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Incidents and Statements involving Lashkar-e-Taiba:
1996-2007
2007
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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November 28: One Over Ground Worker
of the LeT outfit, Javid Ahmad Mallah, was arrested by police in
the Handwara area of Kupwara district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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November 16: In Sopore, unidentified
militants opened fire on a former decoy of the LeT at Mohalla Momkak
locality. He sustained gunshot wounds.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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October 28: At Chalpura village
in Kupwara district, troops arrested an over ground worker of the
LeT, Javed Ahmed Khan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-Taiba
[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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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September 26: Troops killed two
LeT militants, identified as Abdul Rasheed and Liaquat Ali alias
Furqan, at Gool in the Ramban district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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September 20:
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the LeT, called
for intensification of "jehad in Kashmir and Afghanistan" to "strengthen
Pakistan's Defence."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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June 22:
Mohammadd Ashraf Sheikh Moulvi, a militant of
the LeT, was arrested at Rampora in the Kulgam district.
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June 21: An activist of the LeT,
identified as Arif Hussain Naikoo, was arrested from Chakoora village
in the Pulwama district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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June 11:
Angry crowds in PoK set ablaze a hospital set
up by the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, set up by Lashkar-e-Taiba 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 29: The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (also
known as Lashkar-e-Taiba [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.
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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-Taiba [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.
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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.
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May 15: SF personnel killed two
LeT militants at Waterhal in the Budgam district.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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May 7:
Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as
Ishfaq Ahmed Ganai, from Sogam village in the Kupwara district.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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April 27: The Lashkar-e-Taiba ([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.
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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.
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April 25:
Security forces arrested a supporter of the
LeT, identified as Shabir Ahmad Sheikh, at Takiya Panzalla in the
Baramulla district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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April 14:
Two LeT militants were killed and a security
force personnel was wounded during an encounter with the SFs in
the Pulwama district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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February 15: SF personnel neutralized
a hideout of the LeT at Balakote in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-Taiba (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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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December 10: Two militants belonging
to the Lashkar-e-Taiba 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.
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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.
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December 8: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba
cadres were killed by the security force personnel during an encounter
at Dulligam in the Banihal area of Doda district.
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December 4: The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba
(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.
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December 3: A Lashkar-e-Taiba cadre,
identified as Abu Shakir of Pakistan, was arrested from the Malbagh
locality outside Dachhigam National Sanctuary in Harwan.
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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.
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November 27: One Lashkar-e-Taiba
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.
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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.
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November 24: Three soldiers were
wounded when Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists opened fire at them during
a cordon-and-search operation at Rampur village in the Baramulla
district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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October 29: SFs arrest Fayaz Ahmed,
a cadre of the LeT, and four new recruits from Killanwali in the
Mahore area of Udhampur district.
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October 28: Police arrests a LeT
cadre, identified as Gul Mohammed alias Gulla, from the Bun area
in Doda district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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October 11: A LeT cadre, Mehendia,
is arrested from Thathri in the Doda district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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September 16: A LeT militant, identified
as Mohtasham Billa alias Abu Talha of Pakistan, is killed by SFs
at Narwani in Shopian area.
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September 15: A LeT ‘District Commander’
for Udhampur district, identified as Abu Mohammed Sayeed, is killed
in the Kulgam area of Anantnag district.
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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.
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September 12: Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh said that that Pakistan has not done enough to control terrorist
outfits like the LeT and JeM.
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September 11: A Pakistani cadre belonging
to the LeT is killed by SFs in
the Bandipora area of Baramulla district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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August 19: Security forces arrest a
LeT over-ground worker from Pulwama town Bus Stand and recovered
two hand-grenades from his possession.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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August 1: A LeT cadre, identified as
Mohammed Yousuf, is arrested from Bonjwah in the Doda district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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July 19: SFs kill a LeT terrorist
at Ari in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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July 4: An Over Ground Worker of the
LeT, Imtiyaz, is killed by LeT terrorists at village Sarharda in
the Poonch district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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June 25: Troops kill a LeT terrorist,
Tasleem Hyder Bhat alias Zubair, in the Chandigam area of Kupwara
district.
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June 24: Jammu Police arrest two LeT
terrorists from the Mendhar area in Poonch district.
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June 23: Security forces neutralise
a terrorist hide out in the Surankote area of Poonch district belonging
to the LeT outfit.
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June 21: Troops foil an infiltration
attempt of the LeT terrorists from the LoC in the forward area of
Balnoi in Poonch district.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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June 15: Troops arrest two LeT terrorists
involved in three grenade blasts at General Bus Stand in Jammu on
June 12.
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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.
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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.
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June 11: An Over Ground Worker
of the LeT outfit, identified as Mohammed Farooq, is arrested from
village Sarna in the Doda district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 29: Two over ground workers
of the LeT, identified as Farooq Ahmed Baig and Abdul Rashid Dar,
are arrested from Budgam.
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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.
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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.
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May 23: Two terrorists of the LeT
outfit are shot dead in an encounter with the police at Kralapora
in the Kupwara district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-Taiba cadre, identified as Abu Akasa, is killed
in an encounter with the SFs at village Garha in the Bhadarwah area
of Doda district.
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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.
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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.
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April 30: A cadre of the LeT, Zaffar
Abbas, is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Hapathnar in the
Anantnag district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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March 25: Two suspected LeT terrorists
are killed during an encounter with the troops at Harpora Handwara
in the Kupwara district.
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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.
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March 23: Police arrests a LeT terrorist,
Ashan-ul-Haq alias Tahir Khandey, from Sopore in the Baramulla district.
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March 18: Security forces in the
Doda district arrested a suspect, Ghulam Ahmed Gujjar, who was allegedly
working for the LeT.
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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.
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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.
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March 11: Authorities in PoK are
reported to have arrested eight terrorists in Muzaffarabad, including
Zaki-ur-Rehman of the LeT.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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February 12: A LeT cadre, identified
as Yaqoob Najar, is killed in an encounter with the troops in the
Lolab area of Kupwara district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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January 19: A LeT cadre is arrested
near Parimpora on the outskirts of Srinagar along with two hand-grenades.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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."
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January 1: A LeT cadre is arrested
from Hefshormal in the Shopian area of the Pulwama district.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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November 3: The security forces
are reported to have arrested Abdullah Banday, a Congress party
leader with alleged links to the Lashkar-e-Taiba 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.
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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.
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September 22: A cadre of the Lashkar-e-Taiba
(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.
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August 26: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (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.
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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.
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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-Taiba
in Baramulla district along with two hand grenades.
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July 16: Security forces arrest
a Lashkar-e-Taiba 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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SFs shot dead two 'commanders' of
the LeT during a search operation at Dhara Morha in the Surankote
area of Poonch district. They were identified as Dr Abu Farkan,
reportedly a medical practitioner from Pakistan, and Abu Haider,
also from Pakistan. Two RR personnel were killed in the operation.
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May 22: The Special Cell of Delhi
Police arrests Mohammed Ishaq, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative,
from outside Safdarjung Hospital in the capital city. 5.5 kilograms
of RDX, two electronic detonators and Rupees 2.5 lakhs in cash were
recovered from his possession.
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May 21: The Special Task Force of
Uttar Pradesh police arrests two LeT terrorists, Sadat Rashid and
Masood Alam, from Lucknow. Four kilograms of explosive material,
one-kg morphine and an English-make revolver were recovered from
their possession.
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May 19: SFs recover dead bodies
of two LeT terrorists, who were wounded in an encounter with the
troops at village Tiller in the Nawapachi area on the intervening
night of April 22 and 23, from the Marwah area of Doda district.
They were identified as Mushtaq Ahmed and Rashid Sheikh.
