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| How it began | | Wednesday, 9.30 pm: First attack at Café Leopold: | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 29: It all started just before the 9.30 pm on Wednesday at the Café Leopold in Colaba district of Mumbai. Three men pulled out machine guns from heavysacks and started firing indiscriminately, whoever present there.
• 10 pm: After Leopold, the attackers took a lane which leads to the prestigious Taj Hotel which is just few meters away. The assailants entered the ground floor area and started firing indiscriminately.
• 10 pm: At around same time when the Taj was under attack, four men with automatic rifles entered the the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) around 10 pm. Two of them started firing towards the crowd, while two others spotted rushing towards the Metro Cinema multiplex via the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation offices and the nearby Azad Maidan.
• 10.15 pm: Terrorists came outside the Cama hospital fired erratically.
• 10.30 pm: Just ten minutes after Trident, a loud bang was heard in Vile Parle, which was occurred in a taxi.
• Colaba: At Colaba, men carrying assault rifles opened fire inside the Leopold restaurant and also thr... | |
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| Acid test for separatists as Kupwara goes to polls today | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Nov 29: Even as contenders race against each other to reach the Legislative Assembly, as five constituencies of Kupwara district go to polls tomorrow in third phase, it will be the most intense battle of ideas between separatists and the mainstream political parties.
Kupwara is the home ground of Peoples Conference led by Sajjad and Bilal Lone but their sister Shabnam Lone is also in the fray defying separatist diktats of poll boycott. The National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party and the Congress are facing a large number of independent contestants where separatists are making all out efforts to see that voter turnout does not go high.
Since the separatis... | |
| | | | J&K was first to track coastal route | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Nov 29: The war on Mumbai was perhaps the first major terror attack in India coming from sea but Jammu and Kashmir had tracked the coastal route over a year back when two militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba were held in March last year.
State Police had alerted the central government about holes in Indian coastal security following disclosures by two Pakistani terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) arrested from the mountainous Rajouri. A well reported incident, the two Pakistani militants, arrested by Rajouri and Poonch police in a joint operation in Manjakote, had alleged that sea routes were used for infiltration for the first time "by paying bribes to coast guards.
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| | | | Farooq talks sense, calls for UNSC meet | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Nov 29: Giving a clean chit to Pakistan as far the Mumbai terror attack was concerned, National Conference Patron and it''s Chief Ministerial candidate Dr Abdullah said that Islamabad could not be behind the attack as Pakistan''s Foreign Minister was in India.
The Mumbai terror attack is a dangerous signal for the entire world. The Pakistan Government, I honestly think is not behind this. Their Foreign Minister is in our country and, I cannot think a country can be involved in terror strike in a place if one of its minister's is visiting there, said Abdullah.
Whosoever has raised terror organizations like the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashker-e-Toiba and are be... | |
| | | | Curfew in Shopian | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Nov 29: Curfew was imposed in Shopian district of South Kashmir following the massive protests after the death of a youth, allegedly in custody of Rashtriya Rifles, sources told Press Bureau of India.
Sources told PBI that Ghulam Hassan Malla son of late Abdul Salam Malla, resident of Chotipora Zainapora Imamsahib, Shopian was arrested by troops of 62 RR during the intervening night Thursday.
People alleged that Ghulam Hassan, father of two children, was subjected to severe torture which resulted in to his death.
After his death, sources said, army called on police to take over the body of Malla from the camp.
Sources said that after people staged prote... | |
| | | | Qureshi cuts visit short | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, Nov 29: Distressed over widespread charges of involvement of Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood
Qureshi cut short his four-day visit to India and abruptly left for Islamabad on Saturday morning.
Qureshi was scheduled to meet Leader of Opposition L K Advani, Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate, at 10.30 am on Friday, but had to cancel his appointment due to a cabinet meeting in Islamabad later in the day, Pakistan embassy sources said.
He was earlier scheduled to go to Lahore in the evening.
Qureshi, who started his visit to India Wednesday on a positive note, was "quite upset" about what he saw as India... | |
| | | | Obama: India will defeat terror | | | | AGENCIES
Washington, Nov 29: US President-elect Barack Obama has expressed sorrow for the victims of the attacks on Mumbai and said the militants who staged the assault would not defeat India's "great democracy" or the global coalition arrayed against them.
"Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the loved ones of the American citizens who lost their lives in the outrageous terrorist attacks in Mumbai," Obama said in a statement yesterday, following reports that a Virginia man and his daughter had been killed as well as a rabbi from New York.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with them, and with all who have been touched by this terrible tragedy," Obama said.
"These terrorists ... | |
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