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SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
Weekly Assessments & Briefings
Volume 9, No. 13, October 4, 2010
 
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Data and
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South Asia Terrorism Portal
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Orissa:
Troubled Fronts
Fakir Mohan Pradhan
Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management
On September
20, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
shot dead Rabi Khara, the Sarpanch (head of village
level local self-Government institution) of Bijayghati
Panchayat (local level self-Government institution),
and his associate Puri Sirka at Kudumul village near
Damanjodi in the Koraput District while seriously injuring
Suresh Sirka, another associate of the Sarpanch.
A letter written in Telugu was left at the incident
site by the Maoists, claiming that the victims were
killed because they were ‘Police informers’ and were
involved in exploitation of local tribals. Significantly,
the Maoists also alleged that they were key elements
behind the disruption of a rally planned by the Chasi
Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS)-Narayanpatna, a Maoist
backed outfit, at Koraput on September 13, 2009.
The roots
of CMAS in Koraput District in Orissa can be traced
to the Ryot Kuli Sangham [Peasant Labourers Association]
of Parvatipuram in the Vizianagaram District of Andhra
Pradesh (AP). Bhaskar Rao alias Basa leader from
AP had started Ryot Kuli Sangham activities in
Almonda Gram Panchayat (GP) under Bandhugaon
Block in 1995. Some 10 years later, Kondagiri Paidama
of village Bada-Bankidi and Arjuna Kendruka of Kesubhadara
took up the leadership of the organization. Subsequently,
under the leadership of Nachika Linga and Nachika Chamara
of village Baliaput; Tlusu Hika and Hluku Singanna of
village Basanaput; Wdeka Singanna and Nachika Bundu
of Podapadar village; and Mahuka Lalu and Habika Manu
of Tekapadu Village, the activities of the organisation
gathered momentum in the Podapadar GP of Narayanpatna
Block. After a ban was imposed on the organisation in
2006, the Sangha reincarnated itself as the Chasi
Mulia Adivasi Sangha (Peasants, Labourers and Tribals
Association) under the same leaders, and concentrated
its activities in Podapadar GP. A massive rally was
organised on October 10, 2006, at Narayanpatna, and
on October 12, 2006, at Koraput, in which CMAS demanded
the release of their supporters from prison and distribution
of Pattas (land deeds) to Adivasis (tribals).
Subsequently, however, CMAS activities have gradually
become more violent.
Internal
frictions, however, now riddle the organisation. The
first cracks appeared during the April 2009 Assembly
Elections in Orissa, when Arjuna Kendruka, who was drawn
from the Bandhugaon Block (Koraput District), secured
a ticket from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)
to contest from Laxmipur (Koraput District) Assembly
constituency, with CMAS support. Sources indicate that
Nachika Linga of Narayanpatna was also interested in
getting the ticket. Having been left out, he mentored
Gananath Patra, CMAS advisor, who was opposed to participation
in the elections. Nachika and Patra campaigned for an
election boycott, much to the displeasure of Arjuna’s
Bandhugaon followers. By September 2009, CMAS-Narayanpatna
and CMAS-Bandhugaon were at loggerheads.
The gulf
widened as CMAS-Narayanpatna, under the leadership of
Nachika Linga, engaged in more and more violent activities,
while CMAS-Bandhugaon opposed this course. Further,
as the Maoists increased their influence among CMAS-Narayanpatna
followers, this faction increasingly acted as a Maoist
front organisation, while CMAS-Bandhugaon members/leaders
sought and maintained a measure of autonomy in their
activities.
Things
came to a head when, on September 3, 2009, CMAS-Narayanpatna
supporters burnt and damaged 14 Lemon grass plants in
the Katulpeta and Kushabhadra areas and blocked the
Bandhugaon-Parvatipuram Road by felling trees at Almonda,
Katulpeta and Chidiwalsa areas. On September 5, some
5,000 CMAS-Bandhugaon supporters, under the leadership
of Kondagiri Paidama and Arjuna Kendruka, marched to
the Kaberibadi village under Bandhugaon Police Station
and forced some 40 supporters CMAS-Narayanpatna to ‘help’
clear the blocked Bandhugaon-Parvatipuram Road. On September
6, a large number of CMAS-Narayanpatna supporters, armed
with traditional weapons (bows, arrows, etc.), under
the leadership of Nachika Linga, Gananath Patra, N.
