Terrorist attack on Pathankot Airbase

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The citizens of India aren't going to give a long rope to the Indian administration this time. If the administration takes us into confidence and takes bold measures to make friendship with Pakistan and these are the results, then the administration is answerable.
Pakistan knew that their denial will create more pressure on this government. It's a very calculative move by Pakistan. It has made GoI more culprit in the eyes of Indian citizens. The Modi government will now have to take some sort of measures to safeguard their image. As one side the guilty Headley has already said that Pakistan's government was involved in 26/11.
 

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Pakistan knew that their denial will create more pressure on this government. It's a very calculative move by Pakistan. It has made GoI more culprit in the eyes of Indian citizens. The Modi government will now have to take some sort of measures to safeguard their image. As one side the guilty Headley has already said that Pakistan's government was involved in 26/11.
And knowing that Pakistan knew that we would create pressure on the government, we should still do it! The government will have to take hard measures or they will lose popularity. It's not necessary that they have to be face saving measures, maybe the government wanted to build that narrative voluntarily to deflect charges of being a war mongerer? "we gave peace a change, they have backstabbed us, there can be no talks now" This shrinks the peacenick constituency in India.
 

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And knowing that Pakistan knew that we would create pressure on the government, we should still do it! The government will have to take hard measures or they will lose popularity. It's not necessary that they have to be face saving measures, maybe the government wanted to build that narrative voluntarily to deflect charges of being a war mongerer? "we gave peace a change, they have backstabbed us, there can be no talks now" This shrinks the peacenick constituency in India.

There is a dead lock when it comes to peace talks between India and Pakistan. Same things repeating again and again.If congress comes into power in near future, they will start a new round and there will be deadlock one again. It has become very predictive.

This also affects internal situation in India, specially in Kashmir. We can never see peace there and have been loosing billions every year due to this absurd issue. This reduces the motivation level of armed forces and other agencies.

GoI lacks in Moral Building, where as Pakistan has been able to sustain the moral they have built for their armed forces and taking on Kashmir.

I supported the view that India should do only covert ops. But after this deadlock, I will have to change this view to , do ops but keep only their execution covert and aftermath overt, they should know, India is involved but cannot prove. India has to do this now!
 

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There is a dead lock when it comes to peace talks between India and Pakistan. Same things repeating again and again.If congress comes into power in near future, they will start a new round and there will be deadlock one again. It has become very predictive.

This also affects internal situation in India, specially in Kashmir. We can never see peace there and have been loosing billions every year due to this absurd issue. This reduces the motivation level of armed forces and other agencies.

GoI lacks in Moral Building, where as Pakistan has been able to sustain the moral they have built for their armed forces and taking on Kashmir.

I supported the view that India should do only covert ops. But after this deadlock, I will have to change this view to , do ops but keep only their execution covert and aftermath overt, they should know, India is involved but cannot prove. India has to do this now!
Totally agree with that. Even I started with a more reconciliatory tone when I started posting on the Pathankot attack thread, now even I'm growing restless.
 

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A Pointer to Difficulties Delhi will Face on Pathankot Probe as well

NEW DELHI: Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley's deposition to a trial court in Mumbai has brought back to the fore Pakistan's inaction over the 26/11 attacks, and the difficulty the Modi government is likely to have in getting Islamabad to take action on the Pathankot attack as well.
It also means that India cannot progress on a normalisation path with Pakistan until there is progress on Mumbai. There has been no official reaction from the foreign ministry.

Headley's revelations are not new. Former high commissioner to Pakistan G Parthasarathy said, "It is useful in exposing Pakistan before the world, but unlikely to produce any change in Pakistan's mindset of denial."

The Headley testimony is not new, and cannot be used by the government to influence public opinion, because there is nothing he is saying that makes any material difference to the case.
The Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, said, "More than India asking the US to get Headley to testify in an Indian court on the Abu Jundal case, Pakistanis should have asked for a similar testimony from him in the case they are pursuing against the seven accused for the Mumbai attacks. They could have used Headley's testimony to strengthen their case." But that will not happen, as the case has gone cold in Pakistan.