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May 12: A suspected LeT cadre, identified
as Harun Rashid, a resident of Siwan in the State of Bihar, was
arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police (DP) soon after
he arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi by
an Air India flight IC 856 from Singapore. He was also an active
member of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
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May 7: A LeT terrorist, identified
as Abu Jehad, is killed in an encounter with the SFs at Gophabal
village near Trehgam in the Kupwara district. A student, identified
as Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Sheikh, was also killed in the crossfire.
LeT ‘divisional commander’ for north Kashmir, Abu Noman, is killed
in an encounter with security forces along with one of his accomplices
at Pazipora village in the Kupwara district. In the shootout, an
Army Major, Salman Khan, also died.
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May 3: Six infiltrators affiliated
to the LeT are killed in the Krishna Ghati sector on the LoC in
Poonch district when SFs foiled their attempt to intrude. Six AK
rifles, one Under Barrel Grenade Launcher, 332 AK rounds, 27 magazines,
eight Pakistan made grenades, 17 Chinese grenades, one Kenwood radio
set, three wire cutters, Rupees 54,000 in Indian currency, Rupees
30 in Pakistan currency and some documents were recovered from the
incident site.
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May 2: The Lashkar-e-Taiba is banned
by the United Nations (UN) for its links with the Al Qaeda. The
organisation, along with its front outfits, has been banned under
UN Resolution 1267 under which all states are obliged to freeze
the assets, prevent their entry into or transit through their territories.
The LeT was put on the list with all its aliases, including Al-Mansooran,
Pasban-e-Ahle-Hadis, Army of Pure, and the Army of Pure and Righteous.
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April 22: Five LeT cadres, identified
as Abu Dujana, a ‘deputy divisional commander’, Abu Walid, Irshad
Ahmed Hajam, Chhota Umar and Abu Hamza, were killed by troops at
Bakh-e-Hakar village in the Handwara area of Kupwara district.
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April 18: Three cadres of the LeT
are shot dead by the SFs at Sheeen Dhara in the Mendhar area of
Poonch district. Three AK-47 rifles, nine magazines, one radio set,
one binocular, one diary, a holy book and a steel trunk were recovered
from their possession.
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April 15: SFs killed four suspected
LeT terrorists during an operation at Kanir village in the Budgam
district. Four AK-56 rifles, five grenades, one grenade launcher,
a binocular, three mobile phone sets and two wireless sets were
recovered from the incident site.
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April 13: SFs killed two LeT cadres
and arrested two daughters of a Government official, identified
as Tabbasum Manzoor Naqashbandi and Tehmeena Manzoor Naqashbandi,
allegedly with a number of mobile and satellite phones of the outfit
during a search operation at the Khansahib area of Budgam district.
One of the slain terrorists was identified as Salfi alias Omar Bhai.
Five people were wounded in the gun-battle. Troops recovered two
AK-56 rifles, one damaged mobile phone and one wireless set.
A Lashkar-e-Taiba ‘area commander’, identified as Abu Qasim, was
killed by the troops during an encounter at Kasblari in the Mendhar
area of Poonch district. One AK rifle, five magazines, five hand
grenades and one wireless set were recovered from the encounter
site.
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March 31: Five CRPF personnel sustained
injuries when terrorists hurled a grenade on their post at Khanyar
Police Station in Srinagar. Al Mansooran, a front outfit of the
LeT, claimed responsibility for the attack.
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March 29: A youth, identified as
Imtiyaz Ahmed, is killed by suspected LeT cadres at village Biwilian
in the Udhampur district for his reported refusal to go to Thannamandi
in Rajouri district and courier Hawala money for them.
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March 24: SFs shot dead Abu Billal,
an Afghani terrorist of the LeT, during an encounter at Basantgarh
in the Udhampur district. Two AK magazines, 29 rounds of ammunition,
one Chinese grenade, one Chinese pistol, seven pistol rounds, one
pouch and some documents and cassettes were recovered from the incident
site.
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March 23: A LeT terrorist, identified
as Abu Zubair Shaheen, is killed during an encounter with the police
at Kallar Kattal in the Surankote area of Poonch district. One AK
rifle, four magazines, 107 rounds of ammunition, four hand grenades
and one wireless set were recovered from the incident site.
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March 22: Three ‘commanders’ of
the LeT and Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) outfits were killed during
an encounter with the SFs at Chinar Mohalla in the Surankote area
of Poonch district. The slain terrorists have been identified as
Asatullah alias Abu Umar, a ‘district commander’ of the LeT, Abu
Talha alias M4, an ‘area commander’ of the TuM and Abu Mudassar,
an ‘area commander’ of the LeT. Three AK-47 rifles, eight magazines,
one radio set, one hand grenade and six diaries were recovered from
the incident site.
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March 21: A front ranking LeT terrorist,
identified as Nazir Ahmed Khan alias Muslim Inqilabi, is arrested
from a village near Kaliachak in the Malda district of West Bengal
by the joint squad of the West Bengal and J&K Police. Nazir
Ahmed had been charged with killing 18 people, including a Major
of the Army, in J&K.
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March 14: A LeT ‘district commander’,
identified as Abu Umar, is killed by the troops during an operation
at Phagla Nursery in the Surankote area of Poonch district. While
one soldier was injured, one AK-47 rifle, four AK magazines, two
hand grenades, one radio set and 107 AK rounds were recovered from
the incident site.
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March 10: A ‘district commander’
of the LeT, Mudasar alias Abu Hamza, is killed during an encounter
with the SF personnel at Konibal in the Pampore area of Pulwama
district. Hamza and one Altaf Malik alias Pinto Malik had managed
the abduction and subsequent killing of the IRCON engineer, Sudheer
Kumar Pundir, and his brother in the Awantipore area in May 2004.
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March 8: SF personnel killed one
LeT terrorist, identified as Abu Sayyed Janbaz, during a gun-battle
at Garoora in the Bandipore area of Baramulla district. A soldier
was wounded during the encounter.
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March 5: Special Cell of the Delhi
Police arrests two suspected LeT cadres, identified as Hamid and
Sariq, along with 10.5 kg of RDX at Mubarak Chowk on G.T. Karnal
Road.
Three LeT terrorists were shot dead in an encounter with the Special
Cell of the Delhi police at Kakrola Mor in South-West Delhi on information
given by Hamid and Sariq. A huge quantity of ammunition, including
three AK-56 assault rifles, hand-grenades, live cartridges, satellite
phones and some documents were recovered from their hideout. They
were planning to target the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun.
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February 26: A LeT terrorist and
his guide, identified as Abu Ali and Wazir Mohd respectively, were
shot dead by the SFs in an encounter at Bhat Mohalla in the Poonch
district. One AK rifle, one Chinese pistol, one pistol magazine,
24 AK rounds, four Chinese grenades and one pouch were recovered
from the encounter site.
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February 25: An ‘area commander’
of the LeT, Jamaal Din alias Waleed, and his bodyguard are killed
by the troops during an encounter at Jamlan Malla village in the
Mahore area of Udhampur district. Two AK-56 rifles, four magazines,
one Chinese grenade, one binocular and 51 AK rounds were recovered
from the incident site.
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February 24: Three LeT terrorists,
identified as Qasim alias Charlie Two, Abu Umar alias Charlie Five
and Shabnam, are killed during an encounter with the SFs at Nadihal
in the Bandipore area of Baramulla district.
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February 12: SFs shot dead three
LeT terrorists in Surankote area of Poonch district. Three AK -56
rifles, three magazines, two wireless sets, one grenade, some ammunition
and medicines were recovered from the slain terrorists’ possession.
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February 8: SF personnel killed
a LeT terrorist, identified as Manzoor Hussain alias Ali Bhai, during
an encounter at Galibabad on the outskirts of capital Srinagar.
