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What's Cooking in the Jihadi Kitchen?
From South Asia Analysis Group, an article by B. Raman, Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai.... The Government has decided to expel all foreign students staying in Pakistan without no-objection certificates from their own countries, Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah said on August 8, 2006. .... about 700 foreign students were studying in religious schools and universities in the country. About a half of them had not obtained NOCs from their countries and, therefore, they would be repatriated. .... A top official of the Ittehad Tanzeematul Madaris-e-Deeniya Pakistan (ITMDP), a confederacy of five religious education boards running over 14,000 seminaries across Pakistan, said on August 12,2006, that the Government had agreed it would not pressure madressahs in the aftermath of the great London plot (to blow up US-bound planes) that was foiled by the UK authorities with active help from Islamabad. Seminaries across the country have been worried and pushed the ITMDP leadership to secure assurances from Islamabad that they would not face action as they did after the 7/7 London bombings. .... Despite some clues leading to Pakistani seminaries in last yearÂ’s London bombing investigations, no seminary was involved in the act and time had proved this. .... A UK-based Islamic charity organisation remitted a huge amount of money to three individuals in three different bank accounts in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, in December last year with the sole purpose of helping its recipients and their organisations carry out the aircraft bombing plan in the UK, insider sources told Daily Times. .... One of these banks is UK based and has its presence in Azad Kashmir because of a huge number of British citizens of Kashmir origin in UK. The money was transferred from UK to banks in Azad Kashmir through Barclays Plc. Two of the recipients of the transaction are British citizens of Kashmir origin while the third is an Islamabad-based builder, also of Kashmir origin. They were arrested in the last two weeks at three different places in the country. .... Posted by: Slurong Ulase9706 2006-11-05 |
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