Pakistan's latest claim -- about the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihadi planning the terror attacks in Mumbai -- may have a boomerang effect. Sabahuddin Ahmed has revealed that the HuJI carries out its operations with the patronage of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba. In his confessional statement, Sabahuddin clearly states that Lashkar operatives use the porous Bangladesh border whenever they are fleeing.
At present, India's focus has been on making the US co-operate against the activities of the anti-India terrorist groups and their infrastructure in Pakistani territory. This should continue, but this should not be the only subject of co-operation between the two countries. It is necessary to expand it to cover likely threats to Pakistan's nuclear establishments.
Britain has now emerged as the "terror capital of the West" as whenever a major terrorist attack is attempted, suspicion swings on this country, a media report said on Sunday.
The damaged drone was recovered in Mahawa village based on the information given by one of the four people the state police arrested on Sunday.
The laptop, handed over by the Army after a week of Purohit's arrest, was examined at a forensic laboratory during which, the probe agencies, claimed that he was often visiting anti-Muslim and jihadi websites, sources attached with the investigations said. But, the investigators did not get details about the composition about the saffron outfit -- Abhinav Bharat -- whose cadres are alleged to be behind the blast in Malegaon on September 29 which they were looking for.
The controversy started a Twitter firestorm with many demanded the Ola to block his account. However, there were many who supported the man's 'right to choose'.
The US president said that there is a lot of "dislike" (between India and Pakistan).
The security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal from a commando-style attack by jihadi terrorists operating inside Pakistan is a question which should be worrying security experts all over the world.
'Crores are spent on Martyrs Day and on lighting candles, but people don't respect living soldiers who are heroes.'
A sessions court in Hyderabad acquitted 21 youth on Wednesday, who were booked on charges of waging war against the state and viewing jihadi material.
While there is so far no specific evidence that these two groups are planning to stage Olympics-related incidents, the possibility of such incidents has to be factored in any security plan for the Olympics. The possibilities are incidents not involving the use of violence by the pro-Western Uighurs and incidents amounting to acts of terrorism by pro-Al Qaeda Uighurs.
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the National Investigative Agency bill. An independent body of judicial experts to be set up to review cases to be tried under the amended Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Home Minister P Chidambaram said. Chidambaram also said that he has convened a meeting of chief ministers on January 6 to discuss terrorism.
'Definitely, they are going to attempt this, not only in Kashmir but elsewhere, maybe in the Jammu area and beyond.' 'They would want to expand the battle space and the conflict area.'
"Given that Pakistan has totally rejected all requests of the government, we expect the government to assess the stern steps that are required to ensure that Pakistan desists from pursuing jihadi terrorism. As a nationalist party, the BJP shall stand by the government in the effective steps it takes in this regard," Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh said told media persons.
Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor said on Tuesday there is no "trace" of Taliban in the country amid reports some of these elements have infiltrated but women are being "trained" on the other side of the Line of Control to cross over for terror acts.
The siege of Mumbai is over. Now the hand-wringing and the finger-pointing begins -- a dangerous period that needs desperately to be turned to advantage, regionally and internationally.
Various theories are being attached to the constant targetting of India's north eastern states. Intelligence Bureau officials confirm that the mantle of infiltrating into the north eastern states is in the hands of the Bangladesh-based Director General of Forces Intelligence.
According to the IB, SIMI has recruited nearly 25,000 members across the country, of which 6,000 were recruited through the new agency which has come in handy since the crackdown by security agencies and their constant monitoring had made things difficult for the SIMI cadres.
Jihadi terrorism emanating from the sanctuaries in Pakistani territory has assumed a pan-subcontinental dimension equally threatening all the countries of the subcontinent -- Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. It is time these countries constitute a common counter-terrorism brains trust to deal with this threat jointly, says B Raman
With the needle of suspicion pointing to Bangladesh-based militant group Harkatul Jihadi Islamia (HUJI), 42 suspected Bangladeshis were arrested in Jaipur district on the charge of staying illegally.
Shaheen Force, the women's wing of the banned Student's Islamic Movement of India, is spreading its tentacles all over India. SIMI general secretary Safdar Nagori and his brother Qamruddin, who were recently arrested in Indore, revealed this chilling fact during their interrogation. The main task of the Shaheen Force -- which is most active in Hyderabad is to brainwash children into taking up the jihadi path. These women had allegedly roughed up cops in Hyderabad.
