FOR reasons bureaucrats alone understand, the list of 20 terrorists whom India has sought from Pakistan remains
something of a secret. Media accounts of just who they are have been at variance from one another on several counts, minor
and major. The confusion has been compounded by the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) claims that only suspects for
whom Interpol red corner notices exist have been sought, for this is not the case with all those who are mentioned in the
lists sources are making available to journalists. While Pakistan and the United States can be trusted with the secret, it
would appear, Indians cannot. Not surprisingly, there is at least some suspicion that the details are being kept deliberately
vague, in order to work out a mutually acceptable bargain. The suspicion is strengthened by the fact that while the list contains
the names of some top terrorists, others on it are relatively irrelevant.
MIAN KHURSHEED/ REUTERS
Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the Lashkar-e-Toiba leader who has been detained by the Pakistani authorities, in a January 2001
photograph.
Informed sources in New Delhi provided Frontline with their account of the list of 20, shortened,
they said, from a preliminary list of 42 that was prepared by the Union Home Ministry. In addition, the list below profiles
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) Chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who by some account features on the official list.
I. Terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir
Mohammad Yusuf Shah (Hizbul Mujahideen): Better known by his somewhat vain nom de guerre Syed Salahuddin,
Shah has led the Hizbul Mujahideen since November 11, 1991. A resident of Soibugh, and an unsuccessful Muslim United Front
candidate in the 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, Shah is a long standing member of the Jamaat-i-Islami Kashmir.
Before taking over the Hizb's Muzaffarabad-based command, he acted as its Amir-i-Zila (district commander) from late 1989.
Conventional wisdom has it that when the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir started, it was almost exclusively
led by the secular-nationalist Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Things were not, in fact, quite that simple. The
Hizb drew its first cadre from within the JKLF, with Mohammad Ashraf Dar, Maqbool Illahi and Abdullah Bangroo starting the
pro-Pakistan organisation on instructions from the Jamaat leadership. Dar, however, soon fell foul of Pakistan's Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI), and was hounded out of the Hizb, opening the way for Salahuddin. Now things seem to have come full circle:
Shah is at war with his own Valley-based commanders, notably Abdul Majid Dar, who believe that Pakistan has imposed its agenda
on their struggle.
Major cases:
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the state of the Jammu & Kashmir Police at the time, there are no first
information reports against Shah relating to crimes committed prior to 1991. It was only in 1997-1998 that the State police
made serious efforts to build a legal case against him.
Hafiz Mohammad Saeed (LeT): On paper, Saeed has never engaged in any terrorist act. He is the head
of the Markaz Dawa wa'al-Irshad, an organisation committed to proselytisation, and which happens to be the patron of the LeT.
The Markaz itself was an offshoot of the ultra-conservative Jamait Ahl-e-Hadis, a branch of radical Sunni thought which holds
that only the sayings and doings of the Prophet Mohammad, his followers and family members form the sole basis of Islam. It
rejects the mainstream idea of ijtema, the interpretation of tradition to address actually existing circumstances.
Saeed's rise was in large measure the outcome of patronage by the Pakistani military dictator Zia-ul-Haq,
who granted the Markaz its sprawling campus at Muridke near Lahore. It helped raise cadre and funds for Haq's Central Intelligence
Agency-sponsored campaign against the Soviet Union and the socialist government in Afghanistan. In 1991, the Lashkar was set
up to give the ISI a direct role in terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir. Within two years, it set up a number of cells
in Jammu and Kashmir and through India. From the outset, the Lashkar has made it clear that it sees the war in Jammu and Kashmir
as just a stepping stone to establishing Islamic rule throughout South Asia.
AZIZ HAIDARI/ REUTERS
Maulana Masood Azhar, the Jaish-e-Mohammad leader, who was freed by India as part of a deal to end the hijack of Indian
Airlines IC-814 in December 1999.
In the wake of the recent ban imposed on the LeT by the United States and Pakistan, Saeed announced that
the LeT had shifted its headquarters to Kashmir, and that the Markaz itself would restrict its activities to Pakistan. The
announcement is disingenuous since the Lashkar has for a long time had offices in Pakistan-held Jammu and Kashmir, notably
at the Sawai Nall at Muzaffarabad. It has also run launching camps from Lipa, Duhnihal, Athmuqam, Jura and Chikoti.
Major cases:
None in India. Reported to be facing sedition charges in Pakistan.
