{"id":11743,"date":"2017-03-14T17:27:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=11743"},"modified":"2017-03-14T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:57:23","slug":"lucknow-encounter-alarm-bell-indian-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/lucknow-encounter-alarm-bell-indian-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucknow encounter alarm bell for Indian agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Government and populace must sit up and take note of growing radicalisation of youth<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The recent encounter between the police and suspected Islamic State (IS) terrorists in Lucknow is an eye-opener for the government, especially the intelligence agencies in the country. It is all the more important as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had expressed confidence in December 2016 that the IS would not be able to spread its roots in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The encounter with Saifullah was the first such incident in Uttar Pradesh. Earlier, Indian agencies had arrested several youths from Maharashtra, Kerala and Hyderabad on suspicion of being in contact with overseas IS handlers. A few of them succeeded in reaching Syria and Afghanistan where they reportedly laid down their lives and achieved \u201cmartyrdom\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The UP Anti Terror Squad (ATS) says that the information excavated from the laptops of the arrested IS suspects after the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast indicates the IS was planning to carry out serial blasts at Kanpur\u2019s Dewa Sharif, shrine of Waris Ali Shah, similar to last month\u2019s terror attack on Sufi Lal Shahbaz Qalandar\u2019s shrine in Karachi, Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The growing number of youths being influenced by the IS should be treated as an alarm bell by the authorities and the people of this country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Abhinandan Mishra, quoting diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks, revealed in an article published in the London-based <em>The Guardian<\/em> in June 2015 that individuals and institutions in Saudi Arabia were pumping in money worth millions of rupees into India to open religious trusts and non-governmental organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">WikiLeaks, while producing an undated document originating from the embassy of Saudi Arabia in New Delhi, listed Indian institutions and societies which had applied for financial assistance. The document suggests that the government of Saudi Arabia itself pledged donations to nine such institutions located across Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala and Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">According to the document, Saudi Arabia pledged 75,000 Saudi rials (SR) to two societies for establishing a <em>madarsa<\/em> building and a vocational centre for girls in Mirzapur and Siddarth Nagar, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Saudis also pledged 2.5 million SR to Islamic Mission Trust, Mallauram, Kerala, and one million SR each to the Kerala branch of the Islamic Welfare Trust and the Palghat Mujahideen Arabic College Committee for expanding the medical college and hospital building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The role of Zakir Naik\u2019s Islamic Research Foundation is currently under investigation by the Enforcement Directorate after the Dhaka terror suspect admitted being influenced by his preaching. <em>Peace TV<\/em>, run by the Foundation, was already banned in several countries including India, Bangladesh, Canada and the UK. Naik was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in March 2015 for his \u201cservice to Islam\u201d by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>By Abu Turab<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Image courtesy: Rstv.nic.in\/<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Government and populace must sit up and take note of growing radicalisation of youth The recent encounter between the police and suspected Islamic State (IS) terrorists in Lucknow is an eye-opener for the government, especially the intelligence agencies in the country. It is all the more important as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had expressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,2046],"tags":[2645,2644,2641,2643,2646,690,2642],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/03\/lucknow-encounter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11743"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11743"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=11743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->