Incidents involving Lashkar-e-Toiba

2010

• July 6: The JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has declared suicide attacks in Pakistan 'haram'. Speaking in an interview, he said suicide attacks had no moral grounds, and elements behind such attacks should be publicly executed. "Some foreign elements are trying to create religious discord in the country," Saeed said.

  The Pakistani authorities said no fresh order has been issued to ban militant groups working under new names or to impose curbs on foreign travel by individuals like the JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, though action will be taken only if evidence is found against them.

• May 25: A three-member Supreme Court bench dismissed pleas of the Federal and Punjab Governments against the release of JuD, the frontal organisation of LeT, 'chief' Hafiz Saeed, maintaining that it was not a live issue. The bench comprising Justice Nasirul Mulk, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Rahmat Hussain Jafferi dismissed the petitions against the Lahore High Court verdict that ended Hafiz Saeed's house arrest. The bench observed that keeping a person in detention on mere concerns of threat was not justified. It observed that the Punjab Government had admitted to lacking sufficient evidence against Saeed and his involvement in any illegal activities after his house arrest ended. Justice Khawaja said, "If there is any material against him then its ok, but if he doesn't create any law and order situation then the UN resolutions don't provide grounds to detain him." AK Dogar, lawyer for Hafiz Saeed, said his client was a peaceful citizen and the JuD was a welfare organisation. "The prosecution has failed to prove its case," he added.

• May 19: The Canada's weekly current affairs magazine, Maclean, quoting an unnamed LeT commander claimed that Faisal Shahzad, the confessed bomb plotter of Pakistani origin, had received terror training in one of the 'jihad' (Holy War) camps of the LeT in PoK. A report in Maclean cited an unnamed LeT commander as saying that Shahzad, during his visit to Pakistan in 2006, had visited the LeT's main base of operations in Dulai, a village situated 25 kilometres away from Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK. "He was an eager recruit. Very intelligent but also very intense, and driven to make his mark for the sake of Islam," the magazine quoted the LeT commander, as describing Shahzad.

• May 14: The LeT plans to attack a convoy of US military shipment en route from Karachi to Afghanistan, Daily Times quoting intelligence agencies sources reported. Sources said the shipment consists of approximately eight to 10 containers, and is likely to leave within a couple of days .The attack might be carried out in the vicinity of Dera Ismail Khan City in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

• May 3: India is trying to defame the Kashmiri freedom movement by unjustifiably naming Hafiz Saeed and Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi in the Mumbai attacks case, spokesman of the JuD, the frontal organisation of LeT, Yahya Mujahid said in response to an Indian court's verdict against Ajmal Kasab, the alleged lone surviving militant involved in the Mumbai attacks. "Right after the Mumbai attacks, Saeed categorically denied any involvement of his organisation in a press conference held the next day," he said. Yahya said the Attorney General of Pakistan, Advocate General of Punjab and other Government law officials had put forth all available evidence before the Lahore High Court on the matter. "After careful review and diligent hearings, a full bench of the LHC decided that all the accusations against Saeed were baseless," Yahya added.

• March 8: Hafiz Saeed, the founder and 'chief' of Lashkar-e-Toiba (also known as Jama'at-ud-Da'awa) and the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks, accused India of waging water wars on Pakistan while addressing a public rally in Lahore. He urged the Pakistani Government to prepare the country to counter "Indian aggression" and called for launching a nation-wide movement against India on the issue. Saeed maintained that India has imposed war on Pakistan by "constructing illegal dams and diverting water from Pakistani rivers".

• February 5: The JuD, front organisation of the LeT, held a public meeting in Islamabad, vowing to seize Kashmir by force and threatening "rivers of blood" in India. In Lahore too, the JuD organised a public rally, led by its chief Hafiz Saeed, alleged by India to have masterminded the Mumbai attacks. The rally went from the JuD headquarters in Chauburji to the University Grounds, where Hafiz Saeed led the participants in Friday prayers. It proceeded to the famous Masjid-e-Shohada on Mall road, where the second tier leadership of the group made anti-India speeches. Saeed, however, did not speak at the public meeting. The meetings were held alongside other country-wide events to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day, annually observed in Pakistan. "Whenever our jihad in Kashmir nears success, India becomes ready for talks," Abdur Rehman Makki, deputy to JuD leader Hafiz Saeed, told his audience, mostly traders from the local market, students from madrassa (seminary) and JuD activists bussed in from Rawalpindi. The JuD rally in the capital was held at Aabpara chowk in the heart of the city, a short walk from the barricaded headquarters of the ISI.

• February 4: An anti-India jihadi rally to express Yakjehti-e-Kashmir (Solidarity with Kashmir) was organized in Muzaffarabad of PoK by the JuD, a banned frontal organization of the LeT. The meeting began and is likely to go on for a couple of days. The meeting is expected to be attended by top jihadi leaders including HM ‘commander’ Syed Salahuddin and JuD leader Abdul Rehman Makki. The LeT ‘chief’ Hafiz Saeed, blamed by India as one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 attacks, is expected to address a similar rally in Islamabad on February 5, an official said. Former chief of Pakistan's ISI Hamid Gul, an invitee to the conference, said the Pakistan Government was aware about the jihadi rally. "… If India is feeling unhappy, let them (be)," Gul said adding that the meeting was "an important human cause" and India should "face the reality in Kashmir".

• January 9: Handwara Police arrested one Over Ground Worker (OGW) of the LeT from Kralgund area of Kupwara District and recovered some arms and ammunition from his possession, a Police spokesman said. Fayaz Ahmad Mir alias Ibrahim, a resident of Sheikhpora village in Rafiabad area of Baramulla District, was arrested at Bicharwara in Kralgund area. One wireless set, four IED timers, one remote control and 20 AK rounds were recovered from his possession.

• January 8: Two LeT militants were shot dead by the SFs during an encounter at Khrew area in Pulwama District. They were identified as Altaf Ahmad Mir alias Mohsin and Zahoor Ahmad Mir alias Haroon. Some arms and ammunition, including AK rifles, were recovered from the encounter site. A Police spokesman said that both the militants were part of the break away group of the HM outfit which had joined the LeT in 2009 and had been instrumental in strengthening of the LeT. They had developed a strong base in Srinagar and South Kashmir, the spokesman said.

• January 7: The 22-hour long operation against two militants holed up in a hotel at Lal Chowk in Srinagar ended as both the militants of the LeT were killed, taking the death toll in the first major militancy related incident of the year to four. One Policeman was killed in the initial attack on January 6 while a civilian injured in the firing succumbed to injuries early in the morning of January 7. At least 12 persons including three CRPF personnel and a photo-journalist of a Valley-based English newspaper were also injured in the operation spread over two days, official sources said. "The encounter is over. Two terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba including a Pakistani have been killed," Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda said. While one Pakistani terrorist was identified by security agencies through wireless intercepts as Qari, the other one was named as Usman from Sopore. The radical pro-Pakistan militant outfit JuM had claimed responsibility for the attack but the Security Forces (SFs) said this was clearly the handiwork of Pakistan-based LeT.

  An attempt by seven to eight LeT militants to infiltrate into Indian territory from Balakote sector in Mendhar tehsil (revenue unit) of Poonch District in the night was foiled by the troops.

2009

• December 26 : The Army destroyed a hide-out of the LeT and recovered explosive devices and ammunition in Surankote forests of Poonch District. Recoveries made by the troops of 25 Rashtriya Rifles from the forests include seven Chinese grenade, two magazines of Sniper rifle, two magazines of AK rifle, one UBGL grenade, rucksack bags, medicines, incriminating documents of the LeT and some eatables.

• December 20: Security Forces arrested a close supporter of slain LeT ‘Divisional Commander’ Abu Tallah, identified as Nisar Ahmed, from Doda District, Police officials said. He was working as a guide, messenger and courier of slain LeT Abu Tallah.

• December 15: A self styled LeT ‘commander’ hailing from Reasi District was killed in an encounter with the SFs in Kupwara District while a Pakistan-trained militant of the HM was arrested by SFs in Srinagar. The encounter took place at Kakadpathri forests in Lolab area of Kupwara District in the morning, after SFs launched an operation to flush out the militants hiding in the area, official sources said. An AK assault rifle, few grenades and some other ammunition were recovered from the incident site. The slain militant was identified as Abu Muaviya, a resident of Mahore area in Reasi District.

• December 9: The Army and Police arrested two Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) from village Patnazi in Kishtwar District. They were identified as Noor Hussain (55) and his 25 year old son Masood Ahmed, residents of Pattan at Patnazi in Kishtwar. However, no recoveries were made from the possession of the OGWs. Sources said the OGWs had been providing logistic support including eatables and shelters to the LeT militants on the directions of LeT ‘district commander’ Mohammad Ishaq Bhat alias Atiq.

• December 7: The Police arrested two persons, identified as Abdul Hamid Lone and Hussain Mohammad Dar alias Raju, for using cross-LoC trade on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road to deliver funds for the LeT to fuel militancy in the Kashmir Valley. The arrests were made by Sopore Police while investigating the recovery of INR 300,000 Hawala money from a bakery owner in the apple-town of North Kashmir earlier in December, official sources said. Lone has told Police that his brother Abdul Majid Lone, who is living in PoK for the last 16 years, was using the cross-LoC trade to fund militants of LeT in the Valley.

• December 6: Police arrested a LeT militant while his associate managed to escape in Gubbar forest nursery in Gandoh area of Doda District. The militants were heading towards upper reaches of Gandoh reportedly to meet two Pakistani militants of the LeT outfit known with their code names of Ans and Maaz. The arrested militant was identified as Mudassar Nazar, a resident of village Sarna in Gandoh, while his associate, who escaped from the incident site, was Naseer, a surrendered militant, who also hailed from Sarna. The arrested militant is being interrogated to ascertain hide-outs of the Pakistani militants - Ans and Maaz.

• December 2: An over-ground worker of the LeT, identified as Bashir Ahmad Wani, was arrested from Nagam village in the Kokernag area of Anantnag District.

• November 25: Police arrested two LeT militants in the Doda District, who had connections with two Pakistani militants, Ans and Maag (code names), operating in Doda. Official sources said Sajjad Ahmed and Sohaib Ahmed, both LeT militants, were arrested from the outskirts of Doda town on specific information that they were involved in grenade attacks. Sources said Sajjad Ahmed and Sohaib were directly linked with Pakistani militants Ans and Maag of the LeT outfit. Police have recovered one hand grenade and 12 AK rounds from the possession of arrested militants.

• November 23: Police arrested a suspected LeT operative as he was allegedly carrying INR 100000 hawala money to be delivered to the militants of the outfit in the Barzulla area of capital Srinagar.

• November 25: A day before the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, an anti-terror court in Rawalpindi indicted seven persons, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, ‘operations commander’ of the LeT, for their suspected involvement in the attacks. The indictment on November 25, 2009 paves the way for the trial of the seven men, which may begin on December 5, the date for which the next hearing has been fixed. The seven persons, all in custody, are: Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, "mastermind" of the attacks; Abdul Wajid alias Zarar Shah, also of the LeT and described as a "facilitator and expert of computer networks"; Hamad Amin Sadiq, who is charged with "facilitating funds and hideouts" for the Mumbai attackers; Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu al Qama, described as a "handler"; Shahid Jamil Riaz, who is described both as a facilitator for funds, as well as a crew member of a boat used by the attackers; Jamil Ahmed, described as "facilitator"; and, Younus, also a "facilitator."

  The in camera proceedings in Anti-Terror Court 1 of Rawalpindi were held in the high-security Adiala Jail, and reportedly lasted a little under two hours. Judge Malik Mohammed Akram Awan framed charges against the seven under the Anti-Terrorism Act, several sections of the Pakistan Penal Code, including Section 302 for murder and under the Explosives Act. All the seven pleaded not guilty to the charges, including Shahid Jamil Riaz, who earlier made a detailed confession about his part in the attacks before a judicial magistrate in Rawalpindi, where he was first produced after his arrest. Earlier, the court rejected objections by defence lawyers at the last hearing over the admissibility of the confession of the lone arrested LeT terrorist Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab’ as evidence. They had argued that as he was neither an accused in the case in Pakistan nor in the list of proclaimed offenders, his statement could not be used for the purpose of framing charges against the other accused. While holding that ‘Kasab’ could not be declared a proclaimed offender as his whereabouts were known, the Judge said he would be treated as an accused whose case had been separated from the case under trial in his court, and who was being proceeded against in another court.

• November 24: Five Pakistani Army officers have been detained for questioning over possible links to the two US terror suspects of the LeT, who are accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, intelligence officials said. LeT militants, David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, were arrested in Chicago during October 2009. US prosecutors said the two men were believed to be working with an unidentified senior member of the outfit and a senior Al Qaeda operative. Two Pakistani intelligence officials said phone records showed the five Pakistani officers had contacted Headley and Rana. They say the five include a retired brigadier general and two active lieutenant colonels, but did not provide more details.

• November 22: The Lashkar-e-Toiba denied having any link to two men arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges. David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were arrested in October 2009 and are accused of plotting an attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and unspecified targets in India, the US authorities said in court documents. The documents said the plans were discussed with the LeT and with another militant Ilyas Kashmiri. The Indian authorities are also investigating whether the two men had links to the Mumbai attacks of November 2008. "David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana have no connections with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, linking them with our organisation was propaganda aimed at maligning Kashmir's freedom struggle… We strongly condemn it," Abdullah Gaznavi, the spokesman for the group, told Reuters by phone. "All our members are local Kashmiri Muslims and we have no network in America, or any other place… We are only fighting Indian security forces in Kashmir," Gaznavi claimed.

• November 21: Police arrested two LeT militants from village Kurar at Patnazi in Kishtwar District. They were identified as Farooq Ahmed Wani and Abdul Qadir Keen. They were working for the outfit’s 'district commander' Mohammad Issaq Bhat alias Ateeq.

• November 18: With the arrest of Mohammed Navas, a key accused in the burning of a Tamil Nadu Transport Corporation bus at Kalamassery in the in the Ernakulam District of Kerala State on September 9, 2005, the Kerala Police said that the culprits are those with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) links and those arrested earlier were not directly involved in the action, reports The Hindu. The Police suspect that Navas alias ‘Ganju’ Navas, to be the main link in distributing hawala (informal money transfer system) money meant for seditious activities in the State. He was in the first batch of persons recruited for terror training in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, but was ped from further training because of his drinking habit, Police sources said.

• November 10: SF personnel killed a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) ‘commander’ and his close aide during an encounter in the Kalwa area of Mahore sub-division in Reasi District. A Defence spokesman said that on the basis of specific information about the presence of militants, troops of Rashtriya Rifles (61^st Battalion) launched a combing operation in Kalwa area, about five kilometers from Mahore town in the afternoon. During the search operation, troops were fired upon by the hiding militants leading to an hour-long encounter in which both the militants were shot dead by the troops. The duo was identified as ‘district commander’ Mohammed Rafiq and his close aide Zabrar. While Rafiq belongs to Mahore area, an identity card recovered from the possession of Zabrar revealed that he hailed from the Tangmarg area of Kashmir valley. From the encounter site, troops recovered one AK-47, two magazines, three grenades, one radio set and a satellite phone. The spokesman said that following the killing of Mohammed Farooq alias Abu Tala, a LeT commander, in an encounter at Bal Angrala village in Reasi District some days back, Rafiq was made the ‘district commander’. He was also entrusted with the responsibility of the outfit''s operations in the adjoining Gulabgarh area.

  A LeT cadre, Hanief, a close associate of Mohammad Hussain, a LeT militant who was recently killed by the troops at Koti, was arrested from Koti area where he was searching for a hideout for the LeT militants. Further, three HM activists were arrested by the Doda Police and CRPF from Manwas and Kud Dhar. They have been identified as Nayamatullah, Shabir Ahmed, who the brother of surrendered HM militant Bashir Lohar, both residents of Kud Dhar, and Ghulam Rasool.

  Two LeT militants were killed in an encounter with the SFs in the Rafiabad area of Baramulla District in north Kashmir. However, the identity of the militants could not be ascertained. During the exchange of fire between the SF personnel and militants, a gas cylinder was hit by a bullet resulting in the outbreak of a blaze in which two houses were damaged, Police sources said in capital Srinagar. However, no reports of any civilian getting killed or injured during the incident were received.

  The Anantnag Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as Ashiq Lone alias Setha, a resident of Haf-Shirmal in the Shopian District, at Anantnag town.

• November 9: A top militant of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit surrendered before the Army and Police in Reasi District. He has been identified as Mohammad Ashraf (code name Abu Ibrar) a resident of Mahore. A ‘platoon commander’ of the LeT, Ashraf was a Pakistan trained militant and was operating in Reasi District since 2006. Initially, he was affiliated with the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) outfit but had later switched over to the LeT. The militant handed over one AK-47 rifle, two magazines, six cartridges, one binocular and one solar charging plate at the time of surrender.

• November 1: The SFs killed a ‘commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) during an encounter in the Mahore area of Reasi District. Official sources said a joint team of the Rashtriya Rifles (61^st Battalion) and Police launched a search operation at village Bal Angralla under the jurisdiction of Mahore Police Station in the night after securing information about the presence of a couple of militants in the area. In the ensuing exchange of firing between two sides, LeT ‘commander’ Mohammad Farooq alias Abu Tala, a resident of Baddar Falaskote in Mahore, was killed while his associate managed to escape taking cover of a surrounding forest area. Recoveries made from encounter site include one AK-47 rifle, three magazines, 90 AK rounds, one wireless set, one Mobile telephone, one Chinese grenade, eight pencil cells, two SIM cards, 12 audio cassettes and a number of incriminating documents, including letter heads of the LeT outfit.

• October 30: Pakistan’s Consul General in Chicago personally knew both David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, arrested by the FBI for planning to carry out a major terrorist attack in India at the behest of the LeT, the US authorities have claimed, according to Times of India. The FBI in its revised charge-sheet filed before a Chicago court said the Consul General of Pakistan in Chicago personally knows both Rana and Headley a.k.a. Daood Gilani, as all three of them are from the same high school. According to the Website of the Pakistan Embassy in US, Dr Aman Rashid is the Consul General in Chicago. "On or about September 25, 2009, Rana spoke by telephone with the Consul General at the Pakistani Consulate in Chicago in an effort to obtain a five-year visa for Headley to travel to Pakistan. It is clear from the email traffic unrelated to terrorist plotting that the Consul General knows Rana and Headley personally as all three attended the same high school," the FBI claimed. However, the affidavit, does not say anything if the Consul General was aware or had any inclination of the terrorist connection of Rana and Headley. Rana (48) and Headley (49) are residents of Chicago and also alumni of the same military school.

  American national Headley, whose assistance was sought by LeT in planning a major terrorist attack in India, was helped by his Pakistani-Canadian friend Rana to obtain a visa for Pakistan so that he can travel to NWFP for training and meeting the LeT leaders, federal prosecutors have charged. The charge-sheet also indicates that the LeT was planning to use Headley for a major terrorist attack in India. The transcripts of the taped conversations, both e-mail and telephone, reveals that the LeT was planning to use Headley for attack on a mysterious Indian actor ''Rahul'' - which Indian intelligence agencies say could be a code message. Headley stated that he intended to travel to Pakistan in early October 2009 to meet with an unidentified LeT Individual ''B'' and (Ilyas) Kashmiri, the FBI told the court. It said Headley had already travelled to Pakistan from late January to early March of 2009, during which he visited FATA.

• October 31: The SFs shot dead two top militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), including a ‘commander’ who had managed to give slip to the SFs twice during recent gun battles, in an encounter in the Sopore town of Baramulla District. The residence of Ghulam Mohiuddin Mir in which the militants were hiding was completely damaged in the gun-battle as the SFs had to use mortar shells to penetrate the shield of the militants. The slain militants were identified as Abdullah Yuni and Zubair. Yuni had twice escaped from the SFs during encounters in the Sopore area.

• October 28: US investigating agencies have neutralised a plot by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) to use an American national for terrorist attacks in Denmark and India, Times of India reported. The man, identified as David Coleman Headley, was one of two suspects arrested early in October 2009 by FBI''s Joint Terrorism Task Force at Chicago''s O''Hare International Airport before he boarded a flight to Philadelphia, from where he was intending to travel to Pakistan to meet Pakistani terrorist handlers, including the fugitive Ilyas Kashmiri. Headley''s partner in the terror plot, which included plans to attack the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, was a Pakistani-Canadian named Tahawwur Hussain Rana, also a resident of Chicago who was arrested by the FBI on October 18. According to the FBI affidavit filed in a Chicago court, Headley was in close contact with Ilyas Kashmiri and several unidentified leaders of LeT, two of whom are identified as "LeT member A" and "Individual A." He had visited Pakistan before to meet LeT handlers and was returning there ostensibly to finalize plans for strikes. "In July and August 2009, Headley exchanged a series of e-mails with LeT Member A, including an exchange in which Headley asked if the Denmark project was on hold, and whether a visit to India that LeT member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack," the FBI said in its affidavit. "These e-mails reflect that LeT Member A was placing a higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack in India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark," it said. Although the affidavit named Kashmiri, it did not identify others involved in the plot, referring to them as LeT member A and Individual A. It said LeT member A "has substantial influence and responsibility within the organization" and his "identity is known to the government." "In July and August 2009, Headley exchanged a series of e-mails with LeT Member A, including an exchange in which Headley asked if the Denmark project was on hold, and whether a visit to India that LeT member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack," the FBI said in its affidavit. Although the affidavit named Kashmiri, it did not identify others involved in the plot, referring to them as LeT member A and Individual A. It said LeT member A "has substantial influence and responsibility within the organization" and his "identity is known to the government."

• October 23: The Police and Army claimed to have killed a top militant ‘commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Toiba in an encounter in the Sopore area of Baramulla District. However, two militants are reported to have managed to escape from the incident site. The slain militant has been identified as Abu Mavia, the district commander of LeT for Baramulla District.

• October 19: The Islamabad Police arrested an activist of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (the LeT front) from Pir Wadhai.

  Pakistan has informed Iran that Jundallah (Soldiers of God), the Pakistan-based anti-Shia militant outfit, which has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in Zahedan, targeting the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is carrying out coordinated terrorist operations with the help of the TTP and the LeJ, to undermine Pakistan-Iran relations. According to interior ministry sources in Islamabad, the explanation has been conveyed to Tehran after the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alleged that the suicide attack, which killed at least 42 persons, had been plotted from Pakistan. Ahmadinejad had further alleged that Abdul Malik Rigi, chief of the Jundallah, who has claimed responsibility for the attack, operates from Pakistan.

• October 9: The SFs killed two LeT militants, including a Pakistani, in the Neel area of Ramban District, Superintendent of Police Ramban Mubassir Latifi said. One of the slain militants has been identified as Qasim Zubair, a resident of Zarari in Neel while his associate was a Pakistani national and his identity has not been established so far. Both of the slain militants were operating in the Banihal sub-division for more than two years. Two AK rifles and a large quantity of ammunition and explosives have been recovered from incident site.

• October 7: The Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Police and Paratroops launched a joint operation at Satkuji forest at Handwara in the Kupwara District following a tip-off about the presence of militants. When the area was being sealed, the militants opened fire and lobbed hand grenades on the SFs. The troops retaliated and subsequently killed two LeT militants.

• The Police, Rashtriya Rifles (21st Battalion) and Paratroops killed a top militant of the LeT at Behnipora forest in Handwara. The slain militant was identified as Abu Humza, a resident of Pakistan.

• An official spokesman said a LeT militant was killed at Narote forest in the Baramulla District.

• October 5: Police arrested Ashiq Hussain Bhat alias Abu Umair, the LeT 'district commander' for Doda, along with his wife during a operation in the Batamaloo area of capital Srinagar. "In its continuous fight against militancy in the State, Srinagar Police has arrested a LeT commander from Batamaloo area," a Police spokesman said. Bhat, a resident of Chek-e-Bhaderwah in Bhaderwah revenue division, was also operating under the codenames of Bilal and Aslam. His wife, who has been identified as Rabia alias Sakhi, was also an active LeT cadre and used to accompany him all the time. One Chinese pistol, its magazine, a fake identity card and some other incriminating material has been recovered from the possession of the arrested couple. During questioning, the militant commander led the Police to three of their associates in the city, who were also arrested. Two of the arrested persons have been identified as Manzoor Ahmad and Rayees Ahmad.

• October 2: An over ground worker of the LeT was arrested from the Handwara area of Kupwara District by the SFs. Identified as Sonaullah Mir alias Akash, a resident of Changi Mulla Police post in Zachaldara area of Handwara, Mir was working for LeT 'commander' Rehman Bhai. On his disclosure, one pistol, two pistol magazines, 20 rounds of pistol ammunition and two hand grenades were recovered from a garden in Changi Mulla Zachaldara village.

• October 1: A LeT militant was shot dead by the Border Security Force personnel during an encounter at Galut forests in Harni area of Poonch District, when four cadres of the outfit were tying to infiltrate in the night.

• September 28: Two Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants, who were allegedly planning suicide attacks in the capital Srinagar, and a woman were among four persons killed in an encounter in the Tral area of Pulwama District. An encounter broke out between the militants hiding at Mohalla Sheikhpora in the Amlar area of Tral town after the SFs, acting on specific information, cordoned of the village in the morning, a Police spokesman said. "As soon as the cordon was laid, the militants opened indiscriminate firing, which resulted in injuries to two CRPF jawans and a civilian woman identified as Taja Begum," he said. During the operation, three militants, identified as Abu-Dujana, Abu-Zahid alias Abu Shahid (both Pakistani nationals) and local militant Mehraj-ud-Din alias Zaffar Sidique, were killed. The SFs recovered a cache of arms and ammunition, including three, AK 47 rifles, 10 AK 47 magazines, 180 rounds of AK ammunition, three hand grenades, one smoke grenade, one wireless set and a mobile phone, from the encounter site.

  A LeT militant was arrested in the Baramulla District and arms and ammunition were recovered from his possession. On specific information, the SF personnel arrested Altaf Ahmad Mir alias Sohail, a resident of Chanji Mulla, and recovered one AK rifle, three magazines, 81 rounds and four hand grenades from his possession.

• September 27: Police arrested two persons with alleged links to the LeT from Baramulla District and recovered an AK-47 rifle from them. The duo - Nazir Ahmad Rather and Hilal Ahmad Rather - were arrested from Takia-Wagoora, 60 kilometers from capital Srinagar.

• September 25: Police arrested three Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of the LeT from Saida Kadal Rainawari in the capital Srinagar and recovered a hand grenade and a detonator from their possession. They were identified as Gowhar Ahmad Rather, a resident of Chandrigam Tral in Pulwama District, Aqib Ahmad Mir and Amir Ahmad Wani, both residents of Nowpora Tral.

• September 24: The JuD [the LeT front] chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed has neither been formally arrested nor put under house arrest, Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Tariq Saleem Dogar said, adding, that the Police had merely "restricted his movement". The IGP also claimed that Punjab Police had solved all major cases of terrorism, including the suicide bombing targeting the 15 building in Lahore and other attacks in Rawalpindi and had arrested suspects. "The involvement of the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing in any incident of terrorism in Punjab has yet to be determined as investigations are underway and all those arrested so far are Pakistanis," added Dogar.

• September 23: Four militants, including one 'District Commander' of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) each, an Army Major and a Marine commando were killed during two separate encounters in the Baramulla and Bandipora Districts, taking the death toll in the two-day encounter to eight.

  In the encounter at Banyari village in Bandipora District which started in the evening of September 22 and ended at 5pm on September 23, the Army killed HM 'District Commander' Pasha and the LeT 'District Commander' Moosa. Army Major, G. S. Suri, and a trooper, Khushal, were killed when they sustained bullet injuries during the initial firing from militants as they entered a house where the militants were hiding. Pasha, a foreign militant, was active in the area for the last more than 10 years and was considered to be the driving force behind many attacks on the SFs and political workers. Moosa, who was working in close coordination with the HM militants recently, was also wanted by the SFs for the last couple of years.

• September 19: A LeT militant was killed in an encounter with the Police in the Dessa area of Doda District. On a tip-off, the Special Task Force of Police launched an operation at Kandi Dhar area of Dessa tehsil (revenue unit). The militant opened fire on the Police and in the retaliatory action, the LeT militant, identified as Noor Hussain alias Chota Hamza, was killed. Police recovered a 303 rifle and a Chinese grenade from his possession.

  Seven suspected militants were arrested in Doda and Srinagar Districts. Five kilograms of RDX, a hand grenade and a rifle were also recovered, the Police said on September 20. On a tip-off, the Police raided a hideout at Ghar Sungle in the Doda District and arrested three militants. A 12-bore rifle, two letter pads of the LeT, 17 electrical detonators, a wireless set and a cigarette packet containing explosive sticks were also recovered. In another operation four suspected militants were held on the outskirts of Srinagar.

• September 18: The militants shot dead two Special Police Officers (SPOs) and managed to decamp with their weapons at Shikri Top in the Marmat area of Doda District. Senior Superintendent of Police of Doda District said that three SPOs, who were on way back home at Gajot from Sadak post in hilly Marmat area, were intercepted by a group of five to seven militants at Shikri Top at 5 pm (IST). The militants had laid a 'C' type ambush for the SPOs from thick growth of vegetation. Two SPOs were killed on spot while third one managed to survive taking cover behind the crops. As Police personnel from their Sadak post and Security Forces (SFs) rushed to the spot, the militants managed to escape. The militants are suspected to be cadres of the Lashkar-e-Toiba. The slain SPOs were identified as Abdul Gani and Riaz Ahmad. The militants also took away one Insas rifle, a pistol and three mobile telephones from slain SPOs while Yaqoob saved his AK-47 rifle. According to sources, the killing of SPOs was a possible retaliation by the militants to the elimination of their over 20 top associates in Doda District during last three months.

  Police arrested three LeT militants from Bhaderwah town in Doda District and recovered arms, ammunition and explosive devices from their possession. They were identified as Dawood Ahmad Khan, Nazir Ahmad and Abdul Majeed Khan, all residents of Sungli in Bhaderwah. one cigarette packet of a Pakistan made company 'Ruili River' fitted with a detonator, 17 electronic detonators, one Alinco wireless set, one 12 bore gun, a letter head of LeT and some ammunition were recovered from their possession.

• September 17: The authorities in Pakistan registered two cases against LeT chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed on charges of delivering anti-State sermons and collecting charity to fund terrorist activities. A channel reported that the cases were registered in Faisalabad with the Madina Town Police Station and the People's Colony Police Station in Punjab.

• September 5: The SFs shot dead a LeT 'commander' in the Bathoi Jagnan area of Mahore sub-division of Reasi District. An official spokesman said that on the basis of specific information about the presence of a hardcore LeT militant in the house of Mohammed Nazir in Bathoi Jagnan area, a joint operation of the Mahore Police and Rashtriya Rifles (61st battalion) was launched in the early hours. When the operation was going on, the hiding militant opened fire on the SFs. In the consequent encounter, the militant, identified as Mohammad Avais alias Abu Jindal, a resident of Kharian area in Pakistan, was killed. From the encounter site, the troops recovered one AK-47, three magazines, 60 rounds of AK, three mobile hand-sets, some SIM cards and diaries. The SFs continued the cordon in the area as another LeT militant, identified as Mohammed Rafiq, was believed to be hiding in the area, the spokesman said.

  An over-ground worker (OGW) of the Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HuJI) and Lashkar-e-Toiba was arrested from the Bus Stand area of Kishtwar town in the afternoon of September 4. A Police spokesman said that a joint team of Army and Police apprehended the OGW when he was carrying some items for the militants to their destination. He was identified as Akhtar Hussain (19), a resident of Patti Mahal. Three I-cards, a mobile phone and some other items were recovered from his possession. The Police said he was a surrendered militant of the LeT outfit. He had surrendered before Rashtriya Rifles (11th battalion) in 2007.

• September 2: A division bench of the Lahore High Court granted bail to 11 activists of the JuD, the LeT front, who were in jail since the UN imposed sanctions on the JuD. Abdul Shakoor, Muhammad Hanif and others were arrested from Bahawalnagar under the Anti-Terrorism Act. During the course of hearing, Deputy Prosecutor General Chaudhry Jamshed argued that the JD was a banned organisation but its activists continued collecting funds, distributing religious literature and doing other activities. However, the accused-petitioner's counsel Irshadullah Chatta stated that there was no notification regarding the ban on JD. He argued that an organisation could not be banned until a notification under Section 11 B was issued. He said the Government had already admitted in the Hafiz Saeed case that it had no substantial evidence against the JD. The bench comprising Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif and Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry after hearing the arguments granted them bail against surety bonds of PKR 100,000 each. The released JD activists included Muhammad Siddiq, Abbas Dogar, Saeed Amir, Arif Ali, Muhammad Akram, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, Master Abdul Shakoor and Muhammad Anwar.

• September 1: A top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) 'commander', who had operated in the Doda, Rajouri and Reasi Districts, was shot dead by the Army and Police after a week long search operation in Sildhar in the Mahore area of Reasi District. With this, a total of 16 top commanders of the LeT and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) have been killed in the Mahore and Gulabgarh areas of Reasi District during the last two months. The slain militant was identified as Aijaz Ahmed Khandey alias Abu Shoib, a resident of Kulhand in Doda. A rifle, one Nokia mobile handset with one SIM card, 600 AK rounds, one wireless set, 10 rounds of .303, one purse and some documents were recovered from his possession.

  Yet another infiltration attempt, backed by Pakistan troops, was made by a group of Pakistani militants from the Line of Control (LoC) at Sagra village in the Mendhar sector of Poonch district in the early hours. An Army trooper is reported to have died in the firing from across the LoC. "It was being ascertained as to whether the bullet was fired by Pakistan army or the militants trying to sneak-in. The bullet was fired from a sniper rifle which was available with top commanders of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen militants", official sources told Daily Excelsior.

• August 27: One Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant was shot dead in an encounter with the SFs in the Keshwan area of Kishtwar District. The slain militant was later identified as Mohammad Yusuf alias Abu Salim.

• August 25: August 25: A civilian, an Army soldier and a Pakistani militant were killed in an encounter between the SFs and militants at Hazam Nagar village in the Reasi District. However, two other militants, suspected to be Abu Bakar and Abu Billal, managed to escape, Senior Superintendent of Police of Reasi District Anand Jain said. The slain militant was identified as Abdullah Sani, a Pakistani national and a top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) cadre. The identity of the slain Army trooper and civilian was yet to be ascertained. One AK-47 rifle with three magazines and 80 rounds, one binocular set, one pouch, INR 1200, 17 SIM cards, three mobile handsets with three SIM cards and some documents were recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

  The Interpol issued Red Corner Notices (RCN) against LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and mastermind of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. The notices were issued against Saeed and Lakhvi after a Mumbai court issued a non-bailable warrant against the duo for their involvement in the November 26, 2008 attacks. India also sent proof and requests to issue a similar warrant against LeT commander Zarar Shah and Abu Al Qama. Interpol said it was analysing the evidence against them. The RCN were issued after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) approached the international agency for the same with non-bailable warrants against them. Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani had issued the warrants, asking the Mumbai Police Commissioner and the CBI Director to ute them through Interpol and produce the accused before the court soon.

  A suspected LeT militant was arrested at the Ajmeri Gate side of the New Delhi railway station shortly before he was to board a train for Maharashtra. According to the Delhi Police, a Pakistani passport identifying him as 27-year-old Yusuf, a Jammu and Kashmir identity card bearing his name as Salim, a consignment of chemical explosives four detonators and two timers were recovered from his possession. During interrogation the arrested militant identified himself as Mohammad Aslam of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. "We are cross-checking the information provided by him. He could have been assigned the task of ferrying the consignment," said a Police official. The Police suspect that the militant recently visited Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Police is also trying to ascertain whether the suspect planned to create disturbances during Ganesh Chaturthi (Religious Festival) celebrations in Maharashtra.

• August 17: A top 'commander' of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was killed by the SFs in an encounter at village Ladda in the Mahore area of Reasi District. Deputy Inspector General of Police (Udhampur-Reasi range), Gulzar Singh Slathia, said a team of the Army, Police and Special Operations Group was carrying out search operations in Mahore forests following an intercept of LeT that a militant, injured in an encounter with the SFs at Gajna Top in Mahore last week, had taken shelter in a hamlet awaiting treatment. A Police team which observed his movement is reported to have asked him to surrender. However, the militant lobbed a couple of grenades towards the troops, who retaliated killing the militant on the spot. The slain militant has been identified as Altaf Ahmed, a resident of Ladda. He was operating in parts of Reasi District for more than three years and was involved in several subversive activities. From his possession, Police recovered four grenades, three detonators, one set, one pouch and some documents. With this, a total of eight militants have been killed in Mahore during the last one week in three operations while 12 militants were killed in the area during the past one month.

