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Lashkar threatens attacks on PM's office: AFP

The hardline Lashkar-e-Tayiba threatened on Tuesday a suicide attack against the offices of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi.

"Our mujahideen, Allah willing, will storm Vajpayee's office and carry out a fidayeen (suicide) attack there," the Pakistan-based group said in a one-page Urdu press release.

The threat came after a militant suicide bomber triggered a car bomb outside the army headquarters in Srinagar on Monday, killing 10 people.

It also followed an attack on Friday night by Lashkar militants on the historic Red Fort in the heart of New Delhi.

"If our cadres can force an entry into Red Fort, it will not be an uphill task to barge into Vajpayee's office," the Lashkar statement said.

The LeT was among the first militant groups to reject the unilateral ceasefire in Kashmir which came into force at midnight November 27.

"The government should leave the politics of ceasefire and withdraw its troops from Kashmir," the Lashkar release said.

"If India fails to withdraw its troops we will intensify our fidayeen attacks within India and force it to pull out its troops," it added.

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