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SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
Weekly Assessments & Briefings
Volume 9, No. 41, April 18, 2011
Data and
assessments from SAIR can be freely published in any form
with credit to the South Asia Intelligence Review of the
South Asia Terrorism Portal
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Baramulla:
Terror Hub
Sanchita Bhattacharya
Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management
The northern
District of Baramulla has been one of the worst militant
infested Districts of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). It
is the largest of 10 Districts in the Valley, both in
terms of population and area. Spread over 4,588 square
kilometers, it is bordered by Kupwara in the west, Budgam
and Poonch in the south, parts of the summer capital,
Srinagar, and Kargil in the east, and the Neelam District
in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in the north. Baramulla,
consequently, has immense ‘geo-strategic importance’
for the Pakistani handlers of terrorist groups like
the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT),
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)
and other foreign terrorist formations, as it serves
as a principal route of infiltration into the Indian
side. As a result, Baramulla has emerged as a nodal
point of terrorism in J&K.
According
to the Institute for Conflict Management database,
a total of 627 persons, including 401 militants, 119
Security Force (SF) personnel and 108 civilians, have
been killed in terrorist-related incidents in the District
since 2001. While there was a continuous increase in
fatalities till 2006 (barring 2003), the fatalities
have registered a broadly declining trend since. There
was, however, a spurt in 2010 to 72 killed, with SF
fatalities at 22, and terrorists accounting for 45.
Fatalities
in Baramulla 2001-2011
Year
|
Civilians
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SFs
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Terrorists
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Total
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2001
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5
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2
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4
|
11
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2002
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7
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2
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24
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33
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2003
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7
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4
|
14
|
25
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2004
|
16
|
13
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33
|
62
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2005
|
14
|
11
|
62
|
87
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2006
|
26
|
21
|
88
|
135
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2007
|
14
|
25
|
78
|
117
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2008
|
4
|
5
|
30
|
39
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2009
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6
|
14
|
19
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39
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2010
|
5
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22
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45
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72
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2011*
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4
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0
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4
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8
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Total
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108
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119
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401
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627
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Source:
Institute for Conflict Management
*Data till April 17, 2011
Significantly,
2010 also equaled the 2006 peak in the number of encounters,
at 41, between SFs and terrorists. There were 26 encounters
in 2007, 18 in 2005 and 17 in 2008.
In the
most recent encounter, the SFs killed a foreign militant,
‘Chacha Talha’ of the LeT in Reban village in the Sopore
area of the District on March 28, 2011. Talha was active
in the Sopore-Rafiabad belt of the Baramulla District.
Some
other major encounters since January 2010 include:
October
23, 2010: Three terrorists were killed as the Army foiled
an infiltration bid near the Line of Control (LoC) in
Uri sector.
August
29-30, 2010: The Army killed nine terrorists in a failed
infiltration bid near the LoC in the Uri sector. Sources
said the number of militants in the infiltrating group
was about 15.
May 7,
2010: Seven LeT militants and two Army personnel were
killed in a gunfight that lasted over 24 hours, ending
in the evening in the Shiekhpora forest area of Rafiabad.
February
23, 2010: Five top militants and three SF personnel,
including an Army officer, were killed and three soldiers
were injured in a fierce 18-hour gun battle between
the SFs and militants in the Sopore town.
Unsurprisingly,
Baramulla has been notified as a ‘Disturbed Area’, along
with Jammu, Kathua, Poonch, Udhampur, Rajouri and Doda
Districts of the Jammu Division, and Srinagar, Budgam,
Anantnag, Pulwama and Kupwara Districts of the Srinagar
Division, under Section 3 of the Armed Forces (Jammu
and Kashmir) Special Powers Act, 1990. The Act came
into being in 1958 and was extended to Kashmir in 1990,
and has remained in force since.
Sources
indicate that a large number of armed militants are
present in Baramulla. Shiv Murari Sahai, Inspector General
of Police (Kashmir Zone), thus noted, in November 2010,
"Around 150 militants were active in three north
Kashmir Districts of Bandipora, Baramulla and Kupwara.
