the Inter-Services Intelligence chief, going to affect India? The Pakistan President, General Pervez Musharraf, perhaps at the prodding of the United States, has got rid of the ISI chief. One has to wait and see how the Pakistani army reacts to this development. ......
 
• Mayhem in Bangladesh
• Abhijit Bhattacharyya, The Daily Excelsior, 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. ......
 
• Either You Are a Believer or an Infidel
• Michael Skube, The Washington Post, October 21, 2001

>>> From President Bush to imams at American mosques, everyone wants to make earnest bows toward Islam's civilizing past and its deep spirituality, taking issue only with terrorists who claim to act in its name. "Our quarrel is not with Islam," the president has repeated in so many words. ......
 
• War of ideas is now key for Muslims
• Richard Gwyn, Toronto Star, October 21, 2001

>>> A Reader who is a Muslim Canadian has sent me a deeply disturbing e-mail she received recently from a friend who is also a Muslim Canadian. ......
 
• Islam has become its own enemy: Muslims in denial
• Ziauddin Sardar, The Observer, October 21, 2001

>>> Muslims everywhere are in a deep state of denial. From Egypt to Malaysia, there is an aversion to seeing terrorism as a Muslim problem and a Muslim responsibility. ......
 
• Looking to a non-ally in China
• Richard Fisher, The Washington Times, October 21, 2001

>>> While the United States is correct to seek China's assistance in what will be a long war against terrorism, it should harbor no illusions that China will share all of the same goals in this fight, or that China will cease being a longer term adversary. ......
 
• Hammer attack on Indian girl in Derby
• Suman Bhuchar, The Telegraph, October 20, 2001

>>> It is the first day of Navratri and, at their modest terrace house in Derby, the Shukla family is recovering from a frightening ordeal. They have been to the temple and offered prasad of nuts and misri to their guests. ......
 
• Christian-Muslim Mix Is Boiling Over in Africa - Ripples from Sept. 11 Attacks Reaching Farther
• Zenit.org, October 20, 2001

>>> While the world's attention is riveted on events in Central Asia and the Middle East, conflicts between Christians and Muslims have been boiling over in Nigeria and Sudan. ......
 
• Are we imitating the Pak model?
• K P S Gill, The Hindustan Times, October 19, 2001

>>> September 11, 2001, was certainly a defining moment in history, marking a catastrophe that, I had hoped, would drive home the reality and scale of the peril of terrorism into even the most obtuse and insular minds. This was an incident, I thought, through which destiny was shaking up our political leadership to awaken them to these dangers. ......
 
• Mass Immigration Creates Terrorist Haven in Europe
• Sam Francis, October 18, 2001

>>> America is not the only country to have a problem with Arabic and Muslim immigrants. If you think the consequences of allowing mass immigration from the Third World states of the Middle East are coming home to roost, in Europe they are starting to rip down the whole henhouse. ......
 
• Assam govt. steps up vigil against Laden supporters
• Times News Network, The Times of India, October 17, 2001

>>> Alarmed by reports of possible infiltration by ISI-backed Osama Bin Laden supporters to create communal tension, the Assam police have alerted police stations across the state to step up vigil and watch out for trouble. ......
 
• No room for Pakistanis in Chinese airlines
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 17, 2001

>>> The "all-weather friendship" between China and Pakistan is under severe strain. The latest source of aggravation seems to be a memo from the Chinese foreign ministry and civil aviation authorities banning nationals of Pakistan and 18 other countries from buying tickets on Chinese state-owned airlines travelling to the US or Europe. ......
 
• No-holds-barred battle against J&K terror: George
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 17, 2001

>>> India's formidable retaliation yesterday to Pakistan's bid to smuggle a fresh lot of jehadis across the LoC near Akhnoor marked a decisive shift in India's response to Islamabad-sponsored terrorism. The army action at Akhnoor didn't remain confined to the infiltrators who had crossed over, but targeted the Pakistani bunkers who had provided cover to the terrorists by resorting to heavy firing. ......
 
• Threshold of patience
• Editorial, The Hindustan Times, October 17, 2001

>>> The 'punitive action' taken by the Indian army against Pakistani positions in Kashmir shows how the wheel is coming full circle in the region. Although the shelling by the Indian side cannot be put in the category of 'hot pursuit', an idea which has long been aired on this side of the border, it nevertheless underlines how India's patience is wearing thin. ......
 
• Smashing Taliban's vibrant drug network on US agenda
• Donna Leinwand, Toni Locy and Vivienne Walt, The Hindustan Times, October 17, 2001

>>> As American bombers continue to pound Taliban facilities in Afghanistan, US officials say the campaign against the terrorist-friendly regime inevitably will target its biggest moneymaker: a vibrant drug network that supplies more than 70 per cent of the world's opium. Authorities in the USA and Europe already have frozen an estimated $24 million in assets linked to Osama bin Laden, his Al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban. ......
 
• Al Qaeda warns US against aiding India in J&K
• IANS, The Economic Times, October 15, 2001

>>> Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group on Sunday sought to link itself to the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir, warning the US not to support India's campaign against terror groups in the Himalayan state. ......
 
• A million mutinies still
• IDG, The Economic Times, October 14, 2001

>>> The Nobel Prize for literature didn't take only V S Naipaul by surprise, In fact, controversy dogged him even in his hour of glory. Many of Delhi's literary luminaries refused to comment on the award after it was announced and very few had good things to say about the author. The usual buzz when an Indian or a person of Indian origin makes it big in the global arena seemed missing, at least in the Capital's publishing circles. ......
 
• Anti-US protests in Nigeria turn violent, 16 killed
• Emeka Madu, The Economic Times, October 14, 2001

>>> Nigerian authorities clamped a night curfew on the northern city of Kano and issued a 'shoot on sight' order after at least 16 people were killed in anti-American riots on Saturday, officials and residents said. Army tanks crisscrossed the streets of the largest dry in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria to quell some of the most violent anti-American protests in Africa since US air strikes on Afghanistan began last Sunday. ......
 
• No! My Fatwa Of Dissent
• Mir Ali Raza, Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> After September 11, the world has suddenly became a more difficult place for the Muslim. First, there were the desultory racist attacks in the United States on people who appeared "Islamic" (Sikhs and bearded South Asians sometimes found themselves unwitting partners of the identifiable ummah). ......
 
• A Strategic Change Of Heart
• Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> Q: Mr President, do you feel like you've got the full support of President Musharraf? And how hard is it going to be for him to live up to his pledges, given his domestic situation?
Bush: I said we'll give the President a chance to perform, and I believe he has done so. We will work and consult closely with Pakistan and India to make sure that that part of the world is as stable as can possibly be stable. ......
 
• Paleface, Forked Tongue
• V. Sudarshan, Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> The published evidence on which the US is pursuing its war on Osama bin Laden and his associates wouldn't stand up to legal scrutiny. This became obvious from the howls of disbelief of the British media when Prime Minister Tony Blair made public a document, "Responsibility For the Terrorist Atrocities in the United States, 11 September 2001", which was based on evidence supplied by the US. ......
 
• Three Cheers
• Mariana Baabar, Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> They said it could never happen. But it did and that too at a mere stroke of the pen. The infamous 'state within a state', one of the aliases of the all-powerful Inter Services Intelligence (isi), has been finally reined in. With it, amid all the enveloping gloom, there is renewed hope of the Pakistan army regaining the liberal ethos it had during the reign of Field Marshal Ayub Khan. ......
 
• 'India Will Have To Fight Its Own Battle'
• Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> His comments tinged with realism about the lack of formal guarantees to India of a 'Phase II' in the international war against terrorism that would strike at Pak-sponsored terrorism, a combative Union home minister L.K. Advani spoke to Ishan Joshi. Excerpts: ......
 
• 'Musharraf Will Face Dire Consequences'
• Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of the pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), has been put under house arrest in his hometown Dera Ismail Khan for leading protest rallies against the US and the Pakistani government. Asim Hussain managed to speak to him on telephone, till the lines were disconnected by the military authorities. ......
 
• Short-Circuited Jehadi Robots
• Amir Mir, Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> Pakistan is simmering. And it only takes a religious leader to fan the smouldering embers to suck towns and cities into a vortex of fury-shops and cars are set afire as frenzied people take to streets shouting slogans against the US and President Pervez Musharraf, clashing intermittently with the police. The Pakistan government could well succeed in preventing the fire from spreading, but, for the moment, it's anxious. ......
 
• The Split Screen Syndrome
• Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> It was one of the oddest phone calls ever made. US Secretary of State Colin Powell phoned the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, to ask for some censorship of the Al Jazeera satellite TV channel which has had exclusive access to Osama bin Laden and his men. The Emir politely declined, citing media freedom to the American leader. ......
 
• Nobelity, At Last
• Khushwant Singh, Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> When I got the news of V.S. Naipaul being awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, I was delighted and felt I had been vindicated.  I was delighted because I have known him as a friend for over 35 years. I have met his first wife, who was English,  and get on famously with his charming, vivacious present wife, Nadira, who is Pakistani Punjabi. ......
 
• From Kabul To Kashmir
• Prem Shankar Jha, Outlook, October 22, 2001

>>> India's media would do the country a service if it was to discard its preoccupation with the possible shifts of US policy on the Kashmir issue and devote more attention to the shifts in geopolitics the US air strikes on Afghanistan have initiated. That many of these could make governance more difficult in India, with 140 million Muslims, goes without saying. ......
 
• BSF jawan unfurls Pak flag at durgah
• The Times of India, October 20, 2001

>>> A Border Security Force jawan was beaten up by enraged people after he allegedly hoisted a Pakistani flag at a durgah in Nyaydongri village in Nandgaon tehsil of the district on Thursday, police said on Friday. ......
 
