Intelligence Bureau intercepts have pointed to the movement of terrorists from both the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Harkat-ul-Jihadi into West Bengal in order to carry out an attack on Kolkata.
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.
In fact news of his death started trickling in a few days after the twin blasts in Hyderabad. But the Intelligence Bureau said that it was a ploy by their counterparts in Pakistan to mislead investigations. While Bilal's death is more or less confirmed now, Indian intelligence agencies feel he was killed due to professional rivalry.
The Indianised jihad is presently targeted against the BJP, but it could turn against the American and Israeli presence in India in due course.
The Centre on Thursday decided to hand over to the National Investigation Agency the probe into the bomb blast in Burdwan in West Bengal in which the role of terror groups is suspected, a decision which the Trinamool Congress government said was taken suo motu.
Stratfor says there exists a strong nexus between ISI and Bangladesh's intelligence agencies.
The United States should first and foremost support the restoration of democracy and an end to a military dictatorship
The militant group accused RAW of deliberately linking its name to fundamentalists and communal groups to tarnish its image in front of the international community.
Bashir Ahmed Mir, the chief operational commander of the militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami, was killed in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. According to the police, Mir was the mastermind behind the Uttar Pradesh serial court blasts.
'The undiminished threat, therefore, has the potency of sustaining itself in multiple ways in the near and medium term.' 'The state agencies need to utilize innovative methods in countering radicalization and violent extremism to address this growing threat'.
India maintains that the Kashmir issue is a bilateral one and no third party has any role in it.
"Clearly, Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan does not just comprise Arabs and Uzbeks and Tajiks. It also comprises Pakistanis; and among such Pakistanis it comprises Pathans and Punjabis and possibly Urdu speakers who constitute the Pakistani Taliban," the Daily Times said in an article.
Although the role of Shahid Bilal is not ruled out in the Uttar Pradesh blasts, the police say that the serial blasts were conducted under the supervision of Sabah Hijaji, another commander of the HuJI.
Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria said on Wednesday in Jaipur that the Forensic Science report confirmed the use of RDX in Tuesday's serial blasts in the Pink City, which claimed at least 67 lives and left nearly 200 others injured. Kataria said the explosives were very powerful timer bombs having over 1,700 pellets.
Accusing the Pakistan army of inflating the threat of religious sectarianism and jihadi extremism for its own self-interest, the report said the West adopted a more lenient attitude toward the regime due to a perceived lack of alternative.
Even as the confusion looms large, Shahid's father and several others in Hyderabad believe that Bilal is dead after being shot down in an encounter in Pakistan. Today, Bilal's 16-11-240 residence in Hyderabad's Moosrambagh locality wears a deserted look.
Kasaesbeh was captured in December after his F-16 jet crashed in ISIS territory
It also said jihadi organisations should have to be associated with the dialogue process between Pakistan and India.
"Those who have met Emerson Begolly in person might describe him as a shy young man. But online, the 24-year-old was the complete opposite -- he forcefully incited jihadi violence against Americans and Jews."
Despite there being such a hue and cry regarding the attack on the Pink City, all the police have managed to do is round off scores of people. Interrogations have led the police to believe that the attack was planned by HuJI and executed by SIMI in India.
Reports from the NATO forces in Afghanistan of the presence of increasing numbers of Uzbeks, Chechens and Uighurs with the Neo Taliban forces operating in Afghan territory added to the pressure for action. Responding to these pressures, the Pakistani government started sending further reinforcements to the area.
According to the book, Musharraf's crackdown on jihadi groups was only for the consumption of the media and the public. In reality, he had no intention to ban terrorist organisations or their activities in Pakistan.
The youth were arrested on charges of inciting people, waging war against the state and indulging in jihadi activities. They alleged that they were illegally detained and tortured by the police before being sent to judicial remand. They also contended that the police could not establish a case against them.
'The osmosis between Hinduism and Islam that really gave birth to the Hindustani or Indo-Islamic civilisation was due to the conversation between Muslim mystics and yogis.'
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The National Investigation Agency has arrested a suspected Myanamar national, who was allegedly trained by Pakistan-based terror group Tehrik-i-Taliban, from Hyderabad in connection with the Burdwan blast case.
The group finds that the military government has sought to use earthquake rescue and relief, and now intends to use reconstruction and rehabilitation, to demonstrate its competence.
The Hyderabad police will hold talks with their Uttar Pradesh counterparts and also interrogate Mohammad Tariq, a Harkat Ul-Jihadi operative who was arrested in connection with the November 23 UP serial blasts.
Briefing newsmen in New Delhi, BJP leader Rajeev Pratap Rudy asked Dr Singh also to explain if the NSA had brought this to his notice.
Police in Delhi have been put on alert after they received inputs from the Intelligence Bureau about the possibility of a terror strike in the near future by Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Harkat-ul-Jihadi-al-Islami militants.
The pre-dawn operation, described as "non-military" and "preemptive" struck a five-star resort style camp on a hilltop forest and caught the terrorists in their sleep.
Harkat-Ul-Jihadi Islami commander Shahid alias Bilal was the mastermind behind the August 25 twin blasts and May 15 Mecca Blasts in Hyderabad, which claimed over 50 lives, his brother Majid confessed to the police.
The politics of hate does not pay. The people are too sensible to fall for such a ruse, says Amulya Ganguli.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed the Dusshera address of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat and said the issues of social reform he raised are "very relevant".
For Bosnia and Chechnya, the 'Army of Allah' has spread around the Muslim world.
United Liberation Front of Asom has been showing a growing propensity to work with Islamist militant groups like Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami in the north-east and has begun to outsource operations, including suicide attacks, a leading US think tank said.
He looks like an up-and-coming film-star and not that of an alleged jihadi. He also wears a cap like singer-turned-actor Himesh Reshammiya, but is a bit on the hefty side.
Police teams from both Rajasthan and Hyderabad confirmed on Saturday that the same operatives carried out both the Mecca Masjid and the Hyderabad blasts. The link has been established in the form of a sim card, found in one of the bags outside the blast site, which is reportedly in the name of one Babu Lal Yadav. A sim card found at the blast site in Mecca Masjid was also in the name of Babu Lal Yadav.
A chilling ISIS manual has emerged online in which the dreaded outfit advised would-be jihadis from West to trim their beards and wear western-style clothes to avoid being identified.
'There were assurances that Jaish-e-Mohammad was being reined in as was the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, but Pakistan's security forces could not risk opening too many dangerous new fronts,' notes former foreign secretary Ambassador Shyam Saran, who has just returned from a visit to Lahore.
In a statement, the terror group said, "In continuation of the blessed operations that Islamic State is conducting against the protector of the cross, Turkey, a heroic soldier of the caliphate struck one of the most famous nightclubs where the Christians celebrate their apostate holiday."
