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 CURRENT ISSUE JAN 14, 2002

COVER STORY: WAR ON TERROR

India's Most Wanted
Athar Ibrahim
Ranjit Singh Neeta
Paramjit Singh Panjwar

LOCATION: Bahawalpur, Pakistan. He is the brother of Maulana Masood Azhar who was released to secure the freedom of the passengers of IC 814. Is a JeM member and until recently was said to have enjoyed the patronage of Taliban supremo Mullah Omar. Earlier lived in Kandahar.
WANTED FOR: An Interpol red corner alert No. 6-B-1260/10B was issued against him for offences, including hijacking, kidnapping and murder.

LOCATION: Lahore. Had escaped from police custody in Maharashtra in 1995. He is an expert in devising and triggering explosives and was among the first Sikh militants to establish a base in Nepal with the help of the ISI, which used him to smuggle arms to militants in Punjab and Kashmir.
WANTED FOR: At least nine cases of murder, smuggling, violation of the Arms Act, conspiracy and robbery in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

LOCATION: Bapara Town, Lahore. Still heads the dreaded Khalistan Commando Force and is considered an ISI operative. Has been actively trying to revive militancy in Punjab and regularly sends arms and explosives through the Jammu border to extremists in Punjab.
WANTED FOR: More than a dozen cases relating to murder, treason and conspiracy. Also smuggled in large consignments of weapons.

 

OTHERS
Gajinder Singh
Abdul Karim
Shahid Akhtar Sayed

LOCATION: Lahore. He was the leader of a group of Sikh militants who hijacked an Indian Airlines aircraft on its way from Srinagar to Delhi in September 1981. Singh flew the plane to Lahore, where Pakistani authorities arrested and convicted him under international laws. Currently, he heads a radical outfit known as the Dal Khalsa. His many attempts to sneak out of Pakistani territory have been foiled by the ISI.
WANTED FOR: A case of sedition, by police in Chandigarh.

LOCATION: Lahore. Karim, known to intelligence agencies as Tunda, is the notorious mastermind of over 30 blasts in Delhi in 1997. Hailing from Pilkhuwa in Ghaziabad district, this 60-year-old lost his left arm while setting off an explosive. He has been hand-picking young Indians who go to Pakistan to visit friends or relatives and sending them to training camps in PoK and Afghanistan. Tunda belongs to the radical Jamiat Ahle Hadis.
WANTED FOR: The bomb blasts in Delhi in 1997.

LOCATION: Gulshan Iqbal, Karachi. Sayed, who led the team that hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC 814 to Kandahar, was addressed as "Doctor". He flew from Mumbai to Kolkata on November 1, 1999, took a train to New Jalpaiguri, and then a bus to Kathmandu-from where the flight took off. Sayed was the chief negotiator among the hijackers. He persuaded the Pakistani ATC at Lahore to allow the aircraft to refuel.
WANTED FOR: Interpol red corner notice No. A-564/6-2000 was issued against him for hijacking, kidnapping and murder.

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