Incidents involving Lashkar-e-Toiba : 2012

2012

April 29: According to intelligence agencies, the preliminary plans of most of the LeT terror attacks carried out in Indian cities in 2008 were prepared at the SIMI camp held at Panayikkulam near Kochi (Kerala) on August 15, 2006. SIMI had also held a training camp at Vagamon hill resorts in Idukki District in December 2007 in preparation for terror strikes.

Blaming Pakistani media for "misreporting" the issue, the American Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, said that the US Government did not announce any bounty for JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.
April 28: Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from Af-Pak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne said. The Air Chief said the game-plan of Taliban forces and terror elements in Af-Pak region was to target Kashmir after "liberating" Kabul from allied forces. "It is Kabul now we are dealing with. The moment we resolve that, we will take over the next phase to liberate Kashmir from Jammu & Kashmir state," Browne quoted JuD chief Hafeez Mohammad Saeed as saying.
April 25: MoS Jitendra Singh said the NIA has filed a chargesheet against LeT operative David Coleman Headley along with nine others, including two officers of Pakistan, in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai attack case.
April 24: In a major breakthrough in the Kashmir terror recruitment case involving LeT 'southern commandant', Thadiyantavide Nazeer, the Police arrested two militants who "extorted money" from people to fight the case of the culprits. The two, identified as Shahraz (27) and Muneer (25), were arrested in Puthiyatheru of Kannur District. According to circle inspector P. Sukumaran, they forcibly collected around INR 1.5 million from various places, adds The Hindu.
April 21: A Delhi court acquitted a suspected LeT militant, identified as Mukhtar Ahmed Khan, arrested for allegedly planning to execute bomb blasts. He was arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in June12, 2007 from Azadpur Sabzi Mandi in north Delhi with 1.5 kilograms of RDX, a timer and two detonators.
April 20: Militants shot dead an ASI of Jammu and Kashmir Police in the old city area of Srinagar. The ASI was on duty in Daresh Kadal area of the city when he was fired upon by pistol borne militants. Islamic Front, a lesser known militant organization, has claimed responsibility for the attack and has threatened more attacks on Police. Police, however, suspected LeT hand behind the killing.

India requested the US to extradite Tahawwur Rana and grant it access for a second time to Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley, both of them jailed in America on terror charges. Both of them are accused of helping the LeT plot the 2008 Mumbai attacks. NIA has charge sheeted Headley and Rana. But sources said there was little hope of getting Headley, a double agent jailed after plea bargaining, extradited.
April 18: LeT founder and JuD Chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) asking it to stop Pakistani authorities from taking any "adverse action" against him under pressure from the US and provide security to him as his life was "not safe" and any "mishap" could happen.
April 17: India has asked Morocco to extradite Faiza Outalha, the estranged wife of LeT operative, David Coleman Headley, the mastermind of November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack (also known as 26/11), as she is believed to have information and answers to key questions related to the incident.

Addressing the Defence of Islam conference in Mirpur District of PoK, JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed said that there would be no peace in South Asia without resolution of the longstanding Kashmir dispute.
April 16: Posters, purportedly put up by the LeT, asked panchs (member of village level local self Government Institution, Panchayat) and sarpanchs (head of Panchayat) in villages of Pulwama District to resign from their post within a week's time.
April 15: Delhi Police told a court in New Delhi that a consignment of over INR 11.8 million FICN, seized by it in the month of January, had been sent from Pakistan at the behest of its intelligence agency and banned terror outfit LeT to destabilise the Indian economy. The Police made this claim in its charge sheet, filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav and indicting five Indians, arrested along with the FICN consignment on January 12.

India has sent a formal request to Morocco for examination and recording of statement of Faiza Outalha, estranged wife of Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, to get more evidence against him as well as LeT founder Hafiz Saeed. The sources said Outalha could give crucial evidence in nailing the lies of Saeed, who has been attempting to throw a veil over his terror activities under the garb of being associated with humanitarian activities of JuD.
April 14: SFs neutralized a LeT hideout in Saad forest area of Gool in Ramban District of Jammu and Kashmir.
April 13: A United States national of Pakistani origin, Jubair Ahmad (24), was sentenced on April 13 to 12 years in prison and five years of supervised release for providing material support to the LeT. Jubair Ahmad, who lived in Woodbridge, Virginia, received the sentence after being found guilty of promoting and urging recruitment for the LeT, designated by Washington as foreign terrorist organisation, the Justice Department said.
April 9: India, responding to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's statement on Hafiz Saeed, said that 'solid evidence' on the JuD chief and alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind has already been given to Pakistan.
April 8: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani acknowledged that the case of JuD chief Hafiz Saeed was an "issue" between Pakistan and India but said Islamabad needs "substantial" evidence against him to try him in a court of law.
April 6: Army said that killing of five LeT militants in North Kashmir's Zachaldara forests of Rajwar area is a major success for the SFs and apprehended that militants may try to infiltrate in the coming months to fill the void created in their ranks due to successful operations.

Pakistan FO on rejected Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's remarks that India has provided adequate proof linking JuD chief Hafiz Saeed to the Mumbai attacks.
April 5: Five LeT militants were killed in an encounter with the SFs in the Kramhoora forest area of Handwara in Kupwara District.

PM Yousuf Raza Gilani said that the case of JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed is an "internal issue" and any evidence against him should be provided to Pakistan so that the courts can take action.