Singanna and others, confronted CMAS-Bandhugaon supporters
at Katragada and Basanaput. They pelted stones at CMAS-Bandhugaon
supporters, causing death of P. Suresh of Bandhugaon,
and injuring another two. They also abducted 11 CMAS-Bandhugaon
supporters.
CMAS-Narayanpatna
has also faced opposition from people elsewhere in the
State. On September 7, CMAS-Narayanpatna, in a show
of strength, organised a rally of around 4,000 supporters
at Narayanpatna and decided to launch an agitation programme
at Laxmipur on September 8. However, about 2,000 local
villagers of the Laxmipur, Dasmanthpur (Koraput) and
Tikiri (Rayagada) areas held a meeting at Laxmipur on
that day to protest against CMAS-Narayanpatna’s activities.
They also vowed to resist any CMAS-Narayanpatna attempt
to expand its activities into the Laxmipur area. Further,
on September 11, a meeting was attended by around 15,000
persons at Laxmipur under the leadership of Kumuda Saunta
(chairman of the Laxmipur Block) where people demanded
a ban on CMAS-Narayanpatna for its recurrent unlawful
activities. A Shanti (Peace) Committee was also formed
to oppose CMAS-Narayanpatna and the Maoists. It is useful
to note that CMAS-Narayanpatna failed to organise its
proposed rallies at Kakiriguma (Laxmipur) and Semiliguda
(Laxmipur) on September 13. Instead, people opposing
CMAS-Narayanpatna held rallies at Kakiriguma and Semiliguda
(September 16), Dasmanthpur (September 18) and Damanjodi
(September 20).
In reaction,
some 300 supporters of CMAS-Narayanpatna picketed the
Narayanpatna Police Station on November 20, 2009, demanding
the removal of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel
from the area, and an end to combing operations against
the Maoists. During the protest, CMAS activists engaged
in a scuffle with CRPF personnel posted near the Police
Station, while others tried to snatch an AK47 and an
SLR rifle from Police personnel. In the subsequent Police
firing, two persons, including W. Singanna, the head
of Ghenua Bahini, CMAS’ militant wing, were killed.
The incident was followed by 110 arrests by the Police.
Though Nachika Linga, the CMAS-Narayanpatna leader,
is still at large, Police arrested Kumudini Behera,
the leader of the women’s wing. Other prominent arrests
included Gananath Patra, CMAS-Narayanpatna’s ‘advisor’,
Tapan Mishra and Padmanabha Behera.
After
a lull of a few months, however, CMAS-Narayanpatna began
to regroup around April 2010. According to sources,
a handful of its leaders, led by the fugitive Nachika
Linga, initiated visits to remote areas of this Block,
meeting their old backers in an effort to rebuild their
support base and organisational strength. Interestingly,
Linga, who was being hunted by the Police, nevertheless
gave an interview on a local TV channel on September
9, 2010.
Significantly,
on April 15, a new outfit of tribal women, the Biplabi
Adivasi Mahila Sangh (Revolutionary Tribal Women’s Association,
BAMS) took out a rally in Narayanpatna to protest against
proposed special and joint anti-Maoist operations in
the area. BAMS activists also demanded release of CMAS
activist arrested by the Police. BAMS has emerged as
nothing but an offshoot of CMAS, whose leaders had gone
underground. According to intelligence sources, underground
Maoists and CMAS leaders are now making the rounds in
remote areas of the Narayanpatna block to bring women
and children into their fold. The women activists of
the newly formed BAMS have also resorted to the forcible
takeover of agricultural land patches in Balipeta, Dandapeta
and Judijamba areas of the Narayanpatna Block, working
along lines set by CMAS-Narayanpatna.
