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SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
Weekly Assessments & Briefings
Volume 13, No. 4, July 28, 2014
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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Bankrolling
Terror
Sanchita Bhattacharya
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Islamist
terror outfits operating on the Indian soil, aided and
abetted by Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, the
Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), have adopted various
ways to fill their coffers. Prominent avenues of terrorist
finance include the Banking sector, extortion, hawala
(illegal money transfers), funding from various Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGO), money generated through Narcotics,
rampant circulation of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN)
printed in Government Security Presses in Pakistan, as
well as direct funding from the ISI.
In one
of the more disturbing trends, a July 21, 2014, news report
indicated that Pakistan based terror groups were increasingly
targeting the Indian Banking sector. An alert from the
Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW, India's external
intelligence agency) noted that, “349 bank accounts are
being used/operated by Indian associates for facilitating
Pakistan-based groups running fake lottery rackets.” The
country-wide network operated by Indian associates of
Pakistani terrorist formations included at least 133 bank
accounts in the State Bank of India (SBI), 33 in ICICI
bank, 18 in Punjab National Bank (PNB); and another 26
accounts in Bank of Baroda, Oriental Bank of Commerce,
Union Bank of India, Central Bank of India and the United
Commercial Bank of India (bank wise numbers not available).
Details of another 139 such accounts are being scrutinized,
but are not publicly available. 99 users of Indian telephone
numbers who are the local collaborators of the Pakistani
groups “are under watch”, the note added.
Further,
apprehensive of terrorists using the capital market to
fund themselves, market regulator Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI), on March 12, 2014, tightened norms
aimed at countering money laundering and terror financing
through the capital markets and asked market entities
to conduct detailed risk assessment of their clients,
including those linked to countries facing international
sanctions. There have been several reports in the past
indicating that Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorists have
been playing the stock market to augment their revenues.
Bank robberies
have also become a significant source of funding. Investigations
by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the October
27, 2013, Patna
bomb blasts, in which eight persons
were killed, have exposed the manner in which Indian Mujahideen
(IM) has been utilizing bank robberies to fund its activities.
An unnamed investigator disclosed, "Robberies and
bank dacoities were being carried out to generate funds."
Further, Abu Faisal aka Doctor, a prominent IM
cadre and suspected mastermind of the December 23, 2013,
Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh (MP), jailbreak incident, reportedly
revealed that five bank robberies across MP in 2009-2010,
as well as the INR 25 million in gold looted in Bhopal
on August 23, 2010, were executed to raise funds for terrorist
attacks. An unnamed Police officer disclosed, "In
2009, Faisal's group entered the Narmada Rural Bank [in
Dewas] with firearms and robbed it. Later, they targeted
other banks in Dewas and Itarsi. This group had also robbed
10 kilograms of gold from a gold finance company."
Investigations
by Indian security agencies have also revealed that IM
operative Mirza Shadab Baig had planned to set up an extortion
cell, Maal-e-Ghanimat (Spoils of War), in Dubai
for jihad (religious or holy war). Baig, who had
been made in charge of the ‘project’ and was the point-person
to collect the money, and his associates had procured
several Dubai SIM cards which were to be used for making
extortion calls. In his statement to the NIA, arrested
IM operative Asadullah Akhtar aka Haddi disclosed
that he was in talks with Baig to identify a hawala
operator in Dubai and the Middle East, so that the money
generated from extortion could be routed to India. The
extortion cell was to target people in the Gulf. In addition,
they were also engaged in efforts to extort money in Indian
cities, including Pune (Maharashtra) and Kolkata (West
Bengal).
Hawala,
of course, continues
to haunt the agencies involved in
checking the flow of funds to terrorist groups. Ibrahim
"Tiger" Memon, one of the main accused in the
1993 Mumbai (Maharashtra) serial blasts case, has long
been tasked with transferring money through hawala
channels, to India through Delhi, and not the usual
Mumbai route, to target the Capital. Significantly, arrested
IM 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal aka Mohammed
Ahmed Sidibapa aka Imran aka Shahrukh told
investigators that he collected hawala money sent
from Dubai or Sharjah by another IM member Hafeef Bhatkali
during the November 26, 2008 (26/11) terror attacks in
Mumbai. "At the time of 26/11, I was in Mumbai to
collect INR 400,000 in cash sent by Hafeef. The hawala
delivery boy handed over the money to me near a mosque
in Pydhonie,” Bhtakal claimed. He added, further, "Hafeef
Bhatkali, a computer engineer who was earlier based in
Dubai, is now in Pakistan. Riyaz is in touch with him.