Abdul Rehman Makki, the brother-in-law of LeT chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed is a conduit between LeT and Taliban. Government sources say that one of the main reasons for the US announcing a reward of USD two million for Makki is said to be his proximity to Taliban supreme commander Mullah Omar and al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri.
April 4: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said those unleashing terrorism against India should be punished. He was referring to the United State announcement of a USD10 million bounty for 26/11 (November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks) mastermind LeT chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed.
April 3: US has hard evidence that Pakistan-based JuD chief Hafiz Saeed was communicating with slain al Qaeda Osama bin Laden through a courier which subsequently led USA to put a USD 10-million bounty on Saeed's head. All this was unearthed by US Special Forces in May 2011 when they killed Osama Bin Laden in his hideout in Abbottabad, and took back bagfuls of his documents and computer equipment.

JuD officially condemned the US bounty Saeed, terming it "another attack by the US Government on Muslims and Islam".

The leaders of different religious parties in Pakistan said the JuD chief is a hero of Pakistan and allegations against him were in fact allegations against the Muslim Ummah and the country.

UHM P. Chidambaram said that Pakistan has enough evidence to detain 26/11 mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.
April 2: State Government is assessing the impact, of the US announcement of a USD10 million bounty on LeT chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, on the situation in the State.

The decision has come at a time when LeT has changed its strategy and shifted control and command structure to Rawalpindi and the PoK, in a bid to directly control and guide the militants operating in J&K.
April 1: Police arrested a computer engineer with links to the LeT for allegedly "planning and executing" the car bomb explosion near Bijbehara town in Anantnag District on March 22 that left his accomplice, Mohammad Abbas Dar, dead and 20 others injured. He said the module was working under the command of Lateef Kachru, a 'commander' in the Awantipora area.
March 30: Charges against one of the accused of Red Fort attack (December 22, 2000), LeT militant Athruddin alias Athar Ali, was dropped due to lack of evidence. Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Jain discharged Athruddin, holding that there was no evidence to connect him with the offence. The Special Cell of Delhi Police had alleged that Athruddin was a LeT militant and had been in touch with the Red Fort attack prime accused Mohammad Arif, who has been sentenced to death in the case.
March 28: Five LeT militants, including a 'district commander', were killed in two separate encounters with the SFs, one in Panjwani forests and second in a nearby Laribal village, in the Handwara area of Kupwara District.

SP, Handwara Choudery Aslam said that two militants were hiding in the house of widow of one Mohammad Yusuf Geelani in Laribal village. He said that the SFs were fired upon from inside the house during searches resulting in the encounter during which two militants were killed. The SP said that another three militants were killed in Panjwani forests during the encounter. He said that they were two groups of militants and all of them belong to the LeT.
March 26: Police is on the lookout of two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants who, they fear, could be planning a terror strike in Delhi. Tahir Zameel, 40, and Abrar-ul-Haq, believed to be in his late 20s, reportedly sneaked into Delhi in June 2011 and are allegedly part of a LeT sleeper module. Delhi Police have announced an INR 25,000 reward for information leading to arrest.
March 23: in an encounter between SFs and LeT militants, one militant was killed in Pattan area of Baramulla District. The slain militant was, identified as, Nissar Ahmad Magray alias Shakti.

DGP Kuldeep Khoda while conceding that Pakistan-based terror outfits, like LeT and HM were still operating in Jammu and Kashmir, said that there has been a drop of 50 percent in terrorist violence in first three months of 2012.

In view of proposed restoration of NATO supply routes, the DPC staged a rally in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while a grand Jirga (tribal council) in North Waziristan Agency also warned against the route's reopening. Activists of ASWJ, JUI-S and JuD gathered at the Ashraf Road after Friday prayer and chanted anti-US slogans.
March 22: DGP Kuldeep Khoda as saying that there are no inputs regarding revival of women cadre of LeT in the State. "We do not have such inputs regarding revamping of women cadre in LeT in the State as LeT has almost been wiped out of Jammu and Kashmir," Khoda said.
March 21: Government said that there have been some unconfirmed reports that the LeT is reviving its women's cadre and planning to use it in Jammu and Kashmir.
March 19: A city court in Delhi further extended the remand of the three LeT militants accused of planning a terror strike on Delhi till March 28.
March 17: Seven militants groups have issued fresh life threatening warning to the valley based journalists and local newspaper owners for what they called “interest-based biased reporting" and ignoring sufferings of people of Kashmir. According to local news agency KNS, the members of Tehreek-e-Shariat Islami, Save Kashmir Movement, Al Nasreen, Al-Arfeen, Al-mansoorian Jehad-ul-Islam, Askari and Al-Jabar held meeting under the ‘chairmanship’ of Abdullah Ghaznavi of LeT.
March 16: Abu Bilal, one of the two Pakistani bombers who had planted IED outside the Delhi High Court last September, is suspected to be none other than the LeT operative Ghulam Sarwar, whose name had first figured in an attack on an Army Major General last year. According to an official, the NIA has strong clues and some tentative evidence to show that Bilal is none other than the LeT terrorist Sarwar.
March 14: A Pakistani judicial commission reached India to collect evidence and question officials as part of efforts to prosecute LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects charged with involvement in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks (also known as 26/11),
March 13: A special NIA court, directed the agency to produce before it on May 31, 2012 Pakistani-American LeT operative terrorist David Coleman Headley, his accomplice Tahawwur Rana, (LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and 26/11 Mumbai (Maharashtra) attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi for allegedly carrying out several terror strikes in India.
March 12: investigations into the recent smashing of a LeT module by intelligence agencies has revealed that there is a growing concern among the top hierarchy of terror outfits about the sudden drop in militant activities in India, particularly in the Kashmir Valley and other major cities. This frustration was now creeping into the LeT ranks and they are now more determined than ever to carry out a ‘big strike’.

The Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that banned organisations would be delisted if they “closed down their militant wings.” Pakistan has faced heavy criticism for not doing more to clampdown on the groups, many of which are allowed to operate freely under new names, such as JuD, a UN-blacklisted charity considered a front for the LeT.
March 7: Three years after the arrest of Mohammad Umar Madani, the right-hand man of LeT Chief Hafiz Saeed, disclosed that the LeT are hand-in-glove with the CPI-Maoist. Umar Madani, a dreaded alleged LeT operative and an aide of the outfit’s founder Saeed, revealed in his disclosure statement that a close camaraderie exists between LeT and the Naxals.

Al Qaeda's main operational commander and the chief of the HuJI, Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri, who was reportedly killed on June 3, 2011 in a US drone attack in South Waziristan Agency of FATA, was spotted in North Waziristan Agency recently, referring to reliable sources. The HuJI leader reportedly visited North Waziristan this week and held sittings with TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud. Sources said that during the visit, Kashmiri spent a night with Mehsud, as his guest. During Kashmiri's visit to the TTP comrade in Waziristan, a renowned journalist from Islamabad was also reportedly present there. During the sittings with Mehsud, Kashmiri allegedly reviewed the future strategy in connection with jihad, his movement and the present situation in Afghanistan. However, sources said that security officials of the US and Pakistan failed to confirm the death of the HuJI commander and media reports were published in July 2011 that he was still active in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. However, it is said that the photograph believed to be of Kashmiri's corpse, was actually that of a militant belonging to the LeT.
March 4: the interrogation of LeT militant Ehtesham Malik has revealed that he was assembling a 'capsule bomb' to carry out attacks at Chandni Chowk in Delhi. A police officer said they are yet to come across capsule bombs in previous blasts. Capsule bombs can inflict casualties. The probe also threw up evidence of links between Pakistan-based JuD and LeT
March 2: MEA and the MoD denied USPACOM chief Admiral Willard’s statement that crack US military troops were based in India besides Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives to counter threats from organizations such as the LeT.
March 1: According to media reports a LeT militant was arrested and taken into transit remand by the Delhi Police Special Cell at Hazaribagh. The arrestee, Tawseef Ahmad Peer (22) alias Mama.

There is an apparent change in the way LeT is functioning recently. LeT, a guerrilla outfit has been trying to engage local boys, holding passports, after its foreign cadres started coming under pressure from the security forces. The outfit has successfully nurtured indigenous jihadis and is sending solitary bombers on terror missions after training in Pakistan.

Delhi Police will question APHC-G Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani over alleged links with LeT. Reports say Geelani had given a reference letter to the LeT militant, Athesham Malik to obtain a Pakistani visa.

Admiral Robert Willard, the USPACOM Commander said on March that the US and India are working together on contain LeT. "We have currently special forces assist teams - Pacific assist teams is the term - laid down in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, as well as India," Willard told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing in response to a question on co-operation with India on counter-terrorism issues.
February 28: Delhi Police arrested two LeT militants, both Indian residents, from Tughlaqabad Extension in south Delhi and seized huge quantities of explosives from them.
February 27: One LeT militant was arrested by Jharkhand Police in Hazaribagh and it was based on information given by him that two LeT militants were arrested in Delhi on February 28.
February 26: SFs killed two LeT militants, identified as Shahnawaz Khandey alias Bilal Ahmed and Mohammad Rafi, in an operation at Bonjwar in Kishtwar District.

Inspector General of Police (Jammu) Dilbagh Singh said the LeT, which had been finished in Kishtwar, was being revived by the slain militants but with their killing the outfit has once again been wiped out in the District. However, seven militants of other outfits are still active in the District.
February 23: Interrogation of arrested IM militant Mohammed Qafeel Ahmed has confirmed that the vast network of banned outfit SIMI is now being used by IM. Qafeel disclosed that IM has no dearth of funds as the terror outfit continues to get substantial amounts of money through the hawala route from Pakistan. He further revealed that Yasin Bhatkal is extremely secretive about his functioning and that he has the capacity to carry out Delhi 13/2 type terror strikes. In fact, Qafeel even told investigators that the possibility of Bhatkal's involvement in the attack on the Israeli diplomat in New Delhi is even higher as he is closely associated with both the LeT and the HUJI. Qafeel was arrested on February 21 in Darbhanga, Bihar and is under the custody of Delhi Police.
February 20: Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh from Gund-i-Nowrooz village of Anantnag District. Police recovered one pistol, one pistol magazine and seven pistol rounds from the militant.

India is likely to seek the extradition of Pakistani-American militant David Coleman Headley and his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain.

Speakers at a DPC rally in Islamabad condemned US drone attacks, military operations in tribal areas, tabling of a resolution on Balochistan in the US House of Representatives and the ban on some religious parties, reports Dawn. The speakers warned the Government against restoring NATO supply routes and granting the MFN (Most Favoured Nation) status to India till resolution of the Kashmir dispute. The DPC rally was organised by JeI and security arrangements were made by HM. Most of the participants belonged to JuD, ASWJ, Ansarul Ulema, formerly HuM.
February 21: SFs killed a top LeT 'commander', identified as Ukasha Badar (a Pakistani national), in an encounter in which an Army personnel, identified as Karam Veer was also injured in Momin Abad locality of Sopore town in Baramulla District.

