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  • Should be vigilant in opposition to exterior makes an attempt to begin new ‘Chilly Struggle’: China in SCO meet

    Via Press Believe of India: Chinese language President Xi Jinping on Tuesday warned in opposition to the exterior makes an attempt to foment a brand new “Chilly Struggle” within the area and referred to as at the SCO member international locations to safeguard regional peace and make sure not unusual safety by means of cracking down on terrorism via joint operations.

    Addressing the twenty third assembly of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of State (CHS) presided by means of High Minister Narendra Modi in a digital structure, President Xi additionally steered the member states to “in point of fact admire” each and every different’s core pursuits and primary issues.

    In a veiled complaint of the USA, Xi referred to as for opposing hegemonism and tool politics and making the machine of world governance fairer and extra equitable.

    “We must consider the full and long-term pursuits of our area, and make our overseas insurance policies independently. We should be extremely vigilant in opposition to exterior makes an attempt to foment a brand new ‘Chilly Struggle’ or camp-based war of words in our area,” Xi informed the assembly attended by means of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pakistan High Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi amongst others.

    “We should resolutely reject any interference in our inside affairs and the instigation of ‘color revolutions’ by means of any nation underneath no matter pretext. The way forward for our construction should be held firmly in our personal palms,” he stated, amid strained ties with the USA.

    Xi underscored efforts to uphold multilateralism and beef up international governance.

    “Maintaining peace and safety on this area is our not unusual accountability,” he stated.

    China stands in a position to paintings with either side to put in force the World Safety Initiative (GSI) proposed by means of him to advertise the agreement of global disputes via discussion and session, he stated.

    The member states must “inspire political agreement of global and regional hotspots, to be able to forge a cast safety defend in our area,” he stated.

    “We wish to improve SCO safety cooperation and proceed to behavior joint operations. We must crack down arduous at the forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism such because the ‘East Turkistan’ components, drug trafficking, and cyber and transnational organised crimes,” he stated.

    China accuses East Turkistan Islamic Motion (ETIM), a Uygur militant crew from the risky Xinjiang area, is an extremist crew aligned with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

    Xi additionally stated, “We must transfer sooner to improve the mechanisms for our legislation enforcement and safety cooperation, and make bigger cooperation within the non-traditional safety fields, together with virtual, organic and outer house safety”.

    On Afghanistan dominated by means of the Taliban, which has develop into a not unusual worry of SCO states over the regrouping of terror teams, Xi stated the SCO states must proceed to utilise platforms such because the mechanism of coordination and cooperation amongst Afghanistan’s neighbours.

    “Info have proven that so long as we take note the bigger image, shoulder our tasks and stay undisturbed by means of all kinds of distractions, we can give protection to and advertise the safety and construction pursuits of our member states,” he stated.

    “We must step up strategic conversation and coordination, bridge variations via discussion, and change pageant with cooperation. We must in point of fact admire each and every different’s core pursuits and primary issues, and firmly improve each and every different’s endeavour for construction and rejuvenation,” he stated.

    Xi’s remarks got here as Indian and Chinese language troops are locked in an over three-year war of words in sure friction issues in jap Ladakh.

    India has made it very transparent to China that till there may be peace and tranquillity in border spaces, the connection between the 2 international locations can’t development.

    In his deal with, Xi additionally made a pitch for the SCO contributors to synergise top quality cooperation underneath his puppy multi-billion greenback undertaking the Belt and Street Initiative (BRI) with more than a few international locations’ construction methods and regional cooperation projects.

    The BRI is a multi-billion-dollar initiative introduced by means of President Xi when he got here to energy in 2013. It goals to hyperlink Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Gulf area, Africa and Europe with a community of land and sea routes.

    The USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Financial Hall (CPEC) is the flagship undertaking of the BRI.

    India has strongly protested to China over the CPEC as it’s being laid during the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

    India could also be essential of the BRI, which drew international issues over China’s debt international relations of extending large loans to smaller international locations for unsustainable infrastructure initiatives.

    “We wish to give a boost to the relationship of top quality Belt and Street cooperation with construction methods of more than a few international locations and regional cooperation projects,” Xi stated, including that China will grasp the 3rd BRI discussion board this yr.

    SCO international locations must additional advertise business and funding liberalization and facilitation, accelerate the advance of port infrastructure and regional and global logistic corridors, and make sure strong and clean functioning of regional commercial and provide chains, he stated.

    He additionally requested the member states to concentrate on sensible cooperation and expedite financial restoration.

    “Selling financial expansion is a not unusual job for all international locations within the area”, he stated.

    “China stands in a position to paintings with either side to put in force the World Construction Initiative (GDI) additionally proposed by means of him to stay to the best course of financial globalisation, oppose protectionism unilateral sanctions and the overstretching of nationwide safety, and reject the strikes of putting in place boundaries, decoupling and severing provide chains,” he stated.

