Lashkar terrorist with Pak passport arrested in New Delhi

A suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist was arrested in Delhi on Tuesday and explosives were recovered from him, police said.

The suspected Lashkar terrorist, Yusuf alias Salim (27) being arrested from New Delhi railway station by special cell on Tuesday.


The man who alighted from a train on the Ajmeri Gate side of the New Delhi Railway Station was caught by Delhi Police's Special Cell at around 12:40 pm, deputy commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said. Two of his associates, however, escaped.

The man was carrying an identity card bearing the name Salim from Jammu & Kashmir and also a Pakistani passport bearing the name Yusuf, Kumar said, adding four detonators, two timers and explosive chemicals were recovered from him.

Other incriminating documents have also been seized from his possession, which are being examined by the police.

Asked if the recovered chemical weighing around two kilogram was RDX, Kumar said, "It looks like."

He said they were trying to ascertain his identity as well as his mission in the national capital. The suspected terrorists were believed to be traveling to Maharashtra. Efforts are on to nab the two who escaped.

He is the second terrorist to be arrested by the Delhi Police this month. On August 6 just days ahead of Independence Day, the Special Cell had arrested two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists from Daryaganj area in central Delhi.

China Supports Paksitan's Terrorism Against India

China has turned down India's request to declare Masood Azhar, chief of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group, a terrorist and be sanctioned by the UN Security Council's 1267 committee.

Chinese officials told their Indian counterparts that theirs was a "technical" hold. No amount of Indian explanation that the decision was "political" succeeded in persuading the Chinese. India held its last round of talks on the subject of Azhar with the Chinese during last weekend's boundary talks between national security adviser MK Narayanan and China's state councilor, Dai Bingguo.

It was in mid-July that India asked China, by then the only country to put a "hold" on Azhar's ban, about its decision to block the declaration. According to top level officials, China had reportedly said they had not seen all the information. Consequently, India sent along a lot of information that it thought would help in persuading China.

In fact, after the Xinjiang unrest in early July, India believed, China would have a greater understanding of Islamic terrorism.

But China's decision, said officials, continues to be led by its relations with Pakistan, which has housed Masood Azhar. In December, it was only after Pakistan gave the go-ahead that China lifted its hold on Laskar-e-Taiba chief Mohammed Hafiz Saeed. Saeed was put on the "consolidated" list of the UNSC's 1267 committee after which Pakistan put him under house arrest.

On Masood Azhar, UK had initially joined China in placing a "hold" on the three names that India had sent to the 1267 sanctions committee -- the others being Azam Cheema and Abdul Rahman "Makki". UK lifted its hold after India protested diplomatically.

Pakistan last week declared that it had banned 25 terror organizations operating on its soil, among them Jaish-e-Mohammed (which was renamed Jamaat-ul-Furqan after being banned by Pervez Musharraf in 2002) and Khuddam-ul-Islam, another India-centric group started by Azhar.

Pakistan Dogs LeT responsible for Mumbai attacks: UK report

Holding the Pakistan's LeT responsible for last year's Mumbai attacks, a British parliamentary committee on Sunday said several major terror attacks across the world, including in London, Madrid and Bali, had origins in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

A report by the powerful Foreign Affairs Committee quoted a former CIA chief as saying that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba, blamed by India for attacks on its soil including on Mumbai, has reached a "merge point" with al-Qaeda.

"It was from the tribal areas in Pakistan that the bomb plots in London, Madrid, Bali, Islamabad and later Germany and Denmark were planned," the report on "Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan" headed by lawmaker Mike Gapes said.

"The LeT group, which was responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks which targeted Westerns, in particular US and UK nationals, also operates from these tribal areas," it said.