All intl. Media is reporting Pakistan behind "Gurdaspur" attacks after India repeatedly made pakistan responsible for attacks and confirmed that attackers came from Pakistan.
Punjab Shooters Entered India From Pakistan “We are examining clues from their clothes and other things that they were carrying”, a forensic team official was reported as saying.
“This House strongly condemns the terrorist attack and reiterates its firm resolve to confront such acts with determination and firmness”, he said.
Making a formal statement in the Rajya Sabha, the home minister said the central government was committed to rooting out terrorism from the country. He said Pakistan regrets the “unsubstantiated and unwarranted assertion” that those involved in the Gurdaspur incident of 27 July, had entered India from Pakistan.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today met the family members of police officer Baljit Singh who died during the terrorist attack at Dina Nagar and paid his last respcts to the martyr by laying wreaths on his body.
The pre-dawn terror attack in Gurdaspur district of Punjab on Monday was carried out by banned Pakistani terror organisation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his senior ministers have not made detailed statements on the attack, which came weeks after a meeting between Modi and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif raised the prospect of a thaw in relations between the two nucelar-armed neighbors.
Minister for Finance and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley later told reporters outside Parliament that the evidence that the Gurdaspur attack had Pakistan connection is “overwhelmingly conclusive” but refused to say whether dialogue with Pakistan was still possible after this.
In 2013 three terrorists stormed a police station and attacked an Indian army unit.
Security has also been tightened in and around the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu where the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims camp for the night before starting their onward journey to the Kashmir Valley, the officer said. Two Global Positioning System satellite location devices found on the men would be examined for clues, he said. Badal also visited the house of cops who were killed.
Now nuclear-armed rivals, India and Pakistan have fought three wars since both nations gained independence in 1947.
State-run All India Radio said that police had discovered five bombs on a railway track in the area, causing train service to be suspended, though it was unclear whether it was related to the attack.
Punjab Police DGP Sumedh Singh Saini was said to be supervising the operation, which had not been handed over to the Army.
Earlier on, India also tried its luck with spy drone but to no avail as a soldier shot the latest spy gadget with a single bullet of G3-rifle, putting an end to Indian antics.
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“We are examining clues from their clothes and other things that they were carrying”, a forensic team official was reported as saying.
“This House strongly condemns the terrorist attack and reiterates its firm resolve to confront such acts with determination and firmness”, he said.
Making a formal statement in the Rajya Sabha, the home minister said the central government was committed to rooting out terrorism from the country. He said Pakistan regrets the “unsubstantiated and unwarranted assertion” that those involved in the Gurdaspur incident of 27 July, had entered India from Pakistan.
India Dreaming : Gurdaspur Attackers had "Made in Pakistan Hand Gloves" : TOI (ache din:)
Army personnel during an encounter with attackers at the police station in Dinanagar town in Gurdaspur district. (Sameer Sehgal/HT Photo)
The three terrorists who stormed a police station in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district had used gloves with “Made in Pakistan” tags and a US-made night vision device that could have been procured from Afghanistan, investigators have said.
The panel of doctors from Gurdaspur civil hospital, which carried out the autopsy of the three Pakistani terrorists, stated in their report about “external appearance” that a “Made in Pakistan” label was found intact in the glove that one terrorist was wearing.
This vital evidence clearly pointed to the involvement of Pakistan in the terror attack, police sources told Hindustan Times.
“After the operation was over on Monday, we had done a random search of the clothes the ultras were wearing. But no label was found in the clothes, including the undergarments,” a police source said.
“The bodies are handed over to the doctors as found. It was while making the inventory and a close examination of the clothes the terrorists were wearing that the doctors found a ‘Made in Pakistan’ tag intact in one glove of a terrorist.”
The night vision device had a unique number (032008 80063 – A325) along with markings such as “warning” and “US government property”. The initial probe indicated that the night vision device originated from strife-torn Afghanistan, sources said.
Investigators have informally shared details of the US-made night vision device with the FBI.