    He additionally proposed that the “SCO scale up native forex agreement between member states, make bigger cooperation on sovereign virtual forex, and advertise the established order of an SCO construction financial institution”.

    “China will perform virtual era coaching systems in collaboration with the China-SCO Giant Knowledge Cooperation Middle, and host an SCO nationwide inexperienced construction discussion board,” he stated.

    Xi stated SCO member states must higher synergise top quality cooperation underneath BRI with more than a few international locations’ construction methods and regional cooperation projects, the state-run Xinhua information company reported.

    He also referred to as for efforts to safeguard regional peace and make sure not unusual safety and improve exchanges and mutual finding out amongst SCO and foster nearer people-to-people ties.

    “Within the coming 3 years, China will supply SCO member states with 1,000 World Chinese language Language Lecturers Scholarships, be offering 3,000 ‘Chinese language Bridge’ summer season camp alternatives, and invite 100 younger scientists to China for clinical analysis exchanges,” he stated.

    China may also host occasions on rural revitalization and local weather reaction, he stated.

    On Iran’s admission as the brand new member of the SCO, Xi stated “this may increasingly manifest the energy of our SCO circle of relatives”.

    The digital summit underneath India’s presidency used to be additionally attended by means of leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

  • Al-Qaeda threatens assaults on India over Atiq Ahmed’s homicide

    Via Arvind Ojha, Subodh Kumar: Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has threatened assaults on India over the homicide of gangster Atiq Ahmed whilst in custody. In its Eid message, the phobia crew threatened revenge and referred to as Atiq and his brother Ashraf “martyrs”.

    In its 7-page mag launched through As-Sahab, the propaganda media wing of Al-Qaeda, the phobia crew additionally promised to “unlock Muslims”.

    READ | The Atiq Ahmed tale: Accused of homicide at 17, 5-time MLA and helpless father in any case

    The AQIS fumed over the killing of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf and praised them as “martyrs”.

    Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf have been shot useless at point-blank vary through 3 males posing as reporters in the course of a media interplay on Saturday evening whilst police team of workers have been escorting them to a scientific school for a checkup.

    The brothers, each jailed in Prayagraj, have been in handcuffs once they have been killed in complete view of digicam crews round 10 pm.

  • Two terrorists of al-Qaeda associate killed in ‘probability come across’ in J&Okay’s Anantnag

    Via PTI

    SRINAGAR: Two terrorists of Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, an al-Qaeda associate, had been killed in a “probability come across” with safety forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police mentioned.

    The slain terrorists, who had been recognized as Fayaz Kumar and Owais Khan, had been interested in a number of terror assaults, they mentioned.

    “Two #terrorists neutralised in a possibility come across by way of Anantnag Police in Thajiwara, #Bijbehara house of #Anantnag,” a police spokesman mentioned in a tweet.

    Further Director Basic of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar mentioned the slain terrorists had been affiliated with Ansar Ghazwatul Hind (AGuH).

    “Killed terrorists recognized as Fayaz Kumar & Owais Khan related with terror outfit AGuH. They had been interested in a number of terror assaults together with assault on police group of workers in Cheeniwooder Srigufwara on 03-07-2022 during which 01 police group of workers Firdous Dar were given critically injured and Darashikoh park Bijbehara on 12-08-2022 during which one police group of workers Gh Qadir were given critically injured,” Kumar tweeted.

    But even so, they had been interested in a grenade assault at Padshahi Bagh on June 15, he mentioned.

    SRINAGAR: Two terrorists of Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, an al-Qaeda associate, had been killed in a “probability come across” with safety forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police mentioned.

    The slain terrorists, who had been recognized as Fayaz Kumar and Owais Khan, had been interested in a number of terror assaults, they mentioned.

    “Two #terrorists neutralised in a possibility come across by way of Anantnag Police in Thajiwara, #Bijbehara house of #Anantnag,” a police spokesman mentioned in a tweet.

    Further Director Basic of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar mentioned the slain terrorists had been affiliated with Ansar Ghazwatul Hind (AGuH).

    “Killed terrorists recognized as Fayaz Kumar & Owais Khan related with terror outfit AGuH. They had been interested in a number of terror assaults together with assault on police group of workers in Cheeniwooder Srigufwara on 03-07-2022 during which 01 police group of workers Firdous Dar were given critically injured and Darashikoh park Bijbehara on 12-08-2022 during which one police group of workers Gh Qadir were given critically injured,” Kumar tweeted.

    But even so, they had been interested in a grenade assault at Padshahi Bagh on June 15, he mentioned.

  • Speculations rife on India’s function in helping US on Zawahiri’s location in Kabul

    By way of IANS

    ISLAMABAD: Slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladens successor Ayman Al Zawahiri was once assassinated in “an over-the-horizon operation” involving a “secret weapon” through the USA in downtown Kabul on July 31, greater than 11 years after the fear teams founding leader was once killed in a US Army SEALs operation in Abbottabad, a media file stated.

