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After FBI’s revelation of David COleman Headley being one of the voice commanders present in LeT control room when Mumbai 26/11 attack took place last year, comes another crashing exposure that has long since been a prick to the Indian security system. FBI has apparently confirmed that a “section of serving Pakistan army officers”  have been secretly serving chosen terror groups such as LeT and JeM against India. This confirmation was conveyed to India when a special FBI team visited India to interrogate suspects.

Headley a.k.a Daood Gilani has confessed  that these officers have been working with Lashkar on ‘Karachi project’ against India that as a major objective, works in recruiting Indian Muslims to spread Jihad in India.These young men after being trained Pakistani army officials return to India and breed terror as home-spurn and thus, save Pakistan from any involvement.

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Home Minister P.Chidambaram has promised information the moment the probe concerning David Cole Headley, suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba(LeT) militant is over. “Investigation is on (to find Headley’s role in 26/11), and once the probe agencies complete their work, we will share whatever has to be shared,” he told the media.

According to the Home Minister, a classified group of Indian Intelligence(India’s Research & Analysis Wing  and the Intelligence Bureau) has gathered c0nsiderably “good information”  after its visit to US to find out Headley a.k.a Gilaani’s US connections. “The team had a good visit. They have come back with good information.”

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Once again Pakistan bears the brunt of accusal of terrorist sheltering from the Indian side as Defence Minister A.K. Anthony refutes that there are “various terrorists groups operating from Pakistan, but despite our repeated requests all terrorist camps are intact. Many of them are in the vicinity of their army bases. It is a matter of concern and worry to us.”

When asked what will be India’s stand in this critical state where Pakistan has not yet confirmed its diplomatic stand concerning terrorism in its basic military framework, Antony responded that  “we are eternally vigilant and if something happens we will act accordingly.” The defense minister was confident that India will “defeat their attempts” and added that “Unless Pakistan takes sincere action against these terror groups and dismantles these terror outfits, it is very difficult to improve our relationship with Pakistan.”

“We know very well that there are forces who now and then are creating problems in India. We are making all out precautions not only in NDC but across the country,” Antony concluded.

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At a press meet in Madurai, Home Minister P.Chidambaram demanded sincerity on the part of Pakistan towards controlling its untamed militant sections and asked the neighbour to stop playing games with India. Echoing the Prime Minister’s views on Pakistan’s alleged carelessness and imprudence in curbing terrorism from its states, Chidambaram told the media that India expects the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to be the last sponsored militant agitation by the neighbouring country.

“The Mumbai attacks (of November 2008) should be Pakistan’s last game. I have warned the country not to play with India.” And if Pakistan fails to keep up the promises it has made to both India and UN, then it will “face retaliation.”

Showing enough boldness to speak against UPA government, the Home Minister retaliated, saying both Congress and BJP have been equally careless in handling security matters that have concluded in the 26/11 attacks.

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Extending a hand of friendship towards Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the neighbour to carry it “forward” and show “sincerity and good faith”. As I have said many times before, we will not be found wanting in our response,” Manmohan Singh said while addressing the public at Anantnag where he, Sonia Gandhi and other VVIPs flagged off the new train service that connects South Kashmir to North. He stressed that such a step is vital to the interests of both the people of India and Pakistan.

PM was however, firm in his stand of disagreement over Pakistan’s careless curbing of terrorism directed at India. “For a productive dialogue it is essential that terrorism must be brought under control,” he said in Urdu.

The PM believes that a majority of Pakistani actually want good co-relations and support from their Indian counter-parts and a lasting peace, something which the PM stressed, is reflected by Indians as well.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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Refuting all claims by the Taliban as being the masterminds of thursday’s attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, the UPA govt. insisted today that it was just a “smokescreen” to cover up the ISI, who the govt. fears, is the main culprit behind the October 9 explosion. Recalling last year’s attack at the same target, both Strategic Affairs analyst Brahma Chellaney and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao insisted that the execution has been carried out in the same pattern as the one in 2008.  Taliban did not claim responsitbility back then. “It is quite deliberate the way they have claimed responsibility. The timing of the latest attack is very important and it suggests that this too has been executed by the perpetrators of last year’s attacks including the ISI. It comes at a time when President Obama has initiated his two-prong policy in the region — war in Afghanistan and aid surge in Pakistan,”  Chellaney was quoted as saying.

Both India and the United States has been pressurizing Pakistan to infiltrate the militant organisations who have their base camps all situated in the areas including Quetta and Muridke, a Lashkar-e-Taiba stronghold.. It has been rumoured that ISI was not happy with the way India has been strengthening ties with the newly formed Afghan government. The explosion comes a day after India pledged to continue to “invest and endure” in Afghanistan and asked the international community to maintain a long-term commitment to that country. Currently, India has invested $1.2 billion for the complete re-establishment of Afghanistan, making it the sixth largest bilateral donor.

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Fresh terror sent fear waves across the disturbed wing of Western Pakistan, specifically Peshwar, as two suicide bombers managed to kill 16 locals and hrut 90 more. Out of  the unlucky 16, 10 were killed at North Western Frontier Province. The area under attack is merely 10 miles away from the US consulate and as Liquat Khan, chief of Police says, was possibly targeted at a private bank owned by Pakistani military.

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Another bomber had only a few hours before , that is, on 26th September, 2009,hit the police station in Bannu, a remote tribal area in N-W Pakistan that seemed to have been designed to warn the military of the the perpetrators’ apparent dislike of the campaign conducted by the military to clean the country off the hostile militants under the wake of International calls.

NWFP Inspector-general Naveed Khan suspects Tehrik-e-Taliban’s hand behind this but wants to “keep our minds open.”

The operation triggered by the military did succeed to some extent as civilian casualties were lesser in the last few months.

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