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India-Pakistan

UK channel traces jihadist content to Muridke site destroyed in Operation Sindoor

2025-05-11

[TimesOfIndia] Sky News has traced social media accounts expressing support for jihadist terrorist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...>
(LeT) and al-Qaeda to the exact location of the building in Muridke, Pakistain, which was struck by India last week in retaliation for the Pahalgam terrorist attack.

A Sky News forensics and data team geolocated to Markaz Taiba in Muridke multiple videos on TikTok, YouTube and Google which express support for the LeT and "313", referring to the 313 Brigade, al-Qaeda's military wing in Pakistain.

The videos were posted before India blew the complex up last week. The channel confirmed the video locations using satellite imagery in and around the complex.

According to Stanford University's mapping ~~bandidos~~ Death Eaters project, members of 313 Brigade include Taliban
Taliban

...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
and allied jihadist groups, such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, LeT and Jaish-e-Muhammed . 313 Brigade has been behind many high-profile attacks and bombings inside Pakistain.

Captions, hashtags and usernames posting these videos express support for either or both the LeT and "313". One video shows a man with a gun and the username states: "Lashkar Taiba - Markaz Taiba Muridke - 313 Bhai Group - Mujahid Force PK".

A TikTok video with the text "313" is captioned "bring your arms and ammunition and go to war".

Muskan Sangwan, senior intelligence analyst at TRAC, a terrorism research consortium, said: "These young men posing with rifles are using 313 label as a badge for jihadist identity," which, she said, would help with recruitment.

One video with the hashtag "313 jihad" shows children practising sword-fighting inside the mosque, with the caption "We are little soldiers, and we fight the non-believers". The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) told Sky News: "It has been known for decades that LeT has its headquarters in Muridke."

Pakistain-based Resistance® Front, an LeT proxy, initially grabbed credit for the Pahalgam attack. Khawaja Asif, Pakistain's defence minister, said: "This appears to be a random video with background music added later - consistent with how TikTok trends often function. If this is to be considered credible evidence, we could produce millions of similar clips ourselves." Any suggestion that the mosque was used as a base by ~~bandidos~~ Death Eaters was a "completely false social media made up hoax," he added.

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India-Pakistan

CTD nabs 10 members of banned outfits across Punjab

2023-10-30

[Dawn] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested 10 suspected forces of Evil linked with different banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations during operations in separate areas of the province.

According to the front man, the CTD Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
conducted 117 intelligence-based operations in different districts of the province to effectively deal with any untoward incident of terrorism, in which 117 suspected persons were interrogated and 10 suspected forces of Evil were arrested with weapons, explosives and other prohibited material.

Among the arrested forces of Evil are Syed Agha, Muhammad Nouman, Ataur Rehman, Muhammad Osama, Siddique, Shah Nawaz, Muhammad Sufyan Serwer, Muhammad Safdar, Qasim Khan and Abdul Haq, he said and added that they belongs to the banned murderous Moslem 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....
group (ISIS), Tehrik-e-Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Pakistain (TTP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

The Badri 313 Battalion is either an elite unit of the Taliban, trained by the Haqqani network and based at Salahaddin Ayyubi Military Operations Academy or al Qaeda's military arm in Pakistan, with members gleaned from the Taliban and Pakistan’s pet jihadi groups including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Jundallah, and the habit of nasty attacks on the army of Pakistan under the leadership of Ilyas Kashmiri (until 2011) followed by Shah Sahib.

The spokesperson said the arrest of these forces of Evil was carried out during intelligence-based operations in Lahore, Rahim Yar Khan, Sergodha and Bahawalpur.

He said that two IED bombs, one hand grenade, three detonators, 11 feet of safety fuse wire, four banned books, 95 Pamphlets,114 stickers, one receipt book and Rs26,225 in cash have been recovered from the possession of the terrorists.

The front man further said that the suspected forces of Evil were planning to target important installations.

The CTD police have registered eight cases against the forces of Evil and shifted them to some unknown location.

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India-Pakistan

'Regrettable incident': Justice Isa visits Jaranwala, assures Christian community of all-out support

2023-08-20

[GEO.TV] Chief Justice Designate Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday visited Jaranwala to meet and express solidarity with the Christian community after ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful attacks on their houses and churches over alleged 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...
allegations.
You wanta express "solidarity?" Show up in church on Sunday.
On August 16, a crowd vandalised several churches and set scores of houses on fire in Jaranwala town of the industrial district of Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
after holy men made announcements in mosques inciting the mob to attack the Christian community under allegations of blasphemy.

