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South Asia Terrorism Portal

SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
[SAIR]

Weekly Assessmnts & Briefings
Volume 20, No. 42, April 11, 2022
 
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.


ASSESSMENT

  • AFGHANISTAN: The predator turns target - Ajit Kumar Singh
  • INDIA: Maoists: Diminishing Spell - Deepak Kumar Nayak

 


AFGHANISTAN

 

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The predator turns target
Ajit Kumar Singh
Research
Fellow, Institute for Conflict Management

On April 8, 2022, Taliban fighters stormed the Qassan Valley in the Deh Salah area of Andarab District in Baghlan Province and took control of the upper area of Darband Kaasa Traash and Darra e Jar, the strongholds of the National Resistance Front (NRF). NRF fighters retaliated and, in the ensuing clashes, at least 11 Taliban fighters were killed and several injured. According to an NRF release, the Taliban fighters fled Dara-e-Jar after the attack. The current cycle of fighting in the area started on April 4, 2022.

On April 3, 2022, NRF fighters targeted a vehicle carrying the security chief of the Taliban, Mawlawi Rashad, in the city of Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan. While Rashad was severely wounded, two of his bodyguards were killed in the attack.

On April 1, 2022, NRF fighters ambushed the Taliban forces in the Hesarak area of Panjshir Province, killing 10 Taliban, and wounding another 12.

According to available data, since the formation of the NRF subsequent to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, clashes between NRF and Taliban have resulted in at least 195 deaths (154 Taliban, 37 NRF and four civilians). Such attacks have not been limited to the northern provinces. Indeed, Sibghatullah Ahmadi, Spokesperson and Director of Strategic Communications, NRF, tweeted on March 3,

In the past eleven days, the NRF guerrillas and infiltrators in Kabul, Nangarhar, Baghlan, Panjshir, Takhar, Laghman, Kapisa, Kunduz, Faryab, Balkh, Parwan, Badakhshan, Jawzjan, Badghis, Sar-e-Pul, Ghor, Farah, Samangan, Logar, Herat and Maidan Wardak provinces have killed fifty-seven Taliban terrorist fighters and seriously wounded seventy-three other sabotagers (sic). Eleven of the NRF devoted fighters have been martyred during these attacks. Those who fight for freedom will not be forgotten. We will succeed.

Indeed, the NRF has reiterated, on several occasions, its resolve to overthrow the Taliban regime. On February 9, 2022, Ali Maisam Nazary, Head of Foreign Relations for the NRF, tweeted,

There's a humanitarian crisis in Afg [Afghanistan] because a terrorist group was allowed to hijack a whole country. The Taliban have kept Afg in a state of anarchy to exploit the situation for their own ends. The only solution to end this crisis is to remove the root cause, which is the Taliban.

In an interview published on January 18, 2022, Nazary claimed that the Taliban had weakened and become unorganized and NRF would take power again. He disclosed that NRF fighters would start their offensive attacks against Taliban by the end of the winter.

Earlier, on January 11, during his meeting with Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Tehran, Iran, Ahmad Massoud, leader of the NRF, rejected the Taliban government’s offer of safe passage to the country. Ali Maisam Nazary, stated,

We rejected his offer. They are not owners of Afghanistan to allow or prevent us from entering our country. We control many parts of the Hindu Kush and Commander Massoud can return anytime he wants. He will be back in Afghanistan once his trips end.

These developments clearly indicate that Taliban celebrations over the claim on September 6, 2021, that all of Panjshir Province was under Taliban control and the armed resistance in Afghanistan has ended, were premature. The NRF opposition is likely to last.

There are other resistance forces as well. These include the National Resistance Council, which allegedly includes major anti-Taliban key figures of the past decades such as Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf, Mohammad Younus Qonuni, Ata Mohammad Noor, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Muhammad Mohaqiq, Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, and Engineer Mohammad Khan; the Unknown Soldiers of Hazaristan, referring to a part of central Afghanistan predominantly inhabited by the Hazara ethnic minority; the Liberation Front of Afghanistan; the Afghanistan Islamic National and Liberation Movement; the Afghanistan Freedom Front; the Freedom and Democracy Front, another apparent Hazara-centred resistance group; and the Freedom Corps that claims to be active in parts of the Takhar Province.