• Pak has to save its nukes to fight India: Minister
• The Times of India, October 20, 2001

>>> In a bid to pacify hardliners opposed to Pakistan supporting the US military action in Afghanistan, a senior minister has urged the Islamic clerics to restrain their emotions towards Taliban as Islamabad has to "save its nuclear assets to fight a war against India." ......
 
• Hunt down all terrorists
• P. M. Kamath, Free Press Journal, October 19, 2001

>>> Though India was first to have offered help to the US, 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. ......
 
• Syrian defense minister blames WTC, Pentagon attacks on Israel
• Arieh O'Sullivan, Tel Aviv, October 19, 2001

>>> At a meeting in Damascus last week with a delegation from the British Royal College of Defense Studies, Tlass said the Mossad planned the ramming of two hijacked airliners into the WTC's towers as part of a Jewish conspiracy. ......
 
• 600 Kashmiri militants guarding Osama: Jane's
• A Chalomumbai Correspondent, Mid-Day, October 19, 2001

>>> Over 600 Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militants have been placed at strategic locations to guardinternational terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, Janes Defence Weekly has reported. ......
 
• Al-Badr warns India against 'misadventure'
• Rediff on Net, October 19, 2001

>>> The Pakistan-based chief of Al Badr has warned India that it would be "taught a tough lesson" if it acts against Kashmiri mujahideen groups, Online news agency reports. ......
 
• The Delhi Two-Step
• Editorial, The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2001

>>> As Colin Powell touched down in Pakistan on Monday for talks with President Musharraf, he was greeted with what sounded like a 21-gun salute. Except that the guns were Indian and fired not in Mr. Powell's honor but at Pakistani army posts on the Line of Control dividing India from Pakistan in Kashmir. ......
 
• CNN reporting?
• Vaman Rao, October 19, 2001

>>> I am pained to agree with a recent article in the eminent daily, the Economic Times (October 19, 2001), that CNN should henceforth be called PNN - the Propaganda News Network or Pakistan News Network. The CNN reporting in the aftermath of 9-11 attack on WTC and Pentagon and subsequent attack on Afghanistan has become so shallow and erroneous that watching news reports from CNN has become an exercise in mis-education. ......
 
• Anti-Western and Extremist Views Pervade Saudi Schools
• Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times, October 19, 2001

>>> The textbook for one of the five religion classes required of all 10th graders in Saudi public high schools tackles the complicated issue of who good Muslims should befriend. After examining a number of scriptures which warn of the dangers of having Christian and Jewish friends, the lesson concludes: "It is compulsory for the Muslims to be loyal to each other and to consider the infidels their enemy." ......
 
• Muslim rebels kidnap Italian priest
• The News International, October 19, 2001

>>> Security forces on Thursday mounted a land, air and sea search in the southern Philippines for a gang of rogue Muslim rebels thought to be behind the kidnapping of an Italian Roman Catholic missionary, officials said. ......
 
• Russia and U.S. Optimistic on Defense Issues
• Patrick E. Tyler, The New York Times, October 19, 2001

>>> Russia and the United States signaled tonight that they were near a breakthrough on the key strategic issues that had divided the two countries since President Bush came into office, in particular Washington's plans to build missile defenses and Russia's troubled relations with an expanding NATO alliance. ......
 
• Foreign mercenaries active in Kashmir Valley
• Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, The Hindustan Times, October 17, 2001

>>> There are an estimated 1,300 foreign mercenaries currently operating in Jammu and Kashmir and nearly three-fourths of them belong to three organisations, the Hizbul Mujahideen, the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed. ......
 
• LoC attack cleared after Advani's visit to J&K
• H Bula Devi, The Statesman, October 17, 2001

>>> India's pro-active action yesterday along the Line of Control and international border was a "pre-emptive defensive move" on the basis of Intelligence reports on infiltration and terrorist camps across the LoC. ......
 
• 7,000-year-old temple in Malleswaram
• Meghana Mathur, The Times of India, October 16, 2001

>>> Malleswaram boasts of many temples, but none is so shrouded in controversy and mystery as this one is. The ancient Nandeeshwara temple at Malleswaram 17th cross was discovered only three years ago, but it has stood for 7,000 years on that spot. Being buried over the years hasn't diminished its aura at all. It still draws huge crowds all day. ......
 
• McDonald's embraces Islam in Indonesia
• Tomi Soetjipto, The Economic Times, October 13, 2001

>>> Step inside a McDonald's restaurant in Indonesia's capital, scene of daily anti-American protests over US-led strikes on Afghanistan, and the first thing you see is not a Big Mac but a large Islamic poster. ......
 
• The Dossier in Full
• Fox News, October 5, 2001

>>> This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case against Usama bin Laden in a court of law. Intelligence often cannot be used evidentially, due both to the strict rules of admissibility and to the need to protect the safety of sources. But on the basis of all the information available Her Majesty's Government is confident of its conclusions as expressed in this document. ......
 
• "Muslims...were looking to Pakistan for help..."
• Arun Shourie, The Observer, December 16, 1994

>>> 'Muslims all over the world including those of India were hopefully looking up to Pakistan for help and guidance and whatever happened in Pakistan or any other Muslim country cast its shadow on the Indian Muslims also. The Pakistani debacle of 1971 had caused immense grief to Indian Muslims.' ......
 
• A Memo to American Muslim Leaders
• Muqtedar Khan, IJTIHAD

>>> In the name of Allah, the most Benevolent and the Most Merciful. May this memo find you in the shade of Islam enjoying the mercy, the protection and the grace of Allah. ......
 
• Annals of National Security: KING'S RANSOM
• Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, October 22, 2001

>>> Since 1994 or earlier, the National Security Agency has been collecting electronic intercepts of conversations between members of the Saudi Arabian royal family, which is headed by King Fahd. The intercepts depict a regime increasingly corrupt, alienated from the country's religious rank and file, and so weakened and frightened that it has brokered its future by channelling hundreds of millions of dollars in what amounts to protection money to fundamentalist groups that wish to overthrow it. ......
 
• CNN : They better call it PNN now: Propaganda News Network
• Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 19, 2001

>>> Famous for its 'objectivity' and being on the ball with news, America's favourite TV channel, CNN, as come to be regarded as the extension counter of the US state department. ......
 
• Catholic Churches Attacked in Malaysia
• Zenit.org, October 18, 2001

>>> Arson attempts against Catholic churches in Malaysia might be a reaction to the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan, unofficial Church sources reported. ......
 
• Pak intelligence, bin Laden supporting LeT: Report
• H S Rao, Rediff on Net, October 18, 2001

>>> International terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and Pakistan's military intelligence are providing "active support" to Lashkar-e-Tayiba, a militant outfit operating in Kashmir, a leading institute for strategic studies in London has said. ......
 
• We will drag US troops through streets: Al Qaeda
• Reuters, The Indian Express, October 18, 2001

>>> The military chief of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network said Afghans would drag slain US troops through the streets, rekindling memories of Washington's doomed 1993 involvement in Somalia, a report said on Thursday. "The calculations of the crusade coalition were very mistaken when it thought it could wage a war on Afghanistan, achieving victory swiftly," the report by the London-based Islamic Observation Centre quoted Abu Hafs al-Masri as saying. ......
 
• Afghans don't surrender, just switch sides
• Robyn Dixon, The Indian Express, October 18, 2001

>>> It started as a dispute over a lunch tab and ended with a mass defection of Taliban troops. One afternoon a month ago, several dozen Taliban fighters ate their fill of rice, bread and meat at the teahouse in Taleh Barfaq, Afghanistan, but decided not to pay the owner. The owner's close friends, another group of Taliban fighters, took offence. ......
 
• In Pakistan, 1,100 eager religious students graduate into holy war
• Riaz Khan, The Associated Press, October 18, 2001

>>> Raising their right hands in the air under posters of Osama bin Laden, 1,100 students graduated Thursday from an Islamic religious school in Pakistan and swore oaths to join a holy war against the United States in Afghanistan. ......
 
• Tough Stance On Pakistan Clouds Powell's Mission
• Brahma Chellaney, The Washington Post, October 17, 2001

>>> Secretary of State Colin L. Powell arrived last night in the Indian capital, where the United States' new security relationship with Pakistan is forcing the government of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to re-examine its 3-year investment in building a strategic partnership with Washington. ......
 
• Tension Rises in Volatile Kashmir
• Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Post, October 16, 2001

>>> Growing tension between India and Pakistan over the activities of Muslim guerrillas in the disputed region of Kashmir is raising new challenges for the United States as it seeks to hold together its international anti-terrorism coalition. ......
 
• Prove it, Powell!
• C R Irani, The Statesman, October 16, 2001

>>> George Bush thought he was throwing a lifeline to the Taliban by his offer to do something about what he was doing to their country, if only they would save him the trouble and bring in Osama bin Laden and his gang quietly and without fuss. Apart from always calculating what suits them best, the Americans have again shown themselves to be either excessively naive or incredibly self-centred. There is total misjudgment of what the Taliban are all about. ......
 
• U.S. Needs a Contingency Plan for Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal
• Jon B. Wolfsthal, The Los Angeles Times, October 16, 2001

>>> There is growing concern, and evidence for concern, that the instability in Afghanistan could quickly spread to neighboring Pakistan and undermine the security of that country's nuclear arsenal. Of all of the negative consequences this turn of events might bring, none would be more dangerous and catastrophic than nuclear weapons falling into the hands of the Taliban or Al Qaeda. ......
 
• Terror in tinned tomatoes: Tapes reveal poison plan
• John Follain and Nicholas Rufford, The Times of India, October 15, 2001

>>> Secretly recorded tapes have revealed plans by followers of Osama bin Laden for a chemical weapon attack in Europe using a poisonous invisible gas that security sources say was cyanide. ......
 
• My Dunno Sheet
• William Safire, The New York Times, October 15, 2001

>>> "Don't just write what you know," a great editor once instructed me about reporting an emerging story. "Make a list of what you don't know." ......
 
