In its issues of February 13,1995, and March 27,1995, the"News" of Pakistan had carried two detailed investigative reports byKamran Khan, a well-known Pakistani journalist, on an international terroristnetwork consisting of the HUM (then known as the Harkat-ul-Ansar) and otherIslamic terrorist organisations operating from Pakistani territory with theknowledge and connivance of the Pakistani authorities. He reported thatabout 200 HUM members from Pakistan had died in clashes with the Indian securityforces in J & K since 1991 and that its cadres were also active with the AbuSayyaf group in Southern Philippines and with the terrorists in Chechnya. He also brought out the links of these organisations with Ramzi Yousuf, nowundergoing imprisonment in the US for his role in the New York World TradeCentre bombing in February, 1993, and their role in the explosion at a holyshrine at Mashhad in Iran on June 20,1994, killing 70 people and in trainingSaudi fundamentalist elements opposed to the ruling family.