Born on January 30, 1982, Jan is a resident of Charsadda in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He is the operational commander and part of the core planning committee of the Jaish-e Mohammed, which is listed as a terrorist organisation, the MHA said.
The central government believes that Hafiz Talha Saeed is involved in terrorism and he should be notified as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), the notification said.
"During preliminary questioning, he disclosed that he was working at the behest of LeT handlers Samama alias Ali and Hilal Malik (A/P in Pakistan) and the said arms and ammunition had been provided to him through Lashkar conduits. It was also learnt that he had been recruited as a hybrid terrorist by (now eliminated) Lashkar terrorist Ashiq War and after his death in 2019, he was subsequently handled by terrorist Fayaz War," police said.
Srinagar: One foreign terrorist involved in several acts of terror is trapped as an encounter rages on between terrorists and security forces at Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Sources…
Srinagar: Three terrorists were killed in an encounter at Hadipora in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, officials said on Sunday. The Army said three terrorists were eliminated at Hadipora in…
Lahore: Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was sentenced to 15 years in jail on Friday by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court here in a terror financing case, amidst growing international pressure on Islamabad to bring to justice terrorists roaming free in the country. UN proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61, who was on bail […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stressed that the terror organisation that was planning a terror plot which resulted in Thursday’s Nagrota encounter, was ‘Pakistan-based’. PM Modi also praised the ‘bravery and professionalism’ of Indian security forces for neutralising the terrorists. “Neutralising of 4 terrorists belonging to Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed and the […]
Srinagar: A civilian injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district in militant attack just ahead of an encounter between ultras and security forces succumbed in hospital on Friday, just as one of the terrorists was also killed in the ongoing encounter. Police said Abid Mir, 22, was injured in the Lalpora area of Pampore town […]
New Delhi: A madrassa teacher who was allegedly working as an al-Qaeda conspirator to carry out terror attacks in India was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from West Bengal, an official said on Monday. Abdul Momin Mondal, 32, of West Bengal’s Murshidabad, was arrested on Sunday, a spokesperson of the NIA said. On […]
Srinagar: One terrorist was killed and another terrorist surrendered as encounter at Awantipora in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district came to an end on Monday evening, officials said. Army said the terrorist responded to the surrender appeals and was apprehended. “One terrorist, resident of Gulshanpura, Pulwama, absconding since Sept 25, 2020, surrendered to Security Forces,” army […]
Mumbai: Actress Kangana Ranaut says she wants film industries of different states to have a collective identity, and claims she wants to save the industry from from terrorists such as the nepotism brigade and the drug mafia. “People’s perception that top film industry in India is Hindi film Industry is wrong. Telugu film industry has […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police on the basis of a specific intelligence input busted a terror module of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) in North Kashmir’s Kupwara on Monday night and arrested a terrorist with four of his associates. Police said acting on information about cross-LoC smuggling of a large quantity of weapons, their […]
Srinagar: In a major success in anti-militancy operations in J&K, security forces on Wednesday killed the most wanted militant commander, Riyaz Naikoo along with his associate in Pulwama district thereby avenging the deaths of five security men killed in Kupwara district on May 3. Naikoo, Kashmir’s most wanted terrorist and Hizbul chief was trapped late […]
New Delhi/Srinagar: Five Indian Army special forces soldiers and five terrorists were killed in Sunday’s hand-to-hand combat and gunfight on the Line of Control, in this year’s bloodiest encounter in any operation against militants in Jammu & Kashmir. The Indian Army launched Operation Randori Behak in Keran sector, at the Line of Control and engaged […]
New Delhi/Islamabad: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan, who was responsible for shooting Malala Yousafzai and carrying out the Peshawar Army school terror attack, has escaped from an Army jail in Pakistan. In an audio recording released on Thursday and shared via an online private messaging platform, Ehsanullah claimed that he has succeeded in escaping […]
Srinagar: A militant was killed on Monday during an exchange of fire between the security forces and militants at Arwani village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, officials said. According to reports, the security forces tried but were unsuccessful in making the militant surrender. An Army personnel has reportedly sustained injuries in the firing exchange which […]
New Delhi: In one of its biggest crackdown on illegal ticketing in the railways, the RPF has arrested a madrassa-educated, self-taught software developer from Jharkhand in a racket which has links to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Dubai with suspected involvement in terror financing, a senior official said on Tuesday. Ghulam Mustafa (28), who was arrested from […]
Srinagar: Three militants of the proscribed terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen were gunned down by security forces in an encounter in Shopian district on Monday, Jammu and Kashmir police and Army said. Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, J&K DGP Dilbagh Singh said the three militants Waseem Ahmad Wani, Adil Sheikh and Jehangir were involved in […]
Jammu: Terming DySP Davinder Singh, arrested in the company of two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, a “black sheep”, J&K LG G C Murmu’s Advisor Farooq Khan on Tuesday said the credit to identify and nab him goes to the police which has a history of making thousands of sacrifices in the fight against terrorism. He said […]
Lahore: Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s statement in the terror-financing case against him could not be recorded in an anti-terrorism court here on Monday after his lawyer requested the court to give the JuD chief more time. Defence counsel requested the Anti-Terrorism Court-I Lahore for adjournment of the hearing against Saeed in the terror-financing […]
Lahore: Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, who has been indicted along with three close aides in terror financing case, could not be produced before an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Thursday because of lawyers’ strike, an official said. Anti-Terrorism Court Lahore Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta adjourned the hearing of the terror financing case against Saeed […]
