A firefight ensued after security forces landed a cordon and search operation in the Wanigam Payeen Kreeri area of Baramulla acting on specific intelligence about the presence of terrorists at the location.
Among the seizures made from the ultras included 2 kg RDX, a detonator and some hand grenades, Joint Commissioner of Police, Karnal Singh told PTI.
Date, a 1990 Indian Police Service officer of the Maharashtra cadre who once sold newspapers in Pune to financially support his family, was honoured with the President's Police medal for gallantry for his role in what has come to be known as the 26/11 attack.
'I have faced 18 hours of darkness daily all my life.'
On Thursday, the Jammu and Kashmir police said it had 'encircled' two Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists responsible for the murders.
'Lashkar clearly poses the greatest danger to India,' says Stephen Tankel, author of a book on the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
According to intelligence inputs the outfit has stopped its recruitment spree for Indian operatives. In the months to come, more foreign operatives will wage Lashkar's war in Kashmir.
Cama Hospital and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus were never part of the original 26/11 terror attack plan drawn out by the Al Qaeda. It was only when the ISI decided to hand over the plan to the anti-India Lashkar-e-Tayiba that the Mumbai attacks became bloodier. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The arrests of four people in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh a couple of days ago may throw light on the suspected links between the Pakistan-based terror group, Lashkar-e-Tayiba, and the Naxalite movement in India.
Shah said stringent actions would be taken against any individual who jeopardises the nation's security.
More than 20 students have been taken away forcibly.
City Police Commissioner A K Khan said Zialul Haq, a taxi driver by profession, was trained in Pakistan and was planning to carry out blasts in Hyderabad.
'It could be an entirely new LeT module that has entered Mumbai with the specific assignment of executing yesterday's blasts,' officials said
It is a well known fact that Dawood Ibrahim is a key aide of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the finances of outfit are largely managed by him. Indian intelligence agencies say that there has been a lot of activity concerning Dawood and the Lashkar in the past couple of months, which also includes sending in huge consignments of arms and ammunition into India.
The most important factor is commitment to the Lashkar's ideology. When the Lashkar recruits youth the latter are told they will undertake a military operation and there is absolute need to be committed to the organisation's ideology in order to succeed.
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.
The dreaded Pakistan-based outfit has plans of shifting its entire base to Nepal in the next few months, according to the confession of Omar Madani, a key Lashkar operative arrested by the Delhi Police a couple of weeks ago.
Official sources said preliminary investigations have indicated the blasts were carried out by some Students Islamic Movement of India cadres, who had received training in handling of explosives in the Gulf.
Investigators on Friday told a Delhi court that Mohammad Omar Madni, a suspected terrorist, has disclosed about the links between Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Maoists in Jharkhand.
Mohammad Omar Madani's links to the 26/11 Mumbai attack and also other terror strikes in the country are getting more and more evident. The Delhi police and the Intelligence Bureau have been grilling Madani after he revealed that he had links with Hafiz Saeed, Abu Hamza, Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari all of whom have were involved in the Mumbai terror attack.
A man and a woman were detained on Wednesday while they were protesting outside the Parliament building carrying cans that emitted a yellowish and red smoke, the police said in New Delhi.
Rogue elements in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence worry about India's interference in Afghanistan after the West pullout. The attack was an attempt to send a strong message to New Delhi to keep away, sources in the Intelligence Bureau point out.
Lakhvi's reported arrest, if confirmed, speaks of the intense pressure on Pakistan from the US to act against the Lashkar. India, the US and the rest of the international community should ensure that this is not a cosmetic step like similar steps in 2002 and that the LeT infrastructure in Pakistan is dismantled and those involved in the Mumbai terrorist strike against Indians, Israelis, Americans and others are brought to justice.
India has also taken note of reports of Saeed's son Talha contesting elections in Pakistan and said the "mainstreaming" of radical terror outfits in the neighbouring country is nothing new and that it has been part of its State policy for a long time.
The immediate problem that the Lashkar faces following the crackdown is the supply of arms and other materials to carry out terror strikes. Dawood Ibrahim has been asked to use his existing smuggling channels to send in arms and ammunition.
Two AK-47 rifles, seven magazines, 134 rounds of bullet, one radio set, one GPS device and a large quantity of war-like store were recovered from the possession of the slain terrorists
'Many in Pakistan were thinking about taking Saeed from the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and making him the pole around which they would bring in and demilitarise militants and turn them into a political entity in Pakistan.'
The Army on Friday said the search operation in the forest area of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri to flush out any hiding terrorists was still underway, a day after two foreign terrorists of proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit including the mastermind behind various attacks were eliminated.
The recent attack on the Delhi high court exposes lacunae in India;s counterterrorism efforts, says Dr Sahibzada Amer Latif, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the newly established Wadhwani Chair for United States-India policy studies.
Visitors at the public gallery of Lok Sabha on Wednesday said the two protesters who jumped into the House's chamber were sitting quietly and disrupted the proceedings "all of a sudden".
A united LeT will continue its efforts to destabilise India and personally step in to worsen matters for major terror operations along the lines of 26/11, claims Vicky Nanjappa
Pakistan-based Lashkar-eTayiba and its front group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, enjoying backing of the military, have not only grown far stronger since the Mumbai terror attack in 2008, but are also trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction, in addition to developing air and sea power, a new book says
External affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the request for extraditing Saeed along with certain documents was recently sent to Islamabad.
Sikendar-e-Khan, a constable with 7th battalion of IRP was arrested on Thursday evening from the Gandhi Nagar area of Jammu, for alleged links with the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba may have gone quiet for sometime now, but Indian Intelligence agencies say that this is just their strategy to regroup. A few months ago, a top ranking US official had warned that they had specific inputs that the Lashkar was setting up a base in Sri Lanka in a bid to encircle India.
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