They had used the recent unrest in the Valley to regroup
and reorganise their ranks." Militant outfits such
as LeT and HM have been very visible, with the maximum
number terrorist fatalities drawn from these two groups.
Since 2001, at least 93 LeT terrorists have been killed
in the District, along with 17 HM and 11 Jaish-e-Mohammad
(JeM)
cadres. The terrorists killed include one ‘Deputy Chief
of Operations’, two ‘Divisional Commanders’, one ‘District
Commander’, five ‘Commanders’ of LeT; one ‘Deputy Chief’,
four ‘Battalion Commanders’, two ‘District Commanders’
and three ‘Commanders’ of HM; one Divisional Commander’,
two ‘District Commanders’ and one ‘Commander’ of JeM;
one ‘Chief Commander’, two ‘District Commanders’ and
two ‘Commanders’ of Al Badr.
On a
positive note, there are very few fatalities among the
civilians in terrorism related incidents in the District
and the general trend on this index is declining. Nevertheless,
Baramulla bore the brunt of the summer
unrest of 2010. Out of 104 protesters
killed, 33 (31.73 per cent) died in this District alone.
Though the escalation started in Srinagar in the last
week of June 2010, it progressively swelled, with a
large number of demonstrations erupting in Sopore in
Baramulla District. Media reports indicate that, between
January 1 and July 7, 2010, the town of Baramulla accounted
for 46 clashes (involving violent mobs), while nearby
Sopore, which has been an historic stronghold of the
Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), witnessed 21 clashes.
This
was far from coincidental, since Sopore has emerged
as a significant hub of terrorism and subversion in
the State. On March 2, 2010, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah,
had noted, "Militants are grouping in the Sopore area
and Kulgam District. These areas are a challenge for
us on the militancy front. We are taking extra measures
to deal with the militants there." Subsequently, on
June 30, 2010, Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram observed,
"Anti-national elements are clearly linked to LeT, which
is active in the Sopore area."
Clearly,
troop cuts, long pushed by an uncomprehending ‘peace
lobby’, both domestic and international, and by aggressive
Pakistani diplomacy, have had an adverse impact on the
security scenario in the State in general and Baramulla
in particular. Significantly, the Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) was withdrawn from Baramulla in the aftermath
of unrest following the killing of four civilians in
June 2009. Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, however,
had insisted that the disengaging of the force from
law and order duties in Baramulla was part of the latest
strategy agreed to by the Centre and J&K Government
to "redraw the lines of responsibility" of the various
forces stationed in the State. "When I visited Jammu
& Kashmir on June 11 and 12, we agreed that the
lines of responsibility (for maintenance of security
in J&K) must be redrawn...we have been in touch
with J&K to allow us to withdraw some of the CRPF
companies," Chidambaram had said on July 1, 2009. He
added, further, that it was only on June 30, 2009, that
the Chief Minister had got in touch with him to convey
that the J&K Police was ready to take over from
the CRPF in Baramulla.
A confidential
report by the J&K Police, however, has blamed the
resurgence of militancy in Sopore on
troop ‘relocation’.
Yet, Chief Minister Abdullah, on March 18, 2011, boasted
that, with marked improvement in the internal security
situation and gradual restoration of peace, 35,000 Army
personnel and hundreds of Central Paramilitary Force
(CPMF) personnel had been shifted out of J&K in
the preceding 15 months alone: "We have reduced thousands
of troops and also decreased the number of Central Paramilitary
Forces from internal duty without creating any hype...
the process (of troop reduction) will continue."
In view
of escalating trends in both terrorist and street violence,
such a position is clearly problematic. Conspicuously,
the infrastructure, logistics and human resources of
Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorism are entrenched and
active (both covertly and overtly) in the State, with
Sopore-Baramulla as their prominent hub. The events
of 2010 have unambiguously demonstrated the dangers
of complacence and of the hasty, politically motivated,
undermining of the security grid. Such dangers can only
deepen, particularly in the context of inputs that the
latest strategy of Pakistan's external intelligence
agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI),
and LeT, is to combine renewed infiltration attempts
by heavily-armed terrorists with escalating civil
unrest, to ensure that Kashmir remains
in a state of chaos, despite the loss of tempo on the
terrorism front.
