The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) registered a case in connection with the audacious Mumbai serial attack that left over 180 people, including six Americans, dead and are helping Indian investigators in cracking codes of Internet telephony used by terrorists of Lashker-e-Taiba.
A Pakistani anti-terror court has directed authorities to complete their investigations against five suspects, including Lashker-e-Tayiba operative Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, accused in the Mumbai terror attacks by May 5.
The recent infiltration bids in Jammu and Kashmir came in for some surprise for security agencies when they found Muzamil, one of the main Lashker-e--Taiba mastermind of the Mumbai terror attack, as the brain behind large-scale intrusion from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashker-e-Tayiba on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the Kupwara encounter in which eight Army personnel, including a Major, and 17 militants were killed. The LeT also threatened to intensify attacks across the Kashmir valley."The LeT will continue to render sacrifices for the freedom of Kashmir," LeT spokesman Abdullah Gaznavi said.The spokesman said its fighters were involved in the five-day long encounter in Kupwara forest.
The Pakistan government has banned 25 religious and other organisations, including the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashker-e-Tayiba, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
Top Lashker-e-Taiba operative Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and three other suspects in the Mumbai attacks case have been remanded to the custody of Pakistani authorities for two more weeks by an anti-terrorism judge.
Four blasts rocked New Delhi on Saturday evening. The first blast was reported in Delhi's Karol Bagh, the second in M-block market in Greater Kailash and two in Cannaught Place in Delhi.
Top Lashker-e-Tayiba operatives, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah arrested yesterday for their links to the Mumbai attacks by Pakistani authorities, were today remanded by an anti-terrorism judge to police custody for 14 days.
The release of banned outfit Jamaat-Ud-Dawah Chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed by a Lahore Court today may embolden the Lashker-e-Toiba cadres operating in India who may themselves plan a strike or do it on the orders of their master, security experts here feel.
The officials of Federal Bureau of Investigation grilled Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman Kasab, the lone Lashker-e-Taiba militant involved in November 26 terror strikes, for over nine hours recently to ascertain about his role and handlers in Pakistan.
Investigations into the escape of dreaded Lashker-e-Tayiba terrorist Mohammed Naveed Jhatt from a busy hospital has brought to the fore lapses at different stages, especially the failure of the prosecution wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police as well as the state home department over hurriedly issuing orders for transfer of the accused to a central jail from Kathua in the Jammu region, it has emerged.
With suspicion growing stronger about the involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists in the Mumbai attacks, Islamabad on Thursday night said that it had no role in the strikes and there should be no knee-jerk reaction by India."Pakistan played no role in the Mumbai attacks," Defence Minister Chaudhry Mukhtar Ahmad said as investigators in Maharashtra suggested that Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba could be involved in the unprecedented strike.
Pakistan on Thursday said it was "disturbed" by reports that India could be preparing for additional nuclear tests and hoped a unilateral moratorium on testing would remain in place in the region.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has extended the police remand of three accused -- in a case related to the terror attack on Mumbai -- by two days and remanded another suspect to judicial custody for a fortnight. Anti-terror court judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahut remanded Lashker-e-Tayiba operatives Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Zarar Shah and Abu al-Qama to the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency for two more days during a hearing held in the high-security Adiala Jail.
Central agencies had been monitoring certain leads, which said a group of people hailing from Kerala along with Lashker-e-Tayiba's support were trying to enter Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir through North Kashmir.
Pakistan will be in 'great trouble' if President-elect Asif Ali Zardari does not change the policies of his predecessor Pervez Musharraf, which have 'derailed the Kashmir issue', the founder of the outlawed Lashker-e-Taiba has said.Militant ideologue Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who now heads the Jamat-ud-Dawah, called on the people of Pakistan to gather at the Line of Control to show solidarity with the residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
The trial in a Pakistani anti-terror court of five Lashker-e-Tayiba operatives accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks was on Saturday adjourned till July 18 without any proceedings.
The FBI made the request through proper channels for questioning Fahim Arshad Ansari and Sabbauddin, members of the banned Lashker-e-Taiba, who were brought to Mumbai in December last year as a follow up to the probe into the 26/11 attack, official sources said.
The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested a Sikh youth in North Kashmir for allegedly allowing Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Tayiba operatives to use his house as make-shift ammunition dump in exchange of liquor.Popinder Singh, who was working as a X-ray technician with the state health service, was picked up from his house in Choudhal in the frontier district of Handwara after he was named by an arrested terrorist, official sources said.