India is likely to seek the extradition of Pakistani-American militant David Coleman Headley and his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain.
February 19: An architect regularly employed by the ISI Agency worked on the compound in which Osama bin Laden was sheltered for years in Abbottabad and also communicated regularly with LeT from his hideout.
February 18: Special court in Delhi told the NIA to initiate the process to produce Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, LeT founder Hafiz Muhammed Saeed and LeT head of operations Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi before it on March 13.
February 17: A Pakistani judicial commission will visit India on March 12 as part of the probe into the 2008 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik made these remarks during a meeting in Islamabad with Pakistan's High Commissioner to India, Shahid Malik.

Spokesperson for JuD Yahya Mujahid said that the founder of LeJ Malik Ishaq was present on the stage of the DPC rally in Multan District. Mujahid contradicted ex-spymaster Hamid Gul's statement in a TV interview in which he had denied Ishaq's presence, going as far as calling a photo in "doctored" and then questioning the credibility of the paper's reporter. Mujahid said Hamid Gul was wrong, and added that it was the DPC's unanimous decision that Ishaq will not address the rally.

JuD called statements of the US State Department, which called on Pakistan to put curbs on the group in compliance with international sanctions, as disrespecting the Supreme Court of Pakistan. A spokesperson for the JuD claimed that the group has never been banned in Pakistan and had won legal independence by the Supreme Court of Pakistan because they were working for the welfare of Pakistan. JuD defended their chief Hafiz Saeed, insisting that he was a respectable and independent citizen of Pakistan.

The capital administration banned the entry of three religious leaders in Islamabad for next four days to avoid their presence in a sit-in by Difa-e- Pakistan (Defence of Pakistan) Council at Aabpara in Islamabad on February 18. The leaders are President of ASWJ Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, Secretary General Maulana Khalid Dhillon and Chief of JuD Hafiz Saeed.
February 16: Intelligence agencies are concentrating on two particular incoming phone calls that were made to a cell phone in New Delhi using a satellite phone from the Cox Bazaar area in Bangladesh. While one of the calls was made on the day of the incident (February 13), the second call was made earlier on February 5. Sources said, that the satellite number, from which the two calls originated belongs to a HuJI operative who has been on the radar of the intelligence agencies for some time now. The suspect plays the role of a coordinator between various terror outfits like HuJI, LeT and the IM. Investigating agencies, thus, are not ruling out the possibility of an IM hand in the terror strike.

US State Department strongly urged Pakistan to prevent JuD Chief Hafiz Saeed from moving freely in the country, freeze the assets of the groups associated with him and stop allowing LeT from acquiring weapons.
February 14: A SPO, Mohammad Rafiq alias Rafi, who was arrested last month, has reportedly passed on sensitive and strategic information about Army to Pakistani troops, ISI and LeT commanders. Interrogation of Rafi by Police and Intelligence agencies in Poonch and Jammu has revealed that the SPO was won over by Pakistan Army and ISI during his detention in Pakistani jails for over one and a half years after he had illegally crossed over to PoK in 2000 for arms training.
February 12: Sources privy to investigations revealed that the planners of 26/11 Mumbai attacks watched the terror unfold live at a rented house in the North Nazimabad neighbourhood of Karachi. The extensive report includes names of the captain and crew of boats that carried the attackers to Mumbai, financers of the operation, the facilitators in Karachi and those who provided logistical support and technology. The investigations, however, refute claims made by Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the leading planners of the Mumbai attacks. Headley had testified earlier that ISI and LeT had coordinated with each other for the attack. The ISI provided military and moral support to the group, he had alleged.

The Poonch Police handover a SPO, who had turned out to be a militant of LeT, to JIC in Jammu as two more live Pakistani SIM cards were recovered from his possession.

Religious parties during a rally held in a ground near the Quaid Mausoleum in Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh, vowed to hold a sit-in outside Parliament on February 20, 2012 in protest against restoration of NATO supplies and warned to turn every square of the country into Tahrir Square if attempts were made to push the country to US subservience. From the platform of DPC, the parties assailed US policies and their leaders and slogan-chanting supporters condemned the continuing drone attacks and "attempts to restore NATO supplies".

The rally was dominated by JuD, JeI and ASWJ. Several speakers paid tribute to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed of JuD said the US wanted to avenge its defeat in Afghanistan and was exploiting the situation in Balochistan. He said India was using Kashmir against Pakistan as a tool and had blocked the flow of water to Pakistan, but the DPC would not allow this to happen. He said the people of Pakistan would stand by their armed forces and foil any conspiracy against the country. The conference adopted a 10-point agenda for steering the country out of the crisis and to restore Islamic values.
February 10: Eight years after two blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai killed 52 people; the Bombay High Court upheld the death sentence awarded to the three accused LeT militants. The court also asked two accused discharged earlier to appear before the trial court, where they will face a fresh case.
February 9: NIA submitted charge sheet against 18 accused in the Kashmir Terrorist Recruitment Case at NIA court Kochi, in Kerala. According to the charge sheet, Tadiyantavide Nazeer and Shafas who are accused in several other terrorism cases have joined hands with the banned LeT to execute anti-national activities.
February 7: SFs recovered a sophisticated pistol with one magazine and eight rounds at the behest of the arrested SPO Mohammad Rafiq alias Rafi from Kanuiyan forest area of Poonch District.