• Simmering Fanaticism
• Sayantan Chakravarty, India Today, October 15, 2001

>>> At the best of times the Delhi-headquartered Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has advocated an Islamic India. These aren't the best of times. Of late, the SIMI's young missionaries, with their untamed beards and intolerant ideology, had begun to openly extol the virtues of the Shah of Terror, Osama bin Laden. ......
 
• How Centre crawled when ultras asked it to bend
• Bhavna Vij, The Indian Express, October 15, 2001

>>> Ten years before Kandahar, the Indian government set in motion the practice of releasing militants in exchange of civilians in the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case. That's well-known. What isn't, though, is the fact that the Indian government released five militants when asked to free just one. It could even have got away without freeing any militant. ......
 
• Letter from Kashmir
• Joshua Hammer, Newsweek Web Exclusive, October 13, 2001

>>> Sprawling on a hilltop on the outskirts of Srinagar, the former summer residence of the Maharajah of Kashmir, is one of the most glorious patches of real estate on earth. ......
 
• Resolution of the Hindu Council of Birmingham
•  

>>> In a meeting held on 16 October 2001at Birmingham Pragati Mandal, Henley Street, Birmingham, the Executive Committee of the Hindu Council of Birmingham unanimously passed a resolution strongly condemning the genocidal attacks on the Hindu minority in Bangladesh. Since elections on October 1 2001, Hindus have been butchered, women raped and their property pillaged in the districts of Barisal and Bagerhat. ......
 
• US ready to supply military equipment to China
• Press Trust of India, The Indian Express, October 18, 2001

>>> As human rights activists see another evidence of "unprincipled" actions by the US in the pursuit of alliances against Taliban, the Bush administration is now proposing to waive sanctions that bar the sale of military-related equipment to China. ......
 
• We are moved, U.S. legislators tell India
• The Hindu, October 18, 2001

>>> Forty-nine U.S. Congressmen have appreciated India's offer of help and support to the U.S. after the September 11 attacks. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, the members of the U.S. Congress said today that they were ``deeply moved and impressed when your Government offered us your assistance after the tragic events of September 11.'' ......
 
• Global News Channel Sounds, Looks Like Washington's Handmaiden
• Shailaja Bajpai, The Indian Express, October 18, 2001

>>> ''...CHRISTIANE Amanpour on Pakistan's border with Kashmir.'' A slip of the tongue or a Freudian slip? Either way, shouldn't CNN correct this declaration of Independence? ......
 
• Children injured in school rampage
• Nick Britten, The Telegraph, October 17, 2001

>>> A Teenage girl needed treatment in an intensive care unit after a gang attacked pupils and staff at a school with hammers and axes. ......
 
• Saudis Consider Asking U.S. Military To Leave
• Middle East News Line, October 17, 2001

>>> Western diplomatic sources said the Saudi royal family has not relayed any such intent to Washington. But the royal family has been examining the option of calling on U.S. forces to leave the kingdom to relieve the intense pressure by the Islamic opposition. ......
 
• Thousands protest attacks on Bangla minorities
• The Times of India, October 17, 2001

>>> Several thousand people protested in Bangladesh Tuesday against attacks on members of the minority Hindu community, witnesses said. ......
 
• Bush's scary CAIR friends
• Debbie Schlussel, World Net Daily, October 16, 2001

>>> "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth," Henry remarked. "For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it." ......
 
• "If Pakistan tries to plant another Taliban regime it will regret again" (Interview - Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq)
• India Today, October 15, 2001

>>> Q. Do you think that by claiming to become a frontline state for war against terrorism Pakistan will have leverage in the future of Afghanistan?
A. Pakistan is not in a position to play the role of a frontline state as it did during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. If it tries to plant another Taliban like leverage, it will regret once again. ......
 
• "The current situation was created by Pakistan" (Interview Abdullah Abdullah)
• India Today, October 15, 2001

>>> Q. How do you view India's offer or help to the US after the terrorist attacks?
A. India's stand shows the resolve to fight the menace of terrorism jointly. ......
 
• Unsecular Faith
• Tavleen Singh, India Today, October 15, 2001

>>> There is no politically correct way to say what I am about to, so I shall say it plainly: it is time for India's Muslims to distance themselves from the kind of Islam the Taliban preaches. And those who urge Muslims to join Osama bin Laden's jehad should either be made to desist or be locked up for preaching sedition. ......
 
• 'Lawyers veto attack on leader'
• The Australian, October 15, 2001

>>> Military legal officials stopped a US airstrike on a building where Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was hiding, a report has claimed, adding that the move infuriated US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. ......
 
• Rewind to '89: Govt crawled when militants asked it to bend
• Bhavna Vij, The Indian Express, October 15, 2001

>>> Ten years before Kandahar, the Indian government set in motion the practice of releasing militants in exchange of civilians in the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case. That's well-known. What isn't, though, is the fact that the Indian government released five militants when asked to free just one. It could even have got away without freeing any militant. ......
 
• Jaish threatens 'smashing blow' in Kashmir
• Rediff on Net, October 15, 2001

>>> Pakistan-based militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed has alleged that the US froze its assets at the instance of India and threatened to deliver a "smashing blow" to assert its authority in Kashmir. ......
 
• Beijing opposes Pak help to Chinese Muslim militants
• B L Kak, The Daily Excelsior, October 15, 2001

>>> New Delhi: In a swift turn of events, Pakistan's "great" ally, China, has warned that Islamabad will have to face a different situation altogether if Pakistan-based fundamentalist outfits were not immediately prevented from continuing their clandestine support to the separatist movement in Sinkiang, the region in China's far west. ......
 
• Now target Western consciousness
• Neerja Chowdhury, The Indian Express, October 15, 2001

>>> While India has scored a victory with the US-British freeze of the assets of Jaish-e-Mohammad, it has also come as a signal that the US will step up pressure on India to resume talks with Pakistan on Kashmir as soon as the situation in Afghanistan is brought under control. This was clear the moment Washington brought Pakistan on board the coalition against terrorism. ......
 
• CPM workers slash foot of baby girl
• Times News Network, The Times of India, October 15, 2001

>>> Thiruvanannthapuram - In a political vendetta most shameful, a group of alleged CPM workers, slashed the foot of a one and half-year -old baby girl in the Nettyyattinkara constituency of Thiruvananthapuram on Friday night. ......
 
• Reconsidering Saudi Arabia
• The New York Times, October 14, 2001

>>> Moments of international crisis have a way of stripping away diplomatic facades and exposing uncomfortable truths. One of the disturbing realities clarified by last month's terror attacks is Saudi Arabia's tolerance for terrorism. Students of America's deeply cynical relationship with Riyadh have long known that the kingdom did little to discourage Islamic extremists, as long as they operated outside its borders, and that Washington muted its objections to keep oil flowing to the West. ......
 
• 'US can't have normal relations with Pak till terrorism goes on in Kashmir' (Interview of the week: Frank Wisner)
• Shobhana Saxena, The Indian Express, October 14, 2001

>>> US Ambassador to India from 1994 to 1997, Frank Wisner played an important role in attracting American investments to India and in the peace initiatives in South Asia. Before New Delhi, his assignment was as Under Secretary of Defense Policy. Prior to that, he served as Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs. ......
 
• McDonald's embraces Islam in Indonesia
• Tomi Soetjipto, The Economic Times, October 13, 2001

>>> Step inside a McDonald's restaurant in Indonesia's capital, scene of daily anti-American protests over US-led strikes on Afghanistan, and the first thing you see is not a Big Mac but a large Islamic poster. ......
 
• NY mayor rejects $10m Saudi grant
• The Economic Times, October 13, 2001

>>> Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on Friday reiterated remarks about US Middle East policy which so angered New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani that he rejected a $10m donation. 'The Prince insisted that the Palestinian cause should be the center of bigger attention to find a just solution to the Middle East crisis,' said a statement issued by the Kingdom Holding Company, of which Prince Alwaleed is chairman. ......
 
• Mistaken Identity - Sikhs have a long history of conflict with Muslims
• Khushwant Singh, The Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2001

>>> Sikhs must never be confused with sheiks, although they have been lately. Indeed, soon after the Sept. 11 attack, a man shot and killed a Sikh gas-station owner in Mesa, Ariz., believing, apparently, that he was an Arab Muslim from the Mideast. ......
 
• Pak focus on Kashmir again negates talks
• Seema Guha, The Times of India, October 10, 2001

>>> Ahead of the New York meeting between General Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Pakistan is revving up its rhetoric on Kashmir. By repeatedly asserting the centrality of Kashmir, in any discussion with India, Gen Musharraf is boxing himself into an inflexible position. ......
 
• Dismissed ISI chief linked to mastermind of U.S. attacks
• Times News Network, The Times of India, October 10, 2001

>>> Although Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has claimed that its former director-general Lt-Gen Mahmoud Ahmed sought retirement after being superseded on Monday, the truth is more shocking. U.S. authorities sought his removal after confirming that $100,000 had been wired to Mohammed Atta, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sayed Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mahmoud Ahmed. ......
 
• Pak army acquires a moderate face
• Gaurav C. Sawant, The Indian Express, October 9, 2001

>>> At one level, the reshuffle in the Pakistan military top brass is perplexing. Three people whom President Pervez Musharraf trusted implicitly are out; two of them had backed his coup, another was appointed by him soon after. On closer examination, however, the changes brought about are aimed squarely at presenting a more moderate and thereby acceptable face to the West. ......
 
• Religious protests in Bangladesh
• United News of India, The Statesman, October 9, 2001

>>> Religious minority groups today staged angry protests against torture and loot allegedly by "terrorists backed by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Jamaat alliance" that won the general elections in Bangladesh. ......
 
• Foreign mercenaries still active in J&K
• Statesman News Service, The Statesman, October 9, 2001

>>> Foreign mercenaries are still active in the Jammu and Kashmir region. Instead of violence coming down post 11 September, it has marginally increased, according to the Army. ......
 
