India Actionable Intelligence 17th-28th September 2008

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28/09/08: Indian police have detained about a dozen people in connection with a deadly bomb blast in a crowded New Delhi market.

28/09/08:  Maoist guerrillas in synchronised attacks in Bihar,  blasted two towers of Reliance Communications at Bishunpur and Manjhaulia villages in the district.

28/09/08: Defence Minister A.K. Antony has said though most recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission are beneficial to the armed forces, certain issues in the pay revision proposals need to be resolved.

28/09/08: Though most leading members of the Indian Mujahideen-SIMI modules involved in the recent serial blasts have been nabbed, security agencies feel the terror threat for India remains high with jihadi outfits likely to plan more attacks aimed at keeping police forces’ on the backfoot.

28/09/08: The chief executive of a Texas-based software firm was dragged out of his car and beaten unconscious by four men as industry hub Noida woke up to another vicious attack in less than a week.

28/09/08: IAF Chief of Air Staff, Fali Homi Major today said, increased China-Bangladesh military relations was “not a cause of worry” for India.

28/09/08: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the threat to Assam from the jehadi groups including Harkat Ul Jehadi Islami (HUJI) is a serious one and asserted that the Army operations in the State would continue till the situation improves.

Bangladesh Actionable Intelligence 17th – 28th September 2008

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28/09/08: In Dhaka, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a suspected arms dealer at Phulbaria Nagar plaza under Kotwali Police Station.

28/09/08: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said Bangladesh may become the lead country of the proposed international stabilising force for Somalia.

28/09/08: State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) plans to buy 100,000 tonnes of gas oil blend to reduce the cost of imported diesel.

27/09/08: The Bangladesh government has said it will look into the killing of seven militants of the Bangladesh-based banned Islamist group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) by soldiers in the Indian state of Assam.

27/09/08:  Bagerhat district BNP’s acting president Shamsul Haque was attacked and injured by party supporters on Friday.

27/09/08: A suspected leader of an underground party was killed in a shootout between his cohorts and the police near Zia Khal under Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga early Friday.

26/09/08: The Awami League has told the Dhaka-based diplomats that the party will continue to pursue the corrupt impartially if voted to power, but does not support purging of politicians.

26/09/08: The US Congress has urged President George W. Bush to provide a hefty assistance package to Bangladesh after it conducts a credible election in December.

Pakistan Actionable Intelligence 11th-28th September 2008

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28/09/08: In an intensified military campaign in the strategic areas in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, Pakistan army killed 30 militants in an offensive that also left three soldiers dead, officials said.

28/09/08: A US jet fighter violated Pakistani airspace in North Waziristan on Saturday.

28/09/08: Nineteen militants and two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed in a gunbattle between security forces and militants in Dera Bugti on Saturday, Aaj TV reported..

28/09/08: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and United States Deputy Secretary of State John D Negroponte will co-chair the third meeting of the US-Pak Strategic Dialogue in Washington on Monday.

28/09/08: The U.S. Defense Department said today it approved sales of radar and aircraft upgrades, missiles and other equipment valued at 1.01 billion dollars to four U.S. allies including Pakistan.

28/09/08: In Swat, Taliban blew up the houses of a provincial minister and his brother, killing three of the minister’s servants, in the Dosha Gram area of Matta tehsil on Saturday.

28/09/08 :

A suicide bomber was arrested in Khyber Agency along with a vehicle laden with explosives in Khyber Agency’s area of Alam Gadar.

27/09/08: Pakistani security forces killed 30 militants loyal to al Qaeda and Taliban in the latest fighting in a strategically important tribal region on the Afghan border, officials said on Saturday.

27/09/08: Police arrested a terrorist carrying explosives and a kalashnikov from Mohib Shah Road in Jampur.

27/09/08: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior will meet today (Saturday) at Parliament House to discuss last week’s bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad.

Bangladesh Actionable Intelligence 11th-16th September 2008

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16/09/08: Bangladesh and India attempted to settle on a starting point for demarcation of sea borders in the Bay of Bengal, on day one of a three-day maritime conference.  Maritime boundary talks resumed Monday after a hiatus of nearly three decades.

16/09/08: The military-controlled interim government is now worried about the deterioration of the law and order situation ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr and Durga Puja, and also the general elections scheduled for December.

