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USA gears up for war; Taliban firm on Laden
Washington, September 16
The USA readied its forces today to strike back at those behind the worst assault ever on the American soil, while Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban reaffirmed its position of sheltering chief suspect Osama bin Laden.

 

The 5th day

  • Taliban leader calls cleric’s meeting
  • Don’t involve India, Pak tells USA
  • Pak team to go to Kabul and urge it to extradite Laden
  • Musharraf may visit China
  • NY stock exchange to open on September 17
  • US marines release landing off East Timor
  • Philippines offers bases to USA
  • Bomb threat forces closure of Boston harbour

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Pak ultimatum to Taliban
Islamabad, September 16
Pakistan is to send a team of officials to Afghanistan for talks with the ruling Taliban as President Pervez Musharraf battled to win domestic support for his commitment to help the US combat international terror.

India offers conditional help
Says destroy terrorist training camps in Pak, PoK
New Delhi, September 16
India is understood to have conveyed to the USA that it is willing to give all help if the US-led multinational forces attack and destroy terrorist training camps in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Sikh, Pakistani shot in USA
New York, September 16

A 52-year-old Sikh and a Pakistani were shot dead in Arizona and Texas in continuing attacks on ethnic immigrants following last week’s terrorist strikes in the USA.

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Maximum alert in Delhi
New Delhi, September 16
Security personnel in the Capital have been put on maximum alert as the USA plans to carry out retaliatory strikes on suspected hideouts of international terrorist Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and the Army has been put on high alert along the Line of Control and International Border in J&K and Punjab.

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India pushes for global coalition to fight terrorism
New delhi, September 16
India is pushing for a wider and enlarged coalition of democratic countries to deal effectively with the menace of international terrorism, which some countries are using as a tool of foreign policy. Such a grouping can include China in its fold as Beijing has a role. There can be no room in such a coalition for states like Pakistan which sponsor terrorism. 

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