Detail Of Terrorism Update

The Afghanistan-based Pakistan militants attacked a military convoy on June 24 in Upper Dir District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, resulting in the killing of at least 21 persons, including 11 militants and 10 soldiers, reports Daily Times. According to reports, militants attacked a military convoy in Upper Dir, killing at least 10 military personnel, while several others were left missing. The sources further said that the Security Forces (SFs) retaliated to attack and killed 11 terrorists.

Meanwhile, the Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik expressed his grievances to Afghanistan over the Afghan militant attack on Pakistani security personnel in Upper Dir area, reports Dawn. Malik contacted the Afghan Interior Minister to submit his complaint over the incident and blamed Afghan authorities for not preventing the cross border movement of militants into Pakistan.

Five more people were found dead in different parts of Karachi, while five others were injured in separate incidents of firing on June 24, reports Daily Times.

A 42-year-old man, who was later identified as Abdul Ghani Soomro, was found dead near Native Jetty Bridge within the limits of Baghdadi Police Station. Police officials said the victim’s body was packed in a gunny bag. He went missing since Saturday, he added. SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said the deceased belonged to Kachchi community and lived in Khadda market area of Lyari.

Elsewhere, the dead bodies of two more persons were found within the jurisdiction of Manghopir Police Station. The identities of the victims have yet to be ascertained. Police officials said that the initial course of investigation suggested that one victim was the Afghan origin, while another belonged to Mehsud tribe. West Zone SSP Amir Farooqi said that the victims were killed after abduction.

Further, another body of a young man was found in a gunny bag from the Lyari River near Dhobi Ghat within the remit of Pak Colony Police Station. Police officials said that the victim was shot once in his head and later culprits threw his body in Lyari River.  

Separately, Police found a shot dead man from Mufeed-e-Aam Ground Malir within the limits of Saudabad Police Station. The identity of victim was yet to be ascertained. SHO Hassan Haider said the victim received a bullet in his head and Police not found any thing from his possession, which could provide help for his identity.

Meanwhile, a man, Aslam Bhatti, was shot and injured in a firing incident in Baldia Town within the limits of Saeedabad Police Station. Police officials said that the incident took place over ongoing wave of target killings.

In yet another incident, 26-year-old Waseem, son of Raees and Shahid, 32, son of Ameen, were injured in firing of unidentified persons within the limits of Kharadar Police Station.

Another man, Tayyab, 24, son of Mushtaq, was injured in a firing incident in Gulberg area.

At least four Policemen were shot dead in an ambush at Bakra Mandi area of Eastern Bypass, on outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan on June 24, reports Daily Times. According to Police sources, four Police officials were patrolling the area when unidentified armed militants, riding a motorcycle, opened fire on them. Resultantly, three Police personnel died on the spot while the other one succumbed to injuries in hospital. The slain Policemen were identified as identified as Abdullah Mengal, Shahjehan, Abdullah Pirkani and Mumtaz Sarpara. No group had claimed responsibility of the attack until the report was filed.

The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)cadres killed a civilian in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh in the night of June 23, reports newstrackindia quoting IANS. Local Police say that roughly 20 Maoists stormed into the house of Marvijoga, a tribal civilian in Arlampalli village on Saturday night and took him away in a nearby forested area where they beat him to death on charges of spying for Police and revealing vital information about activities of local Maoists.

Meanwhile, Maoists hacked to death a newly recruited Police constable in Manpur area in Rajnandgaon District in western parts of the state, Police said.

Separately, the Police arrested five Maoists in the Bastar region, including two hardcore Maoists carrying cash reward of INR 25,000 each on their heads on June 23, reports Daily Bhaskar. According to the report, of the five arrested Maoists, three Maoists whose identity is yet to be ascertained were in charge of the city network and were arrested following a precise tip off from separate location. The other two Maoists, allegedly involved in killing of Tansen Kashyap, brother of Tribal Welfare Minister Kedar Kashyap, were identified as Dasharam and Janglu Korram. Tansen Kashyap was shot dead at Garguda near Bhanpuri District Bastar about 270 kilometres south from the State capital, on September 26, 2009.