Moreover, the threat to the Taliban regime from Islamic State-Khorasan Province (IS-KP) remains strong. According to a United Nation (UN) report on the situation in Afghanistan released on January 28, 2022,

Attacks claimed by or attributed to ISIL-KP [IS-KP] increased and expanded beyond the movement’s previous areas of focus in Kabul and eastern Afghanistan. Between 19 August and 31 December, the United Nations recorded 152 attacks by the group in 16 provinces, compared to 20 attacks in 5 provinces during the same period in 2020. In addition to the de facto authorities, the group also targeted civilians, in particular Shia minorities, in urban areas.

The report further noted,

From 15 August to 31 December 2021, UNAMA [United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan] documented more than 1,050 civilian casualties, including more than 350 civilian deaths. Suicide and non-suicide improvised explosive devices, attributed almost entirely to ISIL-KP, accounted for more than 850 civilian casualties, including nearly 300 deaths, and consisted mainly of sectarian attacks targeting civilians. Explosive remnants of war caused nearly 100 civilian casualties, mainly children; targeted killings related to ongoing armed conflict resulted in more than 50 civilian casualties; ground engagements between the de facto authorities and ISIL-KP or resistance groups resulted in almost 20 civilian casualties; and one aerial attack by the United States on 29 August, targeting ISIL-KP, resulted in the deaths of 10 civilians.

Since January 1, 2022, IS-KP-linked incidents have resulted in 39 deaths (17 Taliban, six IS-KP terrorists, and 16 in the Not Specified Category).

Interestingly, however, Foreign Minister Muttaqi claimed on April 4, 2022,

Da’esh [IS-KP] had no operations in the last four months. We could say that Afghanistan is a secure country right now.

Meanwhile, the Taliban’s own brutalities against the Afghans continue. Most recently, on April 2, 2022, the Taliban cruelly killed a young girl in the seventh district of Mazar-e-Sharif, first flogging her, then cutting off parts of her body with a razor blade, amputating one of her legs, and then firing 12 bullets at her half-dead body. In another such incident, on March 12-13, 2022, a 48-year-old shopkeeper, Ghulam Sakhi, was severely tortured and killed by the Taliban in the Mata village of Panjshir Province.

Moreover, the Taliban continues to rule the country according to its own interpretation of Islamic law. Accordingly, on March 23, 2022, it said schools for girls would be closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law and Afghan culture. A Ministry of Education notice announced, "We inform all girls' high schools and those schools that are having female students above class six that they are off until the next order." Girls’ schools were scheduled to reopen across Afghanistan after months of closure and before March 22, the Taliban had expressed itself in favour of the reopening. Reports indicate that Afghan women are no longer permitted to go over 45 miles (or 72 kilometres) from their homes without the company of a close male relative. Since their return to power, the Taliban has curtailed women’s rights and freedoms, creating an environment similar to what it had imposed between 1996 and 2001, when female education and most employment for women was banned, and the severest restriction had been placed on their movements and activity.

Meanwhile, this last-minute reversal of the decision on girls’ schools is seen as further proof of a rising ideological rift within the Taliban leadership. Andrew Watkins of the US Institute of Peace, noted, “This last-minute change appears to be driven by ideological differences in the movement... about how girls returning to school will be perceived by their followers.” Significantly, since the Taliban was restored to power in Kabul, there have been reports of increasing rifts within the leadership.

In the meantime, the humanitarian crisis is deepening. According to a UNAMA release of March 31, 2022,

More than 24 million people – or 60 per cent of the population – need humanitarian assistance to survive. Needs are 30 per cent higher than last year [2021] and acute hunger is a daily reality for half the population. Basic health, education and other services are severely strained, livelihoods have been crushed and households are spending 80 per cent of their meagre income on food.

