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Pranav wrote:There is credible evidence that vaccination is being used as a means for waging chemical and biological warfare. However, one can expect that the effects will be subtle enough to cause damage without showing up too prominently on the radar screen ... I will post a number of articles regarding this in due course of time.
Please, not here. We have enough CT as it is.
Why the compulsion to keep one's head buried in the sand? Why not look at the evidence.
It is similar to the global warming scam ... "respectable" people who rely on "respectable" mainstream media will aver that global warming is gospel truth. But for anybody who does not have blinkers on, there is any amount of evidence that shows that it is 400% garbage.
How convienient before the UP general elections next year, noone wants to discuss Price ricce or Goverance by the Cweentral GOvernment, while communal tensions are being created all over the country.
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UP polls are long time off. Besides, the only positive that can come out of these communal riots is if the sleeping majority can see the evil of sekoolaarism and stop voting for traitors.
Tension sparked off as organizers of Hanuman Jayanti tried replacing Milad-un-Nabi flags in Moosa Bowli
29th Mar, 2010: What started as a show of power by a leading city-based political party has spiralled out of control. Saturday's Hindu-Muslim clashes, despite the police commissioner's assurances of security, are still on. There is tension at Begum Bazar currently, and it remains to be seen how law and order will be restored in the Old City.
How It All Began
On February 24th, the Milad-Un-Nabi celebrations were being carried out in full swing, with heapfuls of support from the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), and flags and buntings being set up in the entire Old City. One month later, these flags were removed to put up saffron flags marking the Sri Ram Navami celebrations on March 24 in Madannapet (near Saidabad Colony), marking the first of the tensions.
On March 27 (Saturday), organisers of Hanuman Jayanti celebrations in Moosa Bowli in the Old City tried to hoist their flags and buntings, removing the ones that had been put up for Milad-un-Nabi, sparking heated arguments, that were followed by clashes.
"Show of power by a leading city-based political party " = ?
Stone pelting also began at the Gol Moque in Siddiamber Bazar after the afternoon prayers, and the temple opposite the mosque was also pelted as a riposte.
Wonder what our bleeding hearts will say for this?
derkonig-> Sleeping majority it is belived will always be a sleeping Majority and they can easily be divided along caste/ regional lines and can be easily manupilated by the Media.
It is the minority that need to be scared to vote on block for one political party. These things have shrewed caculations.
whether the Majority see one party as thier saviour or not the minority see them as thier enemy. This has only one main benefactor......
Aditya_V wrote:derkonig-> Sleeping majority it is belived will always be a sleeping Majority and they can easily be divided along caste/ regional lines and can be easily manupilated by the Media.
It is the minority that need to be scared to vote on block for one political party. These things have shrewed caculations.
whether the Majority see one party as thier saviour or not the minority see them as thier enemy. This has only one main benefactor......
These events can be used to wean away as many as possible from the sleeping majority who are still devoted to sekoolaarism. As long as such incidents can be used to portray sekoolaarism as evil & anti-national, all those shrewd calculations behind vote bank appeasement will take a beating and ultimately fall apart.
Gerard wrote:Firecracker on flight: arrested man served in CISF for 20 years
Looks like it was the handi-work of the contract employees trying to get each another in trouble. But I still feel that the bobbies are continuing their investigations. Folks picked up from BIA, on their way to Kabul etc. Guess there is much more than what meets the eye.
Yes sir, I am waiting on that too. Mainly I want to see overall how much new fencing was done and how much repair work was done on that section in bengal. I guess it should be pretty close to the individual month work added up (even though it should be on dot, it never is due to some damage or the other always)
“She has [since] acquired more educational qualifications and obtained degrees and diplomas; this does not mean that she has changed her attitude. Even now she does not admit her guilt. She has no regrets for her act.”
SSridhar saar, also note that dmk's sudden upholding of the internal state report has all to do with the fickle nature of when the dmk president will attain the lotus feet of the engineering college student. Otherwise, the dmk has zero worries about local congress "sentiments" on nalini issue or enthusiasm for the impact of such matters on national security or geostrategic considerations. For that matter, both for congress and dmk, this nalini issue is just one more issue to milk it for more votes, as and when possible. Priyanka, that paragon of virtue and feministic credentials, even turned out to the prison and enquired about the well-being of her papa's killer who just happened to turn out "to be used by wrong persons at the wrong time." This beatch-turned-"ah so nice lady" will be out of the prison sooner than we think.