"Disrespected our holy idols, they did! Shot the moon at our moon! Then tore up a koran and wrote dirty words on it!"
Paramilitary troops were called in to handle the violence and bring the situation under control, according to a government order seen by Rooters.
Betcha no (zero) holy men were arrested.
The attack sparked outrage on social media and among political and religious figures in Pakistain, who condemned the incident, saying that there was no room for such extreme behaviour.
Seems like there is, since there was.
The Supreme Court's judge arrived in Jaranwala with his wife and visited the Christian colony.
And everybody was ever so glad to see him.
Justice Isa reviewed the situation of the houses and churches that were attacked earlier this week.
And everything's all better now.
"Three days have passed since the incident and the streets are still not clean," said Justice Isa while expressing displeasure with the deputy commissioner and directing him to get the streets cleaned immediately.

"Yeah. Clean up that wreckage!"
Expressing regret over the incident, the senior puisne
I have no idea what that word means.

According to the internet, it’s a senior court judge in the British system who is under the chief justice. Pronounced puny, which goes to show.

judge met the victims, assuring them of all-out support.
Just like they did the last time.
He told the Christian community that they have equal rights as everyone else, adding that all citizens are equal.
"That's right. In Pakistain anybody can form a mob! And does!"
Speaking to the Christian victims, Justice Isa said that it was the duty of Moslems to catch the perpetrators if churches are attacked. He added that Christians have equal rights to build a church as Moslems have to build a mosque.
Moslems have equal rights to burn a church, but Christians don't have equal rights to burn down a mosque.
During his visit, the judge and his wife also provided financial assistance to the victims and distributed food packages among them.
"I am here as a citizen and it is everyone's duty to help you," he told the victims.
Why was it everyone's duty to burn the Christians' houses down?

Those things won’t burn themselves, you know.

34 NOMINATED, 600 UNKNOWN SUSPECTS BOOKED
According to a The News report, the city's police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 34 and nominated 600 unknown under 18 sections of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) following the incident.
But not 34 holy men. And the 600 unknown will probably remain unknown. And the 34 not holy men will get off for lack of evidence or misspellings on the paperwork.

The publication further claimed that 29 nominated suspects have been arrested in connection with the Wednesday rampage.
The other five are still in the mosques, discussing the whole thing with learned holy men.
The police on Thursday also nominated Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
(ASWJ) Jaranwala President Mufti Mohammad Younis Rizvi and Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistain (TLP) leader Syed Asifullah Shah in the case.
My guess would be they weren't home if the cops arrived to arrest them.
Separately, caretaker Chief Minister Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Mohsin Naqvi said both individuals, accused of desecrating the Holy Koran, had been arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).
They always manage to get those guys.
'SWIFT ACTION'
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch had said Pakistain was fully determined to protect and promote the constitutionally-guaranteed rights and freedoms of individuals belonging to religious minorities.

We can see that. This only happens once or twice a year. Maybe three times. Or four. Not that often, really.
In a statement, she said as a country following law and Constitution, Pakistain could not accept the intolerant and ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful incident in Faisalabad.
In that case, let the "blasphemers" go and make sure nobody bothers them.
She said these acts are illegal and unconstitutional.
But you have a blasphemy law, so holy men gotta use it now and then to show how powerful they are.
"Our law enforcement authorities took swift action yesterday.
"Blindingly swift. We're talkin' speed of light here!"
They have been instructed by the prime minister to apprehend the culprits and bring them to justice," she added.
"Caught those blaspheming boogers in a matter of short minutes!"

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India-Pakistan

Punjab CTD arrests 17 suspected terrorists in intelligence-based operations

2023-07-29

[Dawn] The Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday said it had arrested 17 suspects associated with defunct organizations during various intelligence-based operations (IBOs).

According to an official statement by the CTD, officials conducted 132 IBOs in various parts of the province. During these operations, the CTD interrogated 134 suspects, resulting in the arrest of 17.

The statement disclosed that two of the arrested suspects were associated with the TTP (Ghazi Force) and were detained in Attock, adding that they were "planning to target Chinese nationals".

The CTD also said that three suspected TTP forces of Evil were arrested in Dera Ghazi Khan, adding that they were reportedly "planning to attack worship places".

The CTD also apprehended a terrorist associated with Jamaatul Ahrar
...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough...
who was "planning to target worship place in Lahore".

