'Mumbai attacks planned in Europe' Mon, 02 Feb 2009 http://www.presstv.ir:80/detail.aspx?id=84427§ionid=351020401
A child plays with a luminous ball outside the Taj Mahal hotel. The hotel
was reopened after a month in December 20.
Pakistan's national investigative body, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)
believes that the Mumbai terror attacks were planned in Europe.
The result of a probe into the attacks show the master plan was developed in a
European country, a senior FIA official told Press TV.
The official, who was talking on condition of anonymity, said the Pakistani
government of Asif Ali Zardari was still undecided over providing the country
with evidence.
Declining to name any state, the official added that the report will be
presented through a diplomatic channel to the Indian government in the next two
days.
In late November a series of ten coordinated terror attacks rocked India's
largest city. At least 170 people, including 22 foreigners, were killed and 300
more were injured.
India blamed Pakistani-based "elements" over the attacks across its financial
capital, saying the terror bore the fingerprint of Lashkar-e-Taiba -- a group
blamed for previous attacks in India.
India has provided Pakistan with data from satellite phones used by the
attackers as well as what it describes as the 'confessions of a sole surviving
gunman', who participated in the attacks, to support its claims.
However the Pakistani official said their findings rule out the involvement of
any Pakistani group or organizations in the Mumbai attacks.
"The report further disclosed that there were no Pakistani group or
organization involved in the attacks, however the government is investigating
to make the report more transparent," the official concluded.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced on Sunday that Islamabad
has completed its probe into the Mumbai attacks and would soon share this with
India.
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Mangalore no stranger to saffron terror
Purva Mehra, Hindustan Times
Mangalore, February 03, 2009
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=3d2e76d5-e65f-498c-b2c7-b4c10996d722
In December 2007, three Muslim boys and two Hindu girls entered Ideals, a
popular ice-cream parlour in Mangalore, after a private tutorial session. They
were having their scoops when 20 Sangh Parivar men barged into the parlour,
pulled out the group, carted them to an abandoned building and beat all of
them.
The attackers then lodged a complaint against the students for engaging in
indecent behaviour in a public place. The police sent the girls home, but
detained the three boys and continued beating them until a Congress leader
intervened.
In December 2008 again in Mangalore, Sri Mata Education Trust hired a bus for
an annual educational tour to Mysore. At the outskirts of the city, Sangh
Parivar men stopped the bus, pelted stones at it and snatched purses, cell
phones and other belongings of the students.
The teachers filed a complaint. But the police opined that the institute should
not have encouraged overnight travels by boys and girls of different faiths.
Mangalore-based human rights activist and author H. Pattabhirama Somayaji has
documented 20-25 such acts of violence that happened over the last 10 years. Of
them, about seven or eight were on students in 2008 alone. In most of these
cases, women were particularly targeted.
Young women in the city, which is an educational hub and have at least 40 per
cent students in professional colleges from different parts of the country,
have become targets of self-styled vigilante groups like the Sriram Sene.
But Yogesh Bhat, BJP spokesperson, said, "We were not the perpetrators of these
attacks. We do not appreciate or approve of people taking law into their own
hands. But how come these students were dancing in a bar at around 3.45 pm when
the management had no permission for running a dance bar?"
Even senior leaders of the Parivar, while condemning violence, insisted that
women should behave better. Kiran Maheshwari, president, BJP Mahila Morcha,
said: "Women are seen as mothers in India. They are considered to be devis.
They are not expected to drink. If they do, they fall in the eyes of society."
However, this attitude is not limited to Hindu rightists alone. Karnataka Forum
for Dignity, a lesser-known Muslim organisation, has been advocating a similar
morality for women of their faith. "We encourage brotherhood and harmony, but
women must follow certain rules of Islam in their interaction with men of other
faiths," explained forum secretary Attawulla.
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