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Assam:
The Moment of Peace?
Ajit Kumar Singh
Research Fellow, Institute for Conflict Management
Despite
a residual threat of terrorist violence, the two-phase
Assembly Elections for 126 seats in Assam were held on
April 4 and 11, with little violence. While 62 constituencies
went to the polls on April 4, elections for 64 constituencies
were held on April 11. The Chief Election Officer, Hemanta
Narzary, told reporters on April 12 that the overall percentage
of voting in both the phases was 76.03 per cent – 73.04
per cent in first phase and 78.6 per cent in the second.
In the last Assembly Elections in 2006, also held in two
phases, the overall percentage of voting stood at 75.77.
The first
phase of Elections in 2011 was almost free of violence.
Out of 11,264 polling stations, only two were marred by
some disturbances. The second phase also passed off relatively
peacefully, barring some clashes and Police firing, which
injured 22 people. However, two persons were killed and
four were injured in stray poll-related – not terrorist
– incidents on the eve of the second phase.
The worst
incident of the present electoral cycle came in the campaigning
phase, on March 14, 2011, when National Democratic Front
of Bodoland (NDFB)
cadres had attacked a convoy of Border Security Force
personnel in Kokrajhar District, killing eight and injuring
several others. Later, on April 2, Karbi People’s Liberation
Tigers (KPLT) militants killed three Central Reserve Police
Force personnel and injured four, in an ambush near Rongshuli
village in Karbi Anglong District. Again, on April 4,
at least three Sashasthra Seema Bal personnel were killed
in an ambush by NDFB militants in Kokrajhar District.
Notably, in 2006 too, while the first phase of elections
was free of violence, the second phase had ended amid
low violence – most notably, a schoolteacher killed, and
Security Force (SF) personnel attacked and abducted on
the eve of elections.
The people,
it is clear, are fed up with violence, and have not been
deterred by terrorist threats, or influenced by their
rhetoric. Significantly, the United Liberation Front of
Asom (ULFA),
which now has two factions, the Anti-Talks Faction (ATF)
and Pro-Talks Faction (PTF), had either threatened the
people or had remained neutral with regard to the elections.
Though
the ATF did not clarify its stand on the elections at
large, it had issued a threat to the ruling Congress Party
members and grassroot workers, and had warned that it
would resort to 'armed struggle' against the ‘arrogant
policies’ of the Congress. The ATF called on the people
to stay away from meetings organized by party leaders,
and for a boycott of ministers of "colonial India"
and leaders from any political party who ‘came to’ Assam
to "sow the seeds of divisiveness among the indigenous
people of the Northeast to continue their domination".
Significantly, ATF militants had triggered an improvised
explosive device (IED) blast at Rajiv Bhavan, the State
head office of the Congress Party, at Guwahati on March
14, injuring five party members.
On the
other hand, Pradip Gogoi, vice chairman of the Arabinda
Rajkhowa-led PTF said that his faction would remain neutral
during the Assembly Elections. "We will have no role
to play in the coming elections. Our organisation has
resolved to be completely neutral during the polls… Implementing
the peace process we have initiated with the Government
is right now more important for us than being involved
with the elections." Similarly, the PTF ‘foreign
secretary’ Sasha Choudhury declared, "We will have zero
involvement in the Assembly polls… Our topmost priority
is now to take the peace process initiated with the Government
forward."
By contrast,
in 2006, ULFA (there was no division in the outfit then)
had openly warned political parties ‘not to encourage
the people to join the poll process’ and had called upon
the people to strive for their right to self-determination.
Arabinda Rajkhowa had then stated, "The election process
is an attempt on the part of the Government of India to
expand its colonial rule to Assam and an effort to prove
the freedom struggle of ULFA as irrelevant… without a
peaceful solution of (the) Indo-Assam political conflict,
nothing can bring peace and prosperity to Assam. No political
party is working sincerely to find an amicable solution
to this problem."
