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India-Pakistan
‘Aman ki Asha’ proponents must ask Pakistan about persecution of Hindus, terror strikes in India
2023-02-26
[OneIndia] Aman ki Asha calls have been made many times. But why does the ball always have to be in the court of India. Has Pakistain shown any signs of change towards its attitude towards India?

Pakistain has been in the news due to several reasons. The country is facing its worst economic crisis and the future looks weak.

Amidst this, the 'Aman ki Asha' proponents have come out and said that India must help Pakistain at this time of crisis. Similar demands were made many years back when this particular brigade spoke about patching things up with Pakistain, despite the country shielding the criminal masterminds of the Mumbai 26/11 attacks in which over 160 innocents died.

The 'India must help Pakistain' is being made despite the Pulwama and Uri attacks in which several Indian braves bit the dust. While terror attacks are an ongoing affair, it must be noted that each one of them has had a Pakistain hand in it. The Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
was funded by Pakistain, the attacks on Parliament, the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, Samjautha Express blast, just to name a few all had direct links to Pakistain.

Pakistain has allowed its soil to be used as a launch pad for terror attacks. Moreover it shields the likes of Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
among others. Whatever action Pakistain has taken against these monstrous Jihadis has only been token and has been a way of avoiding international pressure.

Terror attacks, infiltration, fake currency, terror funding are some of the ploys by Pakistain to keep India on the boil. The country operates with the sole agenda of trying to put India down. It has also been responsible for wars against India, all of which it lost.

The persecution:

Now coming to another issue that is boiling and continues to boil everyday. The persecution of the religious minorities, especially the Hindus in Pakistain. As we write this article, there could be a persecution on in Pakistain. Just last week, a minor Hindu girl was kidnapped, converted to Islam and marked off.

India has raised this concern on various occasions, but there has never been any solution to it.

Pakistain even had the audacity to reject a bill against forced religious conversions. In October 2021, the parliamentary committee had rejected this bill and then religious affairs minister, Noorul Haq Qadri had said that the atmosphere was not conducive to enact such a law. The minister had said that such a law could disturb peace and harmony in the country.

The violence against Hindus has been instituted in Pakistain. Description of Temples, rapes, forced conversions and cases of torture have been documented.

Every month, 25 Hindu girls are raped and converted to Islam according to the Pakistain Human Rights Council. Girls just vanish from their homes and are converted and then are forcibly married off.

In 2010, 60 members of the Hindu community in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
were attacked because one of them was drinking water near a Mosque.

At this rate of Islamist persecution, Hindus in Bangladesh may survive another 20 years onlyAt this rate of Islamist persecution, Hindus in Bangladesh may survive another 20 years only

In 2003, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said that 1,000 Hindu families from Pakistain had fled to India. In 2014 it was found that 5,000 Hindus are migrating to India every year. Pakistain has also successfully used its blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
laws to target the Hindus.

These are just few statistics to show the atrocities Pakistain as a state has meted out against the Hindus and other minorities in the country. The persecution coupled with terror attacks is what Pakistain has offered India over the past many years.

The question is should India help. The other question is will Pakistain change. The answer to both is one big 'NO.'
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India-Pakistan
Bihar and Kerala: Where terror groups find ample loopholes to plan, plot and execute
2022-07-26
[OneIndia] The connection between Bihar and Kerala can be seen in the fact that the Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
being formed in Kerala and then it went on to form its strongest module in Bihar.

The Bihar police recently busted a major module following which it was learnt that the accused persons had plotted the liquidation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also planned on setting up an Islamic nation by 2047.

The National Investigation Agency is also investigating a case relating to a Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
(JMB) module and has made seven arrests so far. The latest person to be arrested is Ali Asgar a resident of Siswaniya village of Bihar.

Incidents of radical Islamic modules being busted in Bihar is nothing new. It dates back to the late 2000s when the Indian Mujahideen and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had a free run in the state.

The agencies had complained back then that it was the politics of appeasement which had made it very hard for modules to be busted in the state. Yasin Bhatkal who headed the Indian Mujahideen (IM) had said in his interrogation that the Darbhanga module had been set up in 2009 and they chose the area as the atmosphere in the state was conducive for them to set up such a module.

This module was never used for any terror strikes within the state as they feared that the trail would lead to them.

An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that like in the case of Kerala, certain places in Bihar are extremely difficult to deal with. In certain places in northern Kerala and areas such as Darbhanga a lot depends on human intelligence and this is very hard to come by because a large number of the local politicians and locals back such modules.

