Daily Excelsior, 13 May 2008

JAMMU, May 12: With third militant gunned down by Army in Samba this morning during last two days, Intelligence agencies have sounded that a group of at least 9-10 militants might have succeeded in infiltrating into this side after cutting fencing from Regal in Samba sector on Thursday night when the BSF claimed to have foiled the intrusion bid by a big group of ultras. Intelligence sources told the Excelsior that at least 9-10 militants had succeeded in crossing the international border from Regal in Samba sector after cutting the fencing with a wire cutter. As the infiltration attempt was detected and there was a heavy exchange of firing between BSF and militants, a group of five ultras appeared to have succeeded in leaving the area along with their guide, which had to take one group to Lohai Malhar in Billawar tehsil of Kathua district ...

Hindu, 13 May 2008

Samba: Wireless intercepts and a fence cutter recovered from the militants killed in Sunday's 12-hour-long encounter in Samba proved that they penetrated the border fence from the Sialkot district of Pakistan. Another militant, believed to have escaped, was shot dead on Monday ...

Asian Age, 13 May 2008

Bhopal, May 12: Chhattisgarh DGP Vishwa Ranjan has made it quite clear that the spontaneous people-led anti-Maoist drive, salwa judum, was there to stay regardless of the shrill campaign launched by its detractors. Human rights bodies were making a concerted effort to discredit the popular movement with the help of their worldwide network without caring a fig for the country's national interest. A Nobel Peace Prize winner had written to the Prime Minister seeking the release of a naxalite sympathiser Binayak Sen, who is currently being tried in court under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, Unlawful Activities Act and the Chhattisgarh People's Security Act. Both the Supreme Court and the high court had summarily rejected his petition for bail ...

Asian Age, 30 April 2008

New Delhi, April 29: Even as Maoists have emerged victorious in Nepal, and India has promised all cooperation, one of their frontal organisations continues to be on the list of banned outfits, prepared by the ministry of home affairs. According to the official website of the home ministry, Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES) stands at the end of the list of 34 organisation enlisted as "banned organisations" on the MHA website. The number one banned organisation is the United Liberation Front of Assam, followed by National Democratic Front of Bodoland, besides other international terrorist organisations like Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen etc ...

Asian Age, 13 May 2008

Guwahati, May 12: The rampaging Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) militants on Monday continued to wreak havoc in the trouble-torn North Cachar Hills district of Assam by killing two more railway workers and injuring five others near the Migran Disa railway station. The incident took place at about 2 pm, when heavily-armed DHD rebels entered the labour camp of the contract workers and shot dead two of them and wounded five others. The rebels opened indiscriminate fire on the labourers, who were resting at the camp when the incident took place ...

Daily Times, 12 May 2008

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday failed to reach a deal on restoring the judges sacked on November 3, and PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal said his party had no option but to quit the federal cabinet. But PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif was still optimistic that the coalition government would stay intact ...

Daily News, 13 May 2008

A piece of torso of a person and diving equipment were found floating near the drowned Naval ship in Trincomalee, suggesting the handiwork of a suicide bomber in destruction of the vessel last week, an official said yesterday. The Navy is currently investigating the Saturday dawn explosion that ripped through a navy logistics ship, A 520 (MV Invincible). Navy divers have recovered body parts of the suspected LTTE suicide cadre from the waters where the Tigers sank a navy cargo ship in the Trincomalee harbour on Saturday, Navy spokesman D K P Dassanayake said ...