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Lahore Bomb Blast

Spondita — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:16:00 +0000

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Agitation soars higher in Lahore as a suicide bombor today injured five cops when he bombed a car and killed two others at a checkpost just when the police was moving towards the car to check the occupants. “By putting their lives in danger, our men have saved the city from enormous sabotage,” Police Chief Pervaiz Rathor told the media.

So far more than 300 civilians have been killed by separatist guerrillas after army offense was launched to combat terrorism. Recalling the horror of today’s blast, Mohammad Saeed, a police constable said “I am still trying to come to my senses. It was horrible.”

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FBI Foils Terror Acts, US National Arrested

Spondita — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:13:18 +0000

courtesy allmudugnews.com

United States FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force today arrested David Coleman Headley, an American national at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Toying on Lashkar-e-Toiba’s schemes to bomb India and Denmark as part of its terrorist attacks, Headley was about to board a flight to Philadelphia from where he was supposed to meet the fugitive Ilyas Kashmiri. Headley’s partner Pakistani-Canadian national Tahawwur Hussain Rana was already arrested by FBI on October 18. Headley’s original namewas Daood Gilani which he chaged in the year 2006.

According to FBI’s chargesheet submitted at a Chicago court, Headley was in close contact with top LeT leaders, identified by the sleuths as “LeT member A” and “Individual A”. The emails exchanged between Headley and Let member A “reflect that LeT Member A was placing a higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack in India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark.” FBI emphasized the fact that this LeT member A “has substantial influence and responsibility within the organization” and his “identity is known to the government.”

The terrorists have been infuriated by a Danish Newspaper that allegedly published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.

US investigatives had, for quite some time, suspected Al Qaeda and LeT to have been using unsuspecting western nationals as part of their terror schemes. And it took quite a while to share and exchange such investigative information “with our foreign partners as we worked together to mitigate these threats,” David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, further added, “this case is a reminder that the threat posed by international terrorist organizations is global in nature and requires constant vigilance at home and abroad.”
“Postings to an internet group for graduates of a military school in the Pakistani town of Hasan Abdal (a group that refers to itself as “abdalians”, reflect that both Rana and Headley have participated in the group and referred to their attendance at that school,” the FBI said after it submitted some past information about the two arrested nationals. Headley and Rana had discussed the activities of the other individuals, past terrorist acts and also further terror activities. According to the FBI affidavit, Headley at times has claimed to be a consultant with or representative of Rana’s business, First World Immigration Services but had not much interest in business. He also, allegedly, travelled to Pakistan and s\certain parts to Europe frequently since last year.

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Mehsud Claims Responsibility, Says India Next

Spondita — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:53:29 +0000

Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief issued a serious warning to India declaring the continuity of the terror attacks and the suicide bombings and demanded the immediate conceptualisation and materialisation of a separate Islamic state in Pakistan.

Sending a chill down the spines of both the governments of India and Pakistan, Mehsud said that attacks will be put into action on India too, like they have been going over Pak, if the demands don’t get fulfilled. A mass destruction is on the list and if their demands are met, then Taliban will help in fighting the Indians off the Indo-Pak border.

Mehsud took the responsibility of bombing the Pak army at Rawalpindi and also serial blasts in and around west of Pakistan. Putting America in the scene as well, the Taliban chief prompted the democratic government to stop taking orders of the West.

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Zhang Meets Rajnath

Spondita — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:35:52 +0000

After what seemed as a perpetual week of tensions, India and China sat and talked out problems that have raised eyebrows worldwide. Following a nod from China, its ambassador to India, Zhang Yan today met BJP President Rajnath Singh to discuss the apparent issues such as border problems and incursions by the military of both countries.

Speaking on behalf of China, Zhang emphasized the sensitivity of the border issue and the necessity of maintaining cordiality between the two neighbouring countries.

He also extended a hand towards BJP to show the Chinese Communist Party’s interest in partnering the cause with the UPA opposition.

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Will 26/11 be a repeat – telecast?

Spondita — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:19:19 +0000

India is in trouble again and this time it was Israel that hinted at a possible attack threat from the Jihad group of the infamous Mumbai attacks that took place on 26nd November last year. The Israeli Counter Terrorism Bureau has issued a warning stating that the country’s nationals living in and around Goa may be targeted alongwith soft targets of India, especially the synagogues across the country.

Rumours suggest that the threats have become apparently more threatning after the travel advisory issued last month.

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Sino-India Arunachal Issue

Spondita — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:33:46 +0000

courtesy fmprc.gov.cn

China is angry and the reason, it seems, is India. Once again, tensions soared high on 13th October as Indian Prime Minister visited Arunachal Pradesh to address voters before the assembly elections scheduled to have commenced from Monday. The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ma Zhaoxu submitted a written complaint accusing India of ignoring China’s repeated requests not to address the voters native to Arunachal Pradesh.