Another official says that these areas have been a free-for-all. While on one hand illegal immigrants colonists keep infiltrating into such areas in Bihar, in Kerala it has been the problem of Wahhabism and its radical preachers from the Gulf.

The connection between Bihar and Kerala can be seen in the fact that the Indian Mujahideen being formed in Kerala and then it went on to form its strongest module in Bihar.

In August 2013, an operative of the Students Islamic Movement of India, Abdul Sattar was deported from the United Arab Emirates. He was charged in a case relating to the Wagamon Camp. This camp was held in 2007 during his interrogation, Sattar told the agencies that the IM was formed in 2007. He also said that 40 persons had attended that camp and later they decided to break up into different groups and arrange terror strikes.

It was also decided that Kerala would remain the base camp and all plans would be executed from Bihar and both these states would not be targeted as the agencies would lead up to their main modules.

Senior officials say that for long they have had a hostile feedback from the local agencies of both the states. In Kerala the officials say that the political backing for such local modules was so strong that if they did try busting it there was a better chance of them being tripped over rather than the problem being solved.

For long the problem was faced in Bihar too. In this context one much recall that when Yasin Bhatkal was arrested in 2013, the agencies wanted the Bihar police to probe him first for setting up the module in Darbhanga. The result: They refused.
Related:
Bihar: 2022-07-16 Ghazwa-e-Hind to Hinduphobia: The larger goal Islamists want to achieve
Bihar: 2022-07-15 Retired cop among two arrested in Bihar for plotting to target PM Modi
Bihar: 2022-06-03 Two worker casualties in Chadoora attqck
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Kerala: 2022-07-15 Southern Islamic Caliphate: Lankan crisis could spell bigger trouble for India
Kerala: 2022-07-15 Retired cop among two arrested in Bihar for plotting to target PM Modi
Kerala: 2022-06-23 Kerala women fall prey in global trafficking through Kuwait
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India-Pakistan
NIA charges two ISIS operatives for projecting skewed narrative of imagined injustice in India
2022-03-13
[OneIndia] The National Investigation has filed a supplementary chargesheet against two gunnies of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in connection with the Voice of Hind case.

The NIA in its supplementary chargesheet while naming Afshan Parvaiz and Towhead Latief Sofi said that they were involved in the publication of the magazine, Voice of Hind. The magazine aimed at inciting and radicalising the youth, the agency also said.

Investigations showed that the ISIS had organised a campaign in cyber space to further terror activities on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
ISIS gunnies operating from various conflict zones along with the cadres in India assumed pseudo online identities and created a network, the NIA said. Further the agency said that an India centric online propaganda magazine Voice of Hind was published on a monthly basis.

The aim of the magazine was to incite and radicalise impressionable youth by projecting a a skewed narrative of imagined injustices in India to arouse a feeling of alienation and communal hatred. During the searches the NIA seized a large number of incriminating documents and digital devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptop , hard disks and T-Shirts having ISIS logo.
Related:
Voice of Hind: 2021-09-12 ISKP may scout for Indian Mujahideen leftovers to further terror in India: Intel
Voice of Hind: 2021-08-09 With Bhatkal module crackdown, NIA arrests 2 top ISIS terrorists
Voice of Hind: 2021-07-15 In Islamic State Voice of Hind case, NIA nets three operatives from J&K
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India-Pakistan
Ahmedabad blasts: With 38 getting death, a salute to the brilliant investigators
2022-02-19
[OneIndia] On February 8 the special court had held 49 people guilty for the blast in which 56 people were killed and over 200 injured. 28 persons had been acquitted as the court did not find evidence against them.

The blast was the handiwork of the Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
which had only a year before the blast announced its arrival in Uttar Pradesh following a blast at a court. The Indian Mujahideen comprised members of the Students Islamic Movement of India. It was decided to launch the IM as the SIMI had been banned under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
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India-Pakistan
NIA arrests Bihar resident in terror funding case
2021-12-11
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested one person in Bihar's Gopalganj district in connection with a terror funding case, police said on Thursday.

The agency recovered two laptops, six mobile phones and six SIM cards from the possession of Jaffar Abbas who was picked up from Manjhagadh cop shoppe area, Superintendent of Police Anand Kumar said.

The NIA took him to New Delhi on transit remand.