Thus, apprehensions that the misery of the Afghan people would greatly increase with the Taliban returning to power have unfortunately been proven correct. Not surprisingly, Resolution 2626 (2022) adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) at its 8,997th meeting, on March 17, 2022, agreed that the mandate of the UNAMA would be extended through March 17, 2023.

Amidst the many disturbing developments in Afghanistan, the international community continues in its uncertainty about its stand on the legal status of the Taliban regime. The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, in her briefing to the UNSC on March 2, 2022, spoke in favour of the Taliban, arguing,

Let’s me make clear, that we do not believe that we can truly assist the Afghan people without working with the de facto authorities. This must be difficult for some to accept, but it is essential… Above all, the Taliban have told us that they should receive greater acknowledgement for the security that prevails in Afghanistan. In the six months since 15 August [2021] there has been a 78 percent decline in civilian casualties as a result of the reduction of the conflict.

On the other hand, a UN report released on February 3, 2022, noted,

The security landscape in Afghanistan changed dramatically on 15 August, when the Taliban took control of the country. There are no recent signs that the Taliban has taken steps to limit the activities of foreign terrorist fighters in the country. On the contrary, terrorist groups enjoy greater freedom there than at any time in recent history… Central Asian foreign terrorist fighters and ETIM/TIP [East Turkestan Islamic Movement/ Turkestan Islamic Party] members in Afghanistan have embraced the Taliban takeover. They look forward to international recognition of the Taliban, believing that the “terrorist” label will then be removed from them. They also anticipate that the Taliban de facto administration will provide them with refugee status and passports, enabling them to travel internationally.

Afghanistan remains insecure, unstable and fraught with conflict, its future uncertain. There is no hope of any immediate relief to the people of the country, which super powers have invaded from time to time only to face defeat. In the devastation these powers leave behind, the misery of the people can only increase in the foreseeable future. Worse, as political volatility increasingly afflicts the mischievous neighbour and Afghanistan’s ‘tormentor in-chief,’ Pakistan, the deepening crisis in Islamabad can only augment uncertainties in Kabul.


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Maoists: Diminishing Spell
Deepak Kumar Nayak
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management

On April 6, 2022, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed a former militia (Maoist People's Army) member, identified as Korra Laxman, in the Bongajangi village under Pedabayalu Mandal (administrative sub division) in the Alluri Sitharama Raju District of Andhra Pradesh. Laxman had surrendered to the Police in 2018 and subsequently joined the mainstream.

On March 28, 2022, suspected Naxalites [Left Wing Extremists] shot dead the wife and three-year-old daughter of a former ‘commander’ of the Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), a CPI-Maoist splinter group, identified as Amarjit Lakra aka Ashok, near Kanchan More in the Janawal village under Chainpur Police Station limits in the Gumla District of Jharkhand. Though Amarjit, who was injured in the attack, managed to escape along with his five-year-old son, he was later arrested by the Police along with weapons, including AK-56 rifles, from his house.

On March 27, 2022, suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed Constable Lakheshwar Nag with a sharp weapon in Bodaras village under the Kukanar Police Station limits in Sukma District, Chhattisgarh.

On March 26, 2022, three cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a CPI-Maoist splinter group, were shot dead by Security Forces (SFs) in a forest area under the Manika Police Station area in the Latehar District of Jharkhand. The identity of the slain cadres is yet to be ascertained.

According to partial data collated by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), at least 49 persons have been killed in Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-linked violence across the country in 2022, thus far (data till April 10). These included 19 civilians, seven Security Force (SF) personnel and 23 Naxalites. During the corresponding period of 2021, there were 83 such fatalities (18 civilians, 39 SF personnel and 26 Naxalites). There was a total of 237 fatalities in 2021, as against 239 fatalities recorded in 2020. Overall fatalities have been declining since 2019, when they fell to 302, from 412 in 2018. Since March 6, 2000, when SATP started compiling data on LWEs, a high of 1,180 fatalities were recorded in 2010.

The 2019 – 2021 period, more importantly, has seen a continuous decline in civilian fatalities, from 108 in 2018; 99 in 2019; 61 in 2020; and 58 in 2021. The 2021 fatalities were the lowest in this category since March 6, 2000. The previous low was the 2020 figure of 61. A high of 630 civilian fatalities was recorded in 2010.