• Ethnic Cleansing in Mizoram (Letters to the Editor)
• Surya Narain Saxena, The Statesman, October 9, 2001

>>> Sir- Apropos of the article "Mizo Woes" by Sanjoy Hazarika (12 September) it is a good survey of the existing conditions in Mizoram and has made a welcome suggestion for amelioration of the genuine grievances of half a dozen minor tribes of the state - But I wonder how the author has failed to mention the problems of the Reang (Bru) tribe, the largest minority, 40 per cent of Mizoram. ......
 
• Laden fans voice admiration online
• Reuters, The Indian Express, October 9, 2001

>>> Osama bin Laden's sympathisers went online to express mingled admiration and concern for the hardline Islamist after his dramatic televised call for Muslims to rise up against the United States. ......
 
• Outright mischief
• Editorial, The Indian Express, October 16, 2001

>>> The latest propaganda videotape from Al-Qaeda is fresh proof of increasing desperation within the terrorist camp. In bringing up Kashmir, the Al-Qaeda spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, continues the mischief of Osama bin Laden in an earlier videotape when he raised the Palestinian and Iraq issues. These are transparent attempts to win over people in those territories and turn them against the US. ......
 
• Where are all the maulanas?
• Tarun Vijay, The Indian Express, October 14, 2001

>>> The psyche war began the day President Bush addressed the senate. And now the bombings. Does it gladden our hearts? To some extent yes, but enveloped in anxieties. True that Taliban days are numbered and if Afghans get King Zahir Shah, a squirming Pakistan notwithstanding, a smile on our faces can be seen. ......
 
• Waiting for the Hindu backlash
• Vir Sanghvi, The Hindustan Times, October 14, 2001

>>> Forgive me if you think I'm overstating the case but I'm beginning to get extremely concerned about the impact of the war in Afghanistan on communal harmony in India. It is not that I expect huge Muslim protest demonstrations of the kind we've been seeing in Pakistan over the last fortnight. Far from it. ......
 
• General linked to blacklisted group
• Press Trust of India, The Indian Express, October 14, 2001

>>> Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was until recently on the board of Rabita Trust, whose assets have been frozen by the US and UK for its links with Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network. ......
 
• 'Kill Osama and every Muslim child will become an Osama'
• The Hindustan Times, October 13, 2001

>>> On a podium in a disused cricket ground, a nine-year-old boy addressed a rally of about 20,000 men on the wrongs committed by the United States in neighbouring Afghanistan. ......
 
• Angry Mayor returns Saudi largesse
• Jennifer Steinhauer, The Hindustan Times, October 13, 2001

>>> New York Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani said on Thursday that the city was rejecting a $10 million donation from a wealthy Saudi prince, who criticised the American government's policies in West Asia. ......
 
• The Deep Intellectual Roots of Islamic Terror
• Robert Worth, The New York Times, October 13, 2001

>>> Long before Osama bin Laden appeared on television screens with an AK-47 by his side, he released earlier videotapes in which he appears in the guise of a holy man, sitting peacefully in front of a wall of books. That scholarly backdrop is an important symbol for Mr. bin Laden's terrorist movement as he tries to legitimize his extremist views of Islam. ......
 
• India has proof of Musharraf's links with terrorists
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, October 13, 2001

>>> India has clinching evidence of General Pervez Musharraf's personal links with groups funding terrorist activities. ......
 
• The enigma of Naipaul
• Editorial, The Hindustan Times, October 13, 2001

>>> There was a time when British newspapers kept an item ready for use at short notice, stating that Graham Greene had again been denied the Nobel Prize. That stage may not have been reached in VS Naipaul's case, for he is still very much in the thick of his literary career, being named even in connection with the Booker Prize. ......
 
• 'Shortage of intellect in terrorism war'
• The News International, October 13, 2001

>>> Nobel Literature Prize laureate V S. Naipaul expressed sorrow on Friday at the terrorist attacks last month in the United States but also lamented the approach taken by all sides involved in the new US-led war on terrorism. ......
 
• Lashkar chief calls for jihad against US
• Rediff on Net, October 13, 2001

>>> The Pakistan-based extremist organisation Lashkar-e-Tayiba's chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has called for a jihad against America's "state terrorism in Afghanistan". ......
 
• Where Osama Is a Rock Star
• The Time, October 12, 2001

>>> At a traffic light in this Pakistani port city, a boy was weaving between cars and motor-rickshaws, selling posters of Osama bin Laden. My friend bought one, and we were both struck by the expression on Osama's face. It was ascetic and yet sensual, as he floated above an Afghan mountain range where an eagle was ripping its claws into an American F-16 jet fighter as if it was some hapless pigeon. ......
 
• Stop terrorism, we'll talk: Jaswant to Pak
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, October 12, 2001

>>> The resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue will depend on Islamabad withdrawing its support to the export of terrorism to Jammu and Kashmir. ......
 
• In Increasing Numbers, Pakistani Youth Sign Up for Jihad
• Refet Kaplan, AP, October 12, 2001

>>> Abdul Khalid, 22, a small-time smuggler who lives in a refugee shantytown here, has a new purpose in life: kill Americans. "I have been here for several years, but now I have to go and fight because Islam is under attack," argues the one-time Jalalabad resident. "And I have a group of 28 others here who are going with me. We just need someone to tell us how it's done." ......
 
• Kashmir Issue Complicates U.S. Alliance - As Decades-Old Conflict Divides Nations
• Peter Fritsch, The Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2001

>>> The most important event in Mohammed Ahsan Dar's life happened six years before he was born. One day in 1953, he says, police patrolling the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir pistol-whipped his father, rendering him "half mad until he found peace in death." ......
 
• India's Ambassador address at the Woodrow Wilson Center - October 11, 2001
• International Center for Scholars, October 11, 2001

>>> India has benefited greatly from the work of this prestigious center of learning and research. The Asia Program at the Wilson Center has emerged as one of the major schools of innovative academic studies in Washington, shaping and influencing thinking about the region in India's extended neighbourhood. ......
 
• Baus's remarks reflect Bengal govt's uneasiness over groups
• Bhaskar Roy, The Times of India, October 9, 2001

>>> Veteran CPM leader Jyoti Basu's critical remarks about the activity of certain Islamic groups in West Bengal have come as a surprise to some of his colleagues in the Left front. ......
 
• 'Pak, Saudi wanted Bin Laden dead'
• AFP, The Hindustan Times, October 9, 2001

>>> Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Oman and other. Muslim nations secretly demanded that the US-led war against terrorism would not be abandoned until Osama bin Laden was dead and his al-Qaeda network finished off, The Miami Herald reported on Monday. ......
 
• China Bans Muslim/Arab Passengers
• United Press International, October 15, 2001

>>> Travel agents in Hong Kong and Beijing said China has banned nationals from 19 countries from buying air tickets for its state-owned airlines in a step-up in security following the terrorist attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City in September. "We were told not to sell tickets to Muslim passengers mainly for routes going to North America. European routes were later added," said one travel agent in Beijing. ......
 
• Nurturing Young Islamic Hearts and Hatreds
• Rick Bragg, The New York Times, October 14, 2001

>>> [P] ESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 13 ? A thousand years ago, in the days of the camel caravans, storytellers gathered here in the tea shops and brought the outside world and all its thoughts and ideas to the bazaar. As the vendors hawked silk, spice and rich tapestries and traders herded beasts through streets thick with smoke from cooking fires, travelers from distant lands and differing religions told stories about moguls, magic, wit and wisdom. ......
 
• Pakistani militants vow long 'holy war'
• Willis Witter, The Washington Times, October 13, 2001

>>> Fist-pumping protesters yesterday marked the first Muslim Sabbath since the onset of U.S.-led air strikes on Afghanistan, clashing with police as white-robed clerics urged crowds to prepare for a decade of "holy war" against the United States. ......
 
• Make Noriegas of Masood, Dawood: BJP to US
• PTI, The Times of India, October 13, 2001

>>> The BJP's mouthpiece said that the one way for the US to redeem its friendship with India was to make a Noriega of Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, by handing him over to India. ......
 
• What Sheikh could not write
• Manoj Mitta, The Indian Express, October 13, 2001

>>> Omar Sheikh erred in assuming that the policemen accosting him and his associates were on a routine patrol. He did not know that little before his arrival in Ghaziabad on October 31, 1994, the police had fortuitously discovered the hideout there while they were combing the neighbourhood in connection with some other case. ......
 
• I felt a stinging blow on my back and I looked around to see the policeman swinging his rifle at me. I turned and BANG!
• The Indian Express, October 13, 2001

>>> I went to the house and told the guys there that I had come to take photographs. Some hours later, after sunrise, Maulana saab went and bought a newspaper. He and Khan saab stood in the background, veiled, with the newspaper and AK-47. Sultan took the photos - six of them. ......
 
• V.S. Naipaul Receives Nobel for Literature
• Marjorie Miller, The Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2001

>>> V.S. Naipaul, a master of prose and controversial interpreter of the developing world, won the centenary Nobel Prize for literature Thursday for "works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories." ......
 
• Sikh woman attacked in San Diego
• The Times of India, October 12, 2001

>>> San Diego police are currently searching for two men who stabbed Swaran Kaur Bhullar on Sunday afternoon while sitting in her car waiting for the stop light to change at the intersection of Miramar Road and Cabot Drive ......
 
• Bukhari pledges support to Taleban
• Basharat Peer, Rediff on Net, October 12, 2001

>>> Amidst anti-American and pro-Taleban slogans, Delhi's chief Muslim cleric, Shahi Imam Syed Ahmad Bukhari pledged his support to the Taleban of Afghanistan. ......
 