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February 6: A suspected LeT cadre
and a soldier were killed during an encounter that ensued after
troops launched a search operation in the Mendhar area of Poonch
district. One AK rifle and some ammunition were recovered from the
slain terrorist’s possession.
During another encounter at Muhri Mohalla in the Surankote area
of Poonch district, two LeT cadres, identified as Abu Qasim alias
Mike 4 and Abu Tallah alias W3, an ‘area commander’, were killed.
Two AK rifles, some ammunition and four grenades were recovered
from the incident site.
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January 12: Two terrorists of the
LeT, identified as Abu Hamas and Imran, and a woman are killed in
an encounter that ensued after troops launched a search operation
in the Shopian area of Pulwama district.
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January 7: The Al-Mansooran, suspected
to be a front outfit of the LeT, in a suicide attack at the Income
Tax (IT) office in the Barbar Shah locality of the capital Srinagar
killed a Deputy Commandant of the BSF, a soldier and one police
personnel and injured four persons, including a security officer.
One of the terrorists was shot dead in the resultant exchange of
fire while the multi-storeyed building housing the IT office caught
fire during the gun-battle. Over 70 people, including 50 officials
of the IT Department and visitors, trapped inside were later rescued.
An ‘area commander’ of the LeT, identified as Dilawar Ikramah, is
shot dead along with his body-guard by the troops at Chak Banola
in the Mendhar area of Poonch district. One AK-47 rifle, one AK-56
rifle, five AK magazines with 70 rounds of ammunition, one radio
set and some explosive material were recovered from the incident
site.
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December 31: Three unidentified
terrorists were reportedly found dead in an orchard near Momin in
the Kulgam area of Anantnag district. The dead bodies were believed
to be those of terrorists killed in a group clash between the HM
and LeT.
Three LeT cadres are killed during an encounter that ensued after
SFs raided their hideout at Nawpora Reban in the Sopore area of
Baramulla district.
During a separate encounter at Naika Majari in the Mendhar area
of Poonch district, SF personnel killed two more LeT cadres, identified
as Abu Katal and Abu Larvi. Two AK-47 rifles, three magazines, 90
rounds of ammunition, one wireless set, eight hand grenades, six
detonators and some eatables were recovered from the incident site.
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December 23: Two LeT cadres are
killed during an encounter with the troops in the Mahore area of
Udhampur district. The troops seized two AK-47 rifles with magazines,
some ammunition, one wireless set, two grenades and explosive devices
from the incident site.
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December 21: Two LeT terrorists,
including ‘deputy district commander’ Abu Anees, are killed during
an encounter with the security forces inside a natural cave at village
Ganjot in the Mahore area of Udhampur district. While one soldier
was wounded during the encounter, two AK rifles, a large quantity
of ammunition and two grenades were recovered from the incident
site.
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December 18: An LeT cadre, identified
as Umar Mustafa, is shot dead by the troops during an encounter
at Dandidhara in the Surankote area of Poonch district. One AK rifle,
three magazines, one radio set and a large quantity of eatables
were recovered from the incident site.
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December 17: A ‘district commander’
of the LeT, identified as Abu Umar alias Bravo 1, is shot dead during
a joint operation by troops of the Rashtriya Rifles and Special
Operations Group in the Surankote area of Poonch district. One AK-47
rifle, one magazine and a diary were recovered from the incident
site.
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December 15: Two terrorists of the
LeT are killed during an encounter with the troops at village Pallad
in the Bhaderwah area of Doda district. One AK-56 rifle, one magazine,
11 rounds of ammunition, a rifle with one magazine and eight rounds
and one .303 rifle were recovered from the encounter site.
Two suspected LeT cadres who made an abortive attempt to storm a
BSF camp at Sopore in the Baramulla district were killed by the
BSF personnel. While one BSF personnel was wounded during the incident,
the troops also shot dead a civilian mistaking him to be a terrorist.
BSF later indicated that the civilian had been used for the terrorist
action at gunpoint.
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December 8: SFs shot dead two LeT
terrorists, identified as Sultan Bhai and Aslam Bhai, after a nightlong
encounter. A day earlier the terrorists had held the ruling PDP
leader's wife, mother-in-law, maid and father-in-law captive at
Kanispora in the outskirts of Baramulla town.
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December 7: Two suspected terrorists
of the LeT, held the ruling PDP's Baramulla Zonal president, Wajahat
Hussain's wife, mother-in-law, maid and father-in-law captive at
Kanispora in the outskirts of Baramulla town. Later, troops of Rashtriya
Rifles (22 Battalion) managed to rescue all the captives.
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November 27: Four terrorists of
the LeT were killed in an encounter with the security forces in
the outskirts of capital Srinagar.
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November 25: Indian Army personnel
arrested a Pakistan based terrorist, identified as Mirwaz, designated
as ‘guide commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Taiba at Kotli village in
the Rajouri district.
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November 17: Two terrorists of the
Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami (HuJI) were reportedly shot dead by foreign
mercenaries of the LeT to thwart the former’s attempt to surrender
before security forces in Poonch district.
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November 10: Troops of Rashtriya
Rifles killed a LeT terrorist, identified as Nisar Ahmed Shah alias
Abu Alqama, at Cheeri Panzgam in the Kokernag area of Anantnag district.
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November 6: Security forces foiled
an infiltration attempt from across the border and killed five LeT
terrorists who had crossed the Line of Control near Krishna Ghati
sector in the Poonch district.
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November 3: Five LeT terrorists
who were hiding in a mosque in Khilan Gund-e-Moosa in Pulwama-Bijbehara
belt were shot dead after a six hour gun-battle with soldiers of
the Rashtriya Rifles.
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November 1: Lashkar ‘district commander’
Assadullah Bhai was killed by security forces at Panzan in Chadoura
area.
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October 27: In an encounter at Namtahal
village, behind Srinagar Airport, in Budgam district, a LeT ‘commander’
was killed.
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October 21: A LeT cadre, identified
as Khurshid Ahamed, was arrested by the security forces from Doda
district
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October 16: Four LeT terrorists
were killed in a gunbattle with security forces at Handwara in the
Kupwara district.
Security forces killed a LeT cadre, identified as Gulzar Ahmed Parray,
at Malipora in the Kulgam area of Anantnag district.
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October 13: A LeT terrorist, identified
as Dilawar, was killed in an encounter at Baderkoot in the Kupwara
district.
Four terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit were reportedly killed
when the army foiled their attempt to exfiltrate to the other side
of Line of Control (LoC) in the Uri Sector of Baramulla district.
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October 3: Three terrorists of the
Lashkar, including ‘area commander’ Zanat Gul and his deputy Ghulam
Rasool, were killed during an encounter with the security forces
at village Hariwalla in the Udhampur district
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September 23: Troops shot dead a
LeT ‘divisional commander’, identified as Abu Amir, and his associates,
Sajjad Ahmad Lone and Javed Ahmad Rather alias Abu Muslim Zarar,
during an encounter at Paddarpora in the Pulwama district.
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August 20: Two terrorists of the
Lashkar-e-Taiba, identified as Mohammed Azhar alias Abu Hamzah and
Amjid Junaid, were killed during an encounter with the police in
the Handwara area of Kupwara district
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August 12: Two suspected LeT terrorists
were shot dead by security force personnel during an encounter in
the Khari area of Poonch district.
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July 27: Two Afghan mercenaries,
affiliated to the LeT, were shot dead by troops during an encounter
at village Phagla in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
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July 23: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba cadres,
identified as Abu Asif Shehzad and Abu Masood, were killed during
an encounter with troops in the Lolab valley of Kupwara district.
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July 22: LeT ‘deputy chief’ for
Jammu and Kashmir, ‘Colonel’ Usman, was among five terrorists killed
in an encounter with troops at Tikkipora village in Kupwara district.