The Sangai Express reports that two tractors along with drivers have been abducted by unidentified armed persons suspected to be cadres of a Kuki militant group from Changoubung of Senapati District about 8 am on June 23. The two brand new tractors were coming from Dimapur towards Imphal on National Highway-2. The two tractors were recovered from Taphou village by Senapati Police in the afternoon. But the whereabouts of the two drivers cannot be traced till the time of filing the report.

Meanwhile, a team of Assam Rifles arrested a group of 17 alleged cadres of Zomi Revolutionary Army/Zomi Re-Unification Organization (ZRA/ZRO) along with a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Churachandpur District on June 20, reports Kanglaonline. The recovered arms and ammunitions from the militant team includes 15 AK assault rifles with 28 magazines and three Hand grenades, three Wireless Transmission sets, 1355 AK ammunitions and another two live rounds of M-16 rifle. The arrested militants are Nenmuan alias Nicholas,  Mamang alias Lunkhomang Michael, Thianlal alias Jason, Tumjamang alias Joseph,  Dillianmang alias Carson, Siam Khianhou alias Riche, Meirousang alias Arjan, Mizoram, Phungsolian alias Alvin, Liandiakmuan alias Shalom, Liangdingmuan alias Dingmuan, Sutkhansiam alias Shima, Chinmuanthang alias Perez, Thianlahven alias Johan,  Ginmuanlang alias Amitabh, Kamkhongsang alias Sunil, Paopiaklal alias Newman and Liansangmuan alias Kisan. Meanwhile, the Lamphel Police Station has taken up a case against the 17 arrested alleged militants under FIR No 133 (6) 2012 of Lamphel PS under Section 400 IPC, 25(1-c) Arms Act and 5 Explosives Substances Act.

Further, Security Forces (SFs) arrested two cadres of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) identified as Khagembam Manglem alias Sunny Singh and Kakchingtabam Ibechoubi Devi from near the entrance of Southern Ema Keithel No. 3 in Imphal West District. Two mobile handsets along with a sum of INR 6,800 were seized from their possession. 

SFs also arrested one United National Liberation Front (UNLF) cadre identified as ‘Sergeant Major’ Lourembam Manoton Singh alias Apendra alias Sanajaoba at Kamranga Sub-Division area, Jiribam in Imphal East District. One 7.65 mm pistol (made in Italy), one magazine and three live rounds were recovered from him.

Separately, the Imphal District Magistrate has on June 23 remanded the four top United People’s Party of Kangleipak (UPPK) leaders arrested on June 17 from Patna, Bihar to 15 days of judicial custody.

Also, the United Revolutionary Front (URF), on June 23, claimed the Government has let loose on the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to commit State terrorism to erupt an artificial war among the people as the country knows very well that the outfit’s ‘Defense Intelligence Service’ (DIS) has accessed into its secret agencies. Calling the NIA a ‘fake charge sheet,’ URF in a statement issued by AK Pibarel, secretary, information and publicity, alleged that the main objective of the investigating agency is to recruit at least one member of every family as a Village Defence Force (VDF) jawan and to make every revolutionary a subservient individual of every group of Suspension of Operation (SoO).

Further, Maoist Communist Party-Manipur (MCP-M) appeals to the lawyers of All Manipur Bar Association to help in representing the underprivileged section. A release by publicity secretary of the outfit Nonglen Meitei states that those detained under the National Security Act had to fork out to the tune of INR 50,000 to INR 100, 000 as judicial fees, such costs cannot be borne by the downtrodden sections especially the farmers.

Suspected militants abducted an assistant teacher of Nazrul Islam Lower Primary School, Sananda Das (58), from Ratabari Kalibari locality in Karimganj District on June 20, reports Times of India on June 22.

Security forces (SFs) arrested three militants of Rabha Viper Army (RVA), identified as Dinesh Rabha, Prasanta Rabha and Anup Rabha, at Krishnai area in Goalpara District on June 24, reports IBMS.

