Posts Tagged ‘Lashkar-e-Taiba’

Devastating flooding in northwestern Pakistan has now taken more than 1,400 lives and a left about 1 million people homeless. Although the government has announced it is stepping up relief efforts, it has been widely criticized for its slow and poorly coordinated response. The perceived failure of the government has opened new vistas for [...]

First published in The Hindu “My sister, this should explain much,” begins London-raised Dhiren Bharot's 1999 chronicle of his life as a jihadist: “cross the line,” he urged her. Bharot's The Army of Madinah lashed out at the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir. It was a “semi-farcical” and “secondary rate jihad” for which “thousands [...]

Many of our critical readers know that Malik Riaz, mafia chief of the notorious Bahria Town project, has been able to build his property empire with the help of greedy generals in Pakistan Army and Pakistan Navy. However, not many know that Malik Riaz has active links with certain jihadi and sectarian organisations. For example, after the [...]

Many international and national analysts, scholars and journalist usually do not take into account some important distinctions between various jihadi and sectarian groups operating in Pakistan. In his op-ed (in daily Express, 7 June 2010), Muhammad Amir Hashim Khakwani points towards some important distinctions between the deobandi jihadis [...]

Kasab's home village slams Mumbai conviction Monday, 03 May, 2010 Villagers watch breaking news on the Indian court verdict against Ajmal Kasab at a house in the remote town of Faridkot in Pakistan. — AFP FARIDKOT: Farmers in the remote impoverished home town of the surviving gunman of the Mumbai massacre angrily denounced his [...]

It is clear that there is such a thing as the Punjabi Taliban. One can no longer refer to the Taliban as a uniquely Pakhtun phenomenon. Punjabi militants are running training facilities and have established cells across the province to conduct their murderous operations This city by the sea, with its ethnically complex population and relatively [...]

Activists from Jamaat-u-Dawa, a charity widely viewed as a front for the banned Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, rally during an anti-India protest in Lahore last month. Arif Ali / AFP Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), potentially one of the most dangerous militant groups in Pakistan and one which is suspected to be behind a number of attacks conducted [...]

In 2006, the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba entered the Afghan theater, necessitating its increased presence in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The group is often mentioned during discussions of the Punjabi Taliban, militants from Punjabi jihadi groups, who arrived in large numbers at [...]

An exterior view of the mosque where Hafiz Saeed, leader of Jamaat-ud-Dawa preached every Friday, in Lahore, Pakistan. – AP Jamaat-ud-Dawa easily evades ban Wednesday, 24 Feb, 2010 LAHORE: Long-haired jihadis toting automatic weapons patrolled a mosque last week as the cleric who heads the militant network blamed for the Mumbai attacks [...]

Activists of the JuD hold aloft weapons during an anti-India protest rally in Lahore on Friday

Islamabad hands over Mumbai probe report to New Delhi Mumbai attacks partially planned in Pakistan: Malik * Interior adviser claims arrest of main operator in attacks, five others * Says Pakistan needs more information from India * System of several countries used to launch attacks By Sajjad Malik/Tahir Niaz ISLAMABAD: Pakistan [...]

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Saturday, January 10, 2009 (The News) Six weeks after the Mumbai attacks, the Indian government is still groping for a strategy to get Pakistan to crack down on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other extremists. The Pakistani (more...)

A page from the dossier given to PakistanDossier: handlers used virtual number to contact a mobile with one of the terroristsSiddharth Varadarajan (The Hindu, Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009)New Delhi: Amidst the clutter of telephone calls the Indian intelligence agencies were monitoring into and out of the Taj Mahal hotel on the night of the November 26 [...]

Anand K Verma headed the Research & Analysis Wing, (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency from 1986-1989. He is an expert on the region, particularly Pakistan and Sri Lanka.The time has arrived for the unspoken to be spoken: Radical Islam is at war with India.The objectives of the war are to destroy India as a nation with a composite [...]