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July 18: Mohammed Ashraf alias Aba
Usman, a 'district commander' of Lashkar-e-Taiba, was shot dead
by troops during an encounter at Seoj Gali in the Bhaderwah area.
Ashraf was involved in the killing of three labourers at Gul Danda
Dhar in Doda on July 13.
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July 16: Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JD), the
parent outfit of LeT, splits with two senior leaders opposing the
leadership of its founder, Prof. Hafeez Mohammed Saeed. The rebels
are reported to have formed a new outfit called Khair-un-Nasv (peoples’
welfare)
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July 9: Three suspected LeT cadres
were reportedly killed during an encounter at village Chakthroo
in the Poonch district. Two AK-47 rifles, 10 magazines, two wireless
sets, one pistol, four hand grenades, Rupees 850 in Pakistan currency
and some documents were recovered from the incident site.
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July 7: A Lashkar-e-Taiba ‘section
commander’, identified as Riaz Ahmed, was shot dead during an encounter
with security forces’ at Bash Dhar in the Doda district.
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July 3: Security Forces shot dead
two LeT terrorists, identified as Shabir Ahmed Atoo and Farooq Ahmed,
in a gun battle in the Koti area of Doda district..
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June 29: LeT ‘divisional commander’
Shahid Ahmed alias Zulu-4 and ‘district commander’ Zahid Hafiz Arian
alias Nayeem were killed during an encounter in the Rawalpora area
of Srinagar.
A special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA)
court framed charges against five suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
terrorists under POTA for engineering the August 25, 2003-twin bomb
explosions in Mumbai.
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June 26: A group of terrorists,
reportedly a combination of LeT and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen's (HM)
Pir Panjal Regiment (HMPPR), attacked village Teli Katha in upper
reaches of Marha in Surankote tehsil (administrative unit)
of Poonch district killing 11 civilians including three children
and two teenagers and injuring 10 others.
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June 25: In the Pulwama district
of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists
killed the abducted railway engineer, Sudhir Kumar Pundeer, and
his brother.
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June 22: During an encounter at
Gagal-Warnaw in the Lolab area of Kupwara, two suspected LeT cadres,
identified as Mohammad Zaman alias Abu Umar and Mohammad Azam Din,
were shot dead by troops. Two AK-47 rifles, 12 magazines, 170 rounds
of ammunition, five hand grenades, two grenade launchers and a wireless
set were reportedly recovered from their possession.
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June 17: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
cadres were killed during an encounter at Gursai in the Poonch district.
One AK-47 rifle, one AK-56 rifle, three AK magazines, three hand
grenades and Rupees 2275 in Indian currency were recovered from
the incident site.
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June 16: The crime branch of Maharashtra
Police shot dead two suspected terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Taiba
outfit in northwest Mumbai. One of them was identified as Adnan
Kirmani alias Abu Salem.
A US court sentences three persons for conspiring to aid the LeT.
Federal Judge Leonie M Brinkema imposed life imprisonment on Masood
Khan, an 85-year term on Seifullah Chapman and a 97-month sentence
for Abdur Raheem. All three were members of the 'Virginia jihad
network'.
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June 15: The Gujarat Police shot
dead four suspected LeT terrorists who had allegedly planned to
assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Sardarnagar
area of Ahmedabad.
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June 12: Troops of the Poonch Brigade
foiled an infiltration attempt on the Line of Control (LoC) in Sabjian
sector killing two suspected Pakistani LeT cadres. A soldier also
died in the gun-battle. Recoveries made from the slain terrorists'
possession included three AK rifles, 12 magazines, 305 rounds, two
radio sets, four hand grenades, Rupees 30,000 in Indian currency,
Rupees 5 in Pakistan currency and 39 pencil cells.
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June 4: The Army foiled an exfiltration
attempt on the LoC at Lohara Gali in the Mendhar sector of Poonch
district by killing three terrorists, suspected to be part of the
LeT outfit. A soldier is reported to have died in the gun-battle
that lasted for approximately eight hours.
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May 12: In Kupwara district, LeT
‘district commander’ Abid was killed during an encounter at Lashtiyal
Forests.
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May 11: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba cadres
were killed during an encounter with troops at Khooni nullah in
the Surankote area of Poonch district.
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May 8: Three foreign mercenaries
of the LeT were killed by troops during an encounter at village
Charala in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
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May 6: Security forces killed a
group of six LeT terrorists at the Panar forest area near Bandipore
in Baramulla district.
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May 1: Three LeT terrorists, including
a ‘district commander’ for Poonch district, were shot dead during
an encounter with troops at Kotli Kalaban under the jurisdiction
of Manjakote police station in Rajouri district. Among those killed
was Abu Bashir, a ‘district commander’ of LeT for Poonch. Three
AK rifles, eight AK magazines, 60 rounds of ammunition, four hand
grenades, two radio sets, one Dictaphone, one alkaline battery and
one receiver IED circuit were recovered from the incident site.
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April 21: Three foreign mercenaries
affiliated to the Lashkar-e-Taiba were reportedly killed by the
troops during an encounter at Kalaban in the Mendhar area of Poonch
district.
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April 17: During an encounter at
Sonabrari-Kokernag in the Anantnag district, two terrorists reportedly
affiliated to the LeT and a soldier were killed.
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April 15: A 21-year-old Pakistani
student in Australia was charged with receiving training from the
Lashkar-e-Taiba. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty
said in a statement that the man was arrested and later refused
bail by a local criminal court. He is believed to be the first person
charged under Australian terrorist laws introduced after 9/11.
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April 14: Bashir Ahmad Khan, a self-styled
Divisional Commander of the LeT, is killed during an encounter on
the outskirts of capital Srinagar.
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April 11: Three LeT terrorists,
including a ‘commander’ identified as Khalid alias Ceera 7, were
reportedly killed by security force personnel in the Kreeri Pattan
area of Baramulla district.
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March 30: Two LeT cadres were killed
in an encounter in the Surankote area of Poonch district The two
have been identified as Abu Asadullah, a ‘district commander’ of
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Abu Rahim, an ‘area commander’ of the
outfit.
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March 20: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists
were killed in an encounter in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district.
Two AK rifles, four magazines, 37 rounds of ammunition, three hand
grenades, two wireless sets, one radio set antenna, 12 pencil cells
and one photo album were recovered from the incident site.
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March 14: A ‘divisional commander’
of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, identified as Bagh Hussain alias Tahir Hussain,
was killed during an encounter with the Army at Mohalla Dang in
the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district.
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March 13: Troops kill LeT terrorists
in an encounter in Banihal area of Doda district.
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March 5: Two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba
cadres were killed at Awantipore in the Pulwama district.
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February 28: Four Lashkar terrorists
were shot dead by the police at Dara Sangla in Poonch district.
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February 9: Two cadres of the Lashkar-e-Taiba
were killed during an encounter with SFs at village Shikari in the
Reasi area of Udhampur district.
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February 8: Three foreign mercenaries
affiliated to the Lashkar were shot dead by SFs during an encounter
at village Tainka in the Banihal area of Doda district.
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February 6: Three soldiers and two
LeT cadres were killed during an encounter that ensued after an
Army patrol party was ambushed by a group of terrorists at village
Snehi in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
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February 5: Nine terrorists and
a Junior Commissioned Officer of the Army were killed during an
encounter at Donil Hill in the Kupwara district. SFs launched an
operation after securing information that a group of Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
cadres had established a hideout in the area.
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February 2: Five persons, including
three LeT activists, a soldier and a young girl, were killed in
a gun battle at Bafliaz in Poonch district.
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January 20: SFs killed two terrorists
of the LeT in an encounter at Magam Sonbrari in the Kokernag area
of Anantnag district.
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January 17: Six LeT cadres and three
soldiers were killed in a gun battle in the Vevan forest area of
Bandipore.