Further,
the Maoists have also been trying to provide all possible
help to fugitive CMAS-Narayanpatna activists in their
efforts at reorganisation, and to unite the factions
in the Koraput District. In the latter, however, they
have had little success, and the divide between CMAS-Bandhugaon
and CMAS-Narayanpatna persists.
Meanwhile,
the arrest of Ahari Kendruka on June 23, 2010, brought
to the fore the links between the Maoists and the CMAS-Narayanpatna.
Kendruka, the CMAS ‘second-in-command’ after the death
of W. Singanna in Police firing on November 20, 2009,
revealed that Nachika Linga was being sheltered by the
Maoists and was moving around with the rebel formations.
Koraput Superintendent of Police (SP) Anup Sahoo confirms,
"Leaders of CMAS who are underground have undergone
Maoist training and they are also promoting their supporters
to take up short term training under the Maoists."
According to the Police, the Maoists are currently trying
to increase their cadre strength in the remote areas
of Koraput District by training CMAS cadres.
The Maoists
have also stepped up their activities in the area since
August 2010. Though the activities of CMAS-Narayanpatna
have diminished drastically, it has served a very useful
purpose for the Maoists, helping identify prospective
cadres.
Crucially,
moreover, CMAS-Narayanpatna has helped crystallize,
and consequently identify, those opposed to the Maoists.
The consequences have been quick and, in several instances,
drastic. The first Maoist target was Arjuna Kendruka,
the secretary of CMAS-Bandhugaon, who was shot dead
by three gunmen on August 9, 2010, near Katulpeta. Subsequently,
the Srikakulam division of the CPI-Maoist claimed responsibility
for the murder. The Maoists had earlier pasted posters
in the Bandhugaon Block threatening to kill him.
The next
prominent target was Ghasi Kendruka (35), a Shikshya
Sahayak (stipendiary teacher), who was killed on
August 15, 2010, at Gotiguda village in the Narayanpatna
Police Station jurisdiction. Koraput SP Sahoo acknowledged
that Kendruka used to help the Police in anti-Maoist
operations.
On August
23, 2010, the Maoists killed Sikunu Meleka (35) of the
Tentulipadar village in Narayanpatna Block. A group
of some 30 armed Maoists abducted 12 persons, including
Sikunu, from Tentulipadar and Dingapai villages in Tentulipadar
GP. All of them had past links with the Nachika Linga-led
CMAS. Sikunu was murdered, while all the others were
released.
The next
target was Anand Kirsani (38), a Zilla Parishad (district
level local self-government institution) member and
leader of the Congress party, as well as the working
president of the Shanti Committee. He was killed by
Maoists at Dhusura village under Semiliguda Block on
August 29.
On September
18, the Maoists killed a father-son duo, Kapur Khara
and his son Dhisa Khara, in Lachhmani village of Laxmipur
Block. A group of around 20 armed Maoists reached the
remote village and forced the villagers to attend a
meeting. At around 8.30 pm, all other villagers were
ordered to return home, while Kapur and his son were
asked to stay back. After some time the Maoists slit
their throats, killing them on the spot.
The Maoist
consolidation in the Koraput District continues, though
things have not gone as entirely as they would have
wished. The Maoists had expected the CMAS Bandhugaon
faction to toe their line and provide them cover, as
the Narayanpatna unit did. CMAS-Bandhugaon opposition
has, however, obstructed their easy expansion in the
region, leading to the extermination of a number of
its leaders by the Maoists. The scope of non-violent
resistance to Maoist depredations can only remain very
limited as long as Maoist capacities endure in the absence
of effective state action.
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Manipur:
The Economics of Disruption
Sandipani Dash
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Afflicted
with multiple insurgencies for the past 46 years, Manipur
remains the most violent State in India’s troubled Northeast,
with all its nine Districts marred by varying degrees
of extremist activities. The civil administration has
ceased to deliver even rudimentary services of governance
to its 2.3 million population across the State’s 22,327
square kilometers.
