Taj security tightened after blasts
Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. For a country fighting hard to control Pakistan sponsored militancy in Kashmir, the Shramjeevi blasts have come as a wake-up call pointing towards the jehadi mentality fostering in the Muslim youths back home.
A home-brew Islamic extremist organisation, which was dormant since 2001, the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) could not have chosen a better time to raise its head in UP.
At a time when the London & Egypt blasts have sharpened the focus of the world towards Pakistan's suspected role in promoting Islamic terrorism, the terror strikes deep inside the heart of India. This seems to have been motivated with an idea of attracting global attention and this yearning of SIMI for world attention is what has now propelled the security agencies to completely overhaul their security plans for the world famous Mughal monument Taj Mahal in Agra and Lord Krishna's birthplace in Mathura.
Soon after a high-level Taj visit of the officials of central security agencies on 25th July, the Director General of UP Police Yashpal Singh too, visited Agra and Mathura on Saturday and surveyed the security arrangements at the Taj Mahal and Mathura, suggesting quite a few modifications in the security plans of these two crucial places as according to intelligence tip-offs, the SIMI could choose either of these places for its attack to attain 'fame' overnight.
Agra being located close to Aligarh- often called the birthplace of the banned Muslim organisation SIMI- is especially sensitive to terror attacks from this UP based terrorist outfit after a series of bomb blasts that have taken place in the town in the past few years.
Intelligence sources claim that in the past, the activities of this organisation have been in the days around special occasions like Independence Day or Republic Day and with 15th August close by, the security agencies have been warned of another bout of SIMI initiated terrorist attacks.
According to forensic experts, in all these blasts that took place in Agra in the past, the timing and detonating mechanisms differed from the ones used by Kashmiri separatists and this time too, the use of a low-tech explosive like Ammonium Nitrate in the Shramjeevi blasts has indicated that though banned back in 2001, the roots of SIMI or 'Tahreeq-e-Tamazzul-e-Islam', as it is called in its latest avatar, were still stuck deep in the ground of this state and had slowly spread its 'jehad' into the eastern parts of UP, where a large part of the state's Muslim population lived.
(UNITED NEWS NETWORK)
For any queries or feedback - univijay@rediffmail.com 9412282297, 9319108697
Agra. For a country fighting hard to control Pakistan sponsored militancy in Kashmir, the Shramjeevi blasts have come as a wake-up call pointing towards the jehadi mentality fostering in the Muslim youths back home.
A home-brew Islamic extremist organisation, which was dormant since 2001, the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) could not have chosen a better time to raise its head in UP.
At a time when the London & Egypt blasts have sharpened the focus of the world towards Pakistan's suspected role in promoting Islamic terrorism, the terror strikes deep inside the heart of India. This seems to have been motivated with an idea of attracting global attention and this yearning of SIMI for world attention is what has now propelled the security agencies to completely overhaul their security plans for the world famous Mughal monument Taj Mahal in Agra and Lord Krishna's birthplace in Mathura.
Soon after a high-level Taj visit of the officials of central security agencies on 25th July, the Director General of UP Police Yashpal Singh too, visited Agra and Mathura on Saturday and surveyed the security arrangements at the Taj Mahal and Mathura, suggesting quite a few modifications in the security plans of these two crucial places as according to intelligence tip-offs, the SIMI could choose either of these places for its attack to attain 'fame' overnight.
Agra being located close to Aligarh- often called the birthplace of the banned Muslim organisation SIMI- is especially sensitive to terror attacks from this UP based terrorist outfit after a series of bomb blasts that have taken place in the town in the past few years.
Intelligence sources claim that in the past, the activities of this organisation have been in the days around special occasions like Independence Day or Republic Day and with 15th August close by, the security agencies have been warned of another bout of SIMI initiated terrorist attacks.
According to forensic experts, in all these blasts that took place in Agra in the past, the timing and detonating mechanisms differed from the ones used by Kashmiri separatists and this time too, the use of a low-tech explosive like Ammonium Nitrate in the Shramjeevi blasts has indicated that though banned back in 2001, the roots of SIMI or 'Tahreeq-e-Tamazzul-e-Islam', as it is called in its latest avatar, were still stuck deep in the ground of this state and had slowly spread its 'jehad' into the eastern parts of UP, where a large part of the state's Muslim population lived.
(UNITED NEWS NETWORK)
For any queries or feedback - univijay@rediffmail.com 9412282297, 9319108697
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