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Posts Tagged ‘LeT’

Commonwealth Games in India

By Afshain Afzal • May 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Early this year, the US intelligence passed on an intelligence input to Indian authorities that the Al Qaeda might target Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The Indian government, accordingly, alerted all those who were responsible for the security. However, it turned into hoax alert. This time US intelligence issued new Intelligence inputs on April 20, [...]



US Hearing on LeT: Bad Company or a Bad Call?

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • May 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

It was a vintage Indian proxy propaganda exercise, exploiting US political system to the hilt in a bid to malign Pakistan. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia had convened a hearing on the topic; Bad Company: Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and the Growing Ambition of Islamist Militancy, in room 2172 [...]



Islamabad’s effort for a greater influence in Kabul

By Ahmed Rashid • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Features

After the failure of high level talks between India and Pakistan over their long running disputes, both countries are now locked in an escalating proxy war in Afghanistan. If no solution is found to reconcile Pakistani and Indian interests in Afghanistan, the coming months might see stepped up terrorist attacks against Indians in Kabul and [...]



Dead man walking in Afghanistan

By Miranda Husain • Mar 13th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Already there have been reports indicating that the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), perpetrator of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has superseded al Qaeda in the global threat stakes. Indeed, a recent Newsweek report referred to the LeT as “potentially the most dangerous outfit on the planet”
The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan vowed this [...]



IPL and Cricket Politics

By captainjohann • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

I was a young boy when 17 year old Hanif Mohamed came to India under Hafeez Kardar. I saw only a clip of his batting in INR( Indian news review) for may be a minute and i was impressed. I genuinely rejoiced when Pakistan beat the English cricket team at Lords an achievement India is [...]



Hafiz Saeed : Should We Get Rid of Him?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Why not? People like Hafiz Saeed are just symbolic entities which can be sacrificed and cashed if and when needed.
Whether Indians accept it or not, Hafiz Saeed is not really a terrorist. He has no say in the matters of any Lashkar within and outside Pakistan, and he was mainly involved in forming his own [...]



Profile of Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq

By Rauf Amir • Dec 14th, 2008 • Category: Worth A Second Look

Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, the 65-year-old Saudi Arabia-based chief financier of the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), was in touch with underworld gangster and designated global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.Bahaziq, also known as Abu Abd al-Aziz, approached Dawood in the late ’90s to fund the LeT. Sources in the Intelligence Bureau said Dawood acceded to Bahaziq’s demands and also [...]



Ban on Jamat-ud-Dawa : Why ???

By Fatima Tassaduq • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

When the interior advisor to Prime Minister, Rehman Malik, and the foreign minister of Pakistan and the Prime Minister of Pakistan has said that India hasn’t provided any proof that any Pakistani citizen or Pakistan-based organization has been involved in the Mumbai attacks, then why without consulting Pakistan, the United Nation’s security council has slapped [...]