India and Pakistan's proposed official dialogue process has frozen after the Pathankot attacks. Though Pakistan initially indicated it might take some action against Jaish-e-Mohammed, that has not happened.

Sources said there was little expectation that Pakistan would go after Jaish leaders. Pakistan is also under little international pressure at this moment — the US and China want Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the negoitating table with the Afghan government, and is unlikely to press Pakistan on terror groups that target India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has indicated he wants to normalise relations with Pakistan but until there is redress on the terror attacks, the government will find it very difficult to move forward without taking a lot of public flak in India. Questioned, top level government functionaries admitted the "environment" was not conducive for talks to happen at this time.

The Headley testimony has also jogged the nation's memory about 26/11 and the lack of action by Pakistan. The Modi government will not be able to ignore this, even if it wants to move ahead with Pakistan, specially since terror attacks are never far away from an India-Pakistan engagement process.

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Exclusive: Pathankot Mastermind Masood Azhar is Missing, May Be In Aghanistan
The man whom India holds responsible for last month's deadly attack on the air force in Pathankot, Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar, is on the run and may even be hiding in Afghanistan, top sources in Islamabad have told NDTV exclusively.

Days after the Pathankot base was breached by six Pakistani terrorists, launching a gruelling 80-hour-operation to regain control of the massive compound, India said the attack was the work of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed group and listed Azhar, who chiefs the group, and some of his relatives as directly responsible for the siege which left seven military personnel dead and left Indo-Pak relations precariously placed just as they seemed to be improving after a tough year.
Pakistan broke with an old habit of denying its citizens were involved with the attack, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pledged his cooperation to the investigation in a phone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Media reports from Pakistan said that Azhar and his relatives had been placed under house arrest in Islamabad, and that Jaish seminaries and offices had been raided and shut down.

India however said that it had not been told by the Pakistani government that Azhar, a 47-year-old cleric, had been arrested. Apart from some regional ministers, no senior official from Mr Sharif's government claimed that action had been taken against Azhar himself.
Now, clarifying the conflicting reports emanating from Pakistan about him, top-ranking officials in the Pakistan government have told NDTV that while some Jaish operatives are under arrest, Azhar is not among them. In fact, these sources have told NDTV that Azhar is untraceable and may well be hiding in Afghanistan.

Asked by NDTV why he was not detained immediately after the Pathankot attack, these officials told NDTV that Azhar, who is also responsible for the attack on India's parliament in 2001, was not to be found at his base and hometown of Bahawalpur in South Punjab and may have gone into hiding much earlier.

The confirmation at the senior levels of Pakistan government that Azhar is neither in jail nor likely to be any time soon could further imperil the next round of talks between India and Pakistan. The Foreign Secretaries of both countries were expected to meet last month; the Pathankot attack drew a red line through those plans.

India has made it clear that the possibility of dialogue is predicated on what action Pakistan takes in punishing the Pathankot perpetrators.

NDTV has learnt that Mr Sharif has personally thrown his weight behind the need to register a case in the Pathankot terror attack. Who the First Information Report or FIR will name - and whether it will specifically list the Jaish- E-Mohammed as a terror group - is what India is waiting to see. Weeks ago, Mr Sharif had signaled his intent when a statement from his office said, "Based on the initial investigations in Pakistan, and the information provided, several individuals belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad, have been apprehended."
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Exclusive: Pathankot Mastermind Masood Azhar is Missing, May Be In Aghanistan
The man whom India holds responsible for last month's deadly attack on the air force in Pathankot, Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar, is on the run and may even be hiding in Afghanistan, top sources in Islamabad have told NDTV exclusively.

Days after the Pathankot base was breached by six Pakistani terrorists, launching a gruelling 80-hour-operation to regain control of the massive compound, India said the attack was the work of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed group and listed Azhar, who chiefs the group, and some of his relatives as directly responsible for the siege which left seven military personnel dead and left Indo-Pak relations precariously placed just as they seemed to be improving after a tough year.
Pakistan broke with an old habit of denying its citizens were involved with the attack, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pledged his cooperation to the investigation in a phone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Media reports from Pakistan said that Azhar and his relatives had been placed under house arrest in Islamabad, and that Jaish seminaries and offices had been raided and shut down.

