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SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Late City Vol. 155 Issue 46 Published From *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LANDMARK 5 WORLD 7 SPORT 10 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL US ASKS PAK TO FREEZE BHUBANESWAR RANCHI GOVT HIKES IMPORT DUTY VIDARBHA WIN RAIPUR CHANDIGARH ON PAK GOODS TO 200% FUNDS OF TERROR GROUPS IRANI TROPHY TITLE DEHRADUN LUCKNOW, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2019; PAGES 12+8 `3 www.dailypioneer.com LeT no. 2 allowed to USUALSUSPECTS Pak gives 26/11 brains deliver anti-India JeM gains ground SWAPAN DASGUPTA sermons, ‘virtues’ of jehad at educational in South Kashmir Modi yet to show free access to varsities institutions Security forces RAKESH K SINGH n NEW DELHI yet to nab five n what could further vitiate who sneaked in his ‘dream’ hand Ithe security environment in ast week Parliament felt like the final days of the school the Indian subcontinent, the from Pakistan Lacademic year. Everyone, but particularly the Lok Sabha Imran Khan-led Pakistan members, was in both a reflective and celebratory mode. Government has allowed open RAHUL DATTA n NEW DELHI Celebratory because the assigned work was finally over — access to Lashkar-e-Tayyeba at least for the time being — and reflective because there (LeT) Number 2 and 26/11 aish-e-Mohammad (JeM), was no knowing whether they would pass or fail the re- conspirator Abdul Rahman Jthe Pakistan-based terrorist election test in the summer. The Rajya Sabha was Makki in the universities and group which owned responsi- unendingly disrupted and did no work because Opposition schools as a motivational bility for the attack on the ment said on Saturday this is parties competed among themselves to demonstrate their speaker to deliver anti-India Central Reserve Police Force very alarming as JeM terrorists anti-Government credentials and stall all pending legislation. sermons and ‘virtues’ of jehad (CRPF) convoy in Kashmir on are infiltrating into the But even here, there was a note of both concern and and radicalise the youngsters at Thursday, has grown in Kashmir Valley through anticipation. No one was really sure of the future. a young age. The radicalisation strength in the last few months Jammu region considered to a In 2014, when the old Lok Sabha finished its term, there and recruitment of highly edu- and at least 40 of its operatives “non-traditional” route in was certainty on one count: that the incumbent Government cated youths will significantly are now active in south and terms of infiltration. After wasn’t coming back to power. Most people expected a enhance the strike capabilities central Kashmir. sneaking in from the heavily fractured Parliament with the BJP having an edge but only of the Pakistani terror groups. Moreover, out of 11 foreign guarded Jammu region, they the most optimistic expected it to muster a majority on its Agencies here apprehend terrorists neutralised by the travel through the 300-km long own. the move will lead to creation security forces in last two national highway till Jawahar This week the mood is both similar and different. of a “network of terror facili- months, nine of them were tunnel in Banihal, the gateway Conventional wisdom — and the extra bounce in the steps tators” in the region for fur- from JeM. to the Valley, undetected as the of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party MPs — thering the larger anti-India Besides these alarming vehicles are rarely checked suggest that it is going to be extremely difficult, if not terror agenda. trends, the security forces are while going from Jammu to impossible, for the BJP to replicate its spectacular 2014 In addition to the latest also worried as they have so far Srinagar. showing in Uttar Pradesh, when it won 73 of the 80 Lok tactic of the Pakistan not been able to nab at least Even as the security forces Sabha seats. The SP-BSP members and their Trinamool Government-Army combine, A large number of people attend the funeral procession of CRPF jawan Ramesh Yadav, who lost his life in Thursday’s Pulwama four to five suspected JeM ter- have managed to neutralise at Congress hangers-on believe that the BJP will be completely the duplicity of the US that terror attack, at Masaurhi in Varanasi on Saturday PTI rorists who sneaked from least 11 foreign terrorists decimated in India’s largest State. The Congress, on the hosts common servers for the Pakistan into Jammu region including nine of JeM, alarm other hand, seems a little more circumspect. It is confident it Pakistan Army and its terror only done lip service towards in furthering terror in the facilities is to catch them young. almost