BSF fires into Pakistan after rocket attack (Third Lead)

September 13th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Border Security Force (BSF) personnel Sunday found another rocket shell in the fields near a village in this district of Punjab, raising the number of rockets fired from Pakistan into India in the last 40 hours to five, officials said. "During our search operation, our officials have found another rocket today (Sunday).

September 13th, 2009 DAHLEKE - With another rocket shell being found in the fields of Dahleke village near the India-Pakistan border on Sunday, the total number of rocket shells discovered so far on the Indian side of the border has reached five. The rocket has created about four feet deep crater in the field.

September 12th, 2009 KACHYE DHANOAE - The Border Security Force (BSF) retaliated with machine gun fire after Pakistan fired three rockets inside the Indian territory on Friday night. Last night between 10 and 11 p.m., the BSF said that at least two rocket were fired into the Indian side of the Wagah border.

September 12th, 2009 AMRITSAR - An unexploded rocket shell was found in fields of an Indian border village near here late Saturday evening - a day after three rockets from Pakistan exploded in this Punjab district, an official said. There is a possibility that this rocket, which landed in the fields of Pul Kanjari village, was fired from the Pakistan side on Saturday morning.

September 12th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Three rockets fired in quick succession from Pakistan exploded near a village in India's Amritsar district, triggering retaliatory gunfire by Indian border guards, officials said Saturday as angry villagers from the region held protests. The 107 MM rockets landed in the fields of Pul Kanjari area in Punjab with a deafening roar, police officials and residents said.

September 11th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Border Security Force (BSF) troopers fired from machine-guns into Pakistan after rockets were fired into Indian territory in the Amritsar sector from across the border Friday night. BSF officials Saturday morning launched an operation to find if any more rockets were fired into the Indian side near the Attari joint check post from across the barbed-wire fencing border between both countries.

August 20th, 2009 KABUL - A rocket fired by militants Thursday morning slammed next to a polling booth in Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan, police said. "The rocket attack happened minutes after the beginning of the vote and forced the voters to run away but after a while they came to the line and resumed voting," police chief of Ghazni province Khayal Baz Shirzoi told Xinhua.

August 11th, 2009 2 killed in rocket attack in northwest PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A barrage of rockets hit a residential area of Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city in a brazen pre-dawn attack Tuesday, killing two civilians and wounding 10 others, police said. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the rocket assault, but the city is close to the lawless tribal areas where Taliban militants are based.

July 10th, 2009 ATTARI - Border Security Force (BSF) officials Friday criticised Pakistan's laxity in investigating the July 4 rocket attack on Indian territory and their failure to trace the guilty, saying their counterparts were not taking these attacks seriously and again indulging in a "blame game". Pakistan Rangers Thursday blamed India for firing the third rocket towards Pakistan that fell inside their territory, close to Indian village Pul Kanjari.

July 10th, 2009 ATTARI - Border Security Force (BSF) officials late Friday evening discovered the splinters of another rocket in the paddy fields outside Kaonke village in Attari area. They said it could have been fired along with the three other rockets from Pakistan on July 4.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Wednesday handed over to Pakistan a new dossier of evidence on the Mumbai terrorist attack, an official statement said. 'MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) have today handed over to the Pakistani High Commission additional information and details relating to the Mumbai terror attack sought by Pakistan,' it said.

March 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A rocket fired by Islamist militants at a paramilitary base in a Pakistani border town killed at least 10 people and wounded 32, an official said Friday. The rocket attack was launched Thursday night on a camp of the Frontier Corps paramilitary force based in the remote town of Landi Kotal, 10 km from the Afghan frontier, said Nasir Khan, a local administrator.

March 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The 'enemies of Pakistan' who want to 'destabilise' the country were behind Tuesday's Lahore terror strike that claimed the lives of eight people and left six Sri Lankan cricketers injured, Interior Minister Rehman Malik says. 'Enemies of Pakistan who want to destabilise this country were responsible for the attack,' Malik told reporters.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party Tuesday said the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore was the result of the 'space' that Pakistan has been conceding to terrorists and the international community must build pressure on Pakistan to dismantle the terror infrastructure on its soil. 'The attack on Sri Lankan cricketers makes it evident that it is the result of the space that Pakistan has been conceding to terrorists and hard-liners.

February 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Twelve tribesmen were killed Monday when a house was hit by rocket shells in northwest Pakistan, Dawn TV channel reported.