Keeping aside the deliberations on whether the US eliminating Osama-bin-Laden was 'correct' or whether Indian hands are justified to get some extra judicial killings in Pakistan; we can start discussions on the new and not so new stories of "Ghuske marenge".
Bravo India ... also means macho Modi ..
Here are few stories ....
** Zahoor Mistry, the terrorist involved in the hijack of the Indian plane IC-814 in Afghanistan’s Kandahar in 1999, was killed in Pakistan on March 1, 2022.
Reports claimed he was killed by two bike-borne assailants in Karachi.
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JeM 'boss' Masood Azhar had attended Mistry’s funeral. Azhar was among the three terrorists released by the Indian government when IC814 was hijacked in 1999.
Mistry was said to have been living under a false identity as Zahid Akhund for several years before being shot dead.
Of course, Pakistan had pinned blame on Indian intelligence operatives for this killing stating that local Pakistani assassins were hired.
Reports also said that Similarly, another JeM terrorist Raheem Ullah Tariq, a close associate of Maulana Masood Azhar, was shot dead in Karachi by unknown men on November 13, 2023.
The fact of the matter is in November 2023, three LeT and JeM terrorists were shot dead in separate incidents in Pakistan. Security officials in Pakistan much to the surprise could only say that unknown armed men riding motorcycles perpetrated the targeted killings.
Khwaja Shahid alias Mian Mujahid was kidnapped and later discovered beheaded near the Line of Control in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir on November 5, 2023. He was the LeT terrorist and one of the masterminds of the 2018 terror attack on an Indian Army Camp in Sunjuwan that had claimed seven lives.
Lashkar terrorist Akram Khan, alias Akram Ghazi, was shot dead in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur tribal district on November 9, 2023. According to reports in 'The Guardian;, London, -
"Interviews with intelligence officials in both countries, as well as documents shared by Pakistani investigators, shed new light on how India’s foreign intelligence agency allegedly began to carry out assassinations abroad as part of an emboldened approach to national security after 2019."
The agency, the Research & Analysis Wing (Raw), is directly controlled by the office of India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, who is running for a third term in office in elections later this month, it has been claimed.
Officially of course, the government of India has denied.
Even the perpetrators of Pathankot 2016 attack have not been spared. Shahid Latif, also India’s 'most wanted', was shot dead in October 2023 by unknown gunmen in Pakistan’s Sialkot. He was killed inside a mosque.
Latif was a key conspirator in the 2016 Pathankot terror attack in which seven security personnel were killed.
Last year in September, a key LeT operative Ziaur Rahman was killed in Karachi as two motorcycle-borne unidentified gunmen shot him dead leaving him in a pool of blood.
In another key development, Mufti Qaiser Farooq, was also eliminated.
He was a key member of LeT and an aide of its chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
He was shot near a religious organisation-run building in Karachi in October last year.
Hizbul commander Bashir Ahmad Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam was killed by unknown gunmen outside a shop in Rawalpindi on February 20, 2023.
He was one of India’s most wanted designated terrorists. A week after his death, the NIA had attached his property in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
Peer was designated as a terrorist by the Indian government in 2023 for his role in sending terrorists and providing logistic support for infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir.
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Islamabad on Saturday denounced the “provocative” remarks made by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in a televised interview yesterday, in which he appeared to confirm that New Delhi was carrying out an assassination campaign in Pakistan, as reported by The Guardian.
“If any terrorist from a neighbouring country tries to disturb India or carry out terrorist activities here, he will be given a fitting reply. If he escapes to Pakistan we will go to Pakistan and kill him there,” Singh said in an interview to Indian TV news network News18 on Friday.
Yet another 'mega faultline' of Nehru :::::: Oman offered to sell Gwadar, a small fishing village, to India in the 1950s... Nehru turned down the offer.
History is no longer a legacy or even a 'theme park'. It is no longer -- a past and 'past' should be left as the bygone !! For Congress party ... History has started to 'haunt' it.
It has made one thing clear -- if i exists, it can come back to 'harm' the reputation of Mr Perfect !
The 'sacred cow' veil has fallen!!
Gwadar, now Pakistan's, was offered to India in 1950s -- The government led by Jawaharlal Nehru declined the offer, and Pakistan in 1958 bought it for three million pounds. This is the story of how Gwadar, now a strategic port, could have been India's and why Nehru might have turned down the offer.
Gwadar had been in the possession of the Sultan of Oman, since 1783. The hammer-shaped fishing village was 'offered' to New Delhi. But now it houses Pakistan's third-largest port, a tainted Chinese gift.
It was under Omani rule for almost 200 years, until the 1950s and then passed onto Pakistan.
Before Gwadar finally ended up in Pakistani possession in 1958, it was actually offered to India, which the Indian government under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declined.
The upcoming Lok Sabha polls recently brought back one of India's strategic 'blunders', the handover of Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka. The allegation thrown by the BJP at the Congress, of undermining India's territorial interests in the case of Katchatheevu, follows a series of previous allegations.
However, unlike the Kashmir "blunder", the "acceptance of Tibet as a part of China" (1953 and 2003) and the Katchatheevu giveaway (1974), the turning down of the Gwadar offer isn't common knowledge and hasn't become part of India's political discourse.
"Not accepting the priceless gift from the Sultan of Oman was a huge mistake at par with the long list of post-Independence strategic blunders," Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (Retd) noted in a 2016 opinion piece 'The historic blunder of India no one talks about'.
This story of Gwadar changing hands multiple times, gives rise to some obvious questions. How did a small fishing town end up with the Omani Sultan, across the narrow Gulf of Oman? Why did the Government of India, with Jawaharlal Nehru at its helm, decline to accept the port town? What would have happened had India taken possession of Gwadar in 1956?
How Oman got GWADAR
Located on the Makran coast of Pakistan's Balochistan province, Gwadar first came into Omani possession in 1783.
The Khan of Kalat, Mir Noori Naseer Khan Baloch, gifted the area to Muscat's prince, Sultan bin Ahmad. "Both prince Sultan and the Khan of Kalat had an understanding that if the prince ascended the throne of Oman, he would return Gwadar to the latter," Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, the South Asia head of Eurasia Group, tells IndiaToday.In.
The city's notable landmark, the Omani Qila, and some buildings in the Shahi Bazar are surviving imprints of Omani rule in the region.
'Proud to be in BJP…', Jaishankar counters Chidambaram's 'Mouthpiece of RSS-BJP' barb over Katchatheevu row
Joining the issue with former Union Minister and Congress veteran P Chidambaram, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has said: --
" To say Jaishankar is in BJP or not .... Jaishankar is in BJP and is proud to be in the BJP," the Minister said reacting to Congress leader's remarks that an efficient foreign secretary has become 'mouthpiece' of the BJP and the RSS.
"If Mr Chidambaram was unaware that I was a member of the BJP that's his problems....I am a member of BJP, I am a proud member of BJP". The Minister said that on Katchatheevu island row, he has made three categorical points -
One -- Pt Nehru and Indira Gandhi gave no importance to Katchatheevu.
Second, "Legal opinion said please negotiate fishing right, they disregarded it and "Point No. 3 -- DMK was complicit in everything which it (the then central government) did on the issue and today while it talks about fishermen's right; it was actually the party to giving away the rights in 1976".
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