The militant organisations operated almost undisturbed from 1991 to 1998 and then between 2001 and 2005 under the nose of the local administration.
Slowly, we see the admission that SHW (in her first two years of her first regime) was conniving of all these jehadi entities and no different than other rats in the stage. Finally, they cant hide truth even from their own pernicious eyes.
Trouble began in Musarambagh area under Hussaini Alam Police Station limits on Friday after two groups clashed during Ram Navami celebrations. A group from one community, which was trying to remove flags and buntings put up by another community, was resisted.
Then, people from one group torched the goshala (cowshed) in the old city and four cows died, triggering more trouble on Monday. The situation seemed to be under control till afternoon, but it took a serious turn after a man was stabbed to death in the evening.
The government was not willing to confirm the number of injured, but sources said it could be as high as 200. “Several received knife injuries on their wrists. It was a clear attempt to cut nerves, which would have resulted in faster death,” the source said.
News unreported elsewhere, but my record shows no mention of this Kalita chap. The absconding biggies are as follows:
The security forces have received “disturbing” inputs about Ulfa commander-in-chief Paresh Barua re-allocating specific tasks and responsibilities among his top rung leaders like Arpan Saikia, Antu Chaudang, Apurba Barua, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Anjan Borthakur, Biju Deka, Dhristi Rajkhowa, Pradyut Gohain, Hira Sarania and Dip Jyoti Mahanta. According to information available with the police, these cadres will function under the direct supervision and command of Barua and self-styled major Jibon Moran. Anu Buragohain is the member of the central publicity wing of the outfit.
Commander of ULFA’s 27th Bn killed
From our Correspondent
MANGALDAI, March 29: Within two months of the killing of dreaded ULFA leader Bosa Singh and his associate Bishnu Deka in an encounter with the Army on February 2 last, the outlawed outfit of ULFA in Darrang and Udalguri district has faced yet another major setback with the elimination of hardcore cadre namely Mridul Kalita alias Samar Jyoti alias Saurabh in an encounter with the troops of Red Horns Division camping at Udalguri and Udalguri police in the wee hours today. Mridul was upgraded to the post of the commander of the 27th battalion of the outfit since the killing of Bosa Singh.
As reported, acting on specific information the troops of 315 Field Regiment accompanied by a team of police led by Udalguri Superintendent of Police AP Tiwari conducted a search operation at a village namely Madeligaon near Dalongghat under Kalaigaon police station in Udalguri district at about 1am today. A team from 65 Field Regiment from Mangaldai also arrived on the spot. As the troops reached the house of one village farmer Chinta Ram Barua, one militant lobbing three grenades upon the troops, which immediately exploded in the spot, tried to flee away from the spot. But the prompt retaliation made by the security forces resulted the killing of the militant on the spot. Later, he was identified as Mridul Kalita of village Sarabari in Darrang district who had joined the outfit way back in the year 1997. Later, the police recovered one 9 mm pistol along with two magazines and 12 rounds of live ammunition, a cash amount of rupees two lakhs four thousand, 95 numbers of SIM cards along with seven handsets of cellular phones, several unaddressed extortion notes and some incriminating documents from the possession of the slain militant. The police have picked up Chinta Ram Barua’s son in law Dulal Deka and son Hiren Barua for interrogation.
Stan_Savljevic wrote:. . .also note that dmk's sudden upholding of the internal state report has all to do with the fickle nature of when the dmk president will attain the lotus feet of the engineering college student.
Stan_Savljevic wrote:. . .also note that dmk's sudden upholding of the internal state report has all to do with the fickle nature of when the dmk president will attain the lotus feet of the engineering college student.
Is the communal violence in Hyderabad being used by unscrupulous political forces to settle scores with their rivals? Or is it being used to scuttle the demand for Telangana state? Several people in the know believe it is so.
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Leaders in the Old City admitted that they were expecting such “pre-planned” trouble for the past four to five months. A few efforts made to trigger violence failed but the one on Saturday succeeded. They maintain that the huge funds have flooded the Old City, to both Hindus and Muslims and they cite two instances to prove their point.