India however said that it had not been told by the Pakistani government that Azhar, a 47-year-old cleric, had been arrested. Apart from some regional ministers, no senior official from Mr Sharif's government claimed that action had been taken against Azhar himself.
Now, clarifying the conflicting reports emanating from Pakistan about him, top-ranking officials in the Pakistan government have told NDTV that while some Jaish operatives are under arrest, Azhar is not among them. In fact, these sources have told NDTV that Azhar is untraceable and may well be hiding in Afghanistan.

Asked by NDTV why he was not detained immediately after the Pathankot attack, these officials told NDTV that Azhar, who is also responsible for the attack on India's parliament in 2001, was not to be found at his base and hometown of Bahawalpur in South Punjab and may have gone into hiding much earlier.

The confirmation at the senior levels of Pakistan government that Azhar is neither in jail nor likely to be any time soon could further imperil the next round of talks between India and Pakistan. The Foreign Secretaries of both countries were expected to meet last month; the Pathankot attack drew a red line through those plans.

India has made it clear that the possibility of dialogue is predicated on what action Pakistan takes in punishing the Pathankot perpetrators.

NDTV has learnt that Mr Sharif has personally thrown his weight behind the need to register a case in the Pathankot terror attack. Who the First Information Report or FIR will name - and whether it will specifically list the Jaish- E-Mohammed as a terror group - is what India is waiting to see. Weeks ago, Mr Sharif had signaled his intent when a statement from his office said, "Based on the initial investigations in Pakistan, and the information provided, several individuals belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad, have been apprehended."
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At first I thought he might be running from Indian agents. Now I'm disappointed. Pakis are still protecting him. Maybe ISI is hiding him somewhere. Anyways, If he is indeed hiding in Afghanistan, it should be very easy for us to extradite him once he is apprehended.
 

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At first I thought he might be running from Indian agents. Now I'm disappointed. Pakis are still protecting him. Maybe ISI is hiding him somewhere. Anyways, If he is indeed hiding in Afghanistan, it should be very easy for us to extradite him once he is apprehended.
Lets see if the words of Parikkar materializes in the coming days!
 

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IAF Removes Pathankot Airbase Commanding Officer Air Commodore JS Dhamoon

NEW DELHI: Less than two months after the Pathankot airbase came under attack by heavily-armed terrorists, who managed to breach the perimeter, the Air Force has transferred the officer commanding the base.

It has also come to light that the Air Force UAV that was monitoring the base picked up heat signatures of only four terrorists, with no trace of other two who were also allegedly involved.
Air Commodore JS Dhamoon, who was the air officer commanding (AOC) of the base when it came under attack on January 2, has been posted to Air HQ, officials told ET. The Air Force has described his posting as 'routine' due to administrative reasons.


"He has been posted out after a normal tenure. It is a normal, routine posting," the Air Force spokesperson has said. Dhamoon, it is learnt, has not yet completed two years as the AOC in Pathankot but officials have said that it is not unusual for an officer to be moved out earlier due to staffing issues.




The officer is being replaced by Air Commodore Anuj Mishra, who is moving in from Bengaluru. An inquiry into the attack and the breach of the air base defences is currently underway and a security audit of all major bases has also been carried out in the wake of the attack that resulted in the death of seven security personnel.

It has come to light that an Air Force UAV, which was circling the Pathankot base on the intervening night of January 1-2 based on a very specific intelligence input, picked up heat signature from the perimeter of the base that indicated four persons.

The signature was picked up at 2.28 am, with no indication of the other two attackers who were also allegedly involved in the attack. The first contact with the terrorists, however, was established several minutes later when they gunned down five unarmed defence security corps personnel at the cookhouse inside the base.

The probe is also looking into the possibility of an insider who helped the attackers in the planning and execution of the strike. The Air Force, which conducted a security audit post the Pathankot attack, estimates that it will have to spend over $1 billion on smart surveillance systems, drones and advanced intrusion detection systems at 54 major bases across the country.
The security audit, ordered by defence minister Manohar Parrikar within two days of the attack, looked at the current security setup and perimeter defence at all bases and recommended a comprehensive upgrade.

