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Senior officials in the Research and Analysis Wing and the Intelligence Bureau are convinced that the attack on Sarabjit Singh, the Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan, was planned by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence. "I have reasons to believe that the attack was engineered was at the behest of the ISI and this view is shared both by RAW and the IB," said a former high ranking IB official who looked after the security at the Prime Minister’s Office and Rashtrapati Bhavan in an ...

Renowned terror expert and author Stephen Tankel believes Indian intelligence agencies know more about Pak-based terror groups than it knows about indigenous Indian Mujahiddin. Also, LeT and other outfits might revive their terrorism against India post-2014. Aziz Haniffa reports. American terrorism expert Stephen Tankel, who did extensive field research in India last year, has found that Indian intelligence knows more about Pakistani terror groups than it knows about its own indigenous militant ...

The case of an NSG officer giving out vital information to the ISI has got the Intelligence Bureau thinking of reforms to avoid such embarrassing occurrences, reports Vicky Nanjappa     The high-level inquiry into the alleged passing on of information by an officer of the National Security Guard to an Inter-Services Intelligence agent seems to be losing steam. It is now being claimed that it was a case of mistaken identity.     The intelligence agencies are ...

While the Soviet troops left Najibullah all alone without any back-up support to counter the Afghan Mujahideen, the US is unlikely to leave Karzai and his successor’s government all alone, says B Raman As United States troops prepare to withdraw gradually from Afghanistan next year, India has to worry whether the situation of 1996 can repeat itself in the country, when the Taliban, with the help of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, captured power from the Afghan Mujahideen in ...

The Pakistan army will deploy about 50,000 troops across the country to secure the general election process on May 11, which is facing a ‘massive terrorist threat’ from the Taliban and other terrorist groups. The interior ministry has warned of a ‘massive terrorist threat’ during the elections as banned groups like Jandullah, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan were  planning to carry out large-scale attacks in Balochistan province, especially in Quetta ...

Pakistan on Thursday rejected the involvement of its government or any of its official agencies in incidents like the 1993 Mumbai bomb attacks, saying it was committed to engaging India in a "sustained and result-oriented dialogue". Responding to media reports regarding the Supreme Court's judgment implicating Pakistani government agencies in the 1993 Mumbai bombings, Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry "categorically rejected any insinuations pointing to the involvement of the ...

A Pakistani-American man has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of providing material support to terrorists involved in the 2009 suicide attack at the Inter-Services Intelligence headquarters in Lahore that killed 30 people and wounded more than 300 others. Reaz Qadir Khan, 48, was arrested by the FBI at his residence in Portland, Oregon. He made initial appearance on Wednesday before Magistrate Paul Papak in federal court in Portland. His detention hearing is ...

An employee of the Foreigners division in the Union Home ministry was arrested by the Rajasthan police in an espionage case in which he allegedly shared classified information with a suspected ISI agent who was held in Pokhran. "Surendra Kumar, a class D employee posted in Foreigners division in MHA in DeLhi, was arrested last night after preliminary quizzing by intelligence agencies at a joint interrogation cell here," Additional DG Dalpat Singh Dinkar said on Tuesday. Kumar was produced on ...

In a developing county like India, the role of the Finance Minister is a crucial one, specially when the country is going through it's worst period in recent times. M R Venkatesh, has a few valid suggestions for Mr Chidambaram. At the outset I will ensure that my Budget speech will not last more than fifteen minutes - not the customary hundred minutes of my illustrious predecessors. That would compel people to read through the Budget documents analyse and then criticise me rather than instantly ...