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| Islamabad to take up issue of ‘171 RAW-trained terrorists’ with Kabul |
| 2007-07-20 |
| ISLAMABAD: Islamabad is set to take up with Kabul the issue of “171 RAW-trained Afghan terrorists” who intelligence agencies say sneaked into Pakistan two months ago and are yet to be traced. Intelligence agencies suspect that these Afghans were involved in the recent spate of suicide bombings in Pakistan. Sources told Daily Times that intelligence agencies informed a meeting chaired by Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Wednesday that 25 of the 171 Afghans had links with RAW agents in Indian consulates at Jalalabad and Kandahar. The sources said that the Afghans had crossed the border via Torkham and Chaman two months ago and had spread in the settled areas of the NWFP, Sindh and Punjab for suicide bombings. The sources said that the intelligence agencies ruled out Al Qaeda’s role in the recent terrorist incidents and held the RAW network responsible for the suicide bombings in Islamabad, NWFP and other parts of the country. The sources said that the government had decided to take up this issue with the Afghan government through diplomatic channels. They added that the Foreign Office representative present at the meeting had been asked to prepare a draft of all evidence of RAW activities for taking up the matter with the Afghan government. The sources said that the meeting had also decided to deploy Punjab Rangers for the security of the Diplomatic Enclave, foreign missions, sensitive installations, important personalities and maintaining law and order in the federal capital. They said that 60 platoons of the Frontier Constabulary were being sent back to the NWFP to tighten security in the restive province. The sources said that the Interior Ministry had sanctioned the recruitment of 7,500 personnel for the Islamabad Capital Territory Police, and asked the Punjab police to recruit more personnel as well. The Interior Ministry has ordered the Islamabad district administration and the police to submit a report on the criminal record of militant suspects in the federal capital as well as information about the staff and security situation of all private organisations. The meeting also decided to issue orders to the provincial home departments and the Islamabad administration to tighten security for the Pakistan People’s Party leadership after the blast at the party’s camp set up to welcome Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Tuesday night. The meeting issued directions to the district coordination officers and district police officers to ensure that no Islamic organisation arranged big gatherings so that anti-state elements could not exploit the situation. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #4 It gets better... they are now claiming India is behind the Chief Justice mess and Dr Siddiqa's book on the Pak military-economic complex... Seems the taliban and jihadis were all this time secretly backed by India... |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-07-20 19:54 |
| #3 Lets see, months before the Red Mosque became an issue, Afghan terrorists under a Bangladeshi working for India were wandering into Pakland to stir up trouble...sure..... I'm surprised they missed the North Korean suicide bombers hired by the Tiawanese Intelligence smuggled in from Iran by US Special Forces. |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins5285 2007-07-20 19:48 |
| #2 RAW couldn't even bomb its own HQ. Their deputy director has absconded.., seems he was a Bangladeshi mole. It's being described as the mother of all spy scandals. TIMES NOW has learnt that a Bangladeshi spy called, Dhimanchand Malik had managed to breach the country's highest and securest office - the Prime Minister's Office or (PMO) as well as the Cabinet Secretariat. But even before the police could catch him, Dhimanchand Malik, who served as a high ranking deputy director of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for five years till 2005 is now absconding. The alleged infiltration of the PMO's office was revealed after Anuj Bharadwaj, director, Aviation Research Centre, who is working in the Cabinet Secretariat, registered an FIR at the Lodhi Colony police station. With no trace of the alleged mole, he has been declared an absconder. It is feared that Malik has leaked confidential security information. He is also believed to have stolen some sensitive documents. As soon as the breach was revealed, a team immediately left for 24 Parganas in West Bengal to verify the residential address given by Malik. However, locals told the team that Malik was, in fact, a Bangladesh citizen. Over the years, a spate of espionage cases has rocked the nation. Joint secy in RAW, Rabinder Singh, defected to the US on June 5, 2004. In 2002, 12 former staff of the PMO and the Rashtrapati Bhavan Secretariat were sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in the Coomar Narain espionage case of 1985. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-07-20 08:06 |
| #1 the intelligence agencies ruled out Al QaedaÂ’s role in the recent terrorist incidents and held the RAW network responsible for the suicide bombings in Islamabad, NWFP and other parts of the country. So... Osama and Zawahiri are blameless... and Manmohan Singh (to whom RAW reports) is responsible? No wonder the CIA can't find Osama... he must he hiding in Delhi! |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-07-20 07:33 |