JeM name was used for notoriety & to create psychological impact, with calculated plan to mislead security agencies about true identity of the module, says state agency.
Woman identified as Shama Parveen Ansari was arrested after Gujarat ATS questioned Mohammad Faiq, who was arrested from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk last week.
Terror financing watchdog FATF in its latest report says that these groups have begun operating via ‘regional hubs’, employ offline & online methods to disseminate messages, collect funds.
The terrorist group has emerged as most active in the Sahel, with a footprint across eight countries. It has been conducting numerous attacks across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Mali’s law & order has deteriorated since fall of Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya in 2011, with proliferation of Libyan weapons fuelling terrorist movements across greater Sahel.
A suicide bombing ripped through Pakistan’s Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary last week. It would soon celebrate 200 years of Sayyid Ahmad’s triumph over Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army.
The 3 men were arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell in August last yr for allegedly receiving arms training as part of a terror module linked to Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
It's unclear when Mohammad Usman, a former resident of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, was incarcerated. But being an anti-India jihadist no longer guarantees gentle treatment in Pakistani prisons.
An intel officer says, big danger is that Tahrir al-Sham's rise will revive ideas of violent jihad, which seemed to have been extinguished by fall of Islamic State, other groups after 2018.
Even though Tahrir al-Sham has promised to protect minorities, and to crush transnational jihadist groups in Syria, exactly what comes next is impossible to predict.
In a system where risk is concentrated in a handful of large institutions, the case for regulating thousands of small, non-systemic entities is not obvious.
This is the transcript of Ep 1830 of Cut the Clutter, where Shekhar Gupta explains why strategic petroleum reserves are a national necessity & how India compares with China, US & Japan.
Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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