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What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden |
2014-03-19 |
The excerpt is just a small chunk. Many thanks to Paul D.[NY Times] It took more than three years before the depth of Pakistain's relationship with Al Qaeda was thrust into the open and the world learned where Bin Laden had been hiding, just a few hundred yards from Pakistain's top military academy. In May 2011, I drove with a Pak colleague down a road in Abbottabad |
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Release of Qari Saifullah Akhtar stirs questions |
2011-01-10 |
[Pak Daily Times] He is a self-declared warrior against US and NATO troops in Afghanistan. He allegedly ran terrorist training camps there when the Taliban was in power. He was suspected of involvement in the attempted liquidation of two Pak leaders. And today, Qari Saifullah Akhtar is free. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said he was released from four months of house arrest in early December because authorities finished questioning him in connection with the October 2007 attempted liquidation of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and found no grounds to charge him. Benazir was killed in December the same year. However, The infamous However... one US official said Akhtar had extensive ties to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and is someone who should not be free to walk around the streets of Pakistain or any other country. Former US intelligence officials and analysts said Akhtar's release was yet another sign of Pakistain's reluctance or inability to crack down on the most dangerous terrorist organisations. The leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Saeed, was freed from custody on more than one occasion and is currently free. LeT, headquartered in Punjab, is believed to be the criminal mastermind behind the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. As part of Pakistain's battle with India, the military and intelligence helped train and arm Death Eater groups who fought in the disputed Kashmire region. Many of those groups cut their teeth on guerrilla warfare in the US-backed 1980s bad boy war against Russian soldiers in Afghanistan. But military and intelligence officials have said their relationship with such groups was severed after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which marked a turning point that moved Pakistain into a closer alliance with the US. However there are lingering concerns that some links with cut-throats remain. Pak military officials say the military and intelligence services fighting faceless myrmidons in the northwestern tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan are stretched too thin to open another front against cut-throats in the Punjab. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the media. A number of Death Eater groups active within Pakistain are headquartered in Punjab, where 60 percent of the country's 170 million people live. Military officials said that gathering actionable intelligence in the tribal regions, where some al Qaeda's leaders are believed to be hiding, has been deadly. A senior intelligence official said Pakistain had lost more than 50 spies killed by Death Eaters. "I think it is clear that Akhtar is going to go back to the front lines of the fight against the US, which complicates our mission in Afghanistan, and threatens the stability and security of the region in general," says Charles Bacon, a US-based intelligence analyst. Pak and US analysts say Akhtar's release reflects a growing lack of control by the country's security agencies over one-time prodigies who have broken away and turned their weapons on the state. Muhammed Amir Rana, who runs the Pakistain Institute for Peace Studies, said freeing Akhtar was a desperate attempt by the security agencies to reunite Death Eater groups whose members have splintered into smaller groups and in some cases, turned against Pakistain because of its support for the US-led war in Afghanistan and its attacks on the Taliban at home. |
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Pakistan releases Qari Saifullah Akhtar |
2011-01-07 |
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Pakistan prosecutor: Americans linked to militants |
2010-04-17 |