India has informed Pakistan that it has not engaged in any sort of troop build-up along the frontier and sought firm action against terrorist camps and groups operating from the Pakistani soil. New Delhi has also told Islamabad that it has no plans for a military action, but wanted a combination of 'executive action and judicial processes' against terrorist elements like the LeT and its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawah, which have been linked to the Mumbai attacks.
The two Pakistan-based terrorists of the LeT were killed in an encounter with police at village Nagabal-Derand in Ganderbal district on Sunday night, foiling a plan of the outfit to attack the pilgrims on their return from the cave shrine, a police spokesperson said.
Rejecting Pakistan's claim that Jammat-ud-Dawah, designated as a front for the Lashker-e- Taiba by the UN, is a charity, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Washington has learnt the hard way that sometimes these groups are too intertwined with the bodies that have terrorist ties.
Hundreds of people today marched towards UN office in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to protest the world body's declaration of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah as a terror outfit while political and religious leaders criticised the government's decision to crackdown on the group.
Pakistan's former Federal Minister for Human Rights and Expert Advisor in the United Nations Human Rights Council at Geneva, Burney, who arrived in terror struck Mumbai in the wee hours of Sunday, wasted no time in showing his solidarity with India in its war against terrorism. "They are beast of jungles and killers of humanity," was Burney's instant reaction about the terror carnage in Mumbai that left 183 dead.
The project envisages providing unique National Identity Number to each person in the National Population Register, he said.
Singh said there is a large presence of terrorists across the Line of Control (LoC) but expressed confidence that the counter-infiltration grid will take care of the threat.
The UN on Friday, said it is yet to receive any appeal from Jamaat-ud-Dawa or four of its top leaders to review the sanctions imposed on them by the Security Council in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks. If received, the request would need to be considered by the Security Council, with the letter for review being sent through a member state.
Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour timetable set by India and the United States to formulate a plan to take action against Lashker-e-Toiba and to arrest at least three Pakistanis, who Indian authorities say are linked to the multiple attacks in Mumbai, a top US daily reported on Saturday.Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, who has expressed his country's solidarity with India, is expected to review plans by his nation's top military and intelligence officials.
Apart from the bombings, the ATS is interested in looking into the 'Aurangabad angle,' Raghuvanshi said.
Four weapons, two magazines, three grenades and some other items were recovered from the slain terrorists.
Asif Ali Zardari's remarks that the Kashmir issue should be put on the backburner drew mixed reactions on Monday with the ruling Congress-PDP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir saying it was positive but separatist leaders voiced their dismay. Zardari had said that India and Pakistan should set aside the Ksahmir issue to focus on other key issues.
A top Lashker-e-Toiba militant involved in last year's serial blasts in Uttar Pradesh was killed along with another ultra of the outfit in an encounter with police in Pulwama district on Friday, a senior police official said. The self-styled district commander of LeT, Abdul Rahman of Pakistan alias Rehman Bhai and a local militant Moin Ahmed Mir, were killed in the gunfight with Jammu and Kashmir police personnel at Nikloora-Aglar village.
The sources said the spot from where the attack could be carried out was also selected, the sources said, adding that the plan was not executed because there was no particular timing for the movement of the convoy. The Army has a formation in the adjacent Bareilly area, 60 kms from Rampur. The militants were apprehensive about coming out in the open with their weapons as they feared that they might be caught if there was no movement of the Army convoy, the sources said.
A self-styled section commander of the Lashker-e-Toiba outfit was gunned down by security personnel in an encounter in Doda district on Saturday. A group of militants opened fire on the troops of Rashtriya Rifles, who were conducting search operations in Phulel area of the Doda district on Friday night, leading to a gunbattle in which the LeT operative was shot dead, defence sources said.The slain militant has been identified as Tauhid Ahmed.
His family has made a passionate appeal for his return.
Two Lashker-e-Toiba militants were killed in a gunbattle in Doda district, official sources said on Sunday. On a tip off, army troops and police launched a search operation in Bikhrain area of the district on Saturday evening. During the operation, a gunbattle took place between the militants and troops in which both the ultras were killed. The slain militants have been identified as Altaf Hussain and Irshad Ahmed.
In its third summons, issued last week, the NIA promised him security.
As they pass through the cantonment in militancy-hit Kashmir valley, journalists bow their heads to remember an army officer who saved the lives of three newsmen and one of his staff members before being gunned down by Lashker-e-Taiba militants eight years ago.
A huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from the possession of the slain ultras, whose identity was being ascertained. However, the documents recovered from them revealed their affiliation with LeT.
This was the second such plot foiled by security agencies in a month. Earlier, terrorists had planned to target Azad at Ramban in Jammu region but the three possible attackers were nabbed before they could act.
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