December Month Articles
- Kandhamal killings split
Orissa Maoists on religious lines
- by Zeenews.com
The killing of a Hindu leader and his associates that triggered attacks
on Christians in Orissa have split the Communist Party of India-Maoist
(CPI-Maoist) on religious lines for the first time, with many Hindu members
breaking away to form a rival group. .....
- Coming next: 26/11 never
happened!
- by Kanchan Gupta
The Congress appears to have embarked upon a dangerous venture fraught
with disastrous consequences for the nation. If the recent assertions
of Minister for Minority Affairs Abdul Rehman Antulay and party general
secretary Digvijay Singh, and the Government's official response to them,
are any indication, the Congress is seeking to make political capital
out of India's sorrow through the expedient means of 'politicising' the
issue of terrorism. .....
- Antulay's perverse conspiracy
theory
- by Prafull Goradia
Why should Mr AR Antulay's contention have surprised most people in the
country? They may or may not support him in public, but most Muslims are
likely to empathise with his doubts. It is just that most Hindus and Christians
have not taken the trouble to understand the Islamic mind. True, the Muslim
posture since Independence has been misleading, possibly out of convenience
or compulsion. .....
- For this CPM MP, Modi
is a model
- by The Pioneer
Gujarat Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi is still a
'hated person' for the communists of the country officially, but not all
CPI(M) men think so. Kerala CPI(M)'s Young Turk AP Abdullakkutty, party
MP from Kannur, sprang a surprise on Sunday by stating that Kerala should
emulate the model of Modi in the matters of development. .....
- Fight jihadis at home
first
- by Joginder Singh
Whenever there is a terrorist attack the finger of suspicion rightly points
towards Pakistan, a country that has sheltered, trained and protected
terrorists over the last three decades. Whatever Government there may
be in Islamabad, Pakistan has always tried to bleed India with a thousand
cuts. Irrespective of the fact whether it is under Army or civilian rule,
our western neighbour has been following a consistent anti-India policy.
.....
- Don't forget, don't forgive
- by A Surya Prakash
Of late, Mr Pranab Mukherjee has been adopting a tone and tenor worthy
of the Foreign Minister of a great nation like India while dealing with
a rogue state like Pakistan, which has made sponsorship of terrorism a
key instrument of state policy. .....
- Hamas's Strategy: The
Rockets or the Media
- by Barry Rubin
Nothing is clearer than Hamas's strategy. It gives Israel the choice between
rockets and media, and Hamas thinks it is a situation of "we win
or you lose." .....
- Missing pieces of the
terror jigsaw
- by Vicky Nanjappa
The Indian Mujahideen has become the face of home-grown terror in India.
While some key IM members have been arrested by law enforcement agencies,
its leaders continue to evade the security net. .....
- India's case gets stronger
with Pak armyman's arrest
- by M Saleem Pandit & Sanjay Khajuria
India got more evidence on Tuesday of Islamabad's complicity in terror
attacks on Indian soil when J&K police arrested three terrorists,
including a Pakistani army regular. .....
- J-K polls: High voter
turnout shows people want peace
- by Expressindia.com
People in Jammu and Kashmir may have rejected the boycott call by separatists
by turning out in large numbers to vote in the assembly polls but for
many of them the sentiment for "freedom" hasn't died. .....
- Srinagar votes, stunned
hawk Geelani admits: Unthinkable
- by Zahid Rafiq
Policemen sit idle at the entrance, the gates are open, there are no visitors.
This is Syed Ali Shah Geelani's home, the citadel for Kashmir's hardline
separatists who announced a poll boycott from their rooftops only to see
it come crashing down in the long lines outside polling booths across
the Valley. .....
- On the wrong road, as
usual
- by P R Ramesh
One of the problems of those blessed with the pseudo-secular mindset is
the belief that they have a monopoly on compassion. At regular intervals,
they spring to the defence of imagined grievances or deliberate ploys
of the easy-to-offend types and attempt to guilt trip the average citizen.
.....
- The war against India
- by Tavleen Singh
In the month that has gone by since the attack on Mumbai have we got any
closer to dealing with Islamist terrorism? I fear not. We have a new Home
Minister, a new central agency to deal with national security and there
is talk of scattering commando units across the country but will all this
make a difference? .....
- Mumbai attack key to Pak
Army comeback plot
- by Pranab Dhal Samanta
New Delhi is fast coming to the conclusion that the Terror attacks in
Mumbai had the sanction of the highest levels in the Pakistan Army given
the way events are unfolding one month on. .....
- NCW seeks clarification
on Pragya's alleged torture
- by The Times of India
Seeking clarification into the allegations of torture and inhuman behaviour
meted out to sadhvi Pragya Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blast case,
by Maharashtra Anti-terrorist Squad (ATS), the NCW has written a letter
to the Maharashtra government over the issue. .....
- Pakistan must deliver
on its promises
- by Ved Nanda
Thousands of demonstrators in Mumbai expressed their outrage at terrorist
attacks on the vibrant city they love. They were angry at their government
for its failure to prevent the attacks. Many called it India's 9/11. .....
- Pune opens doorways to
female Hindu priests
- by Imtiaz Jaleel
Women priests in Hinduism are not new. But for the first time, an institute
in Pune is offering women a one-year course which will train them to become
'purohitas' or female priests. And the response so far has been quite
encouraging, with many families specifically asking for 'purohitas'. .....
- Unreal to hope from Pakistan
- by Swapan Dasgupta
There is an astonishing sense of déjà vu that confronts
any half-detached observer of the post-26/11 mood in India. After the
attack on Parliament seven years ago, Atal Bihari Vajpayee spoke menacingly
of an aar paar ki ladai and ordered full military mobilisation. This time
too India has swung between decrying war-talk and keeping "all options
open". The romantic candles of sadbhavna have been snuffed out by
the torches of assertive nationalism. .....
- Antulay's doubt was brainless,
shameless communalism
- by Arvind Lavakare
Arvind Lavakare may be 71, but the fire in his belly burns stronger than
in many people half his age. The economics post-graduate worked with the
Reserve Bank of India and several private and public sector companies
before retiring in 1997. .....
- Why the Congress won't
make Antulay say sorry
- by T V R Shenoy
That line from Love Story -- the 1970 original, not any later Hindi drama
-- is running through my head as I watch A R Antulay grinning gleefully
as Parliament erupts. Senior members of the Union Cabinet may squirm in
embarrassment but the minority affairs minister -- a post that should
never have been created -- is loving every precious second of screen time.
.....
- Terrorists sexually Humiliated
guests before killing them
- by Santosh Mishra
Disturbing photographs made available to this newspapers by police sources
indicate that several of the guests at the Taj Mahal Hotel during the
siege November 26 were sexually humiliated by the terrorists and then
shot dead. .....
- Heaven for the Godless?
- by Charles M. Blow
In June, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a controversial
survey in which 70 percent of Americans said that they believed religions
other than theirs could lead to eternal life. .....
- ISI of Pakistan planning
to bomb Kolkata
- by Manan Kumar
After wreaking havoc in Mumbai, major towns of West Bengal, including
Kolkata, are next on the hit list of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.
.....
- Imagined victimhood
- by Khimi Thapa
The way some Indian Muslims, including a handful of 'scholars' and Union
Minority Affairs Minister AR Antulay in particular, have sought to spin
a 'conspiracy theory' over the killing of ATS chief Hemant Karkare during
the Mumbai carnage has put the community on the defensive once again about
bloodshed in name of Islam. .....
- Brutal massacre, unique
case in judicial history
- by The Pioneer
The May 2, 2003 Marad massacre, in which eight Hindus were chopped and
hacked to death under the darkness of night, was one of the worst-ever
incidents of cold-blooded criminal act the history of communal hatred
in Kerala and the case regarding that has been one of the rarest-of-the-rare
affairs in the history of the criminal investigation procedure and judicial
process. .....
- Dawood has a quiet birthday
in Islamabad
- by S Balakrishnan
Following the post-Mumbai glare on terror sanctuaries in Pakistan, Inter-
Services Intelligence (ISI) has relocated India's most-wanted fugitive,
Dawood Ibrahim, to a safe house in Islamabad. .....
- Teacher couple hounded
by CPM men
- by The Times of India
The aamra and ora us and them psyche that determines who are sheltered
safely in their homes and who remain homeless in trouble zones like Nandigram
and Keshpur, seems to have reached the chief minister's constituency,
the Jadavpur area, too. .....
- 2008 saw emergence of
Islamic militancy in Assam
- by Sanjoy Ray
The year 2008 though witnessed lesser casualties of terrorist violence
in the State compared to 2007, it, however, saw the emergence of Islamic
militancy in the biggest way, even overpowering the impact of decade-old
home-grown insurgency. More than 200 civilians have been killed in the
State so far (Mid-December), besides 16 security personnel and about 130
terrorists taking the tally of casualties of insurgency to 369. .....
- Man tells SIT sister died
of TB, not in the '02 riots
- by Vikram Rautela
Zarina Mansuri, a 30-year-old Muslim woman who was believed to have been
brutally hacked to death and later burnt by the mob in the Naroda Patiya
massacre of February 28, 2002, was not even alive at that time. She had
died of tuberculosis about four months earlier. .....
- Pak textbooks build hate
culture against India
- by Arif Mohammed Khan
The empowerment of terror in Pakistan has not happened overnight. This
is the logical culmination of the politics and policies pursued by Pakistan
for years now. .....
- Maoists split in State
- by The Pioneer
The Maoist organisation in the State is heading for an imminent spilt.
It came to light when an organisation identified itself as Hindu guerilla
Bahini (army) distributed leaflets in Gajpati and other parts of the KBK
area asking people to close down the shops on Thursday as mark of respect
to the VHP's 86 year-old-monk Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati who was killed
last year by some unscrupulous people. .....
- Mumbai attacks cost Lashkar
Rs 4 crore
- by Vicky Nanjappa
The November 26 attacks on Mumbai may have cost the Lashkar-e-Tayiba between
Rs 3.5 crores (Rs 35 million) and Rs 4 crores (Rs 40 million), estimate
Intelligence Bureau officers. .....
- Hinduism doesn't preach
Jihad: Rakesh Sinha
- by ZeeNews.com
A well known columnist, Rakesh Sinha has done a deep study of the RSS
and the philosophy of Hinduism apart from following BJP's rise to power.
Besides being a professor of Political Science in Delhi University, he
has also authored a book on the RSS founder titled 'KB Hedgewar - A Biography'.
.....
- India must fight its own
battle
- by M.V. Kamath
The first thing that India should have done on November 30, was to bomb
Karachi to smithereens and then let Condoleeza Rice do the talking. We
did not attempt it. We are too civilised. And now it is too late. Even
if a war is waged after due thought, the price to be paid will be enormous.
.....
- LeT draws well-educated
Pakistani youngsters: Report
- by The Economic Times
The Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is blamed
for the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, is now attracting "more young, educated
men, some of whom even hold advanced degrees," a US daily reported
on Thursday. .....
- Unraveling the Sufis of
India: Villains in the Guise of Saints
- by Ibrahim Lone
India Has always was a land of diversity. Secularism and peaceful co-existence
is not a concept in this land, it is a way of life. The credit goes to
the understanding of our great Vedic ancestors (I count Hinduism as practiced
today as not Vedic in spirit or essence) who were men of great letters
and a mighty spirit. Christianity reached the Indian shores much before
it reached Europe. .....
- A compulsive terrorist
- by The Pioneer
Contrary to Pakistan's protestations, Pakistani jihadis continue to sneak
into India with the purpose of unleashing terror through wanton death
and destruction. The recent arrest of three Pakistani citizens in Jammu,
who had planned to replicate the massive truck-bombing that wrecked Marriott
Hotel in Islamabad on September 20, has once again brought to the fore
evidence of terrorist groups operating without any let or hindrance from
Pakistani soil. .....
- Pak gets aggressive
- by Rezaul H Laskar
Vowing to defend Pakistan till the "last drop of his blood",
President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday said there would be "no compromise"
on the country's sovereignty and integrity amid escalating tension with
India. "We will defend the country till the last drop of our blood,"
Zardari said at the annual day function of his alma mater, Petaro Cadet
College, in Sindh province. .....
- Myanmarese on way to J&K
held
- by The Times of India
Thirty-two Myanmarese nationals were arrested from the Kolkata railway
station on Wednesday morning while they were trying to board the Jammu
Tawi Express. .....
- BSP leaders on overdrive
to collect funds for Mayawati's birthday bash
- by Yahoo News
Ever since Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati declared that her birthday
Jan 15 would be observed as 'Aarthik sahyog diwas' (financial support
day), party leaders and units across the state have been bending over
backwards to ensure the collection drive for the occasion is a stupendous
success. .....
- 26/11: India is livid,
but that has changed little
- by Anil Bhat
What the planners and perpetrators of terror attacks on Mumbai may not
have factored in is how the Indian public at large joined Mumbaikars in
condemning not only the terrorists and the country they hailed and came
from - Pakistan - but also the government, in Maharashtra and at the Centre,
for so many lacunae in administration and governance. .....
- Clouded war
- by News Today
As India is keeping on mounting pressure on Pakistan, on its own as well
as through international community, Pakistan is attempting to deflect
the attention of the world by creating a sort of war hysteria. .....
- MLA's arrest puts BSP
in a spot
- by Sify News
A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator was arrested on Wednesday evening
for lynching an engineer in Uttar Pradesh allegedly after he refused to
pay extortion for Chief Minister Mayawati's birthday celebrations, the
police said Wednesday. The state administration, however, said the incident
had no connection with Mayawati. .....