• August 16: A top militant of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was killed in an encounter with the SFs in Pulwama District. A Police spokesman said in capital Srinagar that "Police and Army have killed a militant in an encounter in Aarmullah area of Pulwama district." The slain militant was identified as Jan Mohammad Ahangar alias Hamza, a resident of Buchoo in the Pulwama District. One AK rifle, two AK magazines, one hand grenade and four mobile phones were recovered from the incident site.

• August 6: The Foreign Office said India had "not provided enough evidence" to put JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed on trial, but Pakistan is investigating him in line with the country's own laws. "It needs to be underlined that we have received information from India, but the material contained in dossiers on Hafiz Saeed is not really enough and doesn't strengthen our position in proceeding legally," said Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit at a weekly briefing in Islamabad.

• August 5: The FIA Special Investigation Unit arrested another suspect allegedly linked with the LeT. FIA sources told that the SIU was already questioning five suspects, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, and Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu Al-Qama of Islamabad, Abdul Wajid alias Zarar Shah of Sheikupura, Shahid Jamil Riaz of Bahawalpur and Hammad Amin Sadiq of Rahim Yar Khan to probe their links with the Mumbai attacks. "The suspects revealed the name of another suspect, Jamil Ahmed, of Battgram during interrogation. Ahmed also allegedly facilitated the acts of terrorism in Mumbai on November 26," they said. The sources said the SIU arrested Ahmed from near his house, adding that the suspect was being interrogated.

  The Government of Pakistan announced that 25 extremist and militant groups and welfare organisations affiliated to them have so far been banned because of their involvement in terrorist activities. In a written reply submitted on August 5 in response to a question in the National Assembly, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the banned organisations included Al Qaeda, SMP, Tehrik Nifaz-i-Fiqah Jafaria, SSP, JuD, Al Akhtar Trust, Al Rasheed Trust (ART), Tehrik-i-Islami, JeM, LeJ, TTP, Islamic Students Movement, Khairun Nisa International Trust, Tehrik-i-Islam Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), LeT, Lashkar-i-Islam, Balochistan Liberation Army, Jamiat-i-Ansar, Jamiatul Furqan, Hizbut Tehrir, Khuddam-i-Islam and Millat-i-Islamia Pakistan.

• August 5: A plot by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) to target forward Army posts and other sensitive installations in border Districts has been averted by the troops who foiled an infiltration attempt by three fidayeen (suicide squad) militants from Sabjian in the Mandi sector of Poonch District in the night in which one infiltrator was killed while two others were forced to retrieve. The infiltrators, all top militants and members of LeT’s suicide squad, had been launched from Cobra 1 post of army in PoK. The intruders took positions at an isolated forest area and opened indiscriminate firing on the troops, who retaliated. The militants also lobbed grenades on the Army personnel. In approximately an hour long encounter close to the LoC, the Army personnel killed one of the infiltrators while two others retrieved to PoK taking cover of darkness. There were no casualties on Army side in the exchange of firing. According to sources, maps of Army posts in forward locations and other sensitive installations of Poonch have been recovered from the possession of the slain militant. More documents seized from the spot confirmed that all three militants were Pakistanis and part of a suicide squad of the LeT outfit. In addition to sensitive maps, other recoveries made from the encounter site include one AK-47 rifle, five magazines, four Chinese grenades, one Pathan suit, 130 AK bullets, a large quantity of dry fruit, mobile phones, batteries, chargers, two wireless sets and one compass.

• August 3: The Supreme Court adjourned for an indefinite period the hearing of a petition filed by the federal Government challenging the release of the JuD (also known as LeT) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and his close aide Col (r) Nazir Ahmad. A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Jawwad S Khawaja is hearing the case. Attorney General Sardar Latif Khosa told the court on August 3 that the record of the case was with the Punjab Government, but Punjab Advocate General Raza Farooq had resigned and nobody else had been appointed in his place. He said the case could not proceed in the absence of the record, and called on the court to adjourn the proceedings. Advocate A. K. Dogar, representing Hafiz Saeed, did not object to the attorney general's request - which was accepted by the court.

• The federal and the Punjab governments had filed separate appeals with the Supreme Court against a Lahore High Court order freeing Hafiz Saeed and Nazir from house arrest. But the Punjab Government later moved an application for the withdrawal of its petition, and told the court that if the federal Government provided fresh evidence against Saeed, the provincial administration would reverse its decision to withdraw the appeal. In its application for the withdrawal of the appeal against Hafiz Saeed, the Punjab Government said the LeT chief and Nazir were put under house arrest on a directive by the federal Government, but the centre had "failed" to provide concrete evidence for their house arrest.

• August 2: Holding the LeT responsible for the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks, a British parliamentary committee said several major terrorist attacks across the world, including those in London, Madrid, and Bali, had their origins in the tribal areas of Pakistan. A report by the Foreign Affairs Committee quoted a former CIA chief as saying the Pakistan-based LeT had reached a "merge point" with the Al Qaeda. "It was from the tribal areas in Pakistan that the bomb plots in London, Madrid, Bali, Islamabad, and later Germany and Denmark were planned," said the report on ‘Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ headed by lawmaker Mike Gapes. The report said the LeT, which was responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that targeted Westerners, in particular U.S. and U.K, nationals, also operates from these tribal areas. It added that a section within the Pakistani Army and the ISI still feels that "India, rather than the Islamic terrorists," was the main threat to it. "We welcome the increasing recognition at senior levels within the Pakistani military of the need for a recalibrated approach to militancy, but we remain concerned that this may not necessarily be replicated elsewhere within the Army and the ISI," the report said. It welcomed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s remark that terrorism, not India, was the real threat to his country. However, the report raised doubts over "whether the underlying fundamentals of Pakistani security policy have changed sufficiently to realise the goals of long-term security and stability in Afghanistan."

• July 29: Two Army soldiers and a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant were killed in an overnight encounter in the Shopian District. Official sources said in Srinagar that an encounter took place between the SFs and militants at Check Matribugh in the jurisdiction of Shopian Police Station in the two-storied house of Mohammad Maqbool Bhat. One militant was killed in the encounter while another managed to escape from the spot. The slain militant has been identified as Jahangir Ahmad Ganai, a resident of Haf-Shermaal in Shopian. Two wounded Army troopers, Islam-u-Din and Ratibar, succumbed to injuries at the hospital. One AK-47 rifle, four AK magazines and 59 rounds were recovered from encounter site.

• July 27: The LeT chief, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, will not be arrested since his alleged involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attacks has not been proved, a private TV channel quoted Interior Minister Rehman Malik as saying. Malik said Pakistan had demanded details of Indian citizens convicted in the Mumbai attacks. He also reportedly said Afghanistan had conceded there were Taliban training camps on its soil and Afghan President Hamid Karzai had ordered immediate closure of such camps.

• July 23: Police arrested two persons for allegedly damaging equipment of a mobile tower at the behest of the LeT in Kupwara District, a Police spokesman said. "Two persons were arrested in connection with the damage of Mobile tower equipment at Maidanpora , Kupwara," the spokesman said He identified the duo as Mir Saddam Hussain and Abdul Hamid Mir, both residents of Maidanpora. The spokesman said during questioning, the duo confessed that they burnt down the equipment of Airtel/Aircel Tower at the behest of LeT ‘commander’ Abu Hurrera alias Ali. Ali was active in active in the Lolab area of Kupwara District till about 10 months ago but is now operating out of Pakistan, he said, adding that Saddam and Hamid were active over-ground workers of the LeT. One mobile phone and a bottle used for carrying flammable material were recovered from their possession.

• July 21: A Police officer was killed and three SF personnel injured as militants attacked a camp of the Special Operations Group (SOG) in Shopian District. Official sources in capital Srinagar said that militants fired a rifle grenade at the SOG camp at Imam Sahib in Shopian in the afternoon. The grenade landed and exploded in the compound of the security camp, the sources said. While Special Police Officer Mohammad Shafi succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, three SF personnel were wounded in the blast which created a crater at the landing place in the compound. This is the first grenade attack in Kashmir in the past few months in which a Police officer has been killed. While no militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack so far Police officials said the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was suspected to be behind the attack.

• July 20: According to Daily Star, four senior Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants who are hiding in Bangladesh are also serving as teachers in different madrassas (seminaries) of the country providing their fake identities like detained Mufti Obaidullah, Detective Branch (DB) sources said. Of the four, Indian national Moulana Mansur Ali and Pakistani national Moulana Habibullah, are teachers of two madrassas in capital Dhaka while two others are outside the capital. Sources, however, refused to disclose the names of two other Indian fugitive militants.

• July 19: According to Daily Star, the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) has been active in Bangladesh for the last 14 years, intelligence sources said quoting one of the most wanted Indian terrorists recently arrested in the capital Dhaka. Local leaders of the outfit have links to the network of absconding Indian underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim, and also to leaders of other Islamist militant outfits like the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B), sources added. The Detective Branch (DB) of Police on July 17 disclosed that they recently arrested an Indian national who is very close to the LeT, and is also one of the most wanted persons by the Indian law enforcing and intelligence agencies. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque said the arrestee has been identified as Mufti Obaidullah, who has been staying in Bangladesh since 1995. "He was arrested from the capital and was taking preparations for a jihad by organising Bangladeshi mujahids with directives from Ameer Reza, a leader of the Jammu and Kashmir based LeT, who is an Indian national now staying in Pakistan," the DMP Commissioner said. Obaidullah reportedly took part in the Afghan jihad four times and he was active in the militancy in India, in collaboration with militants from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also collaborated with Islamist militants of Jammu and Kashmir, Varanasi, Punjab, and Hyderabad in India, said the DMP Commissioner, adding that Obaidullah came to Bangladesh to evade Indian intelligence after the Government of India in 1994 had declared him a most wanted person.

• July 17: A 36-page dossier handed over by Pakistan has for the first time admitted that the LeT carried out the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks. The dossier terming Lashkar operations chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi as the mastermind and admitting the Pakistan nationality of Ajmal Amir Kasab along with some others is said to have prompted India to be more accommodating with Pakistan at the NAM Summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt. Pakistan has reportedly given details on each of the accused, which includes Zarar Shah, who has been identified as the person in-charge of the communications, and there are also details of proclaimed offenders like Ajmal Kasab. The LeT has been referred to as a defunct organisation with no links to other outfits in Pakistan.

  Police arrested two LeT militants from the Dalgate area of capital Srinagar. A Police spokesman identified the duo as Mohammad Yousuf Pujoo, a resident of Tarkgam Banihal, and Farooq Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Patnizie Banjaw Kishtwar. One hand grenade, INR 25000, one battery and two LeT letter pads have been recovered from their possession.

  According to Daily Times, Dhaka Police on July 17 arrested a suspected militant in Dhaka, wanted by Indian authorities for 14 years. Mufti Sheikh Obaidullah (45), who had links with the Kashmir-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was arrested at a hideout in Dhaka, Police commissioner AKM Shahidul Haq told AFP. "He is a top Indian terror suspect and has been sought by Indian intelligence for many years. He came to Bangladesh in 1995 and has been teaching in different madrassas across the country," he said. "He was encouraging students to join jihad and we have information that he was training militants here," he added. Haq said Obaidullah was born in India’s West Bengal state and studied in the Deoband Madrassa in Uttar Pradesh state. He fought in the Afghan war alongside the Mujahideen against Soviet forces.

• July 16: SFs arrested four over-ground workers (OGWs) of the Lashkar-e-Toiba from Patnazi in the Kishtwar District. They have been identified as Mohammad Hussain, Kalu Mohammad, Mohammad Abdullah and Abdul Gani Wani.

• July 15: A grenade throwing module of the LeT outfit was neutralized by the Police by arresting six of its over-ground workers (OGWs) in two separate operations in the capital Srinagar. Srinagar Police received a tip off regarding the presence of two OGWs of the LeT in Maisuma area and based on the input, both of them were subsequently arrested, a Police spokesman said. The duo was identified as Bashir Ahmad Dar, a resident of Saidpora Sopore, and Manzoor Ahmad Rana, a resident of Rajwar Handwara. A live grenade was recovered from their possession. On their disclosure, two more persons, Nisar Ahmad Bhat and Farooq Ahmad Rana, were arrested, the spokesman said. After interrogation, the group disclosed that they were behind grenade throwing incidents on the Sopore Police Station, Baramulla Police Station and grenade explosions in Gow Kadal and Jahangir Chowk in Srinagar and were planning for more such attacks, he added. Based on their disclosures, one Pika gun, four rifle grenades and 100 AK 47 rounds were recovered from their possession.

  Two OGWS of the LeT were arrested by the Police from the Dalgate area in the capital Srinagar. A live hand grenade, Indian currency 25000 and some incriminating documents were recovered from the possession of the duo, identified as Fayaz Ahmad Bhat and Mohammad Yusuf Panchoo, who also is a released militant of LeT outfit, a Police spokesman said. Their rented accommodation in Hyderpora was raided and a mobile phone, a battery circuit for making blasting IED and some incriminating documents were recovered. The disclosures by the duo revealed that they were behind grenade blasts in Dalgate area and were in contact with senior cadres of LeT outfit and the currency recovered from their possession was to be used in carrying out terrorist activities in the city, the spokesman said.

• July 14: The Government of Punjab disassociated itself from a case challenging the Lahore High Court order that released the JuD (the LeT front) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, as it filed an application with the Supreme Court (SC) to withdraw its petition that challenged the release. Appearing on notice, the Punjab Advocate General (AG) Raza Farooq informed the SC that the Punjab Government had decided to withdraw its petition against Saeed’s release, as it had insufficient evidence against him and his aide, Col (r) Nazir Ahmed. Appearing on the behalf of the federal Government, Deputy AG Shah Khawar requested the court for additional time to seek the Centre’s instructions on the issue. Accepting the request, the court reportedly adjourned the hearing until July 16.

• July 12: A Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) ‘battalion commander’, identified as Zarkawi Bhai, a resident of Pakistan, was killed in an encounter with the Security Forces in the Handwara area of Kupwara District. Official sources in capital Srinagar said one AK rifle, four magazines, 60 rounds, one wireless set and a mobile phone were recovered from the encounter site. The sources said an identity card belonging to one Ghulam Mohiuddin Sheikh, a resident of Hanga in Handwara area, was also recovered from the incident site. Sheikh was killed by militants on May 15, 2009 by slitting his throat.

• July 4: A LeT militant was killed in an encounter with the SFs in an encounter at village Arangi in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri District. Official sources said an encounter between the SFs and militants was going on at Mangota since the afternoon.

• July 3: The Federal Government will challenge the release of JuD (LeT front) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in the Supreme Court on July 4 (today), Attorney General Latif Khosa told. He said there were "sufficient grounds" to challenge the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict that set Hafiz Saeed free. LHC ordered the release of Hafiz Saeed, holding that there was no sufficient ground to detain or link him to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008.

• July 1: The United States imposed sanctions on an Al Qaeda backer and three leaders of the LeT, believed to be behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks in November 2008. The US Treasury said it was imposing an assets freeze on the four, identified as Fazeelattul Shaykh Abu Mohammed Ameen Al-Peshawari, Arif Qasmani, Mohammed Yahya Mujahid and Nasir Javaid. Ameen Al-Peshawari allegedly provided assistance, including funding and recruits, to Al Qaeda and the Taliban currently fighting to regain control of Afghanistan. Qasmani is said to be the chief coordinator for the LeT and Mujahid was the head of the group's media department. Javaid had allegedly served Lashkar's commander in Pakistan. The Treasury said its action came two days after Al-Peshawari, Qasmani and Mujahid were added to a UN blacklist of individuals.

  Three top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants, including Zafarullah Parray, a Territorial Army trooper who had deserted his post along with three weapons on March 8, 2009, were shot dead by the Army, Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in a joint operation at Kulhand in the Doda District. Zafarullah Parray was being searched by Army and Police since he had deserted his unit along with weapons and joined the LeT outfit. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Prabhat Singh, said the house of one Irshad Ahmed was surrounded by Security Forces in the early hours after developing specific information that three to four LeT militants, including Zafarullah, had taken shelter there. However, on observing the SFs movement, the militants deserted the house and fled towards Kulhand, about 18 kms from Doda. The militants were chased and in the consequent encounter, all three militants were killed. A Police constable, Rakesh Kumar, sustained injuries in the incident. Besides Zafarullah, the two others have been identified as Mushtaq Ahmed alias Abu Harare, a resident of Kirthwan, and Billal Ahmad, a resident of Gurmul. Recoveries made from the possession of slain militants include two UBGLs, one rifle and a large quantity of ammunition and explosives. Police also detained Irshad Ahmed and some of his family members for giving shelter to the Lashkar militants.

• June 30: The PoK Police has stated that the banned JuD, LeT front is expanding its operations and recruitment in the region. A confidential report submitted to the Pakistan Government has revealed that the group had purchased 65 kanals of land in the Dulai area of Muzaffarabad, the PoK capital, to construct a mosque, a school and a dispensary, a private TV channel reported. The PoK Inspector General of Police Javed Iqbal told the channel his force was closely monitoring the group's activities. Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, however, denied that banned Pakistani groups were expanding their activities. "No such report has come before the government claiming these organisations have revived their activities," he told. However, he added, it was a different matter if it was submitted by an intelligence agency.

• June 29: Police in PoK has revealed that groups like the LeT and JeM are shifting bases to PoK following clampdown on their activities in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008. In a confidential report submitted to the Government of Pakistan, PoK Police has said these groups have acquired large pieces of land in and around PoK capital of Muzaffarabad and are pursuing a "jehadi" agenda under the garb of religious activities. "After the ban imposed on the JuD, the front of LeT by the UNSC, Pakistan forces had taken control of their offices... The activities of the outfit had gone underground for some months, but have again become active," the BBC quoted the report as saying. The report said that the JuD has constructed a mosque, a school and a dispensary on the land acquired by them in Dulasi and further construction is on.

  The PoK Police report also mentions the activities of other jihadi groups like the JeM and HuM which have also constructed madrassas (seminaries) near Muzaffarabad. The JeM has also set up an office and seminary near Muzaffarabad. Police has noted that most of the activities of the militant groups have been observed in Neelam Valley, near the Line of Control. Extremist organisations have also reportedly set up offices in Kandil Shahi.

• June 24: Police arrested two over-ground workers of the LeT from Dalgate area of capital Srinagar. The duo was identified as Mohammad Ashraf Lone and Khalid Khursheed Zargar, both residents of Braribrah in the Rafiabad area of Baramulla District.

• June 22: Three militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit, including two commanders, were killed by the Army in an encounter at village Khour under the jurisdiction of Gulabgarh Police Station in Reasi District. Official sources said troops of the Rashtriya Rifles later joined by Police and Special Operations Group launched a search operation at Khour after getting specific information about the movement of a group of five militants, including top commander Abu Hurera, in the area. Sources confirmed the killing of two militants - Abu Hurera and Qasim Gujjar - only while unconfirmed reports said that another militant, identified as Majid, was also killed in the encounter. Abu Hurera was a ‘district commander’ while Qasim Gujjar was an ‘area commander’. All three slain militants were locals and were operating in the Mahore-Gool-Gulabgarh region for the past several years. Recoveries made so far from the encounter site include two rifles, three magazines, 43 rounds, one radio set and some incriminating documents.

• June 8: Official sources said troops of the Rashtriya Rifles neutralized a hideout of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants at Narla Bambal under the jurisdiction of Dharamshal Police station in Rajouri district and seized five kg RDX, 12 hand grenades, 761 AK rounds, 10 detonators, one radio set, two tape recorders, five IED sets, five AK magazines, one Chinese pistol with two magazines and one pouch.

• June 5: Three hardcore militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) outfits were killed by the SFs during an encounter on June 5 at Mandrala under the jurisdiction of Gandoh Police Station on the Doda-Himachal Pradesh border. Senior Superintendent of Police Parbhat Singh said a joint team of Police and Army launched a search operation after securing specific information that three commanders of LeT and HM outfits were hiding in village Mandrala for the past few days. "It would have been difficult to trace the militants had they slipped into the territory of Himachal Pradesh", Singh said, adding that SFs surrounded the hideout before asking them to surrender. However, all three militants opened heavy firing on the troops and tried to break their cordon to escape. In the ensuing encounter, the troops killed the three militants who have been identified as Zafarullah, Shabir Ahmed and Nazir Ahmed. Official sources said Zafarullah and Nazir were section and area commanders respectively of the HM outfit while Shabir Ahmed was deputy district commander of the LeT. Recoveries made from the incident site include one sniper rifle with telescope, its two magazines and 19 rounds, one AK rifle with one magazine and 9 rounds, three grenades, detonators, wire, explosive devices, identity cards, letter heads of HM and LeT outfits besides some incriminating documents of the two outfits and personal belongings of the militants.

• June 3: Pakistani authorities said that they would appeal against a court order to release the JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. "The government has decided to file an appeal against the release order of Hafiz Saeed," Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told after the Lahore High Court ordered Saeed’s release. "We have received the detailed verdict of the court. Our legal advisers are studying it, and we told them to file an appeal against this verdict," he said.

• June 2: A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) accepted a habeas corpus petition and ordered the Government to release JuD (the LeT front) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Col (retd) Nazir Ahmad. The court observed that "After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and perusal of the case law on the subject as well as the material produced by the learned law officers in chamber, for the reasons to be delivered later on, with a unanimous view, we have held that this writ petition in the form of habeas corpus is maintainable as prima facie the government has no sufficient grounds to detain the petitioners for preventive measures." "As far as the UN resolution is concerned, there is no matter before us about the vires and the government can act upon the same in letter and spirit if so advised. But relying on the same, the detention cannot be maintained, as it was even not desired thereby," it read.

• May 15: Authorities have ordered a fresh crackdown on a charity linked to the JuD following reports that dozens of its volunteers were at the centre of relief operations for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in NWFP. The move to act against the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation came after The Independent newspaper reported that JuD volunteers were providing first aid and emergency assistance to the IDPs. A senior official, however, said on May 14 that the Government was aware of reports of the charity's re-emergence and was ready to act. "The Interior Ministry has directed that no banned organisation will be allowed to resume activities under the garb of humanitarian work," he said.

• May 13: The JuD, the front for LeT, designated by the United Nations Security Council as a terrorist outfit in the wake of the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, has resurfaced as a charity organisation providing food and other relief to the thousands of people fleeing the fighting in Swat District. Eyewitnesses said that the JuD is active in Mardan where most of the refugee camps are located. They are distributing food and medical care. One eyewitness who visited the area on May 9 said JuD workers were organised under a charity organisation called Falah-i-Insaniyat. They had set themselves up at a roundabout in Mardan town called College Chowk, where they were collecting food donations for the displaced. Despite the Government crackdown on the group after the U.N. designation, the canopied stall was openly flying the black-and-white flags of the JuD, with the insignia of the sword and the Kalma, the Islamic doctrine of faith. The organisation has also set up a relief distribution centre at a village called Rustam, on the outskirts of Buner.

• May 12: A charge-sheet submitted by Police in an anti-terrorism court says that LeT assassinated former Commander of the Special Services Group, General Aamir Faisal Alvi, to avenge the role he played in the fight against militants in FATA. According to the charge-sheet prepared by Islamabad's Koral Police against Major (retd) Haroon Ashiq, a resident of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, Mohammad Nawaz Khan of Peshawar, and Ashfaq Ahmed of Okara in Punjab, the murder was ordered by Ilyas Kashmiri who provided funds and weapons.

• May 9: In a joint operation, the Army and Police shot dead a top commander of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit and his accomplice in the Dhar forest area of Doda District. The slain militants were identified as LeT 'district commander' Abu Samama and his bodyguard Barkat Ali. "While Samama was a Pakistani national, Ali was a local militant," said Brig Gurdeep Singh of 16 Corps of the Army. He added that Samama had been active in this area for the last four to five years and his killing was a big blow to the LeT. One Army soldier was injured in the gun battle. SF recovered arms and ammunition from the incident site.

• May 7: Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as Manzoor Ahmed, from village Dhodi in the Rajouri District for the killing of a Special Police Officer (SPO) Khadim Hussain Shah of Budhal Police station, whose body was recovered on May 7. Shah's throat had been slit by the militants. According to Police, LeT commanders Obaida and Jan Nissar had asked Manzoor Ahmed to kill the SPO as he was instrumental in three successful operations against the LeT militants.

• May 5: A review board of the Lahore High Court has extended for 60 days the detention of JuD (the Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT] front) chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and Col (retd) Nazir Ahmed, while releasing two outfit leaders Mufti Abdur Rehman and Ameer Hamza. The board comprising Justice Mian Muhammad Najam-uz-Zaman, Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi and Justice Fazal-e-Miran Chohan turned down the home department' request to extend the detention of Mufti and Hamza after feeling dissatisfied with the material produced against them. They would be released on May 6 (today) after the expiry of their detention period. In the case of Hafiz Saeed and Nazir Ahmed, the board extended their detention citing security concerns.

• May 2: Mohammed Nissar, an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant from Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh, who disappeared in 2003 while facing trial in a terrorism case, was arrested by the Police in Hyderabad.

• April 30: Two top commanders of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed while an Army trooper was injured and three Police officials of Bhaderwah had a narrow escape in an encounter at Chinote in the Bhaderwah area of Doda District. The slain LeT 'commanders', identified as Ashraf alias Jehadi and Mudassar alias Bhaya alias Abu Furqan 99, had escaped Police cordon in Domel forests of Bhaderwah three days back and since then were being searched by the SFs. One AK-47 rifle, two magazines, 30 rounds, three grenades, two pouches, RDX and a large quantity of documents and other belongings of the militants were recovered from the encounter site.

• April 27: A deputy divisional commander of the LeT, identified as Abu Babbar, hailing from Peshawar in Pakistan, was shot dead by SFs in a joint encounter at Shruti Top near Dorimal forests in the Poonch District. One sophisticated bullet action automatic rifle, a modified version of AK along with its one magazine and rounds were recovered from the site of encounter.

• April 24: The banned LeT is planning to create further unrest, the commander of US forces in the Middle East said. "We should observe that the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba ... are trying to do more damage and they're trying to carry out additional attacks," General David Petraeus told US lawmakers. Petraeus said the US expected that "extremists that are trying to cause that kind of tension and also to take (Pakistan's) focus off of the internal extremist threat would indeed strive to do that."

• April 19: Another female militant, Dilshad, along with a ‘commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit, identified as Mukhtyar Ahmed, was killed in a joint operation of the Police and Army in the Doda District. An Army trooper and a Special Police Officer (SPO) also died in the gun-battle. Official sources said Doda Police received information about the presence of militants in the forest areas of Kashtigarh. While the Security Forces (SFs) were carrying out search and cordon operation, they were fired upon by the militants hiding in the house of Samad Hajam. In the militants’ indiscriminate firing, trooper Suraj Parkash and SPO Karan Singh were killed. In the retaliatory action by the SFs, a 24-year old female militant and a HM ‘commander’ were shot dead. Another militant, identified as Shaheen Parvez, managed to escape from the incident site, from where the troops recovered one AK rifle, four magazines and some ammunition.

  With LeT top leaders Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Yousuf Muzammil, Ahmad Bhai and Zarar Shah in custody of Pakistan police in the aftermath of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, the LeT is learnt to have replaced them with new commanders to step up their terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and other parts of India.

  According to Intelligence sources, the new commanders appointed by the LeT to co-ordinate operations in J&K and other Indian States, include Shahji of Bahawalpur in the Punjab province of Pakistan, who had earlier operated as ‘divisional commander’ of the outfit for north Kashmir for almost a decade before he was called back to Pakistan, Hyder Bhai, known for several Fidayeen attacks, Huzefa and Walid. All of them are Pakistani nationals and have reportedly operated in the Kashmir valley over the last decade before crossing back to Pakistan. According to sources, the initial focus of four new commanders was the Kashmir valley and Doda-Rajouri-Poonch belt in Jammu besides metropolitan and other major cities of India.

• April 18: A Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant, identified as Nissar Ahmed, was killed along with his woman associate and another accomplice at Dori Bhagla in Doda District. The Deputy Inspector General of Police H. K. Lohia said Nissar had slipped through the Police net more than once in the past and that his girlfriend Zahida Bano (20) proved crucial in tracking him down. "Nissar, one of the most wanted terrorists in the district, was proving very elusive for us till we stumbled upon his affair with Zahida," he said. "We closed in on Nissar when we discovered Zahida was to meet him," Lohia said. "Nissar and Mohammed Rafiq Nazni, another terrorist accompanying him, were asked to surrender. When they didn't, security forces fired at them," Lohia said. He said Nissar and Nazni were killed while Zahida was critically injured. "Zahida, who had been working for the LeT as an Over Ground Worker (OGW), later died in a local hospital." Lohia added.

• April 5: The chief of the banned JuD (the Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT front], Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, and its three other leaders have challenged their detention before the Lahore High Court (LHC). A petition, filed under Article 199(1)(b)(i) of the Constitution, said the petitioners in custody within the territorial jurisdiction of the court be brought before it, so that the court could see on its own that the detainees were kept under detention unlawfully. The other leaders of the banned outfit who challenged their detention included Col (retd) Nazeer Ahmad, Mufti Abdul Rehman and Ameer Hamza. The petitioner's counsel, A. K. Dogar, submitted that Hafiz Saeed had earlier been detained by the Government of Pervez Musharraf, but was released by the LHC, observing that there was no allegation on record against the petitioner or his organisation. The counsel said the LHC had also observed that the organisation had never been involved in any terrorist activity in Pakistan and no FIR had ever been registered against it or any of the persons under arrest. He added that there was no finding of any blood-shed, terrorism or destruction of property anywhere in the country. He said the JuD was an independent organisation which had no connection with the LeT.

• April 4: An Army trooper was injured as three LeT militants managed to escape in an encounter at Seel area of Doda District.

• April 2: A top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant, 'district divisional commander' Yusuf Gujjar alias Kamran, and his two associates were shot dead by SFs at village Sarawan in the Kishtwar District. Deputy Inspector General of Police (Doda range), Hemant Kumar Lohia, told Daily Excelsior that SFs launched a search operation at Sarawan at 10 am after securing specific information about the presence of three top militants, including Yusuf Gujjar, in the area. During the encounter that ensued after a search operation was launched, all three of them were killed. Unconfirmed reports said that a Territorial Army trooper, Zafarullah, who had deserted his battalion in March 2009 and joined the LeT outfit, was also present in the area. His killing in the operation has not been confirmed so far by the SFs. It has, however, been confirmed that Zafarullah had joined Yusuf Gujjar's group after deserting the Army. Recoveries made from the incident site include one AK-56 rifle with three magazines, four grenades, six Chinese grenades, one pistol and a large quantity of ammunition. Yusuf Gujjar alias Kamran had taken over as 'district divisional commander' of the LeT two years ago after the killing of his predecessor Lal Din Gujjar. Since then, he had been instrumental in recruitment of local youths in the LeT, extortion and other militant activities across Kishtwar District, including attacks on SFs. With this, a total of six LeT militants have been killed in the Keshwan belt of Kishtwar District in the last fortnight.

  The Army arrested three over-ground workers (OGW) of the LeT from the Bharat area in Doda District. They were identified as Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Malik, Ghulam Qadir, and Noor Mohammed. Recoveries made from them include 50 AK rounds, one Chinese grenade, two electronic detonators and one Kenwood radio set. Further, another OGW, identified as Ghulam Nabi Malik, was arrested by the SFs from Baggi Nullah in Doda.

  A LeT militant, identified as Shabu Ahmed alias Amaar, surrendered before the SFs at Udianpur in the Doda District. He handed over one .303 rifle with one magazine and 74 rounds, one Chinese grenade and one anti-personnel mine at the time of surrender.

• April 1: A LeT militant, identified as Bilal Ahmad Koley, was arrested by the SFs at Mohripora in the Anantnag District. A Police spokesman said one pistol, one pistol magazine and two hand grenades were recovered from his possession.

• March 29: SFs killed a self-styled commander of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in Lolab area of Kupwara District, taking the death toll of militants and security force personnel to 32 in the past 10 days of counter-insurgency operations, officials said in capital Srinagar. The SFs launched a search operation in the Potushahi area of Lolab following information about the presence of militants in the area, the officials said. In the ensuing encounter between the two sides, LeT ‘commander’ Abu Bakr was killed. The officials said the operation was still in progress.

• March 27: A teenaged militant of the Lashkar-a-Toiba (LeT), Qazi Abdul Majeed, laid down arms in the Doda District.

  Another militant of the LeT outfit was reported to have escaped from outskirts of Doda town after taking shelter in a house for the night.

• March 25: The Army said that the major infiltration bid foiled near the LoC in Kupwara District was possible due to the accurate and absolute human intelligence provided by sources from across the LoC and within the Valley. "We had accurate and absolute human intelligence from across the LoC and from our side as well about this infiltration bid. As many as 17 militants have been killed in the encounter while eight soldiers including an officer made the supreme sacrifice," Brigadier General Staff of Army’s Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Brigadier Gurmeet Singh, told reporters. He said most of the slain militants were foreigners and essentially affiliated with the Lashkar-e-Toiba.

• March 24: Six militants were killed in the fresh exchange of fire between the suspected LeT militants and SFs in the forests near the LoC in Kupwara District as the operation entered its fifth day. The death toll in the ongoing operation, which has been extended from Chowkibal to Hafrada in the Vilgam area of Handwara, has now risen to 25 including 17 militants, seven soldiers and an Army Major. "Six militants were neutralized during exchange of fire today. With this the total number of militants killed in the operation since Friday has risen to 17," Defence spokesman Lt Colonel J S Brar said. He said a huge cache of arms and ammunition has been recovered from the area in which the operation was going on for the last over 108 hours. "The recoveries include 17 assault rifles, 13 AK magazines, 207 AK ammunition rounds, four Under Barrel Grenade Launchers (UBGL) and 21 UBGL grenades," he stated. One Kenwood radio set, a Thuraya satellite phone, two Global Positioning Systems (GPS), three map sheets, three matrix sheets, two have sacks and Rupees 9200 Indian currency have also been recovered from the area, he added.

• March 23: The gun battle between infiltrators and Army in the forests of Kupwara District entered its fourth day as SFs shot dead five more suspected LeT militants while four soldiers also died, taking the death toll in the ongoing operation to 19. "A total of 11 militants have been killed in the operation so far which began in the early hours of Friday in Chowkibal area near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district," a Defence spokesman said in capital Srinagar. He said while two militants were killed in early morning firefight, three more were shot dead in the afternoon. Four soldiers were also killed in the exchange of fire between the two sides. "Five militants and four soldiers were killed in today''s gun fight alone," he added.

• March 22: Four Army soldiers, including an officer of the rank of Major, and a suspected LeT militant were killed in the ongoing gun-battle between Army and a group of infiltrators along the LoC in Kupwara District, taking the death toll in the operation to 10. "Major Mohit Verma and three soldiers laid down their lives while valiantly fighting the infiltrators in Kupwara district," a Defence spokesman said in capital Srinagar. He said one militant was also killed in the exchange of fire between the two sides. The encounter has now entered into its third day and the operation has been going on for more than 60 hours now. The encounter began in Ragwar forests of Chowkibal area near the LoC in Kupwara District the small hours of March 20 and has now spread to Hafrada forests in the adjacent Vilgam village of Handwara area in the District as the militants have reportedly shifted from Ragwar to Hafrada, taking advantage of the terrain.

• March 21: The death toll in the ongoing encounter near the LoC in Kupwara District went up to five as two more suspected LeT militants were shot dead by the Army. "Two more militants who tried to infiltrate into this side of Line of Control in the wee hours of yesterday have been killed. The death toll of militants in the ongoing operation has now gone upto five," a senior Army official said.

• March 20: The Army foiled an infiltration bid near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara District, killing three militants while four Army personnel sustained injuries in the gun-battle. Police sources in capital Srinagar said the Army laid an ambush in Rangwar forest area following specific information about a group of 10 to 12 militants infiltrating into Kashmir valley from Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The troops established contact with the infiltrators in the wee hours of the day following which an encounter ensued in which three militants were shot dead. Official sources believe the militants are affiliated to the Lashkar-e-Toiba.

• March 18: Police arrested a woman militant of the LeT from the Thathri area of Doda District. She has been identified as 40 years old Suraiya Begum, a resident of village Cham Dalian in Thathri. Senior Superintendent of Police Parbhat Singh said Suraiya Begum was arrested on specific information developed by Police from a raid at Grid Station in Thathri. Preliminary investigations has revealed that Suraiya was involved in handing over a consignment of INR 20,000 hawala money and four SIM cards to a top LeT ‘commander’ Kubeb Abdullah in the upper reaches of Thathri. She had been given INR 50,000 hawala money by over-ground workers (OGW) of the LeT but she had handed over only 20,000 to the LeT commander. Three OGWs - Wasim Raja, Khursheed Ahmad and Nizam Din - were arrested by Police from Thathri on January 12 for links with the LeT network. Police said Suraiya Begum was part of the same group.

