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India has ‘proof of ISI involvement’

Posted in South Asia, tagged , , on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

India has proof of the involvement of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency in last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai but will not level a public accusation because the ensuing tension in bilateral relations would play into the hands of those responsible for the incidents, authoritative sources claimed here on Thursday.
The Hindu : Front Page : India [...]

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Congress-BJP slanging match over terror begins

Posted in South Asia, tagged , on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Even before the gunbattle with terrorists in Mumbai could end, a slanging match on Friday began between ruling Congress and opposition BJP on the issue of handling of internal security and dealing with terrorists.
BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani accused the intelligence agencies of failing to get a whiff of Mumbai terror attacks, alleging [...]

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Terrorists boated in from Pakistan

Posted in South Asia, tagged , on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Police investigators say they have evidence that operatives of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the fidayeen-squad attacks in Mumbai — a charge which, if proven, could have far-reaching consequences for India-Pakistan relations.
Police sources said an injured terrorist captured during the fighting at the Taj Mahal hotel was tentatively identified as Ajmal Amir Kamal, [...]

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Terrorist attacks in Mumbai

Posted in South Asia, tagged , on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Terror struck the country's financial capital late on Wednesday night as coordinated serial explosions and indiscriminate firing were reported from at least eight locations across Mumbai.
At least 18 people are reported killed and 24 are seriously injured.
The coordinated terror strike which reportedly began at 2233 PM at Chhatrapathi Shivaji TerminusCST, formerly known as the Victoria [...]

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Hindu Terrorism Update

Posted in South Asia, tagged , on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As they uncover a wide network of those involved in the Malegaon blast with linkages to an earlier explosion at Nanded too, investigators were on Sunday looking for 54 people suspected to have been given arms training at a military school in Nagpur.
Highly-placed sources involved in the investigation into the blast at Malegaon on September [...]

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Hindu Terrorists – No Oxymorons

Posted in South Asia, tagged , , on November 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The revelation that a militant section of the Hindutva network was behind the September 29 bomb blasts in Muslim-dominated Malegaon in Maharashtra and Modasa in Gujarat has shattered the myth propagated by the Hindutva campaign that only Islamist fundamentalism breeds terrorism. Indeed the Sangh Parivar’s loaded argument has been that while all Muslims are not [...]

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20 killed as 5 bomb explosions rock Delhi

Posted in South Asia, tagged , on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Twenty people were killed and about 100 injured in a series of five bomb explosions that rocked busy marketplaces in the Capital on Saturday.The first explosion took place at Karol Bagh at 6.10 p.m.; two bombs were triggered at Connaught Place; and two more in the bustling M-Block market of Greater Kailash.
The Hindu : Front [...]

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Pakistan helped Kabul terrorist act on Indian Embassy

Posted in South Asia, tagged , on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government officials.The conclusion was based on intercepted communications between Pakistani intelligence officers and militants who carried out the attack, the officials said, providing the clearest evidence [...]

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More on Terrorism in India

Posted in South Asia, tagged , on July 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »

The trend towards the radicalisation of the Indian Muslim youth started in the late 1980s.Groups of Muslim youth from Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) started going across the Line of Control (LOC) to Pakistan and were trained and armed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). After the training, some of them were taken to Afghanistan to get [...]

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Terrorism in Bangalore and Ahmedabad

Posted in South Asia, tagged , on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For the second time in two days, small explosions rocked an Indian city, this time in Ahmedabad on Saturday evening, killing at least 29 people. The Indian government said cities across the country had been put on alert for similar attacks.
At Least 29 People Killed in Explosions in Indian City – NYTimes.com
It’s sad, and clearly [...]

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