Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Mulla Zaeef has said Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar have survived the US attacks.  (28k, 56k)

Taliban defiant, Laden alive
Islamabad, October 8
The Taliban’s Ambassador to Pakistan stood defiant today, saying that US attacks would fail to browbeat Afghan people ready to sacrifice all for honour, and said Osama bin Laden was alive and in the country.

Pervez sends ISI chief packing
Washington, October 8
In a bid to prevent a possible challenge to his regime, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has purged two key intelligence and military officers reportedly sympathetic to Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban militia.

Musharraf speaks to Vajpayee
New Delhi, October 8
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf tonight spoke to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and said the two countries should not do anything to heighten tension in the region.

Northern Command on high alert
Jammu, October 8
Soon after the American bombers rained missiles on Afghanistan, the Northern Command was put on high alert at the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir.

• CCS takes stock of security

• Security around US Embassy up

118 die in Milan air crash
Milan, October 8
At least 118 persons died today when a Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) aircraft rammed into an airport hangar after colliding with a small plane in heavy fog at Milan’s Linate airport, the Italian authorities said.

ISI “masterminded” Sept 11 attacks London, October 8 Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence was aware of the terrorists’ plan to attack the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, according to a senior Pakistani leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal. He is the president of the Baluchistan National Party and now living in exile in London. Baluchistan National Party  President Sardar Attaullah Mengal said the Inter Services Intelligence in Pakistan was the brain behind the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. (28k, 56k)