a fortnight back. Some bells have started ringing as will do well and much better than 2014 but there is no proxies like LeT and Jaish-e- the Pakistan-directed terror in region especially against India. Pakistan Army’s terror proxies blood trails were found in the three encounters near Srinagar certainty about numbers. The euphoria over Priyanka Mohammad (JeM) has further India but has always been Due to the terror hits by the like the LeT and JeM will get a fields in Samba region then and in late last month, in which Gandhi performing an electoral miracle isn’t reflected in the compounded the security sit- comforting Islamabad by reit- Pakistani jehadi groups, India pool of educated students and a manhunt was launched but so three JeM terrorists were killed, conversations in Central Hall. uation in the country. The erating that it is a permanent is one of the top 10 terrorism- engineers for inflicting more far no luck for the joint team of took place after they managed It is the BJP mood that is more interesting. If the media is common server of the ally. The US has also failed in hit countries in the world. and more terror hits with an Border Security Force (BSF), to reach the outskirts of the to be believed, the ruling party is on the backfoot and Pakistan army and its terror conducting drone strikes “The idea of allowing access ever evolving sophistication,” a Army and the local police. capital by road from Jammu agonising over the affiliates are a clear link against the LeT and JeM mas- to Makki to the technical insti- senior security official said. Giving these details, offi- undetected. imminent loss of power at between the two. The US has terminds who have a free run tutes and other educational Turn to Page 6 cials in the security establish- Turn to Page 6 the Centre. Certainly there are MPs who are worried but the concern is less over the election outcome than Ban on Sidhu with the prospects of China condemns strike US supports India’s right to securing re-nomination by sought for the party. In 2014, the BJP was a bit casual with giving tickets in seats it sans naming Pakistan self-defence: NSA to Doval disturbing considered unwinnable. This was particularly so in PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n NEW DELHI ing support to terrorist safe sentiments Uttar Pradesh. However, havens. “We have been very thanks to the fierce Modi day after it expressed shock S National Security clear on that score... And, we PTI n MUMBAI wave, nearly all of them Aover the Pulwama terror UAdviser John Bolton told are continuing to be in discus- However, there is one won. Some have turned out attack, Chinese State Councilor his Indian counterpart Ajit sions we are going to have with he Federation of Western aspect of the Modi to be good constituency and Foreign Minister Wang Yi Doval that America supports the Pakistanis,” the US NSA TIndia Cine Employees MPs but others have under- on Saturday sent a condolence India’s right to self-defence as said. (FWICE) has called for ban on messaging that still performed. This time, to message to Minister of External both sides vowed to work Earlier, the White House cricketer-turned-politician seems deficient. It is minimise the effects of local Affairs Sushma Swaraj together to ensure that Pakistan and Secretary of State Mike Navjot Singh Sidhu over his anti-incumbency, the party denouncing “all forms of ter- ceases to be a safe heaven for Pompeo asked Pakistan to end controversial comments in the still not entirely clear may select new rorism” which it claimed is “the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and its support to terrorist safe wake of the Pulwama terror what hope he is candidates. Predictably, common enemy of mankind”. other terror groups. Doval and havens inside the country. “We attack. that worries many sitting The message, however, did not Bolton held a telephonic con- stand with India as it confronts Sidhu, who appears on holding out for the MPs, although they try and make any reference either versation on Friday evening terrorism. Pakistan must not “The Kapil Sharma Show”, had future. A successful put up a brave face and Pakistan or Jaish-e- during which they resolved to provide safe haven for terror- condemned the incident but appear unconcerned. Mohammad (JeM), the terror House even asked Pakistan to hold Pakistan to account for its ists to threaten international courted a controversy when he campaign has to sell a Apart from the group which has claimed immediately end “support” and obligations under the UN res- call was initiated by the US side security,” Pompeo said on asked whether an entire nation uncertainties over ticket responsibility for the attack. “safe haven” to all terror groups.