• March 14: Three top militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, including a Pakistani national, were shot dead by a combined force of the Army and Police during an encounter at village Sarwa in Keshwan area of Kishtwar District.

  Two LeT militants were shot dead by troops in a separate encounter at Handwara in the Kupwara District. Two AK-47 rifles and some ammunition were recovered from the encounter site.

  A financial coordinator of the LeT, identified as Nazir Ahmed, was arrested from Pangai village under Thanamandi tehsil in the Rajouri District. INR 50,000 hawala money was recovered from his possession.

• March 9: A review board of the Lahore High Court (LHC) extended the detention of the chief of the JuD (the LeT front), Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, and three other of its top leaders for 60 days while releasing two leaders. The board, comprising Justice Mian Najam-uz-Zaman, Justice Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan and Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi, issued this order after the Home Department produced sufficient evidence against Hafiz Saeed and his associates and sought extension in their detention. The detention of Ameer Hamza, Col (retd) Nazir Ahmed, and Mufti Abdur Rehman Rehmani, has also been extended for 60 days. The board observed that the data produced before the board was sufficient for extending the period of their detention. The board further ordered the Punjab Government to provide subsistence allowance of PKR 25,000 to the families of the detenus while they would be kept at various places already declared sub-jails. In the cases of Qazi Kashif Niaz and Qari Yasin Baloch, the board opined there was no cogent evidence/material produced by the Home Department to justify extension in their detention.

• March 6: The LeT rejected media reports that it was involved in an attack on a visiting Sri Lanka cricket squad in Lahore. "These media reports are false ... and baseless," said LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi. "The attack on Sri Lanka’s team was an attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty and Kashmiris could never even think of that," said Ghaznavi. "The attack is the handiwork of Indian agencies to defame Pakistan and bring instability to the country," claimed Ghaznavi.

• March 1: A Special Police Officer (SPO), Fallail Singh, was shot dead by militants at Kastigarh in the Doda District. Official sources said the SPO had been attached with the Rashtriya Rifles (10th Battalion) and was on a ‘secret mission’ to locate a hideout of the militants in the upper reaches of Kastigarh when he was abducted by militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit in the evening. He was subsequently shot dead in captivity and the militants escaped with his weapon.

• February 23: An over-ground worker of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was arrested from Yaripora in the Kulgam District. Some explosives and two hand grenades were recovered from his possession.

• February 19: SFs arrested a LeT militant from Guder village in the Kulgam District and recovered a hand grenade from his possession. A Police spokesman said the arrested militant has been identified as Sabzar Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Ukai in Kulgam.

  Mumbai was one of the 320 worldwide locations on the list of potential targets for commando-style terror strikes, The Guardian reported. The report suggested that the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), the outlawed terrorist group that planned much of the attack from Pakistan, "had ambitions well beyond causing mayhem in India". "Western intelligence agencies have accessed the computer and email account of Lashkar’s communications chief, Zarar Shah, and found a list of possible targets, only 20 of which were in India," Guardian reported. Two of the November 2008 attack’s key planners – Shah and Lashkar’s operations chief, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi – are now in police custody in Pakistan, it said.

• February 18: Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as Mohammed Yasin, from the Batote town of Ramban District on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway. Yasin was en route from Doda to Banihal to deliver a Chinese pistol with seven rounds and three SIM cards to the LeT ‘district commander’ Abu Moosa in Banihal forests, Senior Superintendent of Police Sunil Dutt said.

• February 9: Army personnel shot dead a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant after a brief encounter at Kalihand Top in the Doda District. The slain militant was identified as Bashir Ahmed, a 22 year-old resident of Tantna in the same District. One Self Loading Rifle and two magazines were recovered from his possession. Bashir Ahmed was reportedly operating in different parts of Doda for the last one and a half years.

  The Lashkar-e-Toiba said it has no plans of expanding its operations to the United States or Britain and the outfit posed no threat to Western World. "The CIA report issued after Mumbai attacks which describes Lashkar-e-Toiba as a threat to the US and Britain is baseless, misleading and far from truth. CIA should not get swayed by the Indian propaganda," LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi said in a tele-statement. Ghaznavi claimed the LeT had no network in the US or the UK and has no intention of starting armed actions in these countries. "We have made it clear time and again that LeT had no role in the Mumbai attacks. India wants to sabotage the freedom struggle of Kashmiri people by getting it labeled as terrorism at international level," he said.

• February 8: Intelligence agencies have detained three men in Karachi in Sindh province over their alleged involvement with Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman alias Ajmal Kasab, the lone LeT militant arrested during the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. A source disclosed that intelligence agencies had taken the men into custody from different areas of Karachi in connection with their alleged affiliation with Kasab.

• February 3: The Jama'at-ud-Da'awa (JuD, the LeT front) released the appeal it had made to the United Nations pleading its innocence and claiming that it has no link with al Qaeda, Taliban or the Mumbai terrorist attacks. The appeal signed by JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, was released on the eve of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's visit to Pakistan. The appeal said the UN had taken a hasty decision in proscribing the JuD, its chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and others members and termed the UN decision detrimental to the interests of Pakistan. It said that millions across the country were directly or indirectly benefiting from JuD's services particularly in the areas of health, education, water, sanitation, rehabilitation and particularly the provision of food and shelter to the homeless. Saeed requested the UN Secretary General to mobilize his good offices for the lifting of sanctions and delisting of all JuD entities. "We categorically make it clear and declare that Jamaat ud Dawa is neither an associate of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden nor the Taliban, hence the embargo imposed is materially in contradiction to that set out in their rules and highly unjustified under the international law of human dignity and freedom," Saeed said. He said the UN Security Council's decision was not based on any solid evidence and relied entirely on the one-sided story of the Indian lobby, which was devoid of any material facts provided by an independent and impartial international judicial system. "Jamaat ud Dawa or Hafiz Muhammad Saeed have never ever supplied, sold or transferred arms or any related material to Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden or Taliban and recruited any one for or on behalf of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden or Taliban nor have supported their acts or activities or any of their cell, affiliate, splinter group or even derivative group thereof," he said.

• February 1: Three Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed in a 10-hour long encounter with the SFs in the forest area of Handwara in Kupwara District. A joint team of the Special Operations Group of Police and troops of Rashtriya Rifles launched search operations in the forest area of Wadar Bala in the early hours following specific information about presence of militants in the area. In the ensuing encounter three unidentified militants were killed. Two AK-56, one AK-47, one pistol, nine magazines and large quantity of ammunition besides ration and logistic materials were recovered from the hideout, which is perched in a snowbound area at a height of 2700 meters above sea level, said a Defence spokesman.

• January 28: LeT 'commander' Abu Hamza was killed in a 16-hour gun-battle in the Amargarh area of Sopore town in Baramulla District. Official sources said Hamza was holed up inside the house of one Akbar Lone since the evening of January 27 when the area was cordoned off by the SFs following specific information about his presence in the village. One soldier, identified as Sohan Lal Sharma of the Rashtriya Rifles (52nd Battalion), was also killed in the encounter and another soldier was injured in the initial firing by the slain militant. One AK 47 rifle and four AK magazines were recovered from the encounter site

  Another Lashkar 'commander' Abu Abdul Rehman was killed by the SFs in the Bakihara area of Handwara in Kupwara District. Four SF personnel were wounded in the encounter.

• January 27: Hundreds of students protested as a Government official took over administrative control of the JuD headquarters in Muridke. The protest, organised for the second day, came as a senior official from the Punjab Government, Khaqan Babar, started his job running the schools and hospital at the JuD headquarters. About 500 students from a school in the sprawling JuD compound in Muridke gathered outside the main office and chanted slogans against the Government. "The Government has occupied the school illegally," they said. Witnesses said the protesters were school boys aged eight to 18, and students from a JuD-run madrassa (seminary). Protesters also gathered on the main highway linking provincial capital Lahore to the national capital Islamabad. They blocked the traffic for about half an hour before dispersing peacefully, police said. They carried banners and placards condemning "Indian pressure" and demanding that the Government lift a ban on the JuD.

• January 26: More than 200 protesters demonstrated against Pakistan's appointment of an administrator to oversee the headquarters of JuD, (LeT front),. "Death to America", "Death to Israel and Jews", shouted the protesters, carrying banners and placards that read: "Cancel administrator's appointment," "Remove the ban on the JuD" and "We condemn the UN resolution." Abu Ehsan, a former JuD administrator, while criticizing the January 25-takeover said, "This is a wrong step. First the government, under American and Indian pressure, placed a ban through the UN and now the Punjab government has... We strongly condemn this action and ask the government to review its decision." The provincial Government of Punjab has taken over the Muridke headquarters of the JuD, appointing an administrator to run the schools and medical facilities on the premises, and renaming it Punjab Welfare Institute. The Punjab Government named Khakan Babar, a senior official in the provincial Government, as the chief administrator of the assets at the Markaz-e-Taiba, an extensive facility located outside the provincial capital Lahore. He will report to the Lahore District Commissioner. "(The administrator's) job is to ensure that the schools and dispensaries in Muridke can continue to function, and at the same time ensure that the other purposes for which it was being used don't function," said Pervaiz Rashid, an adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

• January 25: Personnel of the Border Security Force foiled an attempt by a suspected suicide squad of around four LeT militants, who were trying to infiltrate into Indian side of the border under Kanachak sector of Jammu District. After an encounter, militants reportedly managed to exfiltrate into Pakistan.

• January 24: Two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were shot dead by SF personnel during an encounter in the Handwara area of Kupwara District. "Two militants were killed in a joint operation by Police and Army at Shah Nagri in Handwara," official sources said. Some arms and ammunition were recovered from the encounter site.

• January 23: Police detained two suspected LeT operatives, including a Sikh youth, from the Handwara area of Kupwara District and recovered two hand grenades from their possession. Police detained Riaz Ahmad, a resident of Chogal in Handwara, following specific information that he was working with the LeT and was in possession of some arms, ammunition and explosives. Official sources said Riaz revealed, during interrogation, that he had handed over some hand grenades to a Sikh youth, Popinder Singh, who lives in his locality. Singh was later detained for questioning.

• January 18: A top Lashkar-e-Toiba 'commander' was arrested by Police from Sartangal bazaar in the Bhaderwah town of Doda district. Senior Superintendent of Police Prabhat Singh said Imtiyaz Ahmed alias Saidullah was detained by a Police party which identified him while roaming in the market. Saidullah is a close associate of LeT 'district chief' Ashiq Hussain. From his possession, Police recovered one Chinese pistol, one HE-36 grenade and six pistol rounds.

• January 13: Two hardcore militants of the LeT and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) outfits and two Police personnel were killed during an encounter at Lallu Khetar in the Kalakote area of Rajouri District. Inspector General of Police (Jammu), K. Rajendra, said a team of Special Striking Reserve and Police launched a search operation at Lallu Khetar at 3.30 pm (IST) after receiving inputs about the presence of militants in the area. In the ensuing encounter that lasted for approximately 90 minutes two militants and two Policemen, Mushtaq Ahmed and Nissar Hussain, were killed. At least two militants managed to escape taking cover of the forest area. The slain militants have been identified as Ashfaq, a HM 'commander', and Abu Talha, a LeT 'commander'. Two AK-56 rifles, two magazines, 37 rounds, four hand grenades, one radio set, one mobile telephone and several incriminating documents were recovered from the incident site.

Police arrested two over-ground workers of the LeT from Upper Thathri area of Doda District and recovered INR 20,000 worth Hawala money besides four SIM cards of two private telecom companies from them. They have been identified as Waseem Raza and Najam-ud-Din Gujjar.

• January 12: A LeT terrorist, identified as Safique Iliyas alias Deepak, was arrested by the West Bengal's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) from Malda District. Safique, a resident of Rajshahi in Bangladesh, was instructed to spy on the movement of Army personnel in Siliguri, CID officials said. "Safique crossed over to India on January 3 and was sheltered in the house of Haji Akhtar Hussein at Harishchandrapur in Malda District. We arrested both on a tip-off," Siddh Nath Gupta, Deputy Inspector-General (Operations) of CID, said in Kolkata.

• January 10: The house arrest of Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (a front for the Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]) founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed has been extended for another 60 days, Punjab Additional Home Secretary Usman Anwar said. "His house has already been declared a sub-jail where he will spend the rest of the detention period," Anwar said, adding that the Punjab Government extended the detention on orders from the federal Government.

• January 9: Police in the Punjab province of Pakistan have included names of four Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (the front organisation of Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]) leaders, including Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, in a list of leaders of banned groups. A private TV channel in Pakistan reported that Police also issued a list of 30 suspected militants involved in extremist activities. Police sources said other Jama’at-ud-Da’awa leaders put on the list were Abdur Rehman Makki, Abu Hashim and Ameer Hamza, the channel added. Three people mentioned in the 30-name list were category ‘A’ - most wanted – and carried PKR 40 million as head money.

• January 8: Police said it has arrested two over-ground workers of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit from Khalloen in the Pulwama District and recovered arms and ammunition from their possession. A Police spokesman said the duo has been identified as Abdul Hanan Najar and Shabir Ahmad Bhat. One hand grenade, 15 rounds of AK ammunition, a tent of foreign-make and three woolen blankets were recovered from their possession.

• January 2: The LeT rejected a report that one of its leaders had acknowledged the group’s involvement in the multiple terrorist attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed officials, reported on December 31, 2008 that Pakistani authorities had obtained a confession from a senior LeT member. The suspect, identified as Zarar Shah, allegedly told investigators he had played a key role in the planning of the November attacks. "Lashkar-e-Toiba rejects the Wall Street Journal report," its spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi said in an email statement. "India has failed to furnish any evidence of Lashkar-e-Toiba’s involvement in the Mumbai attacks and America is now trying to help it out," he claimed. No evidence could be found "on the scene of the crime, and now there is an effort to manufacture evidence thousands of miles away," he added.

• January 1: According to India’s Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, less than two weeks after it was banned by the United Nations, the LeT front Jama’at-ud-Da’awa is active, CNN-IBN reported. Menon said the JuD is now operating under a new name. He also said the JuD has a new Website, which is being used to collect money to fund terrorist activities. Speaking to All India Radio, Menon rejected Pakistan’s offer of joint investigation into the Mumbai terror attacks on November 26. According to PTI, the JuD may be planning to rename itself as ''Tehreek-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool'' (Movement for defending the honour of the Prophet) to avoid restrictions which Pakistan could be forced to impose on it because of UNSC sanctions. The indication that JuD may be thinking of changing its name reportedly came as some senior cadres of the outfit recently organised a rally in Pakistan under the banner of Tehreek-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool, sources told PTI.

2008

• December 26: The Punjab Government has appointed administrators in 10 selected schools of the banned outfit JuD (the LeT front organisation) after intelligence agencies reported that these institutions were promoting extremism. As many as 26 educational institutions of the JuD are operating in various parts of the province but the Government has appointed administrators in only 10 selected schools. Sources revealed that following a ban imposed on the JuD, intelligence agencies informed the Government that 10 JuD educational institutions in various parts of Punjab were promoting extremism. "Special lectures promoting Jihad are delivered to students, especially at the time of assembly," sources quoting intelligence reports said. A senior official of the School Education Department said the move was aimed at resumption of academic activities at the JuD-run institutions, especially in view of the upcoming matriculation annual examinations. He said teachers would not be replaced and they would continue to teach at these institutions. Abdullah Muntazir, a JuD spokesman, claimed the organisation had always worked within the law, adding discipline had been the top priority at their schools.

• December 23: Pakistan has ‘satisfactorily complied’ with UN sanctions on terrorist groups, including the JuD, a senior United Nations official has said. Richard Barrett, co-ordinator of the UN Security Council’s (UNSC) Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Committee, told CNN-IBN television that it was difficult to implement the sanctions completely, but the UN had found all Pakistani agencies were co-operative. The committee has the task of monitoring sanctions imposed by the UNSC on declared terrorists. "It is very difficult for a state to implement that (sanctions) completely, but yes in a way the Pakistani government is working to ensure fruitful compliance," he said.

• December 22: The Foreign Office in Islamabad confirmed that the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has received a letter written by Mohammad Ajmal Amir alias Ajmal Kasab, the lone LeT militant arrested during the multiple terrorist attacks in Mumbai on November 26. Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq told that the External Affairs Ministry of India had handed over a letter, allegedly written by Ajmal Kasab. Meanwhile, a statement issued by the Foreign Office said, "This evening the Indian government has forwarded to the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi a letter from one ‘Mohammad Ajmal Mohammad Ameer Kasab’, who claims to be a Pakistani." The statement said he had sought assistance of a lawyer and a meeting with the Pakistan High Commissioner. "The contents of the letter are being examined," it concluded. Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said Pakistan’s acting High Commissioner Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi was summoned to the ministry and given the letter purportedly written by Mohammed Ajmal Amir. "In his letter to the Pakistan High Commission, Iman has stated he and the (nine) terrorists killed in the attack were from Pakistan and he has sought a meeting with the Pakistan High Commission," Prakash added.

• December 21: The LeT was operating in the guise of Jama’at-ud-Da’awa and Pakistan would have been isolated in the world if the group had not been banned, a private TV channel reported Federal Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi as saying. Kazmi also said the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (JuD) was banned under pressure from the United Nations.

• December 19: Two more top LeT militants, including a ‘tehsil commander’, were killed by the Security Forces (SFs) in an encounter at village Kairni in the Bharat area of Doda District. With this, the death toll in two operations during the last two days has increased to five, including four LeT commanders and an Army soldier. A Special Police Officer, Rakesh Kumar, was wounded in the operation on December 19. Senior Superintendent of Police (Doda), Prabhat Singh, said SFs, who had launched a search operation at Kairni on December 18 and shot dead a ‘deputy divisional commander’ of the LeT, Mohammed Iqbal Malik alias Abu Umair, resumed the search the next morning. The militants, who had slipped into Kairni forests, were pursued in the morning and finally engaged in a gun-battle by the SFs. In the over two hour long encounter, the two remaining militants, identified as Mohammed Ashraf, a ‘tehsil commander’, and Nawaz Ahmed Mir alias Abu Murshid were killed. Recoveries made from the slain militants include three AK-56 rifles, four magazines, 76 rounds, eight grenades, one radio set, two mobile telephones and some incriminating documents.

• December 18: The crackdown on the JuD charity continues and 55 of its senior leaders have been detained, a private TV channel reported the Interior Ministry as saying. An unnamed Interior Ministry spokesman said the names of 22 of those arrested had been placed on the Exit Control List. He said the detained men were being interrogated and no clues of their link to the Mumbai terror attacks had been found so far.

  Police in the Doda District killed two top militant commanders of the LeT, including Saifullah Qari, a Pakistani, in two gun-battles at Krara and Bharat. A trooper of Territorial Army was also killed in one of the incidents.

  An unidentified LeT ‘commander’ was killed during an encounter with the Police at village Kairni in the Doda district.

• December 17: Rejecting Indian claims yet again that there is ‘clear evidence’ suggesting the Mumbai terror attacks originated inside Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari told BBC there is still no conclusive proof. Zardari told BBC in Islamabad that Pakistan was prepared to act if adequate evidence of any Pakistani complicity in the attacks emerged. Zardari stated claims that the sole surviving attacker had been identified by his father as coming from Pakistan had also not been proven. The president also said that LeT chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed would remain under house arrest. "Let me assure you that if there is any investigation to be found pointing towards his involvement in any form of terrorism, he shall be tried for that reason," said Zardari

  Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, chief of the banned LeT, cannot be tried without solid proof, Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said. Mukhtar said Saeed had been detained under the Maintenance of Public Order regulation, which only allowed detaining a citizen for 90 days. The detention could be extended, he said, but India had not given solid proof to Pakistan about the involvement of Saeed or the LeT in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. "In the absence of solid proof, neither Hafiz Saeed nor any other leader detained at the moment can be tried in any court of law," the channel quoted him as saying.

• December 16: The Provincial Police Officer Balochistan, Asif Nawaz Warraich, has said that no arrest of any member of the JuD was made. However, there was one office of JuD in Quetta which was sealed. Speaking to reporters, he said the JuD had specific activities in Balochistan. Their camps set up for collecting relief for earthquake hit people had been closed. He said the federal Government did not provide any list for arrests.

• December 15: Authorities in PoK have released four detained workers of the JuD and have also withdrawn Police guards from the residence of the group’s regional head. Chaudhry Imtiaz, Deputy Commissioner of Muzaffarabad, the PoK capital, told that Police guards had been removed from the residence of Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi but he had been asked not to leave the area without informing the administration. Maulana Alvi, who heads the PoK chapter of JuD, was put under house arrest in his Karyan village, some 19 kilometres north of Muzaffarabad, on December 11. "He had been placed under house arrest for security reasons. He is still under surveillance and cannot leave the station without prior intimation to the authorities concerned," the Deputy Commissioner (DC) said. Similarly, the DC said four people taken into custody from a mechanical workshop run by the JuD in Muzaffarabad had also been released because they were merely mechanics. In response to a question, he said there were no instructions from the federal Government to detain the regional or second-line leadership of the JuD. They were concerned about the ‘top brass’ and not the regional leadership, he said.

  SFs continued the crackdown against JuD and arrested 12 workers and sealed its assets in different parts of the NWFP. JuD provincial spokesman Atiq ur Rehman Chohan said 12 workers, including the Mardan District chief Murad Khan, were arrested. Ehile accusing state agencies of torturing JuD workers, Chohan also said similar raids were conducted in Abbottabad District and innocent people had been detained. He said that Police had confiscated four motor cycles in Abbottabad main office. In Peshawar, he said Police had sealed Al Dawa Model School in Tehkal area which was illegal. "Sealing Dawa’s schools, hospitals and ambulance service will affect only common people and 25,000 workers across the country," he said.

• December 14: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown blamed the outlawed LeT for the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Addressing a press conference at the President’s House in Islamabad after talks with President Asif Ali Zardari, he urged Pakistan to provide British investigators access to people detained during a crackdown on JuD, including its chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. Brown had said that British Police wanted to question the suspects because at least three UK nationals were among the people killed in Mumbai.

  There is no evidence that the JuD is engaged in acts of violence, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. "If there is evidence (of terrorist activities) we will take action," Qureshi said on a trip to Paris for a meeting of senior envoys from Afghanistan, its neighbours and other world powers to discuss the war-torn country’s future.

  The ISI, Pakistan external intelligence agency, has no links with the banned LeT, President Asif Ali Zardari said in a Newsweek interview. Asked if the ISI had shared intelligence with the LeT on Kashmir, Zardari said it was "something [that happened] in the old days when dictators used to run the country. Maybe before 9/11, that may have been a position. [But] since then, things have changed to a great extent". He said the group had now been banned in Pakistan, but such groups "keep re-emerging in different forms". "Whenever there is actionable intelligence, we move in before anyone else does," he said.

• December 12: Police shut down offices of the JuD and arrested scores of operatives as it continued a crackdown against the banned group.

  Islamabad Police sealed three offices of the JuD. One was near Masjid Quba in the I-8 Markaz and another in Street 35 in G-6/4, Chief Commissioner Kamran Lashari said. However, no arrests were made. Officials said the group had abandoned its G-6 office before the Police raid. Later in the day, Police sealed another office located on Korri Road near Shahzad Town, and arrested six suspected operatives.

  In the NWFP, JuD officials in Peshawar said Police had arrested 150 operatives in a province-wide operation and sealed 46 offices. But over 181 activists were arrested and 46 offices sealed across the Frontier on December 11. Many workers have reportedly gone underground. Police closed the Da’awa headquarters at Peshawar’s Fawara Chowk late on December 11. However, no arrests were made. The Frontier Police also closed down offices of the banned Al Akhtar Trust and Al Rashid Trust in the Saddar, Hashtnagri, Gulbahar and Yakatoot areas of the city and in the rest of the province. JuD spokesman Attiq-ur-Rehman Chohan told reporters outside the sealed office at Fawara Chowk in Peshawar that workers were arrested from offices in Mardan, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Malakand, Swabi and other Districts of NWFP. He claimed the crackdown would deprive over 400,000 people displaced by the military operation in Bajuar Agency of food, medicines and other items.

  Police raided an office, two schools and a religious seminary run by the JuD in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), and placed its leader Abdul Aziz Alvi under house arrest.

  In Rawalpindi, security agencies sealed five offices in Satellite Town, Kashmari Bazaar, Benazir Bhutto Road, Pindora and Tench Bhatta. Police sources said no arrests were made from these locations.

  In Lahore, divisional superintendents of Police took surety bonds from the JuD operatives. Multan Police sealed a Jama’at-ud-Da’awa office at Rasheedabad Chowk, and a school and a dispensary on Tareen Road in a midnight operation. Police also sealed the group’s offices in south Punjab cities of Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur, Arifwala, Bahawalnagar, Khanewal, and arrested one operative each from Arifwala and Rajanpur.

  In the Sindh province, officials said they had arrested 11 JuD operatives and sealed six offices and six seminaries, but the group’s officials claimed 100 operatives had been detained 35 offices sealed. "Seven of the men and two of the seminaries belonged to Karachi," said Sindh Special Secretary Collin Kamran Dost

  In Balochistan, Police sealed a JuD office and a library on New Zarghoon Road in capital Quetta. However, no arrests were made.

  The Interior Ministry had issued detention orders for JuD chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and other leaders like Ameer Hamza, Yahya Mujahid and Abu Umer Qazi. Saeed has been put under house arrest. The name of a second detained leader could not be confirmed. Police continued to search for the other two.

  Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said Pakistan had launched a crackdown on the JuD to avoid being declared a ‘terrorist state’ by the United Nations. "Had the action not been taken, the UN would have declared Pakistan as a ‘terrorist state’ and imposed economic sanctions… We were left with no option but to take action against JuD," he told reporters at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Rawalpindi.

  The Jud said it would mount a legal challenge to the decision to close it down after the United Nations listed it as a terrorist organisation. Mohammad Talha Saeed, son of the LeT chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, condemned the ban, while claiming that the Jud was engaged in relief work. "Dawa was doing welfare work across Pakistan, but the relief work has been stopped," he told a congregation during Friday prayers at a mosque run by the organisation in Lahore. According to him, "There is no moral or legal justification for this action." Later he told that the group would "go to competent courts for our rights" and would resort to the International Court of Justice if necessary.

• December 11: The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (front outfit for LeT) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed was placed under house arrest for three months as the countrywide crackdown on the organisation continued.

  Police sealed Qudsia Mosque, the headquarters of Jama’at-ud-Da’awa in Chauburji Chowk, and 18 other offices throughout Punjab province. Five offices were sealed in Sialkot. 25 members of the organisation, including Ameer Hamza, Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, Maulana Naseer Hamza, Saifullah Mansoor, Da’awa’s director of public relations, Col (retd) Nazir Ahmed, and Rajanpur District president Talib Rehman, were detained. A large number of publications of the organisation were reportedly seized. Hafiz Saeed was detained at his Johar Town residence under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance. "Police have encircled the house of Hafiz Saeed and told him he cannot leave his home. They have told him that the detention order will be formally issued shortly," his spokesman Abdullah Montazir said. A Police official said detention orders had also been issued by the Punjab home department and raids were being conducted to arrest Yahya Mujahid, Abu Umer a number of other prominent members. Sources said that an office of the organisation on Chamberlain Road, in Gawalmandi, had been sealed a few days ago. Six members of the organisation were arrested from its main relief camp on the Karakoram Highway, near Ghazikot Township, on December 10. In Rawalpindi, Police sealed the group’s local office on Circular Road.

  In Peshawar, the NWFP capital, Police sealed the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa office in Fowara Chowk. However, Attiqur Rehman Chohan, the provincial spokesman for the Da’awa, told from an unspecified location that the organisation had decided to close its offices in Peshawar and other cities and suspend its activities for the time being. He said the group’s leaders were in touch with the provincial Government and major political parties and the issue would be raised in the national and provincial assemblies. The SFs also raided an office of the Da’awa in Parhana area of Mansehra District and arrested five of its activists. SFs had sealed the relief camp-cum-office a day before Eidul Azha.

  The group’s office in Quetta, capital of Balochistan, was also sealed.

  In Karachi, Police sealed the central office of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. City Police chief Waseem Ahmed said the office was sealed on a directive of the federal Government and efforts were being made to track down top leaders.

  A spokesman for the State Bank said the central bank had frozen bank accounts of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, its leaders and sister organisations — Al-Rashid Trust and Al-Akhtar Trust.

  "Instructions have been issued to seal Jama’at-ud-Da’awa offices in all the four provinces as well as Azad Kashmir," said Interior Ministry spokesman Shahidullah Baig.

• December 10: LeT chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and arrested ‘operations commander’ Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi were among those who met the ten terrorists involved in the multiple terrorist attacks in Mumbai on November 26, a senior Mumbai Police officer said. "Hafiz Saeed, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Abu Hamza and Kahfa are the four who played a prominent role in hatching conspiracy, training the terrorists and uting the plan," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said. Arrested terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman has said that Saeed allegedly gave motivational speeches to the group of ten terrorists while they were training in Muridke in Pakistan, Maria said. Lakhvi, presently placed under arrest by Pakistani authorities, allegedly hatched the conspiracy of carrying out the attacks in Mumbai. "Lakhvi was also present to bid farewell to ten terrorists who left on November 22 from Karachi," Maria added. Hamza and Kahfa allegedly were with the group of ten terrorists throughout their entire training which lasted about a year and a half in four locations in Pakistan, Maria stated.

  A UN Security Council panel declared that Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, a Pakistan-based charity, is a front group for LeT, the terrorist group accused of orchestrating last month''s attacks that killed 195 persons in Mumbai. AP reported that the panel said Jama’at-ud-Da’awa is a front for the LeT and now subject to UN sanctions on terrorist organizations. The panel also designated four men linked to the Mumbai attacks as terrorists subject to sanctions. Designated as terrorists subject to UN sanctions were LeT chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, ‘operations commander’ Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Haji Muhammad Ashraf, its chief of finance and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, a financier with the group. The Security Council''s al Qaeda and Taliban sanctions committee added them to its list of terrorists subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo under a council resolution adopted this year. The U.S. Treasury Department last week designated the men as terrorists and ordered any U.S. assets frozen.

  Saeed denied links with the LeT. "No LeT man is in Jama’at-ud-Da’awa and I have never been a chief of LeT," he said.

  The UN sanctions panel also described a number of trusts and foundations as aliases for the al-Rashid and al-Akhtar trusts, which have raised funds for Lashkar. According to the panel, the al-Rashid Trust can be equated with the al-Amin Welfare Trust, al-Amin Trust, al-Ameen Trust and al-Madina Trust. The al-Akhtar Trust aliases, the panel said, are Pakistan Relief Foundation, Azmat-e-Pakistan Trust and Azmat Pakistan Trust.

• December 9: The SFs crackdown on the LeT, which has been linked to the Mumbai terrorist attacks, will not cripple the banned organisation, a co-ordinator of the militant group has said. "We’re still well-organised and active," an unnamed LeT coordinator told. Speaking in a safe house near Lahore the paper said the militant put the organisation’s strength in the "thousands" in Pakistan. He said the group has "huge strength" and is concentrated in Pakistan’s tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan. It should not be surprising that Mohammad Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab,’ the LeT terrorist captured in India, is not a recognisable name because those who join his group are given other names, the coordinator said. "All those who join these organisations are given Arabic names," he said. "Sometimes to make them less conspicuous they’re given non-Arabic but purely Muslim names," as also in the fact that names are changed every six to eight months for the fighters. He denied that the group had to purchase recruits.

  Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, said the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa could be banned on the request of the UN Security Council. Talking to the media in United Nations, Hussain Haroon said that India has approached the Security Council to get the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa outlawed while he showed Pakistan’s readiness to ban the suspected outfit if United Nations requests to Pakistan, adding that its bank accounts could also be frozen.

  Pakistan has detained the LeT ‘operations commander’, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, and the JeM chief, Maulana Masood Azhar, Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar confirmed. "Lakhvi was picked up on December 8. Azhar has also been picked up," Mukhtar told.

• December 8: SFs arrested an alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terrorist attacks during a raid on a militant camp, two officials said. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was among at least 15 people detained on December 7 after the raid on the camp run by the banned LeT in PoK, the officials said. "Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is under arrest. He was an operational commander of the Lashkar-e-Toiba," a senior security official told. Troops backed by a helicopter overran the camp close to Muzaffarabad, the PoK capital, briefly exchanging fire with militants there, a senior intelligence official said. He said more than 12 detainees were being questioned over any possible links to the multiple terrorist in Mumbai.

  The SFs raided the offices of Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (the LeT front outfit) in Mansehra and Chakdara. The NWFP unit chief of Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, Attique Chohan, told that their charity centre called "Markaz-e-Hafsa" was raided in Mansehra by the SFs. He said some arrests of their personnel were also made and the centre and its record seized by the SFs. Another small office of the group in Chakdara in Lower Dir was also taken over by the SFs. However, he said their office in Peshawar was open. Attique Chohan said, "We are peaceful people and not involved in any act of terrorism. We are also against attacks like the one made in Mumbai."

  SFs are reported to have intercepted a car just outside Rawalpindi and arrested a suspected LeT militant.

  The army confirmed that it has begun an operation targeting banned organisations in the wake of the attacks in Mumbai last month, but did not name any organisation. "There have been arrests and investigations are ongoing," a statement said, adding further details would be released once preliminary investigations had been completed.

  LeT chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed condemned a raid on the outfit’s camp. "The operation against Jihadi organisations in Azad Kashmir is unwarranted and we strongly condemn it… The government has shown signs of weakness by targeting Kashmiri organisations," said Saeed. "India wants to crush the independence movement of Kashmir using the Mumbai attacks as a pretext," he added.

• December 7: Security forces have reportedly launched a ‘quiet’ crackdown on activists belonging to the banned LeT, also known as Jama’at-ud-Da’awa in different parts of the country and PoK. In Muzaffarabad, capital of the PoK, a major army operation was under way in the city suburbs against a site being used by the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, which is headed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. Sources said that more than 20 members of the banned organisation, including ‘commander’ Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi, had been arrested.

  There are reports that similar action is planned in some cities and towns of Punjab province. However, reports of the crackdown could not be confirmed from the interior ministry or the Inter-Services Public Relations. Local residents in Muzaffarabad, however, said they had seen army personnel taking control of the area along Shawai Nullah, some five kilometers northwest of Muzaffarabad, where the organisation possesses a large plot of land on which several buildings had been built. There were unconfirmed reports of an exchange of fire. In Chehla Bandi, soldiers are reported to be checking vehicles bound for the Neelum Valley. However, a Jama’at-ud-Da’awa office-bearer denied that a crackdown had been launched on his organisation in other areas.

• December 5: The LeT chief, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, has advised India to refrain from hurling baseless accusations at Pakistan and focus its attention on solving its internal problems and providing justice to minorities. Muslim states have always given equal rights and protection to minorities, yet Muslims living in secular states have been deprived of their basic human rights and justice, he said during Friday sermon at the Jamia Qadsia mosque in Lahore. Saeed said India was indulging in politics of accusations and blaming Pakistan in order to hide its internal problems. He said India was trying unsuccessfully to counter several freedom and separatist movements in a number of Indian states as reaction to the excesses of Hindu Brahmins, especially the denial of peaceful co-existence to Muslims.

• December 4: Jama’at-ud-Da’awa officials denied any links with the banned terrorist group LeT at a press briefing at their centre in Muridke, 30km from Lahore. Abdullah Muntazir, deputy spokesman for the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, said at the 75-acre complex that they wanted to refute ‘propaganda’ against them and clear their names in front of the national and international press. Yahya Mujahid, a spokesman of the group, said that although the group offered its philosophical support to militants in Kashmir, they condemned the Mumbai attacks. He added that neither the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa nor the LeT were involved in the attacks. On the status of the group’s leader, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, Muntazir stated that the government of Pakistan was "not yet so weak that it would hand over its own citizens to India."

  Interior Adviser Rehman Malik denied India had provided Pakistan a list of 20 wanted suspects, saying it had asked for three suspects who do not include Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the chief of the LeT. "They gave us three names, two of them are Indian nationals – Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon – and the third is Masood Azhar, the JeM chief," Malik told in Islamabad. He said the two Indian nationals were not on Pakistani soil, and India should provide evidence against Azhar so that the "law can take its own course". To a question regarding the alleged role of LeT in terrorism in India, Malik said the organisation and its activities had already been banned in Pakistan.

• December 3: India has blamed the Pakistan-based LeT for the Mumbai attacks. Besides seeking "strong action" against "elements from Pakistan" linked to the attacks, New Delhi has asked Islamabad to hand over 20 most wanted criminals and terrorists, including LeT chief Hafiz Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, which was rejected by Pakistan.