Hafeef finances the IM." Hafeef has close links with
Dawood
Ibrahim's D-company and runs hawala
rackets in Mumbai and other places in India.
Evidence
of a growing nexus between terror funding and non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) is also accumulating. The Director
of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), N.N. Pandey,
had asserted in November 2013 that the NGOs are the biggest
source of funding of terrorist activities in India. Indeed,
in March 2014, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA)
expressed concern that several NGOs in the country were
potentially involved in terror financing and money laundering,
and argued that it was time that self-regulatory steps
were initiated by the NGO sector. Between 1993 and 2012,
the number of registered associations (NGOs) rose from
15,039 to over 41,844, but through all these years only
54 to 64 per cent of these organisations filed details
of foreign remittances received, UMHA disclosed. Current
estimates suggest that there are nearly 85,000 NGOs in
the country, of which 68,000 are registered with the Union
Government to collect foreign funds. On paper, these NGOs
claim to be working for a cause or as religious charities,
but some of these are fronts to receive money either for
terror or laundering. It has also been reported that there
are at least 40 'charitable organizations' in Saudi Arabia
whose primary function is to raise money for funding extremism
and terrorism in India.
The ‘narcotics
trade’ is another major concern. The latest group to join
the India-centric terrorist web is the infamous Boko Haram
of Nigeria. Reports indicate that the organisation has
started to infiltrate the country with the help of drug-peddlers.
According to sources, “They came on our radar after intelligence
inputs indicated that Dawood Ibrahim’s younger brother
Anees Ibrahim made several trips to Lagos last year [2013]
and subsequently met an al-Qaeda 'commander' close to
Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau. D-gang’s proximity
with the two outfits indicates that militants are now
riding on Dawood’s well-oiled network in India, Africa
and South America to raise terror funds though drug trafficking.”
Earlier, in September 2013, the NIA revealed that IM was
also in touch with some drug syndicates in Chapora in
Goa to raise funds. IM operatives helped in ferrying drugs
to earn a share of the profits. Yasin Bhatkal disclosed
that forging such alliances was essential for the IM,
as there was a perpetual shortage of money to fund their
terror plans.
Meanwhile,
the ISI continues
to pump increasing volumes of FICN
into India and its neighbourhood in its campaign to provide
finances for Islamist terrorists, and to destabilize the
Indian Economy. According to a July 2014 report quoting
the Intelligence Bureau, Sri Lanka and Maldives have been
named two new transit destinations for FICN, with Chennai
in Tamil Nadu as the point of arrival. An unnamed IB official
stated, "Until now, FICN was known to come from Bangladesh
and Nepal. The addition of two more neighbours to this
list is rather worrying". Moreover, the ISI-run mafia
engaged in production of FICN has altered patterns of
circulation, increasingly emphasizing lower denomination
notes, INR 500 and below, as compared to an overwhelming
flow of INR 1,000 notes in the past. According to a report
by the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB), "Pakistani
operators based in Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Thailand
act as recipients of FICN from Pakistan as well as conduits
to the distribution channels in India through air and
land border."
There is
substantial evidence of ISI directly funding terrorist
outfits as well. While the funding trail of the 26/11
attacks has established
ISI’s direct link, an intercepts from Pakistan by Indian
intelligence agencies in March 2014 revealed that ISI
gave about INR 26 million to IM operative Riyaz Bhatkal
over the past three years for anti-India operations. Riyaz
Bhatkal, based in Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh,
had sent funds to Yasin Bhatkal, Assadullah Akhtar, Tehsin
Akhtar aka Monu, Zia-ur-Rehman aka Waqas,
Shaquib (all arrested now) and others through Western
Union money transfer and hawala dealers, sources
disclosed, adding, "He used to send Rs 1 lakh to
Rs 2 lakh depending on the demand but he had received
a huge chunk of money from ISI for operations." Further,
sources indicated, expenses for arming, training and maintaining
cadres of various anti-India terrorist formations in camps
in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and other parts of
Pakistan, were provided separately from funding for operations.