According to the CTD statement, three other suspects were detained in Gujranwala and Sargodha for possessing banned literature, while eight suspects were found to be sharing "hate material" targeting other sects on social media.

Out of the 17 forces of Evil who were arrested, six were affiliated with the TTP and six with the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts...
(SSP). Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
two of the suspects were associated with ISIS, while the remaining three were members of other organizations.

According to the CTD, a total of 14 First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered against the arrested suspects in various cop shoppes located in Sargodha, DG Khan, Multan
Multan

...Home of the Multan Sultans...
, Gujranwala, Pakpattan, Okara, and Rawalpindi.

During the operation, the law enforcers seized a cache of weapons, including four hand grenades, seven detonators, 893g of explosives, two 30-bore pistols, three magazines associated with a banned outfit, pamphlets and stickers affiliated with the banned SSP, as well as two mobile phones and a sum of Rs17,780 in cash.

The CTD said it conducted 485 "combing operations" with local police across the province, which resulted in 36 arrests and the registration of 29 first information reports.

"The CTD Punjab is proactively pursuing its goal of safe and secure Punjab and will not leave any stone unturned in its efforts to bring forces of Evil and anti-state elements behind bars," the statement added.

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India-Pakistan

CTD arrests nine militants of banned outfits

2023-06-28

[Dawn] The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
has reported the arrest of nine suspects associated with defunct organizations across various parts of the province.

According to a spokesperson for the CTD, the arrests were made as a result of intelligence-based operations (IBOs) conducted by different teams of the department. A total of 35 IBOs were carried out in different districts of Punjab, leading to the questioning of 36 suspects.

Of the interrogated people, nine suspects were arrested: Adnan Yousaf and Mohammad Luqman from the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain; Abdul Haleem and Salman Iftikhar from the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

...which are clearly not in the least bit defunct — not even slightly moribund, in fact.

Additionally, in collaboration with the local police and other law enforcement agencies, the CTD conducted 124 combing operations. During these operations, 5,814 people were checked, resulting in the arrest of 11 suspects. Furthermore, 14 FIRs were registered, and additional recoveries were made.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistan condemns burning, vandalisation of Muslims' houses by 'Hindu zealots' in India's Rajasthan

2022-04-07

[Dawn] Pakistain strongly condemned on Tuesday the "senseless vandalisation and burning of more than 40 houses of" the Moslem community in the Karauli area of India's Rajasthan state by "Hindu zealots" during recent communal festivities, a statement issued by the Foreign Office said.

According to Indian publication The Wire, the festivities broke out on April 2 "after stones were pelted at a cycle of violence rally taken out to celebrate the Hindu new year, prompting authorities to clamp a curfew, suspend the internet and deploy 600 police personnel".

Around 35 people were maimed in the violence and 46 people were initially taken into custody by police for interrogation, a report by NDTV said, adding that a case was registered against 13 people. Later, the report said, police arrested another 33 people for violating the curfew order.

The reports said houses and shops were set on fire during the episode but did not confirm the number of properties that were damaged.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
in its condemnation, Pakistain said over 40 properties belonging to the Moslem community were set ablaze and vandalised by "radical Hindu zealots belonging to the BJP-RSS (Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) dispensation with the connivance of local security authorities" during the festivities.

"Equally alarming is the apathy of state machinery which wantonly looked the other way and failed in its basic duty of protecting the lives and properties of its citizens," the statement said, adding that regretfully, minorities in India, especially Moslems continued to live under fear and intimidation.

"The BJP-RSS combine has enabled [the] perpetration of senseless violence against minorities as part of its ’Hindutva’ agenda marked by hate and majoritarianism," the statement read.

It added that recent history was replete with traumatic instances that reflected the current Indian regime’s deep-seated animosity against Moslems in the country.

"Deafening silence of the BJP leadership and absence of discernible action against ’Hindutva’ proponents must ring alarm bells across the international community. Rather than relenting in their hostilities against Moslems, the BJP-RSS activists have intensified the atrocities" the statement said.

In this connection, the FO cited the example of Yati Narsinghan, an infamous Haridwar priest, once again "brazenly" calling upon Hindus on April 3 to take up arms against Moslems.

"Pakistain calls upon the international community to take immediate notice of the worrying level of Islamophobia

...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
in India and prevail upon Indian authorities to prevent systematic human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
violations against minorities, particularly Moslems, and take effective steps to ensure the safety, security and well-being of all minorities in India," the statement read.

