December 19, 2002

Kashmiri rebels killed two girls and a women for refusing to wear the veil.

In Karachi, Pakistan, a rebel bomb factory exploded, killing five people. One of the dead was later identified as Asif Ramzi, who was wanted in connection with the killing of an American reporter last year. Ramzi had been involved with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni Islamic radical group that directed most of it's violence against Shia Moslems.