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Delhi cops uncover
Lashkar’s ‘fidayeen’ plot to target VVIPs
Police identify two
J&K-based operatives; several Indian cities on radar
Shaurya Karanbir
Gurung
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December
5
The Delhi Police
special cell today claimed to have uncovered a terror plot involving two
alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives based in Jammu & Kashmir who have
been attempting to carry out "fidayeen" attacks targeting
high-profile persons in Delhi and other parts of the country.
The operatives, yet
to be arrested, have been identified as Dujana and Ukasha. The police said they
were using code names ‘Noman’, ‘Zaid’ and ‘Khursheed’.
A special cell
investigator said the matter came to light four days ago following a tip-off
that the LeT may try to help its cadres reach Delhi for the terror strikes.
“We have inputs that the LeT has
infiltrated terrorists into India through Jammu & Kashmir and other border
areas,” he said.
“The two Lashkar operatives were
living in Kashmir for quite some time. We have learnt that their main aim is to
target VVIPs either through fidayeen or grenade attacks... They may carry out
the attack themselves or use their
recruits,” said the officer.
It is also suspected that they
may target crowded areas in Delhi.
The special cell has been using
its sources to gather more information about the Lashkar men and their
sympathisers in the country. An FIR has been registered.
In July, the special cell had
registered a similar FIR against unidentified persons conspiring to target the
national capital.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/isi-spy-ring-j-k-teacher-held/167351.html
ISI spy ring:
J&K teacher held
Tribune News Service
Rajouri/New Delhi,
Dec 5
The crime branch of
the Delhi Police today arrested a schoolteacher for his alleged involvement in
the recently busted ISI-supported espionage network on the Border Security
Force (BSF) and Indian Army deployments in the state.
The man has been
identified as Sabar, who is a teacher at a government school in Rajouri,
J&K. He was apprehended from Rajouri and booked under the Official Secrets
Act. Sabar’s arrest is the fourth one in this case.
Sources said a team
of the crime branch had been camping in Rajouri for the past few days. The team
today raided the house of Sabar, whose name was figured during the sustained
interrogation of Abdul Rashid, a serving BSF head constable, and Kafait Ullha
Khan, a library assistant at Higher Secondary School, Manjakote, in Rajouri.
They were earlier arrested for providing sensitive and national security
information to the ISI.
As the crime team
cordoned the house of Sabar in Amiti village in the vicinity of Rajouri town,
he tried to escape after jumping from the rare window, but was nabbed by the
team. He was immediately rushed to the district hospital and after initial
treatment and legal formalities brought to Jammu.
On Friday, the crime
branch sleuths had raided the house of ex-serviceman Munawwar Hussain Mir in
Khablan village and arrested him for being part of the espionage network.
Mir was introduced
to Kafait Ullha Khan by Sabar and both used to provide information related to
nation security to Kafait, who was in touch with Pakistan ISI handler. Kafait
was arrested last Saturday along with sensitive documents from the Delhi
railway station while on the way to Bhopal to meet ISI agents on the plea to
attend religious congregation.
On his disclosure,
Abdul Rashid was arrested from the BSF sector headquarters where he was posted
in the intelligence cell. Besides a government employee, Sabar used to run a
cyber cafe in the Gujjar Mandi area.
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Soldier Who Fought
in Kargil War Arrested For Allegedly Spying For ISI
Srinagar: A former soldier who had fought in the Kargil
war in 1999 has been arrested on charges of spying in Rajouri district of Jammu
and Kashmir.
Munawwar Ahmad Mir
was arrested on Friday at Manjkote in Rajouri after his name cropped up during
the investigations into the espionage case in which a Border Security Force
official and a state government employee have already been arrested in Jammu
and Kashmir.
After his arrest by
a joint team of Delhi crime branch and Jammu and Kashmir police, Mir was
produced before a local court and has been brought to Delhi on transit remand
Mir was an active
member of the ruling Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party in Manjkote in
Rajouri.
Police said he was
providing crucial information to Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services
Intelligence or ISI and he has been booked for charges under Official Secrets
Act.
Sources say Mir has
denied being part of the spy network and claimed that he is being wrongly
implicated.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/armed-forces-raise-concerns-over-7th-pay-commission-with-defence-ministry/
Armed forces raise
concerns over 7th Pay Commission with Defence Ministry
Officers say that if
the Pay Commission is implemented in the present form, it will position them
much below their civilian counterparts in terms of salaries, facilities and
status.
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The armed forces
have raised concerns over the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission,
including “shortcomings” in it, with the Defence Ministry, Navy chief Admiral R
K Dhowan said today.
He said the
Commission’s report has been examined and effort is on to ensure that whatever
they feel is “necessary” for the officers and men of Army, Navy and Air Force,
is made available to them.