Prophet Mohammed’s birthday, Milad-un-Nabi, was celebrated in an unprecedented manner on February 26 last. “Does this community which is poor and backward have the funds for such grand celebrations,” commented a community leader on condition of anonymity.
Similarly, Hanuman Jayanti which used to be a small affair limited to temples has been turned into a gala public affair this time. Evidently both sides are being funded, he observed.
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Another agenda that is sought to be achieved is to scuttle Telangana statehood demand. Observers believe that the communal violence was being used to kill two birds: that is destabilise Rosaiah government and dilute the struggle for Telangana.
They insist that the developments point to a “nexus” of Andhra-Rayalaseema leaders across the political spectrum that is dominated by one caste that is keen on regaining the power it lost last September with the death of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash.
The effort of this group to install YSR’s son Jaganmohan Reddy as chief minister came to a naught and hence the ploy now being employed to destabilise the Rosaiah government to foment communal violence.
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Here is some thing I wrote the other day, I feel it really concerns all us Indians today:
India’s Response To Terror
The night of 26th November, 2010 sent reverberations throughout the world, and the world sat stunned. A small group of armed terrorists were able to hold Mumbai, India’s financial capital, hostage for nearly three days. India is no stranger to terror, terror groups have been unleashing wave after wave of attack on India since 1993. The only difference this time was that India woke up. The Indian Government, along with her people saw the horrible scale and precision at which the attacks were carried out, as news filtered in from the survivors, the Indian television audience was glued. And the location didn’t help either; the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, along with the Oberoi Trident are arguably the finest hotels in India, and consequently haunts of the Mumbai élite. Previous attacks were carried out in places frequented by the poor or middle class, but this time around it was the rich and famous that paid the price for India’s ignorance. On the 28th of November, India seethed. The authorities knew that this could not go on. For the United States, it was 9/11 which initiated a security clamp down. For India it was 26/11. This essay will examine India’s new security architecture from a critical point of view in the hope to judge whether India’s latest overhaul can keep her safe.
On the 23rd of December, nearly a month after the attacks in Mumbai, India’s Home Minister P. Chidambaram gave a talk to the Intelligence Bureau outlining India’s new security architecture. Most of India’s politicians had already commented heavily on the Mumbai attacks and several knee-jerk reactions had already taken place, such as BJP’s calls for reinstating POTA12, and the usual accusations aimed at Pakistan. However, what set Chidambaram apart from the previous commentators was that his proposed security architecture took into account both short, and long term objectives while laying out a detailed plan to reinforce the security establishment at all levels of the government (District, State, Centre). Moreover, the Home Minister spoke not only of responding and/or containing a terrorist attack but also went on to stress the importance of India being able to prevent such attacks from happening in the first place.
India’s establishment had already taken a number of steps to strengthen its security pre-26/11, some of which include the setting up of the Model Police Act, the formation of 79 new battalions for the CPMF3 and 38 battalions for the CRPF4. However, in the light of the Mumbai attacks, these were found to be woefully inadequate, and even the famed NSG (National Security Guards) commandos took miserably long to get from their station in New Delhi to Mumbai.
Another great failing of the Indian security establishment was its intelligence. India operates several intelligence services which often overlap in their jurisdiction. In the case of the Mumbai attacks, they proved to be fragmented, disconnected and in complete disarray. After having seen the gaps in India’s security institutions, we can examine Chidambaram’s proposals with a stronger foundation.
One pillar of Chidambaram’s outline was the need for connectivity in our security establishment. He mentions in his speech, “The police stations in this country are, today, virtually unconnected islands.5” He goes on to say that due to the increase in telecommunication, there is a channel of dialogue between the senior police officers, but that is about all, there is no common filing system, and no way for the thousands of police stations to communicate between each other. Having realized the gross inefficiencies in the system the government has sought to launch a scheme known as the ‘Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System’, if this scheme is realized the benefits for the state as well as the citizens is enormous. Not only does this allow for a common database of criminal records, but it also takes away much of the paperwork and turf war that characterizes our bureaucracy, and as a consequence, our institutions of security.
