Word: lashkar
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...control over these groups remains doubtful. "Our objective is death to India by a thousand cuts. And we believe Kashmir will break the back of the camel and will result in the disintegration of the whole of India," says a top commander of the militant organization formerly known as Lashkar-e-Taiba, now called al-Dawa...
...artillery and machine-gun fire. Pakistan said six civilians died in recent attacks. Earlier Vajpayee refused to meet Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, at a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, until cross-border terrorism ceases. Police in Indian-administered Kashmir said that they killed at least six members of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a group of Islamist militants, in the frontier district of Poonch. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to India and Pakistan to step up diplomatic pressure on the antagonists. MIDDLE EAST Car Bomb Reignites West Bank Violence A suicide bomber drove a van packed with explosives into...
...Delhi acquiesced. And now, India believes, Azhar, 34, as head of Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), is partly responsible for the Dec. 13 attack on its Parliament by five suicidal militants. It was his arrest--and that of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, leader of the other party India blames, Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure)--that New Delhi demanded and won from Pakistan last week...
...less threatening, but more scholarly and sophisticated, is Saeed, 54. The charismatic red-bearded Islamic-studies professor is Lashkar-e-Taiba's main ideologue. Born in 1947 during his family's flight from northern India during Partition, Saeed memorized the Koran as a boy. He fought briefly in the Afghan jihad against the U.S.S.R. and in 1986 founded the Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad, a religious education and proselytizing organization. Lashkar spun off two years later, attracting veterans of the Afghan war. It has taken responsibility for many hit-and-run operations in Indian-held Kashmir but says...
...leaders of India and Pakistan showed few signs of reducing the mutual tension that began with a Dec. 13 suicide attack on the New Delhi Parliament. The governments of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf squared off over the activities of two Kashmir separatist groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyab and Jaish-e-Mohammed. India accused the Islamic rebel groups of responsibility for the attack and demanded that Pakistan shut them down. After both countries began massing troops along the border, Musharraf ordered his military intelligence agency to cut off the Kashmiri insurgents' financial support. Since winning independence from...