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WASHINGTON: Federal authorities on Monday arrested a prominent US-based pro-Pakistan activist associated with the Kashmiri separatist movement, accusing him of funneling money from the Pakistani spy agency ISI to lobby US decision-makers. In the process, the Obama administration's law enforcement brigade also blew open the Pakistan and its spy agency's two-decade long subversion of the so-called Kashmir cause. The FBI swooped down on the Virginia residence of Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, a well-known representative of Kashmiri separatists in the US and detained him on charges of ''participating in a long-term conspiracy to act as agents of the Pakistani government in...

Security forces on Thursday killed four suspected Muslim militants in India-administered Kashmir while another militant was killed while planting an explosive device in the state, police said. Senior police official Basant Rath said Abu Salim, a divisional commander of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) militant group and three other rebels were killed in a gun battle in the southern Udhampur district. "Following a tip-off, the army raided the area in the early hours of Thursday and spotted the militants. Four rebels were killed but the army suffered no losses," Rath said. The firefight took place in Deeda village, 240 kilometres from the...

<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf yesterday condemned acts of terrorism, but exempted Kashmiris and Palestinians from reproach, saying their struggles against oppression is justified by U.N. Security Council resolutions.</p> <p>Speaking at an antiterrorism conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly debate beginning today, Gen. Musharraf told a dozen world leaders and foreign ministers the United Nations must find a definition of terrorism that does not include such movements, which "cannot be equated with terrorism."</p>

Terror camps were temporarily shifted under US pressure : Ultra SRINAGAR, Aug 22: An arrested Hizbul Mujahideen militant today said all the training camps in Pakistan are "operational" at their original places after being temporarily shifted following "US pressure" last year. "All the training camps in Pakistan were still operational. During the heightened tension between India and Pakistan and under US pressure most of the camps were shifted", the militant Shahbaz Ahmad Bhat, said when he was presented before the media after his arrest by BSF yesterday. Three base camps namely BOI, Garhi Habibullah and Mansera Jungles were shifted to...

JAMMU, Aug 11: Six army soldiers and five militants including a ‘commander’ of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit were killed while four jawans were injured and a militant of Hizbul Mujahideen was captured in separate incidents across the region overnight. Four army jawans and a militant were killed in a fierce encounter at village Daneka in Kalsian area in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district this afternoon, official sources said. They said the operation took place when an army team was ambushed by a big group of militants. Other militants escaped during an hour long exchange of gun fighting. Enforcement of troops has...