A group of men claiming to be members of an 'Intelligence Agency' took into custody four armed activists of the JuD detained by Rawalpindi Police. The four men brandishing weapons were on a double-cabin vehicle which was intercepted by Police at an Army-Police picket on Airport Road a few minutes before the convoy of an Iranian dignitary was to pass through the area. Two of the suspects were identified as Azhar and Qadhafi.

A press release issued by the JuD in Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh stated that the arrangements for Difa-e-Pakistan conference were in full swing and central leaders of JuD have reached Karachi. Difa-e-Pakistan Council, a coalition of parties and individuals including JuD, AML, JeI, JUP, and other religious parties, excluding JUI-F, is holding the conference scheduled to be held on February 12, 2012 near the Quaid-e-Azam's mausoleum on Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road in Karachi to pressurize the Government not to restore NATO supply.
February 6: ATS has found out that Haroon Naik, arrested on February 1 for 13/7 Mumbai blasts, had met LeT operations chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and was present at an "inspirational" lecture by slain al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan just a month before the 9/11 attack.

Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the chief of JuD, confessed for the first time about his meeting with al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and said he studied under the same scholar, named Sheikh bin Baz, who taught Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
February 4: Two LeT militants, identified as Muzaffar Ahmad Shiekh alias Chotu and Aashiq Hussain Shah, were killed in an encounter with SFs at Adoora village, 35 kilometres from Srinagar, in Pulwama District of Jammu and Kashmir.
February 3: SFs trapped three militants belonging to LeT by cordoning off the village after a brief encounter, eight kilometres from Pulwama town.
February 2: The founder of LeT and Jama'at-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed appeared to lose his cool on a TV show when Indian Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar questioned his contention that Indians did not accept Pakistan, and said he should be arrested and brought before court.

The Union Government has decided to continue the ban imposed on SIMI. The ban has been extended in light of SIMI's alleged links with certain Pakistan-based terrorist outfits including LeT and its front, Indian Mujahideen.
February 1: Border Security Forces have found out that a racket in FICN is operating from Pakistan with the support of ISI and LeT for distribution of FICN in India
January 31: The JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has kept the guessing game on about his reported political ambitions.
January 29: Police on LeT module in the Pattan area of Baramulla District.
January 29: Thousands of traders and activists from religious parties gathered near the Holy Family Hospital at Satellite Town in Rawalpindi District to call on the Government to stop 'unconstitutional' activities of the Ahmadiyya community. The protest, arranged by Traders' Associations, was attended by activists of JuD, JeI and the ASWJ. Members of the proscribed militant outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) were also in attendance. The rally took place in Satellite Town, where an Ahmadi worship place, Ewane Tawheed, is also located. The traders said it was built without prior official approval. Although the rally was held to protest alleged land 'encroachment', speakers used the occasion to demand that Ahmadis stop religious activities such as proselytizing and worshipping.
January 26: Investigations by the Jammu and Kashmir Police have found that "officials of an intelligence agency" had provided a Chinese pistol to a surrendered militant, who later used it to kill a SPO.

Though the Police refused to disclose the name of the agency, the revelation followed the arrest of a surrendered militant in connection with the disappearance of SPO Mohammad Hanief who was found murdered in Kishtwar District on December 10, 2011. Hanief was working with the Special Operation Group in Doda. Kishtwar Deputy Superintendent of Police (Headquarters), Abrar Chowdhary said the Police arrested former LeT militant Nafees Khandey. His two accomplices in the crime - Shahnawaz alias Bilal Ahmed Khander and Mohammad Rafiq - have already fled and rejoined militant ranks, according to the police. Nafees was also planning to rejoin the militant outfit at the time of his arrest, Chowdhary said, adding the Police seized a number of incriminating documents from him.
January 24: SFs recovered a large quantity of arms, ammunition and explosive material during two different search operations conducted in Budhal and Thanna Mandi areas of Rajouri District. The seizure belonged to LeT and HM outfits.
January 23: Police arrested a surrendered militant while two other former militants were reported to have joined the militant cadre after killing a SPO, Mohammad Hanief, on December 10, 2011 and taking away his AK-47 rifle in upper reaches of Thathri in Kishtwar District of Jammu and Kashmir.
January 22: The leaders of the PDC, comprising of 44 politico-religious parties of the country gathered at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi in a rally against what they called the anti-Pakistan forces. "Al-Jihad, Al-Jihad" (the holy war, the holy war) slogans rose from the crowd in response to every fiery claim by orators who warned against the 'grand conspiracies' being hatched by the 'enemies of Pakistan'. A majority of the participants in the rally were holding JuD flags, led by Hafiz Saeed, whose 17-minute speech, consistently referring to Indian-American aggression against Muslims, resonated with the crowd of over 50,000.