  Suspects wanted by India in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai will be tried in Pakistan if there is concrete evidence against them, President Asif Ali Zardari said. He told a television channel in an interview from Islamabad that if proof of wrongdoing surfaced, the men would be tried in Pakistani courts and sentenced. The state of Pakistan is in no way responsible for the Mumbai attacks, he said, which were the work of ‘stateless’, meaning non-state, actors. LeT, he said in answer to a question, is a banned organisation in Pakistan and all around the world. "If indeed they are involved, we would not know. Again, they are people who operate outside the system," he claimed.

• December 2: The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (also known as Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]) has reportedly expressed apprehension about an Indian missile strike on its complex. "Will India attack our centre?... Are they serious" said Abu Hassaan, chief administrator at Jama’at-ud-Da’awa headquarters, known as the Markaz-e-Tayyaba. LeT chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has said that it will be unfortunate if India attacked his organisation’s headquarters in Muridke, as has been indicated in media reports, because the complex housed only educational institutions. In an interview with a TV channel, he denied that the centre contained any training facility for terrorists or jihadis and said that instead of blaming Pakistan India should focus on investigation of the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

  Aides of the LeT chief denied that their leader has any links to terrorists and termed Indian demands for his extradition as ‘ridiculous’. "Hafiz Saeed has never been convicted of any crime anywhere the world," Jama’at-ud-Da’awa spokesman Yahya Mujahid said. Rashid Minhas, the principal of one of Jama’at-ud-Da’awa’s schools, denounced the Mumbai attacks as un-Islamic since civilians were killed. He said, "We teach jihad because it’s part of Islam and we can’t remove it from holy Quran ... but we don’t give jihadi training."

  The US Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, on December 2 blamed the LeT for the multiple terrorist attacks in Mumbai. "The same group that we believe is responsible for Mumbai had a similar attack in 2006 attack on a train and killed a similar number of people," said McConnell, speaking at Harvard University.

• November 28: SFs killed seven militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in two separate gun-battles in the Bandipora and Awantipore areas.

  Official sources said that troops of Rashtriya Rifles and Bandipora Police launched a cordon-and-search operation immediately after receiving specific information regarding the presence of a heavily armed group of Pakistani militants at Gujjar Patti Shogbaba Sahib. During the search operation, an encounter occurred between the holed up militants and SFs that lasted for 15 hours. Sources said that five militants were killed when troops destroyed their hideouts in two residential houses of Lateef Khan and Bashir Khan besides two cowsheds. According to Police, all the five were Pakistani cadres of the LeT. They added that five AK-47 rifles, 13 magazines, cellular phones and a GPS set were recovered from the possession of slain militants.

  In another incident, troops of the Rashtriya Rifles and Awantipore Police targeted a militant hideout at Punzgam in the Pulwama district and shot dead two LeT militants who were hiding at a house in the neighbourhood. Officials identified one of the duo as Rayees Ahmed Wagay of Punzgam and said his associate was a Pakistani national.

• November 27: The LeT denied any involvement in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in India. The LeT "strongly condemns the series of attacks in Mumbai. The Lashkar has no association with any Indian militant group," said Abdullah Gaznavai, chief spokesman of the group.

• November 24: SFs killed a newly recruited LeT militant, identified as Riaz Ahmed Sheikh, in the Kutdhar area of Doda district. One 7.62 mm Chinese pistol with three pistol rounds, one hand grenade, one mobile phone and six AK rounds were recovered from his possession. Mohammad Sikander the owner of the house in which the slain militant was hiding has been arrested for questioning.

• November 20: A woman militant from PoK was among a group of four militants trapped at Chajla village in the Mendhar tehsil (revenue division) of Poonch district in an encounter with the SFs. Official sources said the group of four LeT militants, including a woman, has been engaged in a gun-battle with troops at Chajla since the morning. One of the militants, identified as Abdullah, was reportedly wounded in the encounter but he was carried away by his colleagues. The group was reported to have infiltrated from Behri Rakh in Mendhar sector about four days back. In initial round of firing with the militants, an Army soldier, Van Lal Huma, was killed.
  
  The grenade attack on a Police Station in Sopore was claimed by the LeT. The Station House Officer, Inspector Shafeeq Ahmed, sustained injuries in the grenade attack.

• November 8: Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police, in two separate counter-insurgency operations, shot dead eight top militants of the HM and LeT outfits — four each in the Doda and Poonch districts. The Senior Superintendent of Police of Doda district, Prabhat Singh, said that four hardcore HM militants, including a ‘district commander’, were killed during an encounter at Baleni Nullah in the Dessa area of Doda district.

• Troops foiled an infiltration attempt by a group of six militants killing four of them in an encounter on the LoC at Sabjian in the Poonch district. While two other militants managed escape, trooper M.K. Thappa was injured during the encounter with the militants. The militants were believed to be LeT cadres. Two AK rifles and a large quantity of ammunition and explosives were recovered from the slain militants.

• October 26: The identity of two more Kerala based militants of the LeT, who were killed in encounters in Jammu and Kashmir on October 6, has been established while another associate is suspected to have fled back to Kerala.. According to top police sources in Kerala, the two militants, identified as Abdul Faiz from Kannur and Muhammad Yasir alias Verghese Joseph of Kochi, who converted to Islam about a year back, were among four who were killed in the SF operations. Earlier, the police had identified the other two militants slain in Lolab valley as Mohammad Fayaz from Kannur and Abdul Rahim from Malappuram. "Only one among the five Kerala youth who had joined Pakistan-based LeT outfit survived the encounters in Lolab valley and had apparently fled back," Senior Superintendent of Police, Kupwara, Uttam Chand said.

  There was an intelligence report suggesting that Lashkar commander Abdullah had been on a recruitment spree under instructions from Pakistan's ISI and Kerala's Malappuram district was chosen as one of the targets in South India. The documents recovered from the killed militants, include a diagram and method to assemble IEDs in Malayalam. Central agencies had been monitoring certain leads which said a group of people hailing from Kerala along with LeT's support were trying to enter PoK through North Kashmir. LeT has been trying to make inroads into the country's hinterland and had sought recruits from various parts of the country.

• October 25: Two persons, Mohd Shafi Seer and Mohammad Yousuf Bhat, who were asked by militant groups to carry out grenade attack during polls, were arrested by the SFs from Handwara area of Kupwara district. One hand grenade each was recovered from them. While Seer was operating for Al Badr, Bhat was carrying out the assignment for LeT outfit. They were asked to lob hand grenades at public places to thwart people’s participation in upcoming elections.

• October 24: A suspected LeT militant, identified as Siraj Din, was arrested by SFs near Trikuta Complex General Bus Stand area of Jammu district. Six rounds of AK ammunition and a letter head of LeT were recovered from him.

• October 22: Two LeT militants were killed by security forces during a joint search operation at Watlar in the Ganderbal district. The killed militants were identified as Mohd Latief Chopan of Najma and Farooq Ahmed Sheikhi of Akhal.

• October 21: Meanwhile, a huge quantity of arms and ammunition including, 52 cartridges 7.62-MM, 4.5 Cordex Wire, one Satellite Phone, one Mobile Charger, four SIMs, one Stamp Pad with rubber Stamp of the LeT ‘District Commander’, one Magazine Pouch, one Blanket, one Pistol magazine, six Mobiles were recovered by the police at Sangoit in the Poonch district

• October 19: A top woman militant of the LeT, Halima Begum of Anantnag and her brother, Mohd Ashraf, were arrested along with a pistol, AK rounds and explosive devices by Police at Kud in the Udhampur district. Both have a record of deep involvement in militancy, and had a plan to assist a top Pakistani militant there.

  Army neutralized two LeT hideouts and arrested one militant at Sinkan in the Mendhar tehsil (revenue division) in Poonch district. Two pistols, two UBGLs, three magazines, 250 rounds of AK rifle and one ikom wireless set were recovered from the incident site.

• October 18: Army and police arrested an over ground worker of the LeT, identified as Mohd Farid, from Kalakot tehsil (revenue division) in the Rajouri district

• October 15: The Army recovered one Thoraya satellite telephone, three Korean mobile handsets, one rubber stamp bearing name of Zaffa Shah Mujahideen, ‘area commander’ of the LeT, one Chinese grenade, one pouch, one radio set, two AK magazines and 38 rounds, from Sangiot at Kalaban under Mendhar tehsil (revenue division) in the Poonch district, where two LeT militants and a soldier were reportedly killed during an encounter on October 14.

• October 14: Two hardcore militants of the LeT and an Army soldier were killed in a fierce gun battle at Sangiot village in the Kalaban area of Mendhar tehsil (revenue division) in Poonch district. The encounter started when the Army and the police intercepted a group of militants about a couple of kilometres from the LoC while trying to infiltrate. One of the two militants has been identified as Zaffa Shah, a top LeT commander hailing from PoK. The identity of his associate has not been ascertained so far but he too was believed to be a LeT activist. At least two to the three more militants were still hiding. Recoveries made from the encounter site so far include two AK rifles and two magazines.

• October 11: Three LeT militants were killed and a police constable, Nazir Ahmad, was wounded during an encounter at Badli Beri near Sogam in the Kupwara district. The slain militants were Pakistani nationals, identified as Abu Hafiz, Hafiz and Saqib. Three AK rifles, six magazines, 232 rounds and a UBGL were recovered from their possession.

• Another LeT militant was killed in the ongoing operation at Khellan Litter in the Pulwama district raising the toll in the gunbattle, which started on October 10, to two.

• October 10: An LeT ‘commander’, identified as Moeen, was shot dead in an encounter with SFs at Khellen Litter in the Pulwama district.

• October 9: Nearly 125 youths including a number of students have disappeared from a number of villages in remote and upper reaches of Doda district and were reported to have joined militancy during past three to four months. The LeT chief for Doda, Abu Kasha, and his deputy, Iqbal Malik, were reported to have played a major role in fresh recruitment of youths including students of 11^th and 12^th classes across the district.

• October 6: An LeT militant, Mir Mohammed, surrendered before police at Shahdara Sharief in the Rajouri district on October 6. He deposited two pistols, two grenades, three magazines and 21 rounds .

• October 4: A top militant commander of the LeT, identified as Ibrar Ahmed alias Abu Ubaid, was shot dead by security force personnel during an encounter at Dodimal in Targain area of Budhal in the Rajouri district.

• October 2: Two LeT militants were killed during in an encounter with Police and Army in dense apple orchards near Drawni at Nagbal in Zainapora locality of Shopian district. They were identified as Abdullah and Rayees Ahmed. Abdullah was a Pakistani national. Two AK-56 rifles were recovered from the possession of the slain militants.

• September 28: The security forces neutralised a hide out in the Mendhar area of Poonch district. While three LeT militants managed to escape under the cover of darkness, two blankets, socks and dresses were recovered from the incident site. "Based on tip off, a joint operation was launched by the troops of 7 Kumaon Regiment, 39 Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group in Behri Rakh area near village Chajjla of Mendhar tehsil at around 6.30 am", official sources said.

• September 26 and 27: In north Kashmir, Special Operations Group (SOG) of Handwara District Police and Army personnel killed a LeT militant identified as Abu Khubaib of Pakistan in Hafruda forest area. Officials claimed that Abu Khubaib was LeT's 'Launching Commander' in north Kashmir who had been operating in Ramhal and Rajwar forest areas for the last few years. One AK 47 rifle, three magazines and 38 rounds besides one blanket and a diary were recovered from the slain militant.

• September 22: Two Pakistani 'commanders' of the LeT were shot dead by a joint force of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Army and CRPF during an encounter in the Sumbal area of Baramula district.The slain militants were identified as 'divisional commander' Tahir Pathan alias Abu Tahir and 'district commander' Abdullah alias Abu Maaz. Two AK-47 rifles and a satellite phone were recovered from the encounter site.
  
  Two militants and an Army personnel were killed at Kalsan in the Poonch sector. Troops opened fire when two intruders, who had taken shelter in a forest area tried to escape taking cover of firing by Pakistan army. While both the intruders were gunned down, in the exchange of firing, an Army jawan Naik Tape Azo was also killed. With this killing, a total of four infiltrators and two Army personnel have been killed during two days exchange of firing. As reported, Pakistan army had pushed a group of 8-10 infiltrators, all believed to be foreign mercenaries of LeT, from their Kabarstan post opposite Kalsan forward post of Indian Army. Two AK-47 rifles, two AK-56 rifles, 200 rounds, 16 grenades and food packets were recovered from the encounter site but bodies of slain militants couldn’t be recovered due to continued firing from across the LoC.

• September 21:Two top LeT militants, including a ‘district commander’ of the outfit, Abu Sanwariya, a suspected Pakistani national , were killed during an encounter by a joint force of police, Army and Border Security Force at Dalwa in Gool of Ramban district.

  At least two militants and a trooper were killed during a gun battle along the LoC in the Poonch district. A group of at least 8 to 10 militants were spotted in forward Indian post of Kalsan, opposite Kabarstan post of Pakistan army. As they started heading towards Indian side, troops started taking positions, Pakistan army opened firing on Indian positions in a bid to give covering fire to the infiltrators, believed to be the cadres of the LeT outfit. Simultaneously, the militants also started heavy firing on the Army personnel.

• September 19: Police arrested three LeT militants, Sajjad Ahmed, Rafiq Ahmed and Raj Mohd, from Upper Chakka in Bhaderwah area of Doda district. They had recently snatched two mobile telephones from the personnel of the Forest Protection Force (FPF). They were reported to have given the mobile phones to LeT ‘district commander’ Ashraf Hussain. The report added Ashraf along with his at least two body-guards was also camping at Chakka in Bhaderwah for last 7 days. Despite massive searches for him launched by security forces and police, he reportedly managed to escape.

• September 17: An Over Ground Worker of the LeT managed to escape from police custody in Manjakot area of Rajouri district.

• September 16: A number of LeT militants, arrested in different parts of the State during last couple of years especially the Pakistanis and Pakistan trained local cadres, had confessed during their questioning in the past few months that top LeT brass, based in Pakistan, Middle East, PoK and Kashmir were having close links with SIMI and even training their cadre in triggering blasts.

  Over 12 civilians were injured and another abducted by the LeT militants at village Bharat in the Doda district.

• September 15: Two Army personnel and two SPOs were killed and one police man was wounded by three suspected LeT militants during an encounter at Tararan Wali dhok in the Surankot area of Poonch district. The militants, including two foreign mercenaries, however, managed to escape. The slain security force personnel were identified as Jaswant Singh, Chaman Vishnu Hari, Maqsood Hussain Shah and Mohammed Mahroof. Police subsequently recovered two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and one magazine of AK rifle from the incident site.

• September 6: Security forces killed a top wanted ‘divisional commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), identified as Qari Usman, in an encounter in the Sopore area of Baramulla district on. Two of his associates, however, managed to escape from the incident site.

  September 3: Police arrested two locally trained militants belonging to Al-Badr and LeT from the Wader and Mawar areas of Handwara.

• August 27: August 27: Eleven persons, including three Army soldiers, five civilians and three militants, were killed while six others, including three soldiers, two civilians and a woman, were injured in Jammu as three fidayeen (suicide squad) militants, who had infiltrated in the early hours of August 27-morning from Kanachak sector, managed to hijack a truck at Gadla, and traveled more than 15 kilometers before taking shelter in a house at Chinore on the old Jammu-Akhnoor road taking nine persons hostage. The operation which started at about 7 AM concluded after approximately 18 hours. Two soldiers and three civilians were killed before the militants took shelter in the house of one Billoo Ram Bhagat at Chinore at about 6.45 am while two civilians, a Territorial Army soldier and three militants were killed and a woman was wounded in the gun-battle inside the house which concluded in the mid-night. 10 civilians were held hostage by the militants soon after they intruded into the house of Billoo Ram. Official sources confirmed that all three militants appeared to be members of suicide squad of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit and were believed to be Pakistanis though their identity hasn’t been established immediately. They were part of the same group which had infiltrated into Indian Territory from Kanachak sector on the intervening night of August 25 and 26.

• August 23: A LeT militant, identified as Aijaz Ahmed Wagay, was killed in an encounter with the security forces at Btnar-Lolab in the Kupwara district. An AK assault rifle, three AK magazines, 122 rounds of AK ammunition, two hand grenades and a mobile phone were recovered from his possession.

• August 22: Troops arrested a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant in Doda district.

• August 19: An over ground worker of the LeT was arrested in the Ramban district and two grenades were recovered from his possession.

• August 14: SFs arrested two LeT militants along with two grenades in the Poonch town. They have been identified as Farooq Ahmed Naik and Mohammed Ishaq. Senior Superintendent of Police (Doda) Raghubir Singh said the militants had been tasked by LeT commanders Mudassar and Iqbal to lob grenades in Doda town.

• August 13: A top LeT militant, ‘commander’ Abdul Rashid alias Abdullah, surrendered before the security forces in the Bhaderwah area of Doda district and handed over one Pika gun with one ammunition box. Abdullah was reportedly an ‘A’ category militant and was active since 2002.

• August 12: A Lashkar-e-Toiba militant, Rasheed Ahmed, surrendered before the security forces in Doda district.

• August 11: A top Lashkar-e-Toiba ‘commander’ surrendered before the security forces in the Bhaderwah area of Doda district. He has been identified as Rashid Ahmed, an ‘A’ category militant and ‘tehsil commander’ of the outfit.

• August 8: SFs arrested a LeT militant, identified as Mehboob Ahmed alias Manga, along with two grenades from Bhaderwah in the Doda district. Preliminary questioning of the suspect revealed that he was tasked by LeT commanders to target the SFs and crowded places in the Bhaderwah area. He was allegedly earlier involved in grenade throwing in the Seri Bazaar on June 11, 2007.

• August 5: Police foiled an attempt to target a temple in the Doda town and arrested a LeT militant, identified as Ahmed Itoo. Senior Superintendent of Police, Raghubir Singh, said that on the receipt of specific information that a militant was trying to lob grenade on a temple, police were deployed in the temple premises and subsequently as soon as the militant entered the temple premises he was arrested. A Chinese grenade was recovered from his possession.

  Security forces arrested a LeT militant, identified as Nazir Ahmed, who was allegedly involved in a grenade attack at the Banihal bus stand in Doda on July 17 in which 42 persons were injured.

• July 27: SFs killed two militants - Abdullah, 'Battalion Commander' of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Abu Baker of Jaish-e-Mohammed - in an encounter at village Gujarpati Surigam in the Kupwara district. Abdullah was reportedly involved in killing of two policemen in the Sogam area of Kupwara district in May 2008.

• July 22: A Lashkar-e-Toiba militant of Kupwara district was arrested by the Army as soon as he infiltrated into Indian territory from the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district. Shamas Din is reported to have gone across the LoC for training on August 2, 2006 and was returning without weapons when he was arrested.

• July 21: Both the Pakistani militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), who had attacked the Amarnath Yatra convoy and its paramilitary protection on July 20-evening, were killed by the SFs on July 21. The slain militants were identified as Syed Abid Ahmed alias Akash a resident of Sialkot in Pakistan and Sageer Ahmed Shah, a resident of Abbotabad in Pakistan.

• July 20: An Army Major and a policeman were killed and three SF personnel were injured in an encounter with the militants at Jarh Wali in the Rajouri district. The SFs had launched an operation after receiving information from three militants arrested at the Jammu Railway Station a day earlier that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) ‘commander’ Azasa Shah alias Hujefa along with his three body-guards was hiding in the house of Mohammed Sharif at Jarh Wali. In the ensuing encounter, while Major Bhanu Partap and policeman Anjeev Rana were killed and three soldiers wounded, Azasa Shah and his associates managed to escape.

  SFs killed two militants in an encounter that ensued after a cordon-and-search operation at Chali Wan in the Bandipora district. The slain militants were later identified as ‘launching commander’ Abu Zaid alias Abu Zarr alias Abu Zubair, a foreign militant of the LeT in Bandipora, and Gowhar Ahmad alias Akash, a local militant of the Al Badr outfit.

• July 9: LeT militants - Mohammad Amin Beg and his Pakistani associate Abu Qari - were killed in an encounter with the troops at Sumriyal forest in the Kupwara district.

  A LeT militant, identified as Abu Farhat of Pakistan, was killed in an encounter with the security forces at Shog Baba in the Bandipora area of Kupwara district. However, two of his associates managed to escape from the incident site.

• July 8: Two LeT militants were killed in an encounter with the SFs at Shumriyal village in the Kupwara district. However, three others managed to escape from the incident site.

• July 5: The SFs killed a hardcore militant of the LeT at Panjan Gali under the jurisdiction of Doda police station. The militant was identified as Tawheed Ahmed Bhat of Doda.

• July 3: Anantnag District Police and Army personnel killed Abu Aatif alias Shadaakh, a Pakistani ‘divisional commander’ of the LeT, along with his Pakistani bodyguard, Syed Moin, during an encounter at Niaina Batpora village in Pulwama-Anantnag belt and arrested a young woman, Mubeena Akhtar, believed to be Abu’s wife. Two AK-56 rifles, one satellite phone and three mobile phones were recovered from the possession of the slain militants. Sources said that on the basis of some diaries recovered from the destroyed hideout, Pulwama Police conducted a raid on another militant hideout near a sports stadium in Pulwama town and recovered a large number of CDs besides INR 1, 25, 000. The report added that Abu had planned and executed suicide attack on a CRPF formation at Ramur in Uttar Pradesh on January 1, 2008 and an attack on Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on December 28, 2005.

• June 27: Two militants of the LeT outfit and two soldiers were killed in a daylong gun battle between militants and the Army at Khachpathri, near Kangan, in the Ganderbal area of Srinagar. Both the militants killed were unidentified but believed to be Pakistani cadres of the LeT. However, LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, said that five Army officials, including an officer, got killed. He claimed at 7:00 pm (IST) that none of the militants had got killed but said that the gun battle was still underway.

• June 24: Police neutralised a hide-out of the LeT and recovered a large quantity of explosive devices, including five kg RDX, 12 grenades, 100 AK rounds and a large quantity of incriminating documents from a hide-out of the militants at Gandoh in the Doda district.

• June 21: Two LeT militants, Abu Shams and Abu Javed, and one Central Reserve Police Force constable, K. C. Sahu, were killed and four security force personnel wounded at Shopribagh in the Hazratbal-Ganderbal belt of Srinagar.

  Two LeT militants, identified as Nazir Ahmed alias Abu Mohammad and Pakistani Abdullah, were killed by the troops during an encounter at Nariwan forest of Pir Panjal mountain range in the Shopian-Rajouri belt. Abu Mohammad was LeT's ‘divisional commander’ for Rajouri-Poonch belt.

• June 20: Security forces killed a Pakistani commander of the LeT, identified as Mehboob Ahmad Afridi alias Jugnu alias Faisal, in an operation at Khoipora in the Handwara area of Kupwara District. He was reportedly functioning as the "district commander" of LeT in Sopore.

• June 19: Troops foiled a major infiltration attempt on the LoC at Salhutri in the Krishna Ghati area of Poonch district killing five suspected LeT militants while two others managed to escape. Reports said Pakistan army was also reported to have fired some shots on the Indian side.

• June 16: Police arrested one Lashkar-e-Toiba LeT militant, identified as Irshad Ahmad Hajam, from Chinar Park in Handwara of Kupwara district. The arrested militant had planned to carry out grenade attack on Handwara Police Station. One hand grenade was also recovered from his possession. During questioning, Hajam revealed that he along with other LeT cadres were assigned the task of carrying out hand grenades attacks on different targets like Police Stations, public rallies in Handwara and Kupwara by their 'commanders' Abu Hurrera and Abu Wakas. Acting on the information provided by Hajam, Police also arrested three more LeT cadres along with two grenades from each of them at Handwara market, Chogal and Kulangam Crossing respectively. They have been identified as Shahnawaz Shah, Tariq Ahmad Bhat and Fayaz Ahmad Lone.

• June 10: The security forces arrested a LeT militant, Fiaz Ahmed Bhatt, from Jehand village in the Doda district. No recoveries were made from him at the time of his arrest. Fiaz had joined the outfit in 2007.

• June 3: SFs shot dead three top militants of the LeT at Peer Gali in the Rajouri district. The militants were heading towards Kashmir from the Pir Panjal mountain when they were intercepted by the SF personnel and subsequently killed. The encounter was continuing till last reports came in as two more militants were holed-up in the area.

• June 2: Security forces killed two militants of the LeT in an encounter at Dar Mohalla in the Bandipora district.

  Two more militants of the LeT were killed in an encounter with the troops at Dangarpora in the Baramulla district. Officials identified the slain militants as Abu Mujahid alias Abdullah and Abu Khalid alias Haji, both Pakistanis.

  Security forces killed two LeT militants, identified as ‘district commander’ Usman Bhai and Abu Jibran, while retaliating to an ambush by the militants at Chottipora in the Handwara area.

• May 29: Security forces shot dead a ‘deputy divisional commander’ of the LeT outfit and his woman associate, who was also an active militant, in an encounter at Khandipura under the jurisdiction of Doda police station in Doda district. The slain couple was identified as Shabir Ahmed Ittu a.k.a. Abu Rizwan and Samreena Bano. Shabir Ahmed, according to sources, was an ‘A’ category militant active since 1995 and had recently been designated as ‘deputy divisional commander’ of the LeT. He was also involved in the Kulhand massacre of May 1, 2006 in which 22 Hindus were killed in the Udhampur district. Sources said Samreena Bano had joined the LeT a few months back. She was arrested on January 23, 2008 and had subsequently admitted to her involvement in militancy related activities. After being released on bail, she had again started working with the LeT outfit. Samreena was an over ground worker and was under police surveillance.

  The Kupwara district police killed a Pakistani militant of the LeT at Bumhama village. However, two of his associates managed to escape from the incident site. Residents later revealed to Police that one of the escapees was a Pakistani militant and another was a Kashmiri militant identified as Veqas. One AK-47 rifle, one Chinese pistol, one mobile phone and a satellite telephone were recovered the incident site.

• May 27: The United States Treasury said it had decided to freeze the assets of four leaders of the Pakistan-based LeT, including its chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed.

• May 25: The dead body of a LeT militant, identified as Abdul Rashid alias Abu Maza, a resident of Nehla Charwari in the Ramban district, was recovered by police from Masjid Sharief Charwari. Sources said a letter written on behalf of the LeT outfit was found near the body which said Rashid was killed on May 22 after being hit by a stone on his head.

• May 12: The SFs killed a Pakistani militant of the LeT, identified as Abu Maseh, in an encounter at Surankote in the Poonch district. A Special Police Officer, Shamim Ahmed, was reportedly injured in the operation.

• May 11: Four civilians, two soldiers and two militants of the LeT were killed in an encounter in the Samba town of Jammu. Among the slain civilians were chief photographer of Daily Excelsior Ashok Sodhi, a prominent leader from Samba Hoshiar Singh and his wife, and another woman. 16 SF personnel, including the Superintendent of Police (Operations), Mubassir Latifi, and two women were injured in the day long gun-battle. Official sources said that two militants wearing Army uniform intruded into the house of Hoshiar Singh, general secretary of Indian National Democratic Party, in Samba town at 5.58am (IST) by scaling the boundary wall. After killing Hoshiar Singh and his wife on the spot, the militants subsequently moved towards the Kaili Mandi area and took hostage three women and two children. In the consequent encounter, two soldiers, Aziz Ahmed and Atul Negi, and a woman were killed. At about 5pm, the SFs stormed the house where the militants were hiding and shot dead both of them. Two AK-47 rifles, one rifle grenade launcher, some eatables, a wire cutter and a night vision device were recovered from their possession.

• May 3: One LeT militant, identified as Qasim Din, was arrested by the SFs in the Bonjwah area of Kishtwar district. He was a close associate of Abu Hamza, a top LeT militant, who was gunned down by the SFs at Bonjwah four days back. Qasim had managed to escape in the encounter in which Abu Hamza was killed and had since then taken shelter in Kanuao forest. One SLR with two magazines and 26 rounds were recovered from him.

• April 30: India was among the countries worst affected by terrorism with militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and in the Northeast, attacks by Naxalites and attacks elsewhere in the country taking a toll of more than 2,300 lives in 2007, the US State Department said. The State Department, in its annual report on terrorism, said terrorist activities along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir are on the decline but Pakistan-based militant outfits like the LeT and other terrorist groups continue to plan attacks in the Valley. "Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba and other Kashmir-focused groups continued regional attack planning. In 2007, Kashmir-focused groups continued to support attacks in Afghanistan, and operatives trained by the groups continued to feature in Al-Qaeda transnational attack planning," it said.

• April 29: A top Pakistani militant of the LeT, Mohammed Maqbool alias Abu Hamza, and a police constable, Kikkar Singh, were killed in an encounter at village Muslai in the Kishtwar district. Abu Hamza was active in the Kishtwar and Doda districts for the last four to five years and had been rated as ‘A’ category militant.

  The Baramulla Police arrested four persons, including a branch manager of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd, for illegal exchange of foreign currency and its subsequent supply to militants of the LeT.

  The LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, informed Daily Excelsior over telephone that all of his organisation's holed up militants had managed to escape in the 36-hour-long gun-battle in the Rajwar forest area of Handwara-Zachaldara belt. He claimed that as many as 10 troopers, including a Commanding Officer and a Major, were killed in the two-day long encounter. Officials while confirming the encounter, however, stated that no militant, civilian or police personnel were killed or injured in the two-day-long gun-battle.

• April 28: SFs in Kishtwar arrested a LeT militant, Mohammad Ibrahim alias Abu Mussa, from the Pathro area. From his possession, police recovered one AK-47 rifle, three magazines and 90 rounds of ammunition.

• April 24: The Superintendent of Police (Handwara), Dr Haseeb Mughal, said that about 30 militants of the LeT and JeM were still active in Handwara-Kandi belt of Kupwara district.

• April 22: The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Sriprakash Jaiswal, replying to questions in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) said that the banned SIMI has links with terrorist groups, including the LeT. He said that the links have been revealed in investigations into a number of cases.

  The involvement of Pakistan-based outfits has been observed in most of the terrorist attacks in India as groups from across the border continue to sponsor terrorist and subversive activities in the country, the Union Home Ministry said in its Annual Report for 2007-08. "The hand of Pakistan-based terrorist organisations - LeT and JeM - and, increasingly of the Bangladesh-based HuJI, known to have close links with ISI, has been observed in most of these cases," the 167-page report said. The incidents showed these groups have been using sleeper cells in the country to carry out such activities, and have also been using the territory of other neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal, it said.

• April 20: Awantipora police arrested three OGWs, identified as Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Assadullah Gani and Ashiq Hussain Bhat, from the Padgampora area. Four hand grenades were recovered from them, an official spokesman said and disclosed that all the three OGWs were assigned the task by LeT’s Pakistani militants to carry out grenade attacks on the convoys of the SFs on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.

• April 19: The SFs in a day long gun battle killed four heavily armed militants in the Rang forest area, about 6-km ahead of Warnow in the Kupwara district. Three of the slain militants, residents of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, were identified as Amjad Bhai, Abu Saifullah and Irshad Ahmed. While Amjad Bhai was a top wanted ‘district commander’ of the JeM who had been operating in the Lolab area for the last six years, Abu Saifullah and Arshad were both cadres of the LeT. SSP, Kupwara, Vijay Kumar, confirmed the death of four militants said that four AK rifles and a number of grenades were among the arms and ammunition seized at the site of the encounter.

• April 18: SFs arrested two militants of the LeT outfit from Seri Bazaar in the Bhadarwah town of Doda district and recovered some arms, ammunition and incriminating documents from their possession. They were identified as Ikhlaq Ahmed (code name Muzamil Bhat) and Abdul Samad Hajam. From their possession, SFs recovered one Chinese pistol with one magazine and five rounds, two mobile telephones, INR 2050, one purse with LeT sticker, one head band of LeT and a large quantity of incriminating material.

• April 15: A soldier, identified as Dalip Singh, was killed during an encounter between the SFs and a group of LeT militants at village Khari in the Ramban.

• April 14: SFs killed a ‘district commander’ of the LeT in an encounter in the Harwan area of Srinagar. He was identified as Zakaria, a Pakistani militant. LeT spokesman Abdullah Gazali confirmed the death of Zakaria but said that he would be issuing a statement after getting all details.

• April 12: The SFs in an encounter killed a ‘district commander’ of the LeT, identified as Shabir Ahmad Bhat alias Mansoor, at Peer Mohalla in the Chakura village of Pulwama district. According to police, Mansoor was a listed "A" category militant of the outfit and had crossed over to Pakistan in 2001 and returned to Valley in October 2006.

• April 11: JeM and LeT, the Pakistan-based terrorist groups, are among the 44 outfits designated as ‘Foreign Terrorist Organisations’ (FTO) by the US. Besides these two, other groups active in India — the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami and Pakistan-based HuM — are also in the FTO list issued by the office of the coordinator for counter terrorism of the US Department of State.

• April 7: All the religious outfits which were banned by General Pervez Musharraf during his military rule would approach the Supreme Court of Pakistan and seek restoration, chief of the proscribed LeT group. "The ban was a step that the retired General took only to please America and now it is abundantly clear that people have rejected his policies," Hafiz Saeed, LeT (now known as Jama’at-ud-Da’awa) chief told The News. He criticised President Musharraf's Kashmir policy and alleged that the 'U-turn' taken by the Musharraf Government on Kashmir had badly damaged the cause of the Kashmiris' ‘freedom struggle’.

• March 23: Three police personnel and a CRPF constable died in an encounter with militants on the outskirts of capital Srinagar in which they succeeded in killing Abu Faisal of Pakistan, a 'divisional commander' of the LeT. The gunfight ensued after the security forces surrounded a house in the Telbal locality, where some militants were hiding. According to the Police press release, Abu Faisal was responsible for a number of subversive acts and armed attacks in the Kangan-Ganderbal belt.

• March 21: Two children, Mohammad Afzal and Akram Ashraf, were killed in a grenade explosion in the Gawari area of Doda district. Police said that some unidentified militants lobbed a grenade near a house at Gawari village leading to the death of two boys who were playing near their house. Police sources added that the militants lobbed the grenade to avenge the killing of four LeT militants in the same area.

• March 19: The Doda district police and Army shot dead four militants of the LeT outfit, including a 'district commander', in an encounter at Gwari Shah under the jurisdiction of Gandoh police station. Two police personnel sustained injuries in the operation. The slain militants were identified as 'district commander' Imtiaz Hussain alias Abu Turab, Sadam Hussain, Suraf Nawaz alias Mehnaz and Sagir Ahmed of Pakistan.

• March 16: SFs killed Hafiz Naasir, one of the most wanted militants and the Kashmir valley chief of the LeT, in an encounter at village Chatlura near Sopore town in the Baramulla district. Lt. Col. M. S. Kadam, the officiating Commanding Officer of Rashtriya Rifles (22 Battalion), and another soldier, identified as Pradeep Kumar, are reported to have died and four SF personnel injured in the encounter. Hafiz Naasir, a Pakistani militant, had been appointed sometime in 2007 as LeT operational chief in Kashmir after working in the Valley for about ten years. Deputy Inspector General of Police (north Kashmir), Dr. B Srinivas, described Naasir as the most wanted militant in the Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara districts.

• March 15: A LeT militant was arrested along with electronic gadgets, including a laptop, the police said. The police raided the house of Shabir Ahmed alias Pappu in the Sabra village on March 14-night and recovered a laptop and pen drive from his possession, they said. The laptop recovered from Pappu originally belonged to slain LeT 'divisional commander' Abu Umar, the police said, adding Umar was involved in the killing of Deputy Superintendent of Police Shelly Singh.

• March 14: Police in the Chakwal city of Punjab province in Pakistan arrested four persons on charges of their alleged links with the banned LeT.

• March 12: A militant of the LeT was killed by the security forces in a gun-battle at Rampore in the Sopore area of Baramulla district. While Defence sources confirmed the death of one militant, Police officials insisted that three militants of the group were "believed to be dead." The Deputy Inspector General of Police (North Kashmir) said that no dead body had been recovered till late night. Unnamed officials said that Lashkar-e-Toiba's radio intercepts since the evening were also mentioning death of three militants.

• March 10: Police claimed to have foiled a plan to carry out Fidayeen (suicide squad) attack at Srinagar by the LeT. Following an intelligence outfit that the LeT cadres were planning to carry out a suicide attack in the city, security forces carried out a raid on a house in the Harwan area and recovered police uniforms, pouches, three sewing machines, six hand grenades, seven AK magazines, 200 rounds of ammunition, one 2 inch mortar, one Thuraya phone and some coded documents.

• March 7: Police unearthed a Hawala racket supplying money to the LeT operatives in the Kandi and Buddal areas of Rajouri district. The Police conducted series of raids in the Kandi area and arrested Zulfikar, brother of a slain HM militant Abdul Qayoom, who died in July 2007, and Muhammad Qadir of Larkuti, while they were purchasing shoes and other food items for militants operating in the area. "The police team also recovered Rs 1.5 lakh of hawala money from the possession of the arrested persons. The money was to be handed over to LeT commander Saqib (operating in Kandi and Buddal areas)", sources said.