The board of doctors collected DNA samples of the terrorists and submitted a detailed report of the autopsy held on Friday to investigators.
The Punjab Police are now focussing on four key factors: Finding out how the terrorists got the US-made night vision device, a detailed examination of the two global positioning system (GPS) sets found on them, the origin of a rocket-propelled grenade launcher used by them and vital clues brought to the fore by the autopsy.
An analysis of the data on the GPS sets showed that about a dozen waypoints were uploaded on July 21 and that the terrorist crossed the Ravi river through Mastgarh village in the Gurdaspur sector of the international border.
Police are also trying to ascertain the origin of the rocket-propelled grenade launcher found with the terrorists. When the weapon was found, it was in a “ready to launch” status with a live rocket inside it.
“This was placed in a direction...from where the major police offensive was launched. It seems the terrorists wanted to lob this rocket as a last resort to flee from the site of the encounter. Every aspect of this rocket launcher is being examined,” a source said.
The police probe has revealed that the terrorists first planted 2.5kg of RDX to blow up a small railway bridge and left behind the US-made night vision device. They then went to Dinanagar bus stand before storming the police station.
One GPS set has an entry for Gurdaspur, indicating that the terrorists probably would have attacked the town too if they had not been engaged by police during an initial gun battle.
Punjab Police have also associated the Intelligence Bureau, Jammu and Kashmir Police and the CRPF in their investigation, which picked up pace on Thursday evening after the top brass held a lengthy meeting and devised a strategy to fast-track the probe.
Seven people, including a senior police officer, were killed by the three terrorists in Gurdaspur on July 27 before they were gunned down by security forces.
Re: India Dreaming : Gurdaspur Attackers had "Made in Pakistan Hand Gloves" : TOI (ache din:)
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THE Mumbai terror attacks were claimed by India to be its 9/11. For more than 66 hours, 10 highly trained militants played havoc in India’s commercial metropolis, spraying bullets and shedding the blood of innocent civilians and tourists in November 2008, bringing the two nuclear neighbours to the brink of an all-out war. In Ufa, Russia on July 10, 2015, both the prime ministers of Pakistan and India were “prepared to discuss all outstanding issues,” and both the leaders “condemned terrorism in all its forms” and agreed to cooperate with each other “to eliminate this menace from South Asia”. Therefore, we in Pakistan should welcome this development wholeheartedly. Didn’t we suffer the pain and agony of our own 9/11 on Dec 16, 2014, at the hands of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and its surrogates and aren’t we as a nation determined to root out terrorism in all its forms from our soil? The answer is obviously a resounding yes and I have no doubt that the political and security leadership have resolved to eliminate the scourge of terrorism, militancy and extremism through the counterterrorism National Action Plan. The duality and distinction between good and bad Taliban, including all militants and terrorists, should stand removed from Miramshah to Muridke, from Karachi to Quetta. Against this backdrop, the agreement between PMs Sharif and Modi in Ufa to approve the meeting of their national security advisers to “discuss all issues related to terrorism” was a welcome development. Pakistan’s concerns in respect of the botched investigation into the Samjhauta Express bombing and alleged covert support to the Baloch insurgency as well as reported ‘terror financing’ both in Karachi and Fata by Indian and other foreign agencies should not only be highlighted but concrete evidence presented to put a stop to such means of non-kinetic warfare resorted to by sleuths from both sides to further their so-called national interests. There are very knowledgeable and competent professionals with investigation and intelligence background in Pakistan who can meet the Indian security officials and talk as professionals. They too have many skeletons in their cupboards. So why fight shy? Let both India and Pakistan admit their mistakes and follies and learn to co-exist while trying to find solutions to their thorny issues through peaceful means. Pakistan has to deal with the Mumbai mayhem, planned and launched from its soil. This requires facing the truth and admitting mistakes. The entire state security apparatus must ensure that the perpetrators and masterminds of the ghastly terror attacks are brought to justice. The case has lingered on for far too long. Dilatory tactics by the defendants, frequent change of trial judges, and assassination of the case prosecutor as well as retracting from original testimony by some key witnesses have been serious setbacks for the prosecutors. However, cognizance was taken by the Islamabad High Court which directed the trial to be concluded within two months. The