Meanwhile, SFs arrested a one militant of Anti-Talks Faction group of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-ATF) militant at Moran area in Sivasagar District and recovered one pistol, detonators in his possession. 

In addition, SFs arrested a militant belonging to Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), ‘lieutenant‘ Ajang Po, from Milubra village near Lungting in Dima Hasao District, reports Times of India. Earlier, SFs had killed four Dimasa National Revolutionary Front (DNRF) and NSCN-IM militants on the same village on June 23.

Elsewhere, the movement of ULFA-ATF militants along the Indo-Myanmar border via Tirap and Changlang Districts has come down recently, reports Assam Tribune. The news report assigns deterioration of the weather in the area and inter-factional clash between members of the (NSCN-IM) and Khaplang faction of NSCN (NSCN-K) as principal reasons for the lowering of activity in the area (Tirap and Changlang).

The Telegraph reports that suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants abducted a State Bank of India (SBI) cashier from East Garo Hills District on June 23. The armed militants abducted Abdul Halim Ali who works in the SBI’s Songsak branch around 2 pm from Rongri market while he was on his way from Songsak to Rongjeng in a car with his branch manager. Sources said the outfit has asked for INR 5 million for his release. Sources said the abductors had actually wanted to abduct the branch manager, but since Ali did not know how to drive, they took him away instead. “The militants had wanted Ali to take back the vehicle as they did not want him to be left stranded on the road. But since he did not know how to drive, they instead took him (Ali) away. The branch manager was told not to inform anyone within 24 hours else Ali would be killed,” an official said.

Meanwhile, one Bangladeshi Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racketeer identified as  Dulal Miya (35) was arrested by Border Security Force (BSF) from West Khasi Hills while he was trying to infiltrate into India from Bangladesh on June 24, reports The Shillong Times. High quality of FICN with a face value of INR 15, 000 and one mobile phone with two Bangladeshi SIM cards were recovered from him.

Separately, the State Police, on June 23, informed that they have received no information about reports of the newly floated militant outfit Hynniewtrep People’s Liberation Front (HPLF). As per the media a report of June 21, the outfit has been floated in Khasi-Jaintia Hills Districts of the State by some surrendered Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) members. The State Director General of Police (DGP) N Ramachandran said, “We have not come across any such reports but the police will keep a track.” “The state police cannot comment on the speculative reports of media,” Ramachandran added.

Troops on June 23 destroyed a major hideout of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants in the Sanai forest area of Surankote tehsil (revenue unit) in Poonch District and recovered a large quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives, according to Daily Excelsior. The recoveries included two AK-47 automatic rifles with 60 rounds, 200 rounds of PIKA ammunition, a double sniper bore rifle, six Chinese grenades, two AK-47 filled magazines, a UBGL launcher and four grenades. Troops also recovered a pipe bomb, few clothes, cells and detonator wire, which could have been used by the militants for fabricating Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) to cause large scale destruction, official sources said.

Meanwhile, Indian Army has pushed back three militants who had offered to surrender and their 16 family members to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) asking them to follow the proper channel for availing the surrender policy announced by the Jammu and Kashmir Government, reports IBN Live. "We did not allow them to cross over to this side as they had not followed the proper procedure and surrender under the rehabilitation policy is not under the Army purview," an Army spokesman said. He said the militants and their families were asked to follow the proper channel for availing the benefit of the surrender policy. Official sources had earlier said that the militants and their family members had surrendered before an Army unit in Uri tehsil (revenue unit) of Baramulla district.

Five Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were arrested at Samhauta village in Rohtas District of Bihar on June 24, reports Deccan Chronicle. Acting on a tip off, the Police raided a hideout and arrested the five Maoists, identified as Rajesh Sharma alias Tufani, Mahendra Ram, Birendra Ram, Narendra Sharma and Amar Kumar, Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manu Maharaj said. The five Maoists were wanted in connection with over a dozen cases of loot, murder and Maoist activities in the District, the SSP said. A rifle, a pistol, ammunition, Police uniform and a haul of Maoist literature were recovered from their possession, Maharaj added.

