Four suspected Inter-Services Intelligence agents were on Sunday picked up by the police near L R Pally village of Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh.
According to the latest Status Paper on Internal Security brought out by the MHA, these outfits are 'well organised, interlinked, and have the latest hardware and communication equipment'. The 'current strategy' of terrorist groups is to recruit and train local modules and activate them when required, maintain flow of finances to sustain terror network and supply hardware through land and sea routes.
The police seized documents and computer floppies indicating his alledged links with the Paksitani ISI.
The arrest of two armymen on the charge of spying for Pakistan has set off an alarm in the government with Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee saying on Monday that the Inter-Services Intelligence is trying to infiltrate and subvert the armed forces.
Mulford said the US and India were together in fight against terrorism and that Washington had offered its services in investigations into the Mumbai bombings, particularly in forensic examinations.
The Pakistan Foreign Office had immediately rejected Mumbai Police's claim, which, it said, was "unsubstantiated" and "baseless".
The conspiracy was hatched in Mumbai and adjoining areas after taking training in Bahawalpur in Pakistan.
The meeting was facilitated by Pakistan's spy agency -- the ISI
The ISI has achieved their desired strategic depth by creating a Pushtunistan across Af-Pak that they control. The US and India can now look forward to more 9/11s and 26/11s.
Rajasthan police arrested a man in Jaipur on Monday for allegedly working as an agent of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.
The Assam police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a hardcore operative of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence in a special operation carried out in a Guwahati locality on Friday night.
Small terrorist outfits like the Al-Barq get Rs 700,000 per month while larger organisations like the Hizbul Mujahideen receive nearly Rs 5 million, a report submitted to the government says.
Though the main aim of both the LeT and the Inter-Services Intelligence was to strike at India and create maximum destruction, under no circumstances did they want a Pakistan link cropping up in the end.
Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence has been trying to engineer trouble in Punjab for the last twenty years, former director general of Punjab Police Kanwar Pal Singh Gill told rediff.com in an exclusive interview on Monday. I am surprised that the bomb attack has come late. Knowing the Punjab militants, I was expecting it soon after the judgement about former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's murder case," he said.
The minister told Telegu Desam Party member C Ramachandraiah that "if the terrorists are against India today, they are equally against Pakistani establishment." \n\n
The ISI had forged ties with jihadi groups throughout the 1980s when the CIA used it to support the Mujahideen against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan and when it saw an opportunity in 1989 to weaken India by creating trouble in Jammu and Kashmir, the outfit's terrorists were infiltrated into India, the newspaper reported.
After his pledge to the Supreme Court to quit as army chief if re-elected as president, Pervez Musharraf on Friday carried out a major reshuffle of top Pakistan army commanders and appointed a new Inter Services Intelligence chief.
The opposition party was reacting after BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia asked Ansari and the Congress to come clean on the claims of Pakistani journalist Nusrat Mirza that he had visited India five times during the Congress-led UPA rule and passed on sensitive information collected here to his country's spy agency ISI.
Former Vice President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday refuted the allegation that he had invited to India a Pakistani journalist who has claimed to have spied for Inter-Services Intelligence, and said a 'litany of falsehood' has been unleashed against him in sections of media and by a Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that the Inter Services Intelligence is not a law enforcement agency or a customs authority and cannot take anyone into custody under the country's laws.
According to police sources in Hyderabad, Quadri, who runs a watch repair shop, was in constant touch with Shahed alias Bilal, the alleged mastermind behind the masjid blasts.
During the raid, some incriminating documents and audiocassettes, containing speeches of extremists, were recovered from him, police added.
Al Qaeda not only looks upon India as a close associate of the US similar to the UK, but also as providing favourable conditions for its overseas operations directed against US nationals and interests in Indian territory.
STF sleuths recovered one AK-47 rifle, a Chinese pistol, about 9 kg of RDX, besides a large quantity of ammunition from their possession.
'A psychological moment will be created when the Kashmiris will say they can't live with either India or Pakistan. At that time, America will step in and suggest a democratic solution to Kashmir,' former ISI chief Hamid Gul tells Sheela Bhatt.
'It is important for India that the world also recognises ISI as an organisation that promotes terrorism. If this does not happen the problem will remain,' he said.
A small number of Indian youths have joined Islamic State after travelling to Iraq and Syria while a certain number of sympathisers of the dreaded terror outfit are under surveillance by security agencies.
He was whisked away to an undisclosed destination where he was being questioned.
Ghulam alias Raja Mohideen, editor of Kashmir Press Service, was picked up by the police from Delhi.
Bangladesh has given an assurance in this regard, he said.
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