The Pakistani government presented evidence in court Saturday that allegedly showed contacts between five detained Americans and a reputed al-Qaida-linked militant leader, revealing the leader's identity for the first time, a prosecutor said. The northern Virginia men are on trial charged with planning terrorist attacks in Pakistan and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with it. They deny any wrongdoing. But prosecutors say they made contact with Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami militant network, which is believed to have extensive contacts with al-Qaida and the Taliban. Akhtar has been arrested twice before - in the United Arab Emirates in 2004 and by Pakistani authorities in 2008 - but released each time for unknown reasons. At the time of his arrest in 2008, he was publicly accused of involvement in a failed attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007. Prosecutor Nadeem Akram said the evidence produced Saturday at the court includes documents, phone call logs and retrieved e-mails. The court sessions are taking place behind closed doors in a high security prison in Sargodha. The Americans, all in their late teens or early 20s, were arrested in December in Sargodha, a city in Punjab province. They were reported missing by their families in November after one left behind a farewell video showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended. The prosecution has so far presented 13 witnesses in the trial. Defense lawyer Hasan Dastagir alleged police had fabricated the evidence. He said he would produce enough evidence to convince judges of their innocence. Amal Khalifa, mother of Ramy Zamzam, one of the accused, said her son looked gaunt when she briefly visited him in jail, where he was being held with four friends. Kahlifa's son described being stretched out by both arms and beaten on the torso. He also said he was deprived of sleep. She said her son was in Pakistan to attend a wedding. |
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Recruiter of suicide bombers for Taliban apprehended |
2009-08-18 |
[Geo News] Saifullah, an important and right hand commander of Baitullah Mehsud and his accomplice has been apprehended in Islamabad. I believe this might be Qari Saifullah, which is maybe the same guy as Qari Saifullah Akhtar. According to sources Saifullah came under predator strike in South Waziristan, sustaining serious injuries on shoulder and back. Qari Saifullah Akhtar would be important enough to merit his own drone strike. His wounds could not be cured due to lack of medical facilities in South Waziristan, so he was brought to Islamabad in a highly secret move. Pray for sepsis... Commander Saifullah was arrested from a house in Baharakaho area while raids are being conducted to arrest his associates. "Come out witcher hands up, Saifullah!" "You'll never [wheeze!] take me [gasp!] alive [grunt!], coppers! [thud!]" "Mahmoud! Go in and get him! And bring the stretcher guys!" Sources said, Saifullah who hailed from Burewala was assigned the task of recruiting suicide bombers besides running a terror network in Southern Punjab. The accused had been involved in executing major terror activities in the country including the bomb blasts in Dera Ghazi Khan. Police has also arrested Saifullah's accomplice Zahid from the jurisdiction of Secretariat Police Station. Both the accused are associated with Qari Hamza Group a wing of the banned Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, police said. They have been shifted to unknown location for investigation. |
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Mehsud's role in Benazir murder dubious |
2009-08-11 |
Despite been tagged by the Musharraf regime as the mastermind of Benazir Bhutto's December 2007 gruesome assassination, the involvement of Baitullah Mehsud in the murder of the former premier remains dubious keeping in view the TTP chief's own denials as well as Benazir's declaration shortly before her death that people like Baitullah were mere pawns and what worried her was the threat from within the Musharraf regime. While Benazir had named in her posthumous book Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI) chief Qari Saifullah Akhtar as a key suspect in the Oct 18, 2007 bid to kill her in Karachi, and she had desired in her Oct 20, 2007 email to Wolf Blitzer of the CNN that President Gen Pervez Musharraf should be named as her assassin in the event of her murder. Instead, the Musharraf regime was quick to name Baitullah Mehsud, the Amir of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as the mastermind of the Dec 27, 2007 suicide attack in Rawalpindi that killed Ms Bhutto. Addressing his first press conference after Benazir's murder, Asif Zardari had made public her email to Wolf Blitzer which mentioned the name of her would-be assassin. "The said email should be treated as Bhutto's dying declaration. She talks about her murderers from her grave and it is up to the world to listen to the echoes," Zardari had stated. Benazir Bhutto wrote to Wolf Blitzer in her email: "If it is God's will, nothing will happen to me. But if anything happened to me, I would hold Gen Pervez Musharraf responsible." Blitzer received the email on Oct 26, 2007 from Mark Siegel, a friend of Benazir. That was eight days after she had narrowly escaped a twin suicide attempt on her life in Karachi. Benazir wrote to Wolf: "I have been made to feel insecure by Musharrafís minions." |