What is interesting about the proposed security architecture is that it reinforces our security authorities at several levels of government; take for example the proposition of the 24/7 control rooms, these are to be control rooms manned by IB (Intelligence Bureau) staff and will be created at district levels. Moreover, the creation of Anti-Terrorist Units at the state level, which have the mandate of “pre-empt terrorist activities and investigate terrorist crimes6”. And at the highest level of government, the centre, there are three ambitious proposals; the first one is the setting up of NatGrid, a compilation of 21 different intelligence databases in order to allow for seamless access of information between agencies. NatGrid will be placed under NCTC, which we will discuss later. The two others are the MAC (Multi-Agency Centre) and the NCTC (National Counter-Terrorism Center), these are perhaps two of the most ambitious yet sorely needed initiatives which we need against terrorism. The MAC which has been operational since January 31st, is meant to better facilitate the co-operation between the numerous intelligence agencies by having representatives from each of the respective intelligence as well as security agencies, the key benefit of this, as Mr. Chidambaram pointed out is, “that no one can say that his/her organization was kept in the dark7”. Secondly, the NCTC, which gets it mandate from the Centre, has a much broader mandate than the MAC. Chidambaram envisions the NCTC to have three main functions; intelligence, investigation and operations, also to be noted is the fact that once the NCTC is operational (deadline has been set for the end of 2010), the MAC will be integrated into the NCTC in order to satisfy one of its roles, ‘intelligence’. The appearance of such an articulate, yet comprehensive plan for the gathering and disseminating of intelligence is certainly a step forward for the country, indeed, many Indians were surprised at the speed and clarity of Chidambaram’s overhauling of the security agencies.
Moreover, parallel to the over-hauling of the intelligence establishment there has also been a leap in defense purchases by state governments following the Mumbai attacks. One of the images which was captured on CCTV during the Mumbai attacks was that of a lone police officer doing battle against a heavily armed terrorist with nothing more than a bolt-action rifle and a chair8! In an effort to reassure Mumbaikars, the security forces held a march last November to mark the first anniversary of the attacks. Only this time, commandos dressed in brand new combat fatigues with shiny new automatic rifles at the ready paraded down Mumbai’s seafront. All of Mumbai’s new toys were on display, since the attacks, the state of Maharashtra has alone spent some $30 Million on new equipment for Mumbai police forces and rapid action teams. These include Rapid Intervention Vehicles, High Speed Patrol boats and bullet proof jackets to name a few. Even other states such as Gujarat, who are vary of infiltrators using their porous coastline, have begun purchasing equipment from the Coast Guard. Obviously, technological acquisitions alone are not enough to counter the threat that India faces, but along with the upheaval of the intelligence and security forces that was mentioned earlier, this increased co-operation amongst the services in addition to better training and equipping our personnel is the most substantiative and far reaching improvement to our country’s security in history. Perhaps this is what India needed all along.
There is no doubt that India and her citizens are safer today than a year ago, however, India and her citizens must be careful not to be led into a false sense of security due to the recent rhetoric concerning our security establishment, the recent bombing of the German Bakery in Pune is a testament to this. India’s track record in the security sphere is nothing short of disappointing. Since independence, India has poured Billions of dollars and countless man-hours into safeguarding its borders and projecting its military muscle abroad, it is unfair to say that our security establishment is inexperienced, in this context ‘unprepared’ would be a more fitting word. As the head of Maharashtra State Police A.N. Roy succinctly put it, “Today, we feel much more confident than we were one year ago… but there is still a long way to go.9” Despite the recent praise that has been giving to Chidambaram’s proposals earlier in this essay, we must take his plans with a pinch of salt, this is not to say that Chidambaram does not harbor the best intentions for India but rather to shed light on the sluggish, vastly inefficient behemoth that is India’s administration.
Take for example the first proposal of interconnectivity between police stations. Anyone who has ever had to visit a police station in India can testify to their hopeless incompetence in terms of equipment and training. Most police stations even in the city of Ahmedabad, which is the economic capital of one of India’s most industrialized states, Gujarat, have only a few telephone lines to communicate to each other and the outside world. While officers usually possess a mobile phone, this is not nearly enough to compile and share information on the scale that is required today. Our Home Minister’s proposal may sound straight forward, but if even a city like Ahmedabad is under equipped, what is to say about the condition of our police infrastructure in India’s smaller cities? Not to mention India’s 600,000 odd villages. What is important here is not to dismiss Chidambaram’s proposal, because it is clearly a step in the right direction, but to understand the huge scale at which these reforms operate in and as a consequence the large period of time it will take to implement them.