Addressing
the Manipur Legislative Assembly on January 13, 2010,
State Governor Gurbachan Jagat noted that the problem
of insurgency had severely hampered the development and
growth of the State. This developmental sabotage is starkly
exemplified by the sustained disruption of renovation
work in the Loktak Lake area, the largest fresh-water
lake in the Northeast region, due to insurgent attacks.
The 13.2
million cubic meters of the Loktak Lake are under risk
of rampant growth of phumdis (water weeds). In
order to save the ecology of the lake, the task of removing
this floating bio-mass was taken up by the Loktak Development
Authority (LDA) under the Special Assistance Action Plan
of Wetlands International – South Asia, a global Non-Governmental
Organisation (NGO) dedicated to sustaining and restoring
wetlands, and the Planning Commission of the Government
of India. A fund of INR 3.78 billion was allocated for
a three year project. Since its inception in 2008, however,
the activities of LDA have been severely hampered by militant
activities in the State.
The work
of the LDA resumed once again from January 6, 2010, after
its suspension after the July 15, 2009 incident in which
the driver of the Executive Engineer of the Loktak Development
Authority (LDA) was shot dead by the Puranthaba Lamyanba
Kuman group of the Military Council faction of the Kangleipak
Communist Party (KCP),
while trying to abduct the engineer. However, the State
Government’s decision to enforce stringent security measures
in the area could not prevent the militants from blowing
up an excavator on January 22, 2010, which was being used
for removing phumdis at Ningthoukhong in Bishnupur
District. K. Jayanta Singh, Superintendent of Police (SP),
Bisnupur District, noted, "Their main object was
to attack security forces. Of course, they have done the
damage but the damage wasn’t upto the desired level for
them. It was a desperate move. We have mobilized all our
resources to prevent such happenings…"
The constant
source of concern with regard to developmental activities
in Manipur is the extortion drive by the multiple insurgent
groups across the State. Almost all the armed groups extract
‘levies’ and ransoms from residents and transients in
their areas of operation. The continuing dominance of
the insurgents in Manipur is most strongly reflected in
the enveloping regime of extortion that targets Government
offices and beneficiaries, local self-Government and educational
institutions, health centres, commercial establishments
and the wider civilian population alike. The South
Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) database, in its partial
estimate (a preponderance of such cases go unreported)
records that at least 423 extortion incidents occurred
in 2005-2010, with the year 2005 registering 10 such incidents,
2006: 36, 2007: 63, 2008:123, 2009: 95 and 2010: 96 [till
October 23]. The SATP database further documents
at least 258 extortion-related reprisal attacks targeting
Government offices, public institutions, private service
agencies, and civilians during the same period, with 2005
recording 7 such attacks, 2006: 11, 2007: 35, 2008: 68,
2009: 68 and 2010: 69.
Militant
extortion and related attacks have also directly targeted
the infrastructure of governance in the State. In May
2009, members of various Gram Panchayats
(village level local self-Government institutions) in
Imphal West District, unable to cope with militant demands,
had fled their homes and taken refuge at the District
Rural Development Agency office in the Imphal West Deputy
Commissioner’s Complex. Groups such as the Kanglei Yawol
Kanna Lup (KYKL),
KCP-Military Council and People’s Revolutionary Party
of Kangleipak (PREPAK),
had demanded 30 per cent of the funds sanctioned under
State Finance Commission and 12th Finance Commission
schemes. They had also demanded INR 50,000 from each of
the Gram Panchayats. These threats and the
consequent flight of officials and elected representatives
from rural areas, resulted in the collapse of essential
services and governance across much of the State. The
health and education services and dry fish trade were
the worst hit in the year 2009, due to the extortion drive
in the Manipur
Valley.
The extortion
related developmental damage has not confined itself to
the Valley region. Manipur Legislator Morung Makunga,
on March 10, 2010, disclosed in the State Assembly that
Kuki armed groups, which are under a Suspension of Operation
(SoO) agreement since August 2005, have been collecting
as much as 50 per cent of the compensation given by the
Government to land owners in the Integrated Check Post
(ICP) at Moreh town in Chandel District along the India-Myanmar
border in the Hills. The Minister stated that militant
outfits are not in compliance with the terms laid down
under SoO agreements, and these should, consequently be
suspended. The excesses carried out by the Kuki armed
groups were confirmed by a trickle
of refugees who had fled Moreh under
threat of extortion, or of reprisals for refusal to pay.
