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Recently, we linked to a video of a spokesman for the Turkistan Islamic Party (Türkistan Islam Partiyisi (TIP) تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى) responding to the news that 9 Uyghurs had been arrested in Pakistan and extradited to the PRC, apparently under accusation of belonging to the TIP. Below is a translation of that video. (Read More)
INDIA ALERT:
Wilson JohnThe singular failure of President Barak Obama’s Afpak strategy is to rely, like the predecessor Bush administration, on Pakistan Army for stabilizing the region and neutralizing the growing power of al Qaida-Taliban combine in the badlands straddling the Durand Line. Despite three reviews and a mother of all revi (Read More)
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Wilson JohnIntroductionOn November 26, 2008, 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai undid in less than 60 hours what governments of two sovereign nations have been struggling for over four years to achieve--peace and stability in the region. These terrorists were from Pakistan, recruited, trained and armed by Lashkar-e-Tayyeba ( (Read More)
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Wilson JohnTerror training schools, teaching hundreds of new and young recruits in suicide missions and use of sophisticated weapons like Ak-47, Mi5 and Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs), have been active in many parts of Pakistan, including Punjab, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Waziristan and Pak occupied Kashmir. Diff (Read More)
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Wilson John20 February 2009The Obama administration’s decision to send an additional 17000 troops to Afghanistan is primarily aimed at ensuring a semblance of stability and security for the presidential elections scheduled later this year. There are 32500 American soldiers in the country as of December 1, 2008. As per the p (Read More)
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Wilson John02 February 2009Two aspects of the extremism that fuels terror in Pakistan's hinterland require closer study. The first is the distinction made between terror of the Taliban/al-Qaeda variety and that of homegrown terror groups, such as the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), accused of carrying out the Mumbai November 2008 (Read More)
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Wilson John10 December 2008Pakistan’s decision to launch police/military action against terrorist groups targeting India, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), following the Mumbai terror attacks (November 26, 2008) is part of a tactical move to extract a breathing space from the pressure exerted by the intern (Read More)
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Wilson JohnMore than two months after Pakistan made a commitment to take clear and decisive action against Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) , a terrorist group based in Pakistan’s Punjab and with establishments in other province betrayed the State’s tacit collusion with the group, allowing it to retain most of its extensive infrast (Read More)
INDIA ALERT:
Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East PolicyThe Brookings Institution(Mr Bruce Riedel is advisor on Pakistan to the US President-elect Barack Obama) November 30, 2008 —The attacks on multiple targets in downtown Mumbai in late November 2008 is only the latest in a long series of ho (Read More)
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Wilson John02 December 2008Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), or the Army of Pure, is the only Islamic terrorist group in Asia with links to al Qaida, which has not only survived the global sanctions but, has also managed to expand its network across the world in the last six years with generous funds from the Middle East, particular (Read More)
INDIA ALERT:
Mumbai attackWILSON JOHNA critical question which remains unanswered about the Mumbai attacks and the Indian’s state response during the 60-hour siege of India’s economic soul is who was in charge of the operations?No one. This brief answer sums up India’s efforts to counter terrorism which has been growing in both size an (Read More)
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Wilson John28 November 2008Almost a dozen State police units and intelligence agencies were tracking down terrorist groups across India for the past two years but missed to detect the activities of men who were involved in the Mumbai terror attack. Though there were reports, based mainly on the interrogation of terrorists a (Read More)
Tibetan Culture:
Liu Cheng posted a reply:
All governments are liers. Do Not pretend to be innocent or justicial.
Recently germany and united kindom governments said Tibet definely belongs to China. (Read More)
TIBET/CHINA NEWS / TIBETAN TIMES NEWS/ FREE TIBET NEWS:
BEIJING (AP) -- Police led away four activists from the U.S. and U.K. on Wednesday after they unfurled pro-Tibet banners outside Beijing's National Stadium, the site of the Olympic Games' opening ceremony later this week.Two men from Students for a Free Tibet each climbed an electrical pole in front of the so-called Bird's (Read More)
TIBET/CHINA NEWS / TIBETAN TIMES NEWS/ FREE TIBET NEWS:
New Delhi, August 4 - Some 250 members from the Himalayan Committee for Action on Tibet (HIMCAT) across the belt of Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh expressed their solidarity and support for Tibet by participating in a peace march from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar today. Various Tibet support groups in the Himalayan region have con (Read More)