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JeM Recruiting Retired Pak Army Officers to Attack Indian Targets: Intel Alert


New Delhi: Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad, which is accused of masterminding the deadly Pathankot attack, is recruiting Pakistan's retired defence personnel to carry out attacks on India's military assets, including air force bases, according to the latest intelligence inputs.
Citing Indian intelligence agencies, Zee News reported that JeM has formulated a plan under which retired Pakistani army officers were being recruited to conduct lethal attacks on air force bases and other military installations in the country.

The latest intelligence input comes on a day when a Pakistani panel recommended to lodge an FIR against JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar in the Pathankot attack case.
The police, meanwhile, have lodged an FIR against “unknown persons”, a move which is dubbed as an attempt to show the compliance of the panel's advice.

Despite the Pakistan panel's recommendation, the police have refused to name the JeM chief in the FIR.

It is believed that JeM has been able to recover a lot of its former strength of late by recruiting retired Pakistan army personnel, who are expected to have a good understanding of how to infiltrate, sabotage and coordinate attacks on facilities that enjoy a military-style protection.


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IDN TAKE: Pathankot Attack: Oil, Globalization & Terror


On the night of 31 December 2015, four men hijacked a multi-utility vehicle belonging to Salwinder Singh, a superintendent of the Punjab Police, in Dinanagar. In the process, they slit the throat of his jeweler friend Rajesh Kumar, who was later admitted to a hospital. The vehicle was found abandoned about 500 meters away from the airbase. On 2 January 2016, a heavily armed group attacked the Pathankot Air Force Station, part of the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force.
The National Investigation Agency probing the attack learned from the Gurdaspur (Headquarter) Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh after interrogations that he got paid in diamonds for every drug consignment smuggled across the border. Singh’s jeweler friend Rajesh Verma would accompany him to his clandestine trips so that he could verify the authenticity of the stones. Verma is reported to have made such clandestine trip to the Peer Baba mazaar in Taloor village under Narot Jaimal Singh police station twice in the span of 12 hours on 31 December, along with his cook Madan Gopal and jeweler friend Rajesh Verma. The shrine is located a few kilometers from Bamiyal, the village from where the terrorists were suspected to have infiltrated into India before mounting the attack. It was Verma whose throat the terrorists slit open to send him to paradise (isko jannat pahuncha do), which he luckily survived. Investigations have also revealed that Madan Gopal, who Singh claims to be his cook, is actually his bodyguard.

When a consignment of drugs leaves Pakistan for Punjab, it usually takes two routes. In areas where there are barbed wires on the border, smugglers stuff them into PVC pipes and push them across into India, where couriers pick them up for transporting them to the main land.
Though most of the Punjab border is guarded by barbed wires, the riverine belt of around 100km is unguarded. To push drugs through this region, drained by Ravi and Beas and lined with dense forests, smugglers use boats and couriers. This riverine belt is mostly to the west of Gurdaspur and Pathankot, and in some areas of Ferozepur, making them most vulnerable. Investigators suspect that the terrorists used this tried and tested route used by the drug smugglers to sneak into Indiaand that they even had help from the local drug mafia.

Transporting drugs to the border from Pakistan is not a problem, the real problem starts once the drug consignment reaches Punjab, from where the involvement of a huge network of people at every level becomes necessary. In the border areas of Punjab, it is stored in safe houses for some time – called a cooling off period – and then relayed from point to point through an intricate network of middlemen and peddlers, who charge the dealers on the basis of the risk and distance involved. If it wouldn’t have been for the blue beacon atop the hijacked Mahindra XUV of Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh the terrorists wouldn’t have been able to speed past several police checkposts, where the policemen saluted and just let it through.

