New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) There have been several reports about the fate of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief, Masood Azhar, with some reports even suggesting that the media in Pakistan has been instructed not to report anything about him. Intelligence agencies are closely tracking developments within the Jaish-e-Mohammad. An Intelligence Bureau official said that recent reports suggest that Azhar’s health has deteriorated considerably and he is in no position to walk. However, the ISI wants this …
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New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Even as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba tries to rebuild following heavy losses during Operation Sindoor, a leadership crisis is fast emerging within the group. The killing of Sheikh Afridi, a close aide of Lashkar-e-Tayiba chief Hafiz Saeed clearly signals that the top rung is collapsing.Afridi was killed by unknown gunmen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) by unidentified gunmen. This follows the pattern of unknown gunmen killing top terrorists of both the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Hizbul M…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The mystery around Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar is growing with each passing day. His own cadres have been questioning the top leadership about his whereabouts. There are claims within the JeM that their chief is on his deathbed. The terror group’s leadership has been fighting such rumours and has been asking the cadres to calm down and stay hopeful.The Indian agencies, however, confirm that Azhar is not nearing his death. However, they add that his heal…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Pakistan has been called out on numerous occasions for being a facilitator of terror. While, its primary agenda is to hurt India’s interests, of late several operatives linked to the ISI have been arrested for plotting attacks in various parts of the world. The arrests made in the United States and also in South Korea indicate the growing network of the ISI.In August last year, a Pakistani citizen was arrested for being a member of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. He was traine…
Srinagar, April 22 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday attached several properties belonging to a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror operative involved in the 2017 fidayeen attack case on a Central Reserve Police Force camp, in which five paramilitary personnel were killed and three seriously injured. The attachment action, taken under Section 33 (1) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, in pursuance of recent orders of the National Investigation Agency Special…
Islamabad, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan-incubated terrorism is no longer a distant or abstract threat but has evolved into a direct security challenge for Europe, risking the spillover of external unrest into a persistent internal instability, a report said on Wednesday. Writing for ‘Eurasia Review’, Dimitra Staikou, a Greek lawyer, writer, and journalist, noted that while Pakistan is attempting to reshape its global image by leveraging the recognition of its perceived mediating role in US-Iran …
Colombo, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan’s terror ecosystem is expanding rather than shrinking, with terrorist organisations such as Jaish-e-Mohammad establishing a women’s wing, ‘Jamaat-ul-Mominat’, and Lashkar-e-Taiba setting up a so-called ‘Water Wing’ aimed at maritime assault capabilities, a report said on Wednesday. According to a report in Sri Lankan media outlet Ceylon Wire News, terror financing has gone digital, with encrypted cryptocurrency transactions supplementing traditional hawala net…
Colombo, April 22 (IANS) With a US Congressional Research Service report recently identifying Pakistan as a persistent base for several long-active extremist groups, Sri Lanka must recognise that the “factory of terror” operating in its neighbourhood remains a big threat. The 2019 Easter attacks in Sri Lanka were aimed to affect island nation’s growing tourism industry and communal harmony while the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam was designed to derail regional stability, a rep…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan needed a decisive response following the dastardly Pahalgam terror attack and it got the one from India, timely and decisively. However, this was not just one location on terrorists’ radar. According to information picked by Intelligence agencies, the ISI had planned more such attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, with an intent to terrorise the tourists and bleed the tourism industry. As tourism remains the lifeline of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan was looking to hur…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) It has been exactly a year since Pakistan’s ISI-backed terrorists carried out one of the most horrific attacks in Pahalgam. The victims were 26 innocent people, and each one was shot point-blank after they were asked about their religion. On the face of it, the Pahalgam attack looked like it was executed only to disrupt the booming tourism industry in Jammu and Kashmir. The industry had started to look up since the abrogation of Article 370 and the death of separatis…