    Hypothesis abounds on how the USA would possibly have discovered and killed Zawahiri.

    Consistent with the file in The Specific Tribune, the centered compound is only some mins’ force from the Indian Embassy in Kabul the place technical personnel is these days primarily based.

    Curiously, Zawahiri’s 2nd final video message was once about Muskan Khan, a burqa-clad Indian Muslim woman who dared a bunch of younger saffronites and shouted “Allah-O-Akbar” in entrance of them in Karnataka state in February 2022, The Specific Tribune reported.

    80-two in line with cent of officers of Afghanistan’s former secret agent company, the Nationwide Directorate of Safety (NDS), were allowed through the IEA to paintings in more than a few ministries because of a loss of technically certified assets of their ranks.

    They might were a supply of data for the Indian Embassy for the reason that NDS and RAW labored hand in hand all over Ghani’s rule.

    There’s a risk that the Indians would possibly have were given the ideas from NDS and shared it with the American citizens, The Specific Tribune reported.

    There are questions round which airbase was once used to release the MQ9 drone. Pakistan has denied any function within the strike. Army spokesperson Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar categorically mentioned that there was once “no query of Pakistani soil getting used for this goal”.

    The Overseas Administrative center went a step additional to even rule out the usage of Pakistan’s airspace.

    A US media file claimed that the pilot-less plane was once in all probability introduced from Ganci airbase, the USA transit facility at Manas in northern Kyrgyzstan.

    ALSO READ | US drone strike on Zawahiri raises questions over Pakistan’s imaginable function

    There have been additionally media reviews of a few US air process in Farkhor in Tajikistan, close to the border with northern Afghanistan, 15 to twenty days in the past. Instead of that, Ayani airbase, in Tajikistan operated through US’s Quad spouse India, and the CIA-operated Okay-2 Base in Uzbekistan is also doubtlessly used to hold out this kind of strike, The Specific Tribune reported.

    The neighbourhood the place the Zawahiri lived, positioned simply 1.5 kilometres clear of the Afghan Presidential Palace, is off-limits to most of the people, which laws out an out of doors sneak peek at Zawahiri’s safehouse.

    Since the USA has 0 on-ground presence in Afghanistan after their pullout a 12 months in the past, rumours swirl that it will were an inside of activity. The us’s former point-man for the area Zalmay Khalilzad has hinted that the USA can have been tipped off through the Taliban because of an inside energy combat between the Haqqani Community and the Kandahari Staff, The Specific Tribune reported.

    Michael Barak, a researcher on the Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), does not rule out the likelihood that the Kandahari Staff would possibly have shared intelligence with the USA as a result of they understand the Haqqanis’ alliance with Al Qaeda as a danger to their efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.

    Mullah Yaqoob, the Taliban Defence Minister who represents the Kandahari Staff, is claimed to be looking to carve out a bigger house for himself. He has additionally attempted to transform related to Doha, Qatar. He embarked upon an unannounced discuss with to Qatar within the final week of July in an unheard of transfer.

    Mullah Yaqoob reportedly met with some US officers in Doha. Speculations are rife that he would possibly have leaked knowledge on Zawahiri as a tradeoff for the discharge of Afghanistan’s $3.5 billion price range seized through the USA, The Specific Tribune reported.

    Additionally, since he leads the Kandahari Staff, he would possibly have achieved so that you can building up his credibility with the USA and in addition to neutralise the rival Haqqanis.

    Al Qaeda is a shadow of its former self and therefore Zawahiri was once just about of no price to the Taliban; due to this fact he will have simply been given up in a quid professional quo.

    A professional-Taliban channel on Telegram, ‘Anfal Afghan Company’, claimed the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-Okay), in collaboration with Iran, would possibly have helped the CIA observe down Zawahiri.

    Sharing what it referred to as “unique main points”, the channel claimed that IS-Okay’s leader Shahab al Muhajir despatched a “infected” letter of allegiance to Zawahiri that exposed his location to the American citizens, The Specific Tribune reported.

    The Taliban declare to have discovered corroborating proof on the web page together with the “letter of allegiance” and a flash force.

    ISLAMABAD: Slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladens successor Ayman Al Zawahiri was once assassinated in “an over-the-horizon operation” involving a “secret weapon” through the USA in downtown Kabul on July 31, greater than 11 years after the fear teams founding leader was once killed in a US Army SEALs operation in Abbottabad, a media file stated.

    Hypothesis abounds on how the USA would possibly have discovered and killed Zawahiri.

    Consistent with the file in The Specific Tribune, the centered compound is only some mins’ force from the Indian Embassy in Kabul the place technical personnel is these days primarily based.