- Pakistan could sink into
chaos and anarchy
- by Richard M Bennett
Pakistan is a martial nation with an outstanding reputation for its military
prowess and a well deserved pride in its armed forces. However the Pakistan
military and intelligence service have played a disproportionately influential
role in mainstream politics over the last 60 years. .....
- It's time to call Pakistan's
bluff
- by G Parthasarathy
In the five years I lived in Pakistan, a constant feature was the ever-present
ISI minders who followed me wherever I went. Their surveillance was crude.
On one occasion they seated themselves next to a table at which I was
hosting Ms Maleeha Lodhi (later Pakistan's Ambassador to the US) at the
height of the Kargil conflict. .....
- UPA stands by Antulay
- by The Pioneer
The Minister for External Affairs, no doubt on the basis of either what
he had been told by the Prime Minister or what was discussed in the Congress
core group meeting and possibly by the Cabinet Committee on Security,
had promised that the Government would make a statement on Union Minister
for Minority Affairs Abdul Rehman Antulay's rancid comments insinuating
that Pakistani terrorists were not to blame for the deaths of Maharashtra
ATS chief Hemant Karkare and two of his senior colleagues during last
month's carnage in Mumbai. .....
- It's foolish to trust
Pakistan
- by Ashok K. Mehta
Even after 29 days of the Mumbai carnage, the Government is shadow-boxing
with Pakistan, unable to forge a face-saving strategy that will assuage
the anger of the people, not impair its electoral prospects next year
on the charge of being soft on terror, and most of all force Pakistan
to act against cross-border terrorism. The challenge lies in preventing
the next attack. .....
- Teesta Setalvad's former
confidant files FIR against her
- by Sify News
Raees Khan, who has been accused of distorting facts in the affidavits
of six Naroda Gam witnesses, alleged on Friday that activist Teesta Setalvad
has been threatening him and said he has filed a police complaint against
her. .....
- The Mumbai Terror Apologists
- by Sankrant Sanu
The sound of gunfire and the counting of the dead had not yet been finished
in Mumbai when the terror apologists had already explained it. Aryn Baker
writing in Time Magazine, spoke of how "the roots of Muslim rage
run deep in India." .....
- NRIs ask UN to declare
Pak terrorist state
- by NDTV.Com
Braving sub-zero temperature and cold wind, more than 200 supporters and
workers of dozens of Indian-American organisation held a demonstration
outside the UN, seeking the world body declare Pakistan a terrorist state.
.....
- Foreign students under
scanner in Pune
- by Imtiaz Jaleel
The student town of Pune is under police spotlight. Over a hundred foreign
students have been deported to their countries in the last three months.
.....
- Making an ass of our law
- by Krishen Kak
"The law is a ass" said Mr. Bumble famously in "Oliver
Twist." The law is made by legislators, so that begs the question
whether an asinine law presupposes asinine legislators. Ditto for law-interpreters
and law-enforcers. .....
- Govt defends Antulay
- by The Pioneer
Within hours of rubbishing his "conspiracy theory" behind Maharashtra
ATS chief Hemant Karkare's killing, the UPA Government absolved Minority
Affairs Minister AR Antulay of his scandalous propaganda, with Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh saying "to err is human". .....
- Dawood's empire is expanding
- by Manoj K Das
Eyebrows were raised when Russia first linked Dawood to 26/11, even before
Indian agencies 'guesstimated' his role. The Russian enthusiasm, 'The
New Indian Express' has learnt, was the first public acknowledgment of
Dawood's increasing influence in almost all trouble spots in Russia, where
Islamic fundamentalism is fast xeroxing al-Qaeda lessons. .....
- Top HuJi militant arrested
in Jammu
- by Yahoo News
The Jammu head of the Bangladesh-based militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami
(HuJI) has been arrested, police in this Jammu and Kashmir winter capital
said Monday. .....
- A new hero emerges
- by Vinod Kumar Menon
Constable Ambadas Pawar's (28) short career may not have been as illustrious
as those of top cops Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar. But
in his unnoticed death that horrible night of November 26, Pawar made
sure he went with a bang. Literally. .....
- Cut the Loose Talk
- by The Times of India
The fan club for minority affairs minister A R Antulay seems to be expanding.
And his admirers are not exclusively from the Pakistani establishment
that wants the world to believe the terror attack in Mumbai was the handiwork
of everyone but Islamist terrorists from Pakistan. On Saturday, Congress
general secretary Digvijay Singh said there was nothing objectionable
about Antulay's statement. .....
- Dark shadow of jihad
- by Sandhya Jain
Afzal Guru of India, convicted for his role in the attack on Parliament
House on December 13, 2001, and Ajmal Amir Kasab of Pakistan, seen striking
terror at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on November 26, 2008, are the symbols
of 21st century jihad against India. .....
- Mumbai: Islamist Terror's
New Modus Operandi
- by Olivier Guitta
Mumbai, India's financial capital is now only barely waking up from its
worst nightmare. Last week in simultaneous attacks, Islamist terrorists
killed at least 195 people and injured another 300 during a 60-hour killing
spree. The tactics used by the terrorists were different from the classical
jihadist playbook. Does it mean that Mumbai-style attacks are the new
jihadist modus operandi? .....
- What Pakistan is not,
and never will be
- by Hugh Fitzgerald
The Pakistani government of "moderate" Asif Ali Zardari has
thus announced it has no intention of handing over any of the those suspected
terrorists, now living freely in Pakistan, whose names were given to it,
not for the first time, by the government of India. .....
- Mumbai terrorists promised
sex with virgins in heaven
- by Yahoo News
The lone surviving terrorist of the Mumbai terror attack Ajmal Amir Kasab
has admitted that he along with his militant partners were lured into
the terrorist camps by the Pakistan army officers as they were made to
believe that the 'Jehad' in which they are going to take part will offer
them a chance to put an end to their quest for 'holy virgins'. .....
- Go for Pakistan's jugular
now
- by Sify News
Call it bravura, if you will, or the suicidal act of a fool, but you must
hand it to the failed Islamic state of Pakistan that it hasn't gone down
on its knees before the so-called international diplomatic pressure coming
on it after 26/11 from the tough talk of the US Secretary of State, the
British Prime Minister, the French President, the German Interior Minister
et al. .....
- A monster out of control:
Pakistan secret agents tell of militant links
- by Jeremy Page
The Islamic fundamentalists who run the Markaz-e-Taiba complex near Lahore
like to boast that it was inspired by Aitchison College, Pakistan's poshest
private school. It is, as they describe it, the Eton of Wahhabi Islam,
complete with polo ponies and a swimming pool. .....
- Mohammed Azhar Masood:
Praised, Luminous, Lucky
- by Himanshu Jain
Azhar Masood is the villain of several large attacks on Indian soil. These
include the first suicide (fidayeen) attack in Srinagar, the attack on
Parliament, and the 26 November massacre in Mumbai. Azhar Masood was freed
by the NDA government in exchange for 166 lives in the IC-814 hijack.
.....
- Afzal and Ajmal: 1947
revisited
- by Sandhya Jain
Afzal Guru of India, convicted for his role in the attack on Parliament
on December 13, 2001, and Ajmal Amir Kasab of Pakistan, seen striking
terror at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal on November 26, 2008, are the symbols
of twenty-first century jihad against India. .....
- The art of war on terror
- by Arun Jaitley
Arun Jaitley analyses the National Investigative Agency Bill and the Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Bill which were passed by Parliament last week.
In comparison to TADA and POTA, he finds the new laws have several loopholes
which will hamper both investigation into terrorist crimes and prosecution
of terrorists. .....
- Parsi lawyer faces social
boycott
- by B. R. Haran
Pakistan is doing to India precisely what UPA has done to Hindus Yes!
The UPA created a nonexistent 'Hindu Terror' with a motive of diluting
the fight against Jihad, and in the process, it maligned Hindu religious
leaders and Army officers implicating them in the Malegon blasts without
any concrete admissible evidences in spite of a marathon two-month investigation
by the Maharashtra ATS. .....
- Parsi lawyer faces social
boycott
- by Barney Henderson & Rachna Pratihar
Drop the brief or leave the community. That's the stark'warning the Bombay
Parsi Punchayet (BPP) has given K.B.N. Lam, a Parsi advocate who hopes
to represent Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the terror suspect arrested for
the 26/11 attacks. .....
- Terror Against India
- by David Frawley
The Indian media will not use the term terrorism for any religious group
other than the Hindus. Terrorism perpetrated in the name of Islam will
be called 'jehadi terrorism' or simply 'terrorism'. It is said that terrorism
has no religion, but this is not the case if terrorism can be linked to
Hinduism, a religion unlike most others, built upon non-violence. .....
- Another PIL against Rane
over remarks on politician-terror nexus
- by The Indian Express
Another public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed against former
revenue minister Narayan Rane, seeking that he be forced to disclose the
information about politician alleged links with terrorists that he has
referred to Rane, who was recently suspended by the Congress party, alleged
at press conferences on December 6 and 7that the terrorists who attacked
Mumbai last month got logistical and financial support from some politicians.
.....
- Awaited, action on terror
- by Rajiv Dogra
We must honestly concede that we have consistently lost the battle of
minds to Pakistan. In the media of the global world, speed is of essence.
Unfortunately, in our anxiety to present the absolute and verifiable truth,
we lose out to the quick and straight-faced lies of the other side .....
- Let's play hardball with
Pakistan
- by Swapan Dasgupta
Collectors of esoteric cricketing trivia may be aware of a letter published
in The Times, London, on July 5, 1932. Written by O H T Dudley, a gentleman
who spent 25 years teaching English in India, it recalled an intriguing
sentence from an Indian schoolboy's essay on cricket: "Cricket is
a very comfortable game: in it we disremember all our Condition."
That, concluded Dudley, "seems to me a great saying worthy of the
tongue that Shakespeare spake." .....
- Nawaz dissents: Kasab
from Pak, let's put our own house in order
- by Rezaul H Laskar
A day after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari told the BBC there was
no "real evidence" that the Mumbai attackers came from his country,
former premier Nawaz Sharif said he had "personally checked"
that surviving terrorist Ajmal Ameer Kasab belonged to Faridkot village
in Pakistani Punjab. .....
- Adamant Antulay makes
Cong squirm
- by The Economic Times
With AR Antulay refusing to retract his theory on Hemant Karkare's murder,
there is fear in the Congress about a significant depletion of its moral
authority. .....
- It was sad to see cops
dying for our spineless netas
- by Arindam Chaudhuri
Watching the end-November siege of Mumbai without sleeping for a moment
for the first 12 hours, I really felt sad for our brave policemen who
gave up their lives - just like many other innocent people - for a non-committed,
spineless, political class ruling this great country. .....
- Valley's LeT Network
- by Muzamil Jaleel
In the scenic valley of Madhumati, a 5-km stretch from Bandipore town
halts at Aham Sharief. Then an hour-long steep trek through a muddy path
takes you to Bhootu-a village hidden inside dense pine forests. This is
where the Lashkar-e-Toiba launched its first ever suicide attack-on a
BSF camp near Bandipore-from, more than nine years ago. .....
- Stop denials, get tough
on terror, Pranab tells Pak
- by The Times of India
Maintaining a tough stand on Pakistan, foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee
on Sunday asked the Asif Ali Zardari government to stop being in denial
and dismantle the terror infrastructure inside that country. Simultaneously,
the US told Pakistan it could not treat the Mumbai attacks as "an
ordinary event'' that could be "swept under the carpet''. .....
- 2 Britons guilty of Qaeda
link get life
- by The Indian Express
A Briton, who was guilty of being an Al Qaeda member, was on Friday sentenced
to life in prison, with a minimum term of 10 years. Thirty-three-year-old
Rangzieb Ahmed, who was born in Rochdale, was found guilty of Al Qaeda
membership, of directing an Al Qaeda cell in Britain and for possessing
diaries containing leading terrorists' phone numbers. .....
- Sena corporators link
slums to terror; Cong, NCP disagree
- by Shweta Desai
The commercial capital is trying to forget 26/11 and spring back into
business, but corporators at Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)
are still in action mode. On Friday, there was pandemonium at the BMC
over the Terror attacks, after Shiv Sena-BJP corporators asked for demolition
of slums that have come up after 1995, the official deadline for legalising
slums. .....
- Iran reaction on Mum attacks
hurts India
- by The Times of India
India on Friday conveyed to Iran that it was deeply disappointed by the
way the country had reacted to the Mumbai terror attacks. Senior government
officials admitted on condition of anonymity that visiting Iranian deputy
foreign minister Mohammed Mehdi Akhoundzadeh had been given an earful
by authorities for the widespread negative comments in the Iranian media
about India. .....
- Antulay playing ISI's
attorney, alleges BJP
- by The Times of India
Minority affairs minister A R Antulay was unfazed by the Congress refusing
to support him on his allegations on the killing of ATS chief Hemant Karkare.
He virtually dared the Congress to sack him, offering to "explain''
the geography of south Mumbai to his party. .....
- What Conspiracy, Ask Cops
- by Mateen Hafeez
There's fear of politicians. But there's also loathing for them. These
two emotions stood out most clearly in the response that senior police
officials had to union minority affairs minister A R Antulay's statement
in New Delhi on Wednesday. .....
- Naroda Victims retract
statements, say fabricated
- by Vikram Rautela
Six victims of the Naroda gam (village) violence during the 2002 communal
riots in Gujarat have told the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating
Team that their statements submitted at several places in connection to
the case were fabricated and recorded without their knowledge. .....