• March 5: SFs killed a holed up militant in the overnight operation at Chitti Bandi in the Bandipora district. One militant had died in the initial round of firing and another was trapped inside a residential house. Sources said that troops destroyed the target hideout, killing the holed up militant. Official sources said that one of the two slain militants was identified as Abu Abdullah alias Mohammad Saleem, a Pakistani national. They stated that both the militants belonged to the LeT. A defence spokesman stated that both the militants were killed at a time when they were planning a strike on the former counter-insurgent and current legislator from Bandipora, Usman Majeed.

• March 2: SFs arrested two Over-Ground Workers of the LeT, identified as Sajjad Ahmed Bhat and Riyaz Ahmed Shah, in the Chakora area of Pulwama district.

  Police arrested a militant and his five associates including two women, from the outskirts of Doda town when they were smuggling a consignment of arms and ammunition from Kulgam to Doda district. The arms were being smuggled for a ‘divisional commander’ of the LeT outfit.

• February 15: A top Pakistani militant of the LeT outfit involved in the November 23, 2007 bomb blasts in various courts across Uttar Pradesh was killed along with his associate in an encounter with police in the Pulwama district. Self-styled district commander Abdul Rahman alias Rehman Bhai, a Pakistani, and a local militant Moin Ahmed Mir were killed at Niloora-Aglar village. Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda told reporters that the slain LeT commander was involved in the November 23 blasts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow courts in which 13 civilians were killed. "As per the UP police investigation, the LeT group that was responsible for sending arms and ammunition for attack at Rampur is the same group to which Rehman belongs", he said, adding "Rehman was part of the group headed by Abu Aatif which had supplied the arms to the Rampur attackers." The investigations also revealed that Rehman was closely associated with LeT militants not only in the Kashmir Valley but outside the State, he said.

• February 12: SF personnel shot dead three LeT militants in an encounter at village Sarhuti under the jurisdiction of Mendhar police station in the Poonch district. A fourth militant, however, is reported to have escaped from the incident site. With this, nine militants, including six infiltrators, have been killed in the past one week in Mendhar sector.

• February 7: A top militant of the LeT, identified as Showkat Ali alias Abu Haroon (set code Victor 6), surrendered before the Special Operations Group (SOG) Jammu.

• February 5: SFs shot dead two suspected LeT militants in an encounter at Bindi Gala, about three kilometers inside the Line of Control in the Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district.

• February 2: Three top LeT militants, belonging to Pakistan, and two police personnel, including a constable and a Special Police Officer, were killed while soldier was injured as security forces foiled an infiltration attempt on Line of Control in the Ghani forests of Mendhar sector in Poonch district. The operation was still on till the reports last came in.

• January 27: The Karnataka Police is reported to have recently arrested a cook and a medical student for alleged terrorist links. The duo revealed that they had plans of bombing the Hubli airport. During the interrogation of Mohammad Ghouse and his associate Assadullah Abbubukar, the police learnt that Ghouse's father Mohammad Naseeruddin is a LeT operative and has received training in Pakistan. Intelligence Bureau sources said that Naseerruddin is a trained suicide bomber, who was trained at Muzafarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Assadullah reportedly met Ghouse at a religious meeting in Hubli in 2007, and was influenced by the latter to take up the jihadi cause. The police have also recovered CDs and maps of various installations from the duo.

• January 24: A female militant of the LeT outfit, active for the last three years, was arrested by the Doda police. She was stated to be very close to LeT ‘divisional commander’, Shabir Ittoo, and actively worked for the outfit in Doda and its adjoining localities. Senior Superintendent of Police, Manohar Singh, while confirming the arrest said 23-year-old Samrina Bano, daughter of Ghulam Nabi Shah of Doda, was undergoing nurse training at the Health Department in Doda. She was very close to the LeT divisional commander and was instrumental in shifting cash consignments and arms and ammunitions for the militants. Intelligence agencies had reportedly intercepted messages of the LeT divisional commander who was in constant touch with Samrina Bano. This is the third such incident during the past six months when a female militant was arrested in the Jammu region. On September 7, 2007, the Jammu police had arrested a law student, Nahida Altaf, who was close to Saifullah Karri of the JeM. Karri was killed in a joint operation of the Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir police. In similar case, Kishtwar police arrested two sisters from the Sangram Bhatta area. One of the girls was arrested with a HM and INR 200000 was also recovered from their possession.

  A HM militant was arrested by the SOG of Jammu Police from a rented house at Dogra Hall in Jammu city. He was working as a Supervisor with a Chandigarh-based English newspaper to hide his credentials. The militant was identified as Riyaz Ahmed Shah alias Raja, a resident of Shangran in the Anantnag district. Preliminary investigations revealed that Raja, a ‘B’ category militant, was involved in the killing of a civilian Jabbar Khanday in 2005 under the jurisdiction of Dooru police station.

• January 23: Bharat Bhushan, a Village Defence Committee member, was abducted and subsequently killed by militants of the LeT in the Doda district. The killing has been described as revengeful action as the deceased had fought valiantly with militants in the same area resulting in the killing of two LeT cadres three days back.

• January 21: All the three holed up militants of the LeT were killed by the SFs at the residence of two activists of the ruling People’ Democratic Party (PDP) at Mandigam village in the Handwara area of Kupwara district in a 30-hour-long gun-battle. Sources said that the encounter came to an end at 1130 hours. All three militants were killed when SFs destroyed their hideout at the twin houses of PDP activists, Ashiq Hussain Parray and Mushtaq Ahmed Mir. Officials said that Major Parmar and another soldier were wounded in the encounter. LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi identified the slain militants as Abdullah Gauri, Abu Issa and Abu Faidullah. He also claimed that nine soldiers, including a Major, were killed in the gun-battle.

  SFs killed two more militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba in a gun-battle at Alyalpora village in Shopian district. They were identified as ‘battalion commander’ Tahir-ul-Islam and Mohammad Hanief Dar.

• January 20: One of the LeT militants, holed up in a house at Mandigam village in Handwara was killed by the SFs.

• January 15: Security forces killed Abu Kital alias Abu Hamza, ‘district commander’ of the LeT, in an encounter in the Bandipora district.

• January 13: Personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Rashtriya Rifles killed two militants of the LeT outfit in separate encounters in the Doda district. According to Manahor Singh, Senior Superintended of Police, two unidentified LeT militants were killed in Shonsh and Banshal areas, under the Doda police station.

• January 12: Troops cordoned the house of one Mangta Bhat at village Bikhrain under the jurisdiction of Doda police station and shot dead two top LeT militants who had taken shelter in the house. The slain cadres were identified as Altaf Hussain and Irshad Ahmed.

  A militant of the LeT outfit, identified as Farooq Ahmed Bhat, was killed by troops in the Bhagwah area of Doda district. Bhat was a ‘B’ grade militant of the LeT outfit and was active in Doda district since 2003.

• January 10: A suspected LeT cadre, Abbas Khan alias Akhdas Khan alias Mohsin Alam, was arrested for his alleged involvement in a fake currency racket in Kolkata, by the detective department from a house at Chamru Singh Lane in East Kolkata’s Narkeldanga area. He had earlier been convicted by a Gujarat court for the Godhra violence but was released on bail. He had jumped parole and remained untraceable. An unspecified amount of fake currency notes of INR 500 and INR 1,000 denomination were recovered from him. Khan was subsequently remanded in police custody till January 15.

• January 5: A top LeT commander Abu Muslim was found dead at Seeldhar in the Gool area of Ramban district. While local people claimed that the militant had died due to illness, official sources said an exact reason is yet to be ascertained.

  Security forces (SFs) arrested an OGW of LeT from Baramulla district. He was identified as Javed Ahmed Lone. One pistol, a pistol magazine, 38 rounds of pistol ammunition, two electric detonators and one remote control IED circuit with battery, were recovered from his possession.

  SFs rescued two youths from captivity of LeT after raiding a hideout of the outfit at village Lonepura in the Doda district. Two OGWs of the outfit were also arrested following the raid.

• January 2: SFs arrested an over-ground worker of the LeT, identified as Abdul Hamid Ganai, from Sumbal.

2007

• December 23: The STF personnel of the Uttar Pradesh Police shot dead two suspected LeT militants in an encounter on Dewa Road, 18 kilometers from State capital Lucknow. The duo was traveling in a car and was intercepted near the Central Food Technological Research Centre on Dewa Road. Brij Lal, the Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order and STF), said that both the unidentified terrorists were part of a Fidayeen (suicide squad) team and had entered the State from Nepal. He further said that the slain terrorists had planned a big terrorist attack in Lucknow. A map with notings in Urdu was recovered from them.

  Security forces killed two Pakistani cadres of the LeT, identified as Abu Anas and Mohsin in an encounter at Papchhan village in the Bandipora district.

  A Pakistani militant of the LeT outfit was killed in an encounter with troops of Rashtriya Rifles and police at village Harah under the jurisdiction of Gool police station in Ramban district. He has been identified as Abu Umar, a Pakistani, operating in Gool for the last one and a half year.

• December 13: The Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested two over-ground workers of the LeT group, identified as Rahim Malik a.k.a. Osama, and Mushtaq Dar a.k.a. Chandi, from Sopore in the Baramulla district. A police spokesman said that two hand grenades were recovered from their possession.

• December 7: Security forces killed a militant in an ambush at Dalwath in the Safapora area of Bandipora district. Three of his associates, however, managed to escape from the incident site. The slain militant is believed to be a Pakistani cadre of the LeT.

• December 6: Police arrested a LeT militant during a search operation at village Bansan in the Reasi district. Senior Superintendent of Police, J. L. Sharma, identified the arrested militant as Liaquat Ali. On his disclosures, police personnel recovered two UBGL grenades. Ali had joined the LeT outfit only seven months back and was since then operating in the Gool area, according to Daily Excelsior.

• Pakistani militants of the LeT and JeM have joined hands with the HuJI of Bangladesh to destabilise India’s sovereignty taking the strategic advantage of the eastern border, the Director General of BSF, A. K. Mitra, said. Talking to the media in Agartala, Mitra pointed out that the western frontier of India was relatively tough for Pakistani militants but the eastern border with Bangladesh had become more useful for them and foreign militants were utilising South Bengal border for anti-Indian activities. He disclosed that 14 militants of the LeT and JeM were arrested in South Bengal border, trying to sneak into India from Bangladesh in the past six months. Speaking on the recent terrorist attacks in India, including the recent serial bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh, Mitra said circumstantial evidence point to a kind of a joint mission by the HUJI, along with LeT and JeM.

• December 5: Two soldiers, Chuni Lal and Muzaffar Ahmed, and an equal number of militants affiliated to the LeT group died in an overnight gun-battle at Ladhermud in the Awantipora area of Pulwama district.

• December 3: The Supreme Court stayed the death sentence of a LeT militant in the Red Fort attack case in which three Army personnel were killed on December 22, 2000. A bench comprising Justices G. P. Mathur and P. Sadasivam also issued notices on the petition of Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq, a Pakistani national and LeT militant to the Delhi Government. The Delhi High Court had confirmed the death sentence of the petitioner on September 14, 2007. A trial court had sentenced the petitioner to death in 2005 and Nazir Ahmed Quasid and his son Farooq Ahmed Quasid to life imprisonment. The High Court had, however, acquitted six others in the case. The petitioner had challenged his conviction and sentence in the case on the grounds that there was no evidence against him showing his involvement in the conspiracy and both the Trial Court and High Court had committed a grave error of law.

• December 2: Police in Kupwara district arrested Waqar Ahmed and Feroz Ahmed War, both members of the LeT, along with some arms and ammunition, a radio set and two mobile phones.

• November 29: Police killed Salman alias Hassan, a 'district commander' of the LeT, in a brief encounter in the Shalimar Bagh area of capital Srinagar. Inspector General of Police (Kashmir), S. M. Sahai, said that one Sub Inspector of the Special Operations Group of Srinagar District Police, Arshid, sustained minor injuries in the incident. A Police headquarters press release added that Salman had carried out a number of attacks on security forces and tourists and he was also involved in a suicide attack.

• November 28: The SOG of police and troops shot dead a LeT militant, identified as Imtiyaz Ahmed, in an encounter at village Kither in the Gandoh area of Doda district.

• November 28: One Over Ground Worker of the LeT outfit, Javid Ahmad Mallah, was arrested by police in the Handwara area of Kupwara district.

• November 26: A LeT militant, Mohammed Rafiq Sheikh alias Abu Haider, was shot dead while his associate, who had come to meet his wife in the house of her relatives at Rang Bagla Neeram in the Mahore area of Reasi district, escaped after an encounter with the SF personnel.

• November 25: SFs recovered four Improvised Explosive Devices and nine kilograms of explosives from a natural cave in the Mangal forest area of Rajouri district. The consignment reportedly belonged to the LeT outfit, sources said.

• November 21: Pakistan army has developed a new type of "floating air pillow" to infiltrate militants from newly developed infiltration routes through rivers along the Line of Control and International Border in Jammu sector. The "air pillows" were reported to have been successfully used by a group of five militants to infiltrate into Indian territory from Munawar Tawi along Sunderbani-Khour sector on the Rajouri-Jammu border, official sources said. The information on infiltration by the militants using specially designed floating air pillows has been revealed by Mohammed Sharif alias Sharka, a top LeT militant, who was operating in Rajouri district for the last seven years and was directly in touch with top LeT commanders and Pakistan army officers through his sophisticated wireless sets and phones. Sharka, who had surrendered before Rajouri Police a few days back, has disclosed that a group of five LeT militants had successfully used floating air pillows to cross Munawar Tawi from Sunderbani sector in Rajouri district and reached the Indian side of LoC in the first week of October 2007. From Sunderbani, the militants were taken to Gool-Gulabgarh via Pir Panjal range by a guide of the LeT outfit, sources added.

• November 16: In Sopore, unidentified militants opened fire on a former decoy of the LeT at Mohalla Momkak locality. He sustained gunshot wounds.

• November 15: SF personnel killed two Pakistani cadres of the LeT during an encounter in the Machhil area near Sonapindi on the Line of Control.

• November 14: Two Pakistani militants of the LeT were shot dead by troops of the Rashtriya Rifles and police in an encounter at village Seri Chowanan in the Mandi area of Poonch district. The slain militants were identified as Abu Qasim and Abu Hyder with the help of two identity cards recovered from their possession. Both of them have reportedly operating in Poonch district for the last eight months.

• November 12: Four Pakistani militants - two each of the HuM and LeT, were killed in an encounter with the security forces at Dooru in the Sopore area of Baramulla district. Three of the slain militants were identified as HuM "Deputy Chief" for Jammu and Kashmir, Qari Umar, and ‘commander’ Bilal Afghani and LeT cadre Abu Faris alias Daanish alias Shamsheer. One soldier was killed and four others were wounded in the encounter.

• November 11: Two ‘Fidayeen’ cadres of the LeT, holed up in a hotel at Sopore town in the Baramulla district for the past three days, were killed by SFs. A CRPF personnel too was killed during the encounter. Six other SF personnel were also injured in the encounter. The militants were identified as Abu Osama Zeeshan alias Qasim of Leh district in the NWFP of Pakistan and Abu Talha alias Janbaz Mumtaz Ullah of Meanwali district in Pakistan.

• November 9: Five militants and four SF personnel, including a Major, were killed in an encounter which lasted four days at Sadpora Mohalla in the Pattan town of Baramulla district. Commander of the 10 Sector Rashtriya Rifles, Brigadier K. A. Muthana, informed that all the five militants killed were foreign nationals affiliated to the Pakistan-based LeT. Major V. S. Sandu and three soldiers were killed in the encounter which began on November 6-evening.

• November 8: Two LeT militants opened fire on a bunker of the CRPF personnel who retaliated at Main Chowk in Sopore town of Baramulla district. Subsequent to the retaliatory firing, militants ran into a hotel Newlight and took positions on its top floor. Police and paramilitary personnel managed to evacuate a large number of holed up civilians and later engaged the militants in a gun battle.

• November 7: Three soldiers and two LeT militants were killed during an encounter in Sad Mohalla in the highway township of Pattan in Baramulla district of north Kashmir. The encounter had begun on November 6 evening following reports of LeT militants hiding in two houses of the area. At least five soldiers, including a JCO, sustained injuries in the continuing encounter. Three more LeT militants are suspected to have escaped from the cordoned locality.

• Two LeT militants, Mohd Sharif alias Sharka and Mohd Mushtaq, surrendered before police in Rajouri. According to official sources, they disclosed that the militants especially foreign mercenaries of LeT and JeM were strengthening their positions in Pir Panjal ranges and have even started operating training camps for local militants there.

• November 4: Two LeT militants present in a hideout at Thathri in the Sonarthawa area of Doda district were killed following a four-hour long encounter. Both were identified as Showkat Ali Khan (code name Abu Zubair) of Gojru Thathri and Abdul Latif (code name Abu Zubair) of Loharthawa.

• October 28: At Chalpura village in Kupwara district, troops arrested an over ground worker of the LeT, Javed Ahmed Khan.

• October 20: The Personal Security Officer of the Superintendent of Police in Sopore and a Pakistani militant of the LeT were killed during an encounter at Malpora, close to Malmapanpora, on Sopore-Bandipore road in the Baramulla district. One civilian and a policeman were injured in the incident while the SP escaped unhurt. Meanwhile, spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi, said that one militant of his organisation died after killing five SOG personnel, including an Inspector. He identified the militant killed as Abu Abdullah Jaish and claimed that yet another encounter started between the militants of his organisation and security forces in the same area at 1630 hours. He said that the encounter was underway and details were not available immediately. Officials, however, maintained that only one constable got killed and one more sustained injuries before the militant was gunned down and said that no other encounter took place in Sopore or any other place in Kashmir valley on October 20.

• October 16: SFs killed three militants of the LeT outfit in the in the Lancha area of Ramban district. While two of the slain militants were identified as Rafeeq and Liyaqat, the identity of the third was not known.

• October 14: SFs arrested three hardcore militants of the LeT after an encounter at Pattimal in the Kishtwar district and recovered a cache of arms, ammunition and explosives from their possession. They were identified as Nissar Ahmed alias Abu Maaz, Ghulam Mohammed Shah alias Abu Qasim and Farooq Ahmed. Three AK-47 rifles, four magazines, 120 rounds, one Chinese grenade, two mobile telephones, five letter heads of the LeT outfit and some incriminating documents were recovered from their possession. Deputy Inspector General of Police (Doda range) Farooq Khan said that the arrests were made after SFs had launched a search operation in Pattimal after securing specific input about the movement of three LeT militants, who had been operating in the Dachan, Pattimal and Palmar areas for the last three years.

• October 11-12: Two suicide bombers were killed and three paramilitary personnel wounded in a suicide attack on a CRPF camp near the Dal Lake in capital Srinagar. The two heavily armed suicide militants entered into the makeshift battalion headquarters of the CRPF on October 11. Police and CRPF personnel on October 12 killed the two suicide bombers. The spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi, in a satellite telephonic conversation from Pakistan claimed that fidayeen (suicide squad) of his group had stormed the camp.

• October 10: A ‘battalion commander’ of the LeT outfit, identified as Sabzar Ahmed Mir a.k.a. Muntazim, was killed in an encounter at Chak Cholan in the Pulwama district.

• October 8: The police and Rashtriya Rifles personnel shot dead a militant of the LeT, identified as Abu Usman (junior), at Gangabug forest in Kupwara district.

• October 5-6: Security forces killed Abu Furqan, LeT ‘district commander’ for Anantnag, during an encounter at Chitragam village in the Shopian district on October 5. The gun battle ended with the death of one soldier on October 6.

• October 5: Jammu and Kashmir Police sources stated that Mohammed. Sadik alias Sibly, a person belonging to Thoubal district, is a cadre of the LeT outfit. He was arrested by Jammu and Kashmir Police along with an AK rifle on August 30, 2007. He had reportedly gone from Manipur to Jammu and Kashmir to pursue Islamic studies and become a Moulvi (Islamic cleric). Later he joined the LeT outfit.

• October 4: In an encounter between militants of the LeT and SFs at Gamroo in the Bandipora district, two militants, identified as ‘divisional commander’ Moosa alias Abu Wafa and ‘chief operational commander’ Qasim Bhatti, and a Junior Commissioned Officer of the Army, Subash, were killed. Moosa had engineered most of the attacks on Police and civilian targets in capital Srinagar in the last one year. He had also been instrumental in a number of grenade attacks and IED blasts in the Bandipora, Ganderbal and Srinagar districts.

• October 2: Nine LeT militants, including the outfit’s ‘divisional commander’ of the Tangmarg-Beerwah belt, Bilal Afghani alias Chhota Bilal, and two of his close associates, Mohammad Sultan Bhat alias Rayees Khan and Janbaz Afghani, were killed during an encounter between militants and SFs in the Tangmarg-Beerwah belt of Baramulla district. One officer of the Rashtriya Rifles (34 Battalion), Major K. P. Vinay was killed on the spot, while another one, identified as Major Dinesh Raghuraman, who was among five other soldiers injured, died of his injuries later. "They offered tough resistance for all 38 hours of the gun battle. They are all unidentified but we believe, they are all Pakistani cadres of Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]," informed Commander of Sector 12 of Rashtriya Rifles, Brigadier, Kuldip Singh. LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, confirmed in a satellite telephonic conversation from Pakistan that nine militants of his outfit were killed in the 38-hour-long gun-battle in Tangmarg. He claimed that the militants killed 12 soldiers, including two Majors, and wounded 15 others.

• October 1: Doda police arrested three fresh recruits of the LeT outfit from Doda. These youths had been lured into militancy by a local LeT activist, Bashir Ahmed Ganaie. Police also arrested four motivators of militants from Doda. They were motivating youths to join LeT and HM outfits. Police also rescued eight youths from captivity of the militants.

• September 28: Unconfirmed reports indicated that three SF personnel were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast triggered by the militants at Devbagh in the Budgam district. LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi claimed that seven soldiers were killed.

• September 27: SF personnel rescued six teenagers from the custody of militants in the Patnazi area of Doda district. They had been kidnapped on September 17 by LeT militants for taking them across the Line of Control for arms training.

  Security forces arrested two militants of the LeT as soon as they infiltrated into Indian territory from village Damoi Kas in the Poonch district along with a large quantity of arms and ammunition.

• September 26: Troops killed two LeT militants, identified as Abdul Rasheed and Liaquat Ali alias Furqan, at Gool in the Ramban district.

• September 25: At least two LeT militants and a soldier, Varinder Kumar Sharma, were killed during an encounter that ensued after security forces launched a search operation at Khewri in the Rajouri district.

  Abu Kasha alias Tango 9, a LeT ‘area commander’ for Rajouri district, was shot dead by the SFs at Sanyara Mohalla in the Surankote area of Poonch district.

  Two more LeT cadres, identified as Gazi Ahmed Mir and Abdur Rehman Sani alias Hanzla of Pakistan, were killed by the troops at Shopian in the Pulwama district.

• September 24: A top militant of the LeT, identified as Abu Israr, and a Special Police Officer, Shah Hussain, were killed in an encounter at Sanyara Mohalla in the Surankote area of Poonch district.

• September 23: One suspected Pakistani cadre of the LeT outfit was killed by SF personnel at Shiva village in the Sopore area of Baramula district.

• September 20: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the LeT, called for intensification of "jehad in Kashmir and Afghanistan" to "strengthen Pakistan's Defence."

• September 19: Three SF personnel, including one identified as Shri Kumar, were killed and 20 others injured when terrorists ambushed a security convoy along Srinagar-Leh road at Gunwani-Gund in Sonamarg of Srinagar district. Three army buses were also damaged in the attack. Terrorists reportedly attacked with grenades and later opened fire with automatic weapons. Meanwhile, the LeT outfit claimed responsibility for the attack.

• September 18: Two LeT militants, including ‘section commander’ Shamsher Khan alias Rezwan, a Pakistani national, and his accomplice, Aijaz alias Bhai alias Shamsher, were killed while five SF personnel, including a Major, sustained injuries in a day-long gun battle at village Chinot in the Bhadarwah tehsil (administrative division) of Doda district.

• September 17: One Pakistani cadre of the LeT, identified as Abu Azad alias Gafari, was shot dead by SF personnel at village Gundha under Budhal police station in the Rajouri district. One of his associates managed to escape from the incident site.

  One LeT cadre, Nisar Ahmed Dar alias Saajid, was arrested from an unspecified place under Sopore police station in the Baramulla district. Following his interrogation, three over ground workers, identified as Abdul Hameed Shah alias Hassan, Mushtaq Ahmed Changa alias Shahid and Muzaffar Ahmed Saboon alias Zubair, were arrested.

• September 16: Suspected LeT militants opened fire on a security convoy at Spurnag in the Handwara area of Kupwara district. The convoy of the Rashtriya Rifles was on its way to a forward area from Baramulla. No fatalities were reported.

  In the Sopore area of Baramulla district, security forces and the LeT militants exchanged fire in the Model Town area. Superintendent of Police, Imtiyaz Hussain said that the raid was conducted following information on two LeT militants, Saifullah and Abu Zarrar, who had laid an ambush and were likely to attack a military convoy. In the exchange of fire, Abu Zarrar sustained injuries but both the militants managed to escape leaving behind a mobile phone. Official sources said there were no fatalities on the security force side.

• September 14: A Pakistani cadre of the LeT, Abu Mursad, was killed by SFs at Tujjar Sharif village near Sopore in the Baramulla district. Another terrorist, who sustained injuries, managed to escape from the incident site.

• September 13: Four LeT terrorists, including one ‘district commander’ Lal Din Gujjar, were shot dead by SF personnel during an encounter at Trinnar Nala area of Kishtwar district. Three others were identified as Umar Din, Kasih and Ghulam Qadir.

  Confirming the death penalty awarded to Pakistani LeT militant Mohammed Ashfaq in the seven-year-old Red Fort attack case, the Delhi High Court said that terrorists, who have no value for human lives, deserved the capital punishment. The court, however, acquitted six other persons, including the Srinagar-based father-and-son duo Nazir Ahmed Qasid and Farooq Ahmed Qasid, who were sentenced to life imprisonment, and Ashfaq’s Indian wife Rehamana Yosuf Farooqui. She was given a seven-year jail term. Ashfaq and five other LeT militants, on the night of December 22, 2000, had sneaked into the Red Fort premises and opened indiscriminate firing killing three persons, including two Army personnel.

• September 12: Police in the capital Srinagar claimed to have foiled a suicide attack with the arrest of three LeT militants. Mohammad Maqbool Mir alias Shaheen, Ishfaq Ahmad Fazili alias Khand Peer and Ishtiyaq Ahmad Rather alias Billa were arrested from the Karan Nagar locality where one of them had acquired a house on rent. The Superintendent of Police (Special Operations Group) stated that they were planning to carry out a suicide attack on a Police or paramilitary target in the capital city.

• September 10: At least one soldier, Pawan Kumar, is reported to have died in a gunfight with militants in the Rajwar area of Kupwara district. Spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi, claimed that five soldiers, including an officer, were killed and eight more were injured in the attack. He claimed that militants of the LeT, Al-Badr and JeM had already occupied a position usually held by troops and launched the attack when a column of army was on way to launch an operation.

  Two armed LeT militants, Imtiyaz Hussain and Niaz Ahmed, and accompanied by their local sympathisers intruded into the house of Mohammed Amin at Tanta in the Doda district and reportedly assaulted Amin and his daughter. Even as police personnel from the nearby post rushed to the spot and engaged the militants in an encounter, they managed to escape.

  Police arrested three LeT militants, who had recently been recruited into the outfit and given arms training in Sopore (Baramulla district), from village Cheera under the jurisdiction of Thathri police station in Doda district. Their recruiting agent, identified as Akhter Hussain, was also apprehended. The arrested militants were identified as Gulshan Ahmed Magrey, Manzoor Ahmed Wani and Nissar Ahmed Parrey, all residents of village Tanta.

• September 9: Four suspected foreign militants of the LeT outfit were shot dead by SF personnel and two others escaped after they managed to sneak from across the LoC into the Machil Sector of Kupwara district.

  Tanweer Ahmad, a locally trained LeT militant, was arrested from the Sogam area in Kupwara district.

  September 4: A LeT militant, Khursheed Ahmed, who was injured in an encounter with the SFs at Krawa forests in the Ramban district on September 2, died in the forests and his body was recovered on September 4.

• September 3: A soldier of the Territorial Army was wounded when suspected militants triggered an IED blast inside the shop of Army contractor Ghulam Mohiuddin at Bumhama in the periphery of Kupwara town. Abdullah Ghaznavi, spokesperson of the LeT, claimed responsibility for the attack.

• September 2: One LeT militant, Asif Ali Sheikh alias Soba, was shot dead by SF personnel at Gund Adaikot in the Ramban district.

  Two LeT cadres, Naseer Ahmed Beig alias Raju Beig and Mukhtiar Ahmed, while taking Hawala money worth INR 300000 for their ‘commander’, Ashiq Hussain, were arrested from Passari forest area under Bhaderwah police station in the Doda district. They were working as over-ground workers for the outfit and used to shift Hawala money and arms for the militants.

  The Hyderabad Police filed a new FIR charging 15 persons for their involvement in the August 25 twin blasts in the city. All of them were booked under the Explosives Act and for conspiring to carry out bomb attacks. Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said that only four of the 15 suspects are in police custody. HuJI-BD ‘commander’ Shahid Bilal is among the 11 who are out of the police custody. The new FIR is largely based on the revelations of Sameer Sheikh alias Nayeem, an alleged LeT operative arrested on the Bangladesh border in West Bengal on April 1, 2007. He is also an accused in the Mumbai train blasts case. Nayeem reportedly told investigators that he transported intruders and 10 kilograms of RDX from Bangladesh to Mumbai and Hyderabad over the 18 months period prior to his arrest.

• September 1: Roshan Din alias Abu Darda, an ‘area commander’ of the LeT was killed by Reasi police and army at Nakka Pathri in the Gulabgarh area of Udhampur district.. Abu Darda was active since 2000 and was involved in a number of militant activities in Gool-Gulabgarh-Mahore belt.

• August 30: One LeT militant hailing from Manipur, Mohammed Sadeeq, was arrested from the Dudu-Basantgarh area of Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir on an unspecified date. "Mohd Sadeeq, a resident of Foibal in Manipur, was arrested in Dudu-Basantgarh belt of Kathua district last week," said Kuldeep Khoda, the Director General of Police of Jammu and Kashmir. According to police sources, he is the first Bangladesh-trained militant from the Northeast to be arrested in Jammu and Kashmir. He reportedly attended training camps with al Qaeda operatives in Bangladesh. The report added that Sadeeq was initially picked up for al Qaeda outfit, but was later sent to Jammu and Kashmir along with a group of 10 to 15 militants, as the LeT was facing a shortage of cadres there.

• August 28: Police are investigating the connection of two Hyderabad based operatives of the LeT with the HuJI in connection with the twin blasts in Hyderabad on August 25.

• August 23: A LeT militant, identified as Abdul Hafiz a.k.a. Bashir Ahmed Mallah, a resident of Koti in the Doda district who was involved in several killings, surrendered before the police. Senior Superintendent of Police of Doda, Manohar Singh, said that Bashir had joined militancy in 2003 and was active in Doda and adjoining Bharat, Kulhand, Koti and Dessa areas.

• August 20: Two militants of the LeT outfit were killed in a day-long encounter with the SFs at Ganevpora-Hablipora village in the Shopian district.

• August 19: A hardcore LeT militant, Abu Bakar, was arrested by police from village Dudu under the jurisdiction of Basantgarh police station in Udhampur district

• August 12: A hardcore militant of the LeT, Rehman Saani alias Hanzulla, a Pakistani national, was killed by the SF personnel at Hiff-Khour in the Zainapora area of Pulwama district.

  SFs arrested Gafoor Khan, an over-ground worker of the LeT, from the Lolab area of Kupwara district.

• August 9: Militants fired upon at a convoy of Army at Sheeri near Baramulla. The troops retaliated and the exchange of fire lasted for about 15 minutes. However, there was no report of any casualty. The LeT has claimed responsibility for the attack.

• August 8: SF personnel shot dead an ‘operations commander’ of the LeT, identified as Taib alias Abu Talah, during an encounter at Hanjipora in the Kupwara district. One solider, one police personnel and a civilian, Tariq Ahmad, sustained injuries during the encounter.

• August 7: Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as Manzoor Ahmed, from a hide-out at Cham Dhar in the Doda district.

  Security forces arrested a civilian allegedly working for the LeT in the Banihal area of Ramban district.

• August 6: A court in New Delhi sentenced two LeT militants, Shahid Ahmed Bakshi, a resident of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, and Farhan Ahmed Ali, a resident of Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for possessing arms and explosives. The court had held them guilty on July 30 under various provisions of the erstwhile POTA pertaining to unauthorised possession of arms, ammunition and explosives. Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur also fined the militants INR 50,000 each. The militants were arrested at Nizamuddin in New Delhi on August 30, 2002, with four kilograms of RDX, two detonators and a Chinese-made pistol along with magazine and 15 live cartridges.

  Two top LeT militants, including an Afghan national, were shot dead by police in an encounter in the Gandoh area of Doda district. The slain militants were identified as John Mohammed (code name Bilal), a resident of Kunthal and Abu Shakeel Afghani, a foreign mercenary.

• August 5: During an encounter that ensued after SFs launched a cordon-and-search operation at Pazipora Chak in the Handwara area of Kupwara district, a LeT terrorist, identified as Abu Talib alias Usama, was killed. However, one of his associates managed to escape from the incident site.

• August 2: Two infiltrators were killed by the troops at Sanga in the Krishna Ghati area of Poonch district. Official sources said troops had observed the movement of a group of infiltrators near Hawai Post of Army at Sanga and in the ensuing encounter two infiltrators were killed while the rest of their associates managed to escape. The slain militants were believed to be Pakistanis belonging to the LeT outfit.

• July 31-August 1: The Army foiled an infiltration attempt near Ghodetal in the Uri sector of Baramulla district by killing all the eight terrorists. In the gun-battle, Colonel V. Vasant, a Commanding Officer of 9 Maratha Light Infantry, and a soldier, Lance Naik B. S. Ganapat, were also killed and a soldier wounded. Deputy Inspector General of Police (North Kashmir), B. Srinivas, said that the entire eight-member group of LeT infiltrators had been neutralized by the SFs in a 60-hour-long operation.

• July 31: Two youths, Jamsheed Ahmed and Shoaib Mohammed, were rescued from the captivity of LeT by the troops in the Bagla Bharat area of Doda district.

• July 30: The Doda district police arrested two new recruits of the LeT outfit during a raid conducted at Patnazi. They were identified as Aftab Ahmed and Mohammed Hashim.

• July 26: In the first Fidayeen (suicide squad) attack since October 2006, SFs killed both the militants at an encampment on the premises of Bhaba Atomic Research Centre at Zakoora on the outskirts of capital Srinagar. Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, informed that two LeT militants made an unsuccessful attempt to sneak into a formation of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force at the defunct BARC facility at Zakoora. Both the militants, who emerged from a deserted orchard, lobbed hand grenades and opened gunfire on the pillboxes in the rear of the camp. Even as eight soldiers sustained injuries, the troops shot dead both the militants and also recovered two AK-56 rifles and three hand grenades from their possession. He said that one of the slain militants was identified as Feroz Ahmed Khan, a resident of Kangan in the Kashmir valley, and another was believed to be a Pakistani national. A LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi claimed responsibility of the two-and-a-half-hour-long attacks and reportedly identified the slain militants as Feroz Khan alias Abu Muslim and a "guest militant" Abu Ma'az.

• July 25: More than a dozen Muslims, including at least one Pakistani and several US citizens of Pakistani-origin, have been sentenced to imprisonment for their association with the Pakistan-based LeT and for conspiracy to wage jihad against India. Although one of the convicts, 32-year old Sabri Benkahla, of Falls Church, Virginia, became a state witness, he too was sentenced this week to 121 months in federal prison, and ordered to pay a $17,500 fine. He was found guilty of perjury before the grand jury and of making false official statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including his denial of involvement with an overseas jihad training camp in 1999, as well as his asserted lack of knowledge about individuals with whom he was in contact. Most of the convicts attended the Dar al Arqam Islamic Centre in Falls Church, Virginia. In June 2003, Benkahla and 10 others were indicted by a grand jury in Alexandria for conspiring to attack Indian troops in Kashmir and the Russians in Chechnya in the course of training for jihad in Virginia and Pakistan. Among the defendants, Masaud Khan, Seifullah Chapman, Randall Royer, Ibrahim Al-Hamdi, Muhammed Aatique, Yong Kwon, and Khwaja Hasan, were alleged to have attended jihad training camps operated by the LeT in 2000 and 2001. In September 2003, Khan and Royer were charged with conspiring to wage war against the United States, aid the Taliban, aid al Qaeda, and Khan, Royer, Chapman, and Hammad Abdur-Raheem were charged with providing assistance to the LeT.