16/09/08:  BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to meet the top leaders of the four-party alliance Tuesday afternoon to discuss the general elections and the dialogue with the Election Commission.  Until Monday evening, the meeting was scheduled to be held in the party office at Naya Paltan. The venue was shifted in an overnight decision to the home of journalist Shafik Rehman.

16/09/08: Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said his government is at the final stage of achieving its goal to hold a free, fair and credible general election by December this year.

16/09/08: Bangladesh hopes to attract Chinese investment in its infrastructure and manufacturing sectors and consolidate its defence ties during the visit of Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed to China that begins on Monday.

15/09/08: Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, the two top political leaders of the country, should hold talks for the sake of politics and good of the nation, said the US ambassador James F Moriarty on Sunday.

India Actionable Intelligence 10th – 16th September 2008

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16/09/08: In Vadodara, one person was killed in police firing and eight were injured in a clash between members of two communities during Ganesha idol immersion at Fatehpura locality of the city on Tuesday, police said.

16/09/08: In Orissa, a large number of attackers armed with country-made guns and crude weapons gunned down a constable and set ablaze the police station at Gochapada early this morning, Director General of Police Gopal Nanda said.

16/09/08: Educational institutions and shops remained closed and roads were deserted in Karnataka’s coastal city of Mangalore on Tuesday as a Hindu group called for a shutdown to protest the stabbing of one of its activists.

16/09/08: India’s defence minister on Monday suggested that Pakistan might have aided those responsible for a series of blasts in New Delhi over the weekend that killed 21 people.

16/09/08: Four Indian security personnel were killed in a gunbattle with heavily armed militants in Indian-held Kashmir, an army spokesman said on Monday. He said the fighting broke out late on Sunday when Indian soldiers, backed by counter-insurgency police, surrounded a forest where militants were present.

16/09/08: Indian cinemas suffered a sharp drop in attendance over the weekend in the aftermath of five bomb blasts that killed 21 people and injured 90 at popular shopping locations in the capital.

Bangladesh Intelligence Guidance – 8th to 10th September 2008

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10/09/08: Jon Danilowicz, political and economic affairs counselor of the US embassy in Dhaka, called on Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid at the party headquarters Tuesday.

10/09/08: Bangla daily newspaper Prothom Alo on Sunday issued a legal notice to the acting and advisory editor of another Bangla daily, Amar Desh. Amar Desh on September 3 published a report headlined ‘ULFA’s investment in Bangladesh media’ which said ULFA had invested in Prothom Alo, the Daily Star and weeklies Saptahik 2000 and Anandadhara.

10/09/08: Barrister Rafique-ul Huq, counsel for both Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, yesterday said he is afraid the country will continue to have 1/11 if the political leaders do not end bickering even after what they have been through in the last one and a half years.

10/09/08: A Houston-based subsurface imaging company has landed a contract to help Bangladesh further develop its natural gas assets. Geotrace Data Integration Services Ltd. will provide its Tigress 3D interpretation software to the Bangladesh Gas Fields Co. Ltd. to measure reserves in some fields that account for 40 percent of the Asian nation’s gas production.

10/09/08: The SAIC Institute of Management and Technology (SIMT) authorities will provide legal and financial assistance to its four IT students who were arrested on charges of hacking the website of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab). All four are brilliant students. They achieved GPA+ and GPA in their examinations so far, teachers of the institute said.

10/09/08: The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is unable to efficiently prevent crime or chase criminals in the city and across the country with the help of the China-made Zongshen 125cc motorbikes.

India Intelligence Guidance – 8th-10th September 2008

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10/09/08:Unfazed by the criticism his group has faced over the violence in Orissa, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia has said that violence against Hindus will be met with violence.

10/09/08: The US has offered India a $170 million deal for the sale of two dozen Harpoon air to ground anti-ship missiles to modernise its air force anti-surface warfare mission capabilities and improve its naval operational flexibility.

10/09/08: Goa is one of only six States in India that do not have a naxalite presence, according to a report submitted by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to the Union Home Ministry. The other five States that have no naxalites are Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh.

10/09/08: Over two dozen “cover” organisations of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) are now operating in South India, and government documents reveal there are 50 such front outfits across the country.

10/09/08: India would take up various defence issues, including the hike in the price of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, to be commissioned in the Indian Navy as INS Vikramaditya, as well as joint manufacturing of multi-role fighter aircraft during the visit of Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov later this month.

