NEW DELHI: Top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Abu Qatal aka Qatal Sindhi, was gunned down by unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s Jhelum Sindh on Saturday night. One of the closest confidantes of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, Qatal was the chief operational commander of the terror outfit, notorious for masterminding multiple attacks in J&K.Qatal was wanted by Indian law…
Abu Qatal, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative and one of the most wanted terrorists, was gunned down by unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s Jhelum Sindh on Saturday night. He was a high-priority target for Indian security agencies, including the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Indian Army, for his involvement in the 2023 Rajouri attack and…
NEW DELHI: A top Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, Abu Qatal, also known as Qatal Sindhi, was gunned down by unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s Jhelum Sindh on Saturday night.Qatal was a key operative of the terror outfit, notorious for masterminding multiple attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. As a close aide of Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind behind the 26/11…
Tahawwur Rana (File photo) NEW DELHI: The United States Supreme Court on Friday rejected the extradition stay request of Tahawwur Rana, a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed more than 170 people.Rana had approached the US Supreme Court, seeking an emergency stay on his previously allowed extradition. In the appeal application,…
26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana on Thursday made another last ditch effort to avoid extradition to India, alleging ‘torture’ in India. He approached the US Supreme Court, seeking an emergency stay on his previously allowed extradition. In the appeal application, Rana contended that his survival chances would be insufficient for facing trial in India, citing multiple…
NEW DELHI: Amid its ongoing effort to clear out the Gaza Strip of Hamas, Israel continues to press India for the group’s designation as a terrorist organisation. The immediate provocation on this occasion for seeking its listing as a terror group is the presence of several Hamas leaders in POK last month on “Kashmir Solidarity…
NEW DELHI: A team of National Investing Agency is expected to travel to US soon to finalize the extradition formalities of 26/11 attacks accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana, news agency ANI reported citing sources.This comes after the US Supreme Court cleared the extradition of Rana to India on last week under India-US extradition treaty.Tahawwur Rana has…
Tahawwur Rana (File photo) NEW DELHI: “Mujahideens involved in the Mumbai attacks should receive Pakistan’s highest posthumous military honors,” reads the transcript of an intercepted conversation which Tahawwur Rana had with David Coleman Headley. The disturbing transcripts were cited by US justice department as crucial evidence in Rana’s conviction order way back in 2013.A physician,…
NEW DELHI: Contemplating a terrorist act for years, even without executing it, constitutes a terrorist act, the Delhi high court has said.“The definition of ‘terrorist act’ under Section 15 of UAPA clearly includes the expressions ‘with intent to strike terror’, by any other means of whatever nature to cause or likely to cause. Such an…
NEW DELHI: A declassified document recovered from Osama bin Laden‘s Abbottabad hideout described the 2008 Mumbai attack as a “heroic Fidai operation”. A year before the attack, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri made a clandestine visit to Islamabad to confer with the outfit’s former leader Osama. The meeting was arranged by Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, who…