• July 23: The Doda district police neutralized a LeT hideout at Seoj Dhar under the jurisdiction of Bhadarwah police station and recovered five kilograms of RDX, two under barrel grenade launchers, nine hand grenades, 300 AK rounds, 12 SLR rounds, four AK magazines, one radio set, three detonators, ration items and accessories of explosive devices. However, no arrests were made from the hideout.

• July 23: Official sources said a group of LeT militants abducted and later killed Javid Iqbal, a cadre of the HM, from Kither Bonjwa in the Gandoh area of Doda district. According to sources, Iqbal had surrendered before the security forces about two years back. However, he rejoined the HM group about six months back.

• July 22: A LeT militant, identified as Mohammed Shaffi, was killed in an encounter with the SFs at village Sangan in the Banihal area of Ramban district. However, one of his associates managed to escape from the encounter site.

• July 18: Mohammad Khalid-ur-Rahman, a Pakistani national who played a core role in organising the LeT’s pan-India terror network, was killed in a shootout with police and troops near Bhaderwah in the Doda district. A woman was also killed when the militant lobbed grenade on a house to take refuge there.

• July 17: Two Army soldiers, identified as Hari Kishore and P.T. Vasant, were killed and eight others injured when a group of five Pakistani cadres of the LeT ambushed a convoy of Rashtriya Rifles in the Belni forests - between Tota Gali and Bhatta Durian area – of Surankote tehsil in the Poonch district. The ambush followed a heavy exchange of gun fighting between troops and militants for two hours but the militants, who had taken position atop the hills, managed to escape.

  VDC members of village Bagiyana killed another LeT terrorist. A defence spokesman said that VDC members noticed movement of a terrorist in the Bagiyana nullah. When the militant was challenged, he opened fire which was retaliated by the VDC members. In the ensuing fire fight, the terrorist, identified as Ghulam Mohammad, was killed.

• July 16: Doda police arrested three hardcore over-ground workers of the LeT outfit, including two Government employees. They were identified as Ghulam Rasool alias Doctor, Rayees Ahmed Natnoo and Tariq Saleem.

• July 7: A Pakistani militant of the LeT, identified as Abu Haider Zarar, operating in the Surankote area for last three years, was killed inside a house while his two body-guards escaped during an encounter with troops of Rashtriya Rifles at village Dandian in the Bafliaz area of Surankote tehsil in Poonch district.

  Police claimed to have arrested eight militants of the LeT and Tehreeh-ul-Mujahideen, who were planning to carry out grenade attacks in Srinagar, from the Tral area Pulwama district.

• July 6: The Doda district police cracked a network of Hawala operators with the arrest of three activists of LeT and recovery of INR 1.97 lakh cash besides explosive material from their possession. The three were identified as Bashir Ahmad Banday alias Billal, Jamal Din Mughal and Fareed Ahmed Chopan.

• July 1: July 1: All the three top LeT terrorists, held up in a house since June 30-night at Dalli Nowpora in the Kulhand area of Doda district, were killed by the SF personnel. A police constable, Abdul Rashid, was killed in the operation while five others sustained injuries. Official sources said the body of one of the slain terrorists was recovered from the incident site while two others were buried in debris of the house.

• June 29: SFs managed to ascertain the hideout of two of the five terrorists involved in the attack June 28 attack and killed both the Pakistani cadres of the LeT in a day-long encounter in the Handwara town of Kupwara district. Two soldiers also sustained injuries.

• June 28: Three terrorists of the LeT were killed in an encounter with the security force personnel at Harpora Salkoot village near the Army's headquarters of 28-Infantry Division in the Kupwara district. A woman, identified as Fehmeeda, is reported to have died in the crossfire. He disclosed that the militants, with a clear intention of launching a suicide attack on the Army formation, were wearing combat uniform, including military shoes and bullet proof-like vests.

  One soldier was killed and at least 16 soldiers and a sixteen-year old boy, Zahid Manzoor Bhat, were wounded when militants ambushed a convoy of the Army near Chotipora-Marhatgam in Pulwama district using AK-56 rifles and rocket launchers. Spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi, claimed over telephone that two of the targeted vehicles were destroyed by two militants of his group.

  Two LeT militants, identified as Abdul Rahim Malla alias V5 and Mohamed Shafi Malla, were arrested during a search operation by the troops in the Rafiabad area of Baramulla district.

• June 26: Two SF personnel and a militant of the LeT, Ishtiyaq Ahmad Bhat, outfit were killed in an encounter at Gamroo in the Bandipora district. The house of Ghulam Mohammad Shah, where the militants had allegedly taken refuge, was damaged in the incident.

• June 25: Two civilians, Nissar Ahmed and Riyaz Ahmed, were killed and 14 others, including five women, sustained injuries when a suspected LeT militant lobbed a grenade in a crowded area at Old Bus Stand in the Doda town. The blast occurred in front of Hotel Tak Residence where a large number of people had gathered for shopping and other purposes. Sources said eye-witness accounts helped police to identity the militant involved in the incident. He is reportedly a resident of Doda and belonged to the Fareed Sheikh group of the LeT.

• June 24: Five cadres of the LeT and one Army personnel were killed and two soldiers wounded in an encounter which ensued after SF personnel challenged a group of infiltrators at Ismail Di Dori in the Karnah sector of Kupwara district. Havildar Chuni Lal, a resident of Doda district, who died in the encounter, had received the Vir Chakra in recognition of his gallantry in the Kargil War of 1999.

  10 personnel of the Special Operations Group of the Police were wounded in an IED blast at Maloora on the Srinagar-Sumbal Road. LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, claimed that three soldiers died and 10 others sustained injuries in the IED blast that was caused by militants of his organisation.

• June 22: Mohammadd Ashraf Sheikh Moulvi, a militant of the LeT, was arrested at Rampora in the Kulgam district.

• June 21: An activist of the LeT, identified as Arif Hussain Naikoo, was arrested from Chakoora village in the Pulwama district.

• June 18: Security forces killed three militants of the LeT, including ‘divisional commander’ Abu Furqaan, in the Beerwah area of Budgam district. The other two were identified as Amaar and Bilal Ahmed Dar alias Saifullah.

  About 100 Pakistanis are being trained exclusively as Fidayeen (suicide squad) in three training camps of the LeT in Pakistan, according to disclosures made by two Pakistani militants recently arrested on the Line of Control. They are reportedly being trained to target the political leadership in Jammu and Kashmir, the militants have said during their questioning. The disclosures were made by Pakistani militants identified as Mohammed Yaseen Jat, a resident of Sialkot in the Punjab province, and Akhter-ul-Islam, who were arrested by Army at Lilum Vilgam in the Handwara area of Kupwara district. According to sources, the militants have disclosed that the Fidayeen were being given special training at Akas training camp at Muzaffarabad; LeT’s base camp at Kotli and Lashkar Point, a new training camp created for Fidayeen.

• June 17: A suspected LeT operative and an accused in the May 18-bomb blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, Sheikh Abdul Nayeem alias Sameer, briefly escaped from police custody, before being re-arrested two kilometers away after an hour’s chase.

  An over-ground worker of the LeT, Zahoor Ahmad Wani, was arrested by the Rashtriya Rifles personnel from Lalpura village in the Kupwara district.

• June 16: Two college students, one undergoing Graduation degree in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and another studying Bachelor in Computer Applications from Kawa Institute of Management and Technology, Jammu, have turned out to be top militants of LeT outfit and were arrested by police from Channi Himmat along with a consignment of explosives and hawala money. Police sources said that Raees Hayat Khan alias Aijaz and Mohd Taj, both residents of Chak Banola in the Poonch district, had been assigned the task of striking at Amarnath pilgrimage base camp in Jammu and lob grenades on the first batch of pilgrims scheduled to take off on June 30.

• June 15: Two persons were killed nine others sustained injuries in an ambush by terrorists near the crowded Iqbal Market in the Sopore town of Baramulla district. Even as the troops retaliated, both the terrorists managed to escape from the incident site. Officials said that the duo, identified as Abu Zarrar and Abu Qittal, were believed to be members of a lately infiltrated group of the LeT, which is reported to have claimed responsibility for the ambush.

  The Superintendent of Police (Operations) in Srinagar, Mohammad Irshad, informed that police arrested a Srinagar-based militant Abu Faisal who disclosed that a suicide squad has sneaked into the capital city to carry out an attack. Subsequently, police conducted search operations in the Rajbagh-Nowgam area and killed two militants, identified as Abu Tufail and Abu Hafiz, both Pakistani cadres of the LeT. However one wanted militant Obaid alias Shahid was able to flee in an injured condition.

• June 14: SFs arrested two Pakistani militants of the LeT while making an attempt to kill Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Union Tourism Minister, Ambika Soni, during their visit to the under-construction complex of the Institute of Hotel Management, close to Police Station Rajbagh in the capital Srinagar. During interrogation, the duo reportedly revealed that they had been tasked to carry out a suicide attack on Azad and Soni. They revealed that a quantity of their arms and ammunition, as also their commanders, were in the Bandipora area of Baramulla district.

• June 12: Three LeT terrorists and three soldiers were killed in a gun-battle in the Gagal forest area of Kupwara district. Five SF personnel also sustained injuries in the incident. One of the militant, according to official sources, had been identified as LeT’s Kupwara "Financial Chief" Abu Moosa, a Pakistani national. Officials informed that Moosa had been continuously operating in Lolab valley since 2002. Three militants of the group managed to escape from the incident site.

  A suspected LeT militant was arrested from near the Azadpur Sabzi Mandi in north Delhi. Identified as Mukhtar Ahmed Khan from Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, the militant was carrying about 1.5 kilograms of RDX, a timer and two detonators meant to cause bomb blasts in Delhi at the behest of LeT commander Abu Alqama.

• June 11: Angry crowds in PoK set ablaze a hospital set up by the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, set up by Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafeez Mohammed Sayeed, after the outfit’s cadre allegedly killed a boy and injured two others in a land dispute. The crowd set on fire the huge "set up" of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa at Pajgran village near Muzaffarabad, capital of PoK, after a boy was shot dead and two others were wounded, allegedly by people belonging to the outfit. The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa in a press release from its headquarters in Lahore, however, said local "land mafia" set fire to its surgical hospital set up to treat the 2005 earthquake victims. Police arrested over a dozen activists of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, including the one who had allegedly shot dead 17-year old Adnan Shah.

• June 10: Police arrested six militants of the LeT’s Abu Umar group. They were reportedly involved in a series of grenade attacks in Bhaderwah and other areas of Doda district. During interrogation, the militants also admitted that they were planning to lob more grenades in Bhaderwah town and outskirts in the next few days.

• June 9: In south Kashmir, two CRPF personnel and two civilians were wounded when militants clashed with a CRPF party protecting the railway track in Awantipora-Bijbehara belt. Subsequently, a LeT spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack.

• April 7: A suspected LeT operative held near the Bangladesh border in April was shown as arrested by police in Hyderabad in connection with the May 18 bomb blast in the city’s Mecca Masjid. Nayeem alias Sameer was earlier in the custody of Mumbai police and was brought here on a transit warrant. He was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days. Sameer was one of four suspected LeT cadres held by the BSF near the Bangladesh border in April while they were trying to sneak into West Bengal. Later, he was handed over to Mumbai Police for his alleged involvement in bomb attacks on local trains. During a narco-analysis test, Sameer reportedly told Mumbai Police that he had transported RDX to Hyderabad, officials sources said. This was the second arrest by the Special Investigation Cell of city police which is probing the bomb blast. Earlier on May 25, police arrested Shoaib Jagirdar, a close associate of Sameer, from Jalna in Maharashtra. He is now in judicial remand.

• June 6: Police arrested Mohammad Razzik, a LeT militant, from the Cheera area of Doda district. Razzik was reportedly a close associate of LeT 'district Commander' Abu Jindal, a foreign militant currently active in the Kither and Thathri areas.

• June 4: SF personnel foiled an infiltration attempt, killing four heavily armed LeT terrorists at Kanga Gali in the Manjakote sector of Rajouri district. One Army personnel, identified as Sumit Dogra, was killed and another, Kuldeep Raj, injured in the abortive infiltration attempt. This was the fifth infiltration attempt which was foiled by Army in the Rajouri and Poonch districts last fortnight.

  June 3: Hafiz Muhammad Hamid, brother of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the LeT chief, was deported along with his family from the United States. He is expected to arrive in Pakistan on June 5-morning. Hafiz Hamid was imam (priest) at the Islamic Centre of Greater Worcester, Massachusetts, and had been fighting immigration regulation infringements for the last several months. His other brother, Hafiz Muhammad Masood, is also fighting deportation and is now waiting for the next hearing of a US federal immigration court on October 11, 2007. Hafiz Muhammad Hamid came to the US in 2000 to attend a finance conference organised by the Harvard Programme for Islamic Finance. He stayed on to become the imam of the Worcester mosque. He reportedly worked closely with the Islamic Society of Boston. Before coming to the US, he is believed to have been in charge of the LeT ‘safe house’ at Moon Chowk in Lahore, a "facility" that no longer exists.

• June 1: Two soldiers died and 16 others inured in an encounter with two suicide squad (Fidayeen) cadres of the LeT follwing their attack on the Army convoy as well as STC of the J&K Police at Sheeri in the Baramulla district. Both the terrorists were also killed in the gun-battle. LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi claimed that the incident at Sheeri was his group’s Fidayeen attack. He claimed that five police personnel and six soldiers of the army were killed and 15 more injured and confirmed that both the suicide squad cadres were killed in the operation.

• May 31: Two LeT cadres, Shahid alias Latta and Saleem Bhat, who were involved in several killings and other subversive activities, were shot dead by police at Asthanmarg in the Gool area of Ramban district.

• May 30: Terrorists shot dead a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Shailey Singh, inside the house of a State Forest Corporation employeeat Udrana in the Doda district and escaped. However, a LeT ‘divisional commander’, Abu Umar, was reportedly trapped by police in a house. Sources said the terrorists had sheltered in the house belonging to Shabir Ahmed alias Billa alias Sabba, and his brother Shakoor Ahmed alias Shanku at Udrana, who were later arrested.

  Foiling another infiltration attempt, SFs shot dead three terrorists, believed to be foreign mercenaries of the LeT outfit, during an encounter at Sabra Gali on the LoC in the Balakote sector of Poonch district. Sources said infiltration attempts have gradually increased since April 2007 with reports indicating that the number of infiltrators has already surpassed 120.

  A Pakistani militant of the LeT, identified as Sulaiman, is reported to have died in an encounter with SF personnel in the Bandipora area of Baramulla district.

• May 29: The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (also known as Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]) plans to resume publication of its entire catalogue of seven publications with new names over fears that the government may impose a possible ban on the existing names. The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa was earlier outlawed in January 2001 when it operated under the name of the LeT. Currently, it publishes the weeklies Ghazwa, Zarb-e-Taiba and Taibaat along with the monthlies Adawa and Babul Islam in Urdu. It also publishes the monthlies Voice of Islam and Al-Ribaat in English and Arabic, respectively. These publications propagate jihad and highlight the nationwide activities of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa. Sources said that the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa would rename its publications following a decision made during a recent meeting chaired by the groups’ chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. However, Yahya Mujahid, the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa spokesman, did not confirm such plans.

• May 23: A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Yougal Manhas, and his driver, Zahoor Ahmed, were injured when a terrorist fired from his AK-56 rifle directly targeting Manhas in his police vehicle, just outside his office, in the Mendhar town of Poonch district. The terrorist later escaped from the incident site, a crowded place adjacent to the police station. An Al-Mansooran (a front for the Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]) spokesman, Amir Mir, rang up Daily Excelsior from PoK to claim responsibility for the attack. He said that it was a Fidayeen (suicide squad) attack and was executed by two cadres of his groups. Police, however, maintained that only one terrorist was involved in the attack, adding that it was not a suicide attack as the terrorist committed action for few seconds and fled.

• May 16: SFs shot dead a 'divisional commander' of the LeT, Abu Saifullah, a Pakistani, in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district. One of his associates, reportedly his body-guard, managed to escape.

• May 15: SF personnel killed two LeT militants at Waterhal in the Budgam district.

• May 14: A LeT cadre, identified as Tariq Hussain Wani alias Abu Hamza, was shot dead by the police in an encounter at Panchaal in the Doda district.

  Another militant of the LeT was killed in an encounter with the security force personnel in the Sopore area of Baramulla district.

  A letter, purportedly written by a LeT militant, threatening to kill the President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and the Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, was recovered from a cinema hall at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. The letter, written by Karim Ansari, claiming to be a LeT militant, threatened to "eliminate soon Gandhi and Kalam and to blow up on May 24 Meerut Railway Station, Apsara Cinema and several other cinemas in the city besides the Delhi Railway Station, India Gate and Palampur (IGIA) Airport."

• May 9: Three Pakistani cadres of the LeT group are reported to have died during an encounter with the SFs at Dardharey village in the Kupwara district. One Kashmiri militant, namely Bilal Ahmed Mir, and a guide, identified as Abdul Khaliq, were arrested from the incident site.

• May 8: The Indian government said that Pakistan-based LeT has been building up a women cadre by imparting arms training to them at its camps in Pakistan. Available reports suggest that LeT is running training camps in Pakistan and PoK for imparting arms training to its women cadre. Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, in a written answer in the Parliament said there was continued involvement of Pakistan and Pakistan-based terrorist outfits like the LeT, JeM and HM in terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India. "They were using and leveraging the existing infrastructure of terror in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and other parts of Pakistan," he said.

  Two LeT terrorists and one soldier were killed at Chowgal in the Handwara area of Kupwara district.

• May 7: Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as Ishfaq Ahmed Ganai, from Sogam village in the Kupwara district.

• May 6: Pakistan-based terrorist groups, particularly the LeT and JeM, are increasingly depending on "surrogate bases" in Bangladesh, Nepal and the Middle East for movement of trained cadres and finances for their operations, indicated the Union Home Ministry. A home ministry document, based on intelligence inputs, said the Bangladesh-based HuJI, linked to the LeT and JeM, is recruiting Indian youths, sending them to Pakistan for training and re-inducting them via Bangladesh to carry out terrorist attacks. "This is evident from the Mumbai local train serial bomb blasts in which 11 Pakistanis infiltrated through the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar, Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal and Indo-Pakistan border in Gujarat," the report said.

• May 2: Intelligence agencies have said the Pakistan-based LeT and the ISI, Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, are trying to revive militancy in the Indian State of Punjab through sympathisers of the Sikh militant groups like the BKI, the ISYF, KZF and KCF. Statesman reports that information has been sent to the Punjab Police about the plans to target towns of Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Pathankot region. Instructions have also been given to monitor the activities of sympathisers of BKI-Hawara, ISYF-Rode, KZF- Neeta and KCF, who are sending funds through hawala (illegal money transfer) to "re-launch their separatist movement".

• April 29: Four militants of a recently infiltrated group of LeT cadres were killed in a joint operation by the Rashtriya Rifles and Kupwara Police in the Kandi forest area of Kupwara district. However, two militants, one of them in an injured condition, of the group managed to escape from the incident site.

  A LeT cadre, identified as Abu Hamza alias Shamsher, was shot dead by the troops in the Budhal area of Rajouri district.

• April 28: Three LeT militants were killed during an encounter with troops of Rashtriya Rifles and police at village Panjan in the Dessa area of Doda district. One of the militants was identified as Mubarak Ali of Dessa. Another unidentified militant is believed to be a Pakistani national.

• April 27: The Lashkar-e-Toiba ([LeT]; also known as Jama’at-ud-Da’awa) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed endorsed various steps taken by the Islamabad-based Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) administration for the implementation of Sharia (Islamic law) in Pakistan. "The Lal Masjid administration talks about Sharia, therefore we support it," he said in his Friday sermon at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.

  Interrogation of the three suspected LeT militants arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police near Dilli Haat (a crowded shopping complex) in the national capital on April 26-evening has revealed that they were planning to target functions being organised to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the First War of Independence. The three had been sent to Delhi at the instance of Abu Al Kama, the mastermind of the October 2005 pre-Diwali serial blasts in the Capital. Abu Al Kama had fled to Pakistan after the October 2005 blasts and had directed Abu Ammar, a Pakistan national and LeT’s ‘operational chief commander’ in Jammu region based in Doda to carry out explosions in Delhi. Ammar had asked one Shafaqat Iqbal Mir to deliver a consignment of explosives to a Pakistani militant, Mohammad Hasan alias Abu Qasim, in Delhi. The suspect and another terrorist, Shabbir Ahmed, were allegedly handing over the consignment to Abu Qasim when they were arrested near Dilli Haat.

• April 26: SFs reportedly recovered the dead body of a LeT cadre, identified as Bashir Ahmed alias Abu Samama alias A5, from near his house at Mahore in the Reasi district.

  Three LeT militants, including a Pakistani national, were arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police outside the Dilli Haat (a crowded shopping complex) in the national capital. The police recovered two kilograms of RDX, three detonators, two hand-grenades, a timer and INR 25,000 in cash from them. The three were identified as Abu Kasim, a Pakistani national, and Shafaqat and Shabbir, residents of Jammu and Kashmir. Shafaqat and Shabbir reportedly said that they were recently directed by their handler to hand over the consignment of explosives to a Pakistani militant. The police suspect that the Kasim was part of a "core strike team" dispatched to carry out explosions in the Capital.

  Another plot to assassinate the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in a suicide attack during his rally at Bandipora in the Baramulla district was foiled by police with the arrest of three militants, including a Pakistani national. A senior police officer said that a top LeT militant, Showkat Ahmed, was arrested from the capital Srinagar on April 24. During interrogation, he revealed that the LeT, JeM and HM had hatched a joint conspiracy to assassinate the Chief Minister at Bandipora during his rally. Police raided a militant hideout on the outskirts of Srinagar from where two associates of Showkat were also arrested. They included one Pakistani, Abu Sikander.

• April 25: Security forces arrested a supporter of the LeT, identified as Shabir Ahmad Sheikh, at Takiya Panzalla in the Baramulla district.

• April 22: Three top HM cadres, including a deserter SPO, were allegedly killed by LeT in the remote and hilly area of Kither under the jurisdiction of Gandoh police station in Doda district. The slain militants were identified as Abdul Qayoom, Sajjad Ahmed and Shabir Ahmed. While Abdul Qayoom was a deserter SPO, Sajjad and Shabir were active in militancy for the last two years. Official sources said the trio was allegedly strangulated by Pakistan-based militants of the LeT as they were planning to surrender before the security forces.

  A LeT militant, identified as S. K. Shamir, who was arrested from Petrapole in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on April 2, has admitted to having planted explosives in at least five places at different railway stations in Mumbai and its adjoining areas triggering the July 11, 2006- serial bomb blasts, according to UNI. This was revealed from the narco-analysis tests conducted on the accused in Bangalore on April 15, sources in the West Bengal Police said. While Shamir was sent on transit remand, his Kashmiri associate Mujaffar Ahmed Khan was remanded to judicial custody till May 2. Both were sent to Bangalore last week for the tests. The test revealed that Shamir is a B.Sc. Graduate, having good knowledge in chemistry and chemical explosives, sources added.

• April 16: Terrorists made an abortive attempt on the lives of two engineers with IRCON, the construction wing of the Indian Railways, killing their guard near a railway track at Naina Bhatpora in the Pulwama district. The Al-Mansooran, a front outfit for the LeT, claimed responsibility for the attack on two IRCON engineers. The two engineers — Hilal Ahmed and Kishen Kumar — escaped unhurt. On April 14, 2007, the Jammu and Kashmir Police had killed two LeT cadres, ‘district commander’ Pinto Malik and Shiraz Mir, at Wayil in the Shopian area of Pulwama district. Malik had allegedly beheaded two IRCON engineers at Awantipora in Pulwama, in 2004. IRCON is involved in the laying of tracks and setting up other infrastructure for the Qazigund-Baramulla railway line project.

• April 15: SF personnel shot dead two top cadres of the LeT, identified as ‘district commander’ Fayaz Ahmed Mir and Abu Hamza, at Upper Dandi in the Doda district. One personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force was injured in the operation that lasted for more than four hours. An injured militant, however, reportedly managed to escape from the incident site. Two AK-56 rifles, six magazines, two pouches, three grenades, a radio set, two letter pads of the LeT outfit and some incriminating documents, including three diaries, were recovered from the incident site.

• April 14: Two LeT militants were killed and a security force personnel was wounded during an encounter with the SFs in the Pulwama district.

• April 11: A LeT plot to assassinate Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the first ever public rally in newly created Ramban district was foiled by the police with the arrest of four militants, including a suspected Congress party worker and his wife. A Pakistani Fidayeen (suicide squad), who had entered Ramban on April 11-night along with an automatic AK rifle and half a dozen grenades, managed to escape as the LeT plot was foiled by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and police minutes before Azad entered the rally venue in Ramban town. Official sources said that acting on a specific input developed by the IB about the LeT plot, police arrested a suspected Congress worker, Farooq Ahmed Wani, and his wife Haseena Begum minutes before the arrival of Azad.

  The Pakistan-based LeT has called for the formation of an 'Elders Council'-comprising both factions of the APHC, Bar Association and Kashmiri intellectuals - and asked the Kashmiri separatist leaders to unite on one platform "at this crucial juncture." LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi asked the two factions of the separatist Hurriyat Conference to unite on one platform "at this crucial juncture" and salvage the "freedom movement" from the quagmire of failure. "If the (split) Hurriyat leaders failed to sink their differences and unite on one platform and a solution (of the Kashmir problem), not in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people was allowed to be imposed, history would never forgive these leaders," the spokesman said. He added that the "freedom movement" had entered into a critical phase and required to be actively guided by an "Elders Council" comprising leaders of the united Hurriyat, Kashmir Bar Association and Kashmiri intellectuals.

• April 7: SFs arrested one over-ground worker, working for the LeT, along with four hand grenades and two UBGL grenades at Gund Brath Sopore in the Baramulla district.

• April 3: Police arrested a LeT militant, Mohammed Farooq, from village Dorimal in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.

  A LeT militant, identified as Showkat Ali Wani, injured in an encounter with troops at Bounjwah in Gandoh of Doda district on March 31, succumbed to his injuries in a forest area and his body was recovered today.

• March 31: Police shot dead Mohammed Ali alias Abu Zar, a ‘section commander’ of the LeT, at Kither in the Kishtwar area of Doda district.

  Four over-ground workers of the LeT were arrested for supporting militancy in the Doda district. They were identified as Mohammed Ashraf, Din Mohammed, Sajjad Ahmed and Rehmatullah.

• March 28: A LeT militant of Pakistani origin, identified as Sehraj Ahmed, a resident of Kamalpur in Hazira area of PoK, was killed by security forces in an encounter at village Nar in Mankot area of Poonch district. He was operating with code names of Abu Harara and Abu Abdul Rehman.

• March 22: Police arrested three local militants of LeT in Srinagar city. They were identified as Zubair Ahmed Malik alias Abu Umar, his cousin Ehtisham Malik alias Abu Hashim and Faisal Ahmed Bhat alias Vicky alias Abu Salah-ud-din, all residents of the Sopore district. Sources said that the three militants had shifted their base to Srinagar after working with LeT in Sopore town and Kandi belt of Kupwara district.

• March 20: In a major cordon-and-search operation at Chhotimarg hamlet in the Divar forest area of Lolab valley in Kupwara district SFs killed four militants of the LeT outfit who were hiding at the residence of one Abdul Aziz War. The militants were identified as Riyaz Ahmed Wani and Maqsood Ahmed Ganai from Kashmir; and Abdur Rehman and Abu Huraira, from Pakistan. An Army officer, identified as Captain Harshan, was killed during the encounter. One soldier sustained injuries in the incident.

  Srinagar Police claimed to have arrested two local cadres of LeT, namely Tariq Ahmad Baba alias Kamil and Manzoor Ahmad Dar alias Umar. Police said that some arms and ammunition were recovered from them, adding that, both the militants had raised a hideout in Srinagar which had been used for hiding and planning subversive activities by a number of militants.

• March 19: Police foiled a plan of Pakistan based LeT to strike Srinagar city when they arrested a militant, identified as Assadullah. The arrested militant later confessed that he was planning with other LeT militants to strike in the Srinagar city.

  Police neutralised LeT module in Sopore township of Baramulla district with the arrest of six youths. "We have busted a module of LeT outfit and arrested six boys who were terrorising people at the behest of Pakistani militants of the LeT outfit," Assistant Superintendent of Police, Sopore, Mir Imtiyaz Ahmad said. He said three hand grenades were recovered on the tip off given by the arrested youth.

• March 11: Two Pakistani militants of LeT, identified as Abdul Majeed and Mohd Jameel, arrested in Rajouri on March 10 disclosed that they had infiltrated into Indian territory in a group of eight through sea route from Karachi to Mumbai. The militants have claimed that they paid a "huge amount" to Coastguards to reach Mumbai after a private boat, they were sailing in, was intercepted by the guards. This is for the first time when infiltration of Pakistani militants has been reported through sea-route. Two local militants, identified as Feroz Mohd and Mohd Taj both residents of Sangiot, Mendhar were also arrested along with the Pakistani militants. 

  SFs arrested a LeT militant, identified as Bashir Ahmed Awan, from Loran Mandi in Poonch district. A defence spokesman said that on interrogation, Awan led the search party to a hideout where from it recovered war like stores, including 4-kgs white explosives, IED CCT-01, 2 hand grenades and 2 electric detonators.

• March 10: In north Kashmir, Handwara Police arrested a civilian, Javeed Ahmad Mir and recovered two hand grenades and a huge quantity of medicines which were to be supplied to LeT militants.

• March 7: In a major combing operation in Wudar Balla forest cover of Rajwar in the Kupwara district security forces claimed to have killed four Pakistani cadres of the LeT. Security forces also recovered four AK-56 rifles from the site of the encounter. Lt. Col Rajiv Kapoor, of Rashtriya Rifles 28 Bn, was injured the incident.

• March 5: An injured LeT militant, Pakistani national Mohammad Mansoor Manhas, who escaped from the encounter at Gund-Jehangir village in Sumbal area earlier in the day was arrested along with six of his local associates, including a woman, from Sopore. The local associates were identified as Khurshid Ahmad Lone, his wife Masarat, Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Ishtiyaq Ahmad Naikoo, Gulzar Ahmad Najar and Assadullah Parray. AK 56 rifle along with some ammunition were recovered from Manhas.

• February 28: Police and SOG shot dead, Abu Talha, a ‘district commander’ of the LeT, who was plotting fidayeen (suicide) attacks at Governor’s House and State Legislators hostel in Jammu, in an encounter at village Safian in foothills of Bala Sundri temple under Billawar police station jurisdiction in the Kathua district. Abu was a Pakistani national operating in Doda, Bhadarwah and Basantgarh. While two of his accomplices, Naseer Ahmed alias Bittu alias Raju and Lateef Bakerwal, were arrested, one police constable was injured in the encounter.

• February 27: Two soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles and an unidentified militant were killed and a soldier wounded in the Mawar area of Kupwara district. Official sources said that the militant killed in the encounter was unidentified though he was believed to be a Pakistani cadre of the LeT.

  Two cadres of the LeT are killed during an encounter with the SFs at Khan Sodal village in the Handwara area of Kupwara district. Superintendent of Police (Handwara), Haseeb Mughal, said that two AK-56 rifles, one UBGL, four hand grenades, one Kenwood wireless set and a Nokia mobile phone set with SIM (no. 9419954173), are recovered from the encounter site.

  Two LeT militants escaped from the Lucknow district and sessions court campus. Maqsood Ahmed and Mohd Saeed, both Pakistani nationals, were detained under POTA, for their involvement in the 2001 attack on a CRPF camp in Delhi. According to the report, both the militants had sought permission to go to the toilet before being produced in the court. As they emerged from the toilet one of the LeT cadres, armed with a pistol, fired in the air and subsequently both escaped. A sub-inspector and two constables who accompanied the LeT militants from the prison to the court, have been placed under suspension and a criminal case has been registered against them.

• February 20: Terrorists killed two personnel of a CRPF patrol party, identified as Head Constable Virender Kumar and Constable Vinod Kumar, and escaped with one of their weapons on the Srinagar-Jammu highway near Bijbehara in the Anantnag district. Spokesman of the Al-Mansooran, a front for LeT, Aamir Mir, told that members of his group left four soldiers, including two CRPF officers, dead and managed to reach their hideout safely. Officials, however, confirmed the death of only two soldiers.  

• February 17: Police arrested a militant of the LeT, identified as District Commander Mohammad Shafi Chouhan alias Moulvi from a hideout in Khilan village near Pahalgam in the district of Anantnag.

• February 15: SF personnel neutralized a hideout of the LeT at Balakote in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.

• February 13: A LeT militant, identified as Nazir Ahmad Dar, is arrested along with a hand grenade, detonator and a packet of RDX from the Tahab area.

• February 10: SFs are reported to have killed two terrorists during an encounter in the Shopian area of Pulwama district. Officials have tentatively identified the slain militants as Noor Khan alias Muawiya alias Bihari alias Bangladeshi and Abu Vaqas of the LeT. A 35-year-old civilian, identified as Nazir Ahmed Shah, also reportedly died in the cross-firing.  

• February 7: Two militants of LeT are killed in an encounter at Nowpora in the Pulwama district.  

  A LeT militant, identified as Mohd Hussain Shah alias Abu Yasir of village Chareel surrendered before troops of 17 Rashtriya Rifles in Banihal tehsil (administrative division) of Ramban police district.

• January 28: Terrorists made an unsuccessful attempt to target an Army convoy by carrying out a grenade attack on it at the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway. Subsequently, the LeT claimed responsibility for the attack.

• January 25: A suspected LeT militant, Iftikhar Alam, a resident of Gaya in the State of Bihar, is arrested along with 2.5 kilograms of RDX by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police from near the Seelampur Metro station in the national capital. The militant was to hand over the explosives to a LeT module that was to carry out bomb blasts in New Delhi on Republic Day (January 26).

• January 19: SF personnel foiled a terrorist attempt to cause large scale disturbances during Republic Day (January 26) when they arrested five militants of the LeT and JeM from different places at Bandipora in the Baramulla district.

• January 14: A LeT militant, Zahoor Ahmad, is arrested at Daggerpora village in the Kupwara district.

• January 13: Two militants of the LeT and a civilian are killed during a joint search operation conducted by the SFs at Sumbler in the Bandipora area of Baramulla district.

• January 11: SFs arrest a militant of the LeT from the Pulwama district along with a live hand grenade.

• January 7: The dead body of one Faisal Amin Bhat is recovered from Batapora, in the Sopore area of Baramulla district. Official sources said he was a local militant of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and a close associate of the recently killed Munna Janwari. Officials suspect that Amin had been suspected as an informant, in two of the recent operations, by his organisation and subsequently slaughtered to death.
  
  Police arrests a LeT cadre, identified as Bilal Ahmad Najar, at Bathara-Lach village in the Handwara area of Kupwara district.

• January 1: Security forces (SFs) killed a most wanted LeT cadre, Shaukat Ahmed Najjar alias Munna Janwari alias Salfi alias Tawheed, along with one of his associates, Ghulam Nabi Khuroo alias Lamboo alias Haji alias Shooter alias Suhail, in a major gun-battle at Sopore in the Baramulla district. Officials said that over the last one year, Lashkar's fresh recruits, headed by Munna Janwari, had established a strong base and well-connected network of operatives in Sopore area, which, for some, appeared to be a "liberated zone".

2006

• December 31: Two terrorists of the LeT outfit, identified as Samiullah and Ali Mohammad, are arrested along with two improvised plastic explosive devices at the New Delhi railway station by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police.
  
  The Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Karnal Singh, said the two were planning to plant a bomb in the crowded Paharganj Market near the railway station on the New Year's Eve.

• December 30: SFs arrest a cadre of the LeT in the Handwara area of Kupwara district. SF personnel arrest an over-ground worker of the LeT from village Kora in the Doda district, identified as Shabir Ahmed Khandey.

• December 28: Fayaz Ahmad of the LeT is arrested at Doorsa Lolab along with two wireless sets. SF personnel arrest nine over-ground workers of the LeT from Khadniyar, Jalsheri and Drangbal and recover some arms and explosives from their possession.

• December 24: Two Pakistani cadres of the Al-Mansoorain outfit, believed to be the frontal organisation of the LeT, identified as 'Chief of Operations' Abu Usama Pehalwan and 'District Commander' Abu Sa'ad, are killed by SFs during a 24-hour-long joint operation of the Sopore Police and RR at Dangarpora village in the Sopore area of Baramulla district.
  