Abdul Karim "Tunda" (LeT): Until his disappearance off Indian intelligence radar from Bangladesh two
years ago, Abdul Karim was the top field operative of the LeT's all-India outfit, the Dasta Mohammad bin Qasim. He reported
to the Lashkar's head of all-India operations, Azam Cheema, who in turn acts under the instructions of the organisation's
overall commander of military operations, Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi.
Nick-named Tunda for a handicap in his left arm, sustained in the course of a bomb-building accident, Abdul
Karim's association with the Islamic Right predates his association with Lashkar. Residents of Bhiwani (Maharashtra) Jalees
Ansari and Karim and Nizamabad-based Azam Ghauri, then residents of Mumbai, set up a Muslim self-defence committee in the
wake of the Bhiwandi riots. All of them were later recruited by the ISI, and trained in Pakistan in the early 1990s. Ansari
is now in jail, while Ghauri was shot dead in an encounter in 2000.
Karim's key success was in discovering young recruits to do his work. New Delhi resident Aamer Hashim, operating
under the alias Kamran, was responsible for a series of bomb blasts in New Delhi and Jalandhar in 1996 and 1997. Other agents
have been brought in directly from Pakistan. On July 1, 1998, Intelligence Bureau surveillance led to the arrest of top Lashkar
activist Mohammad Salim Junaid, with 16 kg of RDX (research department explosive) in his possession. Junaid, a resident of
Kala Gujran village in Pakistan's Jhelum district, started his career in 1991.
Major cases:
Named in dozens of FIRs relating to the Delhi bomb blasts, and the bombing of trains.
II. The Indian Airlines IC-814 hijackers
Mohammad Masood Azhar (Jaish-e-Mohammad): Masood Azhar was an unlikely candidate to make it to any
'most wanted' list: in 1989 he was forced to drop out of his first, and only, arms training course with the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
because he was overweight. But by 1993, he was second only to the Harkat chief Fazlur Rehman Khalil, having established himself
as a fund-raiser and ideologue. After his release in the IC-814 for hostages-for-prisoners swap in December 1999, he went
on to found the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), arguably the most feared terrorist group in Jammu and Kashmir today.
Azhar was born as the third of 11 children on August 7, 1968 to Allah Baksh Sabir Alvi, a Bahawalpur schoolteacher
who ran a poultry farm after his retirement. Dropping out of school after Class VII, he joined the ultra-orthodox Binori seminary
in Karachi and then he went on to join the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. He edited its magazine, Sada-i-Mujahid. He travelled abroad
extensively on fund-raising missions, and was later tasked to visit India to preside over the formal unification of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
and the Harkat-ul-Ansar. Having arrived in New Delhi on January 29, 1994, on a fake Portuguese passport, he travelled on to
the Kashmir Valley, from where he was arrested on February 16.
Several attempts were made to secure Azhar's release by means of kidnappings, notably one by Syed Omar Sheikh,
released along with him in the IC-814 deal. Sheikh, a British national and London School of Economics graduate, remains Azhar's
closest aide. Azhar, however, was not charged for his role in these attempts. Both Jaish leaders have close links with the
Taliban and Osama bin Laden. Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammad Omar and Azhar were taught at the Binori seminary by Mullah Nazimuddin
Shamzai, the religious leader who acts as the patron of the Jaish. Sheikh is believed to have remitted $100,000 to the World
Trade Centre suicide bomber Mohammad Atta.
Major cases:
FIR No. 1 of 1993, filed by Counter-Intelligence, Jammu and Kashmir Police, under Section 3&4 of Terrorist
and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act. No FIRs, however, have been registered for subsequent JeM attacks.
Mohammad Ibrahim Athar Alvi, Zahoor Ibrahim Mistri, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Shakir Mohammad and Azhar Yusuf:
There is little available background material on the five hijackers of flight IC-814 sought by India. All are believed to
be members of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, and now the JeM. Ibrahim Athar Alvi is Masood Azhar's brother. The JeM chief's interrogation
report records his being 28 years of age in 1994. Azhar told his interrogators that his younger brother spent most of his
time working at the family-run poultry farm. Alvi, along with Azhar and three other brothers, is reported to have been arrested
on sedition charges in Pakistan on December 31, 2001. There has since been no independent confirmation of their whereabouts.
Major cases:
Kidnapping and the murder of IC-814 passenger Rupin Katyal.