Pakistan's holy trinity -- its government, military establishment and the ISI -- differ on Pakistan's domestic and foreign policy issues. So when India talks to Pakistan's political leadership it can't be sure that the promises can be delivered, says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
The prosecution in the Mumbai terror attacks case on Thursday appealed to the trial court to modify the charge framed by it on the issue of 'waging war against the nation' by arguing that one of the objectives of the conspiracy was to separate Jammu and Kashmir from India. The appeal comes in the wake of the charges framed excluding the prosecution's point that the Mumbai carnage was part of a Jihadi plan to liberate Kashmir.
'Today, there is pervasive fear in society; an uncertainty of what might happen.' 'This has forced Muslims to shrink further into mental ghettos, with many considering extreme measures like pretending to change their identity.'
Several theories but no evidence yet. This is the status of the investigations into the twin blasts at Hyderabad exactly a year back. When the twin blasts rocked Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat in Hyderabad, it was largely believed that the investigations would be taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigations, which was already looking into the Mecca Masjid blasts. However that did not happen.
"We searched the warehouse on Tuesday night and found the bag which contained one pistol, two live bullets, one air pistol, a seven inch long pipe bomb and 19 compact discs and DVDs," Chudasama said.
It is believed that terror outfits prefer youth with a religious bent to take up the path of jihad. However, a 50-page recruitment manual used by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and other terror outfits says otherwise.
The five-six men, wearing saffron T-shirts and kurta, started the sloganeering when the train was about to halt at the metro station, according to a PTI reporter who was at the spot.
This startling revelation came to light when investigating agencies in Karnataka recovered confidential documents belonging to the US army from terrorists, who were recently arrested in the state.
Indicating a Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami hand behind the serial blasts in Assam, the Border Security Force on Thursday said they had prior information on a possible intrusion by militants from Bangladesh for carrying out the deed.
In a bid to end the anti-jihad war, the United States has asked Saudi Arabia to secretly negotiate with the Taliban in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and persuade them to part ways with the Al-Qaeda so as to deny the jihadis their last safe havens in those two countries.
An IB dossier on the organisation indicates that SIMI split in 2006. The IB says SIMI provides logistical support to the Laskhar-e-Tayiba and Harkat-ul-Jihadi.
Intelligence Bureau sources say Bilal was gunned down in Karachi on August 30, 2007, along with his brother Samad. The IB sources were unable to identify the individuals or agencies responsible for the killings.
'I am sure there were more than three terrorists in the Taj --we ourselves saw quite a few.' Also, Erika Mann feels there may have been more victims than the government allows: 'We saw so many bodies taken out.'
Benazir Bhutto had too many elements against her -- anti-US, pro-Al Qaeda jihadi elements, the Zia-ul Haq loyalists, junior members of the Pakistan army and, possibly, the Pakistan air force.
A suspected militant of THE Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami was arrested by the Delhi police and 3.1 kg of deadly RDX was recovered following his questioning, eight days after serial blasts rocked Jaipur claiming 65 lives. Abdul Rehman, in his early thirties, was caught from Chelmsford Road near New Delhi Railway Station on Wednesday night when he was coming to the capital from West Bengal, a senior police officer said.
The four included a man who was injured in the explosions and a rickshaw puller, the police said on Wednesday. Preliminary examination of the blast sites indicated the possibility of ammonium nitrate being planted in new cycles and filled with ball bearings and small iron pipes to act as splinters, sources said.
The IB says Al Qaeda suspects that the growing proximity between India and the US will prove fatal for its operations in Afghanistan and with its threat it hopes to slow down Indian designs of helping the US there.
Normal life was paralysed in Assam during a 12-hour-long state-wide bandh led by the Bajrang Dal and supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and several other organisations demanding action against the All India United Democratic Front and its leader Badaruddin Ajmal for alleged links with 'jihadi forces in Bangladesh'.
Rahimullah Yusufzai, who has extensively covered global war on terrorism in Pakistan, said, "I think disturbances in the tribal areas are not the problem. That is an excuse misused by Musharraf. He was worried about an adverse Supreme Court verdict in connection with his election as President. I believe this man knows he can't live in Pakistan if he stays out of power. He will have to face the music. He has family to protect and he has his position to protect."