Moreover,
media reports indicated that there were apprehensions
of attacks by Karbi and Bodo militants during the elections,
though there were no specific threats issued by these
groups. Instead, the NDFB-Anti Talks Faction led by Ranjan
Daimary on February 23, 2011, had claimed that the group
had no plans for violence during the elections. An email
to the media from the outfit's ‘general secretary’, N.
Dinthi Gwra, stated: "The NDFB has no so-called 'blue-print'
planning attacks during the forthcoming polls and we warn
forces carrying out such misinformation to refrain from
doing so."
Despite
the dramatic erosion of insurgent
capacities in Assam, and the relatively
lower levels of threat to the poll process, in order to
ensure violence-free elections, the Centre had deployed
an additional 350 companies of Central Paramilitary Forces
(CPMFs), to strengthen the 96 companies already present
in the State. Two helicopters had also been kept ready
to meet any emergency.
In the
past, when additional election deployments of Force were
withdrawn, this has ordinarily signaled a rise in militant
violence, targeting those who participated in the elections.
It will, consequently, be a challenge to safeguard the
security of those who defied the militant diktat, after
the additional Forces are withdrawn. Significantly, one
person, identified as Ranendra Borgoyary (35) of Laukriguri,
has already been killed in Ballamjhora in Kokrajhar District
on April 13, 2011. Police disclosed that Borgoyary, a
surrendered NDFB cadre, was the vice- president of the
Gossaigaon District Committee of the United Democratic
Peoples’ Front (UPDF), but had joined the Bodoland Peoples’
Front before the Assembly election. The UPDF is backed
by the NDFB.
Meanwhile,
there are apprehensions of electoral politics playing
the spoiler again. Both the Government led by Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi, hoping for a comeback to power and other
political parties in the State, including the Asom Gana
Parishad (AGP) and Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), have done
their bit to take advantage of the State’s troubled situation
in the hope of securing some electoral gain. There have
been allegations and counter allegations of covert deals
with militant groups. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi argued
that the BJP’s ‘silence’ on the ULFA threat (to the Congress)
was particularly significant, as they "have information
that the outfit [ULFA] will extend support to the saffron
party (BJP)". He also denied opposition allegations that
his party had requisitioned the services of surrendered
ULFA (SULFA) militants, declaring that he was "capable
of doing it (winning elections) on the basis of its (his
Government’s) performance during the last 10 years".
Interestingly, seven SULFA leaders had filed nominations
for the first phase of the Assam elections, one of whom
was a Congress candidate against former Chief Minister
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta of the AGP. Four SULFA members
contested the second phase on Congress tickets.
The election
results are due on May 13 and, whatever the outcome, it
can only be hoped that the successor Government will seize
the moment to reinforce peace, and not squander the momentous
gains of the past years.
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Weekly
Fatalities: Major Conflicts in South Asia
April 11-17, 2011
|
Civilians
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Security
Force Personnel
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Terrorists/Insurgents
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Total
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INDIA
|
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Assam
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2
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0
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0
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2
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Jammu &
Kashmir
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1
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0
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0
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1
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Manipur
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2
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6
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0
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8
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Left-wing Extremism
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Chhattisgarh
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2
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0
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0
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2
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Jharkhand
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3
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0
|
2
|
5
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Total (INDIA)
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10
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6
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2
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18
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PAKISTAN
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Balochistan
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2
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1
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0
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3
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FATA
|
3
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5
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37
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45
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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0
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1
|
3
|
4
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Sindh
|
29
|
2
|
1
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32
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Total (PAKISTAN)
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34
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9
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41
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84
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Provisional
data compiled from English language media sources.
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BANGLADESH
Detained
JeI leaders to be interrogated for War Crimes: The
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has allowed interrogators
to question detained Jamaat-e-Islami (Jei) leaders Motiur Rahman
Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid with links to War Crimes
(WCs) at a "Safe Home" in Dhanmondi (Dhaka City) instead of
Dhaka Central Jail. The order came on April 13 following a petition
filed by investigators probing 1971 war crimes.
The
Daily Star, April 14, 2011.