III. The Mumbai serial bombings
Dawood Ibrahim, 'Chhota' Shakeel Ahmad Babu, Sagir Sabir Ali Sheikh, Abdul Razzaq and Ishaq Atta Hussain:
Everyone knows the story. Incensed by Hindu fundamentalist attacks on Muslims during the Shiv Sena-led Mumbai pogrom of 1992-1993,
dependent on the ISI for keeping his narcotics operations open after gold and silver decontrol knocked the bottom out of his
traditional business, India's most famous underworld figure did what he had to do. He allowed his apparatus to be used for
India's worst terrorist outrage so far - the Mumbai serial bombings of 1993.
If Dawood Ibrahim's central role in the Mumbai bombings is well documented - and his subordinates used their
contacts to ship in explosives, and then set them off at key installations through the city - most people are still unfamiliar
with the mass of evidence that the CBI has collected of Pakistan's direct complicity in the operation. Twenty-seven cartons
of explosives recovered from him in March, 1992, bore the markings of Packsile Packages in Lahore. The markings were traced
to the Wah Nobel Factory at Wah, which manufactures explosives. Since governments concerned monitor sales of large consignments
of explosives, it took little to see what had gone on. The Austrian Federal Ministry for the Interior confirmed in an April
1993 letter that the HG-72 grenades used by the bombers were made on equipment sold by Ulbrichts between 1969 and 1971 to
the Pakistan military supply firm of Akhtar and Hofmann.
No wonder, then, that Pakistan officials repeatedly denied India assertions that Ibrahim was in Karachi -
until a series of reports in the Pakistan press in 2001 blew the lid off.
Major cases:
Dawood Ibrahim and his associates are faced with a welter of Mumbai serial blasts cases. Many of them also
face additional charges. Sagir Sheikh and Ishaq Atta Hussain, for example, are charged with a September 2001 attempt to assassinate
Union Home Minister L.K. Advani. He also faces charges of jumping bail, and an Arms Act case from 1997. Ibrahim's top associate,
Shakeel, is also wanted for crimes including the murder and attempted murder of Shiv Sena politicians and for weapons running.
'Tiger' Ibrahim Abdul Razzaq Memon and Ayub Memon: The guests at the wedding of the oldest Memon brother
at the Islam Gymkhana in south Mumbai must have thought the family had everything going for it. The wedding had a full cast
of film stars, including Jackie Shroff, and cricket heroes like Mohammad Azharuddin. Reports of the event filled the glamour
columns of the Mumbai afternoon papers for weeks.
Not long after, things went awfully wrong. Most people reckon that the Memon family's problem was its thuggish
son 'Tiger', and his younger brother Ayub. Tiger, the CBI believes, was the moving force behind the Mumbai serial bombings.
The explosives recoveries, which proved crucial to cracking the case, were made from his home. More damning evidence came
from Yakub Memon, who along with his family chose to return to India after spending three months in Pakistan. Tiger, however,
remains firmly committed to his cause. In 1995, he is known to have met Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front leader Hilal Baig
to discuss collaboration in terrorist operations in India. The JKIF subsequently carried out a series of explosions in New
Delhi, although it is unclear if Tiger Memon had anything to do with these.
Major cases:
All related to the Mumbai serial bombings.
IV. The Khalistan terrorists
Paramjit Singh Panjwar (Khalistan Commando Force): Panjwar is believed to be about 40 years old and
belongs to the village of Panjwar, near Tarn Taran. Until 1986, when he joined the Khalistan Commando Force, he worked at
the Central Cooperative Bank in Sohal. Shortly after taking charge of the KCF in the 1990s, after the elimination of its commander,
one-time police constable 'General' Labh Singh, Panjwar left for Pakistan. His wife and children relocated themselves in Germany.
With his close links to top Punjab smugglers like Bhola Thanthian and Pargat Singh Narli, Panjwar has worked to keep the KCF
alive using revenues raised from cross-border heroin traffic.
Major cases:
Ten FIRs registered from 1989 to 1990, including seven counts of murder and two under TADA.
Wadhawa Singh (Babbar Khalsa International): A resident of Sadhu Chattha village near Kapurthala,
Wadhawa Singh started his political life as a member of Punjab's naxalite movement. Like some members of the ultra-left movement,
its defeat led him to lurch to the far-right. By 1978, motivated by top Khalistan movement figure Tarsem Singh Kalasanghian,
Wadhawa Singh joined the Akhand Kirtani Jatha, and went on to become one of the founders of the Babbar Khalsa International
(BKI), operating its network from Pakistan along with his brother Mahal Singh. The BKI has shown greater resilience than other
terrorist groups in Punjab, owing both to its support among non-resident Indians and its contact with the ISI.
