Crime Watch – Newsletter for February 6, 2011

Bomb scare prompts evacuation in Moscow

Moscow, Feb 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Authorities ordered an evacuation of passengers from the Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky train stations in Moscow following a bomb threat, a police source said Sunday.

The move followed an anonymous telephonic warning that a bomb had been placed at a train station. Security forces immediately began combing train stations elsewhere in …. Read the original article  : Bomb scare prompts evacuation in Moscow.

India, Pakistan to hold talks in Bhutan Sunday

NEW DELHI – The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan are set to meet Sunday in Bhutan even as both countries engaged in a spat over the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast that killed many Pakistanis.

Nirupama Rao is expected to hold bilateral talks with her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Thimphu on the sidelines … Read more >>.

Indian lacks courage to expose Hindu extremists: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – India lacks courage to expose the role of Hindu extremists in the Samjhauta Express blast, Pakistan said Saturday, a day before the two countries are expected to hold secretary-level talks in Thimphu.

“India seems to be lacking courage to unearth culpability of Hindu extremists and their links with some Indian Army personnel,” APP …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : Indian lacks courage to expose Hindu extremists: Pakistan.

Bangladesh hands over three ULFA rebels

SHILLONG – Bangladesh authorities Saturday handed over three more rebel leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to Indian frontier guards at Dawki area in Meghalaya, an official said.

ULFA ‘captain’ Upen Buragohain alias Antu Chaudang, ’second lieutenant’ Pradip Chetia and corporal Saurav were handed over to the Border Security Force … Read more »».

Two NATO troops, 19 militants killed in Afghanistan

KABUL – Nineteen Taliban militants and two NATO soldiers have been killed in latest violence in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.

Two NATO-led International Security Assistance Force service members died in two separate bombings in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said.
NATO did not specify where the incidents took place or the nationality of the deceased.
…. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Free innocent Muslims, say AMU students

ALIGARH – The confession of a Hindutva activist on his involvement in several terror attacks called for the immediate release of Muslims detained for these crimes, a student group here said.

The Sir Syed Educational and Welfare Movement made the demand in a memorandum to United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chief Sonia Gandhi that was submitted …. Original article  : Free innocent Muslims, say AMU students.