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November 2002 - India Special Weapons News

  • Transcript: U.S. Ambassador Outlines the Growing Strength of U.S.-India Ties Washington File 29 Nov 2002 -- Addressing the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata on November 27, U.S. Ambassador Robert Blackwill underscored the positive transformation in U.S.-India relations over the past two years
  • KASHMIR / TEMPLE ATTACK VOA 25 Nov 2002 -- In India's Jammu and Kashmir State, security has been stepped-up in Jammu City following Sunday's attack on two Hindu temples that killed 13 people, including 10 civilians. More than 50 people were injured in the attacks. Police have regained control of the temples. The Indian government has linked the latest violence to the release of a hard-line Islamic militant leader in Pakistan and has vowed to end what it calls "cross border terrorism" from Pakistan
  • KASHMIR/TEMPLE ATTACK VOA 24 Nov 2002 -- In India's Jammu and Kashmir state, suspected Islamic militants have stormed a Hindu temple, killing 10-people and injuring 50-others. The attack sparked a fierce gunbattle between security forces and the gunmen in the state's winter capital
  • INDIA/KASHMIR VOA 23 Nov 2002 -- In Indian Kashmir, nine people including five soldiers have been killed and at least twenty others injured in an attack by suspected Muslim militants. It is the second attack targeting security forces in the last two days in the region
  • INDIA PAKISTAN PEACE VOA 08 Nov 2002 -- There are still nearly one million troops massed on the frontier separating nuclear powers India and Pakistan. However, a general cooling of tensions between the two countries has prompted at least a partial withdrawal of troops from the border. Surprising results in fresh elections in Kashmir and Pakistan have added a new dimension to the prospect of peace in South Asia
  • INDIA / PAKISTAN VOA 07 Nov 2002 -- India's army chief says infiltration of Islamic militants from Pakistani territory into Indian Kashmir dropped by more than half this year. But the issue of crossborder infiltration continues to cloud relations between the two South Asian rivals
  • INDIAN KASHMIR/GOVT VOA 02 Nov 2002 -- A new chief minister has been sworn into office in Indian Kashmir amid a wave of violence by suspected Islamic militants. In separate attacks, a ruling party political leader was killed, and the chief minister's home was attacked, hours before he took office. Meanwhile Indian defense officials say soldiers killed 12 suspected Islamic guerrillas trying to enter Kashmir.



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