Though SF fatalities increased marginally from 44 in 2020 to 51 in 2021, the SF:Naxalite kill ratio remained quite strongly in favour of the SFs at 1:2.5, with 128 Naxalites killed. In 2020, the kill ratio was 1:3.04 (44 SF personnel, 134 Naxalites). The 2019 ratio was at 1:3.14 (49 SF personnel, 154 Naxalites. The ratio has remained continuously in favour of the SFs since 2011. In 2010, the ratio marginally favored the Naxalites at 1.007:1 (267 SF personnel, 265 Naxalites). Prior to 2010, the ratio had been in the Naxalites’ favour twice: in 2009 and 2007.

The SFs also arrested 409 Maoists in 2021, adding to 276 arrested in 2020. In the current year, as on April 10, 2022, the number of arrests stood at 88. Since March 6, 2000, a total of 15,564 Left Wing Extremists (LWEs) have been arrested. The mounting pressure on the Naxalites has also resulted in a large number of surrenders over the past few years. According to the SATP database, at least 533 Naxalites surrendered through 2021, in addition to 352 in 2020. During the current year, as on April 10, 2022, the number of surrenders had already touched 138. Since March 6, 2000, at least 13,767 Naxalites have surrendered.

At least 268 incidents of arms and ammunition recoveries from Naxalites were reported in 2021, adding to 217 such incidents in 2020. During the current year, as on April 10, 2022, 46 such incidents had already been recorded. Since March 6, 2000, at least 4,492 recoveries are on record.

These trends clearly indicate that SFs have established an upper hand on the ground in the fight against the Naxalites. Other parameters of violence provide further corroboration:

Overall incidents of killing fell from 138 in 2020 to 124 in 2021; major attacks (each involving three or more fatalities) declined from 16 in 2020 to 15 in 2021. Of the 15 major incidents in 2021, 10 were initiated by SFs, resulting in the death of 73 Naxalites. LWEs initiated five incidents, resulting in the killing of 41 persons – 30 SF personnel, seven civilians, and four Maoists. The Maoists had initiated seven of 16 such incidents in 2020, resulting in 64 deaths: nine civilians, 21 SF personnel and 34 Naxalites.

Maoist activities were reported from 79 Districts in 11 States in 2021, as against 77 Districts in 10 States in 2020. Meanwhile, such activities have already been recorded in 18 Districts of seven States in 2022, thus far (data till April 10). In 2021, incidents of killing were reported from 33 Districts in eight States, as against 36 Districts in nine States in 2020. Meanwhile, incidents 37 incidents of killing have already been recorded from 18 Districts in seven States in 2022, thus far (data till April 11).

Nityanand Rai, Minister of State in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Indian Parliament) on April 5, 2022, stated,

Incidents of LWE violence have reduced by 77 percent from all time high of 2,258 in 2009 to 509 in 2021. Similarly, resultant deaths (Civilians+ Security Forces) have reduced by 85 percent from all time high of 1,005 in 2010 to 147 in 2021. The number of Districts reporting LWE violence has also reduced by 48 percent [this should be 52.08 per cent according to the Government's own data] from 96 in 2010 to 46 in 2021.

In the meantime, in a major setback to the CPI-Maoist’s plan to expand their base in Assam in general, and in the Northeast in particular, the Assam Police, on March 6, 2022, arrested the Maoist’s ‘central committee’ member, Arun Kumar Bhattachatjee aka Jyotish aka Kabir aka Kanak aka Kanchan da, along with his associate Akash Orang aka Kakjal Orang aka Bablu aka Babul aka Saqay aka Sumon, who is a member of Assam State Organizing Committee of Maoist, from the Patimara Tea Garden under Udarband Police Station limits in the Cachar District of Assam. During a subsequent search, an amount of INR 360,000 in cash and incriminating documents connected with the Maoists, were seized. An FIR against six persons – Kanchan da, from Howrah, West Bengal; Akash Orang and Rima Orang, both from Cachar District, Assam; Amiruddin Laskar of Dhubri District, Assam; Nirmala Devi of West Bengal and Joy of Kamrup District – were registered on the same day. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which took over the case on March 16, 2022, conducted searches at 17 locations in Assam in Cachar, Karimganj, Dibrugarh and Dhubri Districts on April 3, 2022, and arrested one absconding accused, Reema Orang from Dibrugarh District. According to the investigation so far, “there has been a lot of funds flow from the Eastern Regional Bureau to further their activities in Assam and… Kanchan da… has been assigned the task to take the command of CPI (Maoist) Assam and Northern Eastern Region.” Guwahati (Assam) Police Commissioner, Harmeet Singh, noted,