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January 13: SFs in a two hour long
gun battle killed a Lashkar-e-Taiba ‘operational commander’, Javed
Ahmed alias Abu Katil Manji Dhara, under the jurisdiction of Manjakote
police station in the Rajouri district. A civilian was also killed
in the exchange of firing.
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January 6: Security forces shot
dead two suspected LeT terrorists during an encounter at Zethan
in the Baramulla district.
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January 5: Two LeT terrorists were
reportedly shot dead by cadres of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen in the
Thannamandi area of Rajouri district.
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December 20: SFs shot dead an ‘area
commander’ of the LeT during an encounter at village Darra in the
Thannamandi area of Rajouri district.
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December 13: Two LeT terrorists
were killed in an encounter with SFs at Parigam, near Borsu, in
Kulgam area.
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December 1: Two SFs and two LeT
cadres were killed during an encounter at Rei-Kapran village in
the Shopian area of Pulwama district.
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November 21: Four LeT terrorists,
including ‘divisional commander’ Abu Abrar, were killed during an
encounter with SFs in the Buzla mountains, approximately nine kilometers
from Khari in the Doda district.
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November 20: Abu Maghad, a LeT ‘commander’
was shot dead during an encounter at Mahakund in the Gool area of
Udhampur district.
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November 19: SFs killed two LeT
terrorists during a cordon-and-search operation at Palpora in the
Sopore area of Baramulla district. Another Lashkar cadre was killed
during an encounter with the SFs at village Giala in the Rajouri
district.
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November 18: One LeT terrorist and
a soldier were killed while another soldier was injured in an encounter
at village Laa in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district.
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November 15: Jamaat-ud-Dawa (the
new name for Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT]) is placed on the 'watch list'
under the Anti-Terrorist Act 1997.
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November 21: Four LeT terrorists,
including 'divisional commander' Abu Abrar, are killed during an
encounter with the security forces in the Buzla mountains, approximately
nine kilometers from Khari in the Doda district.
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September 19: Security forces kill
three terrorists, including Abu Haroon, an 'area commander' of the
Lashkar-e-Taiba, at village Sarbullah in the Gool area of Udhampur
district.
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September 18: Security forces foil
a major infiltration attempt at the Kalsian village in the Nowshera
sector of Rajouri district killing eight terrorists affiliated to
the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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September 16: Three LeT terrorists
and one SF personnel are killed and four SF personnel sustain injuries
during an encounter in the Shopian area of Pulwama district.
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September 10: Five Pakistan-based
terrorist groups, including the LeT, which were proscribed by President
Pervez Musharraf on January 12, 2002, are currently functioning
openly under changed identities, according to the Pakistan-based
Herald.
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September 3: Security forces kill
three foreign mercenaries of the LeT, including an 'area commander'
during an encounter at Budhal in the Rajouri district.
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August 18: An LeT 'area commander'
identified as Abbu Jindal alias K-6 is shot dead during an encounter
at village Gunthal in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
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August 8: Manzoor Zahid Chowdhary,
a Pakistani who was the 'chief co-ordinator' of the LeT, is killed
in an encounter in the Chadoura area of Budgam district. Manzoor
had been one of the terrorists who had launched an attack on the
Akshardham temple in Gujarat on September 24, 2002.
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August 7: A designated court in
Delhi sentences a LeT terrorist and his two associates under the
Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
While the LeT terrorist, Feroz Ahmed Sheikh was sentenced to 10
years of imprisonment, his associates Sheikh Sajjad and Mehrajuddin
Peer were sentenced to five years of imprisonment.
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July 25: Five LeT terrorists are
killed during an encounter near Manjoo Post at Nageena Bridge, close
to the Line of Control (LoC), in the Karnah sector.
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July 22: A three-member fidayeen
(suicide squad) storms an army camp killing eight security force
personnel, including a Brigadier, and injuring 12 others, including
four top Generals, a Brigadier and two Colonels at village Bangti
on the Tanda road in Akhnoor. The Al-Shahuda Brigade, suspected
to be a front organisation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, claims responsibility
for the attack.
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July 17: Security forces raid a
terrorist hideout at Lalad Amargarh near Sopore and in the ensuing
encounter, a 'district commander' of the LeT is killed.
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July 13: Four LeT terrorists are
killed during an encounter at village Upper Pangai in the Thanamandi
area of Rajouri district.
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July 3: Eight persons arrested in
the US on June 27 for their alleged support to the LeT to train
and participate in Jehad in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir
plead not guilty in a district court in Virginia
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June 30: A District Court of Alexandria
in US orders release of Masoud Ahmad Khan, who was arrested on an
unspecified date, on charges of recruiting, training and helping
LeT terrorists for subversive activities in the Indian State of
Jammu and Kashmir.
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June 28: A 41-count Federal Grand
Jury indictment is turned against 11 LeT terrorists who have been
charged with conspiracy to "prepare for and engage in violent jehad"
against foreign targets in Kashmir, Philippines and Chechnya. The
11 include eight persons arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania on June
27 and three others believed to be in Saudi Arabia.
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June 27: Eight alleged LeT cadres,
accused of planning terrorist acts in the Indian State of Jammu
and Kashmir, are arrested during a series of raids around the US
Federal Capital of Washington, the US Justice Department said in
a statement. Three other persons, reportedly living in Saudi Arabia,
were also named in a 42-count Justice Department indictment.
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June 26: Four foreign mercenaries,
including Abu Muaviya, a LeT 'district commander', and an Afghani
identified as Abu Haamid, 'company commander' of the JeM are killed
during an encounter in the Dooraswani forest area of Lolab in Kupwara
district.
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June 20: Four foreign mercenaries
of the LeT are killed during an encounter at village Tiranga in
the Banihal area of Doda district.
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June 14: 10 hardcore Pakistani Lashkar
terrorists are killed during an encounter at Hari Safeda in the
Surankote area of Poonch district. A police constable and a civilian
were also killed in the incident.
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June 9: Five suspected LeT terrorists
are killed during an encounter at Nangali Top in the Poonch district.
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June 7: Three LeT terrorists and
a civilian are killed and three other civilians, including two women,
injured at village Chrung in the Thanamandi area of Rajouri district.
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May 22: A suspected Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba
terrorist is killed in an encounter in the Nazafgarh area of Delhi.
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May 16: Two LeT 'commanders' and
one SF personnel are killed in an encounter at village Hayatpura
in the Rajouri district.
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May 7: Three security force personnel,
including an Army Captain, and five suspected LeT terrorists are
killed during an encounter at the Yusmarg foothills of Pir Panjal
mountain range. LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed says in an interview
to The Nation that the recent talks offer from India to solve the
Kashmir issue is to complete the US agenda in the region.
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May 4: Three LeT terrorists are
killed in an encounter at Beerwah in the central Kashmir district
of Budgam. Separately, three more Lashkar cadres are killed at village
Manyali in the Azmatabad area of Rajouri district.
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May 2: Two LeT foreign mercenaries,
including Abu Wasid, a 'deputy divisional commander', are killed
during an encounter at village Kalali Morha in the Surankote area
of Poonch district.
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April 25: Two foreign mercenaries
of the LeT are killed during an encounter in the forest area near
Wagban, Kupwara district.
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April 23: Two LeT terrorists and
one SF personnel are killed in an encounter at the Wanigam village
in Pattan area of Baramulla district.
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April 20: Security forces foil a
major infiltration attempt on the Line of Control in the Nar village
of Mendhar sector in Poonch district and kill nine LeT infiltrators.
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Hafiz Saeed, LeT chief, rejects
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s offer to hold talks
with Pakistan on the Kashmir issue.
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April 18: Three Pakistani cadres
of the LeT are killed in an encounter at Yaripora, Kulgam district.
