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SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
Weekly Assessments & Briefings
Volume 12, No. 15, October 14 , 2013
Data and
assessments from SAIR can be freely published in any form
with credit to the South Asia Intelligence Review of the
South Asia Terrorism Portal
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J&K:
Incoherence and Volatility
Anurag Tripathi
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
In its
continuing attempt to reverse the trend of deepening
peace in the Indian State of Jammu
and Kashmir (J&K), Islamabad has, since the beginning
of 2013, intensified its onslaught on the border, repeatedly
violating the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) signed in November
2003. The ‘intrusion’ into Shala Bhata village
along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Keran Sector of
Kupwara District in September 2013, was a glaring recent
example of such violations.
Reports
suggest that a group of an estimated 30 to 40 infiltrators,
comprising Pakistan Army’s Border Action Team (BAT) troops
and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed terrorists,
had ‘captured’ Shala Bhata village at some time
in September 2013. The Army, however, denies such reports,
asserting, “The enemy was not occupying higher ground
but sitting in a nallah (rivulet)… If this was
intrusion, the adversary would go and occupy dominating
ground which is defensible.” Nevertheless, the Army was
forced to launch Operation Shala Bhata on September
24, 2013. According to reports, at least 19 terrorists
were killed during the operation. Five troopers also sustained
injuries during the operation. The operation was called
off on October 8, 2013, with Army declaring, “our counter-insurgency
deployment is being strengthened. We are now going to
launch operations which are intelligence based, which
are surveillance based, so that we can eliminate and meet
the challenges.”
In the
meantime, an Army soldier was killed at Kachal along the
LoC in the Keran Sector as the Army foiled an infiltration
bid by terrorists in the night of October 10, 2013.
The sheer
duration of the Operation Shala Bhata clearly demonstrated
the enormous challenge that the SFs faced during the course
of 15-days over which the engagement was extended. Indeed,
the last protracted counter insurgency (CI) operation,
Operation
Khoj, had been launched in the
J&K between March 27 and April 2, 2010, following
information that a large group of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
terrorists, all equipped with maps, weapons and ammunition,
had infiltrated along the Pallanwalla sector in Jammu
(Jammu District) in the night of March 22, 2010. 16 LeT
terrorists and six soldiers were killed, as almost 1,000
troops spread out across an area of just over 50 square
kilometers. Speaking about the scale of the Operation
Khoj, then General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the
CI Uniform Force, Major General M.M.S. Rai stated, "No
doubt it was the biggest by the sheer size of it, and
the number of people involved on ground. We wanted to
quickly eliminate, search and destroy and that is why
we lost our own men too." SFs later claimed that
Operation Khoj was, in fact, the second largest
CI operation in the State after
Operation Sarpa Vinash (Snake
Destroyer) that was executed in the State in 2003 in the
remote Hill Kaka region near Surankote town in Poonch
District. "Operation Sarp Vinash, which was
conducted in an area of approximately 150 square kilometres
between April and June [2003] after comprehensive planning,
led to the elimination of 65 terrorists and smashing of
119 hideouts," an unnamed senior Army officer had
then told the Media.
Meanwhile,
talking about the direct role of the Pakistan Army in
the latest offensive from across the Border, General Officer
Commanding (GOC) Northern Army command, Lieutenant General
Sanjiv Chachra asserted,
The
infiltrating terrorists have always received the
tacit support of the Pakistan Army establishment.
We are almost on eyeball-to-eyeball and we can see
each other. At such a point of time, a large group
of terrorists infiltrating… you mean to say that
this is happening without the complicity of Pakistan
Army? This is ridiculous. 59 major weapons, including
18 AK Rifles, and war like stores were recovered.
Most of the arms recovered from the scene of operation
have Pakistan marking.
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Earlier
in the year, the Pakistan Army’s direct involvement had
been established in two gruesome attacks on Indian troopers.
