09 Aug 2004

Hunt For Jihadi Terrorists In Pakistan
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "The Pakistani authorities have, for the first time, admitted that many of the dregs of Al Qaeda and other components of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front (IIF) have been operating from the urban centres of Pakistan and not necessarily from the inaccessible tribal areas as they had been maintaining in the past and that Karachi and Quetta are the main nerve-centres of the Al Qaeda dregs in Pakistan." - b.raman]
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers11/paper1080.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde[use"@"]vsnl.com)
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