The Government
has taken several
measures, including constituting a
Terror Funding and Fake Currency Cell (TFFC) in NIA in
2010 to focus on investigation into such cases. According
to a June 2014 report, the new Government at the Centre
is set to crack down on terror financing from across the
border, recognizing this as one of the key steps towards
beefing up India's internal security mechanisms. India
has had its first detailed discussion in multi-lateral
fora over terror-financing, and has sought cooperation
of member countries to crack the financial network and
fund-raising activities of Pakistan-based terrorist outfits
and individual terrorists associated with these organisations.
A delegation of the UMHA visited Russia from June 17-20,
2014, to attend the Eurasian Group (EAG) on Combating
Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism 20th
Plenary Meeting. Meetings of the Working Groups also took
place in Moscow to discuss the issue of terror-funding,
with other member countries, including Belarus, Russia,
China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan,
Tajikistan and India. Currently, EAG is headed by K. P.
Krishnan, India’s Additional Secretary, Ministry of Finance.
Islamabad’s
unwavering support to terrorism and efforts to promote
every possible form of instability within India have easily
neutralized the limited gains of every past Indian initiative
in this regard. Even as New Delhi struggles to contain
the problem, the terrorists and their sponsors continue
to expand and exploit new avenues of finance as well as
routes and devices for their transfer to terrorists operating
on Indian soil. International institutions and instruments
have had little or no impact on this expanding network,
and it remains to be seen how India is able to thwart
the Pakistani design in future.
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Assam:
BTAD Mayhem
Veronica Khangchian
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
On July
23, 2014, a youth leader identified as Manoj Das, former
General Secretary of the Baksa unit of the All Assam Students’
Union (AASU) and executive member of the Asom Sena, was
killed by unidentified gunmen at Mushalpur in Baksa District
in the Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD), governed
by the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). Das was also
associated with the Oboro Suraksa Samiti [OSS,
Non-Boro Security Committee] and Sonmilito Jonogosthiyo
Oikyo Mancho (SJOM, United Peoples Unity Platform). Police
recovered four empty rounds and one live 9mm bullet from
the place where the incident occurred. Das, a Central
Committee member of AASU’s Asom Sena wing, was actively
involved in the election campaign of SJOM-backed candidate
Naba Kumar Sarania alias Hira Sarania, a former
United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
leader, who won the recent Lok Sabha (Lower
House of Indian Parliament) elections from the Kokrajhar
constituency.
SJOM, a
conglomeration of 21 non-Bodo organisations formed to
protect the rights of non-Bodo people living in BTAD,
condemned Das’s killing and held the Government responsible
for the incident. SJOM President Hiteswar Barman observed,
“The State Government has failed to control violence in
the BTAD despite repeated pleas by the people and organisations.
Unless the Government seizes illegal arms from the BTAD,
violence will continue and spin beyond control.” All BTAD
Minority Students Union Vice-president Mazid Ali Ahmed
suspected the involvement of former Bodo Liberation Tigers
(BLT)
cadres, as Das had received threats to his life over the
phone before the Lok Sabha elections. Ahmed criticised
the State Government for its indifference to the violence
in BTAD. Condemning the killing, All Bodo Students’ Union
(ABSU) president Promod Boro demanded immediate arrest
of the culprits and seizure of all illegal arms. The Bodo
Sahitya Sabha (a Socio-Literary Organisation of the
Bodo Nation) also condemned the killing. Kamalakanta Muchahary,
General Secretary of the Sabha, noted, “This killing is
an exercise to spread unrest and create an atmosphere
of mistrust among different sections of people. The culprits
must be dealt with strongly according to the law.”
Das’ murder
came less than a fortnight after four Muslims from Bogiribari
in Barpeta District were abducted and killed by militants
of the I.K Songbijit faction of the National Democratic
Front of Bodoland (NDFB-IKS)
at Labdanguri in Baksa District on July 11, 2014. Sources
disclosed that all the four were abducted and killed shortly
thereafter, and there was no report of any ransom demand.