Indeed, on January 8, 2013, Pakistani troopers and ISI-backed
terrorists breached the LoC in the Mankot Sector of Mendhar
Tehsil (revenue unit) in Poonch District, ambushed
an Indian Army patrol, and killed and mutilated two Indian
troopers, identified as Lance Naik Hem Raj and Lance Naik
Sudhakar Singh. Lance Naik Hem Raj was decapitated and
his head was carried away by the attackers, while fleeing
back into Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) territory. Again,
in the early hours of August 6, 2013, personnel of Pakistan
Army’s BAT, along with a group of 20 heavily armed terrorists,
entered 450 metres deep into Indian Territory along the
LoC in the Poonch sector. The intruders ambushed an Indian
Army patrol consisting of six soldiers, killing five of
them and injuring the sixth.
According
to partial data compiled by the South Asia Terrorism
Portal (SATP), a total of 117 CFA violations have
taken place in the State since January 1, 2013 (data till
October 13, 2013), resulting in the death of nine Indian
soldiers. In comparison, 92 CFA violations had taken place
through year 2012, in which three Indian soldiers had
been killed. Similarly, as against 34 attempts at infiltration
through 2012, the current year has already witnessed 39
such attempts (till October 13, 2013).
Unsurprisingly,
in a significant reversal of the declining
trend of terrorist violence in the
State since 2001, a steep hike has been recorded this
year in terrorism-related fatalities. SATP has recorded
at least 164 fatalities, including 91 terrorists, 54 SF
personnel and 19 civilians, in 2013; as compared to 80
such fatalities, including of 58 terrorists, 11 civilians
and 11 SFs in the corresponding period of the preceding
year, and a total of 117 fatalities (16 civilians, 17
SF personnel and 84 terrorists) through 2012. On all other
parameters,
moreover, violence in the State has escalated in the current
year, more so since Nawaz Sharif assumed power in Pakistan.
Significantly,
the latest act of Pakistani malfeasance, the ‘intrusion’
at Shala Bhata, occurred precisely when the Prime Ministers
of both countries – Manmohan Singh (India) and Nawaz Sharif
(Pakistan) – were holding talks in the US at the sidelines
of the UN General Assembly meeting. This was a grim reminder
of the infamous Kargil
intrusion which was going on when
then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was on
a historic goodwill visit to Pakistan.
Fortunately,
though, the Shala Bhata ‘intrusion’ failed to challenge
the Indian troops the way Kargil did, though the mere
intention of engineering such offensives exposes the true
colour of Islamabad’s intentions. Despite this, the current
regime in New Delhi appears to have completely lost the
plot, and continues with its desperate efforts to ‘buy
peace’. Such evidence of policy incoherence and weakness
will only encourage Pakistan even further in its continuing
mischief, creating increasing volatility along the border.
With the likelihood of an escalating crisis in the wake
of the Afghanistan drawdown, it is high time for New Delhi
to take corrective measures if it is not to allow J&K
to plunge into a renewed phase of chaos reminiscent of,
if not exceeding, disaster of the pre-9/11 situation in
the State.
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Meghalaya:
Renewed Terror
Veronica Khangchian
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
On September
26, 2013, a villager, identified as Nirmal Sangma, was
shot dead by Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA)
cadres at his residence at Awek Village near Shallang
in the West Khasi Hills District. The villager was executed
by the GNLA on the allegation that he was a Police informer.
The GNLA cadres fled the scene after the killing.
GNLA also
carried out a major attack (resulting in three or more
fatalities), on September 16, 2013, when it attacked a
village in Garobadha region, 32 kilometres from Tura in
the West Garo Hills District, shooting dead three persons,
including a youth and two women, in the night. Police
allege that the GNLA had demanded INR 500,000 each from
the families of the two victims (the third person killed
was a woman trying to fight off the attackers) some time
ago. The victims had reportedly made a partial payment
to the armed group, but that failed to deter the killers.
According
to South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), the GNLA
has killed 11 civilians, out of the total of 19 civilians
killed in the State in 2013 [data till October 13, 2013].
Recent
incidents of civilians killed, often after branding them
as Police informers or collaborators, by GNLA, include:
September
3, 2013: A 10 member GNLA 'execution squad' killed a GNLA
'deserter' at an unspecified location.
August
20, 2013: Suspected GNLA militants killed a villager,
Jenifar N. Sangma (47), in front of his family in the
Rangmai village of Ruga region in South Garo Hills District.