INDIA
Pakistan born
militants implicate Pakistani Government and ISI in Mumbai terrorist
attacks: Pakistani-American militant David
Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani and Pakistani-Canadian
militant Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who allegedly planned and conducted
the recce before the terrorist attacks in Mumbai (November 26,
2008, also known as 26/11), implicated the Pakistani Government
and its intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI),
in the attack. In court documents that have surfaced ahead of
his upcoming trial in Chicago, Rana said that his acts of providing
material support to terrorists in the Mumbai attacks as alleged
by US prosecutors ''were done at the behest of the Pakistani
Government and the ISI, not the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT)". Times
of India, April 13, 2011.
LeT plan to
strike Cricket World Cup was thwarted, says Union Home Secretary
G. K. Pillai: Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai
said on April 11 that Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) had planned to attack the Cricket World Cup, but the plot
was thwarted by the Indian intelligence and security network.
Pillai said the plot to attack was specific to the final match
between India and Sri Lanka at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai (Maharashtra)
on April 2. "There was enough evidence that they were planning
the strike in Mumbai," he added.
Times
of India, April 13, 2011.
Police-militant
nexus to be probed in Meghalaya: Meghalaya
Home Minister H.D.R Lyngdoh on April 15 said that the Government
will investigate the alleged nexus between the Garo National
Liberation Army (GNLA) militants and some Police. "It could
be only a suspicion (nexus between GNLA and police personnel),
but we will conduct an investigation to establish these linkages,"
Lyngdoh told journalists.
Assam
Tribune, April 16, 2011.
NEPAL
UCPN-M vice
chairman Mohan Baidhya rules out possibility of timely statute:
The Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) vice
chairman Mohan Baidhya on April 15 ruled out the possibility
of promulgating the new constitution within May 28. Baidhya
claimed that it would be impossible to meet the deadline for
the new constitution as the Army integration is still pending,
and very limited time has been left for finalising the issues
related to the new statute.
Nepal News, April 16, 2011.
PM Jhala Nath
Khanal puts condition before Maoists claiming Home Ministry:
Prime Minister (PM) Jhala Nath Khanal told the Unified
Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) Chairman Pushpa Kamal
Dahal aka Prachanda that the Home Ministry cannot be
given to the Maoist party unless it comes up with a time-bound
action plan on integration and rehabilitation of former Maoist
combatants and constitution writing. The PM's Press Advisor,
Surya Thapa, confirmed that the PM made such a statement in
a series of meetings with Dahal in the last week.
eKantipur, April 14, 2011.
PAKISTAN
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militants and five SFs among 45 persons killed during the week
in FATA: Three militants
and a trooper were killed during an encounter in Tangi Badinzai
area of Laddah tehsil (revenue unit) in South Waziristan
Agency (SWA) of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in
the night of April 16.
Two Security
Force (SF) personnel and a militant were killed during a clash
when a group of militants attacked a security post in Khapyanga
area of Kurram Agency on April 15.
At least 18 militants
were killed and another 25 injured in clashes with SFs in Baizai
and Safi tehsils of Mohamad Agency on April 14.
Missiles fired
by US drones killed seven suspected militants and injured four
others near Angoor Adda in SWA on April 13.
Eight militants
were killed and 12 others injured when jet fighters, helicopter
gunships and artillery pounded their hideouts in Mattani, Suran
Darra, Wali Dad Kor, Ghanam Shah and Sheikh Baba villages in
Baizai and Safi tehsils of Mohmand Agency on April 12.
Three people,
including a religious cleric, were killed and 13 others, including
a woman and children, were injured in a landmine explosion in
Kanrakai area of Kurram Agency on April 11.
Dawn;
Daily
Times;Tribune;
The
News, April 12-18, 2011.
US drones
killed 957 civilians in 2010, says HRCP annual report:
A total of 957 civilians were killed in American
drone attacks in the country 2010, the Human Rights Commission
of Pakistan (HRCP) said in its annual report on April 14. Report
said that terrorist attacks in Pakistan left 2,542 people dead
and 5,062 others injured in 2010.