    Curiously, Zawahiri’s 2nd final video message was once about Muskan Khan, a burqa-clad Indian Muslim woman who dared a bunch of younger saffronites and shouted “Allah-O-Akbar” in entrance of them in Karnataka state in February 2022, The Specific Tribune reported.

    80-two in line with cent of officers of Afghanistan’s former secret agent company, the Nationwide Directorate of Safety (NDS), were allowed through the IEA to paintings in more than a few ministries because of a loss of technically certified assets of their ranks.

    They might were a supply of data for the Indian Embassy for the reason that NDS and RAW labored hand in hand all over Ghani’s rule.

    There’s a risk that the Indians would possibly have were given the ideas from NDS and shared it with the American citizens, The Specific Tribune reported.

    There are questions round which airbase was once used to release the MQ9 drone. Pakistan has denied any function within the strike. Army spokesperson Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar categorically mentioned that there was once “no query of Pakistani soil getting used for this goal”.

    The Overseas Administrative center went a step additional to even rule out the usage of Pakistan’s airspace.

    A US media file claimed that the pilot-less plane was once in all probability introduced from Ganci airbase, the USA transit facility at Manas in northern Kyrgyzstan.

    ALSO READ | US drone strike on Zawahiri raises questions over Pakistan’s imaginable function

    There have been additionally media reviews of a few US air process in Farkhor in Tajikistan, close to the border with northern Afghanistan, 15 to twenty days in the past. Instead of that, Ayani airbase, in Tajikistan operated through US’s Quad spouse India, and the CIA-operated Okay-2 Base in Uzbekistan is also doubtlessly used to hold out this kind of strike, The Specific Tribune reported.

    The neighbourhood the place the Zawahiri lived, positioned simply 1.5 kilometres clear of the Afghan Presidential Palace, is off-limits to most of the people, which laws out an out of doors sneak peek at Zawahiri’s safehouse.

    Since the USA has 0 on-ground presence in Afghanistan after their pullout a 12 months in the past, rumours swirl that it will were an inside of activity. The us’s former point-man for the area Zalmay Khalilzad has hinted that the USA can have been tipped off through the Taliban because of an inside energy combat between the Haqqani Community and the Kandahari Staff, The Specific Tribune reported.

    Michael Barak, a researcher on the Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), does not rule out the likelihood that the Kandahari Staff would possibly have shared intelligence with the USA as a result of they understand the Haqqanis’ alliance with Al Qaeda as a danger to their efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.

    Mullah Yaqoob, the Taliban Defence Minister who represents the Kandahari Staff, is claimed to be looking to carve out a bigger house for himself. He has additionally attempted to transform related to Doha, Qatar. He embarked upon an unannounced discuss with to Qatar within the final week of July in an unheard of transfer.

    Mullah Yaqoob reportedly met with some US officers in Doha. Speculations are rife that he would possibly have leaked knowledge on Zawahiri as a tradeoff for the discharge of Afghanistan’s $3.5 billion price range seized through the USA, The Specific Tribune reported.

    Additionally, since he leads the Kandahari Staff, he would possibly have achieved so that you can building up his credibility with the USA and in addition to neutralise the rival Haqqanis.

    Al Qaeda is a shadow of its former self and therefore Zawahiri was once just about of no price to the Taliban; due to this fact he will have simply been given up in a quid professional quo.

    A professional-Taliban channel on Telegram, ‘Anfal Afghan Company’, claimed the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-Okay), in collaboration with Iran, would possibly have helped the CIA observe down Zawahiri.

    Sharing what it referred to as “unique main points”, the channel claimed that IS-Okay’s leader Shahab al Muhajir despatched a “infected” letter of allegiance to Zawahiri that exposed his location to the American citizens, The Specific Tribune reported.

    The Taliban declare to have discovered corroborating proof on the web page together with the “letter of allegiance” and a flash force.

  • NIA Chargesheet: NIA filed supplementary chargesheet towards Al Qaeda member, it is a severe allegation

    Lucknow: The Nationwide Investigating Company (NIA) on Wednesday filed a supplementary fee sheet towards Tauheed Ahmed Shah for developing the Al Qaeda Community in India. The allegations made within the supplementary fee sheet filed within the particular court docket in Lucknow are relatively severe. There may be communicate of constructing a community for the growth of terrorist actions within the nation. Al Qaeda’s AQIS unit within the Indian subcontinent is repeatedly seeking to extend its nefarious designs.

    Tauheed Ahmed Shah, a resident of Aribag-Machowa, Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, used to be arrested on fees of increasing Al Qaeda within the nation. He used to be seeking to recruit for AQIS. A case is happening towards him in a unique court docket in Lucknow. The NIA had arrested 5 accused, together with Tauheed, on January 5. The chargesheet used to be filed on this case sooner than the particular NIA court docket in Lucknow. Now supplementary fee sheet has been filed.