13 heavily armed GNLA militants under the command of Kongsil,
came to the village and targeted Sangma's family on suspicion
that they were Police collaborators. While the militants
dragged out and shot Sangma dead, they severely assaulted
his teenage son.
August
12, 2013: Suspected GNLA militants shot dead Hawart G.
Momin at Rongcheck Akong in East Garo Hills District,
accusing him of being a Police informer. Police recovered
five empty cases of INSAS and 7.65 pistol shots from the
spot.
August
10, 2013: Suspected GNLA militants killed a village elder
identified as Simon Ch Marak in East Garo Hills after
accusing him of being a Police collaborator.
The Security
Forces (SFs) have been on an Operation
against the outfit since its formation in 2009, and have
secured some successes against the group this year. According
to SATP data, of the total 18 militants killed thus far,
nine were connected with GNLA. No SF personnel have been
killed by the outfit, despite several reported encounters.
In an incident
which greatly angered GNLA, the 'second in command' of
the outfit’s 'central command', Pilon M. Sangma alias
Markus, was shot dead in a three-hour-long encounter with
the East Garo Hills Police at Bansamgre village in East
Garo Hills District in the morning of July 19, 2013. Another
GNLA cadre, who reportedly sustained injuries, succumbed
later.
On August
7, 2013, reportedly to avenge the death of its leader,
GNLA militants triggered an improvised explosive device
(IED) blast targeting six Police personnel travelling
in a bullet proof truck at Nengkhra in the East Garo Hills
District. Though there were no casualties, the vehicle
was damaged. The IED blast was reportedly executed by
a special team of the GNLA under direct operational command
of its ‘chief’ Sohan D. Shira .The Assam-based Independent
faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I),
is suspected to have supplied the IED to the GNLA.
In another
significant operation on August 23, 2013, the ‘general
headquarters’ of the GNLA inside the jungles of Durama
Hills in East Garo Hills District, was neutralized by
SFs and one militant was reportedly shot dead. Police
sources disclosed that, when the attack was launched on
the camp, the militants returned fire and the gun battle
lasted over an hour. The destruction of the camp is said
to be a major blow for GNLA 'chief' Shira, since it housed
the outfit's cadres and was also used to provide training
to new recruits.
On June
29, 2013, GNLA had threatened to launch a ‘street war’
against SFs if the Government continued its anti-insurgency
operations and brought more forces into the Garo Hills.
GNLA’s
links
with ULFA-I are also a matter of serious concern. An August
24, 2013, report noted that GNLA had planned to train
a new batch of over 150 cadres in their new general headquarters
camp located deep inside the Durama hills of East Garo
Hills bordering the southern District, with support from
ULFA-I, when SFs attacked the site on August 23, 2013.
Further,
on July 30, 2013, an ULFA-I explosive expert, identified
as Sanjit Rabha, who was deputed by the ULFA-I to train
GNLA militants in bomb making, was shot dead in an encounter
with the Police near Tura in the West Garo Hills District.
Rabha was with a group of GNLA cadres at Rongkugre, which
falls under Dobasipara Police outpost, when SWAT commandos
raided the area.
In 2012,
GNLA had announced its willingness to end its armed struggle
if the Central Government was ready to accept its demand
for creation of a separate State for the Garos, carved
out of the present State of Meghalaya. More recently,
on July 21, 2013, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma hinted that
the State Government was willing to hold talks with GNLA,
observing, "We have to continue necessary measures
to neutralise militant outfits but at the same time, doors
for achieving sustained peace cannot be closed."
The Chief Minister noted that the Government would be
receptive to any proposal from any outfit to take part
in the peace process. However, in 2012, Mukul Sangma had
declared that there was ‘no question’ of holding dialogue
with the GNLA.
Further,
an August 8, 2013, report suggested that, with no end
to militancy-related violence in the Garo Hills, former
Chief Minister S.C. Marak felt that the GNLA should be
included in the peace process with the Government. According
to Marak, when the Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC)
was created, there was chaos and havoc in the Garo Hills;
but after peace talks with ANVC, there was relative peace.
This, however, has been shattered by the emergence of
GNLA.
Besides
Breakaway faction of ANVC (ANVC-B) and United A’chik Liberation
Army (UALA),
the GNLA remains a major threat to peace in the state.