Meanwhile, Police on June 23 had arrested two Maoists from Tandwa and Kasma Police Station areas in Aurangabad District of Bihar, reports post.jagran.com. Acting on a tip off, Police raided Beni village and arrested ‘sub-zonal commander’ Kamal Kishore alias Satishji, Superintendent of Police (SP) Siddharth Mohan Jain said. Another Maoist identified as Tapeshwar Bhuian was arrested from Bigaha Tola village, he said. The two Maoists were wanted in over a dozen cases of violence in Aurangabad District, Jain said.

Seven alleged cadres of the banned outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) were arrested in separate drives by Rapid Action Battalion-2 (RAB-2) in Dhaka''s Mohammadpur, Hazaribagh and Dhanmondi areas in the last two days, reports The Daily Star. A team of RAB-2 conducted a drive at Mohammadia Housing Ltd in Mohammadpur on June 23 and arrested three HuT cadres. The team conducted two more drives at Jhigatala in Hazaribagh and Dhanmondi on June 24 and arrested four more cadres of the banned outfit. The RAB-2 personnel also recovered a number of books on Jihad, leaflets, a laptop, four personal computers and eight mobile sets from the possession of the arrestees.

Meanwhile, the Police arrested a former leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) from old bus terminal area of Narail District on June 24. The arrestee, Saiful Islam Abder (40), was a former president of Narail Shibir. Rofikul Islam, officer in-charge of Narail Sadar Police station, said they arrested Saiful from the area in connection with subversive activities.

Three Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were arrested by the Security Force (SF) personnel during the ongoing anti-Maoist operation from Ranka forest in Seraikela-Kharsawan District of Jharkhand on June 23, reports Business Standard. The arrested Maoists were identified as Thumba Paharia, a hardcore Maoist and his accomplices John Purty and Bhudu Munda, Superintendent of Police (SP) Upendra Kumar said. The Police recovered three country-made pistols, two magazines, wire and explosives, the SP added.

Meanwhile, in a change of strategy, the CPI-Maoist has decided to call off violence against armed outfits, including their splinter groups, for three months, reports The Times of India. The Maoists have invited leaders of other groups to come together on one platform and fight against the unified command of the Centre and the State Governments carrying out Operation Green Hunt. Bihar Jharkhand North Chhattisgarh Special Area Committee (BJNCSAC) spokesman Gopal in a statement issued on June 24 said the decision of unilateral ceasefire was taken to invite the other armed groups working in individual capacity for the common people to work from a unified and stronger front. "We can set aside our personal differences in ideology for the betterment of common people and when the government is harassing villagers and trying to suppress their movement for neo-democracy, all the groups must understand the need of the hour and join hands," the release reads.

The appeal has been issued in the name of the People Liberation Front of India (PLFI), Jharkhand Liberation Tigers (JLT), Jharkhand Janmukti Parishad (JJMP), Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), Shashtra People's Morcha (SPM) and any other such armed group working for people's cause. The release says, "If these groups are working for the common people, they must come on one platform and accept the offer for ceasefire because the government has intensified the imperialist attack to gain control over jungles, villages and natural resources to hand it over to the corporate houses. If these groups do not understand the urgency of unifying our resources to fight the common enemy, their stance would be exposed," the release reads.

Appealing to their own ranks and files to observe restrain, Gopal has asked the Peoples’ Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) cadres to abide by the diktat and refrain from attacking any member of the armed groups. "Our PLGA members must be vigilant and retaliate in case there is an attack but they have to avoid confrontation with the other groups during the period of cease fire," the release reads.

