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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicHarkat-ul-Mujahideen

Topic: Harkat-ul-Mujahideen

CIA had intel on plot to hijack Indian passenger aircraft 3 yrs before IC 814 episode in Kandahar

There's no evidence in existing declassified CIA documents to suggest if pressure was mounted on Islamabad to terminate hijacking plot or if New Delhi was given any specific warning.

Times Now, ET & News18 run false report on global terrorist joining Imran Khan’s party

Source of the report appears to be an 8-month-old Facebook post by a PTI leader, which was denied by Harkat-ul-Mujahideen founder Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.