three prisoners from Indian side to the
hijackers at Kandhar airport.Masood
Azhar had founded the outfit Jaish-e-
Mohammad that later masterminded
the attack on Indian parliament in
2001. Ahmed Omar Sayeed Sheikh
was allegedly involved in 9/11 attack
in USA and was also alleged to be
involved in the abduction and murder
of Daniel Pearl. He was later arrested
by Pakistan in 2002. And Mushtaque
Ahmed had played active role in
training Islamic militants in POK.
2001, June 1. 2100 IST. The
Narayanhiti
Royal
Palace,
Kathmandu. The King of Nepal
Birendra Vikram Shah, the queen
Maharani Aishwarya and eight more
family members were massacred
to death. Five more were seriously
injured. The weapons used were
Colt rifle, submarine gun, shotgun
and 9mm pistol. The royal family
had gathered on monthly reunion
dinner. Crown Prince Deependra was
officially blamed for these killings. He
also died of bullet injuries. The stories
of conspiracy and involvement of next
King Gyanendra and his son Paras are
still rife in Nepal. The ISI and Maoist
involvement have also been talked
about frequently. In the aftermath,
the sole Hindu nation in the world
Nepal became a secular country,
the power of the Royal family was
gradually seized and Nepal headed
for an absolute democracy.
2013, August 28. Motihari, near the
Indo Nepal border in Bihar. Founder
leader of Indian Mujahideen (IM)
Mohammad Ahmed Siddibappa alias
Yasin Bhatkal was arrested by Indian
security forces. Nepal Intelligence
agencies had earlier spotted him and
informed the IB in New Delhi. He
was on the most wanted list of NIA.
He, a resident of Karnataka, was
trained for explosives in Pakistan in
2006. On interrogation, on 31 August
2013, he admitted to have recruited
young unemployed youth from North
Bihar & Nepal for terror attacks
across India. NIA court in Hyderabad
sentenced Yasin to death in 2016. It’s
noteworthy that he was involved in
Zaveri Bajar & Dadar bomb explosions
in Mumbai on 31 July 2011, that saw
27 dead and 130 injured. He was also
wanted in the German Bakery blast
in Pune on 13 February 2010, which
saw 17 dead. Maharashtra ATS had
earlier announced a prize of Rs 10
lakhs and Delhi Police had put a
prize money of 15 lakhs on him. Yasin
had a knowledge of Unani Medicine
and was called ‘Doctor’ by the locals
where he was staying. While roaming
in North Bihar he often wore ‘burka,’
and was always accompanied with a
group of persons, who were his guards
in disguise.
2018, February 13. Ariz Khan,
an alleged IM militant linked to the
serial blasts in UP, Gujrat and Delhi,
and had escaped during the Batla
house encounter in Okhla, Delhi, was
arrested near Sharda Inter College,
Banbasa on Indo Nepal border.
There was intelligence information
that SIMI and IM had established
bases in Nepal to train recruits from
India. Ariz was a key person for these
camps. He had forged fake papers of
nationality of Nepal, married a hindu
Nepali girl and got her converted to
Islam. She was now called Sara.
The above mentioned few examples
suffice to bring home the crucial point
that the Indian intelligence agencies
had certainly failed to foresee these
anti-national activities along the
Indo Nepal border on either side.
The policymakers sitting in New
Delhi seemed to be more obsessed
with the operations in the Jammu
and Kashmir, and in the bargain
they loosened their hold on the
other frontiers. Be it LTTE in Sri
Lanka, various outfits in North East,
Rohingyas from Myanmar or the
Maoists in Nepal, Indian authorities
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