Crime Watch – Newsletter for January 24, 2011

Jammu and Kashmir on alert over Lashkar strike threat

JAMMU – A red alert was sounded across Jammu and Kashmir Monday following reports of a major terrorist strike being planned in the run-up to the Republic Day Jan 26, said sources in intelligence agencies here.

The state government and the union home ministry have started exchanging notes on security issues on an hourly-basis.
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Pakistan demands drone technology from US

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Sunday said his country has asked the US to share its drone technology so as to enable Pakistan’s military to hit more militant hideouts on its own.

“We have asked the US to hand over the drone technology to us, so that we can carry out these …. Source article  : Pakistan demands drone technology from US.

Don’t want intellectuals to support Maoists: Narayanan

KOLKATA – West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan Sunday said intellectuals should not support the Maoist ideology and actions.

“We don’t want intellectuals to support Maoist ideology and Maoist actions,” Narayanan said on the sidelines of a programme celebrating the 114th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose here.
Asked why a section of intellectuals and …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : Don’t want intellectuals to support Maoists: Narayanan.

West Midnapore killings most unfortunate: Narayanan

KOLKATA – West Bengal governor M.K. Narayanan Sunday condemned the killing of three people in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district by suspected Maoist guerrillas, terming it “most unfortunate.”

“Human beings should not be killed. It is most unfortunate,” Narayanan told media persons on the sidelines of a programme here.
Three people were shot dead and …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : West Midnapore killings most unfortunate: Narayanan.

Former ISI officer killed by Taliban

ISLAMABAD – “Colonel Imam”, a former officer of Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) abducted in March 2010, was Sunday killed by the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan, media reports said.

The officer, whose real name was Sultan Amir Tarar, had gone to North Waziristan accompanied by another former ISI officer, Khalid Khwaja, BBC journalist Asad Qureshi … Read : Former ISI officer killed by Taliban.