• Terrorist turns out to be a college student
• Excelsior Correspondent, The Daily Excelsior, October 12, 2001

>>> Of five harbourers of the terrorists, arrested by police from across the district for their involvement in the killings of two brothers and other incidents, one has turned out to be a student of degree college. Hostel of the college, where he had been putting up, was oftenly frequented by the terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen's Shakeel Ansari group, thus, putting lives of hostel students to risk. ......
 
• Life bid on Advani foiled
• www.tehelka.com, October 11, 2001

>>> Mumbai police have arrested six ISI operatives and aides of Chhota Shakeel who had planned to eliminate Union Home Minister L K Advani and some other key personalities and carry out major subversive acts at the behest of ISI, police commissioner M N Singh said today. ......
 
• We remain at the end of history
• Francis Fukuyama, The Independent, October 11, 2001

>>> A stream of commentators has been asserting that the tragedy of 11 September proves that I was utterly wrong to have said more than a decade ago that we had reached the end of history. The chorus began almost immediately, with George Will asserting that history had returned from vacation, and Fareed Zakaria declaring the end of the end of history. ......
 
• PAKISTAN: A Regime Living Amid Its Ghosts
• Paula R. Newberg, The Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2001

>>> If there is a place condemned to repeat history, it may well be Pakistan. This year, Pakistanis have good reason to approach the second anniversary of Gen. Pervez Musharraf's coup with apprehension. As a U.S.-led coalition prepares to strike at global terrorism and sets its sights on the Taliban, it should read recent Pakistani history with care and ensure that sorting out Afghanistan does not again leave Pakistanis out in the cold. ......
 
• Bush must not ignore the Saudi connection
• Anatole Kaletsky, The Times, October 11, 2001

>>> Who says that the war against terror is a war against Islam? Not George Bush, despite his characteristically inept use of the word "crusade" in the early days of the conflict. And certainly not Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac or any other Western leader. ......
 
• India upped ante after J&K blast
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, October 11, 2001

>>> India saw the October 1 bombing of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly as an opportunity to make Washington press Pakistan on its sponsorship of terrorism. According to official Indian sources, this resulted in the West armtwisting Pakistan and reassuring India that the issue of Pakistan's sponsorship of terrorism would be addressed. ......
 
• Why are Muslims involved in so many conflicts?
• William Johnson, Globe and Mail, October 11, 2001

>>> George W. Bush laid out an ambitious program on Sunday, as he announced that strikes against the Taliban had begun. "If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents, they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril." ......
 
• ISI agents helped Taliban prepare for US attacks: Report
• Chalomumbai Correspondent, Mid-Day, October 11, 2001

>>> Afghanistan's Taliban militia received help in preparing their defences ahead of the US air strikes from a group of renegade Pakistani military intelligence officers, a report claimed today. ......
 
• Sikh woman attacked in San Diego
• The Times of India, October 11, 2001

>>> San Diego police are currently searching for two men who stabbed Swaran Kaur Bhullar on Sunday afternoon while sitting in her car waiting for the stop light to change at the intersection of Miramar Road and Cabot Drive. ......
 
• Bush Snubs Pakistan Second Time In Two Days - Omits It On Ally List
• Sanjay Suri, Indo-Asian News Service, October 11, 2001

>>> U.S. President George W. Bush delivered a second snub to Pakistan within two days by conspicuously omitting any mention of the country as an ally against terrorism. ......
 
• Six Pakistanis on American list of 241 suspects
• Mohammad Asghar, Dawn, October 11, 2001

>>> The US authorities have issued a "watch-list" of 241 persons, including six Pakistanis suspected to be involved in the Sept 11 suicide attacks in the United States, and asked the government to arrest them, an official source said on Wednesday. ......
 
• Plea showed that bin Laden's chief deputy had raised funds in United States
• Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press, October 11, 2001

>>> Osama bin Laden's chief deputy visited the United States at least twice in the past decade to raise money for terrorism, according to federal court records. ......
 
• Muslim separatists target of anti-terror war: China
• Agence France Presse, The Hindustan Times, October 11, 2001

>>> China today gave its strongest sign yet that it considers Muslim separatists in the far west fair targets in the global anti-terror campaign, comparing them to Chechen rebels and Middle East militants. ......
 
• Woman among 5 terrorist harbourers arrested
• Excelsior Correspondent, The Daily Excelsior, October 10, 2001

>>> In a major break-through, the district police have arrested five active harbourers-cum-guides of the terrorists including a woman from Billawar tehsil and virtually worked out the killings of two brothers in Ghati area few days back. ......
 
• Pak cleric vows suicide attacks on US interests
• The Times of India, October 10, 2001

>>> Radical Pakistani Islamic leader Abdullah Shah Mazhar Wednesday threatened to launch suicide attacks against the United States and "infidel" forces as some 5,000 followers took an "oath of death." ......
 
• Panicked, Sikhs flee Afghanistan
• Yudhvir Rana, The Times of India, October 10, 2001

>>> Panicked Sikhs of Afghanistan have started fleeing the country for safer places. Three such families have arrived in India Tuesday. The families, including seven adults and five children, carried whatever they could manage with them, availed themselves of the Samjhauta Express to reach the Attari railway station here Tuesday. ......
 
• The London connection in the plot that killed Masood
• Mohamad Bazzi, The Indian Express, October 10, 2001

>>> The men who assassinated Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood succeeded where the Soviets failed at least 15 times. Posing as journalists, the two French-speaking North African men journeyed across the globe to meet the ''Lion of Panjshir'' in his stronghold of northern Afghanistan. As soon as they were granted an interview, one of the men detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself instantly and fatally wounding Massood. ......
 
• Some Pakistani officers helped Taliban
• Ahmed Rashid, London Daily Telegraph, October 10, 2001

>>> A small group of officers from Pakistan's intelligence services visited Kandahar without permission from the government at the end of last month, reportedly to help the Taliban regime prepare its defenses and a strategy against U.S. attacks, according to retired military officers. ......
 
• India briefs Blair on Kashmir terror groups' UK connection
• Bhavna Vij, The Indian Express, October 9, 2001

>>> Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida network cannot be tackled in isolation without restraining terrorist groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir. This is the strong message that India tried to convey to visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair who said that bin Laden was the priority. ......
 
• British Muslims are sad and angry
• Philip Johnston, The Daily Telegraph, October 9, 2001

>>> Reaction among Britain's two million Muslims to the British and American raids on Afghanistan ranged from expressions of concern to outright hostility. ......
 
• Gen Mahmud's exit due to links with Umar Sheikh
• Monitoring Desk, Dawn, October 9, 2001

>>> Director General of Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen  Mahmud Ahmed has been replaced after the FBI investigators established credible links between him  and Umar Sheikh, one of the three militants released in exchange for passengers of the hijacked Indian  Airlines plane in 1999. ......
 
• Baus's remarks reflect Bengal govt's uneasiness over groups
• Bhaskar Roy, The Times of India, October 9, 2001

>>> Veteran CPM leader Jyoti Basu's critical remarks about the activity of certain Islamic groups in West Bengal have come as a surprise to some of his colleagues in the Left front. ......
 
• Dawood's movements restricted
• S. Balakrishnan, The Times of India, October 9, 2001

>>> Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon, Chhota Shakeel and a few of their senior associates have been virtually placed under house arrest at Nawanez near Karachi. Their movements have been vastly restricted by the Pakistan authorities. ......
 
• Pakistani suicide bomber behind Saudi explosion: Report
• The Hindustan Times, October 8, 2001

>>> Riyadh, October 7 (AFP) - An explosion in Saudi Arabia which killed two people, one American, may have been carried out by a Pakistani suicide bomber, a newspaper reported Sunday, but officials denied links to the US terror attacks. ......
 
• 'Vedanta is a science which develops human capital spiritually'
• S. Balakrishnan, The Times of India, October 8, 2001

>>> A management executive for eight years till 1978, Jaya Row (48), has been preaching Vedanta to management personnel, students and to other sections of the society on a regular basis She started evincing interest in spirituality from 1965 onwards. ......
 
• Taliban danced with joy over US attacks: Deserter
• Peter Graff, The Asian Age, October 7, 2001

>>> Taliban fighters danced for joy when they heard hijacked planes had smashed into the World Trade Centre, and boasted they would withstand any US attack, a deserter from the Afghan ruling militia said on Saturday. ......
 
• Religion Of Sane People Is Love
• Swami Chaitanya Keerti, The Times of India, October 6, 2001

>>> Osama bin Laden does not live in Afghanistan", declare  the fundamentalists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "He lives in our hearts", they proclaim, loudly and proudly. ......
 
• Angry India 'waives' sanctions waiver
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 6, 2001

>>> Angry and upset over the seismic shift in American policy in South Asia following the September 11 terrorist attacks, India has asked to be de-linked from Pakistan in various legislation being considered by the US Congress. ......
 
• FBI links Jaish militants to US attacks
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 6, 2001

>>> US Investigators have found the link between the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attack and the jehadi gang, Jaish-e-Mohammad, operating in Jammu and Kashmir. ......
 
• If history repeats itself...
• Shahid Javed Burki, The Asian Age, October 6, 2001

>>> Who says history does not repeat itself? In 1979, both Pakistan and its leaders were treated with indifference bordering on contempt by most of the civilised world. Pakistan's fault was to have trespassed once again on what were now regarded as universally accepted norms of behaviour. ......
 
• Suspected hijack bankroller freed by India in '99
• CNN News, October 6, 2001

>>> A man suspected of playing a key role in bankrolling the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States was released from prison in India less than two years ago after hijackers of an Indian Airlines flight demanded his freedom, a senior-level U.S. government source told CNN. ......
 
• America continues to shield Pak over terrorism charges
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 6, 2001

>>> Despite continuing revelations about Islamabad's complicity in terrorist activity, the US continues to shield Pakistan from terrorism charges in the hope it will turn a new leaf with the western media readily toeing the official line. ......
 