"Sleuths of the NIA on Wednesday arrested Jaffar Abbas, a resident Pathra village in Gopalganj district in connection with a terror funding case," Kumar said.

The NIA had intelligence inputs that Abbas was in touch with Pakistain-based terror outfits that are providing funds for carrying-out terror activities in India.

"The local police had been keeping a close watch on the activities of Abbas for the last several days. The NIA had shared inputs about him with the district police," said the SP.
Related:
Bihar: 2021-11-02 2013 serial blasts at Modi rally: Four IM terrorists get death sentence
Bihar: 2021-10-30 Terrorist who was going to kill shopkeeper in J&K gunned down
Bihar: 2021-10-28 2013 serial blasts at Modi rally: Patna convicts 9 Indian Mujahideen terrorists
Related:
Gopalganj district: 2017-01-14 Dudu: Dhaka to be renamed as ‘Zia City’
Gopalganj district: 2016-11-25 Attacks on Hindus in Narail leave community in terror
Gopalganj district: 2016-11-04 2 more Hindu temples vandalised in Jessore, Barisal
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India-Pakistan
NIA nets key ISIS conspirator in Quran Circle case
2021-11-20
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency arrested an operative of the Islamic Sate from Bengaluru Karnataka. The accused Zuhab Hameed was involved in an ISIS conspiracy case, the NIA said.

The probe revealed that Hameed along with the other accused had raised funds, radicalised gullible Moslem youth through Koran Circle group and recruited them and illegally sent them to Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
to Join ISIS.

Zuhaib Manna had used his contacts to motivate and radicalise many impressionable Moslem youth by showing them videos depicting atrocities on Moslems in Syria.

Earlier the NIA had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Tauqir, Zuhab and Mohammad Shihab for their affiliation with the ISIS. Earlier the NIA had also arrested two accused persons namely Ahamad Abdul Cadar and Irgan Nasir.

The NIA learnt that Tauqir along with the other accused had raised funds, radicalised and recruited gullible Moslem. They had formed a group called as the Koran Circle and these recruits were sent to Syria to join the ISIS.

Earlier In 2013, Muhammad Tauqir Mahmood along with his associate had also visited Syria illegally to liaise with ISIS leadership and had offered support from Indian Moslems.
Related:
Bengaluru: 2021-10-26 Quran circle: Bengaluru based operative assured support of Indian Muslims to ISIS
Bengaluru: 2021-10-18 Withdrawing French troops, Macron gives Mali to Russian mercenaries
Bengaluru: 2021-10-09 NIA court convicts 3 al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists in 2016 Mysuru court blast case
Related:
Karnataka: 2021-10-09 NIA court convicts 3 al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists in 2016 Mysuru court blast case
Karnataka: 2021-09-19 With Islamic State in overdrive mode particularly in South India, NIA sounds a high alert
Karnataka: 2021-09-12 ISKP may scout for Indian Mujahideen leftovers to further terror in India: Intel
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India-Pakistan
2013 serial blasts at Modi rally: Four IM terrorists get death sentence
2021-11-02
[OneIndia] A Special NIA Court in Patna has awarded a death penalty
to four Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
operatives in connection with the 2013 Gandhi Maidan serial blasts. It may be recalled that the blasts took place just before Narendra Modi, the then prime ministerial candidate was to deliver an address during the Hunkar rally.

The court had last week convicted 9 persons in the case. Two other holy warriors were sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment, two to 10 years RI and one more was awarded a seven year sentence.

While 9 were convicted, one person Fakhruddin has been acquitted in the case. The sentencing of the nine accused including Haider Ali, Numan Ansari, Majibullah, Umar Siddiqui, Firoz Aslam and Imtiaz Alam will take place on November 1.

Six people were killed and scores were maimed in the serial blasts that took place in Patna, Bihar on October 27 2013. The rally however went on with Modi delivering the address, thanks to which a stampede was avoided at the packed Gandhi Maidan. The speech also calmed the nerves of the people present there.

The Indian Mujahideen was accused of carrying out the blasts. Nine IM operatives and a cadre of the Students Islamic Movement of India were made arraigned as accused in the case.

Haider Ali alias Black Beauty, Human Ansari, Mohammad Ansari, Umar Siddiqui, Azharuddin Qureshi, Faqruddin Mohammad, Ahmed Ansari, Mohammad Alam were identified as the accused. The identity of one accused was protected as he was a minor. The minor was sentenced to three years by the Juvenile Justice Board.

