Abstracts of reports, editorials and opinion articles published in the press (English and Urdu) from India and Pakistan including Hindu, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Pioneer, Tribune, Daily Excelsior, Greater Kashmir, Kashmir Times, Dawn, News, Nation, Daily Times, Statesman and The Frontier Post. UPDATED DAILY http://www.ipcs.org JAIPUR: Investigating agencies have expressed doubts about the genuineness of an e-mail and an attached video clip sent to the media on Wednesday by 'Indian Mujahideen,' claiming responsibility for th Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=GENERAL&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 NEW DELHI: The Centre has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an unlawful association by two years. The notification to this effect was issued on Wednesday, according to Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=GENERAL&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 JAIPUR, NEW DELHI, MAY 15: Two days after the Jaipur serial blasts, the Union Cabinet was briefed on the probe, the similarities with the attack in Hyderabad last August and the possible involvement o Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=GENERAL&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 The LTTE will be banned for another two years until May 14, 2010, the Indian government announced. Ever since the LTTE was banned in India in 1992 , the proscription has been extended every year. Indi Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=GENERAL&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 ISLAMABAD, May 15: Pakistan today said terrorism and the "core issue" of Jammu and Kashmir will be high on the agenda when External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his counterpart Shah Mehmood Q Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=GENERAL&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 ISLAMABAD, May 15: Pakistan today said terrorism and the "core issue" of Jammu and Kashmir will be high on the agenda when External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his counterpart Shah Mehmood Q Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=KASHMIR&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 JAMMU, May 15: Doda police today arrested eight persons including two Special Police Officers (SPOs) for their links with militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen outfits while securit Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=KASHMIR&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 JAMMU, May 13: New sophisticated fencing cutters have made the task of militants quite easy. These new instruments were reported to have been provided to infiltrators by Pakistan army and Inter-Servic Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=KASHMIR&portal=nuclear 14 May 2008 Militants on way to receive infiltrators gunned down JAMMU, May 13: Police tonight gunned down two hardcore militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit, who were heading to receive the group which Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=KASHMIR&portal=nuclear 14 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 Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=KASHMIR&portal=nuclear 13 May 2008 PATNA: The 24-hour bandh called by the CPI (Maoist) in Bihar, Jharkhand to protest the arrests of top naxal leaders, Pramod Kumar Mishra (in Dhanbad) and Ramparvesh Baitha (in Golghar) was marked by s Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NAXAL VIOLENCE&portal=nuclear 16 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 i Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NAXAL VIOLENCE&portal=nuclear 13 May 2008 NEW DELHI, MAY 9: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will undertake a day-long visit of Naxalite-affected areas of Chhattisgarh on Sunday to make an on-the-spot assessment of the security situation and Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NAXAL VIOLENCE&portal=nuclear 10 May 2008 RAIPUR: Three policemen were killed when Maoists triggered a landmine blast and opened fire at a police party near Chhindpal village in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday. The three dead Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NAXAL VIOLENCE&portal=nuclear 9 May 2008 Gaya: : Giving into the diktat of Maoists, 64 ruling JD(U) and BJP activists, in Bihar's Islampur Assembly constituency on Sunday announced they would resign from primary membership of their parties. Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NAXAL VIOLENCE&portal=nuclear 5 May 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, prepare Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NEPAL&portal=nuclear 30 April 2008 KATHMANDU, April 5 - Even as the polling day nears, Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) cadres are in no mood to cease their attacks on candidates and activists of rival parties. On Saturda Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NEPAL&portal=nuclear 7 April 2008 KATHMANDU, April 2 - Although the major political parties at the central level recently agreed not to engage in fights and thwart each other's campaign trails, clashes and poll obstructions are still Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NEPAL&portal=nuclear 3 April 2008 KATHMANDU, April 2 - Maoist Chairman Prachanda on Wednesday said his party will not accept the verdict of the Constituent Assembly (CA) poll if the Maoists are defeated through 'conspiracy'. Addressin Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NEPAL&portal=nuclear 3 April 2008 BIRATNAGAR, March 30 - Bomb explosions at a mosque at Sarauchiya of Biratnagar Sub-metropolis Saturday evening left two persons dead and two others critically injured. Following the blasts, the distri Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NEPAL&portal=nuclear 30 March 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 in Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NORTH EAST INDIA&portal=nuclear 13 May 2008 Guwahati, May 11: Suspected militants belonging to the Dima Halam Daoga (Jewel), also known as Black Widow, gunned down eight labourers belonging to a private construction company engaged by the Railw Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NORTH EAST INDIA&portal=nuclear 12 May 2008 Diphu: Twelve insurgents of the Black Widow faction of the Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel) group were killed and 18 injured in a gun battle with security forces in the North Cachar Hills district on Satur Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NORTH EAST INDIA&portal=nuclear 11 May 2008 (Assam): Two hardcore ULFA militants were killed, seven cadres of the group surrendered and a camp was busted by the security forces in Assam on Thursday. Tarun Sonowal and Janak Bora, both identi Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NORTH EAST INDIA&portal=nuclear 9 May 2008 Dibrugarh: Two ULFA camps were busted by security forces inside the Manabhum Reserve Forest in Arunachal Pradesh, official sources said here on Tuesday. Troops of 19 Kumaon Regiment launched a sear Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=NORTH EAST INDIA&portal=nuclear 7 May 2008 WASHINGTON, May 15: The United States is refusing to comment on the missile attack on Damadola but has toughened its stance on a proposed agreement with the militants, saying that any deal Pakistan re Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=PAKISTAN&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 KHAR, May 15: There was no evidence that any high-ranking foreign militant was killed in a missile attack on a house in Damadola on Wednesday, sources said on Thursday. They said that the funeral of e Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=PAKISTAN&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 PESHAWAR: The negotiating committee of the NWFP government and representatives of militants operating under the command of Maulana Fazlullah in the volatile Swat valley on Tuesday claimed to have achi Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=PAKISTAN&portal=nuclear 14 May 2008 PESHAWAR: The NWFP government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat agreed on Tuesday to the implementation of Shari Nizam-e-Adl Regulations 1999 in Malakand division within one month. The Taliban's demand f Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=PAKISTAN&portal=nuclear 14 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 sa Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=PAKISTAN&portal=nuclear 12 May 2008 NEW DELHI: The Centre has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an unlawful association by two years. The notification to this effect was issued on Wednesday, according to Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=SRILANKA&portal=nuclear 16 May 2008 The LTTE will be banned for another two years until May 14, 2010, the Indian government announced. Ever since the LTTE was banned in India in 1992 , the proscription has been extended every year. Indi Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=SRILANKA&portal=nuclear 16 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, a Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=SRILANKA&portal=nuclear 13 May 2008 Colombo: The results of the elections to the first Eastern Provincial Council show the people's endorsement of the Government's policy of restoring democracy and normality to areas hitherto controlled Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=SRILANKA&portal=nuclear 12 May 2008 AMPARA: Eleven persons were killed and 29 others injured when a parcel bomb ripped through an eatery in Ampara yesterday evening. The blast at the City Cafe Hotel near the Ampara Clock tower occurr Terrorism_news.jsp?action=showView&keyWords=SRILANKA&portal=nuclear 11 May 2008