- Pak's actions just cosmetic:
Powell
- by The Economic Times
Former US secretary of state Colin Powell has criticised Pakistan for
its failure to dismantle the terror network of LeT even though it had
promised to do so after the 2001 Parliament attack. .....
- Pakistan needs to act
- by Gordon Brown
I paid a short visit to India to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on
Sunday. I wanted to offer, in person, my condolences to him and to the
Indian people on the terrible terrorist attack in Mumbai, which shocked
the world three weeks ago. .....
- IM Indian wing of LeT:
Delhi cops
- by Medha Chaturvedi
The Delhi police have found unmistakable links between terrorist outfits-Lashkare-Taiba
(LeT) and Indian Mujahideen (IM) while interrogating Mohammad Sadiq Shaikh
and Kayamuddin, the two accused in the Delhi serial blasts. .....
- Pak trying to cover up
Kasab links?
- by The Times of India
Pakistani authorities and residents of Ajmal Amir Kasab's village have
apparently launched an effort to cover up their links with the terrorist
arrested in Mumbai. .....
- Unlikely saviours
- by The Indian Express
The Chennai Test, which concluded on Monday with an extraordinary, successful
run chase and a come-from-behind Indian victory in the final session of
the last day's play, was a wonderful advertisement for Test cricket. .....
- Myths from Mumbai
- by Arvind Panagariya
Following the Mumbai Terror attacks, politicians, pundits and the press
have created many myths, confusions and falsehoods. These deserve to be
exposed in favour of clearer thinking. .....
- Pakistan's ever lengthening
shadow
- by Rupinder Kaur
Belgium: Terming them the "Belgian branch of the al-Qaeda" and
"the most important anti-terrorism operation in the country",
the authorities in Belgium arrested 14 suspected terrorists, including
a jehadi who was allegedly planning a suicide attack, last week. Sixteen
raids were executed by 242 police officers in Brussels and in the city
of Liege. .....
- Four Jamaat-ud-Dawa workers
released in Pak
- by The Indian Express
Days after launching a crackdown on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa following a ban
imposed by the UN, Pakistani authorities have released four detained workers
of the outfit, even as reports said that the main complex of the organisation
near Lahore was still open. In addition, authorities in Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir withdrew police guards posted at the home of the group's regional
head, Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi. .....
- Pak media more loyal than
the king: Cong
- by The Indian Express
The Congress on Monday castigated the Pakistani media for giving a clean
chit to Islamabad in the Mumbai Terror attacks and for trying to give
a communal colour to the incident. .....
- Kerry talks tough: 26/11
planned in Pak
- by The Indian Express
Adding to the international pressure on Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai
Terror attacks, US Senator John Kerry said on Monday that Islamabad should
take on the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and bring the ISI under civilian control.
.....
- Terrorists' phone intercept
voices match those of Lashkar top brass
- by Ritu Sarin
Investigation into the Mumbai Terror attack have moved a step forward
with intelligence agencies confirming that the Pakistani "handlers"
whom the terrorists telephoned several times during the siege in the Taj
Mahal Hotel and Nariman House were indeed top operatives of the Lashkar-e-Toiba
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Yusuf Muzammil. .....
- SC affidavit wrong, didn't
know what we signed: riot victim
- by Ayesha Khan & Vikram Rautela
In her new home in a narrow bylane of Ahmedabad, Madina Pathan (25) has
no idea she has kicked up a storm with her deposition before the Supreme
Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat
riot cases. .....
- IISc attacker trained
terror team
- by Abhishek Sharan & Debasish
Panigrahi
Abu Hamza, a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) operative who carried out the attack
at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)-Bangalore three years ago, has
been identified by the police as one of the main plotters of the November
26 attack. .....
- State & religion
- by The Indian Express
A month ago, six thousand Muslim clerics congregated in Hyderabad to sign
on to a declaration condemning terrorism. Initiated by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind,
which is closely identified with the Darul Uloom at Deoband, the resolution
sought to remind the nation that jihad and terrorism were "poles
apart" and that "terrorism is the biggest crime as per the Quran".
.....
- Obama will want ISI under
civilian control: Kerry
- by Pranab Dhal Samanta
With barely a month left for US President-elect Barack Obama to officially
enter White House, influential Democrat Senator and likely next head of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry made it clear that the
Obama Administration will ask the Pakistan Government to bring the ISI
firmly under civilian control. .....
- Red bands on wrists were
to deceive
- by Abhishek Sharan
Twenty one year old Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the alleged Lashkar-e-Tayyeba
operative who is in the custody of Mumbai police, told interrogators that
the main plotters of the Mumbai terror attack had instructed the 10-member-team,
and not him alone, to wear red bands on their wrists during their attack.
.....
- Tainted Ministers must
step down'
- by Bhavika Jain
About 50 Citizen and activists converge at Azad Maidan on Wednesday to
protest the inclusion of 'tainted' minister in the law state Cabinet,
and demand stricter political reforms. .....
- No stealth hazards
- by Gurmeet Kanwal
The 'confinement' of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar and the
arrest of the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba's (LeT) chief commander Zaki-ur-Rehman
Lakhvi suggest that the Pakistan government is cracking down on terrorist
outfits on Pakistani soil. At the same time, President Asif Ali Zardari
has rejected India's demand of handing them and others accused of fomenting
cross-border terror over to New Delhi. .....
- Anvil For Scimitars
- by Amir Mir
Some people don't evolve. They only ride the crest of passion hoping to
realise their dreams of destruction. Nine years after that rabble-rousing
in Lahore, the former professor of Islamic studies was back to spewing
vitriol against India. .....
- The Pirate Knows The Sea
- by Smruti Koppikar
As the scale and logistics of the 60-hour-long terror attack became clear
to the Mumbai police, suspicions about the role played by underworld don
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar's gang gained ground. In the last week, the Crime
Branch has kept a close tab on the activities of D-Company members. .....
- The mentor of jehadis
- by Muzamil Jaleel
When the investigation into the Mumbai Terror attacks began, New Delhi
insisted that the Lashkar-e-Toiba was the perpetrator. There was no reference
to Jaish-e-Mohammad. However, whether in the times of war or peace, whenever
India talked terror with Pakistan, one name always topped the list of
the most wanted: Maulana Masood Azhar. .....
- Armed with lathis and
handguns, they saved the day
- by Jaidev Hemmady
For Senior Inspector Nagappa Mali from the D B Marg Police Station, November
26 was just another day. Until the news of Terror attacks reached police
stations across the city through the walkie-talkies and control room phones.
Recalling the fateful night, which turned some ordinary cops into heroes,
Mali said, "Barricades had been erected at all vital exit points
to prevent the terrorists from escaping. .....
- No proof of LeT leader
Lakhwi's arrest yet: US
- by Mumbai Mirror
Expressing scepticism over Pakistan's claim that it has arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba
operation leader Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi, US counterterrorism officials have
said that they were yet to have proof of capturing the Lashkar commander,
a media report said on Wednesday. .....
- Achuthanandan in a soup
over Abhaya remark
- by Gladwin Emmanuel
Kerala CM V S Achuthanandan's remarks linking Congress leader K M Mani
to the Sister Abhaya murder case triggered an uproar in the Kerala assembly
on Wednesday. Opposition members rushed to the well of the House, demanding
that he withdraw his remarks, after which the CM retracted his statement,
sources said. .....
- Serious Business Of War
- by Maroof Raza
The suggestion of external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee that India
could exercise a military option against Pakistan has alarmed the international
community, particularly the US, that a war between the two nuclear-armed
neighbours could see the first ever use of nuclear weapons by both sides.
.....
- Hindus Urge Slovakia Not
To Forget Its Disadvantaged Roma Amidst Euro Celebrations
- by Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe
Amidst grand celebrations over its switch to euro and entry into euroclub,
Hindus have urged Slovakia not to close the eyes to its Roma population
who reportedly live in apartheid like conditions. Rajan Zed, acclaimed
Hindu and Indo-American statesman, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today,
said that it was moral obligation of Slovakia to take care of its most
disadvantaged Roma population and stop human rights violations reportedly
suffered by them. .....
- CM asks Centre to pressurise
Dhaka
- by Assam Tribune
Reiterating the need for a crackdown on ultra camps in neighbouring Bangladesh
and Myanmar for effectively tackling terrorism, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
today said that the Government of India needed to exert pressure on the
two as was being done on Pakistan following the Mumbai terror attack.
.....
- 'Antulay has maligned
entire police force'
- by A Ganesh Nadar
The minority affairs minister in the Manmohan Singh government set off
a political storm with his demand that the circumstances surrounding the
death of Mumbai's Anti Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare at the hands
of terrorists on November 26 be probed. .....
- Plunging popularity
- by Dawn
The survey conducted by the International Republican Institute in the
second half of October makes for grim reading for the government: Pakistanis
are deeply troubled by the state of the nation and are pessimistic about
the future. The government's performance in key areas, the economy, governance
and security, has left the country unimpressed, and its standing is already
comparable to Gen Musharraf's widely disparaged regime earlier this year.
.....
- Will Bangladeshi Hindus
be ignored Again?
- by Dr. Richard L. Benkin
Less than a week after the Mumbai terror attacks, United States Secretary
of State Condoleeza Rice was in South Asia trying to "reduce tensions"
between India and Pakistan. (Funny, we did not see her flying around the
United States with the same message after the Islamists' 9/11 attacks.)
.....
- Terror squad may have
sneaked into Bengal
- by Swati Sengupta
First, confirmation that the Mumbai terrorists used SIMs bought illegally
in Kolkata. Then, reports of HuJI operatives planning strikes in Bengal.
.....
- How Can We Make the Dog
Bark?
- by PoliticalIslam.com
In a Sherlock Holmes story, Silver Blaze, the clue to the crime was that
"the dog did nothing." The dog in question was a farm dog that
would have barked had a stranger approached. .....
- Story is of Terror: Agony
is of a Muslim
- by Yunus Mohammed
I am a Muslim born and brought up here, studied here, grew up here and
living happily with my family. This is my heaven. Today, I am a 65 year
old man. .....
- Those That Shall Deliver...
- by Tehelka.com
Al Qaeda has "benefitted from a network structure that allows passionate
and committed individuals and groups to contribute to a wider purpose
(whether for good or ill) with a minimum of co-ordination and administration.
.....
- 'I would have run over
the terrorists'
- by Rediff.com
Maruti Madhavrao Phad is 32 years old and has been employed by the Maharashtra
health department as a driver for ten years. He is married and has two
small sons. He lives on the 11th floor at the GT Hospital staff quarters.
His current employer is the state medical education secretary. .....
- The Evil of Good Deeds
and Good Thoughts
- by Bill Warner
After the Mumbai jihad there was a response of "Do good deeds."
The Jews of Chabad (the sect that had its members tortured to death) asked
for Jews to do "mitzvahs," good works. A yoga group that had
some of its members killed believes that love will triumph. Then Deepak
Chopra weighed in with his "think good thoughts" campaign. .....
- Memo to US, China
- by N.V.Subramanian
While, ultimately, it is India's sovereign responsibility to avenge the
Bombay terror attack, the rest of the world should not merely pressurize
Pakistan to act against its terrorist elements and partly terrorist establishment
because of Indian pressure, or to avert an Indo-Pak conflict. .....
- Yahya, Lashkar's Bangla
associate
- by Indrani Roy Mitra
If the Government of India has its hands full trying to force Pakistan
to hand over the terrorists who masterminded the Mumbai attacks, the West
Bengal police is busy tracking the source of the terror SIM cards. .....
- Islamists in PM's team
outed!
- by Kanchan Gupta
Last week this column referred to closet Islamists in Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh's Cabinet, pointing out that Minister of State for External Affairs
and Muslim League leader E Ahamed, while presenting India's case in the
United Nations Security Council on December 9, had mentioned the fidayeen
attacks on Taj Mahal Palace, Oberoi-Trident Hotel and Leopold Café,
but not the siege of Chabad House where six Jews, including a rabbi and
his pregnant wife, were tortured and killed. .....
- Roma Children Dying of
Lead Poisoning
- by Paul Polansky
The UN built camps in Kosovo for homeless Roma gypsies on top of the biggest
lead mine in Europe. Every child conceived in these camps will be born
with irreversible brain damage. .....
- He held off terrorists
for four hours
- by Rediff.com
The doctors have told Inspector Deepak Dole of the Colaba police station
in south Mumbai to avoid sunlight and dust for at least three months.
The reason: Large swathes of his skin, burnt by the fire started by terrorists
in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, are peeling off. .....
- 'I am happy that I could
save the lives of my men'
- by Rediff.com
When the fire raged, a hotel security guard was helping guide the police.
"We were separated by the fire from the DCP and the guide. They were
out and we were stuck inside. There were eight men behind me," says
Inspector Dole. .....
- An Open Letter To Arundhati
Roy
- by Abhinav Kumar
To call the foreign funded insurgency in Kashmir and the terror attacks
across the country as justified blowback for the failures of the Indian
state and civil society is both false and callous. It implies a failure
of the imagination and the intellect and the complete abdication of moral
responsibility by you. .....
- NGOs 'hijack' tribal kids
to fill orphanages
- by Jose Kurian
It all boils down to making up the numbers. Cashing in on the harrowing
situation of tribal communities, NGOs mushrooming in the district are
on a massive hunt for tribal kids -- to fill their orphanages and institutions.
.....
- Dubious neighbour
- by News Today
Pakistan's approach and action towards the Mumbai terror attack has been
dubious right from the beginning exhibiting a sequence of amazing double
standards. .....
