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Fresh intelligence reports now indicate that 200 to 250 terrorists are back at the launch pads waiting to infiltrate into India, the army official added. The ceasefire violation in the Valley’s Gurez sector on Tuesday was an infiltration attempt, the army officer confirmed. “We could see two bodies (of terrorists) lying (there) ,” he said.
“Terror launch pads in PoK, which were dismantled and pushed back to interior, have now been reactivated,” sources told IBNS.
The Chinese action aimed at disrupting oil exploration projects in Vietnam’s waters triggered the biggest confrontation between the two neighbours since 2014 and Vietnam is determined to protect its territorial integrity, they said.
In 1959, following a crackdown on an uprising by the local population in Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, fled to India. He was granted political asylum here and the Tibetan government-in-exile is based in Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh since then.
Pentagon released its latest report titled ‘Enhancing security and Stability in Afghanistan’, stating that India has transferred a total of eight Mi-35 helicopters to the Afghan Air Force, four during 2015/2016 and four more during 2018.
The successful capture comes after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) shared a specific input with information about two boats carrying banned drugs from Karachi to Sri Lanka.
These old terror outfits include Sipah-e-Sahaba, Jaish-ul-Adl, Lashkar-e-omer (LeO), Al-Badr, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) and Al-Umar-mujahideen (AUM). Sources add that ISI is taking desperate measures due to India’s tough stance on combating terrorism.
This after Pakistani media reported last week that an invite was extended by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Pak Prime Minister during the Shanghai cooperation organization summit in Bishkek last month.
According to documents reviewed by Hindustan Times, both the Pakistan-based proscribed groups have joined hands with the Afghan Taliban and Afghan insurgent group, Haqqani Network, across the Durand Line that separates Pakistan from Afghanistan, for training their extremist cadre in subversive activity.
An ISI agent was hired by a diplomat posted in Sri Lanka to pass sensitive information on Indian installations for a 26/11 like attack. He revealed how the ISI was actively recruiting, plotting and executing terror against India from foreign soil. While NIA managed to foil the nefarious plan and arrested the agent, the agency is still immune to justice.