One accused, Tariq Ansari died while trying to plant a bomb inside a public toilet in Patna. The accused are currently launched in a Patna jail.

The case was taken up by the NIA on November 6 2013 and a chargesheet was filed on August 21 2014. The NIA said that the accused had planned the Patna blasts after they failed to get close to Modi during his previous rallies in Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi.

In this case there were 250 prosecution witnesses all of whom deposed before the court. In all there were 17 IEDS of which seven had been detonated.
Related:
Gandhi Maidan: 2021-10-28 2013 serial blasts at Modi rally: Patna convicts 9 Indian Mujahideen terrorists
Gandhi Maidan: 2013-11-02 Penetrating the web of terror networks
Gandhi Maidan: 2013-10-28 Bombs at Narendra Modi rally
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India-Pakistan
2013 serial blasts at Modi rally: Patna convicts 9 Indian Mujahideen terrorists
2021-10-28
[OneIndia] A Special NIA Court in Patna has convicted 9 accused in connection with the 2013 Gandhi Maidan serial blasts. It may be recalled that the blasts took place just before Narendra Modi, the then prime ministerial candidate was to deliver an address during the Hunkar rally.

While 9 were convicted, one person Fakhruddin has been acquitted in the case. The sentencing of the nine accused including Haider Ali, Numan Ansari, Majibullah, Umar Siddiqui, Firoz Aslam and Imtiaz Alam will take place on November 1.

Six people were killed and scores were maimed in the serial blasts that took place in Patna, Bihar on October 27 2013. The rally however went on with Modi delivering the address, thanks to which a stampede was avoided at the packed Gandhi Maidan. The speech also calmed the nerves of the people present there.

The Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
was accused of carrying out the blasts. Nine IM operatives and a cadre of the Students Islamic Movement of India were made arraigned as accused in the case.

Haider Ali alias Black Beauty, Human Ansari, Mohammad Ansari, Umar Siddiqui, Azharuddin Qureshi, Faqruddin Mohammad, Ahmed Ansari, Mohammad Alam were identified as the accused.

The identity of one accused was protected as he was a minor. The minor was sentenced to three years by the Juvenile Justice Board.

One accused, Tariq Ansari died while trying to plant a bomb inside a public toilet in Patna. The accused are currently launched in a Patna jail.

The case was taken up by the NIA on November 6 2013 and a chargesheet was filed on August 21 2014. The NIA said that the accused had planned the Patna blasts after they failed to get close to Modi during his previous rallies in Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi.

In this case there were 250 prosecution witnesses all of whom deposed before the court. In all there were 17 IEDS of which seven had been detonated.
Related:
Gandhi Maidan: 2013-11-02 Penetrating the web of terror networks
Gandhi Maidan: 2013-10-28 Bombs at Narendra Modi rally
Related:
Students Islamic Movement of India: 2021-03-06 Mathura court issues warrant to produce two terror accused PFI activists before it from Lucknow jail
Students Islamic Movement of India: 2021-02-19 Maal-e-Ganimat: 11 JMB operatives charged for dacoity intended to raise terror funds
Students Islamic Movement of India: 2017-06-10 Banned DeM operates freely in Kashmir
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Afghanistan
Why Islamic State could spoil the Chinese party in Afghanistan
2021-10-23
[OneIndia] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
has been looking to make Afghanistan its stronghold. It even launched the Islamic State Khorasan Province and has so far shown that it can be very lethal.

While it has carried out a series of attacks in the past years, since the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
took over it carried out three strikes which are deadly in nature. This month alone saw two high profile attacks against the Shiite Moslems who had gathered for Friday prayers in the cities of Kunduz and Kandahar. Prior to this the ISKP had carried out a lethal suicide kaboom at the Kabul airport just days after the US withdrew in August.

The ISIS since its inception has exploited divisions in the regions. It has recruited disgruntled elements from the Taliban and the Tehrik-e-Taliban as well. While the outfit does pose a big threat, a worry lies ahead for China, which is looking to expand its footprint in the Afghan region.

The ISKP is likely to take advantage of the situation where the Uyghur Moslems are concerned. It would look to recruit more and more Uyghurs and this would pose a threat to China.

The ISIS would also take advantage of the fact that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) has been removed from the Terrorist Exclusion List by the US. The US justified the decision by stating that the ETIM does not exist any longer.