    What’s the complete topic?
    The NIA won inputs previous this 12 months about al Qaeda’s efforts to extend the Indian continent module. According to this, 5 accused had been arrested on January 5. The primary case used to be registered on 10 January 2022 on the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Police Station, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow. Because the topic advanced, the terrorist attitude got here to the fore. Then got here the access of NIA. The NIA re-registered the case on July 29.

    An NIA spokesperson stated the case used to be registered on knowledge that Umar Halmandi, an al-Qaeda member, used to be radicalizing folks close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. He’s recruiting for AQIS there. Tauheed has been accused of being involved with him. Additionally, he’s accused of getting ready a approach to perform terrorist incidents in Lucknow.

    Those allegations towards Tauheed
    There are severe allegations towards Tauheed Ahmed Shah. He has been accused of putting in place the Al Qaeda module and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a longer unit of the banned 15 may organization, in Lucknow. Via those that joined those organizations, a conspiracy used to be hatched to shake the capital of UP. An NIA spokesperson stated that the investigation published that Tauheed Ahmad Shah used to be recruiting folks to hold out the fear incident.

    The spokesperson stated {that a} chargesheet has been filed towards Tauheed beneath quite a lot of sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act. He instigated Minhaj Ahmed, some of the 5 males, to enroll in Al Qaeda. He used to be recommended to recruit increasingly more individuals in Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.

    The reputable stated Tauheed Ahmad Shah used to be running as an ‘overground employee’ for slain accused terrorists Adil Nabi Teli of Lashkar-e-Taiba and The Resistance Entrance (TRF) and Syed Basharat of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind . He were given cash from Minhaj. He took that cash to Teli and Basharat.

  • How the CIA tracked the chief of al-Qaeda

    Written by way of Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt

    Intelligence officials made a the most important discovery this spring after monitoring Ayman al-Zawahri, the chief of al-Qaida, to Kabul, Afghanistan: He appreciated to learn by myself at the balcony of his secure space early within the morning.

    Analysts seek for that more or less pattern-of-life intelligence, any dependancy the CIA can exploit. In al-Zawahri’s case, his lengthy balcony visits gave the company a possibility for a transparent missile shot that might keep away from collateral injury.

    The quest for al-Zawahri, some of the global’s maximum sought after terrorists, stretches again to sooner than the 9/11 assaults. The CIA persevered to seek for him as he rose to the highest of al-Qaida after the loss of life of Osama bin Encumbered and after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan closing yr. And a misstep right through the chase, the recruitment of a double agent, resulted in some of the bloodiest days within the company’s historical past.

    Quickly after the US left Kabul, the CIA sharpened its efforts to seek out al-Zawahri, satisfied he would take a look at to go back to Afghanistan. Senior officers had instructed the White Area they’d be capable of care for and construct informant networks throughout the nation from afar and that the US would now not be ignorant of terrorism threats there. For the company, discovering al-Zawahri could be a key take a look at of that statement.

    This text is in response to interviews with present and previous American and different officers, impartial analysts who’ve studied the decadeslong hunt and others briefed at the occasions main as much as the weekend strike. Maximum spoke at the situation of anonymity on account of the delicate intelligence used to seek out al-Zawahri.

    For years, al-Zawahri was once regarded as hiding within the border space of Pakistan, the place many Qaida and Taliban leaders took safe haven after the United States invasion of Afghanistan in past due 2001. He was once sought after in reference to the 1998 embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, and the CIA had tracked a community of people that intelligence officers idea supported him.

    The exam of that community intensified with the United States’ go out from Afghanistan closing yr and a trust amongst some intelligence officers that senior leaders of al-Qaida could be tempted to go back.

    The slump proved proper. The company discovered that al-Zawahri’s circle of relatives had returned to a secure space in Kabul. Even if the circle of relatives attempted to make sure they weren’t being watched and to stay al-Zawahri’s location secret, intelligence companies quickly discovered he too had returned to Afghanistan.

    “There was once a renewed effort to determine the place he was once,” stated Mick Mulroy, a former CIA officer. “The only excellent factor that may have pop out of chickening out from Afghanistan is that positive high-level terrorist figures would then suppose it’s secure for them to be there.”

    The secure space was once owned by way of an aide to senior officers within the Haqqani community, a battle-hardened and violent wing of the Taliban govt, and it was once in a space managed by way of the gang. Senior Taliban leaders on occasion met on the space, however American officers have no idea what number of knew that the Haqqanis had been hiding al-Zawahri.

    If some senior Taliban officers didn’t know that the Haqqanis had allowed al-Zawahri to go back, his killing may just power a wedge between the teams, impartial analysts and others briefed at the occasions stated.

    It’s not transparent why Al-Zawahri moved again to Afghanistan. He had lengthy made recruiting and promotional movies, and it should had been more uncomplicated to provide them in Kabul. He additionally can have had higher get admission to to scientific remedy.

    It doesn’t matter what the explanation, his ties to leaders of the Haqqani community led US  intelligence officers to the secure space.

