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US fighter jets resumed raids over the Afghan capital early in the morning on Saturday (IST) after a temporary halt on Friday -- the Muslim holy day -- residents said. (Full Story)
Earlier, Friday evening was a surprise for the residents of the much-pounded Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad, as there were no screaming jets in the sky, with the US deciding to go slow on the air campaign for Friday calling it 'a holy day for Muslims around the world'. (Full Story).
Meanwhile, Britain and US in a concerted action banned Jaish-e-Mohammed, and a slew of other organisations considered to be involved in terrorist operations (Full Story). India, which had been vociferously demanding such a ban, reacted cautiously (Full Story).
In US, an already jittery public got another scare, when a fourth anthrax case was discovered in New York (Full Story). This was enough to set the FBI cracking to open a probe into the series of anthrax cases coming to light after the September 11 terror attack (Full Story).
Earlier in the day, even as the US-led forces kept up their relentless pounding of Kabul on Friday morning (Full Story), US President George W Bush warned Americans to be ready for a long haul, while FBI induced a note of caution asking US citizens to be on alert for possible terror attacks (Full Story).
Meanwhile, Taleban kept up its eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with US, refusing yet again the American demand to hand over Osama bin Laden. (Full Story).
In Pakistan, the pitch of anti-US protests went up a notch higher, with violent agitators venting their spleen at the police, and setting fire to a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, among numerous vehicles and buildings. (Full Story). The Islamic parties also seemed to preparing a fiery welcome for the US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and warned him that he wasn't welcome to visit Pakistan (Full Story), while the US said that Powell will ask Pakistan to stop supporting terrorists in Kashmir (Full Story).
While Pakistan painted a bleak picture of Afghanistan and said prospects of peace remained dim in the war torn country (Full Story), Northern Alliance claimed that Pakistan was supplying arms, ammunition and even army officers to help the Taleban in its fight against the US (Full Story)
Meanwhile, Pakistan took digs at traditional rivals India, and demanded that the UN resolutions on Kashmir should be implemented (Full Story), and almost immediately US came out with a statement that Kashmir was the most dangerous place in the world (Full Story)
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