NEW YORK, Jan 9: An alleged conspirator in a plot to kill President Pervez Musharraf has escaped, Time Magazine reported on its website on Sunday. The suspect escaped sometime around New Year's Day from state security in Karachi, the US magazine reported.
A nation wide manhunt has failed to yield any leads in the whereabouts of the suspect, who has been identified as Mushtaq Ahmad, one of the ringleaders in the Dec 14 plot on Musharraf's life.
Authorities reportedly have sent security alerts to air and seaports and have beefed up security at Pakistan's land borders to prevent Ahmad from fleeing the country.
A military court last month sentenced a Pakistani soldier to death for his involvement in the plot on the president's life. -AFP
Sriprakash Jaiswal, India’s minister of state for home affairs, has announced that contrary to popular belief, it was not jihadi terrorists, but tax-defaulters that were behind the attack on the income tax building in Srinagar yesterday.
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More cross-border terrorism on the cards?
Syed Saleem Shehzad’s narrative goes something like this: Musharraf did a ‘u-turn’ on sponsoring jihadi infiltration into Kashmir out of expectation that India would countenance a ‘land-for-peace’ deal of some kind; that Pakistan has kept its leading jihadis in check; that the United States needs Pakistan’s help in preventing a resurgent Taliban; and due to India’s failure to play along the general’s scheme of things, all this is about to come crashing down on Musharraf’s head. Being the tactician that he is, Musharraf has therefore decided to up the ante and conduct ‘limited operations’ in Kashmir.
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Where security is subservient to seat-sharing
Is the Indian government serious about national security at all?
Back to the Bhindranwale era of terror: the govt’s silence when Naxals kill is deafening Consider this: last week, six policemen — including K.C. Surendra Babu, the SP of Munger district — were killed in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI (Maoist). A statement from the underground emerged thereafter: Babu deserved his death. When is the last time you heard terrorists brag like that? Cannot be since A.S. Atwal, then a DIG, was killed outside the Golden Temple at the height of Bhindranwale’s terror campaign.
Pakistani Kashmir boils again
Despite their obvious mischief-making, Musharraf’s government takes no action against the jihadi terrorists.
The Harkatul Mujahideen and the Lashkar-e-Taiba have long been sending jihadi terrorists into Indian Kashmir. But the very same outfits are also responsible for acts of violence and provocation in the Shia-majority Pakistani Kashmir.
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