Texan Posted May 17, 2016 Posted May 17, 2016 The never ending saga of UPA crimes just doesn't end. Quote Home City India World Business Tech Cricket Sports Entertainment TV Life & Style Travel Blogs Photos Videos ePaper Times Now Live TV Property All Sections News Home » India UPA had freed Pathankot handler as ‘goodwill gesture’ Neeraj Chauhan| TNN | May 17, 2016, 02.12 AM IST Pathankot Air Force base after the January attack. (Photo: PTI) NEW DELHI: This was one "goodwill gesture" which spectacularly boomeranged on the UPA government. Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) terrorist Shahid Latif, chief handler of the fidayeen squad that attacked the Pathankot airbase in January, was released by India in 2010 as part of the Manmohan Singh government's effort to repair ties with Pakistan. .... .... .... For full report, read here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/UPA-had-freed-Pathankot-handler-as-goodwill-gesture/articleshow/52301097.cms
Texan Posted May 17, 2016 Author Posted May 17, 2016 Quote High-level sources told TOI that 47-year-old Latif, who was in an Indian jail for 11 years for acts of terrorism, was among 25 militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and JeM who were freed on May 28, 2010, as part of the Centre's outreach to the hostile neighbour. They were lodged in jails in Jammu, Srinagar, Agra, Varanasi, Naini (UP) and Tihar, and were deported to Pakistan through Wagah. Interestingly, Latif's release was sought by the same Jaish terrorists who had hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC-814 and managed to get their chief, Maulana Masood Azhar, freed along with two others in exchange for 154 passengers in December 1999. However, the then Vajpayee government had refused to release Latif and 31 others on Jaish's "wish list". Latif acts as main handler of JeM terrorists in India
Malcolm Merlyn Posted May 17, 2016 Posted May 17, 2016 The amount of damage 10 years of UPA has done to India will take years if not decades to repair.
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