"The current standoff between state institutions is the result of a sin that we committed 10 years ago by allowing our territory to be used against Afghan Muslims, and until we repent for that grave mistake, we will never be able to overcome these issues," Saeed said, adding, "This is America's war and we only want to fight Pakistan's war." The PDC urged the Government to get rid of the US war on terrorism. The leaders demanded Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to make a timeframe to leave the war and formulate independent policies by keeping the national interests supreme. Saeed said that India is a greater threat to Pakistan than the United States (US). "The current Government is conspiring with the US to give in to Indian supremacy in the region. Granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status is part of that plan. We must practically oppose this," Saeed added. Activists of the participating religious outfits freely distributed hate material, including jihadi pamphlets, books, CDs and posters inciting sectarian hatred and urging jihad.
January 21: A Delhi court will hear arguments taking cognizance of the charge sheet filed by NIA against Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley and eight others including JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and LeT militant Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi. Headley and others are charged with planning and executing terror strikes in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai attack.
January 20: Police arrested three OGWs of the LeT from Handwara in Kupwara District. The arrestees were identified as Mohammad Rafiq, Aabid Hussain Rather and Abdul Rashid Khoja. Police said that these OGWs were arrested while they were coercing the inhabitants of Muqam and Hindwanpora villages to donate money for the LeT outfit. Police said five letter pads of LeT outfit were recovered from them.
January 19: SFs shot dead LeT 'commander', Abrar Khan alias Abu Mavia alias Abu Wasim alias Mistry, hailing from Pakistan, in an encounter at Khaneti Mohalla in Salwa area of Mendhar in Poonch District. Police sources said an operation was launched in Salwa area on specific information about the presence of Mistry in the forests. A contact with the militant was established at about 6am. His dead body was recovered later in the afternoon. Recoveries made from his possession included one AK-47 rifle with four magazines, one UBGL, four UBGL shells, 107 AK rounds and one pouch. Mistry, an 'A' category militants, was operating in twin border Districts of Rajouri and Poonch for past quite some time and had developed good network in Mendhar and adjoining areas.

The JuD said that the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan will attend its Difa-e-Pakistan (Defence of Pakistan) rally to be held in Multan District of Punjab Province on January 29, 2012. JuD leaders said the Difa-e-Pakistan gathering would also be attended by Jama'at-e-Islami (JeI) chief Munawar Hassan and Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and leaders of other religious and political parties. There was no word from Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party on the development. Khan has not attended other 'Defence of Pakistan' meetings organised by the JuD but a message from him was read out at a rally held in Lahore on December 18, 2011.

The movement was launched shortly after a cross-border November 26, 2011, NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. During rallies and meetings organised as part of the movement, leaders of the JuD and other extremist groups have mainly targeted the US and India.
January 19: Counter-terrorism agencies have narrowed down on the terror-financing module that is operating out of New Delhi, and is believed to have aided IM operatives in executing the July 13 triple blasts in Mumbai and the Delhi blast. Sources in counter-terrorism agencies said that they had identified the recipient of the money illegally channeled from Dubai to a hawala operator in Delhi. The money was laundered through an old LeT conduit, identified as Wali Aziz alias Rehan, who operates out of Dubai. The tip-off about the hawala trader was obtained after the arrest of six IM operatives in November 2011 and with the arrest of Naquee Ahmed, who reportedly helped the plotters of the 13/7 blasts find a safe-house in Byculla in Mumbai.
January 18: Security agencies have been put on a high alert after IB warned the Delhi Police last week that a LeT operative, identified as one Rehman, may have gained entry into the city to carry out a terror strike during the upcoming Republic Day (January 26) celebrations. Sources said Rehman is believed to be heavily armed and carrying sophisticated weapons and gadgetry and may have specifically entered Delhi with a mission to disrupt R-Day celebrations."We don't know his location. There are active IM sleeper modules in the city and Rehman may try to get in touch with their members to carry out a terror strike on the upcoming Republic Day celebrations. We are taking every measure to disrupt any attempt to strike the city," an unnamed top special cell official said.
January 17: A Pakistani ATC conducting the trail of seven men charged with involvement in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks (also known as 26/11) adjourned proceedings till January 28, 2012 after the main accused, LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, sought time to appoint a new lawyer, reports The Times of India. Lakhvi made the request as his lawyer Khwaja Sultan Ahmed died recently. Judge Shahid Rafique adjourned the case till January 28 and directed Lakhvi to appoint a new counsel before that date. The seven suspects, including Lakhvi, have been charged with planning, financing and facilitating the attacks that were carried out by 10 Pakistani terrorists.
January 14: DIG, North Kashmir Muneer Ahmad Khan said that there is 90 percent decline in militancy in Bandipora District but added that the militants in the District are using hi-tech devices and travel to Pakistan to get the training in handling them. He said Police in December 2011 arrested two militants who had recently returned from Pakistan after getting training in handling the hi-tech gadgets.

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, Lieutenant General K T Parnaik said on January 15 that nearly 2,500 militants were camping in terrorist training camps in Pakistan and PoK. Some 300 militants were also camping in launching pads in Pakistan and PoK. "Camps in PoK and Pakistan have 2,000 to 2,500 terrorists as per our own sources. However, in launching pads (along the borderline with Pakistan) they are around 300 or so," he said. On the security situation in J&K, the Army Commander said it was good. "Violence parameters have been down in 2011. Last year was a fruitful year. We had a fair amount of peace in the state," he added. "Though there had been continued attempts to push terrorists into this side of the border yet we successfully thwarted most of them. As per the reports, there would be attempts to revive the terrorists activities in the State as such we all have to remain alert and take pre-emptive measures," he added. To a question about reports of LeT revitalizing woman cadre, he said, "We keep getting these inputs from the intelligence sources. Frequent reports keep coming to us through sources about whatever happens across the border so far as terrorist mechanism is concerned. There are reports that woman cadre of the LeT is being trained in Muzaffarabad area of the Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir before being pushed into this side of the border. However, this is not yet corroborated. We have not shared this report officially with the State Government and anyone else and it will require sometime to further corroborate."