Substantial
proportions of the extortion revenues are going into the
personal coffers of leaders of the militant groupings.
Reports in the first week of September 2010 revealed that
the Directorate of Enforcement had attached the properties
of three absconding militants K. Premjit Singh, his wife
K. Elizabeth Devi, and sister Sanajaobi Devi, of the PREPAK.
The directorate found that the accused had purchased a
plot of land in Imphal town in the name of K. Elizabeth
Devi by diverting a portion of the collected funds, and
had started construction of a house on the plot. The official
value of the plot and house under-construction was estimated
at INR 1.2 million. The Directorate started its process
by checking mobile phone records of all the accused in
a case registered following the detection of a hawala
racket by the Police in the Fancybazar area of the Guwahati
city in Assam. The racket was neutralised by the Guwahati
Police, which led to the recovery of INR 2.4 million in
cash. The case was later handed over to the Enforcement
Directorate and, during the course of preliminary investigations,
it was found that those involved in the racket had contacts
across the country, including the linkages in Manipur.
The blockade
syndrome adds further to Manipur’s economic woes. In April-June
2010, violent protests and counter-protests on the issues
relating to the Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) elections
in Naga inhabited regions and to the proposed visit of
National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM)
‘general secretary’ Thuingaleng Muivahs to his native
Somdal village in Ukhrul District, had virtually paralysed
normal life across
the State . According to one estimate,
Manipur suffered a loss of about INR two billion per day
through the 68-day long economic blockade, which was only
lifted following the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)
directive to send Central Paramilitary Forces to break
the blockade, and the Naga student leaders’ meeting with
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on June 14,
2010. Despite this, the State subsequently witnessed another
extended phase of blockade on the National Highways 39
and 53, orchestrated by the Naga groups at the instigation
of the NSCN-IM, between August 4, 2010, and September
18, 2010.
Economist
N. Mohendro Singh noted that the 68-day long blockade
brought the State to a standstill, and created avenues
for black marketing. With the acute scarcity of petrol
during the blockade, Singh records, its price in the black
market rose to INR 140 a litre, with a wait of 10-15 hours
before petrol pumps delivered five litres of petrol. Singh
added that all private and Government schools stopped
functioning due to the suspension of transport as a result
of the non-availability of petrol. Blockades of such long
duration, he argued, could produce a generation gap in
education and human capital formation. Singh argued that
the blockade had dehumanised the people of Manipur on
all fronts, from the educational, through the industrial
to the social sectors.
Given the
virtual collapse of Governance in Manipur, the difficulties
of the common people are being multiplied manifold by
the economic hardships that are being imposed on them
by the disruptive and extortionary activities of the many
insurgent groupings in the State.
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Weekly
Fatalities: Major Conflicts in South Asia
September 27-October
3, 2010
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Civilians
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Security
Force Personnel
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Terrorists/Insurgents
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Total
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BANGLADESH
|
|
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Left-wing
Extremism
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0
|
0
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1
|
1
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INDIA
|
|
|
Assam
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
4
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|
Jammu and
Kashmir
|
0
|
1
|
14
|
15
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|
Left-wing
Extremism
|
|
|
Jharkhand
|
0
|
0
|
7
|
7
|
|
Maharashtra
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
|
Orissa
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
|
West Bengal
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
|
Total
(INDIA)
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6
|
1
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25
|
32
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PAKISTAN
|
|
|
Balochistan
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5
|
0
|
0
|
5
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FATA
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3
|
3
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58
|
64
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
4
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|
Punjab
|
6
|
0
|
0
|
6
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|
Sindh
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
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Total
(PAKISTAN)
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16
|
3
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61
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80
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Provisional
data compiled from English language media sources.
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BANGLADESH Taliban
warns Bangladesh over sending
troops to Afghanistan:
The
Taliban has warned Bangladesh against
sending troops to Afghanistan.
