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LeT motivations, world view were very compatible with ISI leadership

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Hearings in the US Senate in 2009 on the lessons learnt from the 26/11 Mumbai attacks had clearly spelt out the nexus between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

The Senate hearings, which had inputs from intelligence officials, FBI and NYPD, had in detail discussed the LeT as the perpetrator of the ghastly Mumbai attacks.

The hearings testified that LeT was founded by three individuals, one of whom was supposedly a mentor to Osama bin Laden.

“But it became very quickly tied to ISI because its motivations and its world view were very compatible with the leadership of the ISI at that time,” they said.

“From the very beginning, LeT was one of the principal beneficiaries of the Pakistani intelligence service’s generosity, because of its very strong commitment to jihad, which was seen by the ISI as being particularly valuable in Pakistan’s ongoing conflict with India,” it was said.

LeT’s objectives, however, have always transcended South Asia.

“If you look at the LeT website, if you listen to the remarks made by Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the LeT, and read its numerous publications, there are recurrent references to both Israel and the US as being co-joined targets of LeT objectives in addition to India, and there is frequent reference to the Zionist-Hindu-Crusader axis, which seems to animate a great deal of LeT’s antipathy to liberal democracy, which it sees as being implacably opposed to Islam,” the testimonies added.

At that time, Indian intelligence services had assessed that LeT maintains a terrorist presence in at least 21 countries worldwide, and this terrorist presence takes a variety of forms, everything from liaison and networking to the facilitation of terrorist acts by third parties, fundraising, procurement of weapons and explosives, recruitment of volunteers for suicide missions, creation of sleeper cells, including in the US, and actual armed conflict.

US officials had testified that of all the terrorist groups that are present in South Asia today, LeT represents a threat to regional and global security second only to al-Qaeda. This is because of its ideology.

Its ideology is shaped by the Ahl al-Hadith school of Saudi Wahhabism and its objectives are focused on creating a universal Islamic Caliphate, essentially through means of preaching and jihad, and both these instruments are seen as co-equal in LeT’s world view.

A very distinctive element of LeT’s objective is what it calls the recovery of lost Muslim lands, i.e., lands that were once governed by Muslim rulers, but which have since passed to other political dispensations, officials said.

The objective of creating this universal Islamic Caliphate has made LeT a very close collaborator of al-Qaeda and it has collaborated with the al-Qaeda in Afghanistan since at least 1987.

Its objective of recovering lost Muslim lands has pushed LeT into a variety of theatres outside South Asia.

“We have identified LeT presence in areas as diverse as Palestine, Spain, Chechnya, Kosovo and Eritrea,” the officials had said.

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Stolen Luxury Car Seized in Agripada; Two Notorious Criminals Arrested

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Mumbai, July 19, 2025 – Agripada Police have successfully cracked a case involving the theft of a luxury vehicle, arresting two habitual offenders and recovering a stolen high-end Skoda car.

The incident dates back to July 11, 2025, when a luxury Skoda car (MH01DW 4778), owned by Suyash Tours and Travels and parked on Dr. Anandrao Nair Road in Agripada, was stolen. The crime was registered under FIR No. 332/2025 at Agripada Police Station under sections 379 (theft), 317(2), and 3(5) of the Indian Penal Code.

Following technical surveillance and confidential tip-offs, police nabbed two repeat offenders:

  1. Mohideen alias Kaka Sheikh Duresh, age 19, resident of Nagpada
  2. Wajid Anjum Khan, age 24, resident of Chunabhatti

Both suspects were arrested on July 16 and 17, respectively, and brought to Agripada Police Station for further investigation.

During the inquiry, it was revealed that the accused were planning to sell the stolen car. Police acted swiftly and recovered the stolen vehicle from their possession.

The investigation team also uncovered that the duo is involved in similar vehicle thefts in other areas. A total of six such vehicles have been seized so far in connection with their network. Their arrest is expected to help solve several pending cases of vehicle theft.

The operation was led by Senior Police Inspector and Crime Detection Team of Agripada Police Station.

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UP Shocker: Mother Of 5 Children Dies After Beaten Up By 24-Year-Old Lover Over Breakup In Noida

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A mother of five children died after her 24-year-old allegedly beaten her up following a heated argument over breakup on Monday in Noida. According to reports, the victim has been identified as Neeraj. The police registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and arrested the accused boyfriend.

According to police, woman’s husband Satish, originally a resident of village Hathni Gud in Badaun district, works in a private company. He lives on rent in a house located in Mamura village with his wife Neeraj and five children. Neeraj had an extramarital affair with Arjun, a resident of village Sahpur in Shahjahanpur district who lived in the neighbourhood, for the past three years.

Arjun worked as a housekeeper in a private company located in Sector-59. Husband Satish was unaware of their affair. Neeraj went to meet Arjun in his room in the neighbourhood on Monday evening around 6 PM. Here, a fight broke out between the two about breakup. After the argument, Arjun physically assaulted Neeraj. During this, Neeraj became unconscious and fell to the ground.

Panicked Arjun rushed her to a nearby hospital, from where the woman was referred to Kailash Hospital. Seeing no improvement in her condition, the woman was referred to the district hospital, where doctors declared her dead.

After being alerted, police arrived and sent the body for the post-mortem. They also took boyfriend Arjun into custody. Family members allege that Arjun murdered Neeraj by strangulation.

According to police, the woman had married Satish about 13 years ago. The couple has five children. To educate the children, Satish brought Neeraj from his ancestral village to Noida about five years ago. While living in lane number eight, Neeraj became friends with Arjun, who lived in the neighbourhood. Gradually, the friendship between the two turned into a love affair. Arjun is 24 years old and unmarried.

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Mumbai Shocker: Stepfather Arrested For Murder Of Missing 4-Year-Old Girl From Antop Hill; Body Found In Colaba

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Mumbai: In a chilling turn of events, the Mumbai Police on Tuesday arrested Imran Shaikh, the stepfather of four-year-old Amaira Shaikh, in connection with her murder. The child had gone missing from her residence in Antop Hill on the night of July 14 and her body was recovered from the Colaba sea coast the next morning.

Police Suspected Stepfather Over Girl’s Disappearance

Amaira was reported missing by her mother, Nazia, who had gone to the Antop Hill police station to lodge a complaint. However, as the investigation progressed, suspicion grew around Imran’s role in the child’s disappearance. Imran, also known as Immu, had taken Amaira with him the night she went missing and had been unreachable since, with his phone switched off.

Body Found Near Sassoon Dock

Amaira lived with her mother and stepfather in the Bengali Pura area of Rajiv Nagar in Antop Hill. Nazia, who has been previously married twice, was currently in her third marriage with Imran. On the night of July 14, after failing to locate Amaira despite searching extensively, Nazia approached the police. The next morning, Colaba police received an alert about a child’s body found floating near Sassoon Dock. The body, later confirmed to be Amaira’s, was sent to St. George Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

Initially, the Antop Hill police registered an Accidental Death Report (ADR), but with Imran absconding, suspicions deepened. Using physical identifiers from the missing person’s report, Colaba police confirmed the identity of the deceased. Cops now believe that Amaira may have been murdered and her body dumped into the sea.

Following this development, police intensified efforts to trace Imran. After going off the radar briefly, he was arrested on Tuesday. Authorities are now focusing on uncovering the motive behind the brutal crime and piecing together the exact sequence of events leading to the child’s death.

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