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4 Jaish ultras, NC leader shot Srinagar, October 4 A block president of the NC, Mohammad Abdullah Najar, was shot dead by militants at Chandhara in Pulwama district today. Najar was returning home when militants opened fire at him from close range, killing him instantly, he said. Troops killed a JeM Militant, Mohammad Jamal, in an encounter in the forests of Wuchan in Kupwara today, the spokesman said adding some arms and ammunition were also seized. Three JeM Militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces in the Bandipora area of Baramula district last evening, official sources said. The militants were hiding in a nullah when they were confronted by search parties of the Army and the Special Operations group of the local police, they said. The police recovered bodies of Nazir Ahmad Tantray and Ashiq Hussain Tantray, near tehsil office Sogam in Kupwara today, the police spokesman said adding the residents of Dudpora-Lolab had been kidnapped by suspected militants from their houses during the preceding night and slain. The Special Operations Group and CRPF apprehended a Hizb-ul Mujahideen militant Gulzar Ahmad Shah along with 3 kg of explosives from the Batapora-Ganderbal area of Srinagar yesterday, he said. The body of an unidentified person was recovered by the police from the Watergam area of Baramula today, official sources said. At least three soldiers were killed when an improvised explosive device planted by militants at Green Park at forward post Nuranda exploded last evening. Jamait-ul-Mujahideen claimed the responsibility for the blast. Personnel of the CRPF and the Special Operation Group killed a Hizb-ul Mujahideen militant Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh at Dangerpora in the central Kashmir district of Badgam last night. JAMMU: At least eight militants were killed by the security forces in three separate encounters in Banihal and Poonch district and foiled a major plan of the rebels to carry out carnage in the areas. Defence Ministry reports said in an encounter in the Banihal forest belt three militants were killed and large quantities of arms and ammunition were seized. In two separate encounters in Poonch district five militants were eliminated and large quantities of explosives and weapons were seized. Three of them were spotted while entering the Indian territory.  |
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Canada blacklists Jaish-e-Mohammad Toronto, October 4 Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin, announcing the list of organisations and individuals on whom substantial financial curbs have been placed, said yesterday that the new regulations prohibited Canadians from raising funds for them. “We will destroy (the terrorists’) capacity to wield military might against innocent people. We are going to rip from their grasp the capacity to finance that violence,” Mr Martin said. Under the new regulations, individuals or groups who defy these norms face up to five years in prison. Rita Tremblay, an Indo-Canadian head of the Political Science Department at Montreal’s McGill University, who recently returned from Pakistan, said the Harkat had a very large following and was on the top of the Pakistan-based organisations committing acts of terror in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Jaish-e-Mohammad has been implicated in the terrorist bombing outside the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly building in which 38 persons were killed and more than 60 injured. The group had claimed responsibility for the October 1 blast, but subsequently denied having a hand in it. Until now, Canada had no prohibition on raising money for terrorist groups. The new sanctions, called an interim measure, form part of the regulations under the Canada’s Untied Nations Act. Ottawa is, however, drafting a comprehensive anti-terrorism Bill, that will be tabled in the House of Commons within a couple of weeks to empower the government to seize funds of these terrorist organisations and groups. So far, Canada has been reticent in formulating any list of terrorist groups and individuals and in fact organisations that are termed terrorists in other countries were not barred from raising funds in the country. There are affiliates of LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) raising funds in the country. Even Babbar Khalsa, a Sikh separatist outfit, had a charitable status in Canada till recently. Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley, who is now the head of a new anti-terrorism Cabinet committee, said his main worry was not that the list (of terrorist organisations) could mistakenly include legitimate organisations but rather that it would not sweep up enough terrorist groups.
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