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| Al-Badr militant visited India on regular visa | | | | New Delhi, October 27, 2006
Karachi-based Mohammed Fahad, one of two Pakistan-trained militants arrested in Mysore today, had come to India on a regular 45-day visa on the pretext of meeting his Malayali grandparents.
The parents of Fahad, who was trained by the Pakistan- based Al-Badr militant outfit, had migrated to Karachi in 1971. After joining the militant ranks, he was used by the ISI for its operations of targeting important installations in the Indian hinterland, especially in the southern part of the country, official sources said.
Fahad, having a fair knowledge of Malayali, had got his visa stamped for Karnataka and Kolkata and arrived at the Mumbai international airport in February this year.
He came into the net of security agencies after he was spotted at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, after which surveillance was tightened on him, they said.
A Master of Science in analytical chemistry, Fahad had sent Rs 13 lakh through normal banking channels to Al-Badr militants in Jammu and Kashmir, they said. His role in militant activities was further substantiated by Al-Badr member ... | |
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| Two militants of al-Badr arrested in Mysore | | | | Bangalore, Oct 27 Two Pakistani militants were arrested in Mysore early today after a gunbattle with police which claimed to have foiled a "devastating" terror strike plan that could have targeted the imposing state secretariat building 'Vidhan Soudha' here.
Mohd Ali Hussain and Mohd Fahad, allegedly belonging to Pakistani terror outfit Al-Badr, were intercepted while they were riding a motorbike and captured after a shootout past midnight in Mysore, about 140 kms from here, Karnataka Director General of Police B S Sial told reporters.
Two constables and a militant suffered minor injuries in the gunbattle, he said, adding police had foiled the militants' plan to carry out "devastating st... | |
| | | | E-mail threat to Prez, PM; reference to Afzal | | | | Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 27 Days ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Kerala, top officials in the state received an e-mail containing a threat to him and the President and having a reference to Parliament attack convict Mohammed Afzal Guru, who is facing execution.
Three persons, including the owner of a cyber cafe in Kochi from which the e-mail was sent, were picked up by police today for questioning.
Several senior officials, including the home secretary and DGP, yesterday received the e-mail sent from the same ID and containing references to Mohammed Afzal Guru, facing execution for the 2001 Parliament attack, and PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani, who is being held in connec... | |
| | | | Sonia says Natwar betrayed her trust | | ...says, he misused party’s name | | |
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday attacked former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh, saying he had "betrayed" her trust in him by "misusing" the party's name in the oil-for-food scam in Iraq.
"As it became clearer that it was true that my colleague had misused the name of the party in some ways, I felt extremely betrayed," she said in an interview to a television channel.
She was unforgiving on Singh when she said, "He was a colleague in whom I had placed trust and I felt very terribly betrayed."
This is the first time Sonia has made her position clear on Singh after the tabling of the report of the Justice Pathak Inquiry Authority in Parliament ... | |
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