But then again there is this question of the 24 hour window the security establishment had from the time Singh and his cook informed the Punjab Police about the imminent attack and the hijacked blue-beacon vehicle. Was this information communicated by the Punjab Police to the Central agencies? Were the security personnel not alerted about the hijacked blue beacon car? How could a hijacked car speed past several checkposts in a situation of high alert? The Central agencies claim they were unaware about this intelligence and that there was a slip-up on part of the Punjab policethat led to the delay or lapse in planning the appropriate responsive counter operation. However, according to an intelligence note prepared by additional director general of police, law and order, Hardeep Dhillon, the intelligence wing of Punjab had already issued intelligence pertaining to plans to carry out a spectacular attack in India possibly around New Year celebrations, 5 days prior to the strike.

This should not be a surprise to anyone. The security and political establishment already know about who’s-who in the drug trade. Shashi Kant, who headed departments of prisons and intelligence for several years had submitted a list of politicians with suspected drug mafia links to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2014 after his earlier letter was admitted as a public interest litigation.

Kant, who was ADGP (intelligence), claimed that it was a four-page list, which was prepared by the intelligence department in 2007, and he gave it to the CM. He alleged that the list was kept under wraps and little action was taken as political careers of those named in it thrived after 2007 even after it was submitted to CM Badal.

The government and the investigative agencies have known since years about these drug cartels, the routes they use and also it’s nexus with the police and the politicians. Punjab, for many years, has been a transit point for drugs from Afghanistan. The drug money has become a major source of funding of elections in Punjab and over the time a well-organized drug cartel has came into existence with active connivance of politicians, police officers and drug lords. This drug money is used in financing militancy.

However, it was only after GreatGameIndia published the detailed report, Pathankot Attack & The International Drug Trade on how the ‪‎Pathankot attack was not just another usual terror incident but related to the international ‪‎drug mafia stretching from Afghanistan via Pakistan to India from where it is shipped off to Dubai and Europe that the mainstream media started to see the incident in the right perspective. Punjab News Express was the first to take note of it in its editorial piece following which the entire mainstream media acknowledged the central role the drug trade played in the attack taking a much needed departure from its usual contradictory, dumb-founded infiltration narrative.

Although this is a good start, it has brought us to a point where we collectively have to confront many of the unpleasant buried questions that we have chosen to ignore, don’t care about or in some cases suppressed knowingly.

After the NIA found similarities between the Pathankot and Dinanagar terror attacks (in July 2015) they approached the Punjab police asking it to share details of the Dinanagar terror strike. Earlier however even after directed by the home Ministry the Punjab Police were reluctant and refused to transfer the case to the NIA. However, these similarities don’t just end with the Dinanagar terror strike.


There are uncanny recurring patterns to these attacks to the 26/11 Mumbai Attacks of 2008 that we already observed during the attack in Gurudaspur. The most bizarre is the recovery of two Global Positioning System devices (GPS) from the terrorists that shifted the focus of the entire investigation to where the terrorists had actually come from and how they entered the country. A post-operation investigation was launched to establish the route that they possibly took from Pakistan. Three days later, the police claimed that doctors found a glove on one hand of the terrorists carrying a marking “Made in Pakistan”. This claim raised enough heat. It was questioned as to why the police did not find the glove on the first day when they conducted a body search. However, the security agencies have failed to piece together a final report on the route taken by the terrorists based on the coordinates fed into the two GPS devices seized from the terrorists; along with the Punjab Police and the Border Security Force making contradictory claims regarding the route taken by the terrorists for entry into India.

Similar to Gurdaspur attack with the 26/11 Mumbai Attacks also there are still unanswered questions related to the GPS (forgotten by the terrorists in the boat) and the route taken by the terrorists. Investigations have thrown up several questions about the last trip of Kuber, the Indian fishing trawler that the Pakistan-based terrorists used to reach Mumbai.
But this time with the Pathankot attack the rabble rousing balloon using the GPS didn’t fly with the intelligence agencies admitting the modus operandi of the drug cartels to hoodwink them. BSF report on drug smuggling explains how mobile phones of Pakistani companies are used by Indian smugglers and vice versa. SIM cards are frequently changed to hoodwink surveillance. Indian smugglers use Pakistani SIM cards and Pakistanis use Indian SIM cards. Trans-national criminals contact each other from within and outside jails as well. Nonetheless the case of the missing GPS still remains a mystery.


