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...same day one siege ended, however, another began in Pakistan. Two gunmen entered the Karachi offices of a Christian NGO, tied up the workers, and summarily executed seven of them before escaping. Since Musharraf sided with the West in the war on terror, militants who were once sent to fight in Kashmir have refocused their efforts at home. According to local authorities, at least one fatwa has been issued against Musharraf and pro-American interests in the country?TIME has learned the bombing at the U.S. consulate in Karachi in June was an answer to that call to arms. "What...
...murderous attacks in Akshardham Temple in Gujarat, the offices of a Christian NGO in Karachi, and during an Anantnag election campaign in Kashmir that rocked South Asia last week, left both men reeling at home and facing similar dilemmas: give in to extremists and further destabilize the region, or hold the line domestically and face political fallout. "They are each other's best friends, these Hindu fundamentalists and the Islamic fundamentalists," said New Delhi peace activist Sheba Chhachhi. "And now these attacks will help them both...
...Gujarat to keep the peace. Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishnan Advani visited the temple and blamed Pakistan for the attack. PAKISTAN Grudge Match? In a gangland-style execution, gunmen killed seven Pakistani Christians and left one man injured at the offices of a charity in the commercial capital Karachi. The unidentified men entered the Institute for Peace and Justice, tied and gagged their victims, and then shot them in the head. "I don't believe this was a terrorist attack," said Simeon Pereira, Archbishop of Karachi. Instead, he suspected a "grudge" and linked the murders to that of the charity...
...since the war. Even in neighboring Pakistan, al-Qaeda members aren't entirely secure. In some relatively lawless tribal areas that border Afghanistan, terrorists can hide--though the Pakistani army claims to be hunting them down. But last week's arrests suggest that the teeming slums of Lahore and Karachi may no longer be safe; the night before the raid on Binalshibh's safe house, according to a Pakistani law-enforcement official, intelligence operatives picked up 15 men for questioning on terrorist activities in raids on two neighborhoods in eastern Karachi. A Western diplomat in Islamabad thinks...
...camps "won't be plotting attacks in the heart of America, but they now feel they can attack America in their own backyards." Most terrorist acts in 2002--the bombings of a mosque in Tunisia, of a bus full of French contract workers and of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, together with the plans that al-Faruq has revealed--fit into this pattern of attacks by local groups on international targets...