    “The Haqqanis have an overly lengthy courting with al-Qaida going again to the mujahedeen days,” stated Dan Hoffman, a former CIA officer. “They supply al-Qaida with numerous tactical toughen that they want.”

    As soon as the secure space was once situated, the CIA adopted the playbook it wrote right through the quest for bin Encumbered. The company constructed a type of the web site and sought to be told the whole lot about it.

    Analysts in the end known a determine who lingered at the balcony studying, however by no means left the home, as al-Zawahri.

    US officers briefly made up our minds to focus on him, however the location of the home posed issues. It was once within the Sherpur group of Kabul, an city space of intently spaced properties. A missile armed with a big explosive may just injury within sight properties. And any kind of incursion by way of Particular Operations forces could be prohibitively bad, restricting the choices for the United States govt to behavior a strike.

    The seek for al-Zawahri carried large significance for the company. After the United States invasion of Afghanistan, the CIA base in Khost province become house to a focused on crew devoted to monitoring each bin Encumbered and al-Zawahri. It was once some of the leads evolved by way of the CIA to trace al-Zawahri that proved disastrous for the company’s officials at that base, Camp Chapman.

    CIA officials was hoping Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian physician and propagandist for al-Qaida, would cause them to al-Zawahri. He supplied American officers with details about al-Zawahri’s well being, convincing them his intelligence was once actual. However he was once actually a double agent, and on Dec. 30, 2009, he confirmed up at Camp Chapman with a suicide vest. When it exploded, seven CIA officials had been killed.

    For plenty of, the Khost assault intensified efforts to seek out al-Zawahri. “To honor their legacy, you elevate on with the venture,” Hoffman stated.

    In 2012 and 2013, the CIA centered the quest on Pakistan’s North Waziristan area. CIA analysts had been assured that they had discovered the small village the place al-Zawahri was once hiding. However intelligence companies may just now not to find his space within the the town of a few dozen compounds, creating a raid or drone strike unimaginable.

    Nonetheless, the U.S. hunt pressured al-Zawahri to stay within the tribal spaces of Pakistan, in all probability restricting the effectiveness of his management inside of al-Qaida.

    “Anytime anything else associated with bin Encumbered or Zawahri hit the intel channels, everybody stopped to pitch in and lend a hand,” stated Lisa Maddox, a former CIA analyst. “It was once the CIA’s promise to the general public: to carry them to justice.”

    On April 1, most sensible intelligence officers briefed nationwide safety officers on the White Area in regards to the secure space and the way that they had tracked al-Zawahri. After the assembly, the CIA and different intelligence companies labored to be told extra about what they referred to as al-Zawahri’s sample of existence.

    One key perception was once that he was once by no means noticed leaving the home and best appeared to get recent air by way of status on a balcony on an higher flooring. He remained at the balcony for prolonged classes, which gave the CIA a superb opportunity to focus on him.

    Al-Zawahri persevered to paintings on the secure space, generating movies to be dispensed to the Qaida community.

    A senior management professional, who spoke at the situation of anonymity to talk about the delicate selections resulting in the strike, stated the intelligence offered to the White Area have been again and again vetted, together with by way of a group of impartial analysts tasked with figuring out everybody who was once staying on the secure space.

    As choices for a strike had been evolved, intelligence officers tested what sort of missile might be fired at al-Zawahri with out inflicting primary injury to the secure space or the group round it. They in the end made up our minds on a type of Hellfire missile designed to kill a unmarried individual.

    William Burns, the CIA director, and different intelligence officers briefed President Joe Biden on July 1, this time with the type of the secure space, the senior professional stated.

    At that assembly, Biden requested about the potential for collateral injury, prodding Burns to take him during the steps of ways officials had discovered al-Zawahri and showed his knowledge, and their plans to kill him.

    Biden ordered a sequence of analyses. The White Area requested the Nationwide Counterterrorism Middle to supply an impartial review at the affect of al-Zawahri’s removing, each in Afghanistan and to the community international, stated a senior intelligence professional. The president additionally requested in regards to the imaginable dangers to Mark R. Frerichs, an American hostage held by way of the Haqqanis.

    In June and July, officers met a number of instances within the State of affairs Room to talk about the intelligence and read about the possible ramifications.

    The CIA plans referred to as for it to make use of its personal drones. As it was once the use of its personal property, few Pentagon officers had been introduced into the making plans for the strike, and lots of senior army officers discovered about it best in a while sooner than the White Area announcement, an professional stated.

    On July 25, Biden, glad with the plan, approved the CIA to behavior the airstrike when the chance offered itself. Sunday morning in Kabul, it did. A drone flown by way of the CIA discovered al-Zawahri on his balcony. The company operatives fired two missiles, finishing a greater than two-decadelong hunt.

    This text at first gave the impression in The New York Instances.