following facts are pertinent. First, Ajmal Kasab was a Pakistani national, whose place of residence and initial schooling as well as his joining a banned militant organisation was established by the investigators. Second, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were imparted training near Thatta, Sindh and launched by sea from there. The training camp was identified and secured by the investigators. The casings of the explosive devices used in Mumbai were recovered from this training camp and duly matched. Third, the fishing trawler used by the terrorists for hijacking an Indian trawler in which they sailed to Mumbai, was brought back to harbour, then painted and concealed. It was recovered by the investigators and connected to the accused. Fourth, the engine of the dinghy abandoned by the terrorists near Mumbai harbour contained a patent number through which the investigators traced its import from Japan to Lahore and then to a Karachi sports shop from where an LeT-linked militant purchased it along with the dinghy. The money trail was followed and linked to the accused who was arrested. Fifth, the ops room in Karachi, from where the operation was directed, was also identified and secured by the investigators. The communications through Voice over Internet Protocol were unearthed. Sixth, the alleged commander and his deputies were identified and arrested. Seventh, a couple of foreign-based financiers and facilitators were arrested and brought to face trial. After an exchange of multiple investigation dossiers with the Indian police authorities, the trial court was requested to give approval to obtain voice samples of the alleged commander and his deputies for comparison with the recorded voices. The court ruled that the consent of the accused should be obtained. Obviously, the suspects refused. Then a plea was submitted before the sessions court to authorise the investigators to take the voice samples despite the lack of consent. The plea was denied on account of there being no such provision in the Evidence Act or the antiterrorism law applicable at that time. The investigators then went in appeal before the High Court. That appeal, I believe, is still pending. The Fair Trial Act, 2013 caters for admissibility of such technical evidence. However, its application with retrospective effect is a moot point. The Mumbai case is quite unique: one incident with two jurisdictions and two trials. While the Indians managed to nab Ajmal Kasab and were able to obtain his confession to close the trial, proving conspiracy in a different jurisdiction is more complex and requires a far superior quality of evidence. Therefore, the legal experts from both sides need to sit together rather than sulk and point fingers. Indian interlocutors, engaged during the talks between the then prime ministers of India and Pakistan in Egypt in 2009, had conceded that the Pakistani investigators had done a professional job in the indictment of seven perpetrators of the attack. However, the Pakistani authorities should not forget that the FIA declared various other facilitators and operatives as fugitives in the case. The trial will not be over with the disposal of those under arrest or on bail. Other missing links need to be uncovered after the absconders’ arrest. This case will not be over soon. Are we as a nation prepared to muster the courage to face uncomfortable truths and combat the demons of militancy that haunt our land? That is the question!
The writer is former DG, FIA.
Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2015
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The following facts are pertinent. First, Ajmal Kasab was a Pakistani national, whose place of residence and initial schooling as well as his joining a banned militant organisation was established by the investigators. Second, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were imparted training near Thatta, Sindh and launched by sea from there. The training camp was identified and secured by the investigators. The casings of the explosive devices used in Mumbai were recovered from this training camp and duly matched. Third, the fishing trawler used by the terrorists for hijacking an Indian trawler in which they sailed to Mumbai, was brought back to harbour, then painted and concealed. It was recovered by the investigators and connected to the accused. Fourth, the engine of the dinghy abandoned by the terrorists near Mumbai harbour contained a patent number through which the investigators traced its import from Japan to Lahore and then to a Karachi sports shop from where an LeT-linked militant purchased it along with the dinghy. The money trail was followed and linked to the accused who was arrested. Fifth, the ops room in Karachi, from where the operation was directed, was also identified and secured by the investigators. The communications through Voice over Internet Protocol were unearthed. Sixth, the alleged commander and his deputies were identified and arrested. Seventh, a couple of foreign-based financiers and facilitators were arrested and brought to face trial.
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