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The Fluttering Flag of Jehad | ||||
2009-04-19 | ||||
By Amir Mir - Mashal Books Lahore 2008 Pp306; Price Rs 700 Amir Mir has developed into an informed commentator on the state of jihad with an uncomfortable inside track with those who are supposed to counter it in Pakistan. Of course jihad has unfortunately become another name for terrorism and those who have taken it out of the roster of the functions of the state and privatised it are to blame for this development. Amir Mir was able to interview Benazir Bhutto just before she fell to the terrorism of Al Qaeda or whoever it was who assassinated her in December 2007. She thought Pervez Musharraf was secretly in league with the terrorists and had tried to kill her in Karachi in October 2007, and was sure he would get terrorists like Abdur Rehman Otho of Lashkar-e Jhangvi and Qari Saifullah Akhtar of Harkat Jihad Islami, protégés of the ISI, to do the job. She named Brigadier Ijaz Shah and Brigadier Riaz Chibb etc. in her final writings. She predicted her death and blamed it on the army; months later, Major General Faisal Alvi too predicted his own death at the hands of the army and was shot down in Islamabad. Musharraf claimed that Benazir was killed by Baitullah Mehsud through his suicide-bombers whose minder was taped talking to him on the phone about the achievement. Evidence in place was destroyed by the establishment, and questions arising from her murder could not be answered although Al Qaeda was at first quoted in the press as having taken care of the most precious American asset in the words of Mustafa Abu Yazid, the Al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan. Benazir had her moles inside the ISI (p.28); but Amir doesnt accept that Baitullah Mehsud killed her and gives a convincing critique of the findings of Scotland Yard. Now a lot of writers use inside information from the US government to claim that Musharraf was sympathetic to the Taliban as they fled from the US attack in 2001. Amir Mir tells us that Corps Commander Peshawar General Safdar Hussain, who signed the peace accord with Baitullah Mehsud at Sararogha near Wana in February 2005, had called him a soldier of peace even as Mehsuds warriors shouted Death to America. Major General Faisal Alvi was to accuse some elements in the army high command of being on the side of the Taliban before his assassination in 2008. Baitullah rewarded General Hussain with 200 captured Pakistani troops in August 2007. Benazir believed Qari Saifullah Akhtar was involved in the attempt on her life in Karachi in October 2007 (p.43). Qari was in prison for trying to kill Musharraf in 2004 and was sprung from there to do the job on Benazir. Musharraf was outraged when he got to know that an ISI protégé had tried to kill him from his safe haven in Dubai after fleeing from Afghanistan in 2001. Qari was special because he was rescued by the spooks after he was found involved in trying to stage a military coup in league with Islamist fanatic Major General Zaheerul Islam Abbasi in 1995. He along with his Harkat Jihad Islami was to become the favourite of the Taliban government. The place to be mined for leadership talent was Karachis Banuri Mosque where the Qari and that other protégé Fazlur Rehman Khalil had received their Deobandi orientation. The third Banuri Mosque protégé of the state was Maulana Masud Azhar, who formed Jaish-e Muhammad and was rescued from an Indian jail together with Omar Sheikh, the man who later helped kill Daniel Pearl in Karachi. Qari was recalled from Dubai and kept in custody, and the Lahore High Court did not release him on a habeas corpus petition. But he was released quietly before Benazir arrived in Pakistan in October 2007 (p.45). After Benazir named him in her posthumous book, Qari was arrested again in March 2008. The reaction came in the shape of a suicide attacks on the Naval War College and the FIA office in Lahore where Qaris terrorists were being kept for interrogation into the War College attack (p.47). A Karachi terrorist court heard the case against Qari and freed him on bail because the proof with which the prosecution could have proved him guilty had disappeared. Later he was rearrested but then quietly released by the Home Department because the spooks wanted him freed (p.48).
