Terrorism

India on Friday sought resolute and comprehensive global action against terror infrastructure, saying the challenge must be taken seriously as different "theatres" are getting interconnected through terror networks as well as globalisation of the "supply chain of ideology".In her address at the annual summit of the Shanghai Corporation Organisation, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said India has long been a victim of terrorism and called upon member countries of the powerful grouping to join hands to combat the menace."We are acutely aware of the threat that its perpetrators pose to our people, as also to our common region. We are seeing different theatres getting interconnected through terror networks and a globalisation of the supply chain of ideology, radicalisation, recruitment, training and financing of terrorism," she said. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani were among a host of … [Read more...] about Swaraj seeks resolute global action against terror

New Delhi: Since June last year, Pakistan has been under tremendous global scrutiny over terror financing since it was placed under the ‘Grey List’ of nations by the watchdog, Financial Action Task Force. Pakistan was handed an October 2019 deadline to fix its performance on all parameters, failing which it would be put under the ‘Black List’. On Friday, time runs out for the deadline and Pakistan’s performance will be reviewed by the 39 member states of the FATF, which includes both India and the United States. Yet, despite reports that Pakistan has not been fully compliant on most parameters, Pakistan may avoid being in the Black List after all. The FATF is a global anti-money laundering watchdog that also turns its scanner to money laundering as a means to finance terror activities across the world. It places nations in three categories – White List, Black List and Grey List. The ‘White List’ is a list of countries that comply with … [Read more...] about Why Pakistan May Evade Global Watchdog’s Terror ‘Black List’ Today After All

The Paris-based 39-member Financial Action Task Force (FATF), against money-laundering and terror-funding, strongly urged Pakistan last month to comply with its demands by February 2020 or face being included in the FATF “black list” — meaning sanctions. It said: “To date, Pakistan has only largely addressed five of the 27 action items, with varying levels of progress made on the rest of the action plan.” Pakistan has been on the “grey list” of FATF because many of its “non-state actors” used in proxy wars belonged to other states like Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and China. China is heading the FATF these days through Xiangmin Liu of the People’s Bank of China, now the president of FATF. It’s not only Afghanistan and Uzbekistan that complain about Pakistan keeping their terrorists on its territory; China too is a complainant. In 2017, China got together with Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa in the BRICS trading bloc to … [Read more...] about Uighur terrorism brewing in Pakistan is drawing China’s ire

Breaking her silence 11 years after her father was killed in the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, Jui Navare, daughter of former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, has said that she wants everyone to remember that “even in his death he was trying to save his city, his country” and that he placed his uniform before his own life and family. Speaking to The Sunday Express from her home in the United States, Navare said she read about the statement made by the 2008 Malegaon terror-accused and BJP Lok Sabha candidate Sadhvi Pragya Thakur about her father “on social media”. “I do not want to dignify her or her statement. I only want to talk about Hemant Karkare. He was a role model and his name should be taken with dignity,” Navare said. Read Full Interview Here “He taught us that terrorism has no religion. No religion teaches anyone to kill each other… it’s the ideology that has to be defeated. In his life, in … [Read more...] about Karkare’s daughter breaks silence: ‘Don’t want to dignify her (Pragya’s) remark … my father taught us terror has no religion’

How did the news of your father’s death, on November 26, 2008, reach you? I was in Boston. It was the last weekend of November and the beginning of the Thanksgiving holidays in the US. It was also a big celebration for us as we had invited our cousins over. After my marriage I had settled in the US. The day began with all of us leaving for some sight-seeing. We had just stepped out when I got a call from my sister saying that papa is wearing a bullet-proof jacket and his clips are being shown on television. I immediately rushed home. I switched the TV on. I then joined a conference call with my husband, mother, sister and brother. Read | ‘Don’t want to dignify her (Pragya’s) remark … my father taught us terror has no religion’ Then, I saw a ticker on TV, ‘Hemant Karkare injured’. I thought, okay, maybe it’s an injury… I mean, why will I think of the worst at all? Within minutes, the ticker changed to ‘Hemant Karkare … [Read more...] about ‘He taught us terror has no religion… the ideology has to be defeated… I just want all to remember that’