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Tuesday, September 18, 2001, Chandigarh, India
 Updated at 3 am (IST)


Taliban refuse to hand over Bin Laden

Islamabad, September 17
Senior Pakistani officials failed today to persuade the Taliban’s reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar to hand over Saudi-born terror suspect Osama bin Laden to avert US armed retaliation, the AIP news agency said.


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Meeting of 42 right-wing Islamic organisations in Lahore.
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Traders observe a moment of silence in honour of the victims of the World Trade Center disaster on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Traders observe a moment of silence in honour of the victims of the World Trade Center disaster on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. This is the first day of trading since two hijacked jetliners crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11. 
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No bargain on Kashmir: USA
Assurance on security of Sikhs
New Delhi, September 17
India has taken strong exception to the preconditions reportedly set by Pakistan for cooperating with the USA in its reprisal attacks against the fugitive Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

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External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh met US Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill.
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More cases of hate crime pour in
Ludhiana, September 17
As attacks on American Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims continue, worried parents have stopped sending their wards to schools. The attendance of children of these communities in schools had diminished after the US attacks, but now the children have been told not to step out of their homes.

Suspect ‘made’ trips to Syria
Laden’s money flowed through Swiss company: report

Hamburg (Germany), September 17
One of the suspected hijackers of a US airliner that crashed into New York’s World Trade Center made several trips to Syria, the weekly Die Zeit reported in its latest edition.

50 terrorist teams still in USA: Newsweek
New York, September 17
Top intelligence fear that between 30 and 50 teams of terrorists are still on the loose in the USA, American news magazine Newsweek reported today.


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We are flooded with letters from our readers here and abroad on the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Keeping in view the global importance of the subject, we shall carry viewpoints of our readers in the next few days.
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9 cops die in LeT suicide attack
Srinagar, September 17
At least nine police personnel were killed and 10 others injured when a three-member suicide squad of the Lashkar-e-Toiba attacked a camp of the Special Operations Group of the Jammu and Kashmir Police at Handwara in Kupwara district last night. A militant was also killed while two of his accomplices managed to escape after the attack.

Wailing parents of a policeman are consoled by a relative at the Special Operation Group’s camp. Wailing parents of a policeman are consoled by a relative at the Special Operation Group’s camp in Handwara, 75 km north of Srinagar, on Monday. Nine policemen were killed and 10 injured after a suicide squad attacked the camp. 
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Octroi abolition from Oct 1
Chandigarh, September 17
The Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, has given the green light to the Local Bodies Department to abolish octroi from October 1, in the state. An indication to this effect was given here today by the Local Bodies Minister, Mr Balramji Dass Tandon.

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