Further the ISKP would also look to the Uyghur group called the Turkestan Islamic Party
...a Uighur jihadi group based in Badakshan, Afghanistan and listed under Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Al Qaeda organization table. Their Syrian subsidiary currently reports to Al Nusra in the Idlib-Latakia region, where the Russians and Americans have been taking turns shooting them — they’re on their third Number 1 in three years...
which is active in Syria and Afghanistan.

While these groups have tilted more towards the al-Qaeda in the past, their loyalties are fast moving towards the Islamic State. If this scenario were to occur, the group would pose a major threat to Chinese interests as well as the Taliban.

Among the several nations, China has been the most supportive of the Taliban. It is a well known fact that the ISKP and Taliban are at logger heads. The Taliban has openly urged China to invest in Afghanistan and if this were to take place, then the ISKP would look to hit along with the Uyghur Moslems who have posed trouble to China.

Further there is plenty of turmoil within the Taliban. It is never clear whether the Taliban would continue to fight as a united front considering their differences with the Haqqani Network. All these events would provide the perfect fodder for the ISKP which has been known to make use of the differences in a region and carry out attacks.

Considering that the Taliban is not a united front, it would find it hard to control both the ISKP and ETIM which will pose a large risk to China.
Related:
Khorasan Province: 2021-09-29 ISIS recruitment drive in overdrive mode since Kabul airport attack
Khorasan Province: 2021-09-21 Afghan Suicide Bomber Released From CIA Jail When US Forces Abandoned Bagram Air Base; Originally Aimed at New Delhi
Khorasan Province: 2021-09-12 ISKP may scout for Indian Mujahideen leftovers to further terror in India: Intel
Related:
East Turkestan Islamic Movement: 2021-08-02 Qureshi Says Taliban Will Keep Daesh Out of Afghanistan: Media
East Turkestan Islamic Movement: 2021-07-30 Foreign Fighters' Presence Increasing in North: Koofi
East Turkestan Islamic Movement: 2020-08-05 Foreign jihadists launch big attack in northern Latakia
Related:
Turkestan Islamic Party: 2021-08-02 Qureshi Says Taliban Will Keep Daesh Out of Afghanistan: Media
Turkestan Islamic Party: 2021-07-30 Foreign Fighters' Presence Increasing in North: Koofi
Turkestan Islamic Party: 2021-02-28 Russian Air Force launches massive attack on jihadist headquarters in northeast Latakia: video
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Afghanistan
Afghan Suicide Bomber Released From CIA Jail When US Forces Abandoned Bagram Air Base; Originally Aimed at New Delhi
2021-09-21
[Red State] When a suicide bomber blew himself up at a US military control point on the fringes of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, killing 11 Marines, one sailor, and one soldier, and he created the third highest single-day casualty total for the entire 20-year war (see Yesterday Was One of the Bloodiest Days in the Afghan War Because of the Choices Joe Biden Made and He Owns the Outcome). He also set in motion a sequence of events that eventually resulted in the United States killing ten civilians, seven of them children, in a drone attack that was to ostensibly destroy another suicide bomb threat and added ignominy to the already disgraceful US exit from Afghanistan.

Now an Indian outlet, Firstpost, is reporting that the bomber was in US custody at Bagram Air Base up until our unmanly and precipitous flight on July 5 when we fled from that critical installation without bothering to tell our Afghan allies that we were leaving:
The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.

Afghanistan’s army showed off the sprawling air base Monday, providing a rare first glimpse of what had been the epicenter of America’s war to unseat the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks on America.

The U.S. announced Friday it had completely vacated its biggest airfield in the country in advance of a final withdrawal the Pentagon says will be completed by the end of August.

"We (heard) some rumor that the Americans had left Bagram ... and finally by seven o’clock in the morning, we understood that it was confirmed that they had already left Bagram," Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, Bagram’s new commander said.

The Taliban subsequently seized Bagram on August 15, and thousands of prisoners returned to action. Here is Pentagon goof John Kirby admitting that the US military didn’t know how many prisoners were freed, but they numbered in the "thousands."

The Kabul Airport bomber was originally tasked to attack Delhi

[OneIndia] The jacket wallah of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Khorasan Province (ISKP), Abdul Rehman was originally handpicked to carry out a major attack in New Delhi. Rehman who hails from Afghanistan was the some of a merchant who frequented India for business.

