Tuesday, September 25, 2001, Chandigarh, India
 Updated at 3 am (IST)


Pak recalls diplomatic staff from Kabul
* Taliban take over UN office in Kandahar 
* Bush freezes Laden assets
Islamabad, September 24
As the USA stood poised to attack Afghanistan, Pakistan pulled out its diplomatic staff from Kabul citing “abnormal situation” and a high-level American team today held talks here to firm up Islamabad’s offer of cooperation for a possible military reprisal against Osama bin Laden and his network.

Harkat on list

Pakistan-based militant outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen is among the 27 individuals and groups linked to terrorism whose assets were frozen by President George Bush today.

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An Afghan Northern Alliance soldier mans a rocket-launcher from a position at Bagram airport, 40 km north of Kabul, on Monday. The Taliban grip on Afghanistan may already be slipping even before an expected US assault for not handing over the prime suspect in the attacks on New York and Washington, Afghanistan observers said. — Reuters photo

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Defend Afghans, Laden urges Pakistanis
Dubai, September 24
Qatar’s al-Jazeera satellite television on Monday quoted Osama bin Laden as urging Pakistanis to fight any assault on Afghanistan by “crusader Americans”. “We incite our Muslim brothers in Pakistan to deter with all their capabilities the American crusaders from invading Pakistan and Afghanistan,” the television reported him as saying in a statement.

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Afghan opposition forces claim to have seized more territory from the Taliban in northern Afghanistan and could soon threaten the strategic city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
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The UN special envoy to Afghanistan has met the former King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, in Rome to discuss possible leadership coalitions that could be formed to guide the country back to peace.
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USA may pit Northern Alliance against Taliban
New Delhi, September 24
There are strong indications in the strategic circles here that the USA may not use its own troops when the stage comes for launching ground assaults in Afghanistan. 

Curbs’ removal no reward: India
New Delhi, September 24
India today made it clear that it did not need any “reward” for its principled stand on terrorism at this stage as it had already been fighting the scourge for the past two decades.

Tony Blair talks to Vajpayee
New Delhi, September 24
British Prime Minister Tony Blair tonight had a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and sought New Delhi’s assistance in formulating a global strategy for countering terrorism.

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Arvinder Singh, from Silver Spring, joins in an inter-faith memorial service at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday in Washington. Arvinder Singh, from Silver Spring, joins in an inter-faith memorial service at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday in Washington. The memorial, for the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, was sponsored by the Afghan-American community and was a fund-raiser for the American Red Cross. 
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Security forces to turn heat on J&K ultras
New Delhi, September 24
Security forces stationed in Jammu and Kashmir are preparing ground to launch an all-out offensive against the mercenaries and militants holed up in different parts of the disturbed state.

Grenade attack on BSF camp
Srinagar, September 24
At least two BSF personnel were injured when militants fired about six grenades towards their camp in the high-security Karan Nagar area of the city today while elsewhere in the state, nine militants, including two Pakistani intruders, were among 13 persons killed overnight.


Nationalise rivers, says Haryana
Punjab opposes RBO
New Delhi, September 24
The Punjab and Haryana governments today expectedly expressed diametrically opposite views on the allocation of water between various states in the country at the second meeting of the Working Group of National Water Resources Council here.

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