- US not interested in India's
security
- by Dilbag Rai
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent visit to New Delhi and
Islamabad was not just to express solidarity with India following the
terrorist attacks on Mumbai and buy time to prevent an escalation of tension
between the two countries, but also to safeguard US interests in the region.
.....
- The post-siege coverage
- by S R Ramanujan
The rare spectacle of unity and political consensus the Lok Sabha recently
displayed to the world at large was lapped up (and rightly so) by the
Indian media as if to atone for the rampaging campaign it ran against
the political class. As everyone knows by now, the urban elite who came
out for the first time onto the streets of Mumbai and Delhi immediately
after Mumbai carnage, was exploited by the media. .....
- Fake currency racket busted
in Valley, may point to new militant trend
- by Ritu Sarin
In the first instance of its kind in the Kashmir valley, the state police
raided and busted operations of a mini-printing press in the Pampore area
of Anantnag last month. The 'prize catch' came even as law enforcement
agencies and Opposition leaders bemoaned that the economy was being "destabilised"
by the printing and distribution of large quantities of fake Indian currency
notes (FICN), but there's another implication as well. .....
- Godhra riot witnesses
got Rs 1 lakh each
- by Navin Upadhyay
A controversial Gujarat-based NGO was instrumental in organising payment
of Rs 1 lakh each to as many as ten witnesses in various post-Godhra riot
cases. The money came from the CPI(M) relief fund and was distributed
months before the witnesses deposed in the courts, five years after the
clashes took place. Four other eyewitnesses received Rs 50,000 each. .....
- Teesta Setalvad's former
confidant files FIR against her
- by IBNLive.com
Raees Khan, who has been accused of distorting facts in the affidavits
of six Naroda Gam witnesses, alleged Friday that activist Teesta Setalvad
has been threatening him and said he has filed a police complaint against
her. .....
- In CPM-speak, N-Deal =
26/11
- by Balbir K. Punj
In Parliament's debate on the Mumbai events and its aftermath, the alibi
that the Marxists were providing for the terror merchants did not come
as a surprise. While all other political parties sought to emphasise a
unanimous voice of India in their speeches, pinpointing Pakistan as the
breeding ground of terror, the CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury was finding
excuses, even justification, for the terrorists' attacks. .....
- 'Terrorists used D-network'
- by The Economic Times
Russia believes that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was directly involved
in the Mumbai terror attacks and his network was used by the terrorists
to carry out the multiple attacks. .....
- Dawood's network financed
Mumbai attacks: Russia
- by Expressindia.com
Russia believes that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was directly involved
in the Mumbai attacks, and his vast drug network was used by the terrorists
to carry out the multiple strikes. .....
- Sinister Minister!
- by News Today
Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Abdul Rehman Antulay has sent his
resignation to the Prime Minister. Just as well, as he deserves to go.
.....
- The way out: Do a 'Pakistan'
to Pakistan
- by Virendra Parekh
Indians are seething with rage. Even Manmohan Singh is muttering the right
words in his beard. It was heartening to hear leaders of all parties speaking
in one voice on the issue of terrorism. That is the minimum we need to
tackle the challenge. But along with this new-found unity, alas, there
persists the old-style naivety. .....
- Rushdie Attacks Pakistan,
Lashes Out at Arundhati Roy
- by G. Anil Kumar
In India every debate on conversion to Christianity ends with Hindu society's
caste-based "poison of divisions". Missionaries and their supporters
present conversion as the only "antidote" available. And missionaries
are "doctors," hell bent on administering that antidote! And
our "secularists" have been repeating it. .....
- Qasab's full confession
- by Mid Day
Statement of accused Mohd Ajmal Amir Qasab; Age 21 yrs. Occupation: Labour,
R/O - Faridkot, Tehsil -Dipalpur, Dist -Ukada, State -Suba Punjab, Pakistan
.....
- Bangla border fencing
to get top priority
- by The Assam Tribune
The fencing project on the Indo-Bangladesh border has been accorded top
priority, with Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh directing completion
of the Project within schedule. .....
- Mark Steyn: Jews get killed,
but Muslims feel vulnerable
- by Mark Steyn
"British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow's Train Bombing."
Indeed. And so it goes. This time round - Mumbai - it was the Associated
Press that filed a story about how Muslims "found themselves on the
defensive once again about bloodshed linked to their religion". .....
- Over 45,000 men protect
our VIPs
- by Aloke Tikku
As the post-26/11 debate on whether politicians need more security than
the public rages on, facts hidden in government figures show how India
can be safer if only our VIPs do not turn security into a status symbol.
.....
- Terror has seldom seemed
so ordinary
- by Stephen McGinty
It was to be an atrocity planned by text messages adorned with smiley
faces, an attack whose lethal components were collected from the everyday;
second-hand cars bought through Autotrader, satnavs from Currys and Calor
Gas canisters picked up at B&Q. .....
- Pak terror is bribe ruse
- by Brahma Chellaney
"Terrorists are still coming in from Pakistan," India's lumbering
external affairs minister lamented in Parliament last week. India can
be sure terrorists will keep arriving from across the borders, emboldened
as they and their patrons would be from New Delhi's pusillanimity in not
taking the smallest of small steps against Pakistan even as a token expression
of India's outrage over the Mumbai assaults by 10 terrorists - all from
Pakistan's Punjab province. .....
- SC affidavit wrong, didn't
know what we signed: riot victim
- by Ayesha Khan & Vikram Rautela
In her new home in a narrow bylane of Ahmedabad, Madina Pathan (25) has
no idea she has kicked up a storm with her deposition before the Supreme
Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat
riot cases. .....
- The confessions of Ajmal
Ameer Kasab
- by Sagnik Chowdhury
As security agencies attempt to piece together the plot and identify the
key players behind the 26/11 Terror strikes in Mumbai, the investigations
hinge largely on the information provided by Ajmal Ameer Kasab, the only
terrorist-of the ten who landed on Mumbai's shores-caught alive. .....
- NIA Bill Debate - LK Advani's
Speech
- by L.K. Advani
The government has introduced two Bills in this House - one to set up
a National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the other to amend the law to
bring in more stringent provisions to deal with terror crimes. Home Minister
Shri P. Chidambaram introduced these two bills The National Investigation
Agency Bill 2008 and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill,
2008. .....
- Obama taps evangelical
for inauguration
- by The Boston Globe
President-elect Barack Obama (right) has tapped Rick Warren (left), the
most prominent evangelical preacher of the post-Billy Graham generation,
to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. The decision was announced
today by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. .....
- Union minister doubts
terrorists killed Karkare, backtracks
- by Rediff.com
Under attack from the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena, Union Minister
for Minority Affairs Abdul Rahman Antulay sought to wriggle out of his
controversial remarks on the killing of Maharashtra chief ATS chief Hemant
Karkare saying he had not talked about who killed him but about who sent
him in the wrong direction on that fateful day. .....
- Some Gujarat riot victims
retract charges before SIT
- by Manas Dasgupta
In a queer turn, some of the victims of the 2002 communal violence in
Gujarat have retracted their charges of rape and bribing of the police
by the rioters before the Special Investigating Team (SIT). .....
- This battle has just begun
- by The Spectator
'I was excited and delighted by it in that first Bombay minute,' says
the narrator in Gregory David Roberts's great novel Shantaram. .....
- Northern hues at Tamil
weddings
- by Lakshmy Ramanathan
Minutes before guests trickled in for his wedding reception in May, Subramanian
G aka Subs recalls being confronted by a posse of six women. They had
hidden his shoes and he was forced to part with Rs 5,000 even as ' Joote
de do paise le lo' from Hum Aapke Hain Kaun played in the background.
.....
- 'The BBC cannot see the
difference between a criminal and a terrorist'
- by Sheela Bhatt
The British Broadcasting Corporation, a state-sponsored but independently
run, media organization has attracted sharp criticism for having "double-standards"
in its coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks. Most times the BBC reporters
referred to the terrorists who attacked Mumbai as "gunmen" or
"militants". .....
- The media-politician anti-Hindu
nexus has to stop immediately, if we really don't want another 26/11
- by Arindam Chaudhuri
As I remained hooked on to Times Now (which, by far, gave the best coverage
possible and reminded me of CNN's Iraq war coverage way back in 1991),
and without sleeping for a moment for the first twelve hours, saw the
mockery of our democracy, I really felt sad for our brave policemen who
gave up their lives - just like the many innocent people who also paid
the price - for a non-committed, spineless, political class ruling this
great country. .....
- Revealing the Faridkot-Mumbai
link
- by Dawn
The targeting of Lashkar-i-Taiba and Jamaatud Dawa and the rounding up
of the activists belonging to the two jihadi organisations appear to have
been triggered by information originating in India following the capture
of one of the 10 men who attacked several targets in Mumbai towards the
end of last month. .....
- NCW speaks up for Sadhvi
Pragya
- by Sandhya Jain
Since 20 November 2008 when the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime
Act was invoked against Sadhvi Pragya, Lt. Col. Shrikant Purohit and others
for alleged involvement in the 29 September Malegaon blast that killed
six persons, the elaborately conceived 'Hindu terrorist' plot has been
falling apart. .....
- How Many Needles Can The
Voodoo Doll Take?
- by Mariana Baabar
It was early on December 8, Monday morning, a little over 24 hours before
the country was to celebrate Id, and villagers on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad,
Kashmir, were waking from their sleep to the clatter of gunship helicopters.
.....
- God's own badlands
- by Lalita Panicker
The theory industry has gone into overdrive as always following a terror
attack. Mumbai has seen an overflow of theories in print, television,
among people on the streets, and, of course, the twitterati. All of them
have a ring of truth. .....
- UK may help find Pakistani
general's killers
- by Carey Schofield
The brother-in-law of VS Naipaul, the British novelist and Nobel laureate,
was murdered last month after threatening to expose Pakistani army generals
who had made deals with Taliban militants. .....
- Good bye to Apostasy ,
I am a Muslim again!!!!
- by Ibrahim Lone
I, Ibrahim Lone, hereby declare that I am reverting to Islam. I invite
all of you to do the same. I have realized my folly in trying in leaving
Islam, and to make up for my follies, I decided to grow a beard that would
give Santa Claus a major inferiority complex. .....
- Militants, attackers,
gunmen or terrorists?
- by Clark Hoyt
When 10 young men in an inflatable lifeboat came ashore in Mumbai last
month and went on a rampage with machine guns and grenades, taking hostages,
setting fires and murdering men, women and children, they were initially
described in The Times by many labels. .....
- Naipaul's brother-in-law
murdered
- by The Asian Age
Nobel laureate Sir Vidia Naipaul's Pakistani brother-in-law, Maj. Gen.
Amir Faisal Alvi (Retd), was murdered on November 19 in Islamabad after
he had "threatened" to expose senior Pakistani Army generals
who had made "deals" with Taliban militants. .....
- Profiles in courage
- by Jaidev Hemmady
An SRPF constable attached with the Solapur unit, Shinde had just appeared
for his written examinations on November 14 which he had failed to clear
during his recruitment in 2006 even though he had done exceptionally well
in the physical tests. .....
- Mystery grows over general's
slaying in Pakistan
- by Hindustan Times
Pakistani newspapers gave prominent coverage on Monday to a British media
report that a retired general gunned down in Islamabad last month planned
to blow the whistle on fellow generals' dealings with the Taliban. .....
- Mumbai, IISc attackers
were trained together
- by Naveen Ammembala
The interrogation of Sabahuddin alias Saba, the alleged prime accused
in the attack on the Indian Institute of Science, has clearly established
the role of Pakistan's army and Inter-Services Intelligence in sponsoring
and fomenting terrorist activities in India. .....
- Pak releases four detained
workers of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
- by The Times of India
Just days after launching a crackdown on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa after the
UN banned it, Pakistani authorities have released four detained workers
and removed police guards deployed at the home of a senior leader of the
organisation. .....
- Pakistan disowns its litter
- by A Surya Prakash
Despite incontrovertible proof provided by its media about 26/11's surviving
terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab's Pakistani nationality, the Pakistani establishment
remains in denial mode and continues to claim that the perpetrators of
this heinous act of terror are 'stateless actors'. .....
- Pakistan not to ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa
- by The Indian Express
The Pakistan government has decided not to dismantle the vast infrastructure
of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba, despite the UN security
councils ban on the outfit in the wake of last months terrorist strike
on Mumbai. .....
- Andhra CM son-in-law's
mammoth religious meet draws flak
- by Mohammed Siddique
Evangelist Anil Kumar's debut in Secunderabad bore all the hallmarks of
a gala event. A sprawling parade ground packed with nearly 1.5 lakh people,
a 250-member choir and guests including Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara
Reddy, his wife and only daughter. .....
- 'The BBC cannot see the
difference between a criminal and a terrorist'
- by Sheela Bhatt
The British Broadcasting Corporation, a state-sponsored but independently
run, media organization has attracted sharp criticism for having "double-standards"
in its coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks. Most times the BBC reporters
referred to the terrorists who attacked Mumbai as "gunmen" or
"militants". .....
- Jamaat-ud-Dawa's Muridke
HQ still open in Pak
- by The Indian Express
The main complex of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), in Muridke on the outskirts
of Lahore, which is linked to last month's Terror attack on Mumbai, is
still open four days after the UN Security Council placed the group on
a terrorist list, The Times has learnt. .....
- Sethu affidavit: ASI officer
files case against Soni
- by Amitav Ranjan
An Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) officer, suspended last year for
not carrying out changes in a counter reply to the Supreme Court on the
Ram Sethu project, has filed a case against Culture Minister Ambika Soni
and her senior officials for making him a "convenient scapegoat"
to save herself from the public furore that ensued. .....
