Tehran: India on Thursday welcomed the US action slapping sanctions on Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba's (LeT) top eight commanders, including Mumbai terror attack mastermind Sajid Mir and its founder Hafiz Saeed's son.
"We obviously welcome the steps taken to improve international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and the steps taken by the US has certainly been in that direction," Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told reporters.
Mathai made the remarks when asked by newsmen to comment on the decision of the Obama Administration.
Announcing the sanctions, the US said LeT, despite being designated as a foreign terrorist organisation in January 2002, continues to "operate in Pakistan" and throughout the region and engage in terrorist activities worldwide....
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11:51 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Srinagar: This year has seen a rise in militancy in the Kashmir valley with the Army reporting 100 per cent increase in infiltration from across the border. There have been six attacks on village heads and encounters near the Line of Control in the last few weeks. Once again there is a peak in militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The Army says 280-300 militants are active in the valley....
09:37 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Srinagar: A gunbattle between security forces and militants which was on since Thursday night in Handwara got over on Friday morning. The body of a top LeT commander Hanzullah has been retrieved from the debris of a structure that had caught fire. Forces are continuing with their search operation for more militants. The encounter took place after the security forces had launched a search operation for militants in the Kupwara...
08:58 AM, Aug 03, 2012
Mumbai: Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Sayed Ansari alias Abu Jundal has revealed that he had used four email addresses and 10 international SIM cards while he was hiding in Saudi Arabia, where he was also given a task of recruiting young men into the terror outfit, police said. "Jundal said that he managed to hide in Saudi Arabia for a good period of time as he used different SIM cards and...
08:39 PM, Jul 26, 2012
New Delhi: With a Kashmir at peace not to their liking, the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba is planning major terror attacks in the state and elsewhere in India, Abu Jundal, one of the arrested handlers of the 2008 Mumbai attackers, has revealed to his interrogators. Jundal, believed to be "a mine of information" on the Lashkar and its anti-India plans, also told his interrogators that the group was planning to push hundreds...
05:54 PM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police was on Thursday granted the custody of 26/11 handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal for 15 days by the Tis Hazari Court. The Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist was produced before the court as his custody till July 5, which was granted after his arrest on June 21, ended on Thursday. The police had sought an extension of Jundal's custody, saying he was instrumental in training the 10...
04:37 PM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: India has decided to up the ante on Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Abu Jundal in the talks with Pakistan. According to Ministry of Home Affairs officials, India has decided to share a copy of Jundal's passport and identity card with the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. A dossier on the 26/11 attacks handler will be given by India to Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani during the talks on Wednesday. This...
05:15 PM, Jul 03, 2012
The deportation of Sayed Zabiudd-in Ansari alias Abu Jundal from Saudi Arabia to India last week has implications beyond simply its unravelling of the 26/11 plot. Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's spokesman exacerbated an evolving situation by a midnight flip-flop over the release of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian sentenced to death for terrorism. Whatever the truth, the impression congeals of an administration bending to the will of jihadis and the...
10:29 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik on Friday called on India to provide more details about 26/11 key handler Abu Jundal and said criminals using "fake" passports cannot be Pakistani. "Pakistan expects to receive a copy of the statement of (Jundal). I expect to have original passport claimed to have been allegedly given by (Pakistan)," Malik wrote in a message posted on Twitter late on Friday night. Indian authorities...
08:19 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Railway plans special counters and timings for Tatkal bookings. Jundal says terrorists are planning aerial strike on India. ...
11:05 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: Terrorists are planning aerial attacks on India, and they've been training men for it for over two years now. The chilling revelation came from the top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative in Indian custody and 26/11 handler Abu Jundal as police question the man who orchestrated India's worst terror attack. This is the confirmation of a new headache for security agencies. Interrogators who have now spent scores of hours grilling...
10:00 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: India believes that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed was with 26/11 key handler Abu Jundal in the control room set up in Pakistan with some kind of "state support", Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday. "Such a control room could not have been set up without some kind of state support," he said at a press conference in New Delhi. Jundal, 30, arrested on June 21 on...
08:56 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Former Home Secretary G K Pillai has said that Abu Jundal's confessions are very vital to the 26/11 case. ...
05:46 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: Alleged 26/11 conspirator and Lashkar-e-Toiba mastermind Abu Jundal has told interrogators that after the Mumbai attacks, the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was shifted to Dulai in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) under pressure. Sources said that Jundal has also confessed that he had met LeT's operational commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi in the Pakistan jail. Spilling the beans, he has further said that after 26/11, he fled to Pakistan and...
04:03 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: Alleged 26/11 conspirator and Lashkar-e-Toiba mastermind Abu Jundal continues to sing in police custody. He has now admitted that the Lashkar-e-Toiba is imparting paragliding training to its recruits at its camp in Muzaffarabad in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir. He also said that paragliding has been made a part of the training curriculum of the LeT cadres. The police are verifying whether Jundal himself has received paragliding training. Officials...
08:25 AM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: Investigators in India seem to be unearthing crucial leads on the 26/11 terror attacks from arrested Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Abu Jundal. Sources continue to suggest that Jundal has revealed several crucial instances which suggest Pakistan's involvement in the terror strikes on Mumbai. Four years after the deadly Mumbai terror attacks, it is now certain Indian agencies have struck a goldmine with the arrest of Zabiuddin Ansari alias Riyasat Ali...
08:45 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai police has issued a terror alert for the city, after they released the sketch of a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist. Joint Commissioner, Himanshu Roy said four members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba sneaked into the city a few days ago. With Christmas and New Year round the corner, it appears that the Mumbai police does not want to take any chances with so much specific information that they have....
10:15 PM, Dec 23, 2010
All Indians know that a few terrorists do not tarnish a whole community. ...
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