1.   Harkat ul-Ansar, a pro-Pakistan militant outfit, claimed responsibility for the attack and the killing of five soldiers on Friday.

2.   Nearly a dozen militant outfits fought for a separate Sikh state in Punjab that they would call Khalistan, or Land of Pure.

3.   That was the beginning and she handled communications for a militant outfit.

4.   The militant outfit, claiming to represent landless peasants, had called for an election boycott and had threatened to disrupt voting.

5.   The three belonged to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a Pakistan-based Islamic militant outfit, but their identities were yet to be established, Rana said.

6.   UNI said a militant outfit, the National Liberation Front of Tripura, was suspected to be involved in the attack.

7.   Hayat said his government had no links with the two militant outfits and vowed to seal any of their offices in the Pakistani zone of the divided Himalayan region.

8.   He said there were two types of training camps -- smaller ones operated by particular militant outfits and larger ones that he alleged were organized by Pakistani intelligence.

9.   In Kulgam, south of here, a member of the pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit died in internecine warfare.

10.   Indian officials believe Al-Faran is linked to the Harkat-ul-Ansar militant outfit, comprising mainly Afghan guerrillas.