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India-Pakistan

More than 50 clerics warn govt not to further restrictions on prayer congregations

2020-04-14

[DAWN] Senior holy mans of Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia warned the government on Monday not to further the restrictions on congregations in mosques, which have been imposed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
Despite the government's pleas to observe social distancing, more than 53 senior holy mans of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, belonging to the Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia, held a meeting in Jamia Darul Uloom Zakria, Tarnol, Islamabad to discuss the matter. The meeting was attended by senior holy mans representing various seminaries, banned groups, proscribed persons and political and non-political parties.

The holy mans' warning has been issued before the government could come up with a plan to curb the spread of the disease during the holy month of Ramazan.

After much deliberation and meetings with religious leaders, the government has banned prayer congregations of more than five people as part of measures imposed to curb Covid-19.

A video clip released by them today showed holy mans belonging to various political and non-political organizations including Jamaat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Aalmi Tanzeem Khatam-e-Nabuwat, seminaries such as Taleem ul Koran Raja Bazar and proscribed persons including a representative of banned group Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
, sitting in close proximity of each other.

Announcing the decision, Pir Azizur Rahman Hazarvi, president of the Jamia Darul Uloom Zakaria, Islamabad and patron of JUI-F Islamabad said: "The senior holy mans have noted that all efforts will be made to avoid clash and confrontations with the government and the state institutions."

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India-Pakistan

Blast near Quetta Press Club claims 7 lives, leaves 21 injured

2020-02-18

[DAWN]

Officials added that the nature of the blast has not yet been ascertained.https://t.co/f8NTr9T3oM
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) February 17, 2020

Update from The Times of Israel at 6:15 a.m. ET:

City police chief Abur Razza Cheema says dozens of followers of the radical Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat party

...originally Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP — Guardians of the Prophet's Companions), renamed Millat-e-Islamia and now known as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat (ASWJ), the Deobandi Muslim organisation in Pakistan originally formed to fight Shiite landlords in Punjab, eventually murdering thousands. It broke away from the main Deobandi Sunni organisation Jamiatul Ulema-e-Islam in 1985, was banned for terrorism by Britain in 2001, then by Pakistan in 2002 and again in 2012. Along the way, its first four leaders were assassinated. The ban was lifted for Pakistan’s 2018 elections. Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) broke away in 1996, Jaish-e-Muhammad is the Kashmir arm, and ASWJ feeds manpower to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan...

were rallying to pay tribute to Islam’s first caliph when the bomber went kaboom! there.

Pakistan's transformation from terrorism to toursim 'absolutely remarkable', says UN chief https://t.co/NaMJ75sK1w
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) February 17, 2020

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India-Pakistan

Judge irked by absence of witnesses in Naqeeb murder case

2019-08-08

"Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Da witnesses is all dead!"

[DAWN] KARACHI: Expressing its annoyance over the absence of prosecution witnesses, an antiterrorism court on Tuesday directed the investigating officer to produce them on Aug 19 for recording their testimonies in a case pertaining to killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud and three others in an alleged ’staged’ encounter.

The then SSP Malir Rao Anwar, the then DSP Qamar Ahmed Sheikh along with around 25 of their subordinates have been charged with kidnapping for ransom Naseebullah Mehsud, better known as Naqeebullah, and three others and killing them in a fake encounter by declaring them ~~bandidos~~ snuffies linked with the banned ISIS and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
outfits in January 2018.

The killing of Naqeebullah, an aspiring model from Wazoo, and others in Shah Latif Town had sparked a wave of nationwide protests by human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
activists.

On Tuesday, the ATC-III judge was set to record the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses, including the complainant. However the witnesses failed to turn up before the court.

Advocate Salahuddin Panhwar informed that complainant Mohammad Khan, the father of deceased Naqeebullah, could not appear before the court to record his statement since he was ill.

The judge directed the investigating officer, SSP Dr Rizwan Ahmed, to ensure the presence of the complainant and other witnesses on the next date for recording their testimonies and fixed the matter on Aug 19.

The judge also directed the state prosecutor and complainant’s counsel Salahuddin Panhwar to argue on the bail applications moved by two former police officials ‐ assistant sub-inspector Ali Akbar and police constable Raees ‐ on the next date.

Khan Mohammad had lodged a case against the then SSP Rao Anwar and his subordinates under Sections 365-A (kidnapping for ransom), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 344 (wrongful confinement for 10 or more days), 302 (premeditated murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), 202 (intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform), 114 (abettor present when offence is committed) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code read with Section 7 (acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.