Major cases:
The most important charge against Wadhawa Singh is that he ordered the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister
Beant Singh. The prosecution of other conspirators in that case is proceeding, but Indian law does not provide for trials
of suspects without their presence. Four other cases were registered against Wadhawa Singh in 1981 on charges of murder.
Lakhbir Singh Rode: Rode's Punjab Police dossier describes him as a "hardcore terrorist". While his
name did inspire fear in Punjab once upon a time, it was more the consequence of his political influence and kinship rather
than direct armed action. Now aged about 50, Rode is a nephew of the feared revanchist preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale,
who plunged Punjab into the Khalistan movement. He joined the movement in 1982, having returned to the State after spending
five years in Dubai. He fled India to Dubai in 1986, and after arranging to send his family to Canada, went on to Pakistan.
Rode continues to be something of a cult figure - and successful fund-raiser - among Khalistan supporters in the U.S., the
United Kingdom and Canada.
Major cases:
None. The sole FIR lodged against Rode is of April 19, 1984, at the Moga police station. This accuses Rode
of several minor crimes, including trespass and causing damage in excess of Rs.50 to property.
Gajinder Singh (Dal Khalsa): Gajinder Singh came into public notice after he hijacked an Indian Airlines
flight to Lahore in 1981. The hijacking was carried out to protest against the arrest of Bhindranwale earlier that year for
his alleged role in the assassination of Hind Samachar Editor Lala Jagat Narain. The hijacker was given a life sentence but
served only a few years in jail before being granted asylum in Pakistan. The hijacking was one of five such acts carried out
by pro-Khalistan groups. Pakistan's direct involvement in these outrages was revealed after the 1984 hijacking, when West
German officials confirmed that a pistol used by the terrorists was part of an official military consignment that had been
sent to that country.
Meanwhile, in India, Gajinder Singh's organisation, the Dal Khalsa, was banned in 1982, but was allowed to
restart overground activity a decade later. On August 11, 2001, Gajinder Singh was elected chief of the organisation, although
he remains in Pakistan.
Major cases:
Continues to be wanted for the 1981 hijacking.
Ranjit Singh Neeta (Khalistan Zindabad Force): A resident of Ward 2 in Jammu city's Sumbal Camp area,
Neeta is the only Khalistan terrorist to be still active among the five whom India has demanded from Pakistan. He started
his career as a small-time criminal, and developed contacts with smugglers in the R.S. Pora and Samba areas. Neeta's Khalistan
Zindabad Force (KZF) has close links with the ISI, and is committed to joint action with Jammu and Kashmir terrorist groups,
notably the Hizbul Mujahideen. Despite recent losses - Neeta's second in command, Amritpal Singh Romi, was killed in an encounter
in 2000 - the KZF remains active.
Major cases:
Neeta's name figures in over half a dozen FIRs filed after bomb blasts on trains and buses running between
Jammu and Pathankot between 1988 and 1999. The most recent one was filed by the Kathua police in October 2001, for the assassination
of Deputy Superintendent of Police Devinder Sharma.
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[Federal Register: December 23, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 246)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 4561]
Redesignation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as
amended, 8 U.S.C.
1189, the Secretary of State, in consultation with
the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, hereby
redesignates,
effective December 23, 2003, the following two
organizations as foreign terrorist organizations:
Lashkar e-Tayyiba
Also known as Lashkar e-Toiba
Also known as Lashkar-i-Taiba
Also known as al Mansoorian
Also known
as al Mansooreen
Also known as Army of the Pure
Also known as the Army of the Righteous
Also known as the Army of
the Pure and Righteous
Jaish e-Mohammed
Also known as the Army of Mohammed
Also known as Mohammed's Army
Also known as Tehrik ul-Furqaan
Also
known as Khuddam-ul-Islam
Also known as Khudamul Islam
Also known as Kuddam e Islami
Dated: December 16, 2003.
William P. Pope,
Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State.
[FR
Doc. 03-31570 Filed 12-22-03; 5:00 pm]
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2002 Topics
Terrorism: What's in a Name?
2002-12-09
William Shakespeare wrote an immortal verse in Romeo and Juliet:
'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' The supreme dramatist was weaving his
magical web of words around benign subjects like love in the late sixteenth century. I am writing about terrorism in Kashmir
in the age of mujahideen armed with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. What's in a name? Why not call terrorism something
else and perhaps it might still convey the stench of the worst imaginable cruelty humankind has ever known? No. Here Shakespeare
is not applicable. Here, the name game attains far greater importance than in besotted Romeo's speeches. Let us consider the
politics with names played in General Musharraf's land for proof.
