Jammu: A youth, who was apparently kidnapped by LeT terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir and taken to PoK for arms training, escaped on Wednesday to the Indian side of the state along with his Pakistani wife and three children, seeking safety and shelter, officials said.
Mukhtar Ahmed, aged 25, crossed over to the Indian side from across the LoC and pleaded with the army to allow him and his family to return to their village in Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir.
"The family includes Ahmed, his wife Safia, 24 and three small children named Mavia Hussain, 6, Mohd Zabeer, 3, and Fatima, an infant of eight months. The family was in a bad condition and pleaded for shelter on the Indian side from the troops of Indian Army," said army spokesperson Col R K Palta.
"The troops immediately extended food and first aid to the family," he said....
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Lahore: India and Pakistan have beefed up security at the Wagah land border crossing after receiving a letter from the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba that threatened to blow up an Integrated Check Post that was recently opened to boost bilateral trade. The letter warned that the multi-crore rupee Integrated Check Post would be attacked as Pakistan had increased trade with India before resolving the Kashmir dispute, the Daily Times newspaper quoted security...
04:48 PM, May 18, 2012
Islamabad: Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has turned down a "request" from the Pakistan government to limit his public appearances and activities after the US announced a $10-million bounty for him, according to a media report on Tuesday. Government agencies had "advised" Saeed not to participate in public rallies for the time being, unnamed associates of Saeed were quoted as saying by The Express Tribune newspaper. PML-N leader Pervez Rasheed,...
04:02 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Attari: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday parried a question on Pakistan's claim that there was no proof against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed's involvement in terrorist activities in India, saying issues of disagreement should not be discussed on happy occasions. After inaugurating a modern Integrated Check Post (ICP) along the India-Pakistan border in Attari, a Pakistani journalist asked Chidambaram why the issue of Saeed should not be put...
07:41 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi and Ambala police on Thursday averted a major terror plot after finding a car full of explosives at the Ambala cantonment. Investigations show that the plot could have been a possible tie up between the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Babbar Khalsa International to strike in Delhi. It is a nexus between two of the most potent terror organisations India has been a victim of. In an Indica...
07:52 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Washington: Pakistan-based LeT could only be reined in by the concurrent Indo-US action and reduction in American aid to Islamabad, says a new research based on the computational analysis of terror attacks. "The results do not imply that the US and India need to coordinate actions - just that the actions need to occur over an overlapping period of time that is sufficiently long to convince both the Pakistani military...
01:48 PM, Jul 16, 2011
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07:14 PM, Feb 18, 2010
American LeT operative David Headley had surveyed blast area in 2007-08. ...
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