• US supports British dossier on Bin Laden
• The Times of India, October 6, 2001

>>> The United States has said that it backed the "facts and conclusions" in a British report accusing Osama bin Laden of last month's terrorist attacks but refused again to reveal its own evidence pointing to the Saudi militant's guilt. ......
 
• US continues to shield Pakistan on terrorism
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 5, 2001

>>> Despite continuing revelations about Islamabad's complicity in terrorist activity, the United States continues to shield Pakistan from terrorism charges in the hope it will turn a new leaf, with the western media readily toeing the official line. ......
 
• Pakistan's double game
• Leader, The Guardian, October 5, 2001

>>> The 180-degree turnabout in the Pakistani military regime's Afghan policy since September 11 appears almost complete. General Pervez Musharraf has withdrawn his diplomats from Kabul and is on the point of formally cutting ties with his former Taliban proteges. ......
 
• World is united in fight against terrorism: Blair
• Herald, Panaji, October 5, 2001

>>> Declaring that the war against terrorism will be fought on all fronts and all territories, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said this commitment is reinforced by the car bomb attack on the Jammu and Kashmir assembly which left at least 38 people dead and scores injured. ......
 
• We have a vision...
• Lt. Gen. Vinay Shankar (Retd), The Asian Age, October 5, 2001

>>> Introspection and reflection of the responses that follow a crisis are inevitable. Gleaning through the reams of reaction to the visitation of horror on the US on September 11, we are assailed by the disturbing realisation that in the display of dignity, wisdom, maturity and self-assurance we have not really measured up. ......
 
• Last chance to speak out
• Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, October 5, 2001

>>> The only good religion is a moribund religion: only when the faithful are weak are they tolerant and peaceful. The horrible history of Christianity shows that whenever religion grabs temporal power it turns lethal. Those who believe theirs is the only way, truth and light will kill to create their heavens on earth if they get the chance. ......
 
• Terrorism Among Friends
• Editorial, The Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2001

>>> Simplistic analysis of the war on terror is undermined almost daily by events on the evening news. The suicide bombing that killed 38 people in a legislative building in the Indian state of Kashmir this week was an act of terrorism as surely as the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A Pakistan-based group said it was responsible for the slaughter but later backed away from that claim. ......
 
• Can U.S. restrain Pakistan?
• C. Raja Mohan, The Hindu, October 3, 2001

>>> New Delhi, Oct. 2. As the Government reacts strongly against the escalation of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, Indo-Pak. tensions pose an important test to the international coalition against terror that the Bush Administration has assembled. ......
 
• Nailing the Pak Lie
• The Indian Express, October 11, 2001

>>> In September-October '94, Sheikh combs Delhi to kidnap foreigners as part of the conspiracy to force the release of Jaish chief Masood Azhar. He catches a Briton but loses an American ......
 
• Panicked, Sikhs flee Afghanistan
• Yudhvir Rana, The Times of India, October 10, 2001

>>> Panicked Sikhs of Afghanistan have started fleeing the country for safer places. Three such families have arrived in India Tuesday. The families, including seven adults and five children, carried whatever they could manage with them, availed themselves of the Samjhauta Express to reach the Attari railway station here Tuesday. ......
 
• Pak sway over Kabul may end
• Chandan Mitra, The Pioneer, October 10, 2001

>>> With the imminent collapse of whatever remains of the Taliban administration in Afghanistan, international attention is turning towards giving a shape to a future regime in that war-ravaged country. India is confident that, in view of the changed global scenario, the re-colonisation of Afghanistan by Pakistan shall be prevented. ......
 
• Bangladesh - 15 thousands minority families dislodged
• A report from Janakantha, October 10, 2001

>>> Post election violence and oppression against minority has displaced more than 15 thousands minority families in Barishal and Bagerhat districts. The affected upazilas (sub-districts) are Gournadi, Ujipur, Agailjara, Mullahat and Chitalmari. Hindu minorities from those upazilas are being forced out of their land and taken shelter at various villages in Ramshil upazila under Khotalipara districts. ......

• Musharraf will meet his end soon: Jamaat
• Rediff on Net, October 10, 2001

>>> Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would meet his "end" very soon for supporting the United States in its war against Afghanistan, a top opposition leader warned on Tuesday. ......
 
• America wants India's help for its pet dictator
• Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times, October 10, 2001

>>> Us Secretary of State Powell is expected to deliver in New Delhi the same message as British Prime Minister Blair: India should not do anything that could unsettle Pakistan's current role in the military campaign in Afghanistan. Rather, India should listen to Washington and restart 'peace' talks with Pakistan just the way Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon were persuaded to talk to each other again. ......
 
• The London connection in the plot that killed Ahmed Shah Masood
• Mohamad Bazzi, The Indian Express, October 10, 2001

>>> The men who assassinated Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood succeeded where the Soviets failed at least 15 times. Posing as journalists, the two French-speaking North African men journeyed across the globe to meet the ''Lion of Panjshir'' in his stronghold of northern Afghanistan. ......
 
• Jihad: 'The Ultimate Thermonuclear Bomb'
• Pepe Escobar, Asia Times Online, October 10, 2001

>>> Arif Jamal, born in Lahore into a traditional Punjabi family, is arguably the leading Asian expert on jihad. He was educated in Pakistan, France and the US. He is married and lives in Islamabad, where he works as a consultant for leading media organizations in Europe and in Pakistan. ......
 
• Patna girl students thrash male counterparts
• Soroor Ahmed, Rediff on Net, October 9, 2001

>>> Girls students of the Patna Medical College finally took up cudgels against the growing obscenity in the campus in the name of ragging and beat up two male students on Friday last week and another one on Saturday. ......
 
• Security forces fear violence may escalate
• Pradeep Dutta, The Indian Express, October 9, 2001

>>> After the US-led attack on Afghanistan, security forces fighting militancy in Jammu and Kashmir are expecting violence to spiral in the coming days in the state. ......
 
• Let's get back to life
• Salman Rushdie, The Hindustan Times, October 9, 2001

>>> In January 2000, I wrote that "the defining struggle of the new age would be between terrorism and security," and fretted that to live by the security experts' worst-case scenarios might be to surrender too many of our liberties to the invisible shadow-warriors of the secret world. Democracy requires visibility, I argued, and in the struggle between security and freedom we must always err on the side of freedom. ......
 
• The war begins
• Editorial, The Pioneer, October 9, 2001

>>> The American and British strikes against the Taliban, which finally began on Sunday night, were expected ever since the diabolical terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11. Understandably, there is widespread anxiety about the duration of the war, its scope and repercussions. ......
 
• The atrophied world of Islam
• Bhusan Bhat, The Pioneer, October 9, 2001

>>> The medieval dress code edict of the Laskhar-e-Jabbar and its meek acceptance by Kashmiri women as a symbol of separatist discourse; the September 11 terror strikes on America; the Hijra (departure) of Osama bin-Laden to his hideout in Kandahar on horseback (as a reminder of the Prophet's flight from Mecca to Medina 1400 years ago); and the undercurrent of Muslim unrest and angst against the United States every where, reflect the deep malaise that has afflicted Muslim societies the world over. ......
 
• 'Sikhs, Hindus stranded; seek refugee visas'
• Biresh Banerjee, The Pioneer, October 9, 2001

>>> Two hundred Hindus and Sikhs of Afghan origin are in Pakistan waiting to cross over into India at this moment according to president of the Khalsa Diwan Welfare Society Sardar Manohar Singh. ......
 
• Attacks on U.S. Drive Pakistan To Crossroads
• Pamela Constable, The Washington Post, October 8, 2001

>>> Pakistan's decision to side with the U.S. anti-terrorist campaign has left this military-ruled Muslim nation in the throes of change as shattering -- and potentially as liberating -- as the air strikes that began tonight next door in Afghanistan. ......
 
• A Time of Reckoning
• Fawaz A. Gerges, The New York Times, October 8, 2001

>>> For Muslims of the Middle East and south and central Asia, the moment of reckoning arrived yesterday. The Bush administration has made what are, for an American government, extraordinary efforts to show that the war that began Sept. 11 will not be the war Osama bin Laden wants: a battle between Islam and the rest of the world, particularly the United States. ......
 
• Islam According to Oprah - Is Oprah Winfrey a threat to national security?
• Rod Dreher, The New York Post, October 8, 2001

>>> Is Oprah Winfrey a threat to national security? No, but now that the war has begun, I worry about her, and here's why. ......
 
• Three churches burnt in Nigerian northern city
• The News International, October 8, 2001

>>> Three churches and several liquor shops have been burnt in Nigeria's northern city Kaduna and Muslims are suspected to be behind what seem to be arson attacks, newspapers reported on Sunday. The churches were set ablaze in the suburb of Hayin-Banki Saturday, said The Guardian and The Punch newspapers in their front page reports. ......
 
• Raising Munich, Sharon Reveals Israeli Qualms
• Serge Schmemann, The New York Times, October 6, 2001

>>> Israeli officials have been quick to try to contain the damage done by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's outburst on Thursday against the United States, in which he invoked the appeasement of Hitler in 1938 to warn Washington against making deals with Arab states at Israel's expense. ......
 
• Osama and the deeds of mass terror
• Editorial, The Hindu, October 6, 2001

>>> A forceful case has been presented by the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, against Osama bin Laden, the suspected evil genius behind the atrocities of mass terror that stunned the world on September 11. The British refrain is that some significantly credible links have been established between Osama bin Laden and those crimes against humanity. ......
 
• Eyes wide shut
• Prem Shankar Jha, The Hindustan Times, October 5, 2001

>>> Since September 11, the US has been in a dilemma between two kinds of response to the threat posed by international terrorism. Bush is under political pressure to extract vengeance and find a 'quick fix' solution. That pressure has made him focus relentlessly on Osama bin Laden, and the Taliban. ......
 
• High Cost of Coalition
• William Safire, The New York Times, October 4, 2001

>>> Within a week after the terror attacks, 14 members of Osama bin Laden's family, among others, were spirited out of this country back home to Saudi Arabia. ......
 