The body of a 14 year old boy, identified as Bakar Ali,
was recovered on July 12 from Kamargaon in Barpeta District,
while the bodies of other three, who were traders identified
as Rabul Amin, Saddam Hussain and Atwar Ali, were recovered
on July 13, from Hakuanala on the banks of the Manas River
in Baksa District. An official release issued by the Home
and Political Department stated that intelligence inputs
confirmed that the killing was done by NDFB-IKS militants,
purportedly “to divert attention of the Security Forces
(SF), which have been successfully conducting relentless
counter-insurgency operations against this group, inflicting
significant reverses on it in last six months.”
The conflict
raging between Bodos and non-Bodos in the aftermath of
the Lok Sabha polls, in which the non-Bodo candidate,
Hira Sarania, emerged the winner, defeating all the three
Bodo candidates in the fray in the Kokrajhar Lok Sabha
constituency, has heightened tension in Baksa District.
46
Muslims were killed in violent incidents
allegedly executed by the NDFB-IKS in Baksa and Kokrajhar
Districts on May 1 and 2, 2014. The May incidents and
the recent abduction and killing of the four Muslims have
made Baksa one of the most sensitive Districts in BTAD.
In 2012, a large scale conflagration involving Bodos
and Muslims had left at least 109 dead in BTAD.
Meanwhile,
three people identified as Promod Narzary, Mithinga Muchahary
and Boronda Basumatary were arrested on July 14 from Samthaibari
village in Barpeta District in connection with the abduction
and killing of the four Muslims, on the basis of articles
recovered from their homes, for allegedly helping NDFB-IKS
militants abduct the boy and the three traders. A woman
identified as Sone Narzary was also arrested by the Assam
Police in connection with the incident the following day.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) L.R. Bishnoi asserted,
"Sone was providing every information about the movement
of people from the minority community in the area to the
Bodo rebels. She is one of the key persons involved in
the violence". He added, further, that another individual
was arrested on July 15 for sheltering militants. Moreover,
Assam Police have identified four militants, Lengra aka
Sahash, Biliphang, Gobla Basumatary and Soniram Daimari
aka Saiklung, belonging to NDFB-IKS, as the ones
responsible for the abduction and killing in this case.
Meanwhile,
on July 13, 2014, the NDFB-IKS accused the Assam Government
of playing dirty politics by creating communal conflict
between the Bodos and Muslims. The NDFB-IKS ‘secretary
of information and publicity wing’, N.E. Esara, argued
that the July 11 abduction and killing in Baksa District
were a consequence of the conspiracy of the ruling party
in Assam and the dissidents. He added that the Assam Government
was “trying to use both Muslims and Bodos to fulfill its
political aspirations” by applying policy of killing two
birds with one stone, so that both the Muslim and Bodo
community could be annihilated through communal conflict.
While such
conspiracy theories have not found traction among the
other communities and political formations in the State,
the failure of the Government has been widely criticized.
The President of the All Assam Minority Students’ Union
(AAMSU), Abdur Rahim Ahmed, thus stated, “Since the State
Government has utterly failed to tackle violence in BTAD,
the Centre should take up the task of maintaining law
and order in the State and dissolve the Government.” Compounding
matters, on July 12, while expressing its commitment to
help out the Assam Government, the Centre, warned that
if the Tarun Gogoi Government repeatedly fails to control
the killings, the Centre would have no option but to intervene.
The warning came from the Union Minister of State for
Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju, reacting to the July 11 incident.
Reports
indicate that nearly a thousand people have been killed
and over 1,300 cases of abduction have been registered
in BTAD over the past five years. In this period, the
Assam Police has recovered about 700 firearms, according
to a senior State Home Department official, but this number
hardly amounts to five per cent of the actual weapons
possessed by the militants.
According
to the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), Assam
has recorded 141 fatalities [76 civilians, 60 militants
and five SF personnel] in 2014 [all data till July 27].
Of the 76 civilian fatalities, NDFB-IKS alone was responsible
for 63, as well as of one SF trooper. Of the 60 militants
killed in the state, 21 belonged to NDFB-IKS.
Significant
recent incidents include:
July 27,
2014: An NDFB-IKS ‘commander’ identified as S. Ulapat
alias Uttam Sargiary, who was accused of being
behind the serial bomb blasts in Assam on October 2008
which killed over 80 people, was killed in an encounter
with Kokrajhar Police at Oxiguri village in Haijraiguri
in Kokrajhar District. Ulapat was loyal to NDFB ‘chief’
Ranjan Daimary, but was later associated with NDFB-IKS.