Another fallacy which the Pune attacks brought out was the failure of local forces to act; On March 16th, Chidambaram admitted that the attacks were not an ‘intelligence failure’, he mentioned that all establishments in the Koregaon Park area, including the German Bakery were given written advisories by Maharashtra Police10. Despite intelligence from the Centre, the attack was not avoided. This brings us to a crucial subject which is of ‘operations’. As noted before, one of the NCTC’s key roles, apart from intelligence and investigation is operations, however due to India’s administrative structure, States are required to provide for their own security, not the Centre. In many cases, as highlighted by the Pune attacks, local police may be overstretched and/or unable to act timely on intelligence provided by the centre. Therefore, as Chidambaram himself mentions, it is paramount that the NCTC be allowed to conduct ‘operations’ within States independently or in co-operation with local forces, similar to the powers of the Homeland Security in the US. However, owing once again to our structure of governance and party politics, it is not clear how successfully, if at all the Centre will be able to push through with this proposal.
On an ending note, India’s new ambitious proposal for its security administration is clearly a road map to a safer India. Unlike the usual rhetoric which follows a terror attack in India, Chidambaram’s bold steps are a breath of fresh air for India and her people. The setting up of the MAC, along with the NCTC are a testament to the present government’s seriousness towards combatting terror. As seen in the preceding pages, India’s legislators have proven their foresight and commitment to the country, qualities which should not be underestimated. They have contributed to India an enormously comprehensive security architecture which not only takes into account obvious points such as responding to a terror attack, but goes further in its mandate to preventing an attack, and most importantly investigating an attack so as to be better prepared for the future. There are few doubts in my mind about this plan’s effectiveness, since it augments our intelligence and policing capacities, encompasses every major level of government, involves the representation of all our various intelligence agencies and even promotes co-operation and unity amongst the parties involved.
However, if there is one factor which could undermine the effectiveness of the entire plan, it is (ironically) the government itself. Chidambaram’s plan is rife with opportunities for its members to engage in turf wars and blame games, and Chidambaram, having seen this has repeatedly called out to avoid such damaging activities. But many of the proposal’s promises have yet to be fulfilled and it will be a period of time until the full effect of Chidambaram’s overhaul will be seen. But on the other hand, terrorism is one of those rare subjects in which India’s two main parties; The Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stand united, with such a large support base in Parliament, I have no doubt that not only will this overhaul be implemented in its fullest, but after conducting a critical examination of the overhaul, I have come to see it as by far the most far-reaching and forward thinking reform in our country since the economic reforms of 1991.
What is the situation in Hyderabad? It seems more clashes are happening. It was Hanuman Jayanthi yesterday, and riots broke out when 'one community' tried to stop the celebrations. If what I read in vernacular paper is true, the 'other community' also retaliated. Police from neighbouring districts and states have also been brought in to quell the riots.
Sachin wrote:What is the situation in Hyderabad? It seems more clashes are happening. It was Hanuman Jayanthi yesterday, and riots broke out when 'one community' tried to stop the celebrations. If what I read in vernacular paper is true, the 'other community' also retaliated. Police from neighbouring districts and states have also been brought in to quell the riots.
IIRC, even CPMF have also been extensively deployed.
Seems to be a Kangress v/s Kangress fight going on there. Sad thing was the 200 odd cows which met a fiery end for no fault of theirs when a cowshed was torched by persons of "a community"
Musheeerabad, Ranigunj, Secunderabad, RTC X Roads, Dilsuknagar and Tarnaka were among the areas hit
30th Mar, 2010: With the celebrations of Hanuman Jayanthi going on in full swing, clashes were bound to occur between the Hindu and the Muslim communities. On Tuesday, the violence from the Old City now spread to areas in the rest of the city, including Musheeerabad, Ranigunj, Secunderabad, RTC X Roads, Dilsuknagar and Tarnaka.
The worst hit among these was Musheerabad. A never-before occurence of 7 rounds of open fire by the police took place. The Hanuman Jayanthi procession began peacefully, but while crossing a mosque in the locality, a few miscreants threw stones on it. This was seen as an open call for creating strife, and chaos ensued. The entire episode continued for 4 hours, which resulted in injuries of 3 civilians & 2 policemen. Vehicles were also damaged heavily.
