USA ATTACKED: PICTURE GALLERIES


Sunday, September 23, 2001, Chandigarh, India
 Updated at 3 am (IST)

India won’t add to Pak problems: Jaswant
Speaks to Sattar on phone
New Delhi, September 22
External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh today told his Pakistani counterpart Abdul Sattar that India had no intention of adding to the current complexities of Indo-Pak relations.

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The US amphibious assault vessel Essex sails off the Sasebo naval base, southwestern Japan, on Saturday for an undisclosed destination. The US amphibious assault vessel Essex sails off the Sasebo naval base, southwestern Japan, on Saturday for an undisclosed destination. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer Haruyuki follows the Essex. 
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War against terrorism includes J&K: Powell
New Delhi, September 22
The US-led campaign against global terrorism also means war against terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said.

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Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan
A batch of 262 Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan arrived at Attari en route to Ajmer to participate in the annual 789th congregation of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti.
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With the October 1st deadline for the residents of Old Tehri to move out of their homes, the people here are a worried lot..
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Explosions rock border area
5 ultras among 13 killed in valley
Jammu, September 22
A series of bomb explosions rocked the border area at Beli Azmat village in the Kanchak area, near here, early this morning. Official reports said the Pak Rangers or militants had planted high-grade explosives on the zero line of the international border in the Kanchak area which were triggered off this morning.

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Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
After more than a decade of battling India in Jammu and Kashmir, militant groups based in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir are switching the focus to the USA.
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The border guards have stepped up vigil on the border 
with Pakistan fearing heightened activity after intelligence reports of militants being recalled to repulse any strike on Afghanistan.
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US warplanes land in Uzbekistan
Tashkent, September 22
US warplanes landed in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan late tonight as Russian President Vladimir Putin, after an extended silence, voiced readiness to cooperate with US plans to strike Afghanistan — but only after they are approved by the UN Security Council.

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Bacha Gul and his younger brother Zarghoon ride their mule on Friday in search of work, which scarce after Pakistan closed its borders with Afghanistan. The boys would make Rs 50 ($0.80) a day by carrying fruits from Pakistani orchards to the bordering Afghan market of Veesh.
— Reuters

UAE snaps ties with Taliban
Dubai, September 22
The United Arab Emirates today cut diplomatic relations with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban movement, the official UAE news agency WAM reported. 

Afghan oppn team to meet ex-king
Islamabad, September 22
The Afghan opposition alliance today sent a team of officials to Rome for talks with ex-king Mohammad Zahir Shah on a future government for the war-ravaged country if possible US attacks depose the ruling Taliban.

Bush says US economy still strong
Washington, September 22
After a brutal week of selling on Wall Street, company layoffs and airline cutbacks, President George W. Bush today sought to reassure Americans that the US economy was “fundamentally strong.’’ 

Refuelling: India to ‘consider’ US request
New Delhi, September 22
India will “consider” extending refuelling and other logistical facilities to the USA if requested by Washington in the wake of possible air strikes on Afghanistan, Home Minister L.K. Advani said today.

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BJP suffers reverses in Gujarat
New Delhi, September 22
The BJP today suffered reverses losing the Sabarmati Assembly seat in Gujarat as it romped home in Tonk Lok Sabha constituency in Rajasthan while the Congress retained Sabarkantha parliamentary seat and bagged four Assembly seats in Thursday’s bypoll spread over seven states.


A VIEW FROM AFGHANISTAN
Of disabled orphans, non-Afghan Osama & insensitive Taliban
This is a first-hand account of the situation in Afghanistan written in the form of a letter by Tamim Ansary. He is an Afghan-American writer. Tamim advocates the cause of the people wronged by history and tortured by the brutes in the Taliban.

A few years ago, the UN estimated that there were 5,00,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan—a country with no economy, no food. There are millions of widows. 
— Reuters photo

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