Colin Gonsalves Denies That He Asked Afzal Guru to be given Lethal Injection

Harsh Dobhal <harshdobhal@gmail.com> Oct 13, 2006 Dear Friends, I was taken aback to hear that certain persons are spreading a rumour that I did not defend Afzal in the High Court and instead asked for him to be put to death by lethal injection. I was asked by advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan who appeared for Shaukat [...]

Why Has the Indian Police Picked Up Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi?

The Indian police has recently arrested Syed Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi, a well-respected journalist. Kazmi has been a freelance journalist for almost 30 years, accredited by the Press Information Bureau. Based in Delhi, he has covered conflicts such as the Iran-Iraq war and the invasion of Iraq by US-led coalition forces for media outlets such as [...]

Now the Bangladeshi Army Being Blamed for the Delhi Blasts

Times Now, a 24-hour English language news channel based in Mumbai has plotted story http://www.timesnow.tv/videoshow/4387019.cms against the Bangladesh army to twist the focus of Delhi blast into different direction. Times Now had systematically presented a particular point of view in the news ‘Bangladesh Army link to Delhi blast?’ to create a platform for wider ‘media trial’. [...]

Did ISI Personnel Attend Dawood Ibrahim’s Son Wedding in Karachi?

The following report from the Indian press makes some extraordinary claims. It was written by J. Dey, who was gunned-down recently. India has accessed fresh evidence that proves underworld don and India’s most wanted Dawood Ibrahim continues to live and flourish in Pakistan. A highly classified intelligence report, prepared by Indian security and intelligence agencies, [...]

Why is Shiv Sena in Bombay Supporting the Tabligi Jamaat?

Targeting Tablighi Jamaat Ayub Khan deliberately sought to court the Tablighis to counteract the influence of the Jamaati Islami. Maulana Kandhwalvi, penned a tract bearing the revealing title of ‘Finta-i Maududiyat’. InIsrael the TJ has been allowed to freely function. Shiv Sena actually went out of its way in order to arrange for a massive [...]

Government is Silent in the Wake of Call for Nuclear Jihad by Religious Extremist

The PPP led Government remains paralyzed, and fails to take action on the incitement to murder and civil disobedience by religious extremists. The government has taken no action to either arrest or halt the messages of hatred and intimidation. Mullahs are openly using the loud speaker systems of their Mosques to broadcast their messages of [...]

Bangladeshis Helped the Indian Airlines Hijackers

A Jaishe Mohammed (JeM) operative arrested in Dhaka has told Bangladeshi investigators that he arranged safe passage to India from Bangladesh for several militants who were involved in the 1999 hijack of an Indian Airlines plane.  Nannu Mia alias Belal Mandal alias Billal told the interrogators that he helped send 12-13 militants to India from [...]

Kasab’s Statement in India Held Inadmissible in Pakistan

On March 9, 2010, the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench declared as inadmissible the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab recorded in India against Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of the Mumbai attack. This strengthens Lakhvi’s case and makes it more difficult for the Government now to convict him. In their judgment on a writ petition [...]

RAW & IB Operate Against Pakistani Agents in Nepal

August 4, 2008. Outside the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, the local police and Indian intelligence sleuths waited behind a low wall with Himalayan patience. Their quarry: tall, young Fayaz Ahmed Mir, arriving by the PIA flight from Pakistan that afternoon. Mir, the sleuths had been briefed, planned to travel to India after a short [...]

Why Pakistan Failing to Clamp Down on Hafiz Saeed?

Under intense diplomatic pressure, Islamabad incarcerated a clutch of LeT leaders, detained Lashkar founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and raided militant camps countrywide. These belated measures fanned hopes that the Lashkar—and its parent body Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)—would now be dismantled and defanged. By December 2009, New Delhi might want to take some heart from the perceptible decline [...]