This Pakistani nailed Pak Government’s lie on Kasab (more...)

Jama'at-ud-Da'wah (Urdu: جمعات الدعوہ) is an organisation launched in Lahore, Pakistan in 1985. Previously called Markaz Daw'a wal Irshad, the organisation changed its name after the United States Department of State declared Lashkar-e-Taiba to be a terrorist organisation. It also (more...)

THE Mumbai attacks have seen the media, especially the electronic media, in both countries conduct itself in an irresponsible fashion.Hours after the attack began, the Indian media started showing Bollywood-style films about the perpetrators of the carnage allegedly in Pakistan. Just as quickly the Pakistani media went into complete denial.Both [...]

The common enemy (Dawn, Editorial, 13 Dec 2008)GREAT statesmen, it is said, don’t just respond to public opinion: they shape it. In these troubling times when Pakistan is being called the “epicentre” of terrorism by our neighbours to the east, we have a collective responsibility to look inwards. But that burden rests most heavily on the [...]

Pakistan's newspaper Dawn establishes Faridkot link to Mumbai terror attack; Ajmal Kasab's father (more...)

However, sanctioning is not enough. The UNSC must constitute a high-level team to tbe stationed in Pakistan, to continuously monitor and implement the closure of all forms of Jihadi activities in Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and also in tribal areas. Such camps are supported by retired and serving military (more...)

India releases names, details on Mumbai gunmenBy MUNEEZA NAQVI – (The Associated Press)MUMBAI, India (AP) — Police in India said Tuesday they had identified the nine suspected Islamic militants killed during the three-day siege of Mumbai and uncovered new details about them — including their hometowns in Pakistan.The new information, which [...]

Farooq Sulehria9 December 2008The butchery unleashed on Mumbai by a team of 10 black-hooded terrorists came to an end on November 29 at around 8.30 am. This is the sixth time Mumbai has come under some kind of attack since 1993.This latest 60-hour drama left 183 people dead. Nine terrorists were also killed and one, Amir Kasab, was [...]

Pakistan on tightrope with militant raidIt targeted a camp of the group linked to the Mumbai attacks Sunday.By Mark Sappenfield – | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitorand Issam Ahmed – | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitorfrom the December 9, 2008 editionNEW DELHI; and MURIDKE, PAKISTAN - By raiding a militant camp in [...]

Pakistan arrests suspected mastermind of Mumbai attacksZaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, named by sole surviving attacker as ringleader, held after raid on militant camp in Pakistani Kashmir * Saeed Shah in Islamabad * guardian.co.uk, Monday December 8 2008 16.56 GMTZaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi speaks during a rally in April 2008 Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi speaks [...]

Army raids LeT compound in Kashmir, say witnessesTariq Naqash and Syed Irfan RazaMonday, 08 Dec, 2008 (Dawn)MUZAFFARABAD/ISLAMABAD: Security forces have launched a ‘quiet’ crackdown on activists belonging to the banned jihadi outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba in different parts of the country and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. In Muzaffarabad, a major army [...]

* Saeed Shah in Faridkot, near Depalpur * The Observer, Sunday December 7 2008 An Observer investigation has established that the lone surviving gunman caught by Indian police during last week's terrorist attacks on Mumbai came from a village in the Okara district of the Pakistani Punjab.Ajmal Amir Kasab, interrogated in custody after last [...]

The capture of the terroristMumbai massacre story unfolds in terrorist’s interrogationPraveen Swami— PHOTO: AFPPrize catch: Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman, the only terrorist arrested in Mumbai, is undergoing treatment at an undisclosed location in the city. This handout photo has been released by the police.MUMBAI: For the past week, newspaper [...]

THE NEW YORKERDecember 1, 2008Lashkar-e-TaibaSteve CollIndian and American officials are now reporting that the Mumbai attackers seem to have connections to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based Islamist organization. Among other analytical clues, over the weekend, one anonymous American official quoted in the Washington Post noted that Lashkar has [...]