The warning came after the
United States requested Dhaka to
send combat forces to help
the coalition forces in Afghanistan,
the Search for International
Terrorist Entities (SITE)
intelligence group, a US monitoring
service dedicated to gathering
information on international
terrorist groups, reported
on September 29.
Daily
Star,
September 29, 2010.
INDIA
AFSPA
extended for six months in Tripura:
Tripura
Government extended the Armed
Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)
for another six months citing
militant activities along the
border with Bangladesh,
an unnamed official said on
September 29.
Sentinel
Assam,
September 30, 2010.
7,992
militants surrendered in last
17 years, says Tripura DGP Pranay
Sahaya:
Tripura Director General of
Police (DGP) Pranay Sahaya said,
as many as 7,992 militants belonging
to different outfits, including
the National Liberation Front
of Tripura (NLFT) and All-Tripura
Tiger Force (ATTF), have surrendered
to the authorities in the last
17 years.
Sentinel Assam,
September 28, 2010.
CIA
was informed of ISI involvement
in 26/11, claims American journalist:
A
recently published book entitled
Obama's War authored
by investigative American journalist
Bob Woodward claimed that the
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) was aware of the involvement
of Inter Services Intelligence
(ISI), Pakistan's external intelligence
agency, in the terrorist attacks
in Mumbai on November 26, 2008
(also known as 26/11).
Times
of India,
September 28, 2010.
NEPAL CA
fails to elect Prime Minister
for the ninth time:
The
ninth round of elections for
the Prime Minister’s (PM) post
ended inconclusively on September
30 as the sole candidate for
the PM post and Nepali
Congress (NC) Parliamentary
party leader, Ram Chandra Poudel,
failed to secure a simple majority
(301 votes). Earlier, 11 political
parties asked the NC to back
out of the ongoing PM race so
that new process for formation
of a consensus Government could
start.
Nepal
News;
Kantipur
online,
September 30-October 1, 2010.
PAKISTAN
58
militants and three civilians
among 64 persons killed during
the week in FATA: The Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) militants killed
the ‘chief’ of the Asian Tigers,
a militant outfit, Sabir Mehsud,
along with two of his aides,
whose dead body were recovered
in the main market of the Razmak
area in North Waziristan Agency
(NWA) of Federally Administered
Tribal Areas (FATA) on October
3. In addition, the TTP militants
killed three persons on charges
of espionage for US in NWA.
Two
US drone attacks killed 18 suspected
militants in the Datta Khel
town of NWA on October 2.
18
suspected militants were killed
and another six were injured
when helicopter gunships of
Pakistan Army shelled their
hideouts in the Chinarak, Ormegai
and Dombakai areas in Kurram
Agency in the night of October
1.
Three
Pakistani soldiers were killed
in a NATO helicopter attack
at Teri Mangal village in Kurram
Agency in the morning of September
29.
Six
militants were killed and five
others injured when helicopter
gunships shelled militant positions
in the upper parts of Orakzai
Agency on September 28.
At
least five persons were killed
and nine others injured when
NATO helicopters crossed Pakistani
borders and pounded shell in
the Mata Sangar area of Kurram
Agency at 5am (PST) on September
27. Also, four militants were
killed when a US drone
fired missiles at a house located
in Khushali, a village near
Mir Ali, in NWA.
Dawn;
Daily
Times;
The
News,
September 27- October 3, 2010.
‘Brigade
313’ prepares plan to attack
Commonwealth Games:
Al Qaeda and a group based in
North Waziristan Agency calling
itself ‘Brigade 313’, which
is made up of the Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) and allied extremist
group members, including Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) and Karachi-based Jandullah,
has prepared a plan to attack
the 19th Commonwealth
Games, which are due to be held
in News Delhi from October 3
to October 14.
Daily
Times,
October 1, 2010.