Fazlur Rehman Khalil is another protected person who lives in Islamabad but governments hardly know what he has been saying to the American authors who visit him. When Islamabad got into trouble with its own clerics in Lal Masjid, it was Khalil who was taken out and made to negotiate with them (p.109). He is the sort of person who can some day get Pakistan into trouble after which Islamabad will have to say he has mysteriously left the country and cannot be produced. He is Osama bin Ladens man and his Harkatul Mujahideen was prominent among the jihadi organisations in Kashmir and ran training camps for warriors in Dhamial just outside Rawalpindi, at least that is what an American suspect Hamid Hayat told the FBI after visiting it (p.108). It is not only Dr AQ Khan whom Pakistan has to save from being kidnapped by the anti-proliferationist West, there is also Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, the top scientist who enriched uranium at Khushab and then conferred with Osama bin Laden about building a nuclear bomb when he was in Kabul looking after his charity organisation called Umma Tameer Nau (p.111). He is the crazy bearded man who once presented a paper to General Zia saying Pakistan could make electricity from jinns. He also thought he could use a nuclear bomb to clear up a silted Tarbela Dam. Daniel Pearl was on to him, but he got killed when he got close to another protected person.
The other person was Mubarak Shah Gilani, a scion of the great Sufi of Lahore, Mianmir, who actually controlled jinns and ran a jihadi organisation named Al Fuqra still alive and doing well in the UKs Londonistan. He had recruited Richard Reid, the Shoe Bomber terrorist who was caught before he could blow up an aircraft. Daniel Pearl had traced Mubarak Shah Gilani to Karachi and was going to interview him when he was tricked by Omar Sheikh into going with Lashkar-e Jhangvi gunmen who then handed him over to Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, who confessed at Guantanamo to personally beheading him (p.116). Omar Sheikh, who got involved in planning the 9/11 strike, was finally made to surrender after sheltering in home secretary and ex-ISI officer Ijaz Shahs residence in Lahore for a week. The book says on page 122 that the ISI chief General Mehmood was later investigated by FBI for sending $100,000 to plane hijacker Atta, who led the 9/11 strike on the World Trade Centre. The conduit for Mehmood was Omar Sheikh. The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearls paper, reported that an examination of Omar Sheikhs telephone record showed him talking to General Mehmood, proving also that the money sent by General Mehmood through Omar Sheikh was funding for the New York strike (p.122). General Musharraf in his book reported, as if in rebuttal, that Omar Sheikh was first recruited by the British spy agency MI6.
The book also reports that the hijacking done by Masood Azhars brother Abdul Rauf and brother-in-law Yusuf Azhar of an Indian airliner that led to the release of Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar from an Indian jail was linked to the ISI because its Quetta-based officers talked to the hijackers on the wireless set at Kandahar (p.128). Masood Azhar then went on to attack the Parliament in New Delhi in 2001, a month after 9/11. ISI chief Javed Ashraf Qazi on March 6, 2004 admitted that Jaish was involved in the New Delhi parliament assault (p.134). Later Jaish militants were to be housed in Lal Masjid during its siege by state troops in 2007 (p.141). An interesting chapter is included on the infiltration of the Pakistani cricket team by the Tablighi Jamaat. As a result, the team under captain Inzamam-ul Haq lost its playing ability to its obsession with tabligh and conversion. Media manager PJ Mir accused the team of neglecting the game during the 2007 World Cup and spending all the time trying to convert the innocent people of the West Indies (p.204). | ||||
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HUJI chief still at large |
2008-09-24 |
Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI) chief, suspected of involvement in the Marriott Hotel suicide bombing, is still at large. Benazir Bhutto had alleged in her posthumous book that Qari Saifullah, who had played a lead role in a 1995 failed coup plot to topple her second government, had masterminded the October 18, 2007 deadly suicide attack on her welcome procession in Karachi Shortly before her assassination, Benazir Bhutto was putting final touches to her hard-hitting memoirs: "Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West", which were published by Simon & Schuster six weeks after her death. |
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Qari Saifullah Akhtar makes bail | ||||
2008-06-17 | ||||
The police have freed a key suspect in a suicide bombing that killed around 150 people at last years homecoming rally for former premier Benazir Bhutto, an official said on Monday.