- Pak's own peril
- by News Today
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to India and Pakistan and
his statements blaming Pakistan as a breeding ground of terrorism and
the Pakistan based LeT as the perpetrator of Mumbai Terror attack has
gained significance and added to the pressure being faced by Pakistan.
.....
- Mohammed Azhar Masood:
Praised, Luminous, Lucky
- by Himanshu Jain
Azhar Masood is the villain of several large attacks on Indian soil. These
include the first suicide (fidayeen) attack in Srinagar, the attack on
Parliament, and the 26 November massacre in Mumbai. Azhar Masood was freed
by the NDA government in exchange for 166 lives in the IC-814 hijack.
.....
- Pak scientists offered
bin Laden N-weapons before 9/11
- by The Indian Express
Barely a month before the 9/11 terror attacks, two Pakistani nuclear scientists,
said to be close to disgraced Abdul Qadeer Khan, met up with al-Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden and offered to supply him with atomic weapons,
according to a newly released book. .....
- Qasab's full confession
- by Mid-Day
I am as above and reside at the above given address since my birth. I
have studied up to 4th standard from Government Primary School. .....
- Blacklist terror charity
still open in Pakistan
- by Jeremy Page
The main complex of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the Pakistani charity linked
to last month's attack on Mumbai, is still open four days after the UN
Security Council placed the group on a terrorist list, The Times has learnt.
.....
- Stop pampering Pakistan's
military
- by Brahma Chellaney
The recent Mumbai terrorist assaults underscore the imperative for a major
change in American policy on Pakistan - a shift that holds the key to
the successful outcome of both the war in Afghanistan and the wider international
fight against transnational terror. .....
- A Belgian Victory over
al Qaeda: More lessons to be learned
- by Walid Phares
Agence France Presse and the Associated Press are reporting that Belgian
authorities have arrested 14 suspected Al Qaeda terrorists including a
jihadi who was allegedly planning a suicide attack. Sixteen raids were
executed by 242 police officers in Brussels and in the eastern city of
Liege. .....
- The Scene Steelers
- by Anjali Puri
As fragile security systems crumbled before sprays of bullets, and a battered
infrastructure struggled to cope with the bloody aftermath of the terrorist
attacks, all over the besieged city there were individuals, groups and
teams that rose to the occasion. Without their stamina, courage, professionalism--and
at times, even electrifying presence of mind--Mumbai would have been even
worse off. Anjali Puri meets some who shone on a dark night. .....
- Beijing silent on Pak
hand in terror
- by Kuldip Nayar
Some 46 years ago on November 26 when Mumbai witnessed a terrorist attack,
India was in the midst of an invasion by China. After its unilateral ceasefire
on November 21, we were licking our wounds. .....
- The Home Of Terror
- by G Parthasarathy
On December 13, 2001, well-armed terrorists stormed India's Parliament
and were gunned down by alert security personnel. Investigations revealed
that the terrorists had come from Pakistan and worked together with local
contacts. .....
- Pact targets Pakistan
terror link
- by BBC News
Three-quarters of the most serious terror plots being investigated by
UK authorities have links to Pakistan, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
has said. .....
- Pakistan foreign minister
talks of war
- by Sify.com
United Nations/Islamabad: The Mumbai terror strikes and the Pakistan-based
Jamat-ud-Dawa were in focus at the UN Security Council with India demanding
the group be branded a terrorist outfit and Pakistan stating that it would
do so only after completing investigations, even as a Pakistani minister
warned of a war in the sub-continent. .....
- Closet Islamists in PM's
team?
- by Kanchan Gupta
Even before Mumbai's first night of horror was over, by early morning
of November 27 Islamist websites were flush with claims that the multiple
attacks had been planned and executed by Hindus, Jews and Christians to
malign Muslims. .....
- Clerical Terror
- by Philip Jenkins
If we needed reminding, the carnage in Mumbai proved yet again that South
Asia is home to some of the world's deadliest Islamist terrorists. Usually
missing from press coverage, though, is any sense of the origin of these
movements, which are often assumed to be tied to the grievances of the
Arab Middle East and the fate of Jerusalem. .....
- A Brief Report on Pakistani-British
Terrorism
- by LaRouche Political Action Committee
Certain U.S. institutions recognize that Lyndon LaRouche's role is critical
to being able to flank a British war drive to turn the Mumbai atrocities
into another India-Pakistan war. Only LaRouche is leading the way in identifying
the Anglo-Saudi-MI6 operation as primary, rather than Pakistan as such.
The report which follows was volunteered by an EIR source, in order to
help LaRouche in this all-important effort. .....
- Still Asleep After Mumbai
- by Daniel Pipes
Victims caught in terrorist atrocities perpetrated for Islam typically
experience fear, torture, horror, and murder, with sirens screaming, snipers
positioning, and carnage in the streets. That was the case recently in
Bombay (now called Mumbai), where some 195 people were murdered and 300
injured. .....
- Abu Hamza, the handler
who managed the Mumbai attacks
- by Vicky Nanjappa
Intelligence agencies consider the attack on the Indian Institute of Science
in Bengalaru on December 28, 2005, as one that went horribly wrong for
the terrorists. An attack that could have ended with a very high body
count went awry because a terrorist with a bagful of grenades was caught
in one of Bangalore's nightmarish traffic jams and could not make it to
the venue on time. .....
- How to become a crorepati
overnight
- by J Gopikrishnan
When the spectrum controversy began to spin out of control and Telecom
Minister A Raja was recently attacked by political leaders from within
the UPA and outside for his questionable decisions, his mentor and DMK
leader M Karunanidhi condemned the critics as people who could "not
tolerate the rise of a humble Dalit". .....
- The Simple Life
- by Hivani Vora
The three dozen participants started out with two half-hour Buddhist meditation
sessions before dawn. They then spent the next two hours doing what's
called work practice, which consisted of scrubbing toilets and raking
leaves, all in silence. .....
- CPM links Mumbai attacks
to Indo-US nuke deal
- by The Times of India
The CPM on Thursday sought to link signing of the Indo-US nuclear deal
with the Mumbai terror strikes, alleging that the country has been exposed
to "new dangers" with the signing of the pact. .....
- Lok Sabha Debate on Mumbai
Terror - LK Advani's Speech
- by Offstumped.nationalinterest.in
I join each and everybody in this august House to pay condolences to all
those innocent civilians, both Indians and foreigners, who lost their
lives in these attacks. I join all of you also in paying our grateful
homage to the security personnel who were martyred in these attacks. .....
- What Pakistan is not,
and never will be
- by Jihad Watch
The Pakistani government of "moderate" Asif Ali Zardari has
thus announced it has no intention of handing over any of the those suspected
terrorists, now living freely in Pakistan, whose names were given to it,
not for the first time, by the government of India. .....
- Bangladesh Islamist party
pledges military training in seminaries
- by Thaindian News
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamist party, has
pledged the enactment of a blasphemy law and military training for students
of Islamic seminaries (madrassas) in its manifesto for the Dec 29 general
election, media reports said Friday. The blasphemy law is meant to prevent
the criticism of religion in books, newspapers or electronic media and
punishment for those responsible. .....
- Portrait of an Artist
- by Debesh Banerjee
Ketan Mehta's outings in period films, so far, haven't been very successful
(Note: Mangal Pandey: The Rising). "The scales are vastly different
here," argues Mehta, in defence of Rang Rasiya which was screened
at the London Film Festival and which he is currently promoting at the
International Film Festival of India in Goa. .....
- He Trained Me
- by Bhupen Patel
Amidst pressure from Pakistan to provide evidence that terrorists operate
from its soil, the latest disclosure from Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, alias
Qasab, will come as a breath of relief for the Mumbai police. Qasab has
identified detained Lashkare-Toiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi as one
of the men who trained him for the November 26 Mumbai attacks. .....
- No release in Pakistan
for SRK's Rab Ne
- by Meena Iyer & Bharti Dubey
The advance booking for the Aditya Chopra-Shah Rukh Khan flick Rab Ne
Bana Di Jodi opened across theatres in India on December 10. However,
trade sources say that despite best efforts from both sides, viewers in
Pakistan (where SRK has a huge fan base) will not be able to see the film
on December 12. .....
- 'ID cards of terrorists
had Hindu names'
- by Vijay V Singh
The terrorists who carried out the 26\11 attack were provided with student
identity cards of colleges from Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The cards
carried the pictures of the terrorists but the names were fake. .....
- There is no moral equivalence
- by Ramesh Thakur
India reflexively blames Pakistan for nearly all terrorist incidents;
Islamabad habitually denies any involvement or links. After last month's
attacks in Mumbai, however, the proper response to Pakistani denials is
the double positive of "yeah, right." .....
- Here We Go Again!
- by Ashley J. Tellis
Whenever New Delhi points a finger at Pakistan in the aftermath of a terrorist
attack in India, a weary world seems to say, "Here we go again!"
The old enmity between the two countries can tire spectators who often
quickly dismiss Indian accusations of Pakistani malfeasance are little
other than political recriminations. .....
- ISI raises Rs 1,800 crores
for terror: IB
- by Vicky Nanjappa
Funds are instrumental in the success of a terrorist operation and India's
war against terror will not be complete unless it acts on this crucial
aspect. .....
- Those who took away my
son are my enemies, says Kasab's father
- by Rediff.com
The Lashkar-e-Taiyba and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa might have disowned him, but
the father of the lone Pakistani gunman arrested for the Mumbai terror
attacks has admitted that the young man whose photograph was beamed by
media across the world, is his son. .....
- Jamaat warns India, Pak:
ban us, face consequences
- by Amitabh Sinha
Jamaat-ud-Dawa'h, considered to be front organisation for the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba,
on Wednesday warned India and Pakistan of dire consequences if banned
by the Government of Pakistan under international pressure. .....
- Sureshkumar loses job
for meddling in VS- Pinarayi tussle
- by Shaju Philip
The CPM group politics in Kerala has cost a senior IAS officer his job.
The state Cabinet on Wednesday suspended K Sureshkumar, pending an inquiry
by the Chief Secretary, for openly challenging two CPM leaders working
as the secretary and political secretary to Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan.
.....
- New Delhi says ISI, Pak
Army helped Lashkar strike
- by Shishir Gupta
With US help, India is said to have collected evidence that points to
the role of the Pakistani ISI in the Mumbai Terror attacks. Pressure is
now being mounted on Islamabad to ban the Muridke-based Jamat-ud-Dawa,
which fronts for the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba, and move against its leader
Hafiz Saeed. .....
- India police 'name Mumbai
gunmen'
- by BBC News
Indian authorities have released the names or aliases of the nine suspected
militants killed during last month's attacks in the city of Mumbai (Bombay).
.....
- Hamid Gul: The man who knows
too much
- by Rediff.com
Mumbai's 26/11 has all the makings of a watershed in world history. As
a fallout, the United States is reportedly using its unmatched diplomatic
clout to get the United Nations to brand four people as terrorists. .....
- India not impressed by Azhar
detention, wants handover
- by The Times of India
India said it was not impressed by the detention of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief
Masood Azhar and Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi by Pakistan,
saying that it was "nothing" as compared to what has been demanded
by it. .....
- Why is Mumbai Burning?
- by Aijaz Zaka Syed
Watching the terror nightmare unfold in Mumbai over the past three days
on television with me, my kids repeatedly asked: "Who are these terrorists
and why are they doing this?" And every time I wished I could offer
them a convincing answer. .....
- What was Ajmal and co's
original plan
- by Vicky Nanjappa
From a petty thief to a dreaded terrorist. This is how one could describe
Ajmal Kasab, the terrorist who is in the custody of the Mumbai police
in connection with the dreaded Mumbai terror attack case. .....
- Pakistan refuses to extradite
Mumbai terrorists
- by Jeremy Page
Pakistan will not hand India any of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militants arrested
on Sunday for their suspected role in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, but
will try them under its own laws, the country's foreign minister said
today. .....
- The terrorism riddle
- by Dawn
Pakistan, never far from the news, has been firmly in the international
spotlight since the Mumbai attacks. The steady drip of leaks from investigators
in India and comments by Indian and American officials suggest that a
Pakistani connection to the Mumbai attacks has been irrefutably established,
at least in the eyes of the wider world. .....
- How hotel staff made sandwiches,
attended to guests even as they braved bullets
- by Shashank Shekhar & Aditya Paul
The weekend just passed by and for the first time in many years, on Marine
Drive and on various other streets of Colaba, the buzz was lacking and
instead of fast cars of party revellers usually trying to dodge police
barracks armed with breathalysers, policemen hung around those very barracks
without much work to do. .....
- Tragedy's face that went
around the world
- by Shweta Desai
"He walked towards me, holding two children. They were covered in
blood. He said Sahib, my wife is probably dead, I have to find her, please
take my children to the hospital. The children were crying Mummy, Mummy."
.....
- The 'charity' that plotted
the Mumbai attacks
- by Anthony Loyd
Wriggling under the illumination of media scrutiny after accusations of
its involvement in the slaughter in Mumbai, Jamaat-ud- Dawa's response
last week was a workmanlike PR counter-move. Journalists were taken on
a guided tour of the organisation's headquarters, 30 miles from Lahore,
where a civilised lunch of spiced chicken and rice accompanied declarations
of innocence, condemnation of the terrorist attack and claims to be nothing
more than a charity group involved in relief work. .....
- Pakistan and the Lashkar's
jihad in India
- by Praveen Swami
"Whoever they are," Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said
last week of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai, "they are stateless
actors who are holding hostage the whole world." "I very much
doubt," he continued, asked about the arrested terrorist Mohammad
Ajmal Amir, "that he's a Pakistani." .....
