Word: lashkar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Exposed wires dangle from the ceiling in the dusty hallway outside the medical center at the military base on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Conditions on the base are spartan and, amid mounting casualty rates, some of the young British soldiers serving there as part of the NATO-led mission complain their work isn't properly appreciated back home. They expressed these concerns during a July visit by the U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and, within the past two months, they have been able to make their case to a stream...
...Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah told TIME that Rauf has ties to al-Qaeda. "He is the key man, a very important man," says Shah. Pakistani sources say more than 20 people have been arrested there in connection with the plane plot, some of them apparently connected to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a fanatic Islamic militant group that is thought to have been responsible for a suicide bombing at the U.S. consulate in Karachi in 2002 and the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl that year. A Pakistani official says Rauf--possibly with others--had been "visiting the same places...
...commuters; in Bombay and Bihar. The three suspects are the first to be arrested by police investigators, who after the blasts rounded up as many as 350 people-most of them Muslim-for questioning. A fourth man, Abdulkadir Karim Tunda, 64, a suspected member of Kashmir-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, was also detained last Thursday in Kenya. Officials say more arrests are forthcoming...
...Last weekend, police released the names of three suspects, and the focus of the investigation settled on Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a militant Islamic group based in Pakistan. LeT was suspected of working in concert with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). SIMI and LeT were accused of detonating eight bombs in Bombay in late 2002 and 2003, killing 70 people. Lashkar-e-Toiba, meaning army of the pure, has fought Indian rule in Kashmir since the early 1990s, and is believed to have links with al-Qaeda. Largely funded by Pakistan's Inter...
...separate bomb attacks in the capital, Srinagar. And while no one said those same insurgents carried out Tuesday's rush-hour train attacks in Bombay - which police said killed at least 130 people and injured 260 - security sources told TIME they suspected a shadowy alliance of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) working with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movemement of India (SIMI...