Akhtars lawyer Hashmat Habib said he was freed because of a lack of evidence. He is a free person. There is no case against him anywhere in Pakistan, Habib said, adding that the authorities had facilitated his return to Lahore.
A court in Karachi released him on bail after police said they had no evidence against him, but he was re-arrested in late March under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance. He met Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden several times in Afghanistan, security officials said. The attorney admitted that Akhtar used to command a guerrilla group that fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but said his client had renounced militancy, denying that Akhtar had anything to do with the Karachi attack, AP reported.
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War against Pakistan |
2008-03-30 |
By Cyril Almeida AS the transfer of power to the incoming coalition government nears completion, there is troubling evidence that the countrys new civilian leaders are not gearing up to face the threat that Islamic militancy poses to the state. While the incoming coalition does consider militancy a problem it appears to view the threat as a law and order issue rather than a creeping challenge to the state. Away from the politics of Islamabad, however, there is a consensus amongst security analysts that the wave of suicide bombings across the country is part of a growing challenge to the writ of the state originating from the tribal areas. The difference between the views of the politicians and analysts appears to boil down to the role of the intelligence agencies. The evolution of Afghan jihadists of the 1980s to todays suicide bombers via the Kashmir insurgency and the Taliban regime is an open secret and few question the role of the intelligence apparatus in nurturing that progression. Today, the problem is that neither the civilian elite nor the general public is convinced that suicide bombers are no longer under the control of intelligence handlers who have guided the activities of militants for over two decades now. This scepticism of the intelligence agencies is perhaps a paradoxical result of the states success in the recent past in reining in militants operating in Kashmir. It is, however, a false comparison. Crossing the Line of Control and operating in Indian-occupied Kashmir required coordination with the Pakistani military apparatus. Operating inside Pakistan does not require the states complicity. The militants are already here and able to blend in easily with the local population, especially the Punjabi Taliban. Containing rogue elements within this militant structure from operating inside Pakistan is more difficult and there is mounting evidence that elements within these groups are no longer under the control of their handlers. Consider the case of perhaps the most well-known Punjabi Taliban, Qari Saifullah Akhtar. The former Amir of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HJI) is indelibly linked in the public mind to Benazir Bhutto. In the mid-1990s he was a suspect in a plot to topple and kill the prime minister, while more recently he has been posthumously accused by Ms Bhutto of orchestrating the Oct 18 attack on her caravan in Karachi. Behind this public image, however, Qari and HJI are firmly linked to the intelligence apparatus. Qaris organisation, which stretches from Kandahar to Azad Kashmir and from Chechnya to Myanmar and is linked to seminaries in Sinkiang (China), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Karachi, has been nurtured by the intelligence apparatus since its formation in 1980. Writing in 2002, Khaled Ahmed, an expert on militant groups, stated: [HJI] has branch offices in 40 districts and tehsils in Pakistan, including Sargodha, Dera Ghazi Khan, Multan, Khanpur, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Mianwali, Bannu, Kohat, Waziristan, Dera Ismail Khan, Swabi and Peshawar. In the wake of the ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, HJI was dislodged from its base there and its militants were scattered across the globe. Some settled in Waziristan, while others sought space in the NWFP to continue training for raids in Indian-held Kashmir. The problem was that even as HJI was put into cold storage by its intelligence handlers, Al Qaeda and the Taliban had an eye on the militants of HJI and similar groups. HJI in particular had old links to Al Qaeda. In 1992, Osama bin Laden is believed to have aided the setting up of the Bangladeshi chapter of HJI under the leadership of Shaukat Osman. In 1998, HJI joined bin Ladens International Islamic Front upon its formation. Similarly, Qari was close to Mullah Omar of the Taliban and his forces fought alongside and trained the Taliban in camps in Kotli, Kandahar, Kabul and Khost. In seeking now to take its battle against the state beyond the tribal areas, Al Qaeda has capitalised on its HJI connections and