In Begum Bazar, a mosque was set on fire, that resulted in full-scale tension. A few people tried to attempt to take out a rally, but were pushed away by the RAF. As part of the police force's security measures, 4 vans are making rounds all over the Old City, ready to jump into action on any sign of disturbance.
This morning, there was turbulence in Afzalgunj, and even in places under the South Zone, including Chandrayangutta and Chatrinaka (which were put under curfew). It was also noticed that all attacks happened only in the lanes and bylanes, while the main roads seemed devoid of action.
Nallagutta, which comes under the limits of Ramgopalpet police station, witnessed what was an act of mutual violence by both communities at the sight of each other. Muslims, coming out from a mosque after offering their prayers, came face-to-face with a Hanuman Jayanthi procession. Fierce fights followed, which led to open firing. Paradise hotel was not spared, either, and was pelted with stones by miscreants.
30th Mar, 2010: The Milad-Un-Nabi celebrations organized by the MIM were unusually high-pitched this year, what with processions, and green fliers, flags and posters all over the place, and some feel that this is what sowed a few seeds of religious frenzy in the older part of the city, the MIM's bastion. The party's show of power did not go unnoticed.
However, the question of which community actually sparked off Saturday's violence is up for debate. That Muslim leaders never had permission for such a large-scale Milad-Un-Nabi procession in the first place and that Hindu right-wing activists merely wanted to replace those green flags with orange ones for the Ram Navami festival and the upcoming Hanuman Jayanti festival; is one school of thought.
Another theory, that seeks to justify why the savagery that followed on Monday saw innocent Hindus being targeted, says that it had everything to do with a verbal duel during the demolition of places of worship of both faiths – indicating that a Hindu had started the fracas. (Usual == CT being peddled ?)
The riots were reportedly spurred on by SMSes and instructions to casually available youth (of the age group of 19-25) who had little to think about, and even little to lose by taking part in active violence.
Politicos have much to gain in any case. For the MIM, this was as vocal a show of strength as it could get..
For the BJP, a party with almost zero base in the city, this is an opportunity to power up its presence, and quick. (?)That is because the party's newly-appointed state president Kishan Reddy undisputedly has much ground to cover before AP is put on BJP's national map.
As for the ruling Congress party, the fact that several of its leaders have a bone to pick with the CM Rosaiah is no secret. The expected cabinet reshuffle only heightens suspicions that top Congress politicians with possibly bleak futures in the ministry do have a role to play in the recent melee, laden with a mission to portray the government as weak.
Translation of the leader article : Riots part of political conspiracy ?
Hyderabad 30 March , Milap Bureau.
Congress MLA JC Diwkar Reddy has alleged that riots in Hyderabad are part of a political conspiracy. In New Delhi, he alleged that the riots follow a usual patrtern, though the Congress party cannot be blamed for it. ( ) He said, the riots are on to prevent Srikrishna Committee from carrying out its work.
Another Congress MLA Shankar Rao has blamed some leaders of the Congress party for deliberately instigating riots. Similarly, Nizamabad NP Madhu Yaskhi Goud of the same party expressed similar sentiments. As per some insiders, the riots are an attempt to portray Konijeti Rosaiah as a poor CM who cannot assure safety to the people of Hyderabad. Oldtimers may recall that another CM Marri Chenna Reddy of the Congress was similarly ousted in 1989 Hyderabad communal riots. Similarly, Congress' unnamed leaders alleged that some elements who are day-dreaming ( ) to occupy the CM's post have triggered this round of riots.
The CM Rosaiah was to expand his cabinet and add some more ministers. It is said that some ministers were to be replaced (without being rehabilitated, perhaps) and the riots have put paid to that expansion, now that Rosaiah's chair itself is in danger. Even the Hyderabad PC AK Khan has accepted that the riots seem to be spreading in a preplanned manner.
While the High Command does not seem to be in the mood to remove Rosaiah, it is well known that some of his ministers and MLAs cannot see eye to eye with him. Also, most of his cabinet members seem to suport YS Jagan. Inspite of this suppotrt, the High Command has not chosen to replace Rosaiah. Ever since, Rosaiah seems to be plagued by one manufactured crisis after another.