  At Behrampora in the Pattan area of Baramulla district, two terrorists of the Al-Mansoorain outfit are killed by SFs.

• December 23: A Commanding Officer of the 29 Rashtriya Rifles, identified as Colonel G.S. Sarna, is killed and four SF personnel were injured in a gun battle between SFs and terrorists, which took place when SFs launched a combing operation following intelligence reports that some terrorists are hiding in the house of one Mohammad Maqbool in the Behrampura village of Baramulla district The police said the terrorists are believed to be associated with the LeT outfit.
  
  Security forces has launched the operation after receiving inputs that a top wanted LeT cadre, Abu Tahir, is present in the village with three more of his colleagues.
  
  A self proclaimed spokesperson of the Al-Mansoorain outfit, believed to be the front name of LeT, told Daily Excelsior that three of his outfit had participated in the operation and that one of the holed up terrorist got killed and another managed to escape.
  
  Army cordons off Dangerpora village near Sopore in the Baramulla district after receiving information that two of the top wanted LeT cadres, identified as Abu Sa'ad and Abu Usama Pahalwan, are hiding at the house of one Rishi Dar.
  
  Troops launch a cordon-and-search operation at Sadpora-Pethpora in the Sopore area of Baramulla district following information that two LeT cadres are present at a hideout in the village.

• December 22: Two civilians, identified as Mohammad Ashraf and Shabir Ahmad Khan, are killed and seven persons, including four SF personnel, are wounded in a crossfire between SFs and terrorists in the Sopore area of Baramulla district.
  
  Official sources said that terrorists attacked an Army convoy at the Main Chowk in Sopore resulting in the crossfire in which two civilians were killed. The Al-Mansoorian outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack.
  
  Terrorists shot dead a former cadre of the LeT, Abdul Hamid, at Ajas village in the Baramulla district. SFs neutralize a hideout of LeT outfit in the Bhalan forest area of Doda district.

• December 20: The three LeT militants, who are arrested by the Delhi Police on December 19 near the Red Fort in the national capital, came from Manipur, claims Delhi Police and have also recover two kilograms of RDX, a hand grenade and two detonators from the arrested persons, who were allegedly planning to carry out bomb blasts at crowded market places in Delhi. This is the first time that the LeT has been found to have links in Manipur. During interrogation, one of the three arrested militants, Salman Khurshid Kori, said that he was sent to Pakistan occupied Kashmir for training in 2001 and had recruited few persons for the purpose. He also claims to have mediated between the Manipur-based Islamist outfit, the PULF, and LeT militants based in Bangladesh.

• December 19: Three suspected LeT militants are arrested from the Red Fort area by the Delhi Police. The arrested, identified as Mohammad Salman Khurshid, Abdul Rehman and Mohammad Akbar Hussain, were planning terrorist strikes in the national capital.

• December 18: SF personnel destroy the house of one Gula Mir and that of his brother Saifullah Mir during the overnight gun-battle at Lalpora village in the Lolab area of Kupwara district. Official sources said that both the militants believed to be hiding at the target house are suspected to have died though only one dead body is recovered. Officials identified the slain militant as Abdullah alias Alfa Alfa, a Pakistani cadre of the LeT.

• December 17: Police in the Baramulla district neutralizes a LeT by arresting four members of the outfit from Sopore town in Baramulla district.
  
  The four - Shamasuddin Rather, Latief Ahmed Bhat, Mohammad Waseem Bhat and Mohammad Yasin Mir - all residents of Tarzoo Sopore are arrested along with a Chinese-make pistol, one magazine and combat uniforms.

• December 16: Troops intercept a group of six militants of the LeT soon after they intruded into Indian territory from forward village of Nangi Tekri on LoC in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district. In the subsequent exchange of fire, two militants are killed. One of the slain militant was identified as Liaquat Ali.

• December 15: Police seizes money worth INR 1.50 Lakh intended for the LeT from Palhalan in the Baramulla district, and arrests three operatives of the outfit.
  
  A most wanted LeT cadre, Shaukat Janwari alias Munna, manages to escape from a Police operation even as his arms consignment was seized and some other Lashkar cadres arrested at Sopore in the Baramulla district.

• December 10: Two militants belonging to the Lashkar-e-Toiba were arrested in the national capital New Delhi and 1.5 kg of RDX was recovered from them. Gulzar Ahmed and Mohammed Amin, both hailing from Kashmir, were arrested from the Mahipalpur area in South-West Delhi.

• December 9: LeT 'area commander' Abu Salam, a soldier, Varinder Singh, and a civilian, Mohammed Sharief, were killed and two soldiers wounded during an encounter with a group of terrorists at village Banola in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.

• December 8: Two Lashkar-e-Toiba cadres were killed by the security force personnel during an encounter at Dulligam in the Banihal area of Doda district.

• December 4: The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are using territory and elements in Bangladesh and Nepal for movement of terrorists and finances in India, according to a paper prepared by the Union Home Ministry on internal security situation.

• December 3: A Lashkar-e-Toiba cadre, identified as Abu Shakir of Pakistan, was arrested from the Malbagh locality outside Dachhigam National Sanctuary in Harwan.

• November 30: Three LeT cadres, including two 'commanders', surrendered before the Doda district police along with arms and ammunition. Senior Superintendent of Police (Doda), Manohar Singh, identified the three as Mohammed Salim alias Abu Osama, a 'tehsil commander' of the outfit, Nazir Ahmed alias Abu Moosa, a 'section commander', and Zahoor Ahmed alias Abu Saqib. They handed over two AK rifles with eight magazines, three hand grenades, 105 rounds and one wireless set at the time of surrender.

• November 27: One Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist, Abu Akash of Pakistan, was killed, three of his associates managed to escape in a joint operation of police and security forces at Sesman village in the Qazigund area of Anantnag district.

• November 26: Two cadres of the LeT, Hilal Ahmed Khanday alias Abu Umair and Saifullah, were killed during an encounter with security force (SF) personnel in the outskirts of Pampore town in Pulwama district.

• November 24: Three soldiers were wounded when Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists opened fire at them during a cordon-and-search operation at Rampur village in the Baramulla district.

• November 23: Police shot dead three top LeT cadres, identified as Mudasir (code name Hanzla), Mohammed Irfan (code name Abu Sohail) and Mohammed Ismail (code name Umer), in an encounter at village Hunzar under the jurisdiction of Marwah police station in Doda district.
  
  Police arrests Choudhary Fazal Hussain, a Government teacher from village Pangai in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district, for his links with the LeT outfit and involvement in grenade attacks. He is said to be in touch with his sister's son, a militant operating from Pakistan and LeT 'area commander' Saifullah, operating in Thannamandi.

• November 22: Two suspected LeT militants are arrested in the national capital New Delhi along with a large quantity of explosives. Imran and Ghulam Rasool, hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, are arrested from a shopping complex in the Dwarka locality of Northwest Delhi by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. Around 1.5 kg of RDX, INR 2.5 lakh and two timers are recovered from their possession.

• November 20: A cadre of the LeT is killed during an encounter with the security forces at Dever Lolab in the Kupwara district. Two soldiers are reported to have sustained injuries during the encounter.

• November 17: SFs kill both the suspected LeT terrorists who had been trapped at a house in Lone Mohalla of Gulgam in the Kupwara district. With this, one soldier and nine terrorists of the twin groups have been killed and one terrorist has been arrested.
  
  Police arrests a student of Government higher secondary school in Doda, identified as Bashir Ahmed alias Nikka, for his links with the LeT outfit.

• November 16: The Doda district police arrests two VDC members, who had connived with LeT militants and surrendered their rifles and ammunition.
  
  Islamist outfits such as the LeT, (HuJI and JMB, apart from the MULTA, have stated operating in certain minority-dominated pockets of Lower Assam, particularly where suspected migrants from Bangladesh have a sizeable presence, says report.

• November 15: Troops of Rashtriya Rifles (33 Battalion) clashed with militants at Uccher in the Handwara area of Kupwara district and kill one of them, identified as Abu Zubair of the LeT, in the shootout. "
  
  Doda district police arrests a LeT cadre, Mohammed Ibrahim alias Qureshi, from the Kishtwar area.

• November 14: Pakistani Major (retd) Tanvir Hussain Syed, Parliamentary Defence Secretary, discloses that he was once a member of the banned LeT, saying, "I was a member of the LT and I admit it on the floor of this house."

• November 11: Abdullah Mujahid, a founding member of the Jama'at-ud-Da'awa (earlier known as LeT) and close associate of its chief Hafiz Saeed, is killed in the Taj Bagh area of Lahore. Mujahid's family and lawyer lodged a complaint of murder during robbery with the police, while LeT activists claims that the incident was an act of terrorism.

• November 8: SF personnel kill three LeT ‘commanders’, identified as ‘area commander’ Shabir Ahmed alias Abu Bakar, Ashiq Hussain, a ‘section commander’ and Saifullah, ‘area commander’, at Draman in the Gandoh area of Doda district.
  
  LeT cadres clash with HM militants at Gandoh in the Doda district in which a top HM cadre, Gul Nawaz Shah alias Abu Hamza, is killed. Official sources said Shah was earlier working with the LeT outfit but had sometime back switched allegiance to the Hizb.

• November 7: Two terrorists, believed to be Pakistani cadres of the LeT, are killed during an encounter that ensued after SFs launched a search operation at Bari Behak in the Kupwara district.
  
  A hide-out of the LeT is neutralized by security forces in the Surankote area of Poonch district.

• November 5: Two LeT militants of Pakistan, identified as Mohammed Ahmed alias Abu Furkan and Mohammed Irfan alias Abu Abdullah, area killed by Doda district police in an encounter at Phagsoo in the Thathri area.
  
  Two over-ground workers of the LeT, Jehangir Ahmad Lone and Ghulam Ahmad Lone, and a HM militant are arrested and a cache of arms and ammunition seized from them during separate operations in the Kupwara and Pulwama districts.

• November 3: A LeT terrorist, Abu Asrar, is killed by SF personnel in an encounter at Sangiot in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.
  
  A senior investigator has said that a less-known al Qaeda affiliate, the Islamic Jihad Group (IJG), based at Mirali in North Waziristan, gave the go-ahead for the attempted rocket attacks in and around the federal capital Islamabad in October 2006 before the Pakistani masterminds executed it in early October. All those involved in the failed plot have since been arrested, including its mastermind, Khalil, who has been described as a young man in his mid-twenties who was previously affiliated with the banned LeT.

• October 29: SFs arrest Fayaz Ahmed, a cadre of the LeT, and four new recruits from Killanwali in the Mahore area of Udhampur district.

• October 28: Police arrests a LeT cadre, identified as Gul Mohammed alias Gulla, from the Bun area in Doda district.

• October 23: Police kills a LeT terrorist, identified as Mohammad Ashraf Lone, in a retaliatory fire and arrests five others, identified as Ulfat Hussain Shiekh, Imtiyaz Ahmad Hajam, Shiekhul Islam, Waqar Ahmad Mir and Javed Ahmad Dar, Bumhama from the Kupwara district. They were traveling in a vehicle belonging to a People's Democratic Party leader.

• October 20: A cadre of the LeT outfit, Shabir Ahmed alias Rizwan, is shot dead by the SFs in an encounter at Joura Walla in the Gandoh area of Doda district.

• October 16: Two LeT cadres, identified as Mohammed Aslam Gir and Abdul Razaq, residents of the Rajshahi district in Bangladesh, are arrested from national capital New Delhi's Old Delhi Railway Station along with 1.5 kilogram of RDX. The duo is arrested on their arrival from Jammu by Pooja Express.

• October 11: A LeT cadre, Mehendia, is arrested from Thathri in the Doda district.

• October 10: Four SF personnel, including a Junior Commissioned Officer, and a LeT 'area commander', Abu Jabran alias Ali, are killed and another soldier injured during an encounter at village Chamrerh in the Surankote area of Poonch district.

• October 9: Security agencies identify three cadres of the LeT as the killers of Handwara-based dental surgeon Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah. Senior Superintendent of Police (Baramulla), Viplab Kumar, identifies two of the terrorists as Showkat Ahmed Janwari alias Munna Janwari and Ghulam Nabi alias Haji alias Lamboo, residents of Batpora Soporen and their third associate as a Pakistani terrorist.
  
  India's National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan has said that the LeT has linkages with Pakistan's ISI. "We have our views on what ISI stands for. But the basic point we recognise is that ISI has close connections with LeT. ISI is LeT's spiritual guru so that's bound to figure in the talks. We will not go into whether that agency should be disbanded but we'll mention what we have," said Narayanan.

• October 8: SF personnel foil an infiltration attempt by a group of suspected LeT cadres killing four infiltrators on the LoC in the Sabjian sub sector of Poonch district. One soldier is also killed in the operation while a Captain is injured.

• October 4: SFs kill two of the top ranking cadres of the LeT at Gradwan Naar hamlet in the Aeshmuqam area of Anantnag district. The slain terrorists are identified as ‘Chief Commander of Operations’ Abu Ma'az alias Cheema alias Muzammil, who had masterminded the massacre of 24 Kashmiri Pandits at Nadimarg village in the Pulwama district on March 23, 2003, and ‘Divisional Commander’ Abu Qasim.

• October 3: The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, political wing of the LeT, is reported to have issued a fatwa (edict) calling upon Muslims to kill Pope Benedict XVI for his September 12, 2006-speech, where he quoted a remark reportedly made by a Byzantine emperor in 1391 during a conversation with an unnamed Persian scholar, which gave the impression that the Byzantine emperor tended to identify Islam with violence. According to Rediff, a report on the fatwa, carried by the Pakistani journal Ausaf in its September 18, 2006-edition, says: “Pakistan's Jama’at-ud-Da’awa has issued a fatwa asking the Muslim community to kill Pope Benedict for his blasphemous statement about Prophet Mohammad.” The leaders of the Jamaat were reportedly speaking at a Martyrs' Islamic Conference in Karachi.

• October 2: Security forces kill a LeT cadre, identified as Abu Saberia, at village Milan Nauna in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
  
  Investigations into the October 29, 2005 bomb blasts in Delhi have shown that 37 Pakistani nationals are financing terrorist networks across India. “Thirty-seven people - all residents of Pakistan and active members of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba - funded many operations in India, which involved heavy loss of life and property,” reads a Delhi Police Special Cell charge-sheet on the blasts in which 59 people died and 155 wounded. Huge amounts of money through Hawala and foreign remittances were sent to the LeT operative and blast accused Tariq Ahmed Dar's accounts in Delhi and Srinagar from these 37 sources to fund terrorist strikes, especially the Delhi blasts, police said. Security agencies are reportedly studying the probability that the same sources had funded the July 11, 2006 serial blasts in Mumbai. Dar had disclosed to the police that the flow of funds from Pakistan was controlled by Abu Ozefa, a Pakistani national and ‘divisional commander’ of the LeT, who was killed in Kashmir, the charge-sheet says.

• September 29: A cadre of the LeT, identified as ‘district commander’ Sameer Ahmed Mir alias Abu Saquib, is killed when two groups of terrorists, suspected from the HM and LeT, opened fire on each other at Neeldora in the Pulwama district.
  
  A LeT cadre is killed in an encounter with the security forces in the Lolab area of Kupwara district. However, four of his associates managed to escape from the incident site.

• September 24: Narco-analysis tests on Tanvir Mohammad Ansari, Kamal Ansari, Faizal Shaikh, and Ehtesham Siddique, arrested in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train blasts, have revealed the LeT plans in the State of Maharashtra. An unidentified ATS officer said that the RDX used in the bombings could actually be a part of the consignment, some of which was seized in Aurangabad and Nashik in May 2006, adding, “The tests have confirmed that a part of that RDX consignment was routed back to the city to trigger 11/7.” Police now are in look out for two LeT terrorists, Zabiuddin Ansari and Faiyaz Kagzi, suspected to be involved in the attack. Both are believed to have fled the country through the Bangladesh border.
  
  Over 1,000 trained Kashmiri militants are "currently stranded" in three camps of the HM in the Hazara region of NWFP, a Press Trust of India report quoted the Pakistan-based Herald magazine. "Of these, the Hisari and Batrasi camps are located in Mansehra district while a third camp is located in Boi in district Abbottabad," Herald reported. It quoted unnamed sources to say that thousands of other terrorists were confined in camps run by half a dozen smaller Kashmiri groups or predominantly Pakistani outfits like the LeT, JeM and Al-Badr Mujahideen in the frontier and Pakistan occupied Kashmir regions. Quoting "knowledgeable sources", the Herald said "until recently”, small groups like the Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Umar Mujahideen, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Fatah, Al-Jihad, Al-Barq, Tehrik-e-Jihad, and Islamic Front were receiving between 400,000 and 700,000 rupees a month, adding, "Large organisations like HM, LeT, JeM, Al-Badr Mujahideen and others received more money, ranging between two to three million rupees."

• September 21: SF personnel kill a group of four infiltrating terrorists, believed to be Pakistani cadres of the LeT, who were equipped with state-of-the-art communication equipment in the Uri sector of Baramulla district, close to the LoC. One of them is identified as Mozam Ali Qureshi, a resident of Lahore in Pakistan.
  
  A LeT cadre, identified as Abu Waleed, is killed during an encounter that ensued after SFs raided his hideout at Chitragam in the Shopian area of Pulwama district.

• September 20: Two LeT terrorists, identified as Mohammed Yusuf Piswal and Mohammed Ashraf Khan, are killed during an encounter with the SF personnel at Bapura in the Baramulla district.
  
  Two LeT cadres are killed in an encounter with the troops at village Ban Khour in the Mahore area of Udhampur district.
  
  Top LeT terrorist Aslam Kashmiri, linked to the March 7-Varanasi terrorist attack and the 7/11 train bombings in Mumbai, is believed to have fled to Bangladesh following the recent arrest of four LeT cadres in Gujarat.
  
  Police arrests a woman over-ground worker of the LeT, identified as Khalida Akhter, along with a militant Aamir Malik from Laam area in Kupwara district.
  
  Javed Sofi alias Nadeem, a LeT cadre, who was involved in the supply of 23 wireless sets, one satellite telephone and a large number of SIM cards and mobile headsets, is arrested during a raid in Doda.

• September 19: SF personnel kill three LeT terrorists in an encounter at Tanta Draman in the Gandoh area of Doda district, while another cadre manages to escape during the five-hour gun-battle. They are identified as ‘tehsil commander’ Mohammed Sadiq alias Abu Haider, Mohammed Imran alias Abu Sofian and ‘section commander’ Umar Pathan, a Pakistani.
  
  Gujarat Police arrests two suspected terrorists belonging to the LeT, identified as Firaq Ansari from Ahmedabad and Kari Musiddul from a Madrassa (seminary) at Tarkeshwar near Surat. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Ahmedabad) informes that the latest arrests followed the arrest of two LeT terrorists on September 18, who revealed that about 20 youths from Gujarat had gone for terrorist training to Pakistan and that most of them returned after completing their training and fanned out to different parts of India.

• September 16: A LeT militant, identified as Mohtasham Billa alias Abu Talha of Pakistan, is killed by SFs at Narwani in Shopian area.

• September 15: A LeT ‘District Commander’ for Udhampur district, identified as Abu Mohammed Sayeed, is killed in the Kulgam area of Anantnag district.

• September 14: A LeT ‘commander', Aijaz Ahmed, involved in the April 30, 2006-massacre of 13 Hindus was shot dead by the SFs in an encounter at village Lower Punara in the Basantgarh area of Udhampur district. A Special Police Officer, Noor Alam, and a Village Defence Committee member, Mohammed Abbas, also died while six SF personnel are wounded in the gun-battle.

• September 12: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that that Pakistan has not done enough to control terrorist outfits like the LeT and JeM.

• September 11: A Pakistani cadre belonging to the LeT is killed by SFs in the Bandipora area of Baramulla district.

• September 10: A top Pakistani cadre of the LeT outfit, ‘commander’ Abu Babar Khalid, and one Army personnel, I. S. Krishana Babu, are killed during an encounter at village Manthori in the Doda district.

• September 8: SFs recover two CDs, containing a film on a training camp being operated by the Al Qaeda at an unknown location along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, from the possession of two slain LeT terrorists earlier killed during an encounter at Mendhar in the Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir. The CDs, in Arabic language, Osama bin Laden delivering a speech to new recruits at the training camp and inspiring them to join the Jihad. The CDs also show youths getting physical training, shooting and riding horses.

• September 4: LeT cadres manage the escape of their colleague, Mohammad Altaf Malik alias Pinto Malik, from judicial custody at the District Court in Pulwama.

• September 3: Mumbai Police said they are yet to verify LeT operative Akmal Hashim's, a Pakistani national who served in the Pakistan Army for a while, claim in a media interview that 17 terrorists were involved in the July 11 bomb blasts on commuter trains. Hashim had claimed that 17 men — some of them Kashmiris and the others from Pakistan — were involved in the bombings. He said all but one of the men had left Mumbai. A Mumbai court remands Hashim to ATS custody till September 13.
  
  A LeT cadre, Muzamal, surrender before SFs, a day after his infiltration from the Mendhar sector in Poonch district.

• September 3-4: A Major and two soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles are killed and a civilian wounded in an encounter with the LeT terrorists at Ayatmulla village in the Baramulla district. Two Pakistani cadres of the outfit also died in the gun-battle.

• September 2: A few days after the recovery of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s provocative CDs from village Gursai in the Poonch district from an encounter site, SFs have seized both video and audio CDs of LeT chief Hafeez Mohammed Sayeed from the possession of another group of infiltrators in the same district. Saeed is heard provoking the local youths of Jammu and Kashmir to join the Jihad as strength of their cadre, undergoing arms training in Pakistan and PoK, is dwindling. This is for the first time that audio and video CDs of Hafeez Sayeed have been seized from the possession of slain terrorists during the 17 years of militancy.

• August 31: SFs kill two cadres of the LeT, identified as Zaheer Hamid alias Abu Jarar Askari and Musaib (both Pakistan nationals), at Bonibagh village in the Srinagar district, on the Srinagar-Leh national highway. A soldier also died in the encounter.

• August 30: Three cadres of the LeT outfit, Javed Ahmad Sheikh, Feroz Ahmed Magray alias Faisal and Mohammed Shafi Khan, are arrested at Wangam village in the Baramulla district.

• August 29: Authorities in Pakistan detain Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, chief of the LeT, an hour after he was released following a court ruling that his detention was illegal. Saeed had been taken to jail and would be held for two months.

• August 28: The Lahore High Court in Pakistan set free the LeT chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, terming his detention illegal.
  
  Police arrests four top terrorists, including a co-ordinator of the LeT and HM outfits in Rajouri district in two separate incidents.

• August 25: A LeT cadre, identified as Dilshad Ahmed (code name Tallah) is also killed by the SFs at Marwah in the Doda district.
  
  An unidentified LeT cadre is killed by the security forces during an encounter in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.
  
  The family of LeT chief, Hafiz Saeed files a contempt petition against the Government for taking him to an undisclosed location during the period of his house arrest, the family's lawyer said

• August 24: Two students of Class 10 and 9, including the brother of top LeT cadre Rafeeq Nai, presently operating from PoK, are arrested by the police from Surankote in the Poonch district.

• August 23: Two suspects, Firoz Abdul Latif Ghaswala and Mohammed Ali Chippa, in the October 2005 Delhi serial bomb blasts are remanded to the custody of the Mumbai Police till August 28 by a local court in Mumbai. Suspected to be linked to the SIMI, they have allegedly visited Pakistan clandestinely to undergo training in arms and explosives handling at the LeT camps.
  
  The Union Government said that Pakistan’s external intelligence agency ISI continues to provide "directions" and "logistics" support to terrorist groups like the LeT, JeM, HM and Al-Badr for terrorist related activities in Jammu and Kashmir.

• August 21: A cadre of the LeT outfit, identified as Anzeer Shah alias Abu Yasin, is shot dead by the police at Masree Nullah in the Bhadarwah area of Doda district. His associate, however, manages to escape from the incident site.
  
  Police arrests a LeT cadre from Wanigam Payeen in Baramulla along with one AK rifle, four magazines, one wireless set, one antenna, three remote controls of improvised explosive devices, three detonators, three matrix sheets and some incriminating documents.

• August 19-20: Two LeT terrorists, including one identified as Bilal Ahmed Ganai, are killed by SFs in a fierce gunbattle at Rainipora in Shopian area of Pulwama district.

• August 19: Security forces arrest a LeT over-ground worker from Pulwama town Bus Stand and recovered two hand-grenades from his possession.

• August 18: An over-ground worker of the LeT, identified as Abdur Rasheed Mir, is arrested after a brief encounter with the police at Chak Cholan in the Pulwama district.

• August 17: Three LeT terrorists, two of them Pakistanis including the one who was involved in last week’s killing of a woman and her three children at Harra, Gool, are killed by the troops at Dachan in the Gool area of Udhampur district. Two soldiers sustain injuries in the incident.

• August 16: At least five infiltrating terrorists, believed to be Pakistani cadres of the LeT and Al-Badr Mujahideen, and a soldier are reported to have died in an encounter near the LoC in the Machhil sector of Kupwara district. Two soldiers, Himayatullah Khan and Ramachandran, sustain injuries.

• August 15: SFs arrest a cadre of the LeT from the Zainapora area of Pulwama district along with two hand grenades and 15 AK rounds.

• August 14: SF personnel shot dead a Pakistani cadre of the LeT and are searching for his associate at village Chrung in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district. Two SF personnel are injured in the incident.

• August 13: Mumbai Police claims to have neutralized a LeT module in the city by arresting two suspected members of the outfit. The two are identified as Shabbir Ahmed Mushiullah, a resident of Malegaon in Nasik, and Nafiz Ahmed Jamir Ahmed Ansari, a resident of Govandi in north-east Mumbai. Both are also members of the outlawed SIMI and had traveled to Dubai in May 2003. From there they had moved to Pakistan for arms training.

• August 11: Suspected Let cadres shot dead three members of a family, including a woman and her two children, 14-year old daughter Meena and six-year old son Neelam Singh, in the house of a neighbour Abdul Samad at village Harra in the Udhampur district. The family was reportedly the lone Hindu family in Harra village.
  
  Two Pakistani cadres of the LeT, identified as Abu Katal, a ‘district commander’ and Abu Usama Umar, are shot dead by the security force personnel at Gursai in the Mendhar area of Poonch district. A civilian, identified as Lateef, is killed and two Police constables and one Army personnel are injured during the cross-firing.

• August 10: The Punjab Government in Pakistan put LeT chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed under house arrest for one month at his house in Lahore, two days ahead of a public meeting he was scheduled to address in the city.
  
  The Delhi Police arrests two LeT terrorists, identified as Anaz from Islamabad in Pakistan and Abrar Ahmed from Bahraich in the State of Uttar Pradesh, outside Ajmeri Gate terminal of the New Delhi railway station.

• August 3: Mumbai Police and personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir Police arrest a suspected cadre of the LeT, identified as 32-year old Abdul Hameed, from Surankote in the Poonch district, who is allegedly involved in the 7/11 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in which over 200 persons had died and 700 others were injured. This is the first arrest made in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the serial blasts in Mumbai.

• August 1: A LeT cadre, identified as Mohammed Yousuf, is arrested from Bonjwah in the Doda district.

• July 31: LeT ‘divisional commander’ Abu Waqas is shot dead by the SFs in an encounter at village Solian Marhot in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
  
  A LeT conduit and a Special Police Officer Are arrested from the Kishtwar area of Doda district.

• July 30: SFs recover 20 RPG shells, 29 green shells, 19 RPG boosters, 22 UBGL grenades, one box of ammunition containing 740 rounds and other incriminating documents from a LeT hideout in the dense forest at Nichhama in the frontier district of Kupwara.

• July 28: Noor Illahi alias Tipu, a top LeT cadre on whose disclosures two Police constables and three Army personnel were taken into custody for their Lashkar connections, made a revelation during his questioning that the terrorists were collecting SIM cards of BSNL and Airtel not for communication network but to use them as ‘mobile bombs’.
  
  Several such ‘mobile bombs’ were already in the possession of LeT militants, Tipu said during his interrogation by police.
  
  The ‘mobile bomb’, which hasn’t been used by the militants anywhere in the State so far, will explode as soon as a ring is given on its number from another telephone, Tipu said during his questioning.
  
  The National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan said that Indian security and nuclear installations are under "very serious threat" from Pakistan-based militant outfit LeT that may be planning a "major assault".
  
  Bangalore-based terror suspect, Muzammil Sheikh, and his brother, Faisal Sheikh, who were arrested on July 27-night, in connection with July 11 serial bomb blast in Mumbai, confesses that LeT targets to attack the BARC. Faizal Sheikh, arrested along with his brother Muzammil on July 27 in connection with the July 11 blasts in Mumbai, is a key figure in the LeT unit in the city and had undergone training at camps in Pakistan, says anti-terrorism squad chief K.P. Raghuvanshi.

• July 26: Three soldiers are killed during a cordon and search operation launched at Renipora village in Shopian area of Pulwama district when a group of five LeT terrorists fired at them and managed to escape.
  
  Doda police arrest a LeT terrorist, identified as Nissar Ahmed, from the Marmat area.

• July 25: Police claim to have arrested a LeT terrorist, Fayaz Ahmed Najar who had lobbed two grenades at Ganderbal and left two persons dead and 11 injured.
  
  Police arrest a LeT terrorist, identified as Mohd Yaqoob alias Ashiq Hussain from Jhajjar Kotli when he was heading towards Doda.

• July 24: Srinagar District Police arrest a LeT terrorist, Hanief Bengali alias Faheem from a downtown locality.
  
  Security forces and police in Bhagoli area of Doda district arrest a SPO, who had deserted his post to join the LeT.

• July 22: Security forces arrest a LeT terrorist, Mohammad Rafeeq Sheikh alias Mudasar Gujri alias Raju, at Chakla village on Baramulla-Langet Road from Baramulla last week.

• July 21: A top terrorist of the LeT Irshad Ahmed Bhat, is killed along with three other terrorists at Sursunoo in Kulgam area of Anantnag district.
  
  Two LeT terrorists, suspected to be involved in the grenade blasts at General Bus Stand, Jammu on June 12, are arrested from Baramulla district.

• July 20: Troops of Rashtriya Rifles raid a house at Sursunoo village in the Anantnag district and killed four LeT terrorists.
  
  A student is slaughtered in full public view after being abducted by LeT terrorists at Vehil Nowgam in the Shopian-Kulgam area of South Kashmir.
  
  Two LeT terrorists are arrested from Shumshan Ghat in Karan Nagar area in capital Srinagar.

• July 19: SFs kill a LeT terrorist at Ari in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.

• July 15: A LeT cadre, identified as Abu Abdullah of Pakistan, is killed in an encounter with SF personnel at Mahabhan in Kulgam.
  
  A Pakistani LeT cadre, identified as Abu Sofiyan, who was among a group of four terrorists en route to a village from Paddar in Kishtwar tehsil is killed by Doda district police.

• July 14: Two cadres of the LeT, Mohammed Imran alias Abu Muslim Zarar and Abdullah alias Lahori, both residents of Pakistan are killed in an overnight gunfight with the troops at Bandipora in the Baramulla district.

• July 11: Eight persons are killed and 43 others sustain injuries in a series of grenade attacks by suspected LeT cadres in the capital Srinagar.
  
  A top LeT cadre, Pakistani national Abu Osama, is killed in an encounter at Dherjala in the Doda district.
  
  A LeT ‘divisional commander’, identified as Pakistani national Qari Anas alias Abu Osman, is killed during an encounter following a police raid in Dialgam Anantnag. A LeT terrorist, Mohammed Ramzan alias Abu Usama, is killed in an encounter in the Bhadarwah area of Doda district.
  
  A conduit of the LeT, Ajaz Hussain Khwaja, hailing from Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir, is arrested from the Lodhi Road area of New Delhi.

• July 6: A top terrorist of the LeT, identified as Mohammed Iqbal, is killed and another injured in an encounter with Army and police personnel at Lapri Top in the Udhampur district.
  
  CRPF personnel kill a LeT ‘area commander’, identified as Shaheen, at Kangan.

• July 4: An Over Ground Worker of the LeT, Imtiyaz, is killed by LeT terrorists at village Sarharda in the Poonch district.

• July 3: An Over Ground Worker of the LeT and Al Jehad, Saif-ud-Din, is shot dead by terrorists at Dashnan in the Doda district. Two charred bodies of LeT terrorists, identified as Abu Ali alias Abdullah and Abu Umar alias Zaraar, both Pakistani nationals, are recovered subsequent to an encounter at Gamroo in Bandipore.

• July 2: Tariq Usman alias Hamza, a ‘deputy district commander’ of HM, is killed in an encounter with the troops at Bhaderwah in the Doda district.

• July 1: A ‘district commander’ of the LeT, Abu Qasif alias Mohammad Gauri, is among three terrorists killed in a fierce encounter with the SF personnel at Mirhama village in the Anantnag district, while one SF personnel sustains injuries in the incident.

• June 30: Rashtriya Rifles officer, Lt. Colonel Vinay Rao Chauhan, and two civilians are killed in an exchange of fire between troops and terrorists in a shopping complex at Bandipore in the Baramulla district.
  
  Subsequently, troops set ablaze the building and the holed up terrorist, identified as Abu Talha Hazarwi, a Pakistani cadre of the LeT, is killed, while one of his accomplices managed to escape.
  
  A ‘district commander’ of the LeT outfit, identified as Mohammad Abtahakhullah, a Pakistani national, is killed by troops in the Pulwama district.
  
  Police arrest 12 suspected LeT cadres from Srinagar and claims to have neutralised a network of the outfit in the valley, responsible for the suicide attack on Congress rally on May 21 and other terrorism related incidents including civilian killings and also announce a head money of rupees five lakh for a top LeT terrorist, Salahudin.

• June 29: Troops kill eight infiltrators, suspected to be Pakistani cadres of the LeT outfit, in an ambush at Hema on the LoC in the Keran sector of Kupwara district.

• June 28: The Rajouri Police neutralises a communication network being run by the LeT and HM outfits with the arrest of two persons, including one LeT cadre.
  
  The disclosures made by them helped Police in identifying all mobile telephone numbers of the LeT and HM top leadership in Rajouri district and parts of Poonch district.
  
  Security forces arrest a cadre of the LeT outfit from Shopian town in the Pulwama district.

• June 25: Troops kill a LeT terrorist, Tasleem Hyder Bhat alias Zubair, in the Chandigam area of Kupwara district.

• June 24: Jammu Police arrest two LeT terrorists from the Mendhar area in Poonch district.

• June 23: Security forces neutralise a terrorist hide out in the Surankote area of Poonch district belonging to the LeT outfit.

• June 21: Troops foil an infiltration attempt of the LeT terrorists from the LoC in the forward area of Balnoi in Poonch district.

• June 19: A foreign terrorist of the LeT outfit, identified as Abu Saif alias Shaba of Sialkot in Pakistan, is shot dead by the troops in the Dooruswani-Lolab area of Kupwara district. A JeM spokesperson, Abu Qadama, said that a cadre of his group and as also that of HuM and LeT took part in the attack and claims that the troops suffered heavy loss in the incident.

• June 18: A top LeT terrorist, Tipu who was arrested on June 16, discloses during his interrogation that his outfit was planning to launch a Fidayeen (suicide squad) attack at the residence of former Chief Minister and National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah at Bhatindi shortly. Police officers questioning Tipu and his two associates, Mohd Farooq and Mohd Yakus, told Daily Excelsior, "For the purpose, LeT's Mendhar based 'divisional commander' Abu Osama had identified three fidayeens. Osama had directed Tipu to create a hideout for stay of fidayeens in a locality close to Bhatindi."

• June 17: A 'launching chief' of LeT, Mushtaq Ahmed alias Abu Saif, surrenders before the Army and police authorities at an Army camp in Rajouri along with one AK rifle, two magazines, 37 rounds, two grenades and some other belongings. He had recently crossed over the LoC after spending nearly six years in PoK getting trained and subsequently training other militants.

• June 16: Police arrest a LeT terrorist, identified as Tipu, who was reported to be involved in June 12 three grenade attacks at General Bus Stand in Jammu in which one civilian was killed and 29 others were injured, from a house near a Gurudwara in Malik Market area of Narwal. He discloses during questioning that he was camping in different parts of Jammu for last six months on the directions of LeT's Mendhar based 'commander' Osaka, who had been funding him and supplying grenades for the attacks.

• June 15: Troops arrest two LeT terrorists involved in three grenade blasts at General Bus Stand in Jammu on June 12.

• June 14: Troops kill an 'area commander' of LeT, Noor Mohd, at Jai Ghati in the Gandoh area of Doda district in an encounter that lasted for two and half hours.
  