An Assessment of Musharraf's Anti-Jihad Speech
13 January 2001
No Pakistani ruler has condemned the Jihadi culture and terrorism
as squarely as General Musharraf has done in his 12 January 2001 speech. India has guardedly welcomed his speech but will
have to wait to see it implemented.
2001 Topics
 Terrorist Attack on Parliament: Striking at the heart of Indian Democracy
18 December 2001
For the first time in the history of independent India, the
Indian Parliament, located in the heart of the capital, New Delhi, came under terrorist attack. On 13 December 2001, five
unidentified terrorists drove into the Parliament House complex, resulting in a shootout that lasted for nearly an hour. The
Indian intelligence establishment believes this was an attempt to assassinate the Indian prime minister. Pakistan has not
only rejected involvement in the attack but has also brought in troops to border positions.
The Terrorist Attack on the Indian Parliament: Analysis
13 December 2001
The terrorist attacks on the Indian Parliament on 13 December
2001 have been described as an attack on the heart of Indian democracy. The needle of suspicion points to Pakistan-based terrorist
groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Muhammad. Security analyst B. Raman feels that the involvement of one of the
Pakistani components of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad is a strong possibility and further attacks
are also possible in the near future.
Compelling Pakistan to Co-operate
14 September 2001
US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has called Pakistan a
friend because it has offered unstinted support to the US in capturing the perpetrators of the 11 September atrocities. But
will Pakistan really co-operate? The answer is no - not unless the United States compels Pakistan to do so.
Terrorist Pearl Harbour
11 September 2001
These are tentative comments on the terrorist Pearl Harbour
attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC and an unidentified place near Pittsburgh
recorded at 11 PM IST, on September 11.
Counter Proxy War
11 September 2001
Afghanistan marked an important landmark in the evolution
of covert action techniques. It was a proxy war, partly overt, partly covert, to make the Soviet troops bleed through the
use of surrogates, without the direct involvement of US troops.
Musharraf, Bin Laden and the Lashkar
02 July 2001
Contrary to Pakistan's assesrtions, the military regime in that
country is deeply involved with Islamist international terrorist networks including the one run by Osama bin Laden
2000 Topics
Lashkar e Taiba: A Backgrounder
27 December 2000
The Lashkar e Taiba and its political wing called the Markaz
Dawa Al Irshad have for many years been calling for the expansion of the so-called jihad to the rest of India from Jammu &
Kashmir for creating two independent homelands for the Muslims of South and North India. As a first step in this jihad, it
had in the past called for intensified activities in Hyderabad and Junagadh, which it looks upon as Pakistani territory. The
Red Fort, as the seat of the Muslim rulers of the past, is an important symbol in its eyes. This paper is a backgrounder on
the Lashkar e Taiba. It has been prepared out of extracts from past papers on various subjects written by the author.
Islamic Jihad and the United States
29 October 2000
The Jihadists in Pakistan have spread their influence all over
the globe - even the United States is not immune. The startling part is that Pakistan''s secret service, the ISI, is deeply
involved with the key Jihadist organisations and have helped set up such organisations in the United States.
Death Throes of Terrorism in Kashmir?
07 August 2000
The wave of terrorist killings in Kashmir on 1 August 2000, according
to analyst B.Raman, signals the beginning of the end for terrorism in that state. The killings, which left close to a 100
people dead, was clearly the result of terrorist anger against the decision of Kashmir''s last indigenous militant group''s
to talk to the Indian government. The killings evoked widespread condemnation even within Pakistan. The fact that Hindus were
specifically targetted suggests that the perpetrators belonged to extremist organisation fighting under the banner of Islamic
Jihad in Kashmir. Raman argues that this kind of violence in response to peace initiatives should not come as a surprise -
rather this kind of violence will only increase.
Indian Home Minister's Statement on the Hijackers
6 January 2000
Indian Home Minister LK Advani issued a written statement on
6 January 2000, detailing the antecedents of the five hijackers of IC 814. All clues point to Pakistan.
1999 TopicsIndian Airlines IC 814 Hijack
A Chronology of the Hijacking
The Pakistani Connection
The Prize: Masood Azhar
The Harkat ul Ansar
US Attitude to Pakistan: The Bin Laden Factor
10 August 1999
It would be over-optimistic to view the USA's supportive attitude
to India during the recent Kargil conflict essentially as an indicator of India's enhanced importance in the US perception.