Plot
to attack European cities by
Pakistan-based militants foiled:
Intelligence agencies have
disrupted an al Qaeda-linked
plot to launch terror attacks
in Britain, France and Germany,
Britain's Sky News television
sources reported on September
28. Meanwhile, reports indicate
that the attack was planned
by the group’s number three
leader, Sheikh Yunis al-Mauretani,
with Osama bin Laden’s support,
the German weekly Der Spiegel
reported on October 2. Daily
Times;
Times
of India,
September 29-October 3, 2010.
20
Britons training in Pakistan
terror camps: At
least 20 Britons are undertaking
terrorist training in Pakistan to
launch attacks in Britain,
an intelligence report said
on September 29.
Daily
Times,
October 1, 2010.
Jamia
Hafsa students plan suicide
attacks, indicates report: Three
female students of Jamia Hafsa
have been trained to carry out
suicide attacks on those groups,
who are allegedly anti-Islamic
or ‘misguiding the people’ across
the country, an intelligence
agency sources said on September
30.
Daily
Times,
October 1, 2010.
CIA
steps up drone campaign in Pakistan:
The
US military is secretly diverting
drones from Afghanistan to escalate
a Central Intelligence Agency-led
(CIA) campaign against militants
in neighbouring Pakistan, The
Wall Street Journal reported
on October 2.
Daily
Times,
October 3, 2010.
TP
reaffirms its ties to al Qaeda:
The
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
South Waziristan ‘commander’
Waliur Rehman on September 29
reaffirmed his outfit’s ties
to al Qaeda, vowing to fight
for imposition of Islamic law
across the world.
Daily
Times,
September 30, 2010.
TTP
using Kuner Province of Afghanistan
as a safe haven, says Interior
Minister Rehman Malik: Interior
Minister Rehman Malik told the
National Assembly on September
28 that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP) were using Kuner province
of Afghanistan as an operation-base
against Pakistan.
Daily
Times,
September 29, 2010.
ISI
‘chief’ Ahmed Shuja Pasha admits
of ISI link to 26/11, says the
book Obama's War: Less
than a month after the Mumbai
attacks, Pakistan's Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) chief Lieutenant-General
Ahmed Shuja Pasha had admitted
before the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) that the terror
strikes had ISI links but claimed
it was not an "authorized" operation
and carried out by "rogue" elements,
according to the book Obama's
War written by investigative
American journalist Bob Woodward.
The
book also revealed that frustrated
over Pakistan's lacklustre response
to failed Times Square bombing,
the US has warned Islamabad
that it will be "unable to stop
the consequences" of any terror
attack, whose wires are linked
to that country.
Daily
Times,
September 29, 2010.
Terrorism
caused USD 400 million losses
to tourism, says Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Tourism Minister Syed Aqil Shah:
The
tourism sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
province was badly affected
by terrorism as it suffered
losses of USD 400 million while
the damage caused by recent
floods still needed to be assessed,
said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial
Minister for Tourism, Culture
and Sports Syed Aqil Shah on
September 27.
Dawn,
September 28, 2010.
Pakistan
facing new coup threat, says
former President Pervez Musharraf:
Former
President Pervez Musharraf on
September 29 warned that the
country is at risk of a new
coup, as he prepared to launch
his own bid for a comeback as
a civilian president. Indian
Express,
September 28, 2010.
SRI LANKA President
approves 30-month prison sentence
for former Army Commander General
(retired) Sarath Fonseka:
President
Mahinda Rajapakse on September
30 approved the 30-months prison
sentence given by the second
court martial against former
Army Commander General (retired)
Sarath Fonseka.
Colombo
Page,
September 30, 2010.
Job
fair organised for rehabilitated
ex-LTTE combatants:
The Sri Lankan Government on
September 29 organised a special
job fair for the rehabilitated
former Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) combatants
in Vavuniya at Pompemadu rehabilitation
centre.
Colombo
Page,
September 29, 2010.
Only
27,000 IDPs left to be resettled,
says Army:
The
media spokesman of Sri Lanka
Army, Major General Ubaya Medawala,
on September 27 said that the
resettlement of Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs) in the Eastern
Province is totally completed
at present and it is successfully
being carried out in the Northern
Province as well.
Asian
Tribune,
September 28, 2010.
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