Word: lashkar
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...most tolerant brand of Islam, flourishes in the numerous shrines. So it is jarring to see the invasion of graffiti along Sind's national highway, which cuts through vast fields of cotton, wheat and sugarcane, exhorting Muslims to kill Hindus and Westerners. VICTORY OR MARTYRDOM reads a sign by Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, one of the most influential Kashmir militant outfits. DEATH TO THE INFIDELS reads another. Attiya laughs. "Their infidels include all of us," she says, gesturing to her husband and young daughters. The slogans, which started appearing a year or two ago, creep up almost to the edge...
...According to the official Indian report, the rebels, whom it accuses of crossing from Pakistan, open fire immediately when challenged. The shooting rages through dawn and beyond, eight hours in all. The army later proudly displays the bodies of 18 "foreign mercenaries," whom it says were members of the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Muhammad groups, while claiming its side suffered no casualties. After press photographers take the dead fighters' pictures, the corpses are left for nearby villagers to bury...
...killers then enter a neighbor's house and kidnap the owner, Nizamuddin. (He remains missing.) Soon after the first shootings, rebels attack army camps at Waripora Magam and Zachaldar in Kupwara. Five soldiers, members of the 21 and 24 Rashtriya Rifles, are killed and 13 more wounded. The Lashkar-i-Tayyaba admits carrying out the assaults, which it says were the work of a lone militiaman. Their man, it adds, although intending to die, was unscathed in both. By the end of the day, the death toll across Kashmir is up to a reported 42. A spokesman for the Indian...
...into Indian-controlled Kashmir, traveling by night, hiding during the day. The group leader wears night-vision goggles. The rest follow blindly across the mountains. There are numerous obstacles: Indian mines, tracer flares, Indian border patrols anxious to shoot at them. "But whenever such a situation arises," says a Lashkar militant, "the Pakistani guns come to our rescue to provide cover...
...1990s, the Pakistani militants hired local guides?ethnic Kashmiris?to help them get across the mountains and into India. "On a number of occasions," says Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, 42, the supreme commander of the Lashkar-i-Taiba militants, "they took the money and tipped off the Indians. So we trained our own manpower." In other words, the Pakistani militants don't always trust the Kashmiris on whose behalf they are waging this war. The Pakistani militancy, which had its roots in the Afghan war, is now an institution unto itself...