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COVER STORY: INDIA'S RESPONSE
TERRORIST ATTACKS ON INDIA
December 22, 2000: Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) terrorists strike at the army garrison in the Red Fort-the symbol
of Independent India- gunning down two soldiers and a civilian. One of
the terrorists is later killed by the police.
 March
20, 2000: Dressed as Indian Army soldiers, LeT terrorists massacre
35 Sikhs in Chithisingh Pora in Kashmir, hours before the visit of the
then US president Bill Clinton. This is the first time Sikhs are made
targets.
 December
24, 1999: IA flight with 155 passengers on board is hijacked by jehadis
from Kathmandu and taken to Kandahar. Ordeal ends on December 31 with
three terrorists swapped for the passengers. One of the passengers, Rupin
Katyal, is killed by the hijackers.
November 3, 1999: LeT suicide squads
storm into the high-security 15 Corps headquarters at Badamibagh Cantonment
in Srinagar. Six army personnel, including public relations officer Major
P. Purushottam, are killed in the attack.
 May
11, 1995: Terrorists led by Afghan commander Mast Gul burn down Sufi
shrine at Charar-e-Sharif in Kashmir after a fire-fight with the army.
March 12,1993: More than 300 persons
die and another 1,500 are injured in one day in the Bombay serial bomb
blasts. The culprits-Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon-are currently living
in Karachi.
 June
23, 1985: Sikh terrorists blow Air-India's jumbo Kanishka in mid-air.
All 329 passengers are killed in the crash.
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