“Whatever we feel are the shortcomings
are being taken up by the three services with the Ministry of Defence to see
that whatever we feel is necessary for our men, our officers, our civilians, is
made available to them,” Dhowan said during his annual press conference here.
He said that all issues of
“concern” are being taken up with the Ministry.
The Navy chief was replying to a
question on the discontent in the armed forces, especially at the level of
officers, on the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission.
Officers say that if the Pay
Commission is implemented in the present form, it will position them much below
their civilian counterparts in terms of salaries, facilities and status.
One of the main grudge that the
armed forces have is with regard to risk-hardship matrix. The officers say that
a soldier posted in Siachen Glacier, which has the highest degree of both risk
and hardship, gets an allowance of Rs 31,500 per month.
In contrast, a civilian
bureaucrat from the All India Services draws 30 per cent of his salary as “hardship
allowance” when posted anywhere outside the comfort zone.
Under the new scale, a senior
IAS official posted in a city in northeast will draw much more as “hardship
allowance”, compared to the Rs 31,500 per month drawn by military officers in
Siachen.
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Forces split on US
deals
Sujan Dutta
New Delhi, Dec. 5:
The Indian armed forces are conflicted over three pacts that the US is pushing
even as defence minister Manohar Parrikar is in Hawaii today for briefings from
the US Pacific Command.
The pacts, referred
to as the "foundational agreements" for military-to-military
relations by the Pentagon, are a logistics support agreement (LSA), the basic
exchange and cooperation agreement for geo-spatial cooperation (Beca) and a
communications interoperability and secrecy memorandum of agreement (Cismoa).
The Indian Navy is
the only one of the armed forces that is comfortable with all the agreements.
It has indicated as much to successive governments over the past decade. The
pacts were first proposed in the year 2002.
The army and the air
force are concerned over compromising sensitive data by signing the LSA, Cismoa
and Beca. But they have indicated that the agreements may be signed if ways
could be found around some of the clauses just as they were found when it came to
signing an end user verification agreement with the US in 2009.
"The LSA,
Cismoa and Beca are talked about. The government will take a call on them. Yes,
they are being looked at seriously," the navy chief, Admiral Robin Dhowan,
said this week when asked how important or unimportant the proposed agreements
were.
Parrikar is
accompanied on the visit to the US by the navy's southern commander in chief,
Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba, who is likely to be the chief of naval staff after
incumbent Dhowan's retirement.
The chief of
integrated defence staff, Air Marshal P.P. Reddy, and the army's deputy chief
(planning and systems) Lt General Subroto Saha would also be joining the
defence minister. The US ambassador to India, Richard Verma, is also expected
to be at the briefings and the discussions, the outcome of which has the
potential to intensify India-US military-to-military relations to an altogether
new level if a 10-year logjam over the "foundational pacts" is
broken.
The army's objection
to the LSA arises from disclosing locations and practices in operational
theatres - such as in Jammu and Kashmir and in the Northeast to US troops.
Indian and US armed
forces have a robust exchange of troops for exercises. But these are planned
mostly in peace stations. The army is more comfortable with the idea of
granting access to a selected number of its locations.
The Pentagon pushes
the LSA saying that it would enable militaries to not only operate jointly but
also cut costs. The US has similar agreements - sometimes also called the
access and cross-servicing agreement (ACSA) - with some 80 countries.
Only the Indian Navy
has something close to the LSA with the US - called the fuel exchange agreement
(FEA). Indian warships can refuel from US tankers under the agreement without
having to pay cash. The US' vessels can similarly refuel in India.
The IAF has issues
over the Cismoa because it may result to a recording of aircraft data that
would disclose how the IAF operates. The IAF has sourced transport and special
forces aircraft from the US - the C-130 Hercules and the C-17 Globemaster that
are currently being used in relief operations in southern India. But because
India had not signed the "foundational" pacts, the aircraft were
delivered without some sensors on board.
The IAF and the army
are now in the middle of contracting the US for Apache attack helicopters and
Chinook heavylifters.
There is discomfort
in the establishment also over the Beca. One of the provisions in the agreement
requires the exchange of classified terrain-mapping data. Such data can be fed
into cruise missiles to determine their course.
But the US is saying
not only that its law requires the signing of the pacts to transfer sensitive
technology but also that defence trade would otherwise hit a roadblock for
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" initiative.
Modi and US
President Barack Obama renewed a defence trade and technology initiative (DTTI)
in January this year. Four months later, defence minister Parrikar and US
defence secretary Ashton Carter also renewed a 10-year India-US agreement on
which rests the entire framework of bilateral military-to-military relations.
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