Fresh debates started doing the rounds as the Ma Zhaoxu clearly suggested China’s disappointment with India’s non-committal attitude in resolving important issues such as the LAC border issue etc. It is well known that China had long set its eyes on the vulnerability behind the 640 -mile border conflict between Arunachal representing India and itself. The McMohan line has so far been ignored by the Chinese. Grievance list goes further if, digging into the past, we find the request of keeping the exile Tibetan leader Dalai Llama from crossing the Indian territories turned down with India obliging the leader.

Only last week issues regarding Chinese infiltration across the LAC cropped up which were later resolved as misunderstandings.

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Clinton Sees India Before China

Spondita — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:45:49 +0000

courtesy mokellyreport

Lecturing at the Indian Institute of Technology’s Global Conference 2009 in Chicago on 10th October, former US president Bill Clinton directed the limelight towards India stating the country’s remarkable potentiality to leave China behind in the run to dominance in the 21st century. Clinton stressed that if India and the countries of the Indian sub-continent buckle up and help each other out in economic and social progress, then chances are that China will not be able to grab the top position in the 21st century global graph. Only that both India and Pakistan must redeem themselves and re-consider further practicing of their state policies of putting blames over each other. That is, if terrorist attack India, then the blame immediately goes over Pakistan’s shoulders and if India invests on Afghanistan’s modernization and stabilization, sparks fly in Pakistan.

Urging India to make peace with Pakistan and the latter to reciprocate, Clinton claimed that if India “did not have to raise defense spending 20 percent a year and these countries could be working together I think you will grow faster than China.” He added that he believed the idea that “the Chinese are going to dominate the 21st century is not necessarily true.”

Clinton specially mentioned standoff topics such as the 1975 war between India and Pakistan, the infamous 26/11 attack that brought in front of the global community, India’s security vulnerabilities or the social and economical irregularities prevailing in the country or the “rush” with which both the countries are putting forth and developing nuclear weapons thus destabilizing Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty’s platforms in Middle East.

Reiterating the problem of Afghanistan, Clinton said that “the truth is if the two countries could find a way to work together and do common projects there, it would do more to stabilize Afghanistan and bring it into a 21st century mindset”

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Indian Students Fear Australia?

Spondita — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:12:45 +0000

courtesy ronatvan.com

The ongoing racial abuses and slightings in Australia towards Asian students, particularly Indian, are casting forth dark shadows over the prospects of expansion of educational partnership and enterpreneurship between India and Australia. In accordance with IDP Education chief officer Tony Pollock’s analysis, racist practices may earn Australia a 50% dip in the number of Indian students interested in pursuing higher courses in the country.

From among the 35000 students intake by the IDP, around 1100 are Indians and more than 6000 foreign sutdents have voted the Australian cities, Sydney and Melbourne as as potentially unsafe for foreign students.

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Pak Seige Militant Has Close Links with Terrorists

Spondita — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:52:26 +0000

courtesy telegraph.co.uk

In a recent revelation on the identity of the lone militant survivor of the Pakistan Military Seige great stunt, military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas said. stated that the accused Aqeel alias Dr. Usman was perhaps linked with the attacks on the Sri Lankan Cricket Team in Lahore and has also close links with banned terrorist groups like Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harkut-ul-Ansar.The possibility of the hand of LTTE in the attacks is another field to be explored, the officer said.

The elite Special Service Group of commandos gunned down four of Aqeel’s accomplices and freed 42 hostages. But Aqueel injured himself when he tried to set off a pack of explosives.

Aqueel had earned himself a position on the most wanted hitlist after his failed attempts to attack former President Pervez Musharraf and former premier Shaukat Aziz and his attempted assassination of Lt Gen Mushtaq Baig, the chief of the army’s medical services, in February last year. Several attacks on Shia prayer halls in Punjab have also been added to the bounty.

The five terrorists had plans to hold the seige for about 5 days as they had abundant food and also carried a “cache of suicide jackets, grenades, explosives and improvised explosive devices”, the military stated.

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Obama’s Entry in Lists of Nobel Laureates

Spondita — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:31:07 +0000

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Beating 205 candidates for the highest award in the civilian category of the world’s most prestigious award, the 8- month old 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama wins this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. “His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”

His “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”, his dedicated efforts in stabilizing the Iraq government, his engagement of Ahmed-Juan in Iran and his massive efforts at pulling back the defense shield in Czechoslovakia has managed to give the Americans a “hegemony” sort of role. His special efforts at creating a world free of nuclear weapons and his creating a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play has been instrumental in his acheiving this award.

He will receive the award officially on Dec 10, this year and gets 1.4$ cash and the prestigious gold medal for tryign to establish a nuke-free world, adhering to the strict guidelines given by Alfred Nobel stating that the award must go to the person “who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.”

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