26/11 Mumbai Attacks Accused Tahawwur Rana Sent To 12-Day NIA Custody By Patiala House Court
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News18
an hour ago
- News18
Pakistan Breaks Own Record For Highest Bombing Incidents Globally In 2024: NSG Report
Last Updated: Data collected by the NSG shows that Pakistan reported 291 bombing attacks, which surpassed its record of 160 incidents in 2023 For decades now, Pakistan is known to have provided safe havens, training grounds, and ideological support to some of the world's most dangerous terror groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. This time, Pakistan has broken its own record for the highest number of bombing incidents globally in 2024, cementing its position as the topmost nation in IED (improvised explosive device) and explosive ordnance attacks. According to data collected by the NSG, Pakistan reported 291 bombing attacks, which surpassed its record of 160 incidents in 2023. The figures provided in Bombshell annual report, accessed by News18, includes 187 incidents of IED attacks and 104 explosive ordnance attacks – both record highs in the last five years. In Pakistan, terror groups are known to operate openly, recruit freely, and enjoy tacit support from elements of the military and intelligence establishment. While it cries foul on global platforms, it continues to nurture cross-border terrorism, especially when it comes to India and Afghanistan. 'Pakistan has extracted a fair amount of money from America by claiming it a victim of terrorism. Now these terror groups have become an industry. Because once this terror industry takes off, then the terrorists, they need money. They are targeting Pakistan to generate Money for that they are now biting Pakistan with connivance of Army and government. But the fact is that Once you grow terrorism, then the same terrorists will bite you as well. If you feed milk to a snake, it will still bite you," said Major General SB Asthana (Retd). Even the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden – who planned and executed the 9/11 terror attack – was located in Pakistan and eliminated in a US operation in Abbottabad. The report states that from 2020 to 2024, Pakistan reported 69 bombing incidents in 2020, 87 in 2021, 68 in 2022, 160 in 2023, and 291 in 2024. This brings the five-year total to 675 incidents, including 486 IEDs and 189 explosive ordnance cases. The steep rise is an indication of a sharp decline in Pakistan's internal security. Total bombing incidents have risen by 328 per cent in two years alone, from 68 in 2022 to 291 in 2024. No other nation comes close to that, with the next closest nation, Syria, reporting 32 IED attacks followed by 26 in Afghanistan 26 and 21 in Iraq. The NSG data showed that in 2024, Pakistan had 187 IED attacks – a steep 41 per cent increase as compared to the previous year's 133 incidents. It is the most number of IED incidents reported by any nation in the last five years. The application of IEDs now represents nearly two-thirds of total bomb activity across the country. This drastic increase in IED use indicates the changing strategies of insurgent and militant forces active across different provinces, particularly Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Syria, second on the list, had only 32 incidents. The disparity highlights how Pakistan's security crisis has become a breeding ground for terror. SURGE IN EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE ATTACKS As IEDs headline the news, it must also be noted that ordnance attacks increased. Pakistan saw 104 such reports in 2024, a three-fold increase from only 27 in 2023. This aspect contributes to more than one-third of the nation's overall bombing statistics for the year. The ordnance consists of grenades, rockets, and mortar rounds and is usually employed in ambushes, attacks against security facilities, and public targets. This dramatic increase implies not just growth in the availability and flow of military-grade explosives, but also a larger pool of actors who are able to use them. In contrast to other nations, no country reported anywhere near half this quantity in 2024.
