1.   Opponents have launched a counter offensive that includes advertisements, public forums and intense lobbying efforts, all aimed at publicizing alleged shortcomings of the approach.

2.   Large-scale clashes resumed a month later when the PUK launched a counter offensive, reportedly with the help of Iran.

3.   Meanwhile an opposition spokesman, who also was contacted by satellite telephone at his headquarters in northern Afghanistan, said his troops have launched a counter offensive.

4.   He said two of the attackers were also killed in a counter offensive.

5.   However, the ministry did not give figures for the casualties in the pre-dawn LTTE counter offensive.

6.   A local defence source said that an unspecified number of rebels were also killed or wounded in the counter offensive.

7.   But the south said it had retaken the positions in a counter offensive.

8.   The military denied the allegation and said artillery guns were not used in the counter offensive.

9.   The pro-Rabbani forces in a counter offensive killed four Uzbek troops, it said.

10.   The Tigers destroyed the telecommunications tower at Kilinochchi on Friday, a day after their major counter offensive failed to stop the army onslaught, the defence ministry said.