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| Its top brass in custody, Lashkar names new team |
| 2009-03-09 |
| While Lashkars top leaders Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Yousuf Muzammil, Ahmad Bhai and Zarar Shah are said to be in Pak custody as part of the probe into the Mumbai attacks, the group is learnt to have replaced them with new commanders to resume their operations all Pak nationals who have operated in the Valley over the last decade. Top intelligence sources said four new commanders Shahji, Hyder Bhayee, Huzefa and Walid have taken over the Lashkars reins, their initial focus being the Valley and the Doda-Rajouri-Poonch belt in Jammu. Shahji was in north Kashmir after he infiltrated in the autumn of 1997. Active as Abu Anas, he was Lashkars divisional commander until he left the Valley in 2007. A resident of Bahawalpur, Shahjis name is Raza Ahmad. Hyder Bhayee, known as Bilal and Salahudin in the Valley, operated in the jungles of Bandipore in north Kashmir for eight years until he crossed over to Pakistan in 2006. His exit, in fact, led to a sharp dip in suicide attacks particularly in Srinagar city. Sources said Huzefa alias Khalid was active in Ganderbal in central Kashmir. And that his real name is Abdul Gaffar, a resident of Gujranwala. Walid was active in Lolab in north Kashmir for six years. Sources said hes the organisations top man for ammunition supply and finances. |
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| Formal charges to be filed against Kasab today |
| 2009-02-25 |
| Indian police are filing a 5,000-page charge sheet against Ajmal Kasab -- the lone surviving gunman arrested after the Mumbai terror attacks -- in a Mumbai court today (Wednesday). "The voluminous charge sheet will hopefully answer all the questions about the Mumbai terror attacks," Joint Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria was quoted as saying by the media. Kasab and another attacker, Muhammad Ismail Khan, allegedly shot dead police officers Hemant Karkare and Ashok Kamte. The charge sheet is expected to name around 20 suspects -- including Pakistanis Yousuf Muzammil and Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. The charge sheet also contains Kasab's conversation with his alleged handlers in Pakistan and his interrogation report. News channels earlier reported that India would respond on Tuesday to Pakistani questions over a dossier of information. However, the Indian government had made no statement late into the evening. It is now believed that Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon will hand over India's response to his Pakistani counterpart in Colombo on the sidelines of a SAARC meeting. |
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| Five Mumbai attackers may be at large: NYT |
| 2008-12-09 |
| Five terrorists involved in the Mumbai terror attacks may be still at large, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing evidence found on the trawler on which they travelled from Karachi to India's financial hub. The newspaper report counters the Mumbai police, which claimed that there were only 10 terrorists in the vessel out of which nine were killed and one was arrested. "Based on evidence found on the trawler, it was possible that five other men were involved in the plot and were still at large," the New York Times said. The report also said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the Lashkar-e-Taiba 'commander', was in Karachi for the last three months to help organise the terrorist attack in Mumbai. The Mumbai attackers also kept in contact with their handlers in Pakistan with cell phones as they rounded up guests at the two hotels--Taj and Oberoi, it said, quoting a Pakistani official in contact with the terror outfit. The attackers left a trail of evidence in a satellite phone they left behind on the fishing trawler they hijacked near Karachi at the start of their 500-mile journey to Mumbai, the report said. The phone contained the telephone numbers of Yousuf Muzammil, a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, considered to be mastermind of the Mumbai attack, Rehman and a number of other Lashkar militants, the Times said, citing a report on the Mumbai siege prepared by MJ Gohel and Sajjan M Gohel, two security analysts who direct the Asia-Pacific Foundation in London. The numbers dialled on the phone found on the trawler used to call Muzammil matched the numbers on the cell phones recovered from the Taj and Oberoi hotels, the New York Times. |
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