- China's Reaction to Mumbai
Terror Strikes: Pro-Pakistan Bias?
- by D. S. Rajan
While the leadership in the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been
very prompt in conveying (27 November 2008) its condolences to India on
the Mumbai terror losses, it took some more time for Beijing to formulate
an official position on the terror issue; when it finally came in the
form of an appeal (Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, 4 December 2008) to
both India and Pakistan " to strengthen dialogue and bilateral cooperation"
.....
- Are we heading to being
a failed State?
- by Rajeev Srinivasan
The invasion of Mumbai by Pakistani terrorists is but a replay of times
past: The periodic and predictable arrival of barbarians over the Khyber
Pass, laying waste to the countryside, and wreaking untold damage on a
long-suffering populace. The only crime that the average Indian committed
was to focus on the creation of wealth; of course, the barbarians came
because of the wealth. Today, once again, India is generating capital,
and the intention is to thwart its economic rise. .....
- Divining truth beyond the
Vaastu Shastra
- by Ashutosh Maharaj
Peace, happiness and health are the three prime goals of all human beings.
Can Vaastu Shastra akin to the Chinese Feng Shui help us in this endeavour?
Mythology says that the demigod Vaastu Purusha was a terrible giant. He
is believed to reside in every plot, house and building. It is energy,
the life force of the edifice. .....
- Chinese media sees Hindu
link to 26/11, India irked
- by IBNLive.com
The Indian government has taken "serious note" of a "mischievous
and misleading" report on the Mumbai terror strike by a Chinese journalist
in the People's Daily which speculated that "Hindu youth" could
be behind these attacks. .....
- Mumbai: tragedy and farce
- by Sandhya Jain
On 20 September 2008, when Islamabad's Marriott Hotel was gutted by a
massive suicide bombing that killed 62 persons and injured over 120, I
recalled with a shudder that barely two weeks prior to that grisly devastation,
my sister-in-law, her son and father, had enjoyed a brief stay at that
very hotel. At home in Delhi, similar feelings of blessed escape rose
when bombs blew up in frequented markets like Lajpat Nagar, Sarojini Nagar,
Connaught Place. .....
- 'Only two things crossed
my mind: Do or die!'
- by Prasanna D Zore
National Security Guard Commando Sunil Kumar Yadav fondly remembers his
first visit to Mumbai (Bombay then) 10 years ago. He had heard about the
Taj Hotel in Mumbai from his friends and neighbours in Haryana's Pataudi
district. .....
- Muslim plea to Obama: Return
to 'Islamic roots'
- by Aaron Klein
Claiming Barack Obama has roots in the Islamic religion, an Egyptian cleric
has broadcast a plea urging Obama to convert to Islam while warning if
the U.S. doesn't withdraw its troops from the Middle East and provide
aid to Muslims, those "eager for [death]" will attack America.
.....
- 26/11 terrorists trained
by Pak army, navy instructors: Report
- by The Times of India
The ten terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks were among 500 men trained
to "elite" commando standards by the Pakistani army and navy
instructors and were directly supported by the ISI, a media report here
said on Sunday. .....
- Mumbai locals helped us,
terrorist tells cops
- by S Ahmed Ali
Did some Mumbai locals provide support to the Pakistani terrorists? Azam
Amir Kasab, the only Pakistani terrorist nabbed alive, has revealed names
and addresses of at least five people from the city who helped the terror
operation. .....
- India deserves more than
sympathy
- by Mahir Ali
AT the weekend, media reports based on the interrogation of apparently
the only terrorist to be captured alive in Mumbai, named as Azam Amir
Kasab, evidently confirmed what many analysts - and most Indians - had
suspected from the outset: a clear and direct Pakistan connection in the
horrendous attacks that brought mayhem to India's largest metropolis late
last Wednesday. .....
- Pakistan hosting terrorists,
using them against India: EU
- by MSN News
In a stinging indictment of Pakistan, the European Parliament has said
there is "confirmed evidence" about the country hosting several
terrorist groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and "criminal mastermind"
Dawood Ibrahim and using them as "an instrument of terrorism"
against India. .....
- Flush out 'mini Pakistans'
mushrooming in country
- by ExpressIndia.com
Criticising the Centre's attitude after every terror strikes across the
country, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday said the government should first flush
out 'mini Pakistans' mushrooming in India and then think of teaching the
neighbour country a lesson. .....
- View from Dubai: Why is
Mumbai Burning?
- by Aijaz Zaka Syed
Watching the terror nightmare unfold in Mumbai over the past three days
on television with me, my kids repeatedly asked: "Who are these terrorists
and why are they doing this?" And every time I wished I could offer
them a convincing answer. .....
- Pitfalls of citizen power
- by Chandan Mitra
I am more amused than agitated by the sudden burst of activity among Page
3 people over the terror outrage in two of Mumbai's best hotels. During
and after the carnage, celebrities have been holding forth, crying "Enough
is enough" and demanding banishment of politicians from public life.
They have argued that civil society is the only entity that should determine
the response to Mumbai's angst. .....
- Time to show extreme prejudice
- by Swapan Dasgupta
In his breathtaking account of The Last Battle for Berlin in 1945, published
some four decades ago, Cornelius Ryan narrated the story of how one Berliner
tried to anticipate the final collapse. Walking to work each morning,
he would look into the drawing room of a prominent Nazi and focus on the
lavish portrait of Adolf Hitler. The removal of the portrait, he had decided
in his mind, would be the signal that the fall of the city was imminent.
.....
- Lashkar scoffs at handover
cry
- by The Telegraph
Pakistan will not bow to India's demand to hand over Lashkar-e-Toiba founder
Mohammed Hafeez Saeed in connection with the Mumbai terror strikes, a
front created by the leader has said. .....
- First lessons from the Mumbai
Massacres
- by James Lewis
It now appears that 10 commando-trained terrorists with Pakistani jihadist
training were able to kill at least 172 people and wound almost 300 more
in Mumbai, India, over some five days. That suggests major failures among
Mumbai's first responders, notably its armed police. .....
- Taliban in 72 pct of Afghanistan,
think-tank says
- by Jon Hemming
The Taliban hold a permanent presence in 72 percent of Afghanistan, a
think-tank said on Monday, but NATO and the Afghan government rejected
the report, saying its figures were not credible. .....
- Jihad in Mumbai: Islamic
Teaching in Action
- by Sher Khan
The horror of the recent Islamic attack (instantly re-branded "terrorist"
attack) in Mumbai has once again shocked the world. The Commando style,
simultaneous assaults on various places were somewhat different from the
Islamic tradition of suicide bombing. .....
- Pakistan raids camp of group
blamed for Mumbai
- by Kamran Haider
Pakistani security forces on Sunday raided a camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT), two sources said, in a strike against the militant group blamed
by India for last month's deadly attacks on Mumbai. .....
- More than 160 US, NATO vehicles
burned in Pakistan
- by Riaz Khan
Militants torched 160 vehicles, including dozens of Humvees destined for
U.S. and allied forces fighting in Afghanistan, in the boldest attack
so far on the critical military supply line through Pakistan. .....
- Kiran Bedi on terror attacks
- by Mid-Day
Could the 26/11 attacks have been avoided?
Kiran Bedi: Yes, if there was proper coordination between the Intelligence
Bureau, the Research & Analysis Wing [India's counter-intelligence
agency], the Navy and the Coast Guard. India had the alert, but we did
not act on it. .....
- Interpol notices handed
to Islamabad
- by Amir Mir
While demanding the extradition of 20 people from Pakistan for their alleged
involvement in terrorist activities, the Indian authorities have provided
to the Pakistani authorities Interpol Red Corner notices and details of
the crimes committed by them, along with their fake names as well as their
Pakistani passports and ID card numbers. .....
- Bangladeshis are taking
over Guj coast
- by Urvashi Dev Rawal and Paras K Jha
The risk of infiltration along the Gujarat's slackly guarded coastline
is being gravely heightened by the sprouting of a maze of Bangla-deshi
settlements, hundreds of which have already infested the state's seaboard.
Curiously, foreign nationals have now become 'local residents', having
acquired election and ration cards! .....
- Time to show extreme prejudice
- by Swapan Dasgupta
In his breathtaking account of The Last Battle for Berlin in 1945, published
some four decades ago, Cornelius Ryan narrated the story of how one Berliner
tried to anticipate the final collapse. Walking to work each morning,
he would look into the drawing room of a prominent Nazi and focus on the
lavish portrait of Adolf Hitler. The removal of the portrait, he had decided
in his mind, would be the signal that the fall of the city was imminent.
.....
- Pakistan Won't Cooperate
with India
- by Sumit Ganguly
Upon her arrival in New Delhi this week, United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said she expected the Pakistani regime to "cooperate
fully and transparently" with India to try and bring the perpetrators
of last week's terrorist outrage in Mumbai to justice. Ms. Rice's position
-- though seemingly sensible -- is actually off the mark. .....
- The dangerous illusion of
independent terrorists
- by Greg Sheridan
When us Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in India this week, all
the talk was about "non-state actors" and the challenge they
throw up to the international system. The assumption was that the Pakistan-based
terrorists responsible for the murders of about 175 people in Mumbai,
and the injuries to hundreds more, were non-state actors. .....
- Pakistan's Jihad
- by Bill Roggio & Thomas Joscelyn
Just two days after the gunmen's siege in Mumbai ended, Pakistani president
Asif Ali Zardari went on CNN's Larry King Live to plead his case. Even
before the Indian authorities had brought the rampage to an end, they
were laying blame on their neighbor to the north. And Zardari wanted the
world to know they were wrong. "This is not the time to point fingers,"
Zardari protested. "The state of Pakistan is in no way responsible."
.....
- Tackling Pak
- by Gurmeet Kanwal
The rock solid electronic and circumstantial evidence that is now available
about the origins, methodology, execution and minute-to-minute control
in respect of last week's Mumbai terror attacks clearly establishes the
complicity of Hafiz Muhammad Sayeed's Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the successor to
the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT). .....
- Two-nation theory has bred
practice of hatred
- by M J Akbar
Why has Pakistan become synonymous with terrorism? The vast majority of
Pakistanis surely find terrorism, which is the purest form of hatred,
as repellent as Indians do. Why then does Pakistan breed an endless flow
of suicide missionaries? .....
- Revealed: home of Mumbai's
gunman in Pakistan village
- by Saeed Shah
Since the terrorist attacks in Mumbai 10 days ago, speculation has been
rife about the birthplace of the lone surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab.
India and Pakistan have clashed over reports that he came from the Punjab.
Saeed Shah, after spending days travelling throughout the region, tracked
down the killer's home - and his grandfather - and found conclusive proof
of his identity .....
- Government can survive criticism,
but not ridicule
- by MJ Akbar
We have enough evidence: There is a cabal of cyber terrorists employed
by mobile phone companies to destabilise the honourable Government of
Mr Manmohan Singh with evil jokes. Who else could be manufacturing those
SMSes that begin to circulate whenever opportunity arises? This is a professional
hit job. .....
- Pak agrees to 48-hour timetable
for action against LeT: Report
- by The Times of India
Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour timetable set by India and the United
States to formulate a plan to take action against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
and to arrest at least three Pakistanis who Indian authorities say are
linked to the multiple attacks in Mumbai, a top US daily reported, citing
a top Pakistani official. .....
- India losing stature Ridicule
goes on unabated
- by Dina Nath Mishra
The Mumbai terror attack has shown us that our political system is still
in deep slumber, refusing to accept reality. The Government does not realise
that India's stature in the comity of nations has fallen vertically as
it has failed to harness terror-mongers .....
- Police Foiled Earlier Plot
Against Mumbai
- by Robert F. Worth and Hari Kumar
The Indian police foiled an attempt to destroy landmarks and wreak havoc
in Mumbai early this year, breaking up a cell of Pakistani and Indian
men who were directed by the same two Pakistan-based militant leaders
they have accused of organizing last week's devastating attacks here,
the police said. .....
- Indian terror suspects linked
to Mumbai plot
- by Jeremy Page
Police arrested four Indian Muslims for alleged involvement in a planned
attack on Mumbai as early as February, a senior police officer who handled
the case told The Times yesterday. .....
- What the Islamic Invaders
Did to India
- by Rizwan Salim
On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 6, 1992),
it is important for Hindus (and Muslims) to understand the importance
of the event in the context of Hindustan's history, past and recent, present
and the future. .....
- Reflections, reflected
- by Sudeep Paul
Mumbai, 26/11 might have done its bit to resurrect the long-dead notions
of "national character". Even an elusive, momentary revival
of this ghost would put us in an incredibly unflattering light. But how
does it feel when sympathy and counsel come from foreign shores, but with
"national character", a stereotype if ever there was one, blinkering
columnists and papers? .....
- 'They let them go as they
were Muslims'
- by The Times of India
When faced with a volley of gunshots, while sipping coffee at the Oberoi
Hotel on Wednesday night, Ali Arpaciouglu, a Turkish citizen on a business
trip to Mumbai, chose to escape through the hotel kitchen and down a flight
of stairs that opened onto the road outside. .....
- Obama aide says attack was
work of professionals
- by Dawn
US President-elect Barack Obama's adviser on South Asian affairs alleges
that those who carried out last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai had
links to Pakistani intelligence agencies. .....
- Terrorist Group Moves Beyond
Kashmir
- by Marc Perelman
Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the jihadist group suspected as perpetrator of the stunning
terrorist attack last month in Mumbai, has expanded its ambitions greatly
since the late 1980s, when it was founded, with Pakistani military sponsorship,
to battle the Indian Army in Kashmir. .....