Separately, Maoists in Hazaribagh and Giridih are distributing pamphlets among rural youths for a week asking them to refrain from applying for jobs in the Police, reports The Telegraph. The pamphlet, which has been distributed widely in Pirtanda area of Giridih and Vishnugarh, Hazaribagh, has urged people to prevent their sons from joining the Police Force, claiming security personnel were killing innocent lives. Terming recruitment in Police a “trap”, the two-page pamphlet released by the Bihar-Jharkhand-north Chhattisgarh special area committee of the CPI-Maoist said, “Police sarkar ki ghulam hoti hai, janata ki rakshak nahi bhakshak hai (The Police are the Government’s slaves, they aren’t saviours but killers).”

The Delhi Police arrested suspected key November 26, 2008 (26/11) Mumbai (Maharashtra) attacks plotter Abu Hamza alias Sayeed Zabi ud Deen alias Zabi Ansari alias Riyasat Ali at the Indira Gandhi International airport, reports IBNLive.com. According to reports, he is an Indian national who went to Pakistan for allegedly training people for the 26/11 attacks.

The Times of India adds that he was 26/11 handlers and was arrested on June 22, after being deported from Saudi Arabia. He had given instructions to the terrorists who had carried out attacks in Mumbai. According to reports, Hamza had an active involvement in the planning of Mumbai terror attacks and had helped the terror operatives to identify targets.

NDTV further adds that the Police said Hamza is also wanted in many other attack cases in India - like the Chinnaswamy Stadium attack in Bangalore in April 17, 2010 and several terror attacks in Gujarat. The Police also said that Ansari (Hamza) was involved in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai local train bombings.

There was also an Interpol notice against him in 2009. Hamza is also alleged to have a hand in the IISC Bangalore attack in December 28, 2005. Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley also named Hamza as the Lashkar's India expert, according to IBNLive.com.

A Pakistani national, identified as Mohammad Tahir (from Lahore) has been arrested by the Directorate of Revenue and Intelligence (DRI) for smuggling Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) of INR 2.93 lakh face value, from Kabootar Market in Jama Masjid, New Delhi, as reported on June 25, by The Times of India. Mohammad Tahir had smuggled these notes via Samjhauta Express. Tahir concealed the FICN in the cavity of slippers, and was accompanied by his mother so that no one suspects his intention, said sources.

DRI additional director general, R.K. Sharma said, "Tahir had come to Old Delhi railway station on June 22 via Attari border. He was carrying the fake currency in the bottom of 38 pairs of slippers as they all had a cavity”. There were 189 notes of Rs 1000 denomination and 208 notes of Rs 500 denomination. The seized notes were of "high-quality" and difficult to distinguish from the original, said sources.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on June 23, arrested a person and recovered INR 1.8 lakh Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) from him in Meerut, reports The Times of India. The accused, Meherbaan of Saharanpur, was reportedly waiting near the Meerut Medical College to deliver FICN to Ramesh Gujarati, a resident of Ahmedabad (Gujarat), when he was arrested.

During interrogation Meherbaan told the STF that he has been into this trade since 2008 and that the present consignment was sent to him from across the borders at the instance of a Saharanpur resident Faizan. The seized consignment was reportedly delivered to him by a native of Punjab.

The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has slammed Maharashtra Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam for the plan to expand Navegaon national park, reports The Times of India. The Maoists have issued a pamphlet through the North Gadchiroli-Gondia division committee of the CPI-Maoist, which is controlled by the Maharashtra state committee. They have claimed that the ambitious project of extending the periphery of the national park would displace 30 hamlets in Deori tehsil (revenue unit) of Gondia District. Apart from opposing the national park expansion plan, the Maoists have also urged the elected representatives to resign from their posts as they have so far played an indifferent role in addressing the grievances of people who voted them to power.

Meanwhile, Police are alert due to the Maoist bandh (shutdown strike) in north Gadchiroli and Gondia Districts of Maharashtra along with Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh and Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh on June 25 to protest the Operation Green Hunt by Security Forces. “Today, Naxals blocked the road between Dhanora and Deori. We cleared it immediately," Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG, Gadchiroli range) Ravindra Kadam told The Indian Express. "We have told the shop-keepers in major business centres not to down shutters," DIG Kadam said.