10/09/08: In Agra, a dozen people were arrested for inciting riots as tension continued to prevail in the Mantola area of the city Tuesday following communal clashes Monday night.

10/09/08: Fifty armed rebels of the CPI(Maoist) stormed Fodenga in Nimdih late last night and rained bullets on a villager branding him a police informer. The victim, Shyamapada Singh, is fighting for life in hospital.

Pakistan Intelligence Guidance – 7th to 10th September 2008

10/09/08: The security apparatus in the federal capital and the provincial headquarters has been put on high alert in the wake of intelligence that terrorists are planning to carry out suicide attacks.

10/09/08: US President George W. Bush on Tuesday named Pakistan among the major battlegrounds in the global war on terrorism and reminded Islamabad that it was its responsibility to eradicate terrorism from the tribal areas.

10/09/08: Seven people, including a nephew of a Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) leader, were killed and three more schools were torched by militants in restive Swat Valley on Tuesday.

10/09/08: At least seven militants were killed and several others wounded in an assault by security forces in Tang Khata area in Bajaur Agency on Tuesday. Officials told Daily Times that the troops were informed that the militants were waiting to ambush a military convoy advancing towards Taliban hideouts.

10/09/08: Al Qaeda Pakistan chief Abu Haris was among 26 people killed in Monday’s missile strike by the United States in Miranshah, Geo News quoted sources close to Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani as saying on Tuesday.

09/09/08: A spokesman for Pakistan’s army, Major Murad Khan, has slammed Washington for killing Pakistani civilians, warning of retaliatory action. His warning came after US forces launched cross-border attacks in tribal areas in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, killing at least 20 civilians and wounding 25 others on Monday.

09/09/08: The government will not put up with any hot pursuit inside Pakistani territory, Leader of the House Raza Rabbani told the Senate.

09/09/08: The National Intelligence Council, warned the George W. Bush administration last month that a decision to launch commando raids by U.S. troops against al Qaeda-related targets in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier region would carry a high risk of further destabilising the Pakistani military and government.

09/09/08: Pakistan has reopened supply lines to Nato forces in Afghanistan, after the road through the Khyber Pass was blocked on Saturday, days after a raid by US commandos on a Pakistani village.

09/09/08: Eleven people were killed and 14 injured as clashes continued in the Kurram region on Monday despite a ceasefire declared by the warring tribes.

09/09/08: President-elect Asif Ali Zardari will take oath of office as Pakistan’s head of state at the President’s House today.

09/09/08: Security forces foiled a suicide bombing attempt early Monday morning in Nowshera and arrested the would-be bomber.

09/09/08: Ten suspected suicide bombers from Wana have entered the Punjab, prompting increased security measures in the province.

09/09/08: Police on Monday evening arrested 10 suspected Uzbek-Afghan nationals, Chaman Sub-Division Police Officer (SDPO) Zia Mandokhel said.

09/09/08: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday observed that terrorists charged in high profile cases manage to get their release on bail easily due to lack of evidence and weak investigation against them.

09/09/08: Foreign militants attacked the Lower Kurram area of the agency with machines guns, rocket launchers and mortars, killing three people and injuring another three, adding that two people died and six were wounded in retaliatory fire.

09/09/08: Associates of the Haqqani clan told Pakistani media that neither Jalaluddin Haqqani nor his son, Sirajuddin, who has largely taken over his command role in the Taliban movement, were present in the village at the time of Monday’s strike. But some other close relatives, including one of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s wives, were among the dead, they said.

09/09/08: The US decision to conduct raids into Pakistan’s tribal areas reflects its desire to duplicate the same strategy in Fata and Afghanistan that led to a steady decrease in insurgency in Iraq.

08/09/08: In Quetta, the driver of an oil tanker was killed when a rocket hit his vehicle here on Sunday. According to police, armed men fired the rocket on the tanker carrying fuel for Nato forces deployed in Afghanistan.

08/09/08: The coming week will see Pakistan’s president-elect Asif Ali Zardari visiting China to negotiate a nuclear deal like the one being worked out between US and India, an official has revealed. On conditions of anonymity, the official added that Pakistan has already apprised China of its plans about the nuke deal for meeting energy needs. But the talks will begin once Zardari reaches China.

08/07/08: Two security personnel were wounded when militants attacked an army base camp and a nearby police station in Kabal tehsil of Swat.