Alleged IM militants Salman alias Chotu and Shahzad Ahmed alias Pappu have allegedly confessed to the Bangalore Police that they had got explosives for the 2008 Delhi serial blasts from Udupi, a coastal town in Karnataka. Both LeT-trained Salman and Shahzad, natives of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh and arrested by Delhi Police in 2011, are co-accused in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast case in 2010.

In their confessional statement, they allegedly told the Bangalore anti-terrorism cell that their associates Mohammed Saif (now in jail) and Khalid (absconding) went to Udupi on August 31, 2008, and brought the explosives to Delhi on September 3, 2008. The Delhi blasts took place on September1 3, 2008.

JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed expressed support for the contacts between the US and Afghan Taliban and urged the Government to open a dialogue with Pakistani militants. Addressing a news conference at Karachi Press Club in Karachi, he said that by initiating a reconciliation process for Afghanistan the US had "in effect accepted its mistake" of invading the country.
January 13: Mohammad Rafiq alias Rafi, the SPO arrested along with five others, was reportedly engaged in espionage, according to. There were reports that he had developed contacts with Pakistan Army, ISI and militant 'commanders' of LeT and HM during his stay in Pakistan, before returning to India and joining the services. This aspect was, however, yet to be confirmed by Police.

Parveen Akhter, wife of Mohammad Azam of Mendhar in Poonch District, has turned out to be another woman militant with confirmed involvement of her links with a Pakistan based militant of LeT outfit, also named as Mohammad Azam. Police arrested Parveen Akhter along with Bashir Akhter of Qasba in Poonch District. During questioning, Parveen Akhter alias Parveena is said to have disclosed that Mohammad Azam used to smuggle weapons from PoK up to the LoC at fixed spots in Poonch District. Parveena picked up the weapons, FICNs, SIM cards and other material from the LoC and supplied them to militants, including Mohammad Hafiz of Surankote. Hafiz has already been arrested by Srinagar Police.
January 10: A red alert was sounded in Kishanganj District after intelligence reports suggested that eight LeT terrorists had sneaked in there from across the porous Indo-Nepal border, official sources said. The sources told agency that sleuths of the IB have already visited the District and held a 'secret' meeting with Kishanganj (P Ranjit Kumar Mishra in this regard. Apart from SSB personnel, District Armed Police personnel too were maintaining strict vigil on the porous border and people moving into the district from Nepal were being thoroughly frisked, the SP said. All the important trains were being escorted with heavy security personnel as personnel of the RPF were deployed in railway stations in the District. Vigil was also being kept on the movement of trains in other Districts of the Seemanchal belt: Purnia, Araria, and Katihar, sources said.

Railway stations along the Bihar-Nepal border have been put on alert after intelligence reports that a group of terrorists have sneaked into the State and could pose a threat to railway facilities in the area. According to intelligence agencies, the terrorists could attack stations near the border like Raxaul, Sugauli, Adapur, Sikta, Narkatiaganj, Betiah and Motihari. RPF's chief security commissioner (Samastipur) S N Arya said that following the threat reports received from the intelligence departments of the State and Central Governments, all railway stations along the Bihar-Nepal border have been put on maximum alert. According to reports, he said that a Pakistani terrorist was arrested in Kathmandu in Nepal last week. To seek his release, a group of seven to eight Afghani terrorists sneaked into the District from across the Nepal border, posing major threat to Railway Stations and trains besides other vital installation along the border, Arya said.

The Army said that Security Forces had foiled numerous infiltration attempts and terrorists were on the run with their leadership eliminated to a great extent in Jammu and Kashmir. "The relentless hard work by security forces has kept terrorists on the run in Jammu and Kashmir", General Officer Commanding in Chief (GOC-in-C), Northern Command, Lieutenant General K T Parnaik said. "As their numbers have dwindled and the leadership has been eliminated to a great extent, the operations are now entering a more difficult phase," he added. "This demands excellent synergy among all security forces, intelligence agencies and the civil administration," the Army officer said. He expressed hope the terrorists would be dealt a final blow in the state soon.

According to a recent intelligence report, the LeT in association with IM is planning to carry out attacks in Mumbai and Delhi in near future. Probable targets include ports and vital installations on the coastal front.
January 7: The DPC on warned of countrywide protests if the Government reopens supply routes for allied forces stationed in neighbouring Afghanistan. The DPC, which comprises the JI, JuD, Frontal organisation of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and others, made the demand in a joint declaration adopted at a meeting between the top leadership in Islamabad.

The meeting was attended by DPC Chairman and JUI-S chief Maulana Samee-ul-Haq, Gen (r) Hameed Gul, JI chief Syed Munwar Hassan, JuD chief Professor Saeed Ahmad, Pakistan Awami League chief Sheikh Rasheed, Pakistan Muslim League-Zia-ul-Haq leader Ijaz ul Haq, Abdul Rasheed Turabi, Jamiat Al-Hadith General Secretary Abtisam Elahi, Ghulam Mustafa Jadoon and Hafiz Abdur Rehman. Addressing a news conference, DPC leaders warned they would resist any move by the Government to reopen NATO supply routes. They added that a mass awareness campaign would be launched against the "terrorism" being "covertly sponsored" by India and the United States in the country. DPC leaders said that the meetings would be held in Rawalpindi on January 22, Multan on January 29 and Karachi on February 12.

