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Taliban chief Mullah Omar in Karachi: US

Washington: Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is living in Karachi with the help of Pakistan's intelligence service, The Washington Times said on Friday.

Mullah Omar, who hosted Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders when they plotted the 9/11 attacks, had been residing in Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban shura - or council - had moved from Kandahar after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

Two senior US intelligence officials and one former senior CIA officer told The Washington Times that Mullah Omar travelled to Karachi last month after the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

He inaugurated a new senior leadership council in Karachi, a city that so far has escaped US and Pakistani counter-terrorism campaigns, the officials said.

Pakistani officials said they were perplexed by the US reports, the newspaper reported.

The US officials, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) helped Taliban leaders move from Quetta, where they were exposed to attacks by US drones.

The development reinforces suspicions that the ISI, which helped create the Taliban in the 1990s to expand Pakistani influence in Afghanistan, is working against US interests as the Obama administration prepares to send more US troops to that country, the newspaper said.

Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran and analyst on Al Qaeda and the Taliban, confirmed that Mullah Omar had been spotted in Karachi recently.

"Some sources claim the ISI decided to move him further from the battlefield to keep him safe" from US drone attacks, said Riedel, who headed the Obama administration's review of policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"There are huge madrassas in Karachi where Mullah Omar could easily be kept."

A US counter-terrorism official said: "There are indications of some kind of bleed-out of Taliban types from Quetta to Karachi, but no one should assume at this point that the entire Afghan Taliban leadership has packed up its bags and headed for another Pakistani city."

A second senior intelligence officer who specialises in monitoring al-Qaeda said US intelligence had confirmed Mullah Omar's move through both electronic and human sources as well as intelligence from an unnamed allied service.

The official said that neither Osama bin Laden nor al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri has been spotted in Karachi.

The official said the top two Al Qaeda figures are still thought to be in the tribal region of Pakistan near Afghanistan's border.

But, the official said, other mid-level al-Qaeda operatives who facilitate the travel and training of foreign fighters had moved to the Karachi metropolitan area, which with 18 million people is Pakistan's most populous city.

Al-Qaeda has had a presence in Karachi since at least 2001.

'SHIV SENA WORKERS' ATTACK IBN LOKMAT OFFICE IN MUMBAI

Mumbai: A group of 20-25 men claiming to be Shiv Sena activists attacked journalists and damaged property at the offices of IBN7 and IBN Lokmat, the Hindi and Marathi news channels of the IBN Network, in Mumbai’s Vikhroli on Friday.

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IBN Network journalists and other employees were beaten up and their clothes torn by the group. The attackers told employees that they would not accept reports criticizing the Shiv Sena. The Mumbai Police claims they have arrested seven Shiv Sena workers for the attack.

Sandeep Chavan, a journalist with IBN Lokmat, said the attackers told employees they were looking for Nikhil Wagle, editor-in-chief of IBN Lokmat, and wanted to “teach him a lesson”. Chavan said the attackers were armed with iron rods, baseball bats and cricket wickets.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan told Network18 the attackers will be punished.

“We had no idea that such a thing was going to happen. Whoever is responsible for this will be severely dealt with. Nobody has the right to assault journalists,” said the Chief Minister.

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Indian Air Force Vice Chief: We don't even match up with Pakistan as far as defence goes

Two days after he said women could be recruited as fighter pilots only if they did not become mothers till a certain age, Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal P K Barbora on Thursday took a swipe at the political class, saying politics over defence purchases impinged “very badly” on the country’s military requirements.
“As far as defence goes, we don’t even match up with Pakistan,” Barbora, while referring to Defence exports, told an aerospace seminar organised in New Delhi by the CII.
“The internal politics over the years is such that whatever defence requirements are cleared by the government, they are opposed by the opposition parties and the same happens when roles change and the opposition sits in government. That impinges very badly on our defence requirements.”
He asked the private defence industry to take note of the China example on reverse engineering of defence technologies. “Forget about ethics. China has done reverse engineering. Has anyone ever had the courage to ask China why are you doing it? No one cares a hoot. If you can’t do it yourself, you should know how to do reverse engineering.” 

He took on the defence PSU sector, especially in the aviation industry, saying India does not even contribute to one percent of the global industry. He said Indian PSUs have remained happy manufacturing doors of Airbus aircraft while China has gone ahead and started mass producing commercial jets.

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