08/09/08: Pakistan will acquire over 100 fighter jets from China and the US as well as airborne warning and air-to-air refuelling aircraft to maintain numerical parity with the Indian Air Force which enjoys a “qualitative advantage”, the country’s air force chief has said.

08/09/08: At least three militants were killed Monday in a missile strike by suspected US drones on a Pakistan tribal town near the Afghan border, security and local officials said.

08/09/08: Pakistan’s military says several explosions have rocked the Miran Shah area in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, injuring at least 12 people.

08/09/08: One person was killed and 13 were injured as army helicopters pounded a suspected militant hideout near a madrassa in Darra Adam Khel on Sunday.

08/09/08: Tense relations between the Mehsood and Wazir tribes in South Waziristan ended on Sunday as the tribes agreed to resolve their issues through dialogue.

08/09/08: A US drone came under attack when the local people opened fire in North Waziristan, the drone, however, managed to escape safely. The local people started firing with the help of machine gun when the US drone was flying at low-level attitude.

08/09/08: Militant Islamist groups in Pakistan, such as the newly formed Pakistani Taliban, have shown an interest in developing weapons with a nuclear capability, according to Western security officials.

07/09/08: A U.S. official says two U.S. diplomatic outposts in Pakistan received envelopes containing an unknown white powder last week, sparking a security scare. U.S. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor says tests are being conducted on the substance.

07/09/08: Pakistani authorities now say at least 33 people have been killed in a suicide car bombing in North West Frontier Province.

India Intelligence Guidance: 6th-8th September 2008

• 08/09/08: Kashmir’s top separatist leader has warned India’s heavy-handed crackdown on protesters in the Muslim-majority region could trigger renewed violence in the long-running separatist revolt.
• 08/09/08: Two persons armed with weapons looted more than 10 kg of gold jewellery from the employees of a courier company outside the cargo office of the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad.
• 08/09/08: In a major haul, 70 kg of explosive powder, 1,994 detonators and 10,100 metres of fuse wire were recovered and four persons arrested from Ranchi district of Jharkhand.
• 08/09/08: Fifteen people and a policeman were injured, some of them seriously, when the police opened fire to quell a clash between two groups of people in Assam’s Karimganj district.
• 08/09/08: The stalemate over acquisition of land for the Tata Motors project at Singur ended here late on Sunday night, following two rounds of discussions between Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.
• 08/09/08: India is preparing to press Australia to supply uranium to its reactors, hoping to build on Canberra’s support during negotiations in Vienna.
• 08/09/08: Cops are faced with the daunting task of hunting down fresh SIMI recruits — those who have no police records and who are insulated by their lack of information on the top SIMI cadre.
• 08/09/08: Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand will take the lion’s share of the deployment of the newly formed Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) to counter Maoist.
• 08/09/08: Intelligence agencies may start probing the ISI-Maoist collusion in pumping fake currency in India after the arrest of Umesh Rawat alias Prasad alias Patel. Apart from Maoists, Nepal is also learnt to be harbouring a well-oiled network of ISI and Dawood Ibrahim gang, especially in and around Kathmandu. According to intelligence reports, both ISI and Maoists have a common agenda of fostering anti-national operations in India.
• 08/09/09: The Indian Air Force [IAF] is on the verge of finalising the long awaited Rs 1,800-crore deal for 18 Israeli Spyder-SR low-level quick reaction missile [LLQRM] systems to augment its depreciated air defence systems, further bolstering military ties between Delhi and Tel Aviv.
• 07/09/08: Nepalese police have secretly deported two key suspects in 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai after arresting them in the capital. Salim Ghazi and Riyaj Khatri who were suspected to be involved in Mumbai blast that killed over 250 people were arrested in a residential area here on Thursday.
• 07/09/08: While the Nuclear Supplies Group waiver at Vienna on Saturday has been a major breakthrough for India , there is concern here that China chose to join the group of six like-minded countries that expressed reservations in granting India-specific waiver at the last minute in the NSG meeting.
• 07/09/08: One soldier was killed and two were wounded in a gun battle that was underway Sunday morning between security forces and suspected militants in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
• 07/08/08: Describing terrorism as a “pervasive and insidious” threat to global security, India has sought a concerted action to root out its networks and deter regimes from encouraging and harbouring armed extremists
• 07/09/08: In what appears to be a part of the Maoist strategy to cause confusion and engineer division within the police rank and file,Naxalites belonging to the CPI (Maoist), have invoked the class rhetoric to woo the constabulary. The Maoists have pasted posters in several parts of the trouble-prone Dumaria -Imamganj area of the district reminding the constabulary engaged in the anti-Naxal combat of its (constabulary’s) common economic and social interests with the proponents of the Naxal ideology
• 06/09/08: The Peoples Liberation Front of Meghalaya, a new outfit backed by Ulfa and the NSCN (I-M), has started operating along the Assam-Meghalaya border. Preliminary investigations suggest that the PLFM was formed in 2003 and 35 of its cadres went underground to receive training and prepare network to carry out its operations. According to intelligence sources, the group wants to “liberate” Meghalaya from the “Indian colonial clutch” and mainly provides logistical support to the 709 battalion of Ulfa besides helping its cadres sneak into Bangladesh.
• 06/09/08: The world community is alarmed by attacks on Christians in Orissa. Seven members of the US House of Representatives have shown concern over it in a letter to the ambassador to the US, Ronen Sen, seeking quick action to neutralise the crisis.
• 06/09/08: Authorities in Orissa on Saturday clamped prohibitory orders restricting Hindu rallies in the state, following orders from the Supreme Court. Security has been beefed up in parts of the state and policemen have been deployed outside places of worship. Members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) criticised the restrictions as a violation of their fundamental rights.
• 06/09/08: At least 300 protestors have been arrested by police in Indian Kashmir after the recent agitation and curfews. The Indian Kashmir witnessed massive anti-India and pro-freedom marches and rallies in August. Tens of thousands of people attended these marches and rallies, which called on India to grant freedom to Kashmir.
• 06/09/08: One person was killed and three wounded on Saturday when police fired on hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators protesting against New Delhi’s rule in Indian Kashmir, police and witnesses said.