A Melbourne-based Pakistani student, Salman Ghumman (23), was deported on security grounds after being questioned by Australian security intelligence officials over his suspect phone calls to Pakistan. Ghumman was detained last month by immigration officials after several months of questioning by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation officials over suspect phone calls made to Pakistan and why he was in Australia. His father Manzoor Hussain Ghumman, a retired Pakistani Air Force officer, was quoted by the paper as saying that the family was concerned about his son's fate if he be picked up and questioned by Pakistani security services. Ghumman said he feared his son had been unfairly targeted because the family had donated money to JuD, a frontal organisation believed to be the charity arm of LeT. Ghumman, who arrived in Australia in July 2010 to study accounting at the Melbourne Institute of Technology, said he was mortified at his situation and was determined to clear his name and return to Australia to complete an accounting degree at La Trobe University.
January 5: Police in Anantnag busted a six member LeT module. Police said that the module was busted after the arrest of a youth, Younis Ahmad, of Arwani. "During his questioning he reveal that he along with other members of this module had arranged weapons and delivered them to the militants operating in Tral", said Police. Police said that on his disclosure his five associates who were also working for LeT were arrested. Police identified them as Shakoor-ul-Mansoor Parray, Tawseef Hussain Bhat, Mudasir Ahmad Bhat, Mohammad Shafi Bhat and Mohammad Younis Bhat son of Ghulam Ahmad.

Police said that the module was involved in arranging and transportation of weapons and were also facilitating the movement of militants by providing them information regarding the movements of security forces in the area. The module had also succeeded in recruiting some youths into the militancy, said police. Police said that module was working at the behest of a LeT 'commander' of Pulwama and Kulgam.
January 4: Bandipora Police neutralized two militant modules, one each of LeT and HM, who were planning the target killings in the District. Superintendent of Police (Bandipora) Bashir Ahmed Khan said that Police arrested six youths in two separate raids from Hajin area of Sonawari in the District. They were affiliated with HM and LeT. Khan said that Police arrested a youth, identified as Fayaz Ahmed of village Hajin. He said that during the questioning Fayaz disclosed that he was working with the HM since last nine months. Khan said that on his disclosure, Police arrested two of his accomplices from Hajin. They have been identified as Zubair Ahmed Parray. Khan said that the trio confessed that they were working with the HM and were recruiting the youth into militant ranks. During the questioning they said that they were tasked to kill some influential political workers and Police personnel in the District. A matrix sheet and list of people of few political workers and police personnel were recovered from their possession, Khan added.

Police neutralized an LeT module, believed to be planning target killings, operating in Sonawari area and arrested three militants, identified as Zahoor Ahmed Dar, Ghulam Muhammad Bhat and Nissar Ahmed Ganie. Zahoor Ahmad Dar had visited Pakistan at the behest of LeT for computer training in May 2011. After staying in training camps for 15 days he returned back. Later, Zahoor Ahmed contacted a surrendered militant, Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, for sending across some educated youths for computer and arms training. Ghulam Mohammed motivated Nissar Ahmed Dar at the behest of Zahoor Ahmed and sent him across for computer training and was transporting money and other material for the LeT cadres. These youths were assigned the job of targeting political activists and police personnel in the District. The arrested militants had earlier threatened Panches and Sarpanches during 2011 Panchayat elections.
January 3: The LeT is raising a group of 21 female terrorists at its training camps in PoK for carrying out sabotage activities in India, Army sources said, "We have confirmed reports that LeT is imparting training to 21 selected female terrorists at its training facilities in Muzaffarabad in PoK for carrying out terrorist activities in India," an unnamed Army official said in New Delhi.

Army said the new group, named as Dukhtareen-e-Toiba, is planned to be made active in the Kashmir Valley by the LeT. The women terrorists are planned to be infiltrated into India through routes in Uri sector or using the aerial route through some other country.

DNA quoted sources as saying, "Inputs reveal that 21 girls are being trained by LeT at Divalia, Muzzafarabad, under the name of Dukhtaran-e-Toiba." The group, after training, have been placed under the command of an LeT 'commander', Sayeed Sadaqat Hussain, for future deployment in Kashmir, the sources added.

Intercepts indicate that the new front is being activated since the earlier formation of women DeM led by Asiya Andrabi has not been successful in mobilising people as it had in the past. According to reports, the sources said, the effort is to try and infiltrate these trained cadres into India either through the Uri sector or even Nepal.

Another training camp, according to other information, is located at Turbeladem in PoK in which over 400 terrorists in various groups are being trained and that the facility is being commanded by a senior officer of ISI. The sources said the ISI asked the LeT and other terror groups to carry out attacks against the Indian troops deployed on the LoC. These groups, the reports said, carried out reconnaissance in areas on the other side of the LoC facing the Indian forward defence locations.
January 1:The Ramban District is speedily moving towards "zero militancy" as only four militants of HM are currently active in the area. "There are only four militants of HM outfit operating in Ramban District," Superintendent of Police Anil Mangotra said. "These surviving militants are hiding somewhere in the upper reaches, and the police and army are trying hard to locate and eliminate them," he added. Five top militants including two top HM and LeT 'commanders' were killed in Ramban in 2011, giving a big jolt to militancy in the District, he said. Bordered by thick forested belts of Doda, Anantnag, Udhampur and Reasi Districts, Ramban has seen more than 400 militants of different outfits including HM, LeT, JeM, HuJI, HuM and HMPPR operating in the District till 2000, he said.

Pakistan is unmatched in terms of the freedom it allows for the pursuit of jihad (holy war) and for the spread of Islam, said JuD chief Hafiz Saeed.