As investigative agencies grapple with the daunting task ahead of them under great pressure from the drug cartels and the seemingly discouraging and obstructive attitude of the establishment, the real questions that could unravel the entire mystery are still left to be answered or even raised. One such case is the role of diamonds in the terror attacks in India.


Role of Diamonds in Terrorist Financing
Diamonds can be vulnerable for misuse for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes because they can transfer value and ownership quickly, often, with a minimal audit trail. They provide flexibility and an easy transportation of value.

A 2003 Report assessed various alternative financing mechanisms that could be used to facilitate money laundering and or terrorist financing. Trading in commodities, remittance systems, and currency were assessed on each of their abilities to earn, be moved, and store value. Diamonds were the only alternative financial device that fit into all of these assessment criteria.

Diamonds possess several characteristics which make them vulnerable to money laundering and terrorist financing. These include:
Very high value
Low weight/mass and relatively small size
High durability
Stable pricing
Ability to retain value over long periods of time
Ability to go undetected
Untraceable
Easily bought and sold outside formal banking system
Unmarked
Subjectivity of valuation
Changeability
Readily exchangeable
Susceptible to fraud



Following the September 11, 2001 attacks serious allegations were made by Washington Post Investigative Reporter Douglas Farah an American journalist, author and national security consultant in his book Blood From Stones – The Secret Financial Network Of Terror that diamonds were used as an untraceable currency and source of income for terrorists.

Following the revelations by the Washington Post in 2001, Global Witness (an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide) conducted a yearlong investigation into Al Qaeda’s involvement in the diamond trade. In March 2003 Global Witness released an investigative report detailing how Al Qaeda cells had strategically used diamonds for profit and to launder targeted funds. Evidence contained in Global Witness’ report came from the US government and FBI itself.


Role of Diamonds in 26/11 Mumbai Attacks of 2008
Financial Intelligence Unit – India (FIU-IND) is the central, national agency responsible for receiving, processing, analyzing and disseminating information relating to suspect financial transactions to enforcement agencies and foreign FIUs. FIU is a member of Financial Action Task Force – FATF an inter-governmental body which sets standards, and develops and promotes policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

In February of 2014 a report titled Money laundering and Terrorist financing through trade in Diamonds was published by a Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The report revealed that India is one among five countries where the trade accounts of the diamond business are used to launder illegal funds amounting to millions of dollars that are eventually utilized in the financing of terrorists.


The report found that globally, diamond was linked to offences conducted by organized crime, such as drug trafficking, illegal weapons trade and tax offences, and even terrorist financing. And India was on the top of the list.


Almost 6 months before 26/11 2008 Mumbai Attacks the FIU-IND was already tracking the diamond industry for suspicious activities by terrorists. From an article published in DNA Money dated 7th June 2008 titled – Surat diamond business has a terror ring to it:

Sources in the Centre’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) told DNA that high returns in the diamond market and the fickleness of the share market had induced terror groups to turn to Surat’s most glittering trade.
The diamond industry was being scrutinized by the FIU over the past few months and the sleuths were shocked to discover that terrorists were using the industry to launder their blood-soaked money.
“Terrorists groups have started withdrawing money from the share market and are investing in the prosperous diamond industry,” a source in the FIU told DNA.
The president of the Surat Diamond Association, CT Vanani, said the market had witnessed some suspicious activities a few months back.
“A year ago, some people from Mumbai began purchasing diamonds worth crores of rupees. When the industry tried to trace the traders, they turned out to be non-existent,” said Vanani.
The FIU traced all foreign transactions of Surat’s diamond industry, especially those emanating from Belgium. It found that a great deal of money was being invested by terrorist groups.

Surat diamond business has a terror ring to it


Isn’t it true that some of the top diamond merchants are on the list of people who have kept their ill-gotten money in Germany-based Liechtenstein bank? Many persons on the list are Gujarati diamond merchants with offices all over world having roots in Palanpur. Isn’t it also true that in May 2014 eight of these diamond dealers were given a clean chit by the Income Tax department in the black money case?

