07-29-2008, 06:51 AM
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pioneer.com
Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi
ISI link to Ahmedabad blasts exposed
Preliminary investigation into the Ahmedabad serial blasts indicates that two sharp-shooters of the erstwhile Abdul Latif gang may have masterminded the mayhem at the behest of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).Â
<b>Rasool Pardi and Sharif Khan Pathan, both from Ahmedabad, were Lashkar-e-Tayyeba's pointpersons for recruiting disgruntled members of the minority community after the 2002 riots in the State</b>. Both of them were wanted by the Gujarat police in several cases of extortion, murder and other heinous crimes. While Pathan had escaped from police custody while being produced before a court in Ahmedabad, Pardi is reported to be shuttling between India and Pakistan.
<b>Senior officials probing the Ahmedabad serial blasts case said the call details of local cadre of Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) suggest that the duo was actively involved in planning and executing the explosions in coordination with their masters in Pakistan. Intelligence sources said the duo felt humiliated by the high-handedness of the Lashkar trainers engaged in the recruitment of cadre in the State and mooted the idea of forming an outfit of their own. It was termed Indian Mujahideen. </b>
Incidentally, Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the blasts through e-mail messages sent to some private television news channels.
The intelligence agencies have been tracking the movements of the duo who had in the past managed to send indoctrinated youth for training in Pakistan.
<b>The call details of Abdul Halim, who was arrested on Sunday and jointly interrogated by the intelligence sleuths and police, also suggest his links with the duo. </b>
Union Home Ministry officials said it would take a while to unravel the complete network of the perpetrators behind the blasts who "work in a modular fashion and every piece of work is outsourced to evade detection". Besides, the terror outfits are recruiting highly qualified and indoctrinated youth to execute terror strikes in the country, making it difficult for security agencies to crack such incidents.
<b>Incidentally, the March crackdown on SIMI hideouts in Madhya Pradesh suggested that a large number of the banned outfit's cadre were expanding their bases in Karnataka and Kerala, besides Puducherry</b>. Union Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal had headed a high-level meeting in Puducherry to take stock of the growing SIMI network in Karaikal district of the Union Territory.
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pioneer.com
Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi
ISI link to Ahmedabad blasts exposed
Preliminary investigation into the Ahmedabad serial blasts indicates that two sharp-shooters of the erstwhile Abdul Latif gang may have masterminded the mayhem at the behest of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).Â
<b>Rasool Pardi and Sharif Khan Pathan, both from Ahmedabad, were Lashkar-e-Tayyeba's pointpersons for recruiting disgruntled members of the minority community after the 2002 riots in the State</b>. Both of them were wanted by the Gujarat police in several cases of extortion, murder and other heinous crimes. While Pathan had escaped from police custody while being produced before a court in Ahmedabad, Pardi is reported to be shuttling between India and Pakistan.
<b>Senior officials probing the Ahmedabad serial blasts case said the call details of local cadre of Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) suggest that the duo was actively involved in planning and executing the explosions in coordination with their masters in Pakistan. Intelligence sources said the duo felt humiliated by the high-handedness of the Lashkar trainers engaged in the recruitment of cadre in the State and mooted the idea of forming an outfit of their own. It was termed Indian Mujahideen. </b>
Incidentally, Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the blasts through e-mail messages sent to some private television news channels.
The intelligence agencies have been tracking the movements of the duo who had in the past managed to send indoctrinated youth for training in Pakistan.
<b>The call details of Abdul Halim, who was arrested on Sunday and jointly interrogated by the intelligence sleuths and police, also suggest his links with the duo. </b>
Union Home Ministry officials said it would take a while to unravel the complete network of the perpetrators behind the blasts who "work in a modular fashion and every piece of work is outsourced to evade detection". Besides, the terror outfits are recruiting highly qualified and indoctrinated youth to execute terror strikes in the country, making it difficult for security agencies to crack such incidents.
<b>Incidentally, the March crackdown on SIMI hideouts in Madhya Pradesh suggested that a large number of the banned outfit's cadre were expanding their bases in Karnataka and Kerala, besides Puducherry</b>. Union Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal had headed a high-level meeting in Puducherry to take stock of the growing SIMI network in Karaikal district of the Union Territory.
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