Rehman had taken admission at an engineering college in Noida and he was handpicked to strike in the national capital due to his familiarity with New Delhi. He was however arrested after he came under the radar of the Delhi Police and Research and Analysis Wing.

However after his arrest, he was extradited to Afghanistan and was questioned by the CIA before being put in jail. During his questioning in 2019, he gave information about a top ISKP leader, Firstpost said in a report. The US then eliminated that leader in a dronezap.

An official speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
told OneIndia that the ISKP which had commenced operations in Afghanistan had planned on a major attack in Delhi in the year 2016. The ISKP was actively recruiting Indians, especially from Kerala and felt that a major attack of this nature would help boost recruitments further.

The plot was however foiled by the Indian agencies and this led to the arrest of Rehman. However following the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
takeover of Afghanistan, Rehman was among the many ISKP murderous Moslems who were released from jail.

Rehman following his release was roped in by the ISKP to carry out the bombing at the Kabul Airport, following the withdrawal by the US troops. The ISIS' official news agency, Amaq said after the bombing that a member called Abdul Rahman al-Pashtun-infested Logari had carried out the martyrdom operation near the Kabul Airport.
Abdul Rahman al-Pashtuni? What a clever nom de guerre, and now entered into the Rantburg archives.
Analysts say that for the ISKP, the Kabul bombing was a major success as it not only did great damage, but also boosted the morale of their terrorists. The ISKP was founded just six years back in Afghanistan. The ISKP focused on recruiting disgruntled Taliban commanders and other murderous Moslems who felt marginalised within the Jihadi ranks. The ISKP which had over 6,000 fighters when it was founded, now has just 1,500 members. It has been at war with the Taliban, but has not found much success.
Related:
Khorasan Province: 2021-09-12 ISKP may scout for Indian Mujahideen leftovers to further terror in India: Intel
Khorasan Province: 2021-09-05 Chaos in Kabul and the lurking danger of Keralites who joined the ISIS trying to return
Khorasan Province: 2021-08-28 The view from India: What we know about the Islamic State Khorasan Province
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India-Pakistan
With Islamic State in overdrive mode particularly in South India, NIA sounds a high alert
2021-09-19
[OneIndia] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
is trying to further operations in the country. The recent chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency is a clear indicator of how dangerous the group is.

The ISIS had in fact scouted for land in the forests of South India to set up training camps and launch pads. In addition to this, the agency has also noticed an increase in online activity by the group.

The primary concern is still Kerala and the highest number of recruits are emerging from that state an officer told OneIndia on condition of anonymity. The NIA has so far investigated 37 cases of terror attacks, conspiracy and funding which have been inspired by the ISIS ideology.

The most recent case by the was registered by the NIA in June 2021. In all 168 accused have been arrested in these cases, while chargesheets have been filed in 31 cases and 27 accused have been convicted.

Investigation by NIA has revealed that IS (Islamic State) is trying to spread its tentacles in India through continuous propaganda online. Gullible youth are targeted on open social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Once a person shows interest, he or she is then enticed to communicate with online handlers based abroad using encrypted social media platforms. Depending on the gullibility of the person, the handlers then use the person for uploading online content, translation of IS texts to local language, conspiracy, preparation of a module, collection of arms and ammunition, preparation of IEDs, terror funding and even attacks, the NIA said in a statement.

An appeal is being made that any such activity noticed on the internet maybe brought to the notice of the authorities. NIA may be contacted at 011-24368800, the NIA further added in its statement.

During the course of the investigations, the NIA learnt that these operatives were in the process of setting up an ISIS Daishwilayah or province inside the jungles of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. When it was unraveled in 2020, the NIA said that this was the first of its kind plot.

The case arose following the arrest of a few persons who had conspired at Salem and Chennai who had fraudulently activated SIM cards by using multiple identity documents of various persons without their knowledge and consent.

The NIA in its chargesheet said that there were 20 members part of this module, which was headed by Mehboob Pasha, a Bengaluru based operative and Khaja Moideen from Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu.

They had planned on visiting Shivanasamudra in Karnataka and identify a place in the jungle where training could be imparted. Before they were busted by the NIA, they had already procured tents, bows, arrows, boots, arms, ammunition, sleeping bags, ropes and ladders. They had also procured a large quantity of firecrackers to extract explosive content and make IEDs, the NIA chargesheet read.