  • Al Qaeda chief Zawahiri killed in CIA drone strike in Afghanistan – US officers

    Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan, US officers instructed Reuters on Monday, the largest blow to the militant staff since its founder Osama bin Weighted down was once killed in 2011.

    Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician and surgeon, helped coordinate the 9/11, 2001, assaults wherein 4 civilian airplane have been hijacked and slammed into the International Industry Heart’s dual towers in New York, the Pentagon close to Washington and a Pennsylvania box, killing just about 3,000 folks.

    One of the most US officers, talking at the situation of anonymity, mentioned a drone strike was once performed via the CIA within the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday.

    “Over the weekend, the US carried out a counterterrorism operation towards an important Al Qaeda goal in Afghanistan,” a senior management legit mentioned.

    “The operation was once a hit and there have been no civilian casualties,” the legit added.

    If showed, his dying in a CIA drone strike raises questions on whether or not he was once being given sanctuary via the Taliban following their takeover of Kabul in August 2021 because the ultimate US-led troops have been leaving Afghanistan after twenty years of struggle.

    In a commentary, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid showed {that a} strike happened and strongly condemned it, calling it a contravention of “global rules.”

    US President Joe Biden will ship remarks on Monday at 7:30 p.m. (2330 GMT) on what the White Space described as a “a hit counter-terrorism operation.”

    A noisy explosion echoed via Kabul early Sunday morning.

    “A space was once hit via a rocket in Sherpoor. There have been no casualties as the home was once empty,” Abdul Nafi Takor, spokesman of the internal ministry, mentioned previous.

    One Taliban supply, soliciting for anonymity, mentioned there have been stories of a minimum of one drone flying over Kabul that morning.

    With different senior al Qaeda participants, Zawahiri is assumed to have plotted the October 12, 2000 assault at the USS Cole naval vessel in Yemen which killed 17 US sailors and injured greater than 30 others, the Rewards for Justice web page mentioned.

    He was once indicted in the US for his position within the August 7, 1998 bombings of the USA embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 folks and wounded greater than 5,000 others.

    Each bin encumbered and Zawahiri had eluded seize when US.-led forces toppled Afghanistan’s Taliban govt in past due 2001 following the 9/11 assaults on the US.

    Bin Weighted down was once killed in 2011 via US forces in Pakistan.

  • All religions flourish in surroundings of freedom in India: Union Minority Minister on Al-Qaeda risk

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    NEW DELHI: Union Minister and deputy chief in Rajya Sabha, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday stated right here that Al-Qaeda is a “downside” and no longer “coverage” for Muslims because the terrorist crew is misusing the Islam as a “protection duvet”. 

    Chatting with the media, Naqvi stated India’s energy of co-existence can’t be harmed via any narrow-minded communal conspiracy. 

    “India’s dedication to “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” and “Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah” has ensured that fans of all religions are flourishing within the surroundings of equality, freedom and inclusivity”, he stated

    Going additional, Naqvi stated that out of each 10 Muslims dwelling on the planet, one Muslim lives in India with equivalent socio-economic, instructional, spiritual and constitutional rights. “On the other hand, the selective silence on oppression and cruelty towards minorities in our neighbouring nation is one thing this is hypocritically surprising”, he stated.

    Lashing out at Pakistan, he stated that the minorities’ inhabitants in Pakistan, which was once about 24 consistent with cent of the overall inhabitants all over the Partition, has now been lowered to even beneath 2 consistent with cent. “Whilst in India, minorities’ inhabitants which was once about 8 consistent with cent of the overall inhabitants all over the Partition, has now larger to over 22 consistent with cent”, he claimed.

    He added that the “Pakistan Propped Propaganda” is to duvet up the persecution of minorities and protected haven of terrorism in Pakistan and on the identical time, to defame India in a conspiracy to damage the ambience of peace and prosperity.

    Quoting figures, the minister stated there are greater than 3 lakh lively mosques in India, and there’s an equivalent choice of different puts of worship for the Muslim neighborhood.

    “There are greater than 50,000 registered madrasas and greater than 50,000 minority instructional establishments, which is greater than a number of Islamic international locations. In a similar fashion, there are literally thousands of church buildings, gurudwaras, and puts of worship for Buddhists, Parsis and Jains. Those all are a mirrored image of “Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat” and “Solidarity in Variety””, he claimed.

    “Equivalent rights, dignity and prosperity of the minorities together with Muslims are part of India’s dedication to tolerance, unity and inclusivity. Throughout the closing 8 years, the Modi govt has made all sections of the society together with minorities an equivalent spouse of peace and prosperity”, he claimed.

    Naqvi additional stated that not able to digest this certain setting of “construction with believe” within the nation, some persons are spreading falsehood at the factor of minorities sooner than the arena which is fabricated and reverse to the bottom truth. 

    “Those persons are looking to disguise the “mountain of fact” at the back of “trees of lies”, he lambasted.