Isn’t it also true that during the Nov. 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai members of the diamond industry were staying at the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels for year-end meetings with the Diamond Trading Company, some of whom had a very close shave and managed to escaped including the than DTC managing director Varda Shine, who was in Mumbai to host the DTC conference?
Is it also not true that these members were part the ‘distinguished guests’ hosted at Taj and Oberoi during the last week of November 2008? Most of them were coordinators of intelligence in South Asia. Few names that resided there being, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and elite members of President Elect Barack Obama’s Global Economic Team in India attending the “American Foreign Policy After Elections Conference” organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Aspen Institute India in Mumbai.

The members of Obama’s elite economic team attending this conference with Kissinger were Indian-Americans, Sonal Shah (Head Global Development Efforts at Google.org), Aneesh Chopra (Virginia State’s Secretary of Technology), Vivek Kundra (Chief Technology Officer for Washington DC) and Kartik Raghavan (Director at Microsoft). Also reports indicate that Obama’s pick for the US Secretary of Treasury, Timothy Geithner, was absent from these meetings despite his long standing ties to India where he was raised; he is said to have been represented by as yet ‘unknown’ aides from the US Federal Reserve Bank.


The purpose of this conference in India at Taj was to advocate for the planned Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project. Though strongly opposed by the Bush Administration and Pakistan’s ISI Intelligence Service in the past, the Obama administration had planned on making it a ‘centerpiece’ towards his goal of achieving peace in Southeast Asia, and to which Kissinger had stated: “The pipeline will be a natural thing to do and I expect the new administration [to be headed by Obama] to begin discussions with Iran.”

Were these distinguished guests rethinking how to save falling western economies with the aid of India? As often, history makes it a habit to repeat itself; in the last 200 years whenever the West was in trouble, the East India Companies (EIC) or subsequent managing partners of EICs plundered India’s human and natural resources for their survival. In this ‘Great Game’ they kept other geo-political players at bay. Since more than the last decade, under UPA and NDA administrations, Indian foreign policy and domestic economic policy is veering dangerously closer to US-British-Israeli economic interests, viewed by other geo-political players as an encroachment. Did other geo-political players viewed this meeting as a penetration of their turf?

Lastly, is it not true that even the latest Pathankot attack were carried out within less than 20 days after the groundbreaking ceremony of what was being called a pipe dream for decades, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline that took place in the Turkmen town of Mary and was attended by leaders of the TAPI countries? And just a week after the surprising and much talked about meeting now known as the Billion Dollar Tea Party of the Indian Prime Minister with his Pakistani counterpart on the occasion of the latter’s 66th birthday during a two-hour stopover on his way back from his visit to Russia?



Why is it that everytime relations between India and Pakistan starts to improve and initiatives are taken to normalize the tensions between the two countries, a terror attack is witnessed by either of the two countries resulting in the deteriorating of the already delicate relationship?
What forces are working behind this? Who doesn’t want to see relations between India and Pakistan improve? Why have we not able to identify these forces since decades? Doesn’t it indicate that out security and intelligence forces are not equipped to face the challenge of this new kind of terror and needs a new and more adaptive orientation in the globalized world of liberalization and privatization?

Certainly good strategic partnership between the two neighbours would mean a strong and stable subcontinent. More importantly, who gains from a weaker and always infighting Asian sub-continent?

“The Art of War” written by TsunZu, which is considered to be the bible of strategy by many says “Expect what your enemy wants you to do and do exactly the opposite to win the war”. The quote sounds deceptively simple but has far reaching implications on the survival of empires and governments. As is the case with many of the terrorist groups, they are controlled not only by the states that sponsor terrorism but by the nations that sponsor the states that sponsor such terrorism too. So though all evidence eventually leads to the North Western frontier of India, to learn who instigates these groups, their actions, their modus operandi and their previous track record would guide us in doing what we as a third world neutral sovereign country should do. We hope to make a beginning in this new direction.

“This article was first published in GreatGameIndia (greatgameindia.com) and is republished here with permission”.

http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2016/02/idn-take-pathankot-attack-oil.html
 

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India writes to UN to include Masood Azhar on terrorist list

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ar-on-terrorist-list/articleshow/51151277.cms

India has submitted a formal request to the United Nations Committee 1267, seeking inclusion of the name of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar on the sanctions' list, said government sources.