- Signs are Israeli hostages
tortured, strangled: Police
- by Sagnik Chowdhury
Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria on Thursday said there
are indications that the Israeli hostages at Nariman House were tortured
by the terrorists and some of them died due to strangulation. .....
- LeT stage-managed Mumbai
strikes: NYT
- by The New Indian Express
For three months before the terror attackers landed on Mumbai's shores,
a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative was in Karachi to manage the assault,
the New York Times reported, citing a Pakistani official. .....
- The 'Islamophobia' canard
after Mumbai
- by Joel J. Sprayregen
Saudi King Abdullah has been urging the United Nations to pass a universal
law prescribing imprisonment for criticizing Islam. Some skeptics, including
myself (notwithstanding that I twice enjoyed the King's generous hospitality
in Riyadh), have suggested he start instead by establishing religious
liberty in his own country, where all religious observance other than
Wahabi Islam is banned. .....
- BSF worried over border
exodus
- by Jayanta Gupta
Border Security Force officials said that there had been an exodus across
the 1,145 km porous Indo-Bangla border ever since the terror attack on
November 26. .....
- Are the Brits Feeling the
Heat Over Links To Mumbai Attack?
- by Citizens Electoral Council
Many of the terrorists operating in London that were identified by EIR
as wanted by countries, including Russia, India, Egypt, Turkey, and others
have been at large for years in London, which has called itself the "haven
for the oppressed"--as a cover for harboring terrorists--for over
a century. .....
- Don't petition Islamabad
- by The Pioneer
There's something nauseating about the manner in which the UPA Government
has been petitioning the Government of Pakistan in the hope that Islamabad
will do for New Delhi what the latter should do for India. While Pakistan
President Asif Ali Zardari's rude snub in response to the UPA Government's
plea for assistance is no doubt obnoxious, we should not have expected
him to react in any other manner. .....
- Man who took bullets while
saving guests loses battle for life
- by Shalini Nair
Rajan Kamble was shot at when he was herding the guests at the Taj, the
hotel where he worked, to safety. He battled death for an entire night
trapped in the hotel and for six days in the critical care unit of JJ
hospital. On the seventh day, Kamble, 48, breathed his last. .....
- Why blame politicians?
- by S Gurumurthy
A fallout of the jihadi attack on Mumbai is the huge outrage sweeping
through the nation. While this anger is understandable, given the way
the present ruling politicians have handled the issue of national security,
what is intriguing is that the hate campaign is directed against politicians
as a class. .....
- Top Indian official admits
'lapses' in attacks
- by Muneeza Naqvi
India's top law enforcement official admitted Friday there were government
"lapses" in last week's terror attack on Mumbai, amid a public
uproar over security and intelligence failures in the deadly siege. .....
- BJP pledges support to govt
in fight against terror
- by Onkar Singh
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday pledged full support to the UPA
government in its fight against terror but with a few riders and said
a consensus should be built before the government takes any major steps.
.....
- 'Nobody obeys Manmohan'
- by The New Indian Express
Attacking the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government
for throwing the country into "disarray", senior Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh Wednesday said that "nobody obeys
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh". .....
- Dawood sitting pretty in
Karachi
- by S Balakrishnan
Even as India seeks Dawood Ibrahim's extradition yet again, the don is
ensconced safely in his plush bungalow in Karachi. .....
- Why delay in handing Afzal
Guru?
- by The Times of India
A terrorist has been on the death row for three years now. Had he been
hanged after fair trail and all due review, it might have sent out the
message that India was going to be tough on terror. .....
- India needs a clear Pakistan
policy
- by Sunil Khilnani
As Mumbai lifts itself back on to its feet, the most immediate question
facing India's citizens and government is who exactly were the attackers
and how did they manage to gain such ready access to the city and to hold
it to ransom for almost three days? .....
- Canal rehab is win-win for
Jakarta
- by Rodney Jensen
The canals and Ciliwung River system of Jakarta are an amazing resource
and asset for the City -- possibly a surprising assertion for those who
associate the canals with flooding, offensive odors and the appearance
of a waste tip or an open sewer. .....
- Mumbai Attack Is Test for
Pakistan on Curbing Militants
- by Jane Perlez and Somini Sengupta
Mounting evidence of links between the Mumbai terrorist attacks and a
Pakistani militant group is posing the stiffest test so far of Pakistan's
new government, raising questions whether it can - or wants to - rein
in militancy here. .....
- Heroes At The Taj
- by Michael Pollack
After a terrifying day, one eyewitness thanks his saviors. My story begins
innocuously, with a dinner reservation in a world-class hotel. It ends
12 hours later after the Indian army freed us. .....
- Kundapur: 'Hinduism is Gift
of Saints'
- by Daijiworld.com
A 'Hindu Religious Awareness Conference' was held at R N Shetty Auditorium
of Bhandarkar's College here on Sunday November 30. The conference was
organized by the Hindu Jana Jagruti Samiti. .....
- India minister wants all
school kids to learn yoga
- by Tan Ee Lyn
India's health minister on Saturday said he wants to push all school-going
children to learn yoga, in the hope that it can reduce the prevalence
of diseases such as diabetes and hypertension in years to come. .....
- Lets Stand up and Salute
ASI Tukaram Omble
- by Saravjit Kahlon
Other than the three top cops of Mumbai police, Hemant Karkare, Ashok
Kamte and Vijay Salaskar who were killed in the recent attack on Mumbai
by terrorists, people have forgotten a real hero. Tukaram Omble, 48, Assistant
Sub-Inspector (ASI), the only cop who with his daredevil courage was helped
in the nabbing of a terrorist on 26/11 alive. .....
- Quit India, Mumbai says
again
- by Saisuresh Sivaswamy
Sixty six years after the clarion call went out from Bombay's Gowalia
Tank asking its rulers to Quit India, the citizens of this amazing city
came together in their thousands on Wednesday evening to repeat the call.
.....
- A German's View on Islam
- by
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned
a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people
were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
.....
- Lessons From Mumbai
- by Lucy M. Caldwell
Thanksgiving was rocked by the news from Mumbai, India: A small gang of
terrorists had wreaked havoc on the region. Allegedly trained at a camp
in neighboring Pakistan, the group was well prepared. They came with guns,
grenades, satellite phones, and foodstuffs. .....
- Stand up and be counted
- by Lalit Koul
Where does one start after such a terrible tragedy? It has been five days
since the dastardly attacks on our land. We are trying to dust off, stand
up and move on. Move on, we will. But forget we will not. Forget we should
not. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. We all need to remember this and
other previous heinous attacks on our freedom and make sure that we keep
our blood warm. .....
- The Region: India and Israel:
The parallels
- by Barry Rubin
For years, India has been subjected to periodic terrorist attacks throughout
the country. But what happened in Mumbai is something new and different:
a full-scale terrorist war. .....
- Next terror attack on US
will originate in Pak: Report
- by NDTV.com
Pakistan is the weakest link in world security and the next terror attack
in the US will originate in that country, said a high-powered bipartisan
US Congressional commision, adding it is the "intersection of nuclear
weapons and terrorism." .....
- 'I'm angry. Really angry'
- by Rediff.com
Like the scores of people who lost family and friends to the terror attacks
in Mumbai on November 26, actor Aashish Chowdhury is in shock. The actor
lost his sister Monica Chhabria and her husband Ajit on that fateful day.
.....
- The Gangster
- by S Balakrishnan
Mumbai is enraged and the anger is intermixed with grief. More than the
slaughter of hundreds of innocents, people are fuming about the government's
failure to demonstrate that it means business. .....
- Mumbai terror probe - silence
of the conspirators
- by Radha Rajan
There is a growing feeling among a small section of political commentators
and the politically well-informed that there is a sinister silence in
certain quarters of the media and the Indian intelligentsia about the
core details of the Mumbai terror attack even as the government undertakes
a major cover-up operation and goes through the motions of conducting
a hard-nosed investigation into the terror plot. .....
- Why are Jews so powerful,
and Muslims so powerless?
- by Dr Farrukh Saleem
There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in the Americas,
five million in Asia, two million in Europe and 100,000 in Africa. For
every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims. Yet, Jews are more
than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put together.
Ever wondered why? .....
- What have we done to protect
ourselves?
- by Swapan Dasgupta
What a shame that the entire top brass of the Mumbai ATS was wiped out
because it was led to believe that the carnage in Leopold Café
was a burst of gangland madness. A little prior knowledge and the lives
of 200 people, including 17 men in uniform, may have been saved. .....
- Angst, anguish, anger
- by B. S. Raghavan
The only other occasion I can recall which gave rise to so much of anxiety,
anguish and anger throughout the length and breadth of India as in the
case of the Mumbai carnage was the Chinese invasion of 1962. I was at
that time in the Union Home Ministry handling political issues, security,
intelligence and matters connected with the Emergency and the enforcement
of Defence of India Act and Rules. .....
- People at risk but hundreds
of crores to protect netas
- by Rahul Tripathi & Kartikeya
While they seem unable to protect ordinary people from terrorist attacks,
politicians, cutting across party lines, spend hundreds of crores of tax-payers'
money to protect themselves. Some of them may be at genuine risk, but
there are numerous politicians who surround themselves with gun-toting
commandos to flaunt their `status' and end up harassing ordinary people
by blocking traffic and pushing vehicles off the road. .....
- Pak TV channel says 26/11
hatched by Hindu Zionists
- by Nandita Sengupta
Mumbai's 26/11 was actually a plan hatched by "Hindu Zionists"
and "Western Zionists", including the Mossad, said a self-styled
Pakistan security expert on a Pakistan news television show, uploaded
on www.hotklix.com. .....
- Lashkar-e-Taiba
- by Steve Coll
Indian and American officials are now reporting that the Mumbai attackers
seem to have connections to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based Islamist
organization. Among other analytical clues, over the weekend, one anonymous
American official quoted in the Washington Post noted that Lashkar has
a known "maritime" capability. .....
- Psychotic terrorists in
search of a grievance
- by David Aaronovitch
So, why kill the rabbi? There is a branch of apologetics - which I take
crudely to be the belief that the crime is the fault of the victim - that
assumes a milder form, and which I'll call explanetics. So the explanatists
view of the Mumbai massacres last week is that the cause lies in what
concretely has been done to, or in the vicinity of, the young, cool-looking
men with the grenades and the machineguns. .....
- Sonia's presence in Delhi
is costing India dearly
- by François Gautier
In 1898, the French writer Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the then
French president in the newspaper L'Aurore, titled j'accuse ('I accuse'),
where he accused the French government of anti- Semitism towards Captain
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer unfairly condemned for treason. .....
- 'Only two things crossed
my mind: Do or die!'
- by Prasanna D Zore
National Security Guard Commando Sunil Kumar Yadav fondly remembers his
first visit to Mumbai (Bombay then) 10 years ago. He had heard about the
Taj Hotel in Mumbai from his friends and neighbours in Haryana's Pataudi
district. .....
- People's anger and a crumbling
spy agency
- by Sheela Bhatt
Six nights after the Mumbai terror attacks there are two distinct waves
visible in India. One is the tsunami of emotions over the blasts in Mumbai.
Newspaper reports and television channels are reporting the rich and powerful,
poor and faceless people's anger, anguish and fury against government's
massive failure on all fronts that has resulted in this attack. .....
- Three terrorists held at
Kovai
- by News Today
It seems that the new Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has got some job
in his home State itself. Just days after a terror attack rocked Mumbai,
three Islamic terrorists have been arrested at Coimbatore. .....
- Pakistan's hand all but
nailed
- by The Times of India
Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday promised
to help India unearth the hand behind the Mumbai attack. He will not have
to work hard. For, Indian agencies have managed to lay their hands on
evidence that will rip apart Islamabad's perennial denial about the role
of Pakistan's quasistate actors in the terror campaign against India.
.....
- Break the terrorist siege
of India
- by Brahma Chellaney
Just as the blazing World Trade Centre in New York came to symbolise the
9/11 events, television footage of the fire raging in Mumbai's landmark
Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels has laid bare yet newer face of terror. The
multiple, simultaneous assaults in Mumbai are just the latest example
of how the world's largest democracy has come under siege from terrorist
forces. .....
- Inflicting wounds on patriotism
- by M Rama Jois
The statement made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the effect that
assigning the name of any religion to any of the terrorist activities
was wrong, is very timely. The statement is of utmost importance being
in the interest of maintaining the feelings of different religions and
is full of wisdom. .....
- Dial Congress for terror
- by Hilda Raja
With no UPA allies condemning the Mumbai holocaust the silence maintained
by Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav and
the otherwise eloquent Left parties exposes their vested interest of not
losing Muslim votes. .....
- But what about the Prime
Minister?
- by A Surya Prakash
The pall of gloom and shame that enveloped the nation in the immediate
aftermath of the audacious terrorist attack on Mumbai last week has since
given way to unprecedented anger across the country over the deliberate
and criminal neglect of national security by the United Progressive Alliance.
.....
- Pakistan government can't
rein in ISI
- by Arif Mohamed Khan
India has been attacked again. The financial capital has proved to be
our soft underbelly and terrorists, apart from holding Mumbai to ransom
for more than 60 hours, have left behind a gory tale of blood and human
suffering. .....
- BJP ready for federal investigating
agency, but wants Pota back too
- by The Economic Times
The BJP on Monday backed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's proposal on the
creation of a federal investigating agency to probe terror attacks, but
said at the same that creating such an organisation without arming it
with a tough anti-terror law would not serve the purpose. .....
