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12 Aug 06
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Jaish cadre have often collaborated with the Lashkar to execute major terror strikes in India, including the 2001 attack on Parliament. Mohammad Waliullah, a cleric who police in Uttar Pradesh say organised the serial bombings in Varanasi this March, was a long-standing Jaish operative. Jaish-affiliated figures in Ahmedabad are also believed to have facilitated the Lashkar's 2002 strike on the Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar.
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Khalil's Harkat — the terror group that gave birth to Sheikh and his mentor, Maulana Masood Azhar. Azhar, who was also released by India in the hijack swap, went on to found the Jaish-e-Mohammad. Interestingly, Khalil, Azhar and Sheikh were all students at the Jamia Islamia seminary in Karachi,
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Jundullah, or God's Army, is made up of Pakistani Islamists who turned against their ISI patrons' efforts to block actions against the West. In 2004, Jundullah operatives attempted to assassinate the commander of the Karachi-based V Corps, Lieutenant-General Ahsan Saleem Hayat. Jundullah also executed a suicide bombing near the U.S. consulate in Karachi in March 2006 on the eve of President George Bush's visit.
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Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to ensure that jihadi actions are directed at the east alone.
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terrorist Syed Omar Sheikh at a jail in Sindh. Sheikh, a British national, was among the three released by India in the prisoners-for-hostages swap forced by the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to Kandhahar. He was later arrested and sentenced to death for the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, although the execution is yet to be carried out.
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Pakistan announced on Thursday that Lashkar chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed had been placed under house arrest
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Evidence is emerging that Pakistan-based jihadi groups, responsible for a string of recent terror strikes in India, provided infrastructure to the men held in the United Kingdom on Thursday for planning to bomb several trans-Atlantic flights.
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