He [Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee] is a big catch… Efforts to set up a network of Maoist cadres in Assam were at a ‘nascent stage’ and those had been ‘nipped in the bud’.

Despite facing an increasingly hostile environment, the Maoists continue to make efforts to stage a comeback, constantly evolving new strategies and looking for new fighting equipment.

Maoists have started using arrow-Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) while launching attacks on SFs. On April 4, 2022, Maoists used an arrow-IED while launching an attack on an under-construction Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp at Bharnia under the Toklo thana (Police Station) limits in the West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand. SF personnel seized five arrow IEDs from nearby areas. Elaborating on the new explosive device, Superintendent of Police Ajay Linda stated that the Maoists rarely used such devices:

An arrow IED is shot from a bow and meant to cause huge fire at any infrastructure. Such device is made of explosives of very low intensity and has a range of maximum 100 metres.

However, Linda also pointed out that the Maoists had failed to inflict any significant harm at the under-construction camp with the arrow-IED, as they had remained at a greater distance than was necessary to effectively target the camp.

Meanwhile, according to the latest data made available by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), as on January 1, 2020, none of the Maoist-affected States had achieved its sanctioned Police strength. For instance, Chhattisgarh, the worst LWE-affected State in terms of fatalities in 2021, had a police-population-ratio (policemen per hundred thousand population) of 220.53, against the sanctioned strength of 261.38. At the bottom end among Maoist affected States, Bihar had a ratio of 76.20, as against a sanction of a low 115.26. Similarly, the Police-area ratio (policemen per 100 square kilometers) remains poor. However, among the Maoist affected States, Bihar had the best Police-area ratio at 97.56 (though much lower than the sanctioned strength of 147.57), while Andhra Pradesh had the worst, at 36.55 (against the sanctioned strength of 45.36). More disturbingly, there is an acute shortage at the level of the Police leadership. Among Maoist-affected states, Odisha, had 123 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in position, as against the sanctioned strength of 195 – a deficit of 36.92 per cent; followed by Kerala, with a deficit of 26.74 per cent; Telangana, 24.46 per cent; Andhra Pradesh, 20.13 per cent; Chhattisgarh, 19.71 per cent; Jharkhand, 18.79 per cent; Maharashtra, 18.29 per cent; Karnataka, 17.20 per cent; West Bengal, 15.85 per cent; Madhya Pradesh, 14.42 per cent; Tamil Nadu, 14.13 per cent; and Bihar, 10.33 per cent.

It is undeniable that the Maoist insurgency across the country has been successfully overwhelmed with strong action by Central and State Police Forces on the ground. It is imperative, however, that remaining pockets of activity should also be contained and that existing deficits in the fighting force, particularly the State Police, be urgently addressed – both in terms of quality and the quantity, so that SFs are able to further consolidate their operations on the ground. The Maoists have demonstrated their intent to fight to the end, and sustained action is necessary to prevent any regrouping on their part.

Weekly Fatalities: Major Conflicts in South Asia 
April 4-10, 2022

 

Civilians

Security Force Personnel

Terrorists/Insurgents

NS

Total

AFGHANISTAN

2
0
0
22
24

INDIA

 

Jammu and Kashmir

0
0
6
0
6

INDIA (Left-Wing Extremism)

 

Andhra Pradesh

1
0
0
0
1

Chhattisgarh

0
1
0
0
1

India (Total)

1
1
6
0
8

PAKISTAN

 

Balochistan

5
10
0
0
15

KP

3
0
7
0
10

PAKISTAN (Total)

8
10
7
0
25

Total (South Asia)

11
11
13
22
57
Provisional data compiled from English language media sources.