Time of India
15 hours ago
- Time of India
US general praises Pakistan, motherlode of terrorism, as a 'phenomenal partner'
General Michael Kurilla TOI correspondent from Washington: Despite acknowledging that a Pakistani national plotted terrorist attacks in America as recently as 2024, a top US general has described Pakistan as a "phenomenal partner" in counter-terrorism, ostensibly because the country's military rulers hand over such terrorists to Washington on demand. In testimony before a Congressional panel on Tuesday, General Michael Kurilla, who heads the US Central Command (Centcom) -- which has operational oversight over Pakistan -- lauded Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir for handing over terrorists who attacked the US and its assets, despite Islamabad's refusal to do the same with the terrorists who have attacked India. 'The first [Pakistani] chief of army staff Munir called was me and said, 'I've caught him, I'm willing to extradite him back to the US, please tell the secretary of defense and the president,'' Kurilla told lawmakers while revealing Pakistan's selective response in handing over to US Mohammad Sharifullah, the mastermind behind the August 2021 suicide attack at Abbey Gate in Kabul that killed 13 US service members. Kurilla praise for Pakistan's military came hours after another terrorist identified by the Justice Department as a "Pakistani citizen" was extradited to the US on Monday for a terror plot against a Jewish center in New York. "The foiled 2024 terror plot against a Jewish center in Brooklyn was planned by a Pakistani national to coincide with the one-year anniversary of Hamas' 7 October attack. New York was chosen because of its large Jewish population with the would-be gunman himself stating, 'even if we don't attack an event, we could rack up easily a lot of Jews',' Kurilla told the panel. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Support elderly mothers. Donate Today HelpAge India Donate Now Undo Despite the dissonance in Pakistan's approach to terrorists it spawns, which involves cooperating with US while rejecting India's complaints, Kurilla chose to highlight Pakistan's "value as a partner" in countering terror threats as it pertained to Centcom ops. Operationally, India falls under the US Pacific Command. Still, the testimony revealed a selective US approach towards terrorism that affects India, a dissonance that an Indian parliamentary committee that recently visited Washington underscored in engagements in the US capital. Panel members repeatedly underlined to the US interlocutors that almost every major terrorist who masterminded and pulled off attacks on the US -- from the first attack on World Trade Center in 1993 to 9/11 to the Times Square attack to San Bernardino massacre -- involved Pakistanis who invariably escaped to Pakistan and were captured there before being extradited. "They don't go to Iran or Iraq or Syria or Venezuela or Cuba... they go back to the motherlode of terrorism, Pakistan," one member said in frustration during the visit that made little impression on the Trump administration, recalling the names of Osama bin Laden, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Ramzi Yousef, Ramzi bin al Shibh, Mir Aimal Kansi, and many others who were captured in Pakistan after terror attacks on the US. The Pakistani imprint on terrorism in the US was established yet again on Tuesday when the Justice Department announced the extradition if Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, whom it described as a "Pakistani citizen residing in Canada" for the Brooklyn terror plot. Rather than hold Pakistan responsible for spawning terrorists, US attorney general Pam Bondi trained her gun at the amorphous terrorist group ISIS, saying, "it remains a clear and present danger to the American people, and our Jewish citizens are especially targeted by evil groups like these."
New Indian Express
a day ago
- New Indian Express
Approver reinstated as accused in fake note case tied to Dawood network
Instances of approvers, particularly in NIA cases, turning hostile are extremely rare. The NIA submitted a certificate under Section 308 of CrPC, which deals with the trial of a person who fails to comply with the conditions of pardon before the NIA Court last month. 'The certificate submitted by the prosecutor is accepted and the witness is made an accused in this case, for which a separate trial is to be conducted,' the court ordered. Originally the sixth accused, Shihab was made an approver and designated the 32nd prosecution witness. He failed to appear when initially summoned for trial and eventually turned hostile during witness examination. 'Counterfeit notes printed in Pak, smuggled into India' According to the NIA, the counterfeit notes seized were printed in Pakistan and smuggled into India with the intent to destabilise the Indian economy. As per the investigation, Pradeep and Haji had travelled to Abu Dhabi in June 2011, met Aboobacker and procured the fake currency. The NIA probe had revealed that Dawood's close aide Aftab Batki was controlling his FICN business from the UAE. Batki was made accused in a similar case related to FICN seizure from Nedumbassery in 2013. The investigation revealed that origin of FICNs in both cases were linked to Dawood's syndicate in the UAE.
