ULFA threatens kin of Kargil soldiers

KARGIL, July 29: Lieutenant Tarun Saikia's parents and friends in Assam think he is a trainee bank manager in State Bank of India in Jammu. And comrades-in-arms of Captain Jintu Gogoi say his neighbours were surprised back home in Assam when news came that he had died fighting in Kargil. They did now know he was in the Army. The brave Assamese soldiers fighting fearlessly in the icy wastelands north of Zoji La are haunted by fear of a different kind. They have to worry about the safety of their families back in Assam. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has threatened all Assamese soldiers fighting in Kargil to return home and not fight for India. Or else, they would have to face the consequences.