Lahore: Mumbai terror attack mastermind and chief of the banned JuD Hafiz Saeed could not be indicted by Lahore’s anti-terrorism court for terror financing charges as the authorities strangely failed to produce the other co-accused at the high profile hearing on Saturday. The development came a day after India said it was aware that the […]
By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Islamic State (IS) chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have killed himself by detonating a suicide vest to avoid capture by the US forces inside a tunnel in Syria on October 26 but his violent legacy is still being discussed amidst fears that his followers may soon re-group themselves under a new […]
Jammu: Security forces recovered a cache of arms and ammunition from a terrorist hideout in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Sunday, officials said. No arrest was made during the operation, the officials said. The hideout was unearthed in Sheri area of Mughal Maidan by a joint search party of the Rashtriya Rifles and Special […]
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has asked to beef up the security of the Indian cricket team who are scheduled to face Bangladesh in a T20 international at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in the national capital on November 3 after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) received an anonymous letter which claimed that Team India, particularly […]
Chandigarh: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday told Pakistan to forget Kashmir and instead fight an “honest battle” against terrorism, warning that no power can stop its disintegration if it continued with its rant and did not mend its ways. He said India was ready to assist Pakistan in the fight against terrorism if it […]
Srinagar: A Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist was arrested in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Sunday, a police spokesperson said. Mohsin Manzoor Salhea, a resident of Arampora-Azadgunj area, was arrested on a credible input during an anti-militant operation in Baramulla town, he said. According to the spokesperson, Salhea was affiliated with the proscribed terror outfit JeM […]
Ranchi: The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Jharkhand Police have arrested Al Qaeda terrorist Mohhamad Kalimuddin Mujahiri. “Kalimuddin is most wanted terrorist of Al Qaeda. He has been arrested from Tatanagar railway station. He was preparing and motivating the youths for jehad in Indian sub continent. “He used to send the fresh recruits to Pakistan for […]
New Delhi: Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed was planning to carry out ‘fidayeen’ attacks at several places in India, including Delhi and NCR, similar to the February 14 Pulwama attack in Jammu and Kashmir that left 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel dead, the National Investigation Agency’s chargesheet said on Monday. In its chargesheet filed […]
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, was killed in an American counter-terrorism operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The confirmation of Hamza’s death has come more than a month after the US media reported that he was killed, citing the US […]
Srinagar: Two Pakistani nationals associated with the Lashkar-e-Taibha have been caught while trying to enter Kashmir, top security officers said on Wednesday. “Pakistan is desperate for terrorists to infiltrate… to disrupt peace in the Valley,” General Officer Commanding (GoC) of the Army’s 15 Corps Lt General K J S Dhillon said at a joint briefing […]
Dhaka: A Bangladesh minister escaped an assassination bid when a blast carried out by the Islamic State militants missed his car and hit his security team, injuring two policemen in Dhaka, a media report said on Sunday. The bomb was thrown from the footbridge at the Science Lab intersection on Saturday night when Local Government, […]
Abu Dhabi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honoured with the ‘Order of Zayed’, the UAE’s highest civilian award, on Saturday as a mark of appreciation for his efforts to boost bilateral ties between the two nations. The award has earlier been bestowed on several world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Queen Elizabeth II and […]
United Nations: Terrorist groups operating in Kashmir and Maoists groups elsewhere have recruited children as fighters, according to a report by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The annual report on children and armed conflict for 2018 released on Tuesday also said that children continued to be killed or injured in operations by the security forces in Kashmir […]
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried pre-dawn raids at four places in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla town on Sunday. Police sources said NIA sleuths assisted by the state police and the CRPF carried out raids at the residences of four traders engaged in cross LoC trade. “Last week, the NIA sleuths had carried out […]
New York: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has acknowledged that some terrorists in Pakistan had fought in Kashmir while asserting that he had the army’s support for disarming them and for overtures to India. Speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday, he tried to make the case that the army and […]
United Nations: India has denounced Pakistan’s attempt to equate terrorists with freedom-fighters while raising the Kashmir issue at the Non-Aligned Movement’s (NAM) ministerial meeting. “NAM needs to be in the vanguard of those addressing the primary issues of our times that cry for global cooperation, rather than become a platform for venting bilateral grievances between […]
New Delhi: India on Thursday wondered if the arrest of Mumbai terror attacks mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed this time would be “more than a cosmetic exercise” as Pakistan has enacted the “drama” of his arrest and release eight times since 2001. Responding to reports of Saeed’s arrest in Lahore on Wednesday, Ministry […]
New Delhi: After busting terror gang Ansarulla in Tamil Nadu, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two people for their alleged links to the group that seeks to establish Islamic rule in India. Hassan Ali, 28, and Harish Mohamed 32, were arrested after the NIA raided their residences in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam on Saturday, […]
Lahore: Mumbai attacks mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed and 12 of his close aides will be arrested “very soon”, police said on Thursday, a day after Pakistani authorities booked them for committing multiple offences of terrorism financing and money laundering. The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab Police on Wednesday registered 23 FIRs against […]