July 22,
2014: SFs gunned down a NDFB-IKS militant in an encounter
in Kokrajhar District. According to the intelligence reports,
the outfit had plans to target SFs and minority communities
in the area in the run-up to Independence Day (August
15).
July 10,
2014: A NDFB-IKS militant identified as Uresh
Narzary aka N. Udang was killed in an encounter
with the SFs at Mwinaguri village under Kachugaon Police
Station of Kokrajhar District.
April 30,
2014: Three cadres of NDFB-IKS, identified as Rajai Mushahary,
Custom Boro and Adlish Basumatary, were killed in an encounter
with Police in the Naojan Tinkhuti area under Gingia Police
Station in Sonitpur District.
May 4:
Three NDFB-IKS militants were killed in two separate encounters
with a joint team of the Police, CRPF and the Army, in
Sonitpur and Udalguri Districts.
On July
16, 2014, the Assam Government constituted a one-man Commission
of Inquiry to examine the causes and circumstances leading
to incidents of violence in Baksa and Kokrajhar Districts
on May 1 and 2.
Further,
on July 22, 2014, OSS called a 12-hour strike in Assam
in support of its demand for exclusion of non-Bodo villages
from BTAD to ensure the security of lives and properties
of non-Bodos. Alleging inaction and failure of Police
to arrest the perpetrators of violence in BTAD, OSS argued
that militants were targeting non-Bodos in BTAD in a bid
to drive them out and establish a Bodo majority in the
area. No ethnic group has a current majority in Bodoland.
Publicly available data pegs the Bodo population at 28
per cent; Muslims, 20 per cent; Adivasis, 15 per cent;
while the remaining 37 per cent include Assamese, Bengali
Hindus and non-Bodo tribes. However, the actual numbers
may be somewhat more disturbing. A secret report of the
Assam police in 2012 indicated that the Kokrajhar District,
[the capital of BTAD and political seat of power in BTAD]
had a Bodo population of 310,000, or 30 per cent of the
total, and Muslims, at 236,000, or 25.15 per cent of the
total, something the tribals have repeatedly been pointing
out as a cause for worry and evidence that illegal migration
from Bangladesh into Bodo areas continues.
Unsurprisingly,
the root of the conflict in Assam, the unresolved issue
of illegal migrants, continues to be raised by locals.
On July 21, 2014, members of AASU and 26 organisations
representing the State’s indigenous population staged
a dharna (non-violent sit in protest) in front of Raj
Bhawan [the Governor's residence) in Guwahati, against
continuing illegal cross-border migration from Bangladesh.
AASU alleged that, through its various acts of omission
and commission, including the latest move to grant relaxed
visa to sections of Bangladeshi citizens, the Centre had
made it clear that the interests of the indigenous people
were not in its mind. AASU later submitted a memorandum
to the Governor, highlighting their grievances and seeking
redress.
On July
22, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju
clarified in the Lok Sabha that that the issue of citizenship
in Assam would be determined on the basis of the updated
National Register of Citizens (NRC) 1951. He also added
that the Assam Government had set up three detention camps
in Goalpara, Kokrajhar and Silchar Districts for keeping
illegal migrants, and that 13 persons detained at the
detention centre in Goalpara, and another 17 detained
in Dhubri Jail, had been deported to Bangladesh. July
16 reports also disclosed that Rijiju had stated that
the Government of India (GoI) had released INR 1,405.8
million for updating the NRC, and that a gazette notification
had already been issued for updating NRC 1951 in Assam
with effect from December 2013. The updating of NRC is
targeted to be completed in three years.
The long
history of violence in the Bodo heartland of Assam continues
with intermittent escalation time and again. The creation
of BTC in 2003, instead of providing some respite, has
created more troubles among the different ethnic groups,
with their divergent goals and polarized politics, in
the area. Indeed, the non-Bodos had opposed the creation
of BTC on precisely these grounds. At the same time, the
BTC administrative structure has failed to improve conditions
for the Bodo population, with the result that Bodos, including
Bodoland People's Front (BPF) leaders (former BLT leaders)
who had signed the Memorandum of Settlement in 2003,
have revived their original demand for statehood.
