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AL-QAEDA IN KASHMIR? 'Salutes men behind Mumbai blasts' 7/13/2006 8:50:01 PM Srinagar,July 13 : Beware! Al-Qaeda has arrived in Kashmir! According to an editor of a local news agency, a caller Abu-Al-Hadeed, identifying himself as a spokesperson of Al-Qaeda Jammu and Kashmir, called their office at 1215 hours on Thursday and started his telephonic conversation as thus: "I'm Abu-Al-Hadeed, spokesperson of Al-Qaeda Jammu and Kashmir, and Abu Abdur Rehman Ansari is our chief commander here, and soon we will make public our organizational structure and motives," the news agency reported. The local news agency said that the so-called spokesman of Al-Qaeda "saluted" the men who carried out Mumbai serial blasts on Tuesday, the day when Srinagar also did bleed and rocked with serial grenade blasts, killing nine persons; mostly tourists. Expressing his happiness and contentment over the Mumbai attacks, the Al-Qaeda spokesperson termed the attacks as a reaction to " India's repressive measures against the minority community of Muslims", the agency said. Spokesperson also urged upon Indian Muslims to join struggle for "complete liberation and dominance of relig...   READ MORE

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Terrorist activity in J&K will increase Govt. has no plans to use IAF against militants 7/13/2006 8:49:11 PM From B L KAK NEW DELHI, JULY 13: The Centre has no plans, at present, to use the Indian Air Force(IAF) against militants and their hideouts in forest areas of Jammu and Kashmir. Even as the government does not rule out the possibility of further rise in the terrorist activity and strikes in parts of the troubled States in the coming days and weeks, New Delhi would like to continue to depend on the ground forces in J&K. EARLY TIMES was offically told that the government has not abandoned the idea of using the IAF to launch a counter-insurgency offensive in J&K. "But this kind of operation will not be undertaken at present, simply because ...   READ MORE   West Bengal Tourism Minister calls on CM Kashmiris are real symbol of secularism and all are hurt on killing of WB tourists: Azad 7/13/2006 8:44:28 PM Srinagar, July 13– West Bengal Tourism Minister Mr. Manabendra Mukherjee, who is on a visit to Srinagar alongwith Principal Secretary Tourism Mr. G. D. Gautam, called on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad here today. Mr. Azad expressed his anguish and deep sorrow over the killing of seven West Bengal tourists and injuries to several others in a Srinagar grenade attack on Tuesday and also injuring of a West Bengal tourist couple in a grenade attack at Gulmarg yesterday. The Chief Minister said that Gujarat, West Bengal and Maharashtra tourists are the major component of our tourist arrivals comprising 80 percent. He said it is unfortunate that militants, who are ...   READ MORE   SENSELESS VIOLENCE CONTINUES: MILITANTS GUN DOWN TWO SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN POONCH 7/13/2006 8:43:14 PM Poonch,July 13,: Stepping up senseless violence in the border district of Poonch, militants gunned down four members of minority community on late wednesday evening sending a shock wave in the area. According to police, four members of the minority community including two sisters and two brothers were gunned down by a group of militants in village Magnar in Poonch district on wednesday night. Reports said, around wednesday midnight, militants first attacked the house of a government employee Mangat Ram killing two of his daughters Meenakshi and Priyanka on the spot and injuring his wife Sunita and youngest daughter Kamini(5). Bothe were immediately rushed to the Poonch hospital f...   READ MORE   SENSELESS VIOLENCE CONTINUES: MILITANTS GUN DOWN TWO SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN POONCH 7/13/2006 8:42:48 PM Poonch,July 13,(KIP): Stepping up senseless violence in the border district of Poonch, militants gunned down four members of minority community on late wednesday evening sending a shock wave in the area. According to police, four members of the minority community including two sisters and two brothers were gunned down by a group of militants in village Magnar in Poonch district on wednesday night. Reports said, around wednesday midnight, militants first attacked the house of a government employee Mangat Ram killing two of his daughters Meenakshi and Priyanka on the spot and injuring his wife Sunita and youngest daughter Kamini(5). Bothe were immediately rushed to the Poonch hospi...   READ MORE   MORE TROOPS, MORE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION: APHC 7/13/2006 8:42:15 PM Srinaagr,July 13 : Stressing that step up in militant violence in Kashmir in recent days should not force the Government of India to reject their demand of de-militarisation, Hurriyat leaders today expressed hope that such a step would put pressure on militants and further alienate those indulging in senseless killing. A senior APHC leader,Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat told Kashmir Independent Press, "we are not in favour any bloodshed,whether carried out by militants or by the security forces." Admitting that the level of violence has gone up in recent months,he said,"it should not force the Government to reject our demand for demilitarisation." He said "once the the strength of troops w...   READ MORE   Delhi is India's 'rape capital' ! A woman is raped every 30 minutes: NCRB 7/13/2006 8:39:01 PM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI, JULY 13: Even as the Delhi Police continue to be critcised for not stemming the growing number of rapes, a new leaf has been turned with the launching of a project called Parivartan (change). And the project, signifcantly, is part of an initiative by the Delhi Police. With the support of the police personel, a group of young boys, girls and middle-aged men go through Delhi's poorer settlements calling on housewives to come and watch a pantomine, on rape. Given Delhi's reputation as India's 'rape capital', it is not surprising the group has found a large audience. Performers use mimes to enact tales of women f...   READ MORE   Post-blasts scenario doesn't bode well Pak newspapers for continuance of peace process 7/13/2006 8:38:15 PM From B L KAK NEW DELHI: India cannot be faulted for running fast and furious following the July 11 bomb blasts in Srinagar and Mumbai. Again, the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre cannot be blamed for taking strong exception to the 'provocative' comments by Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, son after the July 11 bombings. Kasuri warned against automatically pointing the finger in his cousntry's direction, following media reports that linked the bombing to Kashmiri extremists based in Pakistan. But the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said that it was "appaling" that Kasuri had linked the decades-old dispute over the divided region of Kashmir to the M...   READ MORE

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