Madhu Yaskhi Goud has alleged that some "leaders" of Rayalaseema and Andhra are instigating the riots. Shankar Rao said that he would definitely apprise Soniaji of the issue.
Meanwhile, the Arya Sabha, Hyderabad has alleged that the Congress government is weak in taking actions against MIM. Allegeing that MIM was clearly behind the riots, AP Arya Sabha head, Vitthal Rao Arya said that the government is being a mere spectator and the city is burning.
Does it occur to these over zealous converts that when they throw stones at these processions & burn down temples, they are only destroying their ancestors' culture? Or they share similar beliefs with their Pakistani brethren that they have all descended from the Arabs?!
Security personnel punish a youngster violating the curfew orders in old city of Hyderabad on Wednesday. Curfew has been imposed in the area in the view of sectarian clashes. PTI
Bhilwara: Six persons, including two policemen, were injured and shops torched as a clash broke out between two communities over a religious processsion at Gangapur in the district triggering tension in the town which observed a bandh today.
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Trouble erupted in the town when members of one community hurled stones at those belonging to the other in a bid toprevent a religious procession from being taken out on the eve of Hanuman Jayanti yesterday, police sources said.
Six shops owned by the minority community were torched during the clash in which six persons including two cops received minor injuries, sources said.
A bandh was observed in the town at a call by the majority community to protest the clash.
Intelligence agencies are worried about nearly 9,000 illegal madrassas which have mushroomed across India without requisite approval by the authorities.
India has over 21,000 registered madrassas approved by the respective state governments and the Wakf Board.
IB sources say efforts are on to shut down illegal madrassas and the state authorities have been warned about their operations. Intelligence officials suspect Pakistan-based outfits may be using these illegal madrassas to carry out their operations in India, after the crackdown on terror modules and sleeper cells.
IB officials say nearly 3,000 illegal madrassas have been set up in the last year, with Maharashtra and Kerala having the maximum concentration. They claim that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence has managed to pump in nearly Rs 20 crore to fund these illegal institutions.
These institutions do not report to the Wakf Board and their syllabus is the same as the one followed in madrassas in Pakistan, say IB sources. The syllabus is based on the Anwar al-Awlaki school of thought, which has been adopted by Lashkar-e-Tayiba's [ Images ] front organisation Jamat-ud-Dawa, and speaks of 44 different ways to perform jihad
At class V level in these madrassas, students are taught that Hindus helped the British set up their empire in India. In class 6 and class 7, the students are clearly told that there is no way in which they should reconcile with India, since the only way to attain total freedom is by fighting and becoming martyrs.
Earlier, the various terror outfits concentrated on recruiting people for sleeper cells and modules, but soon realised that the concept of jihad needed to be introduced at an younger age to encourage fundamentalism. The illegal madrasas want to ensure that the students learn to internalise the jihadi school of thought.
Tracking such madrassas poses a problem for intelligence agencies, as they keep shifting base, and the fact that most of their students are children invariably shields them from any kind of suspicion.
The special investigation team of the Hyderabad police is close to exposing the conspiracy behind the communal violence in the city last Saturday. According to reliable sources they have found evidence of involvement of outsiders, from Karnataka [ Images ] and Maharashtra [ Images ] in the violence.
The police have also launched a manhunt for a Telugu Desam corporator and a Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] corporator, M Vaikuntam, who have emerged as prime suspects.
Another suspect is Raju Singh, who was an accused in the kidnapping and murder of two Christian pastors in Tappa Chabutra area of the city in 2003 and is a member of of the Hindu Vahini. The police suspect that Singh played a major role in triggering the violence at Musa Bowli temple and helped spread it to the other areas by sending SMSes. Interestingly while police was looking for him, Singh appeared on a local television channel where he blamed the police and the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen for the violence.
Vaikuntam, on the other hand is alleged to have indulged in violence in the Begum Bazar area during the Bajrang Dal's procession on Tuesday which led to imposition of curfew in many areas of the city. The SIT and intelligence sleuths were going through the phone records of Singh and some others to establish the link between the rioters in Hyderabad and some people in other states. "The SMS sent by some people are going to be of key importance in this whole investigation", a senior police official said.