A second case was also lodged against Rao Anwar and others by the former IO for allegedly foisting false recoveries of illicit arms, ammunition and explosives on the victims under relevant sections of the law.

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India-Pakistan

Two arrested as CTD foils terror plan on Youm-i-Ali

2019-05-29

[DAWN] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
two suspected gunnies who were planning to hit Shia community on Youm-e-Ali and seized explosives from them.

The suspects were arrested from a graveyard of Sialkot city’s Imam Sahib locality.

According to the CTD officials, it was an intelligence-based operation as the CTD team arrested two suspected terrorists, identified as Muhammad Abu Bakar and Muhammad Yousaf.

They said the suspects belonged to the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts...
(SSP).

The officials added the gunnies were planning to target the local Shia people in Sialkot on the eve of Youm-e-Ali.

The CTD also recovered kaboom with safety fuse and detonator from them. The suspects made important disclosures regarding their subversive activities and plans of their organization in Sialkot region, the officials added.

The CTD has sent the suspects behind the bars after registering a case.

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India-Pakistan

More about ISIS in India and Pakistan

2019-05-26

[Jpost] According to the ISIS-affiliated Amaq News Agency, the terror organization on May 11 officially proclaimed the existence of "Waliyah of Hind," or India Province. Shortly afterward, on May 15, ISIS said it had established an additional stronghold called "Wilayah Pakistain."

Amaq claimed that Wilayah Pakistain had already inflicted casualties on Indian army soldiers in the village of Amshipora in the Shopian district of India-administered Kashmire. Indian police confirmed the presence of ISIS fighters in the contested area and noted that security forces recently killed Ishfaq Ahmad Sofi, an alleged ISIS operative in the region.

A recent UN Security Council counter-terrorism report revealed that ISIS has been using Pakistan-based organizations such as Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar to carry out terror attacks on its behalf.

According to local media reports, Sofi had been associated for more than a decade with several gangs in Kashmire before joining Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
The establishment of Wilayah Pakistain sent shock waves through local law enforcement agencies, and on May 16, Islamabad’s security forces raided suspected terrorist locales in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Province. The forces killed nine ISIS members during a three-hour long operation, a spokesperson for the chief of the Balochistan police told the Media Line. Four Paks maimed during the assault were rushed to a hospital.

Though this was the first direct face-off between Pak forces and ISIS, the latter has been carrying out attacks in Pakistain for years. As far back as February 2016, Pakistain's Intelligence Bureau had warned the government that ISIS was emerging as a threat.

Concern over the extent of ISIS's power resurfaced a year later following a suicide kaboom at the Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar ‐ located in Pakistain's historic city of Sehwan ‐ which killed scores of people and injured some 300 others.

A recent UN Security Council counter-terrorism report revealed that ISIS has been using Pakistain-based organizations such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar to carry out terror attacks on its behalf.

Analysts believe that ISIS is desperate to establish new strongholds, including in Afghanistan, where it has repeatedly clashed with the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
"ISIS has been looking for new ventures after it was defeated in Iraq and Syria. Even in Afghanistan, things are not in ISIS’s favor," Rashid Hussain, a Rawalpindi-based security expert, told The Media Line. "It is now trying its luck in Pakistain, India and Sri Lanka, where it already has been outsourcing attacks."

Alarmed by ISIS's growing influence in the region, Pakistain and Russia are working together to curb the group’s activities.

"Since ISIS has challenged both nations... Islamabad and Moscow are working together to counter the group," a bigwig in Pakistain’s Counter-Terrorism Department told The Media Line on condition of anonymity.

The official said the two countries have been cooperating since 2016, adding that a "major shift in Russia’s policy... [came] after it expressed concerns about the possibility of Afghanistan turning into a refuge for Islamic State murderous Moslems fleeing from Iraq and Syria. This is why it has extended [assistance] to Pakistain and the Taliban."

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India-Pakistan

CTD arrests six activists of banned organisations

2019-05-26

[DAWN] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in a massive crackdown has enjugged
You have the right to remain silent...
six activists of the proscribed organizations from various parts of the province for collecting funds for financing terrorism.

Those arrested were collecting funds for the proscribed organizations ‐ Jaish-e-Muhammad and the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Home of the Multan Sultans...
No member of any proscribed organization would be allowed to collect funds for financing terrorism and extremism under the law of land, the spokesperson said.

He said cases had been registered against them and they would face trial in anti-terrorism courts for committing offences of terrorism financing.

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