Meanwhile,
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has no plans to suspend
"operations" in Pakistan against terror suspects despite
objections from leaders in Islamabad, a US official said on
condition of anonymity on April 15. "Pakistan has criticised
missile strikes by US drone aircraft in its tribal belt, but
CIA Director Leon Panetta has told intelligence officials that
he has a duty to prevent attacks on the United States,"
the official said.
Daily
Times ;
Times of India, April 15-16, 2011.
LeT
expanding globally, particularly in Europe, says US General
Admiral Robert Willard: A
high ranking US General, Admiral Robert Willard, Head of the
US military’s Pacific Command, on April 12 expressed concern
to Congress about the expanding reach of the Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT). He warned that the outfit was no longer solely focused
on India or even South Asia.
Dawn,
April 13, 2011.
JuD
‘chief’ Hafiz Saeed vows jihad in Kashmir: The
Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (JuD) ‘chief’ Hafiz Mohammad Saeed speaking
in Islamabad on April 11 vowed for a jihad in Jammu and
Kashmir. In a provocative speech, Saeed, claimed the movement
in Kashmir would serve as an example for "Muslims in Hyderabad
and Junagarh who want independence from the oppression of Hindus".
Indian
Express, April 6, 2011.
EU
rebukes Pakistan for going slow against Taliban: The
European Parliament (EU) on April 15 rebuked Pakistan for the
slow progress in the fight against militancy in the country
and directed the European Commission to appropriate financial
aid to Islamabad based on its sincere efforts to eradicate terrorist
groups. The EU Parliament issued two declarations reprimanding
Pakistan about the dangers posed by the Taliban and calling
for urgent measures for the security of the EU.
Times
of India, April 16, 2011.
Pakistan
still smuggling nuclear goods from US, says US think tank:
A top Washington think
tank, Institute for Science and International Security
(ISIS), has argued that recent examples of nuclear industry
goods being smuggled from the United States to Pakistan highlight
the need for closer monitoring and raise questions about how
an ostensible "ally" of the US could be involved in
this illicit trade. David Albright, President and founder of
the ISIS said the "U.S. Government and the nuclear industry
need to be working closer together" if such smuggling rings
were to be detected.
The
Hindu, April 16, 2011.
Iran
building anti-terror fence along Pakistan border: Iran
is building a concrete fence all along its 700-kilometres long
border with Pakistan to stop cross-border movements of terrorists,
Iran's Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said
on April 15. The three feet thick and 10 feet high fence, built
with concrete and fortified by steel rods, will span the impenetrable
mountainous terrain in south eastern Iran, Vahidi said.
Times
of India, April 16, 2011.
Pakistan
and Afghanistan set up joint commission to pursue peace:
Pakistan and Afghanistan
on April 16 agreed on the formation of a joint commission to
carry forward the reconciliation process, following the withdrawal
of foreign troops from the insurgency-torn country. Prime Minister
Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai,
during their talk in Kabul, described the parleys as "historic",
saying that "the two countries stand together as they have
shared destinies."
Dawn,
April 17, 2011.
SRI LANKA
LTTE
international network still active, says Prime Minister D. M.
Jayaratne: Sri Lankan
Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne on April 10 said that the international
network of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) militants
was still active and was looking for opportunities to revive
the outfit. He said certain elements who wanted to challenge
the nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity were also
backing these efforts.
PTI
News, April 12, 2011.
Majority of
the displaced persons in the North and East have been resettled,
says Government: The Sri Lankan Government on April 12
said that a majority of the displaced persons in the North and
East have been resettled. According to Government statistics,
of the 280,000 internally displaced people, 252,000 had returned
home under the Government's National Resettlement Strategy.
Colombo
Page, April 15, 2011.
UN rights
panel delivers its report on Sri Lanka to the UN Chief:
The Panel of Experts appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon to advise him on human rights and humanitarian law
violations during the last phase of Sri Lanka's civil war, handed
in their report to the UN Chief on April 12. The UN announced
that the Secretary-General as a matter of courtesy will share
a copy of the report with the Sri Lankan government before it
is being made public. Colombo
Page, April 13, 2011.
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