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  • Terror alert issued in Jammu and Kashmir before festive season

    By ANI

    NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies have issued a terror alert regarding the cross-border movement of Afghan-origin terrorists along with Pakistan-based terrorists in the Jammu and Kashmir region to execute terror activities in the country during the upcoming festive season.

    According to Intelligence agencies, they have got the input regarding the movement of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Harkat ul-Ansar (HuA) and Hizbul Mujahideen. The Pakistan-based terror organisations are helping Afghan-origin terrorists to enter India.

    “After Taliban took over the government in Afghanistan, we have got the input regarding the movement of Afghanistan based terrorists entering India with the help of Pakistan-based terrorist organizations which are backed by ISI,” said an official.

    Agencies have got the input that around 40 such terrorists are stationed at a terror camp in the Nakyal sector of Pakistan near the Line of Control (LoC). They have been trained to enter Indian by crossing the Poonch River. They are trained to cross the river through tubes and snorkelling, added the official.

    “We have got the inputs that these terrorist are trained in making Tiffin bomb. The raw material will be provided to them through sleeper cells active in India. All agencies concerned, the state police and paramilitary have been issued alert about the intel inputs,” added the official.  

  • New rules to prevent information leak may stifle free speech: Former intelligence officers

    Express News Service
    NEW DELHI:  Retired officers who had worked in intelligence and security-related organisations reacted to the Centre’s new rule to prevent the leakage of sensitive information with cautious optimism. The amended pension rules that the Centre notified on May 31 prohibit officials retired from certain intelligence and security establishments from writing anything about their organisation without prior permission.

    Some officers that the New Indian Express reached out to, said the provisions had already existed to punish retired security officers who share sensitive details in their writings, which could jeopardise national security.  They say the amended rules were unnecessary and may stifle their right to free speech. 

    “This rule comes with a threat of stopping pension. As a retired person, I would have given a dispassionate view on, say the April 4 attack by the Naxals on our forces. But now, with these rules in place, I will not be able to say anything because it will seem like a criticism of the security policy,” AK Sood, deputy chief of BSF said. 

    OP Singh, former chief of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), said the new rules seem to be aimed at “retired officials who have written their memoirs and gone into greater details about the security of the country”. “This amendment may deprive the younger generation of officers who learn a lot from the writings of the retired officers,” said Singh.