Both the 21st meeting of Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism between India & US, and the 3rd Quad Counterterrorism Working Group meeting, were held in New Delhi this week.
Siddique's involvement in terror-related incidents began with the 1995 Hindu Munnani office blast in Chintadripet followed by a parcel bomb explosion in Nagore that year.
Daily wage worker Ghulam Rasool Magray, the victim, lived with his ailing mother who he looked after. Magray was not mentally stable & unmarried, says local MLA.
A peace yagna was organised by the Juna Akhara for the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack, which included Shubham Dwivedi, a 31-year-old cement trader from Kanpur.
In Part-3 of the J&K Despatch series—on 1st assembly polls being held in the UT in 10 yrs—ThePrint looks at how dwindling local resources have made it tough for security forces.
Way back in 2003, Army had conducted Operation ‘Sarp Vinash’ in Hikaka forests above Surankot to counter a similar threat, leading to the killing of several terrorists.
As part of security beef up in the region, Army has pumped in nearly a division's strength into Jammu from reserves of Northern Command as well as Western Command.
Kashmir Tigers, a front of Jaish-e-Mohammed, had claimed responsibility of ambush. Nagrota-based 16 Corps had said initially that Doda incident was a joint operation with police.
In both cases from 2022, UAPA also invoked & trial has begun. Once booked under this law, there is no appeal & punishment is either life imprisonment or death sentence.
General MM Naravane’s memoir—Four Stars of Destiny—reveals that he was left hanging by political leadership for more than two hours as Chinese tanks drove towards Indian positions.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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