LeT Terror Attack Averted in Delhi

The Delhi police have averted a potentially major terror attack in the national capital, that was planned for execution during Holi festival. The Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested two Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives who were planning to strike at one or more locations in the city.

Earlier too, LeT plans to target Delhi around Diwali last year were foiled by the police by arresting the operatives before they could strike. In the latest case, one suspect was arrested from a house in south Delhi's Tughlakabad Extension. The second, on a Delhi Police tip-off, was picked up on Wednesday from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand. Delhi Police chief BK Gupta didn't name the suspects, but sources identified them as Ehtesaan and Safaqat. Both are Indians and in their twenties. "Incriminating documents and material were found from the two men. An operation is on to arrest two other members of their module," Gupta said.

A flash drive, a sheet with coded messages, mobile phones and sulphur and nitrate-based explosives were seized. The flash drive allegedly has images of the suspects assembling explosives and emulating Osama bin Laden's style of firing an automatic rifle as seen in a popular video. Home minister P Chidambaram said the operatives, who have been sent to 10-day police custody, were planning to bomb a crowded locality. According to a Delhi Police special cell officer, "One of the men visited Pakistan in December last year for training in explosive devices and sophisticated weapons." The Jharkhand Police said both the suspects had stayed in Hazaribagh as students for several years. 
 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.