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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Lashkar stronger, richer after 26/11

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Ten months after the devastating attacks in Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants, the Lashkar- e-Tayyeba(LeT) remains largely intact and determined to strike India again, according to Lashkar members and Pakistani intelligence.

Despite pledges from Pakistan to dismantle militant groups operating on its soil, and the arrest of a handful of operatives, Lashkar has flourished since 10 of its members carried out the Mumbai attack last November.

Pakistan's chief spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, or ISI, helped create the LeT two decades ago to challenge Indian control in Kashmir.

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Monday, September 15, 2008

Delhi mourns its dead

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Twenty year old Mohamad Ashraf left his home and family in Anantnag, Kashmir, a few years ago to escape the constant threat of violence and to eke out a decent living. Following in the footsteps of his uncles, Ashraf arrived in Delhi - a city that promised him a life of safety and dignity.

At 6.07 pm on Saturday, Ashraf saw, and heard, his dreams shattering in front of his eyes. The Gaffar Market blast claimed his maternal uncle Mohammad Qasim (25) and his other uncle Faroog (28) is battling for his life at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.

"We always felt Delhi was a haven where anyone could earn at least two square meals by working hard," he said. Along with his uncles, who had shifted to Delhi many years ago, Ashraf used to pull cycle rickshaws in the Karol Bagh area. A shell-shocked Ashraf doesn't know if he can feel safe in the Capital anymore.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Split Wide Open

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Fifteen people were killed and over 100 injured as the police and army fired on angry, curfew-defying crowds in 20 locations across the state on Tuesday. In Delhi, the union government called a second all party meeting in five days in another bid to control the explosive situation.

Thirteen of the deaths occurred in the Kashmir valley where thousands poured into the streets, ignoring the curfew imposed, to mourn the death of Shaikh Abdul Aziz, the separatist leader who was killed in firing by security forces on Monday Two other people were killed in Jammu, where the situation turned rapidly communal, with Hindus and Muslims clashing in several towns, burning each other's shops and houses.

Over 50,000 people, some from faraway towns, converged in Srinagar to offer burial prayers for Shaikh Aziz. Large crowds surrounded the policemen deployed outside the houses of separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, both of whom were under house arrest, rendering the police helpless. Both leaders, at the urging of the crowd, walked out free and led processions to Aziz's grave.

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