- 'But for slain major, not
even a dog will visit his house'
- by Rediff.com
This was how Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan heaped scorn on Monday
on the family of NSG Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was killed in the
Mumbai terror attack during commando operations, igniting a controversy
after smarting under the snub from the father of the angry officer when
he went to Bangalore to offer his condolences. .....
- Guilty Before Being Tried!
- by Gurmeet Kanwal
Lt Col Shrikant Pasad Purohit of the Army's Intelligence Corps is "suspected"
of terror. Yet, most television news channels and some newspapers violated
all norms of journalism and went to town with malicious headlines: "Army's
Image Stained", "Terrorism Tarnishes Indian Army" etc.
.....
- Jihad not terrorism
- by Pudhari
All the civil forces were unsuccessful to defeat the terrorist attacks
in Mumbai and at last, different squads of Military forces had to end
this civil crisis on war footing. Almost all are busy in the admiration
of our armed forces for defeating or ending these infiltrating Jihadis.
But it is doubtful as to how many have deduced the meaning of it. .....
- Stench of death is overwhelming
- by Bruce Loudon
They are the images of terrorism, the scenes of horror and destruction
that tell the awful story of India's agony. .....
- India asks for Dawood, Masood
Azhar's head
- by IBNLive.com
India has asked Pakistan to hand over gangster Dawood Ibrahim and terrorist
leader Maulana Masood Azhar for their suspected involvement in the Mumbai
terror attack. .....
- Will this be avenged?
- by The Pioneer
Manmohan Singh promises to inflict 'costs' upon Pakistan. But diplomatic
obfuscation, writes G Parthasarathy, has already let Islamabad off the
hook. And politics has defanged India's capacity to undertake covert,
'seek and destroy' ops across the border .....
- Group of Indians in Saudi
may hold reins to terror attacks
- by Josy Joseph
A group of Indians in Saudi Arabia with deep links back home and abroad,
especially in Pakistan, are emerging as key suspects besides the Lashkar-e-Taiba
leadership in the investigations into the Mumbai attacks. .....
- Barbarians break the gate
- by Rajeev Srinivasan
The audacious invasion of Mumbai casts a long shadow on the future of
the Indian state. Our nation is bleeding profusely from self-inflicted,
avoidable wounds. The failure of the political class has left the people
stunned and angry. Today's heroes are men in uniform .....
- US, India face Pak blackmail
on terror
- by Chidanand Rajghatta
The United States and India face tactics bordering on blackmail from a
militarized Pakistan - where civilian control is still very dodgy - as
they coordinate efforts to eliminate terrorism in the region, according
to analysts and officials on both sides. .....
- Arrested terrorist says
gang hoped to get away
- by The Times of India
The gang of terrorists who wreaked mayhem in Mumbai for three days were
made to believe by their Lashkar bosses that they were not being sent
on a suicide mission and that they would be coming back alive. .....
- India: Al-Qaeda websites
rejoice over Mumbai attacks
- by AKI - Adnkronos International
Al-Qaeda websites on Thursday were swamped with messages from people who
were celebrating the devastating Mumbai attacks which have left over 100
people dead and 281 injured. "Oh Allah, destroy the Hindus and do
it in the worst of ways," was one of the comments that appeared on
Islamist forums on the Internet immediately after the attacks. .....
- I want to live: Captured
terrorist Azam
- by The Economic Times
His swaggering image as he walked around Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus
dispensing death was captured by Mumbai Mirror photo editor Sebastian
D' souza, and was the first glimpse of the terrorists who have held Mumbai
hostage over the last 48 hours. .....
- Calling All Pakistanis
- by Thomas L. Friedman
On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent
street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet
Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. .....
- Dawood sitting pretty in
Karachi
- by S Balakrishnan
Even as India seeks Dawood Ibrahim's extradition yet again, the don is
ensconced safely in his plush bungalow in Karachi. .....
- Facing the truth
- by Irfan Husain
Even in my remote bit of paradise, news of distant disasters filters through:
above the steady sound of waves breaking on the sandy beach in Sri Lanka,
I was informed by several news channels about the sickening attacks on
Mumbai. My Internet connection is erratic and slow, but nevertheless,
I have been bombarded with emails, asking me for my take on this latest
atrocity. .....
- Railway timetable announcer
saves lives at the CST
- by Nimisha Srivastava
The indiscriminate firing by terrorists at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
(CST) in Mumbai took many lives. However, many other lives were saved
because of one ordinary Mumbaikar who announces railway timetables for
a living. .....
- Yes, the terrorists are
winning
- by Steven Emerson
This past Saturday, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece entitled "What
They Hate about Mumbai," focusing specifically on the free market
sins of that great city. With contrived evenhandedness, the op-ed managed
to blame both Hindus and Muslim extremists-without blaming either party
in particular for the murderous attacks. .....
- No Time to Hide for Muslims
- by Aijaz Zaka Syed
Watching the terror nightmare unfold in Mumbai over the past three days
with me on television, my kids have repeatedly asked me: "Who are
these terrorists and why are they doing this?" And every time I wished
I could offer them a convincing answer. .....
- Sadhvi Pragya: Truth will
prevail
- by Sandhya Jain
While we are gratified that our small initiative has borne fruit, it is
painful for a woman writer to confess that the National Commission for
Women was less than helpful in the matter of Sadhvi Pragya's illegal detention,
ill-treatment, and absence of women constables during an interrogation
period that spanned 23-24 days! .....
- CIA analyst says LeT tied
in with Pak government
- by Aziz Haniffa
Bruce Riedel, a veteran Central Intelligence Agency analyst for nearly
three decades, has ridiculed the Pakistani government's denials that its
intelligence agency has no links to the Lashkar e Tayiba, that even the
director of National Intelligence in the US has said is the number one
suspect on American minds as the perpetrator of the deadly terrorist attacks
in Mumbai. .....
- Us is different from US
- by News Today
The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has come down to India
with a message of 'support and solidarity', has been cautious in her statements
about the ongoing diplomatic row between India and Pakistan. .....
- Now in custody: Face of
Mumbai's terror
- by Rediff.com
They may have come prepared for raining death and havoc on innocents,
but the sole terrorist arrested in the audacious terror strike on Mumbai
is not so sure he himself wanted to die, says the tabloid Mumbai Mirror.
.....
- Is yoga bad for you?
- by Irfan Husain
Is yoga bad for you? Several years ago, I developed something called arthrosis
in my knees. This is a first cousin to arthritis, and is extremely painful.
After a few months on painkillers, I enrolled in a yoga class out of desperation.
.....
- Dawood behind Mumbai attacks:
ATS sources
- by IBNLive.com
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who is hiding in Pakistan, may be involved
in organising the attack on Mumbai, claimed Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism
Squad sources. .....
- Exclusive: LeT terrorist
Ismail arrested in Mumbai
- by Sheela Bhatt
Azam Amir Kasav (who initially misled the Mumbai police by giving the
name of his slain colleague Ismail alias Zakiruallah, when he was capture),
a Punjabi from Faridkot in Pakistan who was arrested by the Mumbai police
on Wednesday night during the terror attacks, is giving interrogators
the complete story of how the sensational terror operation was planned
and executed. .....
- This is war waged against
the nation
- by The Pioneer
The final death toll in the latest terrorist outrage in the country, this
time in Mumbai, will be known only after the debris of the multiple attacks
- scattered over 10 places in the mega city - are cleared and the casualties
tabulated. .....
- US officials fear Indian
response to attacks
- by Rediff.com
US officials fear that should the firm evidence emerge that the Mumbai
terror attacks were planned and directed from within Pakistan, it would
certainly escalate tension between the neighbouring countries and could
also provoke an Indian military response, even strikes against terrorists,
a media report said on Saturday. .....
- What all terrorists do before
final assault?
- by Rediff.com
The militants, who entered into Mumbai by boats to carry out probably
the worst terror attack on India, began their killing spree in the high
seas where they killed five fishermen who're "missing" since
last week. .....
- Mumbai: A Price too High?
- by Swati Parashar
I shall not waste time by giving details about the Mumbai horror that
still continues as I write this. Like you, I await familiar media headlines:
appeals to communal harmony and to stay calm by our so called 'leaders';
Mumbai's resilience and how quickly life returns to 'normalcy' in the
city; how our state and society endures such attacks bravely and 'defeats'
the aims of terrorists; how we need to stand together as a 'nation' etc.
.....
- Murder in Mumbai
- by The Wall Street Journal
We will learn more in the coming days how terrorists invaded India's financial
capital Wednesday night, killing more than 100 innocents and wounding
hundreds more. But there are already two lessons emerging: The war on
terror is far from won, and it is migrating to democracies with weak antiterror
defenses. .....
- Stirrings of change
- by Shaibal Gupta
Three years ago, when Nitish Kumar took over the reins in Bihar, he inherited
a ramshackle state structure which had no history of work, coherence and
dynamism, not just during the last regime but during the last century.
The state could pursue its growth agenda even without an institutional
memory of development, provided few other conditions were favourable.
.....
- We want to stand shoulder-to-should
with Indian people: KP
- by Press Trust of India
England's captain Kevin Pietersen today back-patted his teammates for
showing courage to stand "shoulder-to-shoulder" with the Indian
people following the terror attacks but admitted that a final decision
will not be taken until Sunday on whether to play the Test series. .....
- Painful recall: How Mumbai
police nabbed terrorist
- by Shoaib Ahmed
The reason why at least one of the perpetrators of violence in Mumbai
was caught alive is because the quick thinking and courage of a few brave
cops. One constable even lost his life accosting the terrorists at Girgaum.
.....
- Pak responsible, says Pranab
- by Shobori Ganguli
The already tenuous peace between India and Pakistan has been further
strained. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has linked the Mumbai
terror attack with Pakistan, asserting that, "Preliminary evidence,
prima facie evidence, indicates elements with links to Pakistan are involved."
.....
- We trained in Lashkar camps:
Arrested terrorist
- by Sagnik Chowdhury & Ritu Sarin
Interrogation of the lone gunman nabbed alive by the Mumbai Police after
Wednesday's Terror attacks has left investigators in little doubt that
the unprecedented raid on the country's financial capital was the work
of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba. .....
- Heroes of Mumbai
- by The Pioneer
Although the operation to neutralise all the terrorists who took over
Mumbai's iconic hotel, Taj Mahal Palace, on Wednesday night is not yet
over, the security forces, namely the National Security Guards, deserve
to be commended for their outstanding role during the entire crisis. .....
- 26/11: Fits the chilling
Lashkar pattern
- by Wilson John
The two-day- long siege of Mumbai by over two dozen terrorists, which
killed over 125 and turned the commercial soul of India into an island
of fear, was part of a global jihadi conspiracy to turn the region into
a cauldron of violence and establish a pan-Islamic network over Asia.
.....
- PM's terror stand comes
back to haunt him
- by The Times of India
Of all his formulations, the one that has returned most often to haunt
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the assertion that Pakistan too, like
India, was a victim of terrorism. The macabre irony embedded in the peculiar
hypenation plays itself out in a ghastly re-run with every terror strike.
.....
- Turkish couple let off by
terrorists for being Muslims
- by Clara Lewis & Anahita Mukherji
When faced with a volley of gunshots, while sipping coffee at the Oberoi
Hotel on Wednesday night, Ali Arpaciouglu, a Turkish citizen on a business
trip to Mumbai, chose to escape through the hotel kitchen and down a flight
of stairs that opened onto the road outside. .....
- Under siege, Cama staff
rose to the occasion
- by Rahi Gaikwad
The sixth floor of the Cama and Albless Hospital building, down the road
from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), is pockmarked. Bullet and
shrapnel marks are all over the walls, on the two metal lift doors and
the ceiling as well. They bear testimony to the heavy exchange of fire
that took place on the night of November 26. On the floor outside the
lift are four small craters, presumably caused by grenades. .....
- Putty in the hands of jihadis
- by Sandeep B
Instead of raising a din and forcing the Government to wake up to the
threat of terrorism, our media is obsessed with the motivation of the
killers and whether they were 'really' Pakistanis! .....
- Zardari must walk the talk
- by Sushil Vakil
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's image makeover efforts and remarks
like Pakistan wants to "stay off" the Kashmir issue and will
not use "nuclear weapons first" are enough indication that it
wants to shun its 'terrorist identity', however not its pivotal role in
fostering the same. .....
- Taj staff put their lives
on the line
- by Rhys Blakely
They were heroes in cummerbunds and overalls. The staff of the Taj Mahal
hotel saved hundreds of wealthy guests as heavily armed gunmen roamed
the building, firing indiscriminately, leaving a trail of corpses behind
them. .....
- 'Only two things crossed
my mind: Do or die!'
- by Prasanna D Zore
National Security Guard Commando Sunil Kumar Yadav fondly remembers his
first visit to Mumbai (Bombay then) 10 years ago. He had heard about the
Taj Hotel in Mumbai from his friends and neighbours in Haryana's Pataudi
district. .....
- India's Antiterror Errors
- by Sadanand Dhume
As the story of the carnage in Mumbai unfolds, it is tempting to dismiss
it as merely another sorry episode in India's flailing effort to combat
terrorism. Over the past four years, Islamist groups have struck in New
Delhi, Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad, among other places. .....
- Giving Thanks to Heroes
- by Nicholas D. Kristof
This is a column to give thanks to you, the reader. You don't know it,
but some of you are keeping women like Sajida Bibi alive here in this
remote Pakistani village. And that is a far grander reason to celebrate
Thanksgiving than even the plumpest turkey. .....