recruited the organisations militants, the Punjabi Taliban, to launch suicide attacks in Pakistans urban centres. The intelligence apparatus, at least, is aware of this development and is quietly working to capture these militants. The Asia Times has reported that a Special Investigation Authority (SIA) has been set up jointly by Pakistani and US intelligence to track down Al Qaedas latest recruits. The suicide attack on a house in Model Town, Lahore, is believed to be a botched attempt by the militants to strike at one of the SIAs safe houses. Publicly, however, there is no discussion of these developments. The problem that the intelligence apparatus faces in exposing Al Qaedas new henchmen is straightforward: they are the same elements nurtured to fight in Kashmir and alongside the Taliban. Exposing the new threat is, to put it mildly, awkward. There is, however, one significant person who is alert to the militant threat: Gen Kayani. According to a report in The New York Times, Gen Kayanis immediate priority as army chief is to reorient the army towards counter-terrorism. The general is, however, facing stiff resistance from senior officers who believe that the primary role of the Pakistan Army is to counter the Indian threat. The incoming government must act decisively to support Gen Kayanis counter-terrorism efforts. Indeed, alert minds in the coalition government will see a unique dovetailing of civilian and army interests. Support the army chief in his bid to take on the militants and two benefits will be apparent. One, politicians will earn the gratitude of the army chief, a significant bonus in this time of transition. Second, if the security situation deteriorates alarmingly Gen Kayani may be reluctant to consider a takeover when the civilian government is solidly behind him. The PPP must also act cautiously in pursuing the link between Qari Saifullah and the attacks on Ms Bhutto. Given the association between the intelligence apparatus and HJI, a media trial will make many in that apparatus squeamish. While it is imperative that sympathisers of militants in intelligence circles be weeded out, this must not be at the cost of institutional demoralisation. By fighting yesterdays battles, the incoming government could lose todays war. It may be galling but it is a legacy of state interference. The incoming government must instead focus on altering the public perception that there is no real threat to Pakistan from Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Countering this perception is difficult but more openness would be a start. The ban on reporters in the tribal areas and other trouble spots must be lifted. The government fears that images of death and destruction caused by US and Pakistani military action will inflame public sentiment. This is true to an extent; however, blocking access to the area has simply allowed the enemy to shape public opinion. The government can take a page out of the US playbook and embed journalists with troops operating in the region. The regular attacks troops come under and the views of pacifist indigenous tribes will portray a more complex situation than that of a foreign military killing the local population. Whatever course of action the incoming government takes will be fraught with difficulties. The key though is to act decisively. If the incoming government dithers, the coming crisis will almost make people yearn for the simpler days of a tussle between the presidency and the judiciary. |
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Bhutto attack suspect rearrested in Pakistan | ||
2008-03-28 | ||
KARACHI - An alleged Al-Qaeda militant detained over a bombing at Benazir Bhuttos homecoming parade which killed 139 people was rearrested soon after he was freed on bail by a court, officials said on Thursday.
The court in the southern city of Karachi had ordered police to produce evidence as soon as possible. But officials on Thursday said Akhtar was immediately detained again under public order maintenance law for one month. We have received the custody of the suspect from police for 30 days under MPO (maintenance of public order) law, Karachi jail superintendent Nusrat Mangan told AFP. | ||
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Qari Saifullah released. detained |
2008-03-27 |
Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the only person arrested in connection with the October 18 attack on Benazir Bhuttos homecoming rally, has been re-detained hours after his release on Wednesday. Sources in the Sindh Home Department said that Akhtar had been re-detained for alleged links to a conspiracy against Benazir by an army group led by Maj Gen Zaheerul Islam in 1995. Karachi Police chief Niaz Siddiqui confirmed the re-detention, saying the orders were issued by the Home Department. Akhtar was released on bail, when the police could not provide sufficient evidence against him. |
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