Further the NIA also learnt that they had scouted for similar hideouts in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, Kolar, Kodagu (Karnataka), Burdwan, Siliguri (West Bengal) and Chittor in Andhra Pradesh. They wanted to set up ISIS provinces in these jungles and then launch systematic attacks with the primary intention of killing Hindu leaders, government officials, coppers and politicians, the NIA said.
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Terror module busted in Delhi, UP shows Dawood is still prime asset for ISI
2021-09-15
[OneIndia] The busting of two ISI sponsored modules, one by the Delhi Police and another by the UP ATS is clearly a sign of the Pakistain spy agencies trying to up the ante ahead of the elections to be held next year.

While the Delhi Police arrested 6 persons who were planning attacks during the festival season, the UP police picked up 3 persons following raids at Lucknow, Rae Bareli and Pratapgarh.

The Delhi Police said that the six persons were planning major attacks in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra during the festival season. The police also said that the accused persons had visited Pakistain. In Pakistain they were taken to a town near the Gwadar port and were trained by two persons from the Pakistain Army.

The training imparted to them involved preparing IEDs, using firearms, AK-47s and committing arson with the help of items of daily use.

The module was busted after the police received intelligence that a Pakistain sponsored module was planning on executing a series of attacks in the country. The police following the raids arrested, Jaan Mohammad Sheikh (47 years old) of Mumbai, Osama (22) of Delhi, Moolchand (47) of Raebareli, Zeeshan Qamar (28) of Prayagraj, Mohammad Abu Bakar (23) of Bahraich, and Mohammad Amir Javed (31) of Lucknow.

Osama and Qamar travelled to Muscat and from there they were taken to Pakistain on a boat. They stayed in Pakistain at a farmhouse in Thatta for 15 days and during this period they received training, senior special cell officer, Neeraj Thakur said.

During the probe the role of Dawood Ibrahim's brother too was revealed. The police learnt that Dawood's brother Anees Ibrahim was coordinating the execution of the attacks. He was also handling the recruitments, finance, logistics and transport through underworld channels largely based in Mumbai.

The ISI has often used Dawood's underworld network to carry out attacks in India. The channel is also crucial for the ISI to ferry across drugs into India and Sri-Lanka, the proceeds of which are used to fund terror activities.

The role of the Dawood network was suspected in the Mumbai train bombings as well as the 26/11 attacks. Considering the underworld knows the city of Mumbai very well, the D-Company
...the Dawood Ibrahim mob. Dawood's an international mobster allied with various terror groups including al-Qaeda. The Pak govt can't seem to catch him, despite having his address and phone number...
has been instrumental in providing logistic support. The first time the name of Dawood cropped up in an act of terror was during the Mumbai 1993 blasts case.

In the current case, the police learnt that an underworld operative Sameer was hired by a Pakistain based person. He coordinated with his contacts to ensure the delivery of arms and ammunition.

An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that Dawood continues to be an asset for the ISI. It is a well known fact that he lives under the protection of the Pakistain spy agency. While Pakistain continues to deny his presence on its soil, his whereabouts and the operations he launches from the country has come to light on several occasions.

A recent probe by the NIA into the seizure of 300 kilograms of drugs off the coast of Vizhinjam revealed the role of Pakistain. It was found that the operatives were in touch with a Pakistain based drug runner Haji Salim. This is very much part of the Dawood cartel which operates in Pakistain, India and Sri Lanka, an officer explained. The ISI has upped narcotic trade in a bid to use it to orchestrate terror attacks in India, the official also said.
Another One India article adds:
"They formed 2 teams-one was being coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anees Ibrahim. It was tasked to get the arms into India from across the border and keeping them concealed here.The other team was to arrange funding via Hawala," he said.

"The arrested have stated that there were 14-15 Bangla speaking persons in their group who might have been taken for similar training. It looks like this operation was closely coordinated from across the border," said Neeraj Thakur, Special CP, Delhi Police Special Cell.
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Lucknow: 2021-08-06 NIA arrests main conspirator in killing of Ramalingam who opposed conversions to Islam
Lucknow: 2021-07-22 Money, marriage, jobs: How Dawah Center converted 1,000 Hindus to Islam
Lucknow: 2021-07-15 In Khalistan extortion case, NIA arrests top arms trafficker from UP
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Pratapgarh: 2008-02-12 2 more held in CRPF camp attack case
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Thatta: 2019-05-15 After several other cities, Thatta reports five HIV cases
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