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April 17: In a clash between cadres
of the HM and LeT at Kot Behrot, Thanamandi area of Rajouri district,
an LeT ‘commander’ is killed.
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April 14: SF personnel kill Abu
Abdul Rehman Saif, a ‘senior commander’ of the LeT during an encounter
in the Banihal area of Doda district.
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April 11: Four foreign mercenaries
of the LeT are killed in an encounter at the foothills of the Pirpanjal
range in Kulgam district.
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April 10: J&K arrest Zia Mustafa
alias Arbaz alias Abdullah Omar, a ‘district commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Taiba,
who is alleged to have planned the March 23-massacre of 24 Kashmiri
Pandits (descendants of Brahmin priests) at Nadimarg village, Pulwama
district.
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April 8: Bishar Ahmed alias Double
Bravo, a ‘district commander’ surrenders to the Border Security
Force and Ramban police.
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April 6: Security forces foil an
infiltration attempt on the Line of Control in Keri sector, killing
six LeT terrorists.
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March 30: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed,
LeT chief, addresses a rally at Shahibagh stadium in Peshawar and
calls for unity among Muslims and Jehad against the US forces in
Iraq.
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March 17: Two LeT terrorists are
killed and three SF personnel injured at Brakpora village, Anantnag
district.
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March 16: Two Lashkar terrorists,
involved in the Dundak-attack, near Surankote in Poonch district,
on March 13, in which two civilians were killed and two others injured,
are killed by SFs at Phagla village, in the same district.
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March 14: Three civilians and a
Deputy Superintendent of Police are killed in a suspected fidayeen
attack by the LeT on a Muharram (religious procession of Muslims)
procession at Poonch Bus Stand, Poonch district.
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February 23: Seven Pakistani terrorists
of the LeT are killed in an encounter on the Line of Control (LoC)
in Mendhar sector, Poonch district.
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February 22: LeT terrorists kill
two Village Defence Committee (VDC) members at Gadyog village, Kandi
area, Rajouri district.
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February 15: Three LeT terrorists
and an SF personnel are killed in encounter in Gambhir Mugalan,
under the Manjakote police station-limits, Rajouri district.
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February 7: Three SF personnel,
including a Major of the Indian Army, and two LeT terrorists killed
during encounter at Zainapora in the Shopian area of Pulwama district.
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February 4: Lashkar-e-Taiba among
three Pakistan-based terrorist groups outlawed by Russia. Authorities
in Dubai shut down local office of the LeT and deport some cadres
to Pakistan.
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February 3: Media reports indicate
that, in order to have a "mini replica" of the 9/11 attacks in J&K,
Pakistan's ISI has directed the Lashkar-e-Taiba to use "toy planes"
to target army posts and prominent personalities in the State.
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January 28: Punjab government bans
Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed from delivering any public
speech in the province.
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January 26: Three Pakistani cadres
of LeT and an SF personnel killed during encounter at Wagoora village
of Kreeri belt, Baramulla district.
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January 25: Two Pakistani LeT terrorists
killed at Nathipora on the Sopore-Kupwara road.
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January 21: Two hardcore LeT terrorists,
including 'area commander', killed during encounter in Ranot village,
Gundana area of Doda district.
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January 14: An LeT plot to attack
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister L
K Advani around Republic Day, January 26, is unearthed.
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January 13: Two LeT terrorists,
including 'divisional commander' Abu Hamza, are killed in an encounter
in Bungam Qadarana village, Marwah area of Doda district.
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January 11: Three LeT terrorists
and an SF personnel are killed, while one more SF personnel is injured,
in an encounter at Khanetar, under Poonch police station-limits.
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January 7: Suspected Lashkar terrorists
kill three civilians, including two members of a family, in Anantnag
district.
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January 4: Three Lashkar terrorists,
including a 'district commander', are killed in Kandikoot, Kokernag
locality of Anantnag district.
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December 29: Two LeT terrorists
are killed in encounter on the International Border in Sandhwa village,
under Domana police station's jurisdiction.
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December 28: Four LeT terrorists
are killed in separate encounters in Budgam district.
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December 26: Six Lashkar infiltrators
are killed on LoC near Balnoi, Mendhar area, Poonch sector.
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December 22: Five LeT foreign mercenaries
are killed in encounter at their hideout in Milan village, Surankote.
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December 19: An LeT fidayeen and
an SF personnel are killed in a suicide attack on an Army post in
Khablan village, Thanna Mandi area of Rajouri district.
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December 17: Three LeT terrorists
are killed and four more injured in a clash with HM cadres in the
upper reaches of Warwan, Doda district.
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December 12: LeT 'deputy district
commander' Faizullah is killed in a clash with HM terrorists in
Appan village, Doda district.
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December 6: Six LeT terrorists are
killed in an encounter in Danmoh-Kreeri, Pattan area of Baramulla
district.
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December 5: An LeT spokesperson
says his outfit has killed the elder brother of slain Law Minister
Mushtaq Ahmed Lone, outside his residence in Sogam village, Lolab
area of Kupwara district. Mushtaq Lone was assassinated along with
his two personal security officers during an election rally in Tikkipora
village, 8km from his Sogam residence, on September 11.
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December 4: LeT announces a four-day
cease-fire with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on the occasion
of the holy festival of Eid-ul-Fitr.
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December 3: The 36-hour-long siege
of a village mosque in Sheikh Gund, Shangus, Anantnag district,
ends with surrender of the lone terrorist––‘battalion commander’
Bashir Ahmed Ganai alias Asif––who laid the siege.
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December 2: Three LeT terrorists,
including ‘district commander’ Bashir Ahmad Ahangar alias Gazi,
are killed in an encounter at Hajan.
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December 1: Two SF personnel, two
terrorists and a civilian are killed as two LeT fidayeen
attack an Army patrol in Bilalabad Mohalla, Doda town.
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November 30: Five LeT terrorists
are killed on the LoC along Panjni nullah, Balakote sector, Poonch
district.
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November 29: Border Security Force
personnel destroy an LeT hideout in Chhatrahama, on the outskirts
of Srinagar city.
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November 25: The LeT fidayeen
who had stormed the Panjbakhtar temple in Jammu on November
24 is killed by SFs.
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November 24: 13 persons are killed
and 45 more injured as two LeT fidayeen simultaneously attack
two Hindu shrines––the Raghunath and Panjbakhtar temples––in Jammu.
Two fidayeen, who had stormed the Raghunath temple, are killed
by SFs.
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November 22: LeT fidayeen kill
six SF personnel at a CRPF camp in Srinagar. Both terrorists of
the group are killed in retaliatory firing.
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November 19: LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad
Saeed is released from house arrest as Punjab Home Secretary Brigadier
Ijaz Shah orders removal of police presence around his Johar Town-residence,
in Lahore.
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November 18: Lahore High Court declares
that the detention of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, LeT chief, is unlawful
and orders his immediate release if not required in any other case.
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November 8: Hafiza Memona, wife
of LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, files contempt petition against
Federal and Punjab governments in the Lahore High Court for lying
to the court regarding his custody.
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November 3: Two LeT terrorists are
killed in an encounter at a shopping plaza in the national capital
Delhi.
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October 25: Three LeT terrorists
are killed in an encounter at Rinipora, Anantnag district.
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October 8: Two SF personnel are
killed in an LeT fidayeen attack on Town Hall polling station no.
4 in Doda district.
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October 4: A Delhi court frames
charges under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA)
against three LeT terrorists for allegedly hatching a conspiracy
to kill Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani.
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October 3: Eight LeT infiltrators,
including an 'area commander', are killed in Balakot, Mendhar sector
of Poonch district.
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October 1: Three LeT terrorists,
including 'group commander' Abu Umar Saif, are killed in the Kundwagi
hills, Dachchan area of Doda district.
