80 armed militants ready to enter Valley
In the run up to US President Barack Obama’s visit to India, security agencies have got information that Pakistan-based militant outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jaish-e- Mohammad and Al Badr are planning to unleash violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Nearly 80 militants armed with sophisticated weapons are waiting across the Line of
Control to sneak into the Valley to create trouble in the run up to Obama’s visit to the country in November, a senior official said. Obama will arrive in India on November 6 on a three-day visit. The government has also enhanced security in Chabad houses or Jewish centres located in different parts of the country as these religious places continue to be vulnerable as terrorist targets.
Pakistani-American LeT terrorist David Headley had told the National Investigation Agency officials during his interrogation that he had done recce of Chabad houses in Goa, Pushkar, Pune and the crowded Paharganj area in Delhi. The Chabad house in Mumbai was one of the targets during the 26/11 terrorist attack. “The next ten days are crucial. We have information that the militants will try to engage in violence in the run up to the US President’s visit,” a government official said. “Militants also may try to attack security forces and public properties before or during the shift of government machinery from Srinagar to Jammu, the winter capital of the state, on October 4 and 5,” the official said.
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Obama to use teleprompter
age correspondent
New Delhi
Oct. 22: US President Barack Obama will speak for 20 minutes when he addresses MPs at the historic Central Hall at the Parliament House on November eight. A teleprompter will be in use for the first time in his address.
They said this will be the first time that such a facility will be arranged in the Central Hall.
Mr Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other President has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.
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