Pakistan Intelligence Guidance: 6th-8th September 2008

• 08/09/08: At least three militants were killed Monday in a missile strike by suspected US drones on a Pakistan tribal town near the Afghan border, security and local officials said.
• 08/09/08: Pakistan’s military says several explosions have rocked the Miran Shah area in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, injuring at least 12 people.
• 08/09/08: One person was killed and 13 were injured as army helicopters pounded a suspected militant hideout near a madrassa in Darra Adam Khel on Sunday.
• 08/09/08: Tense relations between the Mehsood and Wazir tribes in South Waziristan ended on Sunday as the tribes agreed to resolve their issues through dialogue.
• 08/09/08: A US drone came under attack when the local people opened fire in North Waziristan, the drone, however, managed to escape safely. The local people started firing with the help of machine gun when the US drone was flying at low-level attitude.
• 08/09/08: Militant Islamist groups in Pakistan, such as the newly formed Pakistani Taliban, have shown an interest in developing weapons with a nuclear capability, according to Western security officials.
• 07/09/08: A U.S. official says two U.S. diplomatic outposts in Pakistan received envelopes containing an unknown white powder last week, sparking a security scare. U.S. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor says tests are being conducted on the substance.
• 07/09/08: Pakistani authorities now say at least 33 people have been killed in a suicide car bombing in North West Frontier Province.
• 06/08/09: Two policemen and seven Taliban fighters were killed in a clash in the southwestern Nimroz province.
• 06/08/09: Splinter terrorist groups have joined Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and are planning to target police officials, who are adhering with the terrorism cases.
• 06/08/09: Security forces continued shelling at militants’ hideouts in Swat on Saturday night while curfew remained enforced in Khawazakhila, Matta and Tehsil Kabbal for the fifth consecutive day.
• 06/08/09: At least 30 people were killed and more than 70 injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a security checkpoint in the outskirts of Peshawar, officials said.
• 06/09/08: The blockade of 35 containers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and fuel supplies to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces from Pakistan to Afghanistan is due to the law and order situation.
• 06/09/08: 24 people have been killed in Swat’s Matta tehsil as villagers battled Taliban militants on Saturday after foiling a kidnap attempt by the Taliban.
• 06/09/08: In Hangu Security forces arrested at least 16 suspects during a crackdown after a missile attack on the city on Saturday.
• 06/09/08: At least five people were killed and seven injured in firing and shelling in Kurram Agency on Saturday, sources said.