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September 28: Deputy Premier L K
Advani says the September 24-terrorist attack on the Swaminarayan
temple in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is the handiwork of the LeT.
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September 24: Three police personnel
are taken hostage by LeT terrorists at a house in Gogibagh locality,
Srinagar, are rescued by SFs.
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September 21: Abu Talawat, LeT 'district
commander', and an his associate of his are killed at Chajlu village,
Mankote area of Poonch district.
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September 18: Al-Arifeen, an alleged
LeT front, claims responsibility for the killing of two NC leaders
in Srinagar.
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September 13: Three LeT terrorists
are killed in a cordon-and-search operation in the Kremhore forests,
Handwara.
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September 11: An unidentified spokesperson
of the Abu Qasim group of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) informs the local
media its cadre Abu Veqas had led the group that carried out the
assassination of State Law Minister Mushtaq Ahmed Lone during the
day in Kupwara.
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August 31: Three LeT terrorists
arrested in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, for allegedly planning to assassinate
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and some senior members of
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu organisation.
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August 28: Two LeT terrorists arrested
in Nizamuddin area, in Delhi.
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August 27: Four LeT infiltrators
killed in Mendhar sector.
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August 23: Suspected LeT terrorists
massacre 10 civilians, including three women, in two separate incidents
in Thana Mandi and Manajakote areas of Rajouri district.
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August 23: Suspected LeT terrorists
massacre 10 civilians, including three women, in two separate incidents
in Thana Mandi and Manjakote areas of Rajouri district.
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August 21: LeT 'deputy commander'
killed in Snehi Gali, Surankote.
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August 17: Two LeT terrorists, including
its district commander identified as Yusuf Bhai, resident of Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK), killed at Dooraswani in Lolab, Kupwara district.
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August 8: Three Pakistan-based LeT
terrorists killed at Rishiwari in Nowgam sector, Kupwara district.
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August 7: LeT terrorist arrested
from Mukerian, Hoshiarpur, in the Indian Punjab.
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August 4: Pakistani terrorist of
the LeT arrested from Kotla, under Khavda police station limits,
Kutchch district, Gujarat.
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August 3: Six LeT terrorists killed
in separate incidents in J&K.
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August 2: Lawyer representing Hafiz
Mohammed Saeed, the LeT chief, petitions to the Lahore High Court
seeking his client's release, saying that he had been held illegally
by the government.
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July 31: Federal and Provincial
governments say they had neither ordered the arrest of LeT chief
Hafiz Saeed, nor was he in their custody.
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July 28: LeT terrorist arrested
in Muda village, Gurdaspur district, Indian Punjab.
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July 20: Two LeT terrorists killed
in an encounter at Jabban near Nowgam, 18km from Banihal.
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July 19: Five LeT cadres killed
in an ambush in Nowgam sector.
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July 17: Two LeT foreign mercenaries
and a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel killed and four security
force personnel injured in an encounter at Dana Thappa, Sabjian
belt, Poonch district.
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July 16: Two LeT terrorists killed
in an encounter at Wattoo, Kulgam in south Kashmir.
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July 12: Seven suspected LeT foreign
mercenaries killed in the Bafliaz area of Surankote in Poonch district.
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July 6: Two Pakistan-based LeT cadres
killed in an encounter at Sofshali in Kodernag.
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June 23: Abdul, LeT terrorist arrested
in Ludhiana, Punjab, on June 18 confesses to his involvement in
the Kaluchak massacre near Jammu, in which 36 persons were killed.
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June 19: Delhi Police, quoting intelligence
sources, indicates that the LeT is planning to set up bases in the
hinterland to escape detection by security agencies. It has reportedly
identified industrial targets in cities like Mumbai, Ahemdabad,
Vadodra, Kolkata, Bokaro, Damodar valley, Durgapur, Rourkela and
Jamshedpur as potential targets.
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June 18: Abdul, Pakistani terrorist
of the LeT arrested in Ludhiana, Punjab.
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May 19: Four SF personnel killed
and seven others injured in LeT fidayeen attack on an SF camp at
Chasana in Udhampur district.
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May 15: LeT chief, Hafiz Mohammed
Saeed, arrested in Islamabad.
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May 9: Two LeT terrorists, including
an accused in the December 2000-Red Fort shootout case, killed in
an encounter near Humayun's Tomb in Delhi.
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May 7: Village Defence Committee
(VDC) members kill two hardcore terrorists of the LeT, including
a ‘district commander’, Abu Abdul Qazi alias Chotu Pakistani, after
an encounter at village Dammi, Lopara in the Dachchan area of Doda
district.
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May 3: All six Pakistan-based LeT
terrorists trapped in a cordon-and-search operation at Mohalla Sayeed
Kareem Sahib in Baramulla killed.
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May 1: Two foreign mercenaries of
the LeT killed in Seel Dhar, about 15 km from Mahore. Two more LeT
terrorists are killed in an encounter at Udarian village in Kalakote
of Rajouri district. Separately, two LeT terrorists are also killed
at Malgonipora in the Sopore-Rafiabad belt of north Kashmir.
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April 4: A ‘district commander’
of the LeT killed in an encounter at the Tatani Hall bridge near
Chambalwas in Doda district.
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April 1: Three LeT terrorists killed
during an encounter at Waripora in Baramulla district.
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March 31: Three LeT terrorists killed
in an encounter in Pattan, Baramulla district.
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March 30: The Lahore High Court
Review Board on Detentions in Pakistan rejects the Punjab government's
request for an extension in the detention of LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad
Saeed orders his release.
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March 17: Two terrorists, ‘fidayeen’
(suicide squad members), of the LeT killed in an encounter at Tawian
in Jammu.
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March 12: Two Pakistani mercenaries
of the LeT killed in an encounter at Watirgam, Baramulla.
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February 15: Nine foreign mercenaries,
including a ‘divisional commander’, of the LeT killed when SFs intercepted
the group at Basuni while attempting to infiltrate through the Mendhar
sector of the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district.
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February 6: Three LeT terrorists
killed at Keri in Rajouri district.
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February 2: Three Pakistani mercenaries
of the LeT killed at Kralgund, Kupwara district.
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February 1: Four Pakistani mercenaries
of the LeT killed during search operations at Snehi in Poonch district.
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January 29: Five suspected foreign
mercenaries of the LeT killed at Nagoon in Rajouri district.
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January 28: Three Pakistani mercenaries
of the LeT killed in an encounter at Dachi in Poonch.
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January 26: Afghan security forces
seize an LeT arms cache from a village in Zarkano district of Kunar
province, close to the border with Pakistan.
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January 22: Suspected LeT terrorists
kill Mohammed Najeeb alias Nadeem at Salwa in Poonch district. Nadeem,
a former SPO and an LeT activist, is suspected to have led a terrorist
group that massacred 11 civilians at Behra on January 20. Nadeem
was killed by his associates fearing that his arrest would implicate
the outfit.
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January 20: Suspected terrorists
of the LeT, including a former Special Police Officer (SPO) eight
children, a woman and two men, and injure three others at Behra
in Poonch. The killers are led by a native of the district, Mohammed
Najeeb alias Nadeem, a former SPO.
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January 18: Two hawala (illegal
money) operators arrested in Mumbai for allegedly facilitating the
funding of LeT.
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January 18: Three foreign mercenaries
of the LeT killed at Kither in Doda district.
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January 17: Three terrorists of
the LeT killed in an encounter at Bandipora in Baramulla.
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January 15: Delhi Police arrest
four J&K-based LeT terrorists in New Delhi and recovered eight
kilograms of RDX and Rs 35 lakh cash from them. The four had arrived
with plans to cause blasts at crowded places and disrupt normal
life in the run-up to the annual Republic Day Parade on January
26.