AFGHANISTAN

US troops have not carried out any over-the-horizon operation in Afghanistan since they left the country in 2021, tells US Special Operations Command General Richard Clarke: Head of United States (US) Special Operations Command General Richard Clarke said that the US troops have not carried out any over-the-horizon operation in Afghanistan since they left the country in 2021. General Richard Clarke, addressing the US Senate Armed Services Committee, acknowledged that the withdrawal of American troops limited access to intelligence resources in Afghanistan. Tolo News, April 7, 2022.

Da'esh has not been able to conduct any attack in the country within recent months, claims Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi: The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said that the activities of Da'esh (Arabic acronym for Islamic State) have been prevented in Afghanistan and that the group has not been able to conduct any attack in the country within recent months. "Da'esh had no operations in the last four months. We could say that Afghanistan is a secure country right now and we are committed to the pledges we made to the world, the pledge that Afghanistan's soil would not be used against any country," he said. Tolo News, April 4, 2022.

 
INDIA

87 civilians and 99 SF personnel killed in J&K since Article 370 scrapped, says Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai: As many as 87 civilians and 99 Security Force (SF) personnel have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, as compared to 177 civilians and 406 SF in the previous five years, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai informed the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) on April 6. The Minister said the Central Government has a policy of zero tolerance against terrorism and there has been a substantial decline in terrorist attacks from 417 in 2018 to 255 in 2019, 244 in 2020 and 229 in 2021.

The Minister further said that four Kashmiri Pandits among 14 Hindus were killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir since 2019. Rai also said that 34 people belonging to minority communities were killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir in the last five years, including 11 in 2021. Daily Excelsior, April 7, 2022.

79 foreigners among 172 terrorists active in Jammu and Kashmir, says Army: As many as 172 terrorists. including 79 foreigners, are active in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Army said on April 4, adding the number included 15 local youngsters who joined the terrorist ranks since the beginning of the new year. A total of 156 terrorists, 79 locals and 77, foreigners are active in Kashmir and 16 others, including two foreigners, are operating in the Jammu region. Daily Excelsior, April 5, 2022.

India declares Hafiz Saeed's son Talha Saeed as designated terrorist: On April 8, in a notification, Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) stated that Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed's son Hafiz Talha is declared as a designated terrorist under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. According to UMHA, Hafiz Talha Saeed, a senior leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit and head of the cleric wing of LeT, is 'actively involved in recruitment, fund collection, planning and executing attacks by LeT in India and Indian interests in Afghanistan'. Times Now, April 9, 2022.

A solution to the "Indo-Naga political issue" would be possible if all the Naga political groups come together with a common draft, says NSCN-NS chairman: The Chairman of the Niki Sumi faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-NS), said a solution to the "Indo-Naga political issue" would be possible if all the Naga political groups come together with a common draft. "An early solution will depend on whether it will be based on the Framework Agreement or the Agreed Position," Sumi said adding that the desired solution would be possible if the Isak-Muivah faction of the NSCN (NSCN-IM) and the Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) come up with an inclusive common draft. The Hindu, April 10, 2022.

PAKISTAN

JuD chief Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 33 years in jail: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) awarded a combined sentence of 33 years imprisonment to Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed on April 7 in two cases of terror financing registered by the Counter Terrorism Depart­ment (CTD). ATC Judge Ejaz Ahmad Buttar handed down the guilty verdict in two FIRs from 2019 under various sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 1997t. Dawn, April 9, 2022.

SRI LANKA

State of Emergency lifted in Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on April 5 lifted the State of Emergency declared by him last week. Secretary to the President Gamini Senarath on the President's command has issued an Extraordinary Gazette Notification revoking the President's earlier proclamation of State of Emergency issued on April 1, 2022, with effect from April 5, 2022 midninght. Colombo Page, April 6, 2022.

 

 
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