Kashmir: After 10 Years of Violence
2 April 1999
This year would mark 10 years since
the outbreak of violence in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K).
Explosions in Tashkent, The Background
8 March 1999
On February 16,1999, there were a series
of six car bomb explosions in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, killing, according to official accounts, 16 persons and
injuring 130 others.
The Capture of Abdullah Ocalan: An Analysis
19 February 1999
The facts regarding the circumstances
under which Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (KWP), was captured in Nairobi and flown to
Istanbul clandestinely by the Turkish Special Forces are not yet clear.
Whereabouts of Bin Laden: An Analysis
15 February 1999
"One of the priority tasks of the
reshuffled ISI is going to be to pressurise the Taliban to throw Bin Laden out of Afghanistan. Nawaz Sharif is under tremendous
pressure from the US to make the Taliban moderate its anti-woman policies and to hand over Bin Laden to the US, failing which
the US reportedly wants the ISI and the IB to co-operate with the CIA and the FBI in having him captured from his hide-out
in Kandahar and flown to the US in a Noriega-style operation.
Sayed Abu Nasir believed to be close associates of Osama Bin Laden
22 January 1999
Press reports of the Police version
have alleged that the Sayed Abu Nasir, along with 6 others—4 from Egypt and one each from the Sudan and Myanmar "are
believed to be close associates of Osama Bin Laden" and that they had " active assistance and guidance from the ISI to blow
up the US consulates." The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is the military-controlled Pakistani external intelligence agency.
Terrorism 1999: Changing Profile
6 January 1999
Despite the continued activities
of some Marxist and Maoist groups in India, Nepal, the Philippines, Japan and some countries of Latin America, terrorism inspired
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1998 Topics
Osama Bin Laden: Rumblings in Afghanistan
22 December 1998
There are tentative, but as yet
unconfirmed indications that following the US bombing of the terrorist camps in Afghanistan, an unsuccessful revolt took place
against Mullah Mohammad Omar, the son-in-law of Bin Laden, who lives in Kandahar.
United States Bombing of Terrorist Camps in Afghanistan
3 November 1998
An analysis of United States bombings
of terrorist camps in Afghanistan, the impact of this on Osama Bin Laden and its implications for India.
Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Assassins to be Hanged
28 January 1998
Judge awards Death sentence to 26
people found guilty of killing the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Kandy Blast Forces Sri Lanka to Outlaw LTTE
26 January 1998
The wave of Sinhala protests all
over Sri Lanka following the powerful bomb blast near the gate of the country's most sacred Buddhist shrine, Dalada Maligawa
or the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, has forced the Kumaratunga Government to finally outlaw the LTTE.
23 Kashmiri Pundits massacred by Terrorists in Kashmir
25 January 1998
Terrorists shot dead 23 civilians
in the village of Wandhama, a hamlet in the foothills of the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir.
Major Bomb Blasts in New Delhi during 1997
3 January 1998
The spate of unsolved bomb blast
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1997 Topics
Four Americans Killed in Retaliation to Kansi Conviction
12 November 1997
Unidentified gunmen killed four
American auditors and their Pakistani driver in Karachi on November 12, two days after Pakistani national Mir Aimal
Kansi, 33, was convicted for the murder of two agents of America's Central Intelligence Agency.
Mir Aimal Kansi The Most Wanted Man on the FBI list Arrested
June 1997
"After a four-and-a-half-year manhunt
that reached from Washington's suburbs to Afghanistan's deserts, the suspect, Mir Amal Kansi, a 33-year-old Pakistani,was
handed over by "Afghan individuals" after the United States had placed a $2 million reward on his head.
All Western Hostages Killed, Claims Harkat Militant
7 May 1997
The two associates of the Harkat ul Ansar
chief arrested after a shootout claim that all four Western tourists taken hostage by their group have been murdered.
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1996 Topics
Facts About Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
1 October 1996
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the best known
Islamist terrorist in the world who is currently undergoing trial in the United States for committing acts of terrorism on
American soil including the bomb blast at the New York World Trade Center, is actually a Pakistani and not an Iraqi or Kuwaiti
as reported in sections of the Western media.
Al Faran and the Hostage Crisis in Kashmir
10 March 1996
A shadowy terrorist outfit calling
itself Al Faran abducted six Western tourists last year. One of them, an American, escaped while another, a Norwegian, was
brutally executed in 1995.
World Terrorism: An Introduction
1 January 1996
Today the biggest and the most insidious
threat to mankind is ideologically motivated terrorists who, given money and materiel, are willing to perpetrate the worst
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