The three outfits were once part and parcel of the mother
organization ANVC.
Despite
its offer of talks, on August 18, 2013, GNLA rejected
a proposal by the ANVC-B to the Government to have a 'Territorial
Council', with strengthening of the Garo Hills Autonomous
District Council (GHADC). GNLA insists that it would continue
to pursue its goal for a Garoland State. The outfit's
'publicity secretary' Pantera Singgasik declared, "ANVC-B
has mooted for a Territorial Council. We wish them the
best. As far as GNLA is concerned we will seek nothing
short of a separate State for the Garos." On August
1, 2013, the Centre had reached an agreement with the
ANVC and ANVC-B under which the autonomy of the GHADC
would be enhanced. Disclosing this during a press conference,
Union Home Minister, SushilKumar Shinde announced that
the agreement would be placed before the Cabinet for approval
and that, "We expect that the signing of the agreement
with the ANVC will improve the situation in the area (Garo
Hills)."
On July
15, 2013, ANVC-B leader Doang D. Shira issued a statement
asserting that making Sohan D. Shira a part of a peace
pact between the ANVC and the Government could change
the situation in the Garo Hills and, "We are open
and ready to include Sohan in the signing of the peace
pact." The ANVC-B was part of the tripartite dialogue
held on January 5, 2013, between the ANVC, the Centre
and the Meghalaya Government. Following the dialogue,
a draft text for settlement of the ANVC issue through
the enhancement of powers of the existing GHADC was signed.
On July
17, 2013, however, GNLA categorically rejected the ANVC-B
offer of joining the peace talks, and accused the latter
formation of collaborating with the Meghalaya Government
in “eliminating” GNLA cadres. In response to Doang D.
Shira’s statement inviting GNLA to join the ongoing peace
process, Sohan D. Shira reiterated that such a proposal
from the rival outfit could not be entertained, since
there was an ongoing move by the State Government in collaboration
with the ANVC-B to try and bring GNLA to its knees. However,
Sohan Shira has expressed willingness to engage with the
Delhi, declaring, "We will talk to the Centre, not
with the ANVC."
On June
5, 2013, while addressing the Conference of Chief Ministers
on internal security, Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma
expressed concern over the rise in GNLA’s unlawful activities.
Sangma noted, "Even though internal security situation
in Meghalaya continues to be stable and under control,
the GNLA remains a matter of concern." He also cautioned
that insurgents from neighbouring states used the long
and porous Bangladesh border along Meghalaya to their
advantage and raised concerns over rising militancy in
the Hill State due to the lack of development and thin
Police presence. Chief Minister Sangma noted that the
remote and inaccessible Garo Hills area had a low Police-population
ratio and the five districts in the region had just 16
Police Stations, leaving vast tracts of land practically
outside the Police network. During the course of counter-insurgency
operations, he observed, SFs often trekked three to four
days to reach certain remote locations. In sum, he noted,
"Due to the porous border with Bangladesh, various
militant groups active in the neighbouring states have
been using the Garo Hills as a corridor for sneaking in
and out of Bangladesh with relative ease. These militant
outfits have, over the years, trained and nurtured various
Garo militant groups. There is, therefore, a need for
increasing the Police presence in the interior areas of
the Garo Hills region to improve the response time of
Police."
It is,
however, not quite clear what the Chief Minister is complaining
about. According to the National Crime Records Bureau
(NCRB) data for end 2012, Meghalaya has a rather healthy
Police-population ratio of 426 per 100,000, as against
India’s anemic average of 138. If there is a deficit in
deployment and establishment of Police Stations in some
parts of the State, this is squarely the failure of the
State Government and the State Police administration.
Meghalaya's
new Director General of Police (DGP), Peter James Pyngrope
Haneman has expressed the view that strong political will
was required to tackle the problem of militancy: "It
is important that the strategy adopted by the Police to
tackle the problem of militancy should have a political
back up. The basic objective in dealing with the problem
of militancy is to bring back the misguided youth into
the mainstream."
The ‘lack
of political will’ has long been shorthand for a wide
range of ailments in administration and governance, and
it is clear that these continue to create spaces for the
cyclical resurrection of insurgent violence in Meghalaya.