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January 13: Abdullah Sayyaf, LeT
spokesperson, in a faxed statement says, "Pakistan has no right
to ban LeT without any proof because it is struggling against the
Indian occupant forces in Kashmir for the liberation of the held
valley."
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January 12: LeT among five terrorist
organistaions proscribed by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf,
who announces the same during his televised address to the nation.
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January 8: Two suspected Pakistani
mercenaries of the LeT and an SF personnel killed in a fidayeen
(suicide) attack on their camp at Trehgam in Kupwara district.
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January 6: Three LeT terrorists
killed in an encounter in Kalaban forests, Poonch.
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January 4: Three suspected foreign
mercenaries of the LeT killed in an encounter at Malut near Darhal
in Rajouri district.
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January 2: Seven Pakistani mercenaries
of the LeT killed in a raid on their hideout in Hill Kaka, Poonch.
2001
December 30: Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, who
has just relinquished the post of LeT chief, arrested in Islamabad
for making inflammatory speeches and inciting people.
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December 27: Three SF personnel
and three LeT terrorists killed in an encounter in Telwani, Anantnag
district.
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December 26: The United States formally
categorises the LeT and the JeM on the State Department's list of
officially designated terrorist organisations.
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December 24: State Bank of Pakistan
(SBP) freezes LeT accounts.
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December 24: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed,
LeT Chief resigns shortly after Pakistan froze the outfit’s assets
in line with an earlier move by the United States. Maulana Abdul
Wahid of Poonch, J&K, named as new chief. Markaz al-Dawa wal-Irshad
(MDI), parent organisation of the LeT, rechristened as Jamaat al-Dawa.
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December 24: Three LeT terrorists
killed in an encounter at Dangiwacha, Baramulla.
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December 24: Two LeT terrorists,
including ‘district commander’ Saifullah Askari alias Owais, killed
in an encounter in Lawaypora village of Bandipore.
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December 20: Five foreign mercenaries
of the LeT killed in the Kirni sector, Poonch district. In another
encounter at Bhaderwah, Doda district, two LeT terrorists are killed.
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December 19: Two Pakistani mercenaries
of the LeT killed in an encounter at Bazipora, Baramulla district.
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December 18: Three LeT terrorists,
including two suspected Pakistani mercenaries, killed in an encounter
at Drusu, Baramulla district. In a separate encounter, three Pakistani
LeT mercenaries killed at Utarsoo in Anantnag district.
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December 16: LeT ‘operations commander’
killed in an encounter at Naini in Rajouri district.
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December 15: Four suspected Pakistani
mercenaries of the LeT, an SF personnel and two civilians killed
in an encounter at Takiabal in Baramulla district.
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December 14: LeT denies reports
of its involvement in the December 13-attack on the Indian Parliament
in which 12 persons, including six terrorists, were killed.
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December 13: Delhi police officials
suspect that the LeT provided logistical assistance to the JeM in
carrying out the attack on Parliament.
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October 22: Four LeT fidayeen attack
the Awantipora base of the Indian Air Force (IAF). All four were
killed and so were two civilians. Two SF personnel were injured.
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September 17: SF personnel sleeping
inside the basement of a building in Handwara, Kupwara, attacked
by two LeT fidayeen using grenades. Nine SF personnel and
one fidayeen were killed. The fidayeen manage to escape
after the attack.
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August 28: An attempt by LeT terrorists
to massacre 25 civilians foiled by SFs. The terrorists had abducted
the civilians from Chatru, Doda and ordered them to march to the
near-by forests. Consequent to securing information on the abductions,
SFs intercepted the group forcing the abductors to flee.
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August 23: Six LeT terrorists attack
Poonch police station. Seven police personnel are killed. The terrorists
managed to escape without any casualties. Two of these terrorists
were later tracked down and killed on August 26.
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August 20: Two LeT fidayeen
killed near Jammu airport. The two were suspected to be heading
to the airport to launch a suicide attack.
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August 7: Three suspected LeT fidayeen
open fire inside the Jammu Railway station. 12 persons, including
one fidayeen were killed. The other fidayeen managed
to escape after the attack.
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August 2: LeT terrorists massacre
15 civilians at Shroti Dhar, Doda.
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July 15: Four LeT terrorists attack
a SF base at Shahlal, Kupwara. Five SF personnel were killed and
eight others injured in the attack. The fidayeen manage to
escape after the attack.
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June 14: Eight Pakistani and Afghan
Lashkar mercenaries killed in an encounter at Shahpur, Rajouri
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April 14: LeT terrorists attack
on Army base at Lassipora, Kupwara. Six SF personnel were killed
and seven others injured in the attack. The fidayeen manage
to escape after the attack.
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March 28: Salahuddin, a 'divisional
commander' responsible for planning and executing over a dozen fidayeen
attacks, killed in an encounter at Pohru in Budgam district
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March 2: Fifteen SF personnel and
two civilians were killed and nine SF personnel injured when terrorists
ambush a SF party at Morha Chatru, Rajouri. The LeT later claims
responsibility for the attack saying that the attack was carried
out jointly with HM, JeM and the Hizb-e-Islami.
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February 9: A fidayeen squad
drawn from LeT and the Al Umar Mujahideen attack a police control
room in Srinagar. Eight personnel were killed. All the four fidayeen
were also killed during the incident.
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January 16: A six member LeT squad
storm Srinagar Airport. The attackers kill four SF personnel and
two civilians before other SF personnel kill all six.
2000
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December 22: LeT fidayeen launch
an attack within the army garrison at Red Fort in New Delhi. All
members of the squad escape after the attack. Three security force
personnel were killed. Police kill one of the fidayeen and
arrest another on December 26. The other four, involved in the attack
escaped.
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August 10: LeT terrorists perpetrate
two consecutive bomb attacks in Srinagar. Consequent to the lobbing
of a grenade and a gathering of security forces in the area, a car
bomb exploded. 12 SF personnel and two civilians, including a journalist
were killed and 42 others injured.
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August 1-2: LeT terrorists, in separate
attacks, massacre over 83 civilians. The massacres were carried
out in the districts of Kupwara, Doda and Anantnag on the eve of
talks held between HM and the Union Government.
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March 20: LeT terrorists along with
an HM terrorist massacre 35 Sikhs at Chattisinghpora, Anantnag.
The massacre is carried out on the eve of then US President, Bill
Clinton’s official visit to India.
1999
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December 30, 1999: LeT’s J&K
chief Abu Muwaih killed in an encounter at Nowgam, Rajouri.
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December 27: Two LeT terrorists
storm the J&K Police’s Special Operations Group Headquarters
in Srinagar. Twelve SF personnel including an officer and the two
terrorists were killed.
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November 3: LeT terrorists, including
the Srinagar ‘district commander’ launch an attack on the Army headquarters
complex in Badamibagh. They first target a SF vehicle passing by,
enter the complex and storm the office of the Public Relations Officer
and kill Major Pushotamman. They then fortify themselves within
the complex and attack personnel. At the end of the attack, 10,
including the two attacking terrorists are killed.
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October 5: A LeT 'deputy commander'
in J&K, Pale Khan is killed in an encounter in Rajouri.
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July 19, 1999: LeT terrorists massacre
15 Hindus at Layata, Doda
1998
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August 8: LeT terrorists massacre
thirty-five labourers in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh
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June 19: LeT terrorists massacre
25 Hindus in Chapnari, Doda
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April 18: LeT terrorists massacre
27 Hindus at Prankote, Doda
1997
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June 24: LeT terrorists massacre
eight Hindus in Swari, Rajouri
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January 25-26: In separate attacks,
LeT terrorists massacre 17 Hindus in Sumber, Doda and 25 Kashmiri
pandits in Wundhama, Srinagar
1996
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