• Dutch PM meets Pervez (28k, 56k)

Biggest military contract for Lockheed
Washington, October 27
Lockheed Martin won the biggest military contract ever to develop the future Joint Strike Fighter warplane, which analysts said could be worth up to $ 400 billion over several decades.

Army out in Maharashtra town
Toll in police firing on anti-US protesters rises to 7
Malegaon, October 27
The Army was out in tensed Malegaon today, a day after the police opened fire on violent anti-US protesters angry at American strikes on Afghanistan. The death toll from yesterday’s police firing has reached seven.

Blasts rock valley, DSP among 25 killed
Srinagar, October 27
A string of grenade attacks and selective killings have left 25 persons including four members of a family, dead and 22 others, five of them security personnel, wounded in the past 24 hours, in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said today.

Badal-Talwandi rift persists
Probe into incidents of sacrilege
Chandigarh, October 27
Punjab Chief Minister and SAD President Parkash Singh Badal and the SGPC chief Jagdev Singh Talwandi today continued to differ on the holding of a probe into the incidents of sacrilege relating to the Baba Piara Singh Bhaniara case.

Troops celebrate ’47 landing as valley observes bandh Jammu, October 27 While the troops celebrated the landing of the Indian Army in Kashmir on this day in October, 1947, to repulse the invasion of Pakistani tribesmen, the separatists and the militants registered their protest against the “landing.” A Border Security Force trooper stands guard in a deserted street during a strike in Srinagar on Saturday. Shops and businesses were closed in the summer capital on Saturday due to a strike called by the All-Party Hurriyat Conference. — Reuters photo