Meanwhile,
Kiren Rijiju told the Rajya Sabha (Upper House
of Indian Parliament), on July 23, that the G.K. Pillai
Committee, which was set up by Union Ministry of Home
Affairs (UMHA) to study the viability of creating a separate
state for Bodoland, had resumed functions after the Lok
Sabha elections. On July 19, 2014, moreover,
Union Minister of Home Affairs Rajnath Singh assured a
Bodo delegation that GoI would take all needed initiatives
to resolve the Bodoland problem as soon as the ongoing
Parliament session was over.
There have
been many such assurances in the past. It remains to be
seen whether the new dispensation in Delhi is better able
to deliver on its promises.
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Weekly Fatalities: Major
Conflicts in South Asia
July 21-27,
2014
|
Civilians
|
Security
Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
INDIA
|
|
Assam
|
2
|
0
|
3
|
5
|
Jammu and
Kashmir
|
0
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
Manipur
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
3
|
Meghalaya
|
1
|
3
|
0
|
4
|
Left-wing
Extremism
|
|
Jharkhand
|
7
|
0
|
1
|
8
|
Odisha
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
Total (INDIA)
|
11
|
5
|
8
|
24
|
PAKISTAN
|
|
Balochistan
|
4
|
4
|
0
|
8
|
FATA
|
1
|
3
|
46
|
50
|
KP
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
Punjab
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
Sindh
|
18
|
7
|
7
|
32
|
Total (PAKISTAN)
|
|
|
|
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Provisional
data compiled from English language media sources.
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INDIA
Two
Indians
killed
in
Afghanistan:
Two
Indians
were
among
five
foreign
guards
killed
by
a
Taliban
suicide
bomber
riding
a
motorbike
on
July
23
in
an
attack
on
Kabul
Airport,
the
Indian
Ministry
of
External
Affairs
(MEA)
confirmed
on
July
24.
MEA
spokesman
Syed
Akbaruddin
said
the
two
Indians,
identified
as
Ponnappan
V
Kuttappan
and
Parambhat
Ravindran
from
Kerala,
were
employed
as
security
guards
with
an
American
security
firm
named
Dyna
Corporation
in
Kabul.
Live
Mint,
July
24,
2014.
Two
Kalyan
youths
call
up
families
and
confirm
of
fighting
for
ISIS
in
Syria,
according
to
investigators:
Two
of
the
four
youths
of
Kalyan
(Thane
District,
Maharashtra)
suspected
to
have
joined
the
Islamic
State
of
Iraq
and
Syria
(ISIS)
called
up
their
families
earlier
this
week
and
confirmed
they
were
working
as
members
of
the
outfit
in
the
Raqqa
Province
of
Syria,
investigating
officials
said.
Aarif
Majid
and
Saleem
Tanki,
the
two
youths
who
spoke
to
their
families,
told
them
they
were
safe
and
that
their
entire
family
would
go
to
jannat
(heaven)
because
of
the
'work'
they
were
doing
as
part
of
ISIS,
the
officials
said.
Times
of
India,
July
26,
2014.
1,922
people
killed
in
Naxal
violence
in
last
three
years,
informs
Union
Minister
of
State
for
Home
Affairs
Kiren
Rijiju:
Union
Minister
of
State
for
Home
Affairs,
Kiren
Rijiju,
informed
the
Rajya
Sabha
(Upper
House
of
Indian
Parliament)
on
July
23
that
a
total
of
1,922
people,
including
1,179
civilians,
were
killed
due
to
Naxal-[Left-Wing
Extremism
(LWE)]
violence
in
the
last
three
years.
The
Minister
further
said
142
Security
Force
personnel,
469
civilians
and
99
LWEs
were
killed
in
2011
while
114
SFs,
301
civilians
and
74
LWEs
were
killed
in
2012
and
another
115
SFs,
282
civilians
and
100
LWEs
were
killed
in
2013.
61
SF
personnel,
127
civilians
and
38
LWEs
were
killed
till
July
11,
2014.
NDTV,
July
24,
2014.