Meghalaya’s insurgencies are now deeply degraded, and
have limited capacities. It is nothing but the failure
of the political and police leadership of the State that
they have not yet been entirely neutralized.
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Weekly Fatalities: Major
Conflicts in South Asia
October 7-13,
2013
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Civilians
|
Security
Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
BANGLADESH
|
|
Islamist Terrorism
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
4
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INDIA
|
|
Assam
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
2
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Jammu and
Kashmir
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Meghalaya
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
Left-wing
Extremism
|
|
Chhattisgarh
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
Jharkhand
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
Total (INDIA)
|
3
|
2
|
3
|
8
|
PAKISTAN
|
|
Balochistan
|
10
|
0
|
0
|
10
|
FATA
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
|
9
|
6
|
0
|
15
|
Punjab
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
Sindh
|
18
|
2
|
5
|
25
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Total (PAKISTAN)
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|
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Provisional
data compiled from English language media sources.
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BANGLADESH
ICT-2
awards
former
BNP
minister
Abdul
Alim
'imprisonment
until
death'
for
War
Crimes:
International
Crimes
Tribunal-2
(ICT-2)
on
October
9
sentenced
former
Bangladesh
Nationalist
Party
(BNP)
minister
Abdul
Alim
(83)
to
'imprisonment
until
death'.
The
prosecution
was
able
to
prove
nine
of
the
17
charges
brought
against
Alim,
who
was
a
member
of
BNP
founder
Ziaur
Rahman's
cabinet.
Meanwhile,
ICT-1
on
October
9
indicted
vice-president
of
Nagarkanda
unit
in
Faridpur
District
of
BNP
M.A.
Zahid
Hossain
Khokon
(70)
alias
Khokon
Razakar
on
11
charges,
including
genocide,
torture,
abduction
and
confinement
during
the
Liberation
War.
Daily
Star,
October
9-10,
2013.
BNP
will
stop
war
crimes
trial
if
voted
to
power,
warns
Prime
Minister
Sheikh
Hasina:
Prime
Minister
Sheikh
Hasina
on
October
10
seeking
vote
for
the
Awami
League
in
the
next
election
said
that
Bangladesh
Nationalist
Party
(BNP)
will
stop
war
crimes
trial
if
voted
to
power.
"I
seek
vote
for
the
Awami
League….we've
initiated
the
trial
of
the
war
criminals
and
the
trial
will
continue
and
Insha-Allah,
we'll
complete
the
trial.
If
the
BNP-Jamaat
[JeI]
returns
to
power
they
will
stop
the
trial
of
the
war
criminals,"
she
said.
Daily
Star,
October
11,
2013.
INDIA
Terrorists
planning
another
Samba-style
attack
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir,
warn
Intelligence
Agencies:
Two
suicide
squads
responding
to
wireless
call
sign
"88"
and
"Hotel
4"
are
learnt
to
have
sneaked
into
the
State
to
carry
out
another
Samba-style
terror
attack,
warned
Intelligence
Agencies.
Intelligence
Agencies
have
cautioned
the
State
Police
and
also
issued
an
alert
to
military
installations
in
Srinagar,
Udhampur,
Jammu,
Samba
and
Pathankot.
India
Today,
October
1-7,
2013.
Gujarat
Chief
Minister
Narendra
Modi
prime
target
of
top
10
terror
organisations,
reveals
Yasin
Bhatkal:
Gujarat
Chief
Minister
and
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
(BJP)
Prime
Ministerial
candidate
Narendra
Modi
is
the
prime
target
of
top
10
terror
organization,
arrested
Indian
Mujahideen
(IM)
'India
operation
chief'
Yasin
Bhatkal
has
revealed
in
the
interrogation.
Bhatkal
was
arrested
on
August
28,
2013.
Daily
Bhaskar,
October
9,
2013.
Naxal
violence
declining
since
2010,
says
UMHA
Sushilkumar
Shinde:
The
Union
Minister
for
Home
Affairs
(UMHA)
Sushilkumar
Shinde
on
October
10
said
that
the
Naxal
[Left-Wing
Extremism
(LWE)]
perpetrated
violence
has
gone
down
since
2010.
"The
Left
Wing
Extremism
(LWE)-violence
has
been
declining
since
2010.