"I can also confirm to you that we will be moving the 1267 Committee to also include the name of Masood Azhar on the sanctions list. It is a great anomaly that the organization Jaish-e-Mohammad is listed but not its leader," said Vikas Swarup, Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, on Thursday.

"We have already given a list of terrorists affiliated to Al Qaeda, Taliban and other terrorist groups to the 1267 Committee. At this stage it would not be prudent to disclose anything further as to the names of these people because, as you know, this is a part of a process now," he added.

Previously, India's move to get Masood Azhar banned by the UN was scuttled by China.

 

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What hope is there if Masood Azhar is included in the United Nations Committee 1267 sanctions List???? :confused1:

India furious as UN calls Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Saeed 'Sahib' and fails to counter terrorism

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahom...nder-Saeed-Sahib-fails-counter-terrorism.html

The cavalier manner with which the United Nations (UN) Security Council is treating the issue of sanctions against Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed — a designated global terrorist — has the Narendra Modi-led government seething.

Top government sources insist the UN has not only failed to counter terrorism, but has also been unsuccessful in evolving an effective mechanism to check designated global terrorists despite an international hue and cry and sanctions against them.

On December 17, Security Council Committee Chair Gary Quinlan referred to the man accused of masterminding the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as Hafiz Mohammad ‘Sahib’ in a letter.

Shocking letter

This was in response to provision of information about terrorist activities of persons who fall in the ambit of UN sanctions.

Mail Today has accessed the United Nations Security Council letter No. S/AC/37/2014/OC 218 signed by Quinlan that exposes the UN’s stance on Saeed.

Top government sources said: “This is preposterous. The sanctions committee is deferential to the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 innocent people from several countries, including the U.S. and Israel.

"When they refer to Saeed as ‘Sahib’ it is indicative of the lack of seriousness that is attached to the biggest issue confronting us — terrorism.”

Sources added: “The letter written at a time when LeT modules are targeting India and Hafiz Saeed is spewing venom against India clearly shows the manner in which members of the UN Sanctions Committee is treating such a burning issue.

"Little wonder that the mechanism has not had the desired result.” India has made a strong case against the LeT and its founder Hafiz Saeed.

In fact, intelligence agencies across Europe and the US are tracking his movements.

“Hafiz Saeed and LeT no longer pose a threat just to India. David Coleman Headley spilled the beans on LeT planning to target a newspaper and a cartoonist in Denmark and the fact that a reconnaissance mission had already been carried out is evidence of Pakistanbased terrorists spreading their tentacles across the globe.

Yet the UN sanctions committee is not dealing with the issue with the seriousness it deserves,” South Block sources said.

India has been disappointed by Pakistan’s double standards in dealing with terror. Terrorists had massacred 148 people, including 133 children, in Peshawar.

Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif pledged to go after the Taliban without differentiating between the Good and the bad Taliban.

Both Islamabad and Rawalpindi have been silent on India-centric terror mushrooming in Pakistan. India hopes the UN will take a more pro-active and effective approach to tackle terrorism emanating from Pakistan.

The LeT changed its name to Jamatud- Dawa (JuD) and now operates under the name of Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation. LeT, JuD and Falah-e- Insaniyat Foundation are proscribed by the UN’s terrorism sanction committee.

“Given the deferential treatment to Hafiz Saeed, can we hope for effective measures? The sanctions committee chair has let the world down,” sources added.

Little wonder that hours after the massacre in Peshawar, Hafiz Saeed was once again back on the streets giving the Tehreek-e-Taliban, Pakistan a clean chit for the worst terror attack in Peshawar and instead blaming India.
 

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Nothing happening where is the count? .... Where is the place en time we choose. We need it now. When pakis are busy at Jnu:crazy::clap2:
 

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our place n time has lil more time may be 2018 mid . till then only lil blasts n school attacks etc.
 

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our place n time has lil more time may be 2018 mid . till then only lil blasts n school attacks etc.
I dont think Indians kill school kids and civilians , I wish they do eliminate army and isi heads... :bounce:
 

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