Reports in a section of media have quoted intelligence agencies saying that the mining mafia could be behind the riots in a ploy to destabilise the Rosaiah government which was taking tough measures against the illegal mining of iron ore. Meanwhile the state BJP president G Kishan Reddy has strongly denied that he had taken funds from Karnataka's minister and mine owner G Janardhan Reddy. "Even if thousand such Janaradhan Reddys come, they can not dare to do so", he told the reporters.
How convinient that only the BJP seems to be behind the riots and only reports of a mosque gate being demolished.
Maybe all the pics of broken temple(s) , mercilessly beaten animals in cowshed, loads of rioters wearing masks and skullcaps etc were morphed? Also, absolutely no mention of the MIM makes this "investigation" so credible onlee.
sum wrote:How convinient that only the BJP seems to be behind the riots and only reports of a mosque gate being demolished
It would be better to archive the initial reports which came out about the riots. The incidents of one community denying to take down the flags they put up for an earlier festival, stone pelting on processions etc. Later when the pseudo-seculars give a spin to the whole story, these can be put up to counter that.
To be named as Special Zone Protection Force (SZPF), the proposal envisages the constitution of a battalion, comprising about 1200 security personnel, headed by an ex-army officer of the rank of a Colonel.
Ms. Roy also touched upon the institutionalised nature of repressive tendencies in India. “Something about the cunning, Brahmanical, intricate, bureaucratic, file-bound, applied-through-proper-channels nature of governance and subjugation in India seems to have made a clerk out of me.” She said her only excuse was to say that it took “odd twos to uncover the maze of subterfuge and hypocrisy that cloaks the callousness and the cold calculated violence of the world's favourite new superpower.”
Ms. Roy described her recent visit to areas controlled by groups portrayed in the mainstream media as “violent Maoist rebels” that need to be “wiped out.” In exchange for giving such groups the right to vote, democracy “has snatched away their right to livelihoods, to forest produce and to traditional ways of life,” she said.
Ms. Roy pointed out that Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal had signed hundreds of Memoranda of Understanding worth billions of dollars with large transnational companies and this inevitably led to moving tribal people from their lands. “We refer to such areas not as the Maoist corridor but the MoU-ist corridor,” she quipped.
Now, it has become more clear that terror operatives in Kerala had sent five Malayali boys to Kashmir in 2008 for training, as part of the 'Karachi Project’ hatched by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), with the support of Lashkar-e-Taiba, SIMI and Indian Mujahidheen.
The primary objective of the project is to provide training to selected Indians at terror camps in Pakistan and Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and to send them back to India to carry out terror attacks.
By using Indians for terror attacks the ISI wanted to disprove the Indian government’s claim that terrorism on its soil is being perpetrated by Pakistan.
The project is aimed at giving an impression that terrorism in India is purely a homegrown phenomenon.
Fahim Ansari, who is an accused in the attack on a CRPF camp at Rampur in UP, Sabahudheen Ahamed, an accused in the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and Raziyudheen Nazeer, who was arrested by the Karnataka Police for plotting an attack in Goa, were provided training at terror camps across the border.
Sources said that Muhammad Fayaz, Fayiz, Abdul Jabbar, Abdul Rahim and Yasin were sent to Kashmir with the intention of crossing the borders and to be trained by the ISI.
The plan was to push them back to India after providing training on attacking specific targets in India.
Kochi was one of the targets identified by the terrorists. Raziyudheen Nazir contacted the SIMI leadership in Kerala to find out the possible recruits.
Nazir was in touch with SIMI/ Indian Mujahidheen leader Anzar Nadvi, who was later arrested from Indore.
Nadvi and Sarfaraz Nawaz approached Thadiyantavide Nazeer, who by the time, had built up his own terror network in Kerala.
Nazeer and Nadvi prepared a list of persons to be sent for terror training.
Shaduly, the brother of SIMI leader P A Shibly who was also arrested from Indore, was included in the list prepared by Nadvi.
Yousaf alias Mani, who is believed to have been converted by Abdul Nazar Madhani, also figured in the list.
Passports were prepared for all of them, as the initial plan was to send them to Pakistan via Gulf.
Finally, five people were selected from the list prepared by Nazeer for training. However, the plan to send the recruits via Gulf to Pakistan was dropped, and they were taken to the terror camp at Kupwara in Kashmir.