The
number
of
incidents
of
violence
declined
from
2,213
(with
1,005
resultant
deaths)
in
2010
to
1,415
incidents
(with
415
resultant
deaths)
in
2012.
In
the
current
year
(up
to
August),
there
has
been
a
27.48
per
cent
reduction
in
such
incidents
(with
14.10
per
cent
reduction
in
resultant
deaths)
in
comparison
to
the
corresponding
period
in
2012,"
he
added.
The
Hindu,
October
11,
2013.
India
and
US
to
jointly
target
financial
networks
of
Pakistan-based
terror
outfits:
India
and
the
US
on
October
13
agreed
to
work
together
to
target
the
financial
network
and
fund
raising
activities
of
Pakistan-based
terror
outfits
like
Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT)/,Jamaat-ud-Dawa
(JuD),
the
Haqqani
network
and
individual
terrorists
associated
with
these
organisations.
The
decision
by
the
two
countries,
in
this
regard,
was
taken
during
a
meeting
between
finance
minister
P.
Chidambaram
and
US
treasury
secretary
Jack
Lew.
Times
of
India,
October
14,
2013.
PAKISTAN
TTP
vows
to
attack
Malala
Yousafzai
again:
The
Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan
(TTP)
on
October
7
said
schoolgirl
campaigner
Malala
Yousafzai
had
"no
courage"
and
vowed
to
attack
her
again
if
they
got
the
chance.
Shahidullah
Shahid,
'spokesman'
of
TTP,
said,
"She
is
not
a
brave
girl
and
has
no
courage.
We
will
target
her
again
and
attack
whenever
we
have
a
chance."
TTP
had
tried
to
kill
Malala
on
October
9,
2012,
but
she
survived
after
being
shot
in
the
head.
Dawn,
October
8,
2013.
US
troops
capture
senior
TTP
leader
Latif
Mehsud,
says
US
official:
US
troops
captured
a
senior
leader
of
the
Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan
(TTP)
in
a
military
operation,
US
State
Department
deputy
spokesperson
Marie
Harf
said
on
October
11.
"I
can
confirm
that
US
forces
did
capture…
terrorist
leader
Latif
Mehsud
in
a
military
operation,"
Marie
Harf
said,
describing
the
captive
as
a
senior
commander
in
the
TTP.
Harf
gave
no
further
details
of
the
operation
nor
did
she
say
where
and
when
it
took
place,
keeping
a
shroud
on
whether
the
operation
was
in
Afghanistan
or
Pakistani
territory.
Tribune,
October
12,
2013.
Government
'sincere'
on
talks
with
TTP,
says
PM
Nawaz
Sharif:
Prime
Minister
(PM)
Nawaz
Sharif
on
October
10
said
his
Government
was
'sincere'
about
holding
peace
talks
with
the
Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan
(TTP),
after
TTP
'chief'
Hakimullah
Mehsud
complained
no
serious
steps
had
been
taken
to
open
a
dialogue.
Sharif
said
progress
was
being
made
on
the
issue
of
opening
negotiations.
Dawn,
October
11,
2013.
SRI
LANKA
Parliament
is
the
best
forum
to
address
the
issue
of
implementation
of
the
13th
Amendment,
says
President
Mahinda
Rajapaksa:
President
Mahinda
Rajapaksa
expressing
his
view
to
Indian
External
Affairs
Minister
Salman
Khurshid
when
the
latter
called
on
him
at
President's
House
in
Colombo
on
October
8
said
Parliament
is
the
best
forum
to
address
the
issue
of
implementation
of
the
13th
Amendment.
He
added
that
Parliamentary
Select
Committee
(PSC)
members
should
engage
in
dialogue
and
come
up
with
a
solution
that
is
in
line
with
'what
the
people
want'.
Meanwhile,
Salman
Khurshid
during
his
visit
to
Jaffna
District
on
October
8
said,
"India
remains
committed
to
uplifting
the
lives
of
the
people
of
the
Northern
Province
through
its
efforts
to
restore
the
social,
educational,
economic
and
cultural
infrastructure,
which
were
devastated
by
the
armed
conflict."
Daily
News;
Colombo
Page,
October
9,
2013.
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