  Troops shot dead a LeT terrorist, identified as Mohd Iqbal, in the Malnai area of Doda district.
  
  Troops arrest four LeT terrorists from the Panchal area of Doda district.

• June 13: Two LeT cadres, Sameer Ahmed Mir alias Abu Saqib, 'District Commander', and Omar Qasim alias Amir, 'Group Commander', are killed and two soldiers are wounded in an encounter with the security forces at Pampore town in the Pulwama district.
  

• June 11: An Over Ground Worker of the LeT outfit, identified as Mohammed Farooq, is arrested from village Sarna in the Doda district.
  

• June 9: The Anti-Terrorist Squad of Gujarat Police arrests two LeT terrorists, identified as Vakil Ahmed Saiyed alias Taffo and Umar Farooq Sheikh, who had planned to target key religious and economic installations in the State, including Somnath temple, oil pipeline, headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, both right-wing Hindu organisations, in the Ahmedabad city.

• June 8: The troops recover a consignment of arms, explosives and ration from Dedhar forests in the Kishtwar area of Doda district, which belonged to the LeT outfit.

• June 6: A federal jury in the U.S. convicts a Maryland man, Ali Asad Chandia, of plotting to assist the Pakistan-based outlawed group LeT.

• June 1: Three suspected terrorists of the LeT outfit are shot dead during an abortive attempt to storm the headquarters of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu organization, at Nagpur in Maharashtra. They attempted to drive a white Ambassador car, fitted with a red command-light, towards the building shortly before dawn. When guards at the perimeter of the three-level security cordon flagged down the car, its driver attempted to crash through the barriers. RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan and other top functionaries were not present in the building at the time of the attack.

• May 31: Abu Ali, a 'district commander' of the LeT, is shot dead by the Army and police in an encounter at Surankote in the Poonch district. While his associate managed to escape, one soldier, Dhanraj Singh, is reportedly wounded in the incident.

• May 29: Two over ground workers of the LeT, identified as Farooq Ahmed Baig and Abdul Rashid Dar, are arrested from Budgam.

• May 28: Troops of the Rashtriya Rifle and police arrest a Fidayeen (suicide squad) cadre of the LeT and seized a car filled with explosives from his possession at Pampore. He was identified as Raja Arshad alias Abu Atif, a resident of Dadsarai.

• May 24: At least 11 persons, including three CRPF personnel, are injured at Qamarwari in the capital Srinagar, when terrorists lobbed a grenade at a CRPF picket. The LeT has claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 23: Two terrorists of the LeT outfit are shot dead in an encounter with the police at Kralapora in the Kupwara district.

• May 21: Two terrorists in police uniform attack a rally of the Youth Congress at Sher-e-Kashmir Park in the capital Srinagar, killing three political activists and two police personnel, minutes before the scheduled arrival of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. Inspector General of Police (Kashmir), K. Rajendra Kumar, is among 25 persons injured in the attack which is claimed by the LeT and Al-Mansoorian. The two terrorists are subsequently killed in an encounter.

• May 20: Police personnel in Kathua arrest two LeT cadres from the border area of Khanpur under the jurisdiction of Rajbagh police station. The arrested duo, Gau alias Latta and Qasim, are said to have been in direct contact with the outfit's Doda-based 'commander' Abu Talha.

• May 16: Two LeT terrorists and a Junior Commissioned officer of the Army are killed in an overnight gun-battle at Nunmai village in the Kulgam area of Anantnag district.

• May 14: Police intercepts a vital message of a LeT 'commander' being conveyed to his colleagues which not only confirmed the outfit's involvement in the grenade attack on the BJP rally in Doda district on May 13, but also "some sort of identity" of the terrorists, who had executed the attack.

• May 12: Two LeT terrorists, a Pakistani national Abu Saqib and his local accomplice Ghulam Ahmad alias Muntazim, are killed in an encounter with the troops at Zainapora village in the Pulwama district.

• May 11: Irshad Ahmed alias Abu Kasha, a former SPO who had joined the LeT in June 2005, is killed by the troops at village Hanjal in the Marwah area of Doda district. He had deserted Warwan police post where he was posted as a SPO on June 26, 2005 along with his AK rifle and joined the LeT.

• May 10: SF personnel shot dead two suspected LeT terrorists and foil an infiltration attempt at Pathri Gali on the LoC in the Mendhar sector of Poonch district. However, four others of the groups retrieved to PoK.

• May 9: Two terrorists of the LeT, Ayaz Ahmed Chowpan and Bilal Ahmed Bhat alias Iliyas, are killed in an encounter with the police at Gadipora Shopian in the Pulwama district. Two soldiers and a civilian are injured in the exchange of fire.

• May 8: SF personnel are reported to have killed Abu Isama alias Rehman alias Alfa 6, a 'operational commander' of the LeT outfit, in an encounter at Nerhian in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district.
  
  A Pakistani national belonging to the LeT is shot dead in an encounter with the police outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. The encounter followed the arrest of two other LeT terrorists at Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station earlier in the evening.
  

• May 5: A 'launching commander' of the LeT, Tanveer alias Abu Hamza alias Abu Saleem, is killed at Zachaldara in the Kupwara district.
  
  Another Lashkar-e-Toiba cadre, identified as Abu Akasa, is killed in an encounter with the SFs at village Garha in the Bhadarwah area of Doda district.

• May 3: Three LeT terrorists, identified as Omair, Kubair and Suleman, and an equal number of soldiers are killed in an encounter at Hayan Palpora in the Kangan area of Srinagar district.
  
  Another LeT cadre, identified as Sajjad Ahmed of Pakistan, is shot dead by the troops at Garoora in the Bandipore area of Baramulla district.
  

• May 1: Suspected LeT terrorists kill 22 Hindus in the mountain hamlets of Kulhand and Tharva in Doda district and 13 at Lalon Galla, a high-altitude meadow above the town of Basantgarh in the Udhampur district.

• April 30: A cadre of the LeT, Zaffar Abbas, is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Hapathnar in the Anantnag district.

• April 28: The United States put two Pakistani charities on its terrorist list, saying they were fronts for the proscribed LeT. The State Department announces that it was freezing assets in the United States belonging to Jamaat-ud-Dawa and one of its affiliates, Idara Khidmat-i-Khalq. Jamaat-ud-Dawa has been prominent in providing relief after the October 8, 2005-earthquake in Pakistan.

• April 23: A ‘group commander’ of the LeT, identified as Abdul Majeed alias Abu Sumama, is shot dead by the troops of Rashtriya Rifles and Mahore police at village Deval in the Gulabgarh area of Udhampur district along with an activist of the HM.

• April 22: The Army foils an infiltration attempt on the LoC between Sonagali and Lohar Gali in Poonch district killing two terrorists, believed to be cadres of the LeT. One soldier is injured in the operation.

• April 20: Police arrests two LeT terrorists, identified as Shabir and Mansoorudy, who were responsible for the grenade attack which killed a constable, Hafizullah, and injured three others inside the Bhaderwah police station in Doda district.

• April 19: Two terrorists of the LeT, identified as Hamza and Abdullah of Pakistan, are killed in an encounter with the SF personnel at Qazipura Handwar in the Kupwara district.
  
  SF personnel kill a LeT 'commander', identified as Abu Hafa Mansoor, in the Kandi area of Kupwara district. One soldier is also injured in the operation.

• April 13: Two LeT cadres, identified as Abu Abdur Rehman alias Ali Zahid alias Munir Khan of Faisalabad and Abu Saifullah of Abbotabad of Pakistan, and a civilian are killed in an encounter between the Rashtriya Rifles personnel and terrorists in the Kulgam area of southern Kashmir.

• April 12: Police arrested two LeT cadres along with two AK rifles, three magazines and 86 rounds of ammunition during a search operation at village Dooru in the Baramulla district.

• April 11: A 'commander' of the LeT outfit, identified as Shahnawaz Bhat, is killed by the troops in the Kokernag area of Anantnag district. Two soldiers are injured during the course of the encounter.

• April 10: Four cadres of the LeT, identified as Ishfaq Ahmad Bhat, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Aijaz Ahmad Shah and Samiullah Shah, are arrested from Baramulla district.

• April 7: In a joint operation, the Uttar Pradesh Police and Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested a LeT terrorist, identified as Imran, from the Ateria Railway station in Sitapur district while he was attempting to cross over to Nepal and recovered an Italian-made pistol, seven cartridges, maps of Pakistan and Afghanistan and some objectionable literature from his possession.

• April 4: The police arrests six LeT terrorists involved in the March 7-serial bomb blasts in Varanasi that claimed 21 lives, in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh. Police said five LeT terrorists were arrested from Sarojni Nagar and one from Gosainganj. Sources said a number of AK-47 rifles, hand grenades and other explosive material were seized from them.

• April 1: Police investigation reveals that the suspected LeT operative, Shamim Ahmed, arrested by the Gulbarga police on March 30 in the State of Karnataka had planned to target dams and power grid and installations in Andhra Pradesh using bombs and grenades. He was carrying maps of these facilities. Shamim underwent a 13-month training at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir in respect of using AK-47 rifle, grenades and time bombs, rocket-firing, and "jihadi" activities targeting India.

• March 31: Two LeT terrorists, Abu Ali alias Dilawar and Bilal Ahmed Lone alias Bilal Sidiquee, are shot dead by the troops at a village in the Shopian area of Pulwama district.
  
  LeT cadre, identified as Abu Suhail, is killed in a separate incident in Shopian.

• March 30: Police arrest Bashir Ahmed Lone, a LeT cadre, and his overground associate, Pervez Ahmed Lone, from Laudar in the Baramulla district.
  
  The Karnataka Police arrests a suspected LeT activist, identified as Shamim Ahmad, claiming to be a resident of Goa, from Gulbarga's Jelenabad area and an AK-47, two hand grenades, a mobile phone, some audio- video cassettes and printed material in Urdu were recovered from him.
  

• March 27: A top LeT ‘commander’, identified as Abu Rehmani, is killed in an encounter at village Doorusa in the Kupwara district.
  
  Another LeT cadre, ‘battalion commander’ Sa'ad Rafeeq, is killed while two soldiers sustained injuries during an encounter at Sheikhnar Sogam village in the same district.
  
  Four suspected LeT cadres, Manzoor Ahmad Raina, Shamim Ahmad Khan, Fayaz Ahmad Khan and Gulzar Ahmad Dar, are arrested at Sopore in the Baramulla district.
  

• March 26: A soldier and one terrorist are reported to have died and seven soldiers injured during a terrorist attack near the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway at Pampore in Pulwama district. The LeT has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack. An outfit spokesman claimed that one of its cadres, identified as Abu Abdullah, was killed in the encounter.
  
  A ‘tehsil commander’ of the LeT, identified as Shabir Ahmed alias Omar, is shot dead by the SFs at Thanot in the Doda district.
  

• March 25: Two suspected LeT terrorists are killed during an encounter with the troops at Harpora Handwara in the Kupwara district.

• March 24: LeT ‘section commander’, Nissar Ahmed alias Abu Sariya, is arrested by the security forces after an encounter at Dhareju in the Bhaderwah area of Doda district.

• March 23: Police arrests a LeT terrorist, Ashan-ul-Haq alias Tahir Khandey, from Sopore in the Baramulla district.

• March 18: Security forces in the Doda district arrested a suspect, Ghulam Ahmed Gujjar, who was allegedly working for the LeT.

• March 17: A British man, who bought equipment, which might have been used in attacks on coalition troops in Afghanistan, is jailed for eight years after he admitted being a "terrorist quartermaster. He is also given a further year in jail for being in contempt of court. Mohammed Ajmal Khan bought material that was sent to and used by the proscribed LeT group. Khan had access to more than $35,000 to buy equipment, including 1,000 square-metre of Kevlar - a material used to make armour plating for vehicles and for bullet-proof armour. He had provided material for the group when it was planning and conducting operations in Afghanistan in 2002-3.

• March 12: Security forces kill two top ranking cadres of the LeT outfit, identified as Abu Muzafa Shah, an 'area commander', and Abu Marsad, a Pakistani national, in an encounter at Kotli Kalaban in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.

• March 11: Authorities in PoK are reported to have arrested eight terrorists in Muzaffarabad, including Zaki-ur-Rehman of the LeT.

• March 8: Two suspected LeT terrorists are killed in an encounter with the police in Northwest Delhi. One of the terrorists was identified as Ghulam Yazdani, who was linked to several recent terrorist attacks. While one of the terrorists was a Bangladeshi national the other was an Indian. Some arms and a vehicle have been recovered from them.
  
  A top LeT cadre, Nasoor Rehman, is killed and his associate, who was a former Special Police Officer, Tanveer Ahmed, is arrested in an encounter with the SFs at village Tawai Changa in the Doda district.
  
  Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary (Home), Alok Sinha, said the Pakistan-based LeT outfit, whose cadre was shot dead in an encounter with police near Lucknow, appeared prima facie responsible for the serial bomb blasts in Varanasi.
  

• March 7: Hours after the serial blasts in Varanasi, a suspected LeT terrorist of Pakistan, Salar alias Doctor, is shot dead in an encounter with the police in the Gosaiganj area of Lucknow city. RDX and some detonators are recovered from the slain terrorist who was involved in the conspiracy to carry out a suicide attack at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, which was foiled by central security agencies.
  
  A LeT 'commander', Irshad Ahmad Khan alias Abu Khalid alias Gulla, is killed in an encounter with the security forces at Achabal in the Anantnag district.
  
  A top LeT cadre, Irshad Ahmed alias Abu Talab, surrenders before the Army at Thathri in the Doda district along with some arms and ammunition.
  

• March 4: Three LeT cadres, including ‘district commander’ Abu Suleman alias Nima, are shot dead by the SFs at Gursai in the Mendhar area of Poonch district. One AK-47 rifle, one AK-56 rifle, eight magazines, 240 rounds, three hand grenade, one kg explosives, one remote control device, one dynamo set, two Alinco radio sets, three micro cassettes and two matrix sheets, two SIM cards and one stamp are recovered from the incident site. One soldier is wounded in the incident.

• February 27: Two LeT terrorists, Shamil and Shaheen, are arrested by the Delhi Police at the New Delhi Railway Station when they arrive by the Howrah New Delhi Express. According to police, they had come from Bangladesh with the intention to set up a base in Delhi and carry out terrorist activities. Three kgs of RDX, two electronic detonators, two pistols with 12 live cartridges, two Bangladeshi passports and Rs 40,000 of fake Indian currency notes were recovered from them.

• February 20: The Pakistan Government ends the house arrest of LeT chief, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, but asks him not leave Lahore. The Information Secretary of Jamaat-ud-Da’awah, Habibullah Salfi, said that the Government has ended Saeed’s house arrest, but has banned him from travelling to any other district. Hafiz Saeed was placed under house arrest on February 17 before he could attend a demonstration against the publishing of caricatures of the Prophet by several European newspapers.

• February 17: The Pakistan Government puts under house arrest Hafiz Mohamed Saeed, chief of the LeT, and bars him from addressing a conference against the publication of blasphemous cartoons in several European newspapers.

• February 16: A LeT cadre, Irshad Ahmed Rather, is killed during an encounter with the troops at Marhan village in the Bijbehara area of Anantnag district. One AK-47 rifle, two magazines and one grenade are recovered from the incident site.

• February 14: Three LeT terrorists are killed in an overnight gun battle with the SFs at Gujarpati village in the Bandipore area of Baramulla district. Two of the dead are identified as Showkat Ahmed Rather of Shopian and Zahoor Ahmed of Pampore.

• February 12: A LeT cadre, identified as Yaqoob Najar, is killed in an encounter with the troops in the Lolab area of Kupwara district.

• February 10: Doda district police neutralises a LeT hideout at Paryot and recovers 40 kg of RDX and 17 AK rounds. However, no arrests are made.

• February 8: Police arrests Mehraj Khalid Bhanday alias Abu Talla, a ‘district commander’ of the LeT for Kokernag in Anantnag district, from his house in the Bharat area of Doda district.

• February 6: A ‘group commander’ of the LeT, identified as Noor Mohammed, is arrested from the Gujjar Nagar area of Jammu city. Two more LeT cadres, Nazir Ahmad Khan and Mohammad Yaseen Baba, are arrested from the Kangan area of Srinagar along with two grenades.

• February 3: A foreign mercenary of the LeT, identified as Abu Hamza, is killed in an encounter with the SFs in the Marwah area of Doda district. One AK rifle, two magazines and 10 rounds are recovered from his possession.

• February 1: A plot suspected to be hatched by LeT terrorists to commit acts of sabotage in Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal, and other parts of India is foiled with the arrest of Tariq Akhtar of the outfit from Madan Street in Kolkata. Incriminating documents, including Lashkar pamphlets, are seized from him. Police said Akthar joined the LeT during his three-year stay in Qatar and subsequently spent time in Pakistan and Bangladesh where he trained in the use of indigenous explosives. Following his disclosure, police arrested another LeT cadre Muhammed from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and seized more LeT literature, 16 detonators and a laptop containing details of bomb making from him. Subsequently, the police arrested another cadre, Zubeid, from Benaras in the State of Uttar Pradesh. Kolkata Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee said: “The trio, explosive experts and planning to blow up a crowded place, may be linked to the Delhi blasts or the Bangalore attack. Other members are spread throughout the eastern region.”

• January 31: Police arrest a suspected LeT cadre in connection with the December 28-terrorist attack on the IISc campus in Bangalore. Chand Pasha reportedly acted as a conduit in disbursing funds for LeT's "subversive activities" in Karnataka and was used by another accused Abdul Rehman in routing money to members of the outfit.

• January 28: SFs shot dead seven terrorists soon after their infiltration from Salhutri in the Poonch district. Two Army personnel, including Major James Thomas, are also killed in the operation while two others are wounded. A Global Positioning System is among the cache of arms, ammunition and sophisticated weaponry recovered by the SFs. The slain terrorists belong to the LeT and JeM, said official sources.

• January 27: Police in Ganderbal claim that it has neutralised a network of the LeT with the arrest of three terrorists identified as Mushtaq Ahmed Rather, Ghulam Nabi Wani and Abdul Hameed Bhat. One pistol and eight grenades are recovered from their possession.

• January 25: Two LeT cadres, including a ‘district commander’ from Pakistan, are shot dead by the SFs in an encounter at Reasi in the Udhampur district. The duo is identified as ‘district commander’ Abdul Gaffar alias Abu Hamza, a resident of Dera Gazi Khan in Pakistan and Shabir Ahmed, a resident of Koteranka in the Rajouri district. Two AK rifles, eight magazines, five Chinese hand grenades, one wireless set and two satellite phones are recovered from the incident site.

• January 24: Two LeT cadres, Omar and Aamir, are killed in an encounter with the SF personnel which ensues after SFs launch a cordon-and-search operation in the Kunan Poshpora area of Kupwara district. Two AK-56 rifles are recovered from the incident site.

• January 22: SFs recover from the Gandoh area of Doda district the dead body of a HM cadre, Mohammed Sain, who is suspected to have been killed by LeT cadres. SFs also arrested three LeT cadres during a search operation at Sopore in the Baramulla district. They also seize one pistol, one magazine, four rounds and two hand grenades from the arrested.

• January 19: A LeT cadre is arrested near Parimpora on the outskirts of Srinagar along with two hand-grenades.

• January 18: Two Pakistani LeT terrorists and three others are sentenced to ten years rigorous imprisonment by a Delhi court in connection with a series of bomb blasts in various north Indian cities in 1997 that kill 17 persons and injure nearly 300 others. "The serial blasts appear to be a concerted plan to cause maximum damage to the lives and property of the public. It was a direct threat to the normal functioning of the Government and amounts to destabilising the society", Additional Sessions Judge Rajiv Mehra says in the order. The LeT terrorists, Ajaz Mohammad and Mohammad Hussain, are found guilty of conspiring to wage war against the country along with Aamir Khan, Mohammad Shakil and Abdul Baqi for planning 37 blasts in Delhi, Panipat, Sonepat, Ludhiana, Kanpur and Varanasi on different days in 1997.

• January 17: Ahead of the Republic Day (January 26), SFs recover a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including RDX, from two places near Raipur Satwari in Jammu. The recovery included three AK rifles, four magazines, 879 rounds, 13 hand grenades, one UBGL, four UBGL grenades, five Chinese pistols, 10 magazines, 200 rounds, five radio sets, 10 kg RDX, 15 detonators, 10 remote control devices, 10 time pencils, 5 mts cordex wire, four improvised batteries, seven pika rounds and one audio cassette. Major General Jasbir Singh informed the media that, "the consignment had been dispatched here by LeT commander Abu Talla, who operates in Bhaderwah Tehsil of Doda district." He added, "LeT's possible targets seemed to be Military Cantonment, Airport and MA Stadium, the main venue of the Republic Day celebrations."

• January 16: SFs kill a LeT ‘commander’, Shafi Bajad alias Gorilla, at Cheri in the Kokernag area of Anantnag district. Two more LeT terrorists, who are reported to be heading towards Trikuta hills, housing the holy shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi, are shot dead by SFs at Reasi in the Udhampur district. Two AK rifles, eight AK magazines, 199 rounds, one wireless set, Rs 2077 Indian currency, Rs 15 in Pakistan currency and one Rial are recovered from the slain terrorists.

• January 14: Two ‘district commanders’ of the LeT, Abu Billal and Abu Saquib, are killed in an encounter with the SFs at Sheen Dara Top in the Surankote area of Poonch district. One AK-47 rifle, one AK-56 rifle, three magazines, one radio set, 20 rounds and one diary are recovered from the incident site. Another ‘district commander’ of the LeT, identified as Abu Maaz, is killed in a separate encounter with the SFs at Bhagwan Mohalla in the Kishtwar town of Doda district.

• January 6: The Mumbai Police arrest three suspected LeT terrorists from Nagpada in south Mumbai and seize arms and material used for manufacturing explosives from their possession. Police say the three terrorists, wanted for several crimes, including terrorist activities in Kashmir, were in the process of establishing contacts and developing a module in Mumbai. The police identify the three as Khurshid Ahmed Abdul Ghani Lone alias Lala (a resident of Bandipore in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir), Arshad Ghani Ahmed Badru, (resident of Sopore in Baramulla) and Mohammed Ramzan Abdul Wahab Qazi (resident of Bandipore). However, Mumbai Police Commissioner, A. N. Roy adds, "We have not yet established as to which of the militant outfit they belong to."

• January 1: A LeT cadre is arrested from Hefshormal in the Shopian area of the Pulwama district.

2005

• December 30: The Hyderabad Police arrest four suspected LeT cadres. They are detained during intensified patrolling in connection with the forthcoming Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh, which Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam are scheduled to participate apart from a number of top scientists. Police sources say investigation is on to ascertain whether they are involved in the December 28 terrorist attack on the IISc in Bangalore.

• December 28: A scientist, Professor Emeritus M.C. Puri of the IIT -New Delhi, is killed and at least five persons are injured when an unidentified gunman, who is suspected to be linked to the LeT, opens fire and lobs grenades in the IISc campus in Bangalore, the capital city of Karnataka. The attack occurs when delegates at an international conference of the Operational Research Society of India are coming out of the J.N. Tata Auditorium in the IISc campus. Police recover five magazines, believed to be from an AK-47 rifle, a used grenade, a live grenade and spent bullets in front of the auditorium.

• December 25: Two foreign mercenaries of the LeT, including an ‘area commander’, are shot dead by the SFs in the Mendhar area of Poonch district. SSP (Poonch), S. D. Singh, said the slain terrorists were identified as Abu Suhail, an ‘area commander’, and Mohammed Farooq, both residents of PoK. Recoveries made from the incident site include two AK-56 rifles with four magazines and 44 rounds, two pouches, one Kenwood radio set, four hand grenades, two diaries, one compass and one watch.

• December 25: LeT ‘area commander’ Abu Umar is killed by the troops at village Sollian in the Surankote area of Poonch district. From his possession, SFs recovered one AK rifle, two magazines, 30 rounds, one UBGL, one radio set and 10 grenades.

• December 18: Three terrorists, including Janbaz Mawya, a ‘divisional commander’ of the LeT, are killed in an encounter at Wuyan in the Pampore area of Pulwama district. Police recover three AK-47 rifles besides some ammunition from the incident site.

• December 17: A LeT cadre is arrested from Bakhihakar in the Handwara area of Kupwara district. Two hand grenades and three detonators are recovered from his possession.

• December 17: Police arrest a cadre of the outlawed LeT who is allegedly involved in running a publishing outfit. Police sources said Sadique Moavia is wanted in two cases lodged with the South Cantonment police station and another one with the Muridke police. Sadique is allegedly involved in fanning sectarian disharmony across Punjab through provocative material being published in his magazine, Zarb-e-Momin, according to the police.

• December 13: A top-level LeT cadre, Aashiq Hussain, is arrested from Pul Doda in the Doda district when he was shifting a consignment of arms and ammunition, including three AK-47 rifles, eight magazines, five grenades and 283 AK rounds, from Srinagar to Bhaderwah.

• December 9: A Pakistan-based LeT cadre is arrested from Kanipora-Chogam village in the Shopian area of Pulwama district. Four UBGLs, some grenades and 20 AK rounds are recovered from his possession.

• December 8: Three LeT terrorists, including ‘district commander’ Abu Abdul Rehman and ‘area commander’ Abdul Rehman, are killed in an encounter with the SFs at village Dahrera in the Gursai area of Poonch district. Recoveries made from their possession included two AK-56 rifles, one AK-47 rifle, seven AK magazines, one satellite phone, one wireless set, two chargers, one tape recorder, two diaries, Rupees 600 in Indian currency and 12 mattresses.

• December 3: SFs in the Anantnag district kill three LeT militants during a cordon and search operation at Kachhwan Larnoo in the Kokernag area. They were identified as Mushtaq Ahmed Dar, Mohammad Ayub Dar and Fayaz Ahmed Bhat.

• December 3: In north Kashmir, troops of the Rashtriya Rifles killed a LeT militant, identified as Yasir Bhai of Pakistan, in an encounter at Doodhmoj Yunis in the Sopore area of Baramulla district.

• December 2: Head of a LeT module, Mohammad Rasheed Salfi alias Abdur Rehman alias Amjad alias Rehman Motta of Rawalpindi in Pakistan, is killed in an operation at Machhwa in southern outskirts of the capital Srinagar.

• December 2: Nissar Ahmed alias Abu Muslim, a top LeT terrorist involved in the killing of six civilians at Mahore a few months back, is shot dead by troops of the Rashtriya Rifles at Thatharaka in the Gool area of Udhampur district. One AK-56 rifle and two hand grenades are recovered from his possession.

• November 26: In a joint operation, the Rajasthan and Gujarat police kill a LeT cadre, Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh, at Ahmedabad. D.G. Vanjhara of the Gujarat Police said they had intelligence information that Sohrabuddin, acting on behalf of Dawood Ibrahim and Sharif Khan Pathan, had come to Gujarat to kill an important leader and create chaos in the State.

• November 24: Two Let cadres are arrested in connection with the October 29 serial bomb blasts in the national capital Delhi, raising the number of persons detained in the case to three. Ghulam Ahmed Khan and Rafiq were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir by a Delhi Police team on the basis of information provided by Tariq Ahmed Dar who was arrested on November 10. Khan and Rafiq are suspected to be instrumental in arranging of funds for carrying out the blasts.

• November 19: Two LeT militants, including a ‘section commander’ of the outfit, are killed in an encounter with the police at Kither Bunjwa village in the Doda district. An Army personnel is also killed in the two hour gun-battle. The slain militants were identified as Abu Mansoor, a Pakistani national and Ismayil, a resident of Patnazi in Doda. Two AK rifles, two magazines, seven grenades, one wireless set, two kilograms of explosives and an unspecified quantity of ammunition are recovered from them.

• November 17: Three LeT terrorists, including a Pakistani national, are arrested from Pul Doda when they are on their way from Kupwara to Doda. Three grenades are recovered from their possession.

• November 16: Four civilians are killed and 72 persons, including legislator and former Minister Usman Majeed, sustain injuries in a powerful car bomb explosion near the main entrance of the J&K Bank Corporate Headquarters in Srinagar. IGP (Kashmir Zone), Javed Makhdoomi, said an explosion occurred in a Maruti-800 car on the link connecting Maulana Azad Road with Residency Road near the Corporate Headquarters of J&K Bank at 1025 hours (IST). The Al-Arifeen, believed to be a front outfit of the LeT, claimed responsibility for the blast.

• November 15: The 24-hour long gun-battle between the terrorists and SFs comes to end at the business hub of Lalchowk in capital Srinagar when Police shot dead one of the Fidayeen (suicide squad) terrorists and arrested the other. Two civilians were killed and 17 others sustained injuries in the incident. Police chief Gopal Sharma said that the gun-battle ended with the death of one Pakistani cadre of the LeT and the arrest of another, identified as 19-year-old Aijaz Ahmed Bhat alias Abu Sumama, a resident of Faisalabad in Pakistan.

• November 13: Police recover the dead body of a LeT cadre, Fayaz Jin, from Sumbal forests in the Baramulla district. His colleagues allegedly killed him a few days earlier.

• November 13: The Delhi Police (DP) announces the arrest of LeT terrorist who allegedly coordinated and financed the serial bomb blasts in Delhi on October 29. Tariq Ahmed Dar, who is working as a sales representative with the pharmaceutical firm Johnson and Johnson, allegedly hatched the plot along with two LeT cadres, Abu Al Qama and Abu Huzefa, DP Commissioner K. K. Paul disclosed in Delhi.

• November 8: A group of terrorists shot dead the brother and sister-in-law of PDP leader and Member of Legislative Council, Master Tassaduq Hussain, in their house at Larkuti in the Budhal area of Rajouri district. The PDP leader’s brother, Mohammed Ashraf, is a police head constable, presently posted in District Police Lines, Rajouri. DIGP (Rajouri-Poonch range), V. K. Singh, informed that LeT terrorists, Abu Hamza and Sharaka, are main suspects in the killing.

• November 7: Two LeT ‘commanders’ are killed and a soldier sustains injuries during an encounter at Dharam forests in the Gool area of Udhampur district. The slain terrorists are identified as Abu Adil, a ‘tehsil commander’ and Abu Aria, an ‘area commander’, both residents of PoK. Recoveries made from their possession include one AK-47 rifle, one AK-56 rifle, two wireless sets, six AK magazines and 70 rounds, two diaries, one digital recorder and two letter pads of the LeT outfit.

• November 3: The security forces are reported to have arrested Abdullah Banday, a Congress party leader with alleged links to the Lashkar-e-Toiba from village Bharat in the Doda district. "Banday, a prominent Congress leader of Doda, was operating as Lashkar’s main conduit for Hawala operations in the district for last more than three years", police sources told Daily Excelsior.

• October 24: A court in New Delhi convicts a LeT terrorist, Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq, a Pakistani national and six others while acquitting four accused in the Red Fort attack case.

• October 14: A Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist, Talib Hussain Sheikh alias Babbar, surrendered after an encounter with troops at village Yardu in Nawapachi area of Doda district.

• September 30: In the Kokernag area of Anantnag district, security forces raided a terrorist hideout at Naubug Larnoo and killed three LeT terrorists, Mohammad Ashraf Khokha alias Bilal, Khursheed Ahmed Malik and Sajjad Rasool. A civilian, Ghulam Ahmed Kumar, was killed in the cross-firing, while another civilian sustained injuries.

• September 22: A cadre of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), identified as Karimullah, was killed in a gun-battle with the SFs at Machipor in the Baramulla district. One AK 47 rifle, three magazines, two hand grenades, one pouch and one radio set were recovered from his possession.

• August 26: Two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists, identified as Saifullah and Shabir Ahmad alias Zubair, were killed in an encounter with the troops at Dardpora-Chaklipora village in Anantnag district. One army personnel was also injured in the gun-battle. An AK rifle, a carbine and some ammunition were recovered from the slain LeT cadres.

• August 23: Delhi Police arrests a senior LeT terrorist from Zakir Nagar in the southern part of Delhi. Abu Razak Masood is reported to be outfit's coordinator in Dubai. Police said the accused was involved in a blast in Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, and had been declared a proclaimed offender in the case.

• August 13: Three LeT terrorists were killed, while two soldiers lost their lives during an encounter at village Khudwani in the Baramulla district. Two of the three slain terrorists were identified as Khwaja Jaleel-ur-Rehman Siddiquee and Abu Qasim Shakargarhi, both belonging to Multan in Pakistan. Security forces also arrested an overground worker of the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Baramulla district along with two hand grenades.

• July 22: The Lahore Police in Pakistan detain 15 suspected cadres of outlawed groups, including LeT, as part of the ongoing crackdown against Islamist extremism in the Punjab province.

• July 19: A group of suspected LeT terrorists kill six civilians at Dungi Bahak in the Mahore area of Udhampur district.

• July 16: Security forces arrest a Lashkar-e-Toiba cadre, identified as Sabzar Ahmad, from Badshah Chowk in Srinagar. An AK rifle, a wireless set, two hand grenades and some ammunition were recovered from him.

• July 15: The Uttar Pradesh Police said that they have identified two of the six slain terrorists involved in the attack on the disputed complex at Ayodhya on July 5 as Mohammad Yunus and Mehmood, Pakistani nationals belonging to the LeT.

• July 13: A LeT cadre, Abu Tamia, is killed during an encounter with the SFs at Achabal in the south Kashmir district of Anantnag. One AK rifle and two magazines were seized from him.

• July 11: Mohammed Hafiz Pir alias Saiful Islam alias Abu Kari, a ‘divisional commander’ of the LeT, is shot dead by the SFs during an encounter at Ghodal in the Dashnan area of Doda district. One AK-56 rifle, three magazine, 11 rounds, one Kenwood radio set and a hand grenade were recovered from the incident site. Hafiz Pir, a key Lashkar commander, was an expert in the use of matrix code sheets and IED. He was also involved in extortion and was chief co-ordinator for local recruitment, receipt and distribution of funds, and movement of weapons, ammunition and radio sets in the entire Doda district, said police sources.

• July 10: Two LeT terrorists, including ‘area commander’ Mohammed Akbar alias Abu Rehan alias Alfa 4, are killed during an operation launched by the troops at Gambhir Mugalan in the Rajouri district on. One AK-47 rifle, one AK-56 rifle, six magazines, four detonators, 90 rounds of ammunition, a grenade in damaged condition and two pouches were recovered from the incident site.

• July 6: An ‘area commander’ of the LeT, identified as Abu Wahid bin Abdul Qadir Zahid, is shot dead by the Army at village Chhunga in the Poonch district. A soldier was wounded during the operation. One AK-56 rifle, 25 rounds, one I Com radio set, three pocket diaries, one holy book, one wrist watch, one pouch and a hand grenade were recovered from the incident site.

• June 30: LeT terrorists attacked a house at village Mahakund in the Gool area of Udhampur district and shot dead a young girl, who was to become a bride, along with two other family members while five others of the family had a narrow escape. The attack was in revenge for the killing of three top LeT cadres by the SFs in Mahakund on June 2. The LeT had suspected that the families had informed the SFs about the terrorists’ movement.

• June 28: Three top LeT terrorists and two Special Police Officers were killed in a gun-battle at Chakka near the Bhaderwah town in Doda district.

• June 19: SFs shot dead Chand Babar alias Abdullah Qamar alias Golf, ‘operational chief’ of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, during an encounter at Sirajpora in the Handwara area of Kupwara district.

• June 18: Security forces killed two Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists in an encounter at Gund-e-Dachhan village in the Bandipore area of Baramulla district.

• June 12: A suspected LeT cadre is killed by the troops in the Aaran forests of Udhampur district. One AK rifle, a wireless set and one pouch were recovered from his possession.

• June 7: Security forces raided a terrorist hideout and killed a Pakistani ‘divisional commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, identified as Abu Moosa, in the Sumbal-Bandipore belt of north Kashmir.

• June 2: Three LeT terrorists, including Samma Pakistani, a ‘tehsil commander’, were shot dead by the troops during an encounter at Mahakund in the Gool area of Udhampur district. The other two were identified as Mohammed Amin alias Saifullah and Abu Umar. Three AK rifles, five magazines and three hand grenades were recovered from the incident site.

• May 31: One LeT 'area commander', identified as Abu Bhai, was among the five front ranking terrorists of different outfits killed during an encounter at Makhi forest in the Surankote area of Poonch district.

• May 26: Three terrorists, including one identified as Mohammed Shaffi, a ‘divisional commander’ of the LeT, and two Army personnel were killed during an encounter at Machan Koti nullah in the Doda district. Two AK-47 rifles, a destroyed wireless set, 19 cassettes, eight tape recorders, a large quantity of ration and eatables, blankets and one lantern were seized from the incident site

• May 23: Troops of the Rashtriya Rifles kill a LeT cadre, identified as Mohammad Shafi Shah, at Urnhal village in the Anantn