  • Mehbooba condemns al-Qaeda risk

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    SRINAGAR: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday condemned the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda’s risk to India over the remarks towards Prophet Mohammad by way of now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, and mentioned Muslims can not tolerate any disrespect to the Prophet.

    “I condemn threats of each and every type, be it by way of al-Qaeda or any other organisation. However it’s true that there’s anger in the entire Muslim group on account of the feedback by way of the BJP spokesperson. They (Muslims) are in ache as we will be able to tolerate anything else however we can not tolerate any irrelevant remarks towards the Prophet,” Mehbooba advised journalists right here.

    The previous Jammu and Kashmir leader minister mentioned so far as the al-Qaeda risk used to be involved, “I worry that it’s going to give any other excuse to the BJP to push its narrative that the Hindus are in peril. So, it must be condemned.” She mentioned the BJP must have taken motion towards its spokesperson previous by way of respecting the feelings of the folks of the rustic.

    “However they (BJP) was aware simplest after the Muslim nations condemned it,” she mentioned. “Indians running outdoor are revered so much by way of the folks there as they believe they’re from an earthly nation, the place each and every faith is revered. So, when such alerts pass out from our nation, it lowers the status of the rustic,” she mentioned.

    Requested a couple of lesser selection of devotees at the once a year Kheer Bhawani pageant, Mehbooba mentioned it used to be on account of the concern some of the Kashmiri Pandit group after the new killings.

    “At a time when there may be an environment of worry, it’s anticipated {that a} lesser selection of other folks will seek advice from the temple. However I’m hopeful that the location is not going to stay like this and God keen, they’ll are available 1000’s subsequent 12 months like they used to prior to,” she mentioned. She alleged that the Centre used to be now not permitting customary political actions in Kashmir Valley.

    Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal staged a protest in favour of Kashmir Pandits and towards their killings within the nationwide capital, however the political events within the valley weren’t allowed to take action.

    Requested about Nationwide Convention president Farooq Abdullah’s remarks that the birthday celebration will contest the election from Surankote by itself, Mehbooba mentioned the folks of Jammu and Kashmir need the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration — of which each the NC and the PDP are an element — to battle unitedly.

    “What Farooq sahib has mentioned, I can’t touch upon that. However I imagine that the folks of J-Okay need that all of us stand united as we face an enormous problem. Elections or differently, if we aren’t united, then there are people who find themselves at the verge of erasing our life. So it is vital that we’re united,” she mentioned.

  • Alleged Al Qaida word threatens to avenge insult to the Prophet

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    NEW DELHI: Amidst rising grievance and condemnation of the feedback in opposition to the Prophet through a former BJP spokesperson,  a press word purportedly issued through the terrorist organisation Al Qaida has gave the impression on social media threatening violent retaliation to avenge the insult.

    “We warn each and every audacious and impudent foul mouth of the sector that we will combat for the consideration of the Prophet. The offenders of the Prophet shall to find no amnesty or clemency, no peace and safety will save them and this topic shall no longer shut with any phrases of condemnation or sorrow,”  states the clicking word.

    In the meantime, there have been experiences showing on social media that advised that Qatar Airlines had stopped taking bookings of Indian passengers on their flights. Then again, senior officers from the ministry of civil aviation denied those experiences and stated that the airline was once running as commonplace. Qatar has 190 flights a week out of India and it isn’t most probably that they are going to take this sort of  step.

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    Extra Muslim international locations have now registered their protests in opposition to the derogatory statements at the Prophet. Those come with Indonesia, Maldives, Iraq, Malaysia, Libya, Turkey and Egypt. A complete of 15 international locations have to this point voiced their displeasure, but even so the OIC and GCC.

    It’s learnt that the BJP has now issued directions to its participants to steer clear of talking in opposition to any faith. The federal government has underlined that it treats all religions with admire. That is the conversation that has been despatched to one of the most countries who had no longer simply expressed their displeasure but additionally summoned the Indian envoy of their respective international locations.

    “It’s a kind of episodes the place the backlash was once some distance a couple of would have imagined, however it’ll additionally assist others in India chorus from making such feedback,” stated a professional on Islamic politics.

    In the meantime, India’s intelligence businesses have alleged Pakistan’s function within the anti-India hashtag on social media that resulted in this furore. They have got verified 750 distinctive bot accounts who’ve run those anti-India campaigns with the backing of Pakistan’s PTI celebration.

    The day additionally noticed the suspended BJP spokesperson, Nupur Sharma, acquire a supporter. Dutch flesh presser, Geert Wilders, has long gone forward and termed the anger of the Islamic international locations as ‘ridiculous’ declaring India must no longer have apologised.

    Amidst all this hullabaloo, Iran’s overseas minister is in India to satisfy the Exterior Affairs Minister, Dr S Jaishankar. That is the primary seek advice from of an OIC chief after the talk across the feedback started.