14
years
of
Maoist
violence
have
claimed
435
lives,
says
Odisha
Chief
Minister
Naveen
Patnaik:
Chief
Minister
Naveen
Patnaik
told
the
State
Legislative
Assembly,
on
July
21,
that
Communist
Party
of
India-Maoist
(CPI-Maoist)
cadres
have
killed
435
persons,
including
210
Security
Force
(SFs)
and
235
civilians
in
the
last
14
years
while
the
security
personnel
have
eliminated
139
Maoists
during
the
same
time.
The
Chief
Minister
further
said
119
civilians
and
218
security
personnel
were
also
injured
in
Maoist
violence.
The
Maoists
have
also
looted
1907
guns
and
about
172,656
bullets
during
the
period.
1916
Naxalites-[Left-Wing
Extremists
(LWEs)]
have
been
arrested,
while
355
LWEs
have
surrendered.
He
said
Maoist
activities
of
different
magnitude
were
witnessed
in
19
Districts
of
the
State.
Indian
Express,
July
22,
2014.
Ceasefire
agreement
with
NSCN-IM
not
applicable
in
Manipur,
says
State
Deputy
Chief
Minister:
Deputy
Chief
Minister
and
Home
Minister
Gaikhangam
on
July
21
told
the
Assembly
that
the
ceasefire
agreement
between
the
Isak-Muivah
faction
of
National
Socialist
Council
of
Nagaland
(NSCN-IM)
and
Government
of
India
(GoI)
was
not
applicable
to
the
State
of
Manipur.
He
disclosed
that
as
many
as
420
cases
related
with
crimes
committed
by
NSCN-IM
has
been
registered
by
state
Police
in
the
last
15
years
since
the
outfit
entered
into
ceasefire
agreement
with
GoI
and
that
during
the
same
period
455
militants
of
NSCN-IM
have
been
arrested
in
Manipur.
He
added
that
the
State
is
taking
up
necessary
measures
to
tackle
the
anti-social
activities
of
NSCN-IM.
Sangai
Express,
Nagaland
Post,
July
22,
2014.
NSCN-K
calls
for
common
front
of
Northeast
militant
groups:
Khaplang
faction
of
National
Socialist
Council
of
Nagaland
(NSCN-K)
on
July
18
reiterated
the
idea
of
forming
a
common
front
of
northeast
militant
groups
but
denied
having
any
links
with
other
militant
groups
of
the
region
or
having
provided
them
with
shelter
in
camps
based
in
Myanmar.
A
senior
NSCN-K
leader,
Wangtin
Naga,
stated
in
Dimapur
after
Cease
Fire
Monitoring
Group
(CFMG)
meeting
with
the
Government
of
India
(GoI)
representatives
that
the
process
for
formation
of
such
front
was
under
way.
E
PAO,
July
19,
2014.
2415
militants
arrested
in
Manipur
since
April
2012,
states
deputy
Chief
Minister:
Deputy
Chief
Minister
Gaikhangam,
on
July
23,
informed
the
State
Assembly
that
a
total
of
2415
militants
have
been
arrested
in
the
State
since
April
2012.
Another
17
militants
were
arrested
from
outside
the
State.
INR
61,86,723
was
seized
from
their
possession.
He
also
added
that
1154
militants
are
under
judicial
custody
and
eight
are
under
Police
custody
while
1270
cadres
have
been
released
on
bail.
He
also
stated
that
out
of
the
total
money
recovered
from
the
militants,
INR
11,
05,100
has
been
accrued
to
the
State
exchequer,
while
the
remaining
INR
50,
81,623
is
in
Police
Custody.
Sangai
Express,
July
24,
2014.
PAKISTAN
Operation
Zarb-e-Azb
to
be
concluded
within
two
weeks,
says
Federal
Minister
for
States
and
Frontier
Regions
Lieutenant
General
(retd)
Abdul
Qadir
Baloch:
The
Federal
Minister
for
States
and
Frontier
Regions
Lieutenant
General
(retd)
Abdul
Qadir
Baloch
on
July
25
revealed
that
the
military
operation
in
North
Waziristan
Agency
(NWA)
of
Federally
Administered
Tribal
Areas
(FATA),
Operation
Zarb-e-Azb,
will
be
concluded
within
two
weeks.
He
added
that
the
action
in
tribal
areas
will
be
completed
within
a
month
since
the
troops
are
engaged
in
yet
another
small
operation
in
adjoining
area
of
FATA.
The
News,
July
26,
2014.
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