Separately, concerned over mass resignations of panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) members in Gadchiroli District, the Centre has asked the Maharashtra Government to ensure safety and security of elected representatives from CPI-Maoist threats in the Naxal [Left Wing Extremism (LWE)] hotbed, reports Business Standard on June 24. Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram spoke to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan recently and asked him to do the needful to protect the elected civic body members in Gadchiroli, many of who have put in papers after the Maoist intimidation. 

Official sources said during last one month, two Gadchiroli zilla parishad (district level local self-Government institution) members from Etapalli tehsil (revenue unit) quit their posts following Naxal ultimatum. Four panchayat and one zilla parishad member in Bhamragarh in the District had also resigned from their respective posts. The sources said of late Maoists have abducted many panchayat or zilla parishad members in Gadchiroli and released them only after they agreed to abide by the Naxal diktats. The Maoists, they said, do not want any development in rural areas of Gadchiroli as under-development and lack of connectivity give them free run in these remote areas.

At least 170 complaints of extortion reported within a short span of six months have made the role of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) dubious, as Karachites are presently suspecting them for being pressurised by different political groups and remaining innocuous against extortion mafias, reports Daily Times. The growing number of extortion cases that has presently become a matter of concern for every citizen in general and business fraternity in particular has exposed the performance of LEAs.

There is a massive increase in the extortion cases after the failure of LEAs in Lyari operation. According to official statistics made exclusively available to this scribe, some 39 cases of extortion were reported in January, 21 in February, 35 in March, 17 in April, 37 in May while 23 cases have been reported in June so far. The report said that extortion cases were reported from all zones, including Old City, Central, East, Malir, South and West with the Old City area remaining most affected in the last six months.

The two arrested Biswamohan faction of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT-BM) militants- Dhanu Koloi and Bishu Koloi, confessed that though NLFT-BM has a five-storied hideout at Chittagong in Bangladesh, NLFT-BM ‘Chairman’ Biswamohan and his some special associates do not live there, They live in a border village of Myanmar revealed State Government advocates Tapan Saha and Raghunath Mukherjee, reports Shillong Times. The duo also confessed that they received Tri-Nitro-Toluene (TNT), high explosive material and detonators from NLFT-BM head and received them at Achlongcherra, a border village of Bangladesh (just opposite of Silacherri). The explosives keep in a rented house at Krishnanagar or Abhoynagar before going for serial blasts either before Durga Puja or prior to the 2013 Assembly election. The duo had also received 10 trucks of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) to distribute in tribal dominated areas and they did not job at 10 percent commission.

Separately, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)has reportedly extended a helping hand to National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) for expanding the area of operation of NLFT-BM, reports Times of India on June 22. According to their confession of five NLFT-BM militants arrested on June 17, as many as 29 tribal youths of Tripura had been sent to Myanmar to undertake arms training in Maoist camps since November 2011.

The Sri Lankan Government strongly denied the allegations that Security Forces (SFs) in the North are forcibly taking over the land belonged to residents of the Vanni region, Northern Province, reports Colombo Page. Earlier, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) had accused the Sri Lankan SFs of forcibly occupying the lands belonging to civilians in the Northern Province. The TNA warned that it would write to the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the alleged land grab in the North by SFs and said they were in the process of gathering statistics on such lands. The TNA is to launch an agitation campaign on June 25 in Vanni demanding release of occupied lands.

The United States (US) on June 24 said that Pakistan Government is "deliberately, willfully and systematically" harassing and obstructing American diplomats in the country, marking a new low in the already strained ties between the two nations, reports Times of India. The harassment and obstruction has increased dramatically and reached "new levels of intensity", said a State Department report, which has urged Washington to take the issue up at bilateral talks with Islamabad.

The Department's internal watchdog said the harassment of diplomats had heightened since the May, 2011 US raid on a compound in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden and rose further after November 26 NATO air strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Islamabad to block NATO supply lines into Afghanistan. "Official Pakistani obstructionism and harassment, an endemic problem in Pakistan, has increased to the point where it is significantly impairing mission operations and programme implementation," said an internal report of the US State Department office of Inspector General.