[Reader-list] Pak terrorists freed in goodwill gesture

[Bipin Trivedi]

So now India should be prepared for one more high powered terrorist attack like 26/11 in near future. Such a soft stand towards terrorist is not the way to fight terror evil. This step they describe as good gesture to initiate dialogue with Pak. What a laughable step. Pak will insist the dialogue for Kashmir issue and the things stick their again!!!

Thanks
Bipin



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*Pak terrorists freed in goodwill gesture

* *Arjun Sharma* *Jammu, May 29, 2010*

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http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/99346/LATEST%20HEADLINES/Pak+terrorists+freed+in+goodwill+gesture.html

The Jammu and Kashmir government has released 25 Pakistani terrorists lodged
in various prisons of the country on the advice of the Union home ministry.
The state government on Thursday revoked the detention orders of these
terrorists, mostly belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Hizbul
Mujahideen (HM), and will facilitate their return to Pakistan.

The release of the terrorists comes ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
visit to Jammu and Kashmir on June 7. Political observers believe the
decision is the Centre's olive branch to separatist leaders in an attempt to
bring them on the dialogue table.

The PM is expected to renew his offer of talks with all shades of opinion in
Jammu and Kashmir during his visit.

These militants were detained under Section 19 (1) of the J&K Public Safety
Act (a law that allows the government to keep people in jail without trial
for two years) over the years.

Some of them were sent to jails outside the state for security reasons. They
were also provided consular access in the Amritsar jail on March 25. Not a
single Indian languishing in the Pakistani jails is, however, being set free
in exchange of these militants.

According to reports, the Pakistani detainees have been released. Sources
said they were handed over to the Pakistani authorities at the Wagah border
on Friday.

Nine of them were earlier lodged in the high-security Kot Bhalwal jail in
Jammu.

They include Noor Mohammad, Abdul Rashid, Nazir Mohammad, Mohammad Shafi,
Rahim Din, Mohammad Sharief Malik, Karamat Hussain and Suhail Ahmad Kataria.

Kataria, from Kotli in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, was released from the
Central Jail in Srinagar. He was recently shifted to the Valley from the
Agra jail.

The terrorists released from the Agra jail are Mohammad Ajmal Chouhan alias
Munna alias Abu Walid from Lahore, Meharban Sethi alias Nadeem from
Rawalpindi and Mohammad Nawaz from Gujranwala.

Four Pakistanis were lodged in the Naini jail in UP. They are Shahid
Mehmood, Ghulam Haider, Mohammad Farooq Raja and Quadratullah.

Shahid Latief alias Shahid Bhat of Muzaffarabad was released from the
Varanasi jail while Mohammad Yasin Khokhar of Lahore was released from the
Tihar jail.

Three detainees were lodged in the Jodhpur jail - Shabeer Ahmed, Sajad Ali
Jat alias Sajad Bhat and Sher Khan (Peshawar).

Four terrorists were set free from the Sangrur jail in Punjab.

They are Faiz Ali alias Ali Bahadur Ali, Dawood Ahmad alias Osama, Mohammad
Usmaan Sheikh alias Abdul Samad Askari and Zarar Balouch alias Ibrahim.

-- 
Aditya Raj Kaul

India Editor
The Indian, Australia

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