• SIMI ban has come at the right time: Gogoi
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, October 2, 2001

>>> Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi labelled the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as timely and sought a ban on all other religious fundamentalist organisations in the country to avert a communal flare-up. ......
 
• Hypocrisy Unlimited
• Editorial, The Statesman, October 9, 2001

>>> It makes no sense for chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya to organise all-party meetings in favour of a ban on rallies and roadblocks and for his health minister to ban gheraos in government hospitals, only to result in a hypocritical response to the all-too-familiar mayhem that takes place regularly, on this occasion at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital on Sunday. ......
 
• Terrorised Republic
• Rahul Datta, The Pioneer, October 6, 2001

>>> Dr Brahma Chellaney is a strategic-affairs expert. He is Professor of Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and author of three books. Here he speaks on the question of national security. ......
 
• Destroy terrorist camps in POK: RSS
• Pioneer News Service, The Pioneer, October 5, 2001

>>> The demands to attack POK and destroy training camps there are becoming shriller with the RSS also echoing the view taken by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah after the terrorists attacks on the State Assembly. ......
 
• Musharraf was always Bin Laden's guardian angel, Says US Media
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 4, 2001

>>> General Pervez Musharraf's attempt to drape himself in the "anti-terrorism" fatigues seems to have hit a bump with the US media revealing his role in sabotaging a US plot to capture or kill Osama bin Laden just two years ago. ......
 
• The black sheep in black robes
• Manoj Mitta, The Indian Express, October 4, 2001

>>> During the 50 years since the Constitution came into force, we have seen a lot of officers and ministers being thrown out of their jobs on the charge of corruption or for misusing their powers. But, oddly enough, during this entire period, there has not been a single judge of any high court or the Supreme Court to have met such a fate. The contrast suggests that somehow the members of the superior judiciary have all been honest. ......
 
• Gen, can you spot the black sheep please?
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 3, 2001

>>> Does Pervez Musharraf agree that the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) is a terrorist outfit? The Pakistan president, who has time and again claimed that the militant outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir are in fact freedom fighters, seems to have been constrained to reply in the affirmative. ......
 
• US begins to appreciate Indian stand
• Indrani Bagchi, The Economic Times, October 3, 2001

>>> Jaswant Singh used an impromptu 'drop-in' by George Bush yesterday to make a strong argument with the US leadership that the Al Qaida, ISI and the Taliban were all seamlessly welded into an international network of terrorism with its epicenter in Pakistan-Afghanistan. ......
 
• US mistrust of Pakistan deepens
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 3, 2001

>>> The US seems to have developed doubts about Pakistan's ability and willingness to deliver on its 'promise' of assistance in the fight against the Taliban in the light of Islamabad's failure to pass on information about the ransacking of America's abandoned mission in Kabul. ......
 
• WTC blast money trail leads to Pak
• The Economic Times, October 3, 2001

>>> Even as General Pervez Musharraf is trying hard to whitewash his regime's complicity in the terrorist crimes, investigations in the US have revealed more links between Pakistan's jehadi establishment and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaida. ......
 
• PM vows to protect 'supreme national interest' in letter to Bush
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 3, 2001

>>> There has been a sudden spurt in tensions between India and Pakistan. New Delhi today upped the ante by warning Islamabad that its patience was running out after yesterday's attack on the J&K Assembly by a Pakistan-based terrorist outfit. It said this has raised questions about the country's security and these have to be addressed in the 'supreme national interest'. ......
 
• Pak Christians fear attacks
• The Times of India, October 2, 2001

>>> Jammed into their unmarked old chapel, the small but fervent congregation of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Sunday prayed for America to defeat terror without creating Christian martyrs. Since September 11, Pakistani Christians say, hostility taints what was always tolerance. Many say close Muslim friends now keep their distance. And if any fighting starts over the border, many fear the worst. ......
 
• Afghan women hope US attack will make them free
• Robyn Dixon, The Times of India, October 7, 2001

>>> When the Vice and Virtue police caught sight of 14-year-old Farkhanda, with her naive eyes and childish face, they gave chase with their sticks and beat her. ......
 
• This war is not about terror, it's about Islam
• David Selbourne, Sunday Telegraph, October 7, 2001

>>> The war of the hour, we are told, is against "global terrorism". So declared President Bush in his speech to Congress on September 20 and Tony Blair in his oration to his Party Conference last week. It is nothing of the sort. ......
 
• Protestors Say End Columbus Day
• The Associated Press, The New York Times, October 6, 2001

>>> About 1,500 marchers converged at the state Capitol Saturday, beating drums and waving flags as they called for the end of Columbus Day. ......
 
• Zakir Hussain's counsel for Muslims
• Prafull Goradia, The Pioneer, October 6, 2001

>>> Our misguided brothers in Pakistan do not realise that if Muslims in Pakistan can wage a war against Hindus in Kashmir why should not Hindus, sooner or later, retaliate against Muslims in India." This was a part of the memorandum submitted by Dr Zakir Hussain and 13 other Muslim leaders to Dr Frank P Graham, UN Representative in Kashmir, on August 14, 1951. That was 50 years ago. ......
 
• 'Frontline' Pakistan will take us all back
• KPS Gill, The Pioneer, October 6, 2001

>>> Another blast in Kashmir, and this time the Western world pays a little attention, finally yielding a reluctant admission of the obvious-that terrorist outrages in India are no different from those that find innocent victims in the affluent West, and that behind all these excesses is a single, though loosely integrated, and vast network, a terrorist Internationale, that now extends across the globe, and indeed, often across all ideological affiliations as well. ......
 
• Mixed Views of bin Laden in Homeland
• Thomas L. Friedman, NEIL MacFARQUHAR, October 5, 2001

>>> Not everyone in this cosmopolitan port that claims Osama bin Laden as a native son is ready to label him a terrorist just yet. ......
 
• Yes, but What?
• Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, October 5, 2001

>>> Judging from the foreign press, the most popular world reaction to the terrorist attacks on America has not been outright condemnation, but rather: "Yes, but . . ." Yes, this was terrible, but somehow America deserved it or is responsible for the anger behind it. ......
 
• A fatwa on terror - Muslim leaders must denounce extremism unambiguously
• The Times of India, October 4, 2001

>>> Since September 11 the West, and especially America, has seen a spate of attacks on Muslims in their midst. Men have been beaten, women intimidated, children taunted. Even those with no connection to Islam, such as Sikhs, have been set upon because of their beards and dark skin. Such appalling racism and intolerance have been forcefully condemned by Western leaders. ......
 
• How do we tackle terrorism?
• K P S Gill, The Economic Times, October 2, 2001

>>> The world is finally gearing up for the war against terrorism that the US has now declared, and it is increasingly being recognised that this is not an enemy that can be defeated alone, even by the most powerful nation in the world. There are, however, still many obstacles to an effective international coalition against terrorism, and one of the most significant is the ludicrous but widely circulated proposition that 'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter'. ......
 
• U.S. assails Srinagar massacre, but refuses to rethink alliance with Pak
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 2, 2001

>>> Although the U.S. has condemned the latest terrorist outrage m Kashmir, there seems to be no sign m the administration of any misgivings on Washington's support to a military regime I Pakistan that is committed to a militaristic agenda against India. ......
 
• Suicide bombers storm J&K assembly
• Times News Network, The Times of India, October 2, 2001

>>> In a daring daylight attack, a suicide squad of the Jaish-e-Muhammad militant outfit stormed into the Jammu and Kashmir assembly complex here on Monday afternoon leaving about 29 persons dead and injuring 30. The death toll could go up as most of the injured were in a critical condition, sources said. ......
 
• Image of Islam
• Amulya Ganguli, The Hindustan Times, October 1, 2001

>>> Islam has had a bad press. Even before the terrorist outrages in the US, the belief that Islam harboured more subversives than any other religion had been widespread. ......
 
• Bin Laden and Herndon, Virginia
• Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2001

>>> Islamist terrorism has afflicted nearly every Western country and is likely to get worse. One reason is the radicals' aggressiveness; another is the feeble Western response. I personally experienced both of these problems just this past week. ......
 
• Usama bin Ladin: "American Soldiers Are Paper Tigers"
• Middle East Forum, December 1998

>>> In perhaps his most explicit and detailed statement about the United States, Usama bin Ladin spoke on May 28, 1998, in Arabic, to John Miller of ABC News in his hideaway deep in the mountains of southern Afghanistan.1 A Saudi who became active against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, bin Ladin uses his great wealth to advance Islamist causes, primarily through his organization Al-Qa'ida. Although his expressions are stilted and the references sometimes obscure, bin Ladin makes many candid and startling observations in the following interview about the United States that go far to explain his many terrorist assaults on Americans. ......
 
• Strange Bedfellows - Grover Norquist And Abdurahman Alamoudi
• Seth Gitell, Boston Phoenix, October 5-11, 2001

>>> During his presidential campaign and his first months in office, George W. Bush had no stronger supporter than Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform. During the New Hampshire primary, Norquist's group ran television ads that morphed the face of Arizona senator John McCain into that of President Bill Clinton (see " New Hampshire Diary, " News and Features, January 12, 2000). ......
 
• Kashmir insurgency is being 'Talibanised'
• Rahul Bedi, Jane's Intelligence, October 5, 2001

>>> The suicide bomber attack in northern India's Kashmir state on 1 October, which killed 38 people and seriously injured 60 others, focuses attention once more on the close involvement of Pakistan-backed insurgents in the 12-year-old civil war in the disputed state. ......
 
• Pak authorities arrest Harkat chief in Rawalpindi
• Sheela Bhatt, Rediff on Net, October 5, 2001

>>> As part of the ongoing clamp down on terrorist outfits, Pakistani authorities on Friday arrested Fazl-ur Rehman Khalil, chief commander of the Harkat-ul Mujahideen, a Pakistan-based terrorist outfit active in Jammu and Kashmir, from Rawalpindi. ......
 
• Suspected hijack bankroller freed by India in '99
• CNN News, October 5, 2001

>>> A man suspected of playing a key role in bankrolling the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States was released from prison in India less than two years ago after hijackers of an Indian Airlines flight demanded his freedom, a senior- level U.S. government source told CNN. ......
 
• Gen, can you spot the black sheep please?
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, October 3, 2001

>>> Does Pervez Musharraf agree that the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) is a terrorist outfit? The Pakistan president, who has time and again claimed that the militant outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir are in fact freedom fighters, seems to have been constrained to reply in the affirmative. ......
 
• US begins to appreciate Indian stand
• Indrani Begchi, The Economic Times, October 3, 2001

>>> Jaswant Singh used an impromptu 'drop-in' by George Bush yesterday to make a strong argument with the US leadership that the Al Qaida, ISI and the Taliban were all seamlessly welded into an international network of terrorism with its epicentre in Pakistan-Afghanistan. ......
 
• US mistrust of Pakistan deepens
• Our Political Bureau , The Economic Times, October 3, 2001

>>> The US seems to have developed doubts about Pakistan's ability and willingness to deliver on its 'promise' of assistance in the fight against the Taliban in the light of Islamabad's failure to pass on information about the ransacking of America's abandoned mission in Kabul. .....
 
• U.S. hopes to create disharmony in Taliban
• Agencies, The Times of India, October 2, 2001

>>> An American delegation headed by two-star general Kevin Chilton, which held detailed talks with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and military officials, is understood to have arrived at an agreement that the proposed operations would be aimed at attacking Bin Laden's camps inside Afghanistan. ......
 
• Remote control
• Editorial, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, October 2, 2001

>>> The big fish is still at large. The police have been able to get only the henchmen and hitmen of dons. The remote control is as active as ever. The dons based in foreign countries are directing operations in India. It looks like they have been quite successful. The police seem to have eliminated dozens of criminals, but the situation continues to be as bad as ever. ......
 
• How sustainable is Chinese advantage?
• Prabhat Kumar, The Economic Times, October 2, 2001

>>> While world economy is facing the slowest ever growth prospect in over two decades, China has acquired a magnetic attraction for investors for the size of its domestic market for all types of goods, from cars to modem telecommunication products and computers. There seems to be a race among the Taiwanese, Japanese and western manufacturers to set up factories in China to take advantage of low-cost manufacturing. ......
 
• Pak to get 'special' view of bin Laden evidence: US
• Mid-Day, October 2, 2001

>>> Pakistan will be a "special case", said a US official, as the Bush administration began the process of providing to its allies evidence linking Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon. ......
 
• US and Britain to strike terror camps within days
• Mid-Day, October 1, 2001

>>> Devastating attacks on bases controlled by Osama bin Laden are set to be launched in the next 48 hours as part of a tightly focused military operation approved by US President George Bush and backed by Britain. ......
 
• US terrorists were India's 'Most Wanted' Hijackers!
• Debashish Panigrahi, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, October 1, 2001

>>> Now the truth can be told. Sonic of the hijackers responsible for the attacks on US of September 11, are Mumbai's "Most Wanted Criminals". At least three of them are wanted for the hijacking of Indian Airlines' Flight IC-184 to Kandahar in December 1999. ......
 
• High Cost of Coalition
• William Safire, The New York Times, October 4, 2001

>>> Within a week after the terror attacks, 14 members of Osama bin Laden's family, among others, were spirited out of this country back home to Saudi Arabia. ......
 
• London financial centre for terror money too Looted $1bn sent through London
• David Pallister, Ed Harriman and Jamie Wilson, The Guardian, October 4, 2001

>>> London has become one of the major money laundering capitals of the world, a Guardian investigation has discovered. In the wake of the US terrorist attacks on September 11, the chancellor is now claiming he will tighten up banking law but at the moment international money launderers appear to be getting an easy ride while the banks make large profits. ......
 
• Why this American feels safer
• Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2001

>>> All four of the plane crashes on September 11 occurred in the northeastern United States, where I live. According to the latest Newsweek poll, a massive two-thirds of my neighbors feel "less safe" than they did before that day. ......
 
• Thobani 'rant' called hateful - B.C. Premier, Liberal senator voice disgust
• Mary Vallis and Mark Hume, National Post, October 3, 2001

>>> Gordon Campbell, the Premier of British Columbia, yesterday condemned a leading feminist's controversial speech on U.S. foreign policy as "hateful, destructive and very disturbing." ......
 
• Manhattan's Mumbai connection
• J Dey, The Indian Express, October 2, 2001

>>> The plot to hijack the Indian Airlines flight IC 814 was hatched  by the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) sometime  in 1997 after Maulana Masood fell into the hands of Indian  authorities. Mohammed Asif alias Babloo Mohajir was the first  to be roped in for the job while he was employed in Saudi  Arabia. ......
 
• Non-BJP Govts crack down on SIMI
• Chandan Nandy, The Hindustan Times, October 1, 2001

>>> The non-BJP governments in the states may be ideologically opposed to the Central Government policies, but when it comes to national security issue all are united. Significantly, several states have joined the nationwide crackdown on SIMI activities with unusual alacrity. ......
 
• In Pakistan, a Shaky Ally
• Barry Bearak, The New York Times, October 2, 2001

>>> For years, Pakistan has seemed a place about to blow. Bankruptcy is at the door; angry mullahs are at the gate. The corruption of the powerful is epic, the poverty of the masses crushing. The army has taken charge, again putting democracy on the shelf. More people own guns than refrigerators. ......
 
• Blair declares war on Taleban
• Philip Webster, The Times, UK, October 2, 2001

>>> The prime minister will declare war on Afghanistan's Taleban regime today, telling them that their troops and military hardware will be attacked because they have refused to give up Osama bin Laden. ......
 
• Jaish: Taliban's twin, the new avatar of Harkat
• Express News Service, The Indian Express, October 2, 2001

>>> The Jaish Mohammad, which has claimed responsibility for Monday's attack in Srinagar, has been in the news over past fortnight for another reason: it is, for all practical purposes, the latest avatar of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, one of 28 entities banned by the US government following Terror Tuesday. ......
 
• Militants storm J&K Assembly, 26 killed
• Nazir Masoodi & Tariq Bhat, The Indian Express, October 2, 2001

>>> In the first such devastating attack on the seat of the Jammu and Kashmir government, a suicide bomber rammed a Tata Sumo packed with explosives right into the main gate of the heavily fortified Assembly building here killing 26 people in the blast. ......
 
• Pakistani press prints anti-U.S. sentiments
• Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Washington Times, October 1, 2001

>>> Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's assertion in an interview yesterday that he has the full support of his population is contradicted daily by a steady drum beat of anti-U.S. and anti-Israel editorials and op-ed articles in the Pakistani press. ......
 
• Pak runs Taliban Camps, Laden the regime
• The Asian Age, October 1, 2001

>>> Taliban supreme commander Mullah Mohammed Omar's former bodyguard has said in a newspaper interview that the "Taliban is full of Pakistanis" and the militia's training camps within Pakistan are being run by the Pakistani military. ......
 
• Scores of UK Muslims leave to join 'Holy War'
• Nabanita Sircar, The Asian Age, October 1, 2001

>>> A large number of young British Muslims have already left for Pakistan to go into Afghanistan allegedly to join the "holy war" after the September 11 attacks in the United States. Security officials are alarmed by the number of volunteers in the UK queuing up to go to Afghanistan. ......
 
• Our SOBs: Dealing with these allies will require cold-bloodedness.
• Rich Lowry, National Review, October 1, 2001

>>> It's a cliché to say how dirty and complicated the U.S. war on terrorism will be, but you don't get the full measure of how true this might be until you understand the nature of America's allies in this fight. ......
 
• Dogs set ablaze as warning to Taleban's opposition Afghan refugees describe campaign of terror
• Julius Strauss, The Daily Telegraph, October 1, 2001

>>> The Taleban herded the population of the war-ravaged northern town of Taleqan into its main square. Then they began parading three dogs. ......
 
• Interview of Jaswant Singh on an American TV
• Online News Hour, October 1, 2001

>>> India isn't on the front line of the war against Afghan-supported terrorism, but it shares an 1,800-mile-long border and a fractious relationship with a key front-line state, Pakistan. Predominantly Hindu India and predominantly Muslim Pakistan have fought three wars, two of them over the disputed territory of Kashmir. ......
 
• US Indians urge Bush to turn focus on Pak.
• The Hindu, October 1, 2001

>>> An organisation of Indians in the US has asked America, which has launched a global campaign against terrorism, not to forget Pakistan's role in creating the Taliban and its continued terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. ......
 
• Relentlessly and Thoroughly - The only way to respond
• Paul Johnson, National Review, October 15, 2001

>>> Cold and uncompromising words were spoken by American (and British) leaders in the immediate response to the Manhattan Massacre. But they may be succeeded by creeping appeasement unless public opinion insists that these leaders stick to their initial resolve to destroy international terrorism completely. ......
 
• Saffron Outfits Unfazed By Kripa 'Threat'
• Our Special Correspondent, The Asian Age, October 1, 2001

>>> The state government's decision to initiate an inquiry into the activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Shiv Sena and the Bajrang Dal in Maharashtra has failed to alarm the organisations concerned. ......
 
• War, Not "Crimes"
• Daniel Pipes, National Review, October 1, 2001

>>> "Make no mistake: The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." So spoke President Bush in his address to the nation soon after the catastrophic events of September 11. ......
 
• Suspected ISI agent nabbed in Thane
• Our correspondence, The Asian Age, October 1, 2001

>>> A suspected agent of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and alleged accomplice of the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in 1999, was arrested from Thane district, the police claims. ......