Tag: terrorism

China’s hybrid-war against India could foment unrest in Kashmir: Expert
15Mar By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia, China, Opinion

China’s hybrid-war against India could foment unrest in Kashmir: Expert

India could face another violent civil unrest and massive protests in Jammu and Kashmir if China embarks on another territorial adventure in Ladakh with Pakistan supporting at the Line of Control, according to Abhinav Pandya, founder and CEO of Usanas Foundation, an India-based geopolitical and security affairs think-tank.In an opinion piece, Pandya has said that there is a strong potential for India’s adversaries, i.e., Pakistan, Turkey, and China, to engineer a massive popular resistance movement in Kashmir the near future.“The Kashmir valley has been in turmoil for the last three decades. During this time, it has witnessed a violent anti-India jihadist movement in a social-political milieu that is overwhelmingly radicalized on religious lines and has a strong Pakistani intelligence foot
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J&K Police foils terror plot, arrests terrorists associated with JeM, LeT
14Feb By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

J&K Police foils terror plot, arrests terrorists associated with JeM, LeT

In the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the police recently arrested terrorists associated with Pakistani terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and avoided a terror attack."Police recently arrested the chiefs of Pakistani terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed's India-based outfits- The Resistance Front and Lashkar-e-Mustafa respectively," said Jammu and Kashmir's Director General of Police (DGP), Dilbagh Singh on Sunday.Addressing the media after the police foiled a major terror attack in with the recovery of an IED of 6-6.5 kilogram in Jammu, Singh said that both outfits -- The Resistance Front and Lashkar-e-Mustafa -- were involved in multiple terror-related activities in the country in past few years."Lashkar-e-Mustafa became active in A...
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Around 100 Kashmiri youth missing in last three years after visiting Pakistan on visa
8Feb By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Around 100 Kashmiri youth missing in last three years after visiting Pakistan on visa

Around 100 youths from Kashmir who travelled to Pakistan on a visa have gone missing in the last three years, India’s security establishment notified on Sunday."They have either never returned or have returned but are missing," said an IPS officer adding that they can be part of 'sleeper cells' of terror organisations.The officer further said as more proactive outreach programmes have been taken up and more surveillance mechanisms placed, the incidents of youth going missing are "decreasing proportionately"."Either these youth are being brainwashed and thereafter being trained or are allured to carry out anti-India propaganda. It is a big challenge before us to bring such youth back in the fold," explains the officer, who is part of the counter-insurgency team in the Valley.The Kashmiri yo
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US: Biden’s pick for Pentagon chief says Pak action against LeT, JeM ‘incomplete’
20Jan By Grace TsoiNo Comments
Asia, China, World

US: Biden’s pick for Pentagon chief says Pak action against LeT, JeM ‘incomplete’

United States president-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head the Pentagon, Gen (retired) Lloyd Austin, has said that Pakistan’s actions against anti-India terror groups such as LeT and JeM are “incomplete” and that China’s “increasingly aggressive actions” across the Indo-Pacific are a key concern for the country.Speaking at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Austin also said that if he is confirmed for the post, he will work to continue elevating the defence partnership with India and work to “further operationalise India’s ‘Major Defense Partner’ status”.Austin, 67, would be the first African American to run the department of defence but needs to be granted a waiver by both the House of Representatives and the Senate because the National Security Act requires the secretary o
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Pakistan arrests Mumbai terror attack mastermind, LeT commander Lakhvi ahead of FATF meet
3Jan By Grace TsoiNo Comments
World

Pakistan arrests Mumbai terror attack mastermind, LeT commander Lakhvi ahead of FATF meet

Just before the meetings of the global watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in January and February, Pakistan’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi on charges of using terror funds.“[Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi] is accused of running a dispensary using funds collected for terrorism financing. He and others also collected funds from this dispensary and used them for further terrorism financing and for personal expenses,” said the Counter Terrorism Department police spokesperson of the Pakistani province of Punjab.The spokesperson further said that Lakhvi’s offences were compounded by the fact that he is on the United Nation’s Security Council list of banned terrorists (und
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Nepal: Thousands protest against Pakistan’s role in 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks
27Nov By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Nepal: Thousands protest against Pakistan’s role in 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks

On the 12th anniversary of the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, thousands of people in Nepal took to the streets to protest against state-sponsored terrorism by Pakistan.With banners in their hands, people staged demonstrations across the country, and roadblocks were also held in several parts of the country.“I want to pay tribute to those people who lost their lives in the attacks. These kinds of terrorist attacks should not happen anywhere in the world,” said one of the protesters.On November 26, 2008, 10 terrorists trained by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) carried out a series of coordinated attacks against multiple targets in Mumbai including the Taj Mahal Hotel, the Oberoi Hotel, the Leopold Cafe, the Nariman (Chabad) House, and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train sta
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2008 Mumbai terror attack anniversary: US says standing alongside India in anti-terror fight
27Nov By Grace TsoiNo Comments
Asia, World

2008 Mumbai terror attack anniversary: US says standing alongside India in anti-terror fight

The United States, on the 12th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, said that it is “standing alongside” India in the fight against terrorism, and affirmed its commitment to holding the perpetrators of the attack accountable.“On the 12th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, the US reaffirms its commitment to holding the perpetrators accountable and ensuring justice for the victims, including six Americans. Standing alongside our Indian partners, we remain resolute in the fight against terrorism,” the US Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs of state department said in a tweet.On November 26, 2008, ten terrorists trained by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) terrorist organization carried out a series of coordinated attacks against multiple targets in India’s Mumbai city i
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MEPs express support for India’s respect for democratic, constitutional powers
25Nov By Grace TsoiNo Comments
World

MEPs express support for India’s respect for democratic, constitutional powers

In a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Tuesday expressed their support for India’s respect for democratic constitutional responsibility and to reinforce their backing for a common goal to address extremism and terrorism.“As the Republic of India, the largest democracy in the world, celebrates Samvidhan Divas on the 26 November 2020, we send our congratulations to the country for maintaining peace, democratic values and freedoms and for upholding the Constitution of India established in 1949,” French Member of the European Parliament Thierry Mariani, and Gianna Gancia, Italian Member of the European Parliament wrote in the letter.The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) said that despite India’s short term as a Republic, it was
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ISIS set to become Islamist Frankenstein in Africa
19Nov By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Asia, Conflict, Opinion, Politics

ISIS set to become Islamist Frankenstein in Africa

On the run from Europe and Asia since 2014, terror organization ISIS is now desperately trying to establish its turf on the African continent by setting up links with local terror bodies. In the process, its Jihadist ideology has secured a fresh lease of life to expand the influence of the Islamic caliphate.Several countries of Africa where the civil-military differences are weakening the social and economic fabric are now the hunting grounds of ISIS. Even among them, ISIS prefers countries where Islamist politics have reared their head. The world has noticed the silence of orthodox Islamic clergy in face of rogue expansion of the Islamic terror bodies in Africa as they escape the western military forces in west Asia and Europe, specially from Syria and Iraq.It is perhaps as a result of th...
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India trashes Pakistan’s claims of Delhi sponsoring terrorism
15Nov By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia, China

India trashes Pakistan’s claims of Delhi sponsoring terrorism

India on Sunday thrashed Pakistan’s accusations saying that India was sponsoring “terrorism" aimed at destabilising it and targeting its economic partnership with China. Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and chief military spokesman Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar had on Saturday released a dossier along with what they said were intelligence intercepts that purportedly showed the involvement of Indian intelligence operatives in acts of terrorism. India’s foreign ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava responded to the allegations levelled during the “press conference by the Pakistani establishment” by saying: “This is yet another futile anti-